skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are incentivized by bonuses your probably not being paid enough.

Even worse when you depend on others to meet a goal (you almost always do).

Jump ship if you can. The other scam is healthcare tied to employment.
The abstracts are a bit different so I'm not sure how close the preprint is to the published version.
Honestly I feel like you have a lot more faith in businesses behaving efficiently[1] than I do. I think the normal reason for a firm to do things is random chance/business school/copying competitors. See also: “algorithms” style interview questions, brain teaser style interview questions, and using complicated distributed tools like Hadoop.

[1] by efficiency, I mean settling on doing the most effective things and dropping ineffective things.
Apple invented it in the 80's
Step 1. create a charity that would "adopt" Google employees and give them Pixel phones

Step 2. choose that charity and pick yourself for an adoption
(throwaway)

As a new team lead, coming up with a roadmap, and not being able to subdivide a project into independant parts that can be worked on in parallel by different team members.
I would argue against uppercase, special characters, and numbers. They don’t provide any more protection against a dictionary attack than throwing in a Spanish or French word in your phrase. “Margaret Thatcher es caliente” is easier to remember.

Bill Burr who invented the original password complexity rules now says forget those special characters and numbers. Simple long phrases that you can remember is more important. https://gizmodo.com/the-guy-who-invented-those-annoying-pass...
To save people a Google: Zakat | Islamic tax | Britannica

https://www.britannica.com

› ... › Banking & Business
Zakat, Arabic zakāt, an obligatory tax required of Muslims, one of the five Pillars of Islam. The zakat is levied on five categories of property—food grains; fruit; camels, cattle, sheep, and goats; gold and silver; and movable goods—and is payable each year after one year's possession.
"I know HN has a significant aversion to cryptocurrency (which absolutely befuddles me for the foundational societal concepts it modernizes)"

I can't for the life of me figure out why HN keeps hating on bitcoin for the past 10 years since ive been following this site has but has been pretty much spot on about every other tech related subject. It initially discouraged me back in the early days but once you GET it, you realize its one of the biggest technological breakthroughs in the history of mankind.

I think with bitcoin you simply can't read about it but actually get your hands dirty and fully use it to really understand the potential it is going to have.
There are advantages to large rollers, a high deck and a heavy chassis. But these are all things that make this a more dangerous machine that other residential treadmills. Peloton should reduce that risk with a physical barrier under the deck. But even with that, this treadmill should still have a safety key and an accessible (for an adult) physical on/off switch.
Irony: I have cloned and used youtube-dl after these DCMA shenanigans, but had previously never heard of it. The Streisand Effect continues to amaze...
What’s up with Canadians and financial scams?
Interestingly, the party is not yet over? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-05/irish-eco...

Or did companies decide to stay in Ireland now that they have to pay taxes? Maybe the pandemic has made it difficult for them to move.
Sounds like you're putting too much of this process on yourself. Your reports should be able to work 5his out among themselves with you helping.
There are international agreements on taxation. Tax authorities can also work with taxpayers and agree on the transfer price for goods and services in advance.

Tax loopholes typically refer to ambiguous rules. In this case, the IRS was excruciatingly detailed on how to price related party intellectual property transfers. I always laugh about how congress / citizens get angry at when taxpayers follow their laws.

Yes, I agree the laws are ridiculous, but no more ridiculous than the standard deduction the mortgage interest deduction and a myriad of other arbitrary tax laws.
The typical startup problem like the above is a more extreme example of people mailing it in until bonuses are out: people mailing it in until the startup is acquired or goes public because the company is doing well and they lose their shares/options if they quit
Lots of envious people in this thread.

In the end the envy can be described as:

"Larry&Sergey number is higher than my own number and the ego boost they get by looking at their number is bigger than the ego boost I get looking at my own number"

These guys, they don't spend money, don't surrond themselves with luxury, they are pretty down to earth in their behavior and consumption, don't seek fame.

Alphabet inc is like Mozart's Sonata n12 and Larry&Sergey are like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart keeping the foot on the gas opposed to go and party like an animal using the fame which his opera gave it to him.

People are envious of a number
I have 8 GB, and it runs fine!

> Because I read it wouldn’t run 802.11ac.

Why not? It has a miniPCI express card, you just nedd to find a compatible one:

https://www.newegg.com/intel-7260hmw-mini-pci-express/p/N82E...

