skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the companies I worked at previously made a big deal about employee
-driven performance review / promo packets every year. Everyone's title had a level like a role playing game. There was also a culture of compensation transparency among coworkers. I thought it was all quite toxic, leading to a lot of very well compensated people stressing out and complaining. At its worst, it lead to instances of passive aggression and depression across many teams.

My current company encourages regular direct feedback, mostly lacks titles internally, and there's a culture of compensation opacity among coworkers. Folk don't talk about money outside topics of general interest, and managers and HR are responsible for periodically reviewing and adjusting compensation for fairness. I haven't had to worry about or discuss money professionally in years, other than to get called into a short meeting to be pleasantly surprised by an adjustment. There's no bonuses other than the occasional verbal praise I receive from appreciative coworkers and management, and I think that's worth more than incrementally more money.

One time I did offer to pay out cash to any coworkers that reduced network traffic on a particularly over-utilized CAN bus, at a bounty of $0.10/Kbps. One sucker, er, respected coworker fell for it. Best $20 I ever spent!
Yea the guy only invented Bitorrent and changed the entire internet, what does he know!

I'm sure you're right.
> No, it might barely improve what _you_ see, but for me the difference between screens on work laptop (FHD) and my personal X1C is enormous and immediately obvious.

Between FHD and 4K for sure there’s a huge difference. But 4K is way overkill for 15“. And I really don’t understand why there’s like nobody except Apple who uses panels in a sweet spot between FHD and 4K. I have a HP ZBook 15“ with an FHD panel as my work laptop and it’s a bad experience especially when you’re dealing with text all the time. My personal MacBook Pro doesn‘t have 4K but a lot more than FHD and it’s perfectly fine.
Same thing I didn’t get with aspect ratio. Apple did use 16:10 for years until some OEM realized that 16:9 is just bad for everything except movies.
I guess we should think about what percent of the power was used for bitcoin mining. If only 1% was used for bitcoin mining that it's pretty hard to say that bitcoin mining was the cause.
Modem or router? Most cable modems you are not permitted to access the admin page for any reason, or they will remotely lock out after plugged in. Only for "technician use".
Response from Signal Desktop developer on an insufficient Signal PR I posted a while ago: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/pull/4381
Optimizing string:append is harder than it looks
Bunker piercing weapons exist and are specifically made to penetrate thick concrete and metal structures.
How is that even remotely strategically good for China......?

These miners are probably making USD or some other foreign fiat at the end of the day which adds to the supply of foreign reserves without needing to use trade... And if they're siphoning power to get around currency exchange limits moving wealth abroad then a traditional crackdown to confiscate their equipment would be much more effective (you can't exactly "hide" a mining operation).

Frankly China, with so much mining output, benefits more from seeing crypto moon than crash...

(Also "collapsing the price" is something that can be done (and may have actually even already been done in the past) with far far less effort than an attack...

(As one example, articles pointing out that "China can do 51% attacks" are much more effective in crashing crypto prices... maybe keep an eye out for those
Trump Tweets for Sale as an NFT
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- Unless I seriously misinterpreted the news, the significant chunk of hash rate cut due to this blackout is all coal.

- Until hydro and other renewables cover all electricity needs, crypto mining hogging hydro just pushes other non-crypto power demands to fossil fuel.
I’m curious what this has to do with Sid Meier.
I think it is just the opposite. In my particular situation at work, if we go the simple route (it's just a 2 step CRUD wizard, so that'd be Rails/django/etc) other 5 people might be redundant.

We need a team of 5 people to mantain this project (and a few smaller ones) because of the architecture (SPA + Go microservices) and the tools (React, rxjs, redux, data loaders, graphql, typescript safe actions whatever, an in-house-built crazy i18n system, custom webpack, some 10s of other open source libraries, and some other 10s of internal custom libraries).

It's crazy. Really crazy.
I'm aware of velocity. The government didn't hand out trillions in transfer payments during the last 10 years of money growth so I think the velocity side is covered as well.

The popular wisdom regarding the tulip affair is widely acknowledged to be BS and it is played out regardless, So I'd recommend to pick a more interesting anecdote if you want to make a point regarding economics.

On the other hand I have absolutely no doubt that asset bubbles can be inflated by printing money and you are misunderstanding my point if you think I'm insinuating otherwise.
> It’s a public health issue.

It’s really just a parenting issue.

> There is no need for safety guidelines for cigarettes or Instagram for children, because there’s no benefit for children to use those things.

It’s a social tool, there’s plenty of risk for harm with any form of socialization, especially with children. There’s also plenty of benefit for children to have with socialization, so your comments here just seem very obviously wrong to me.