You need to make sure that you mod the whitelist so it will accept it.

(Ok so I mixed up my x2100 and my x200, my x2100 has a AX200, sorry!)
Chrome has tons of extensions that do this, letting you do it on a per-site basis too. I use one to enforce a "dark mode" on HN actually!
youtube-dl's main feature is its frequent updates, as soon as sites change their api/auth or anything. And that a happens pretty regularly. Therefore say youtube-dl from last month can't download videos from youtube this month, unless you update it.

Thus having a copy only saves you for a few weeks. Then it will start to fail on all sites, one by one.

Relevant. Youtube changed something that broke youtube-dl the day after it was removed from github. It couldn't update as the update source was from github.
Why did Wikipedia succeed while other encyclopedias failed? (2011)
This is looks like a great tool!

A few notes.

The default sort is price per vCPU, but all the ones that slow up initially are actually fractions of a CPU. Granted, getting the actually fraction is not made easy by the vendors.

Some providers, like digital ocean and linode include some bandwidth with the instance. If you have any egress at all, choosing one of those may have a large cost savings.

Thanks for making this tool, cloud pricing is a maze, and things like this help a lot.
Ouch, 25% vs. 6%. That's how they value managers vs. (engineers? or everyone else?). Sad.
I have never seen it migrated to a different instance type, but it would be running on a different physical server.
I wonder to what extent the private “no poaching agreements” between major tech companies held down SW Engineer compensation.
The tools in Visual Studio definitely feel clunky and dated.
These NFTs are proof of ownership? It says you can only buy the actual paintings via traditional payments, not crypto. Could someone explain what value the NFT is providing here, if it's not asserting ownership the actual piece with some legal means to back that?
In France it’s codified at the constitutional level, it’s a varying tax rate (ie marginal tax rate with slices)
Exactly, we have no idea if HN is supressing positive stories in an experiment or not. Twitter, reddit, FB, tictok all sort content by magic and could be trying to make you sad.
Oh boy. Sounds like hell. Very glad you're through the other side.
This past year we received our usual bonus (despite the fallout from COVID), but we did not get our annual 3% cost of living adjustment. Instead that money was used to keep people like janitors, fitness facility people, food people, etc. still receiving paychecks even though campus was (and still is) closed down for quarantine. Some people complained, but I thought it was a good way to take care of our fellow coworkers who couldn’t work through no fault of their own.
The minicomputers can get pretty expensive iirc. I haven’t looked in a while, but you may be paying a couple grand for one. For some reason, AS/400s are the same.
That assumes countries have to accept that the licensing fees are tax deductible.

Putting some tariffs on licensing intellectual property seems like a non-prisoners dillema solution
> The Chinese government has popular support.

Because if you criticise the Chinese government you disappear for a few months at best. If you’re unlucky you’re never seen again.

> countries you call "democracies" are allies of the United States, while countries you call "dictatorships"

That’s an extraordinarily bold claim and I think you should have to back it up with some evidence. Which of the countries that are called dictatorships do you think are unjustly labeled as such?
> This is an adult gym equipment and it is not a toy. Why would regulator recall this?

Because there are indications that it is unnecessarily unsafe in hine use, particularly to children and potentially to users.

Also, the CPSC isn’t recalling it, though they are recommending that Peloton should. They are advising consumers not to use it in hones with children, or, if they must use it in those conditions, to take a set of risk mitigation measures.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2021/CPSC-Warns-...
Replace Google Analytics with a shell script
> the barbarians immediately adopted the culture, religion, and especially the (highly written) language of the Romans.

This is not really true. It was Clovis and the Franks who made Europe Catholic. Many of the other Germanic tribes were Arian, including the Lombards who essentially destroyed (East) Roman hopes of retaking Italy.

Christianity spread by missionaries to many places, particularly Ireland (cf. "Saint Patrick"), and became successful because it helped build alliances among competing tribes. The Ostrogoths ruled over a Roman populace which continued its cultural institutions -- they didn't force everyone to become Goths -- but they retained their Arianism until Justinian retook Italy.

The article's graph undermines its own thesis: it's clearly visible that South Asia was just as divided as Europe, but in fact stalls after the first millenium, because that low territory fraction represents nearly 800 years of constant war in the region. Europe, unlike India, has a lot of natural borders, which allowed places like England, Venice, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Portugal to avoid conflict and focus on their internal development, and indeed, all of those places punch well above their weight in the historical record (although the Mediterranean islands generally do not). The only natural border in India protects Kerala, who (poetically) were the first to develop the theory of infinite series in the 16th century. The other outstanding examples of this phenomenon are Oman and, of course, Japan.
No no, they'll just have Sundar masturbate about building social value out of technology at the next Google I/O conference.
Following the gun safety rules is critical. Not doing so is how all of these unfortunate incidents happen because there are no "accidents."

Also, put chamber flags in all unloaded weapons but still clear them anyhow. Clearing should be habitual.
Most Americans under the age of about 50 have no personal experience of the US being anything else than "Number 1".

To those people, "American Exceptionalism" equates to "America is Number 1".

When America becomes "Number 2" in the near future, it would be an unimaginable disaster for those people. That's why the Wolfowitz Doctrine and the Thucydides Trap will bring actual disaster for the US - wars, financial collapse, etc.

Of course, those of us that are older can remember lots of times when America was not Number 1 at all. And so we're not as fussed about the coming demotions.
I used to collect stamps till I was about 14, then had to leave the country and leave the collection behind. 30 years or so later, my mom managed to find and send me my old collection (well, some of it, and with none of the valuable stamps that probably were lost). Of course in the meantime I lost interest in collecting stamps (or anything else for that matter; leaving a big collection behind was a bit of a heartbreak I never truly recovered from, I guess).

So now my question is: what to do with these stamps? I want to give them to someone I'd care about and who would value them, but that is easier said than done. Any ideas?
I too see a lot of sensible awareness towards PFAS, but often wonder how many (if any) good ol' PAHs get thrown into your food from the fat seasoning of non-coated pans.
Doesn't the Windows Store keep you apps up to date? It seems to work for me.
Interesting take. There is jealousy here.
DeFi Hacks Explained
I worked at a company in finance markets in the mid 1990s that was paying the traders $2M bonuses.
I normally find the Hacker News audience to be balanced on issues, but for tax policy, seems like strong opinions are held without a basic understanding of facts.

In this instance don't have strong opinions if:

* You have no idea what transfer pricing is

* You have no idea what companies have to do to comply with transfer pricing laws (remember that these are international transactions and they need to comply with two sets of tax authorities, both with different sets of rules)

* You have no idea what laws congress created related to these transactions

* You have no idea that these laws have been updated over the years (if you have no idea about what changed in Section 482-7T)

Comments like "companies should just pay their taxes" are like when laypeople say "companies should have websites that always work instantaneously & never have any downtime". Reality is complicated and your opinion isn't that valuable if you don't know any basic facts.
I’ve found a wonderful exception for clothing: https://www.woolx.com/pages/about-woolx. You aren’t replacing your entire wardrobe with them, but I wear their shirts 50% of the time and their boxers 100% of the time.
Other brands of residential treadmill do not cause injuries at the same rate and are not nearly as dangerous. I am a runner and have a lot of experience with treadmills. This treadmill has some features that make it uniquely dangerous:

- Large rollers (2x to 4x the diameter of other residential treadmills).

- Higher deck height.

- An inconvenient to access physical on/off switch, increasing the likelihood it will be left on.

- Apparently no safety lanyard.

- No guard under the belt. This is not common to residential treadmills in my experience, but is not as necessary without the larger rollers and higher deck height.

The comparison to free weights is not apt. This treadmill can easily be made safer with better design decisions.

If the bench broke under your son due to negligent design, I wouldn't hold you responsible, but rather the bench manufacturer.
I mean it is a bit odd that this is from 2012 and was reposted today. It's almost like it was posted because there hadn't been a negative story in while
Those reference two different tax avoidance schemes. Apple started using the double Irish in 1980s. The Accenture point is about the capital-allowances for intangible assets scheme.
The asymmetry between how employees agonize over their behavior towards their employers vs how employers think of their employees never ceases to amaze me. Never forget that your employer will gleefully lay off their most loyal employees if doing so is somehow in alignment with some executive’s comp. I’m not saying you should ever behave unethically, I’m just saying that if you’re on the field, you should be aware of what game you’re playing.
Before it was a gift phone it was $1,000. They changed that in....2008ish maybe. I can't remember the exact year.
Oh this looks nice.

But it’s also a google side project, so previous experience dictates that it’ll be dead somewhere between arrival and 5 years time.
What an absolutely amazing text. Thanks for getting me started on a GK Chesterton binge.
> Except why not build on AppGet, or acquire it?

One thing I don't like about the Apple/MS ecosystems these days is that major pieces or open source now are pretty much required for most developers to do their jobs. Yet both seem to hold hostility to open source solutions. So some still believe in MS that open source is the devil, especially if you've spent 20 years in that mindset.

Example:

25 years ago in college, ssh was getting popular, and became the de facto connection tool a couple decades ago. Only in 2018 did MS finally add it to windows.

And Apple has purged GPL apps from their platform and has for years. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559990 Hence the need for articles like this: https://itnext.io/upgrading-bash-on-macos-7138bd1066ba
> my boss asks: what is to stop me threatening to resign every time I don’t get my way?

Nothing. That's how negotiating an employment relationship works. Holy shit.
Bill Ackman is another one who does this a lot.
I didn’t see any references in this thread to Von Neumann replicator cellular automata, so in this particular sense the idea has been implemented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_construc...
I worked at Facebook on ranking systems at that time. No, facebook was not trying to intentionally provoke any emotional response. They were trying to increase product metrics like number of videos watched, subject to constraints on the % of watches that include things like violence or bullying. Ultimately the goal is to make the Facebook product good so they can continue selling ads.

Facebook would make all its users happy and positive if that were possible to do. Nobody at Facebook is trying to manipulate you, except by trying to show you content that keeps you coming back to Facebook.
Same on 8Gb. Was just curious if you had 802.11ac wireless in the x200 too.

Ultimately..not really a huge deal for my use case really.
> The difference is that in a free society Linus can go public and that makes it much more risky for a intelligence service to try it.

How does Linus ability to go public make it more dangerous for intelligence services?

That implies intelligence services approaching him with such an offer would put themselves in danger of consequences just for asking, when that's evidently not true: There were no consequences for the NSA for asking Linus, there were no consequences for the NSA in the vast majority of cases it was caught doing something it shouldn't do.

It's also not true that in the "free society" is some binary thing: In the US National Security Letters are a very real thing, outfits affected by them are legally not allowed to publicize it. By any definition of this "free society keeps intelligence services in check" logic that should not be a thing, but it is, just like many other legal tools to suppress the free and open reporting about "national security" issues.
On a similar note, sous vide can get exceptional results without all of the hassle.

Sous vide to cook. Chill in the fridge overnight. Smoke for an hour or two.

It's gets you about 90% the same results without needed to keep the smoker perfectly dialed in.
Another positive example is any Discourse based forum which provides a timeline for scrolling. Jumping in the middle of the time interval is not the same as jumping in the middle of the resultset, but it serves the same purpose and is usually closer to what the user actually wants.
For sudden reboot issues, could be some power protections tripping? For me that showed up as shutdowns (that require turning the PSU off for a minute), but maybe depending on various components and could result in reboots as well?

PBO seems to result in some wild power spikes that don't ever happen with manual static OC. Try raising various overcurrent limits, that worked for me.
You are technically readable words of a mostly abstract person.
This is one of those “Product Management 101” things that engineers are surprisingly bad at. I couldn’t agree more that this is an essential skill for engineers (especially sr engineers), whether they’re working on infra, growth, or product.
When I started at Microsoft in 2000 I believe my initial salary was 62k just as another reference plus some stock options (honestly I can't remember the details of that part). This was a very good comp package for a new college grad.
I agree with your ideology but you're describing how the world should be whereas I'm describing how the world is [0]. If you want to change the world, you have to accept how the world is.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwuckTkE7T4
Call me overcautious but personally will be happy to get a vaccine once one goes through processes like described here https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/basics/test-approve.html
Surely you don't accuse developers of being in cahoots with the attackers that use their bugs? Now, we fix our bugs, so there's a difference...
Dick Sites – “Data Center Computers: Modern Challenges in CPU Design” [video]
I think changing a bonus is a lot easier than changing a salary, especially if the bonus can be tied to the performance of the firm and therefore go down—salaries tend to be very sticky (ie hard to decrease)
>The editor will set the advance so the book never earns out.

Not deliberately, most of the time. If you have a track record, a good agent, and there's a competitive bid for your book, they might overpay knowing that they don't have to earn out to make a profit, they just have to get reasonably close. Maybe they can make it up in subrights. But if those things are not true, the advance will be lower.