If you’re a parent you may find those risks to be unacceptable. Especially if you’re a parent who relies on other parties to do most of your parenting for you. But all the arguments put forward here just make the claim that there’s a risk for harm, and as such instagram must be comparably harmful to cigarettes. This is simply an anti-rational argument. It’s a risk decision, just like all the other risk decisions parents make for their children.
> what happens next?

I want to see civ games where social media dynamics enter the picture.

Echo chambers, polarisation, pandering, where different unit types cops, military, city workers, journos, scientists etc start chasing Likes and Followers causing all kinds of side effects. And then the player is given various tools to keep things from collapsing...
To the extent that grit makes you more dedicated to a project, the more likelihood the project will advance.

Conscientiousness has a very positive effect too, more relative to the quality of the outcome.
The chip's density is very low, and a few people have made ICs at home, but it's not a "just follow this easy recipe" DIY kind of thing.

The first person I met to have done so was the now-well-known Jeri Ellsworth; she's mentioned in a more recent article on the subject. [1]

[1] https://hackaday.com/2018/04/24/first-lithographically-produ...
Thank you, this may be the reason. I am not sure of the difference between modem and router, I will unplug and try!
Decentralization is not a binary choice, as 100% can't be achieved.

At the same time price action over the last 10 years show that it may be decentralized enough to survive and.succeed.
> Like physicians, automobile mechanics, and attorneys, realtors know more about their area of expertise than the people paying them for advice. In the absence of properly structured incentives, experts can use their specialized knowledge to further their own interests at the expense of those who hire them. Car mechanics can recommend more expensive repairs than are really necessary, attorneys can charge high fees for services that reasonably intelligent consumers could perform themselves, and realtors can give sales advice that maximizes their profit rather than that of the homeowner.

Are physicians morally beyond reproach? Why include them in the first sentence if they’re the only group without a follow up.

Unrelated to the above but an earnest question: why are real estate agents paid percentage based commissions?
Why would they be "taken back"?

If the the majority of the network agrees on the the new fork who is to say that isn't the de facto "real" fork?
Some wales know about this and ejected? That's why the drop today?
Undermining trust in bitcoin is a plausible goal. An attacker with that goal wouldn't stop at one attack.
This is basically a mid 90's approach to analytics. Glad it works for the author.
> You see this in cycling where you have to have a carbon fiber road bike and fancy lycra to be a cyclist, you obviously can't be having fun on an old bike just leisurely riding around the neighborhood!

I’m
Confused. Who exactly cares what you ride?? Someone has actually said something to you??
Is it viable? We know industrials get power at cheaper rate in some counties, is there any arbitrage possible by making huge batteries like this for residential and commercial use?
This. I've already stated it a lot. Go is great if you're building a CLI application, a DNS server, a database, some core infrastructure service, Kubernetes extensions/plugins, etc.

But people learn it, get hyped, and want to use it for everything.

So now we're spending months doing things that already exist in popular frameworks.

Go is not for web development.You're not Google.
I currently tip well. I would RATHER the costs be upfront and the complete wage and quality of service be covered by the company.

I would, correspondingly, love to see both a national minimum wage increase AND a ban on including tips in someone's expected wage as a single update to the laws.
From Jake Chervinsky:

https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1383650715604717571?s...

I don't find this credible. The tweet itself is fishy: Treasury doesn't charge money laundering (DOJ does) & a case against several FIs at once would be unusual. Also, criminal investigations are kept strictly confidential & rarely leak. I'm not convinced by unnamed "sources."
You missed an opportunity to learn from that blank stamp, I think. It probably could have taught you something about the manufacturing process of stamps.
While this is an interesting article, it's worth noting that it's (a) from 2005 and (b) using data from the previous decade. So what, it's still relevant, right? Welllll, this summary itself suggests maybe not:

> In recent years, the Internet has made it easier for sellers to track house prices. In theory, this would decrease the value of the real-estate agent's specialized knowledge. Indeed, the authors find that when the public was beginning to use the Internet, from 1992 to 1995, the premium on agent-owned homes was 4.9 percent. By 1996 to 1999, as Internet usage was becoming widespread, the premium dropped to 3.2 percent.

As the market became more informed, the advantage was going down -- and that was a half a decade before Trulia, Zillow, and Redfin came onto the picture. It's quite likely that if Mr. Freakonomics[1] ran this study now, the "premium" would be lower still. Zillow ain't gonna factor in "this home is owned by a Realtor" into its Zestimate (tm).

[1]: Not being flippant here -- look at the first co-author!
Then why is it used to carry drinking water
Given the misaligned interests, it seems that real estate agents are delivering a negative value in exchange for their fees. I'd feel much more confident doing at least the bargaining part myself.
Writing a book is like creating anything else. Whether you're writing a book, making music, producing goods or offering services, people need to actually try what you've made. This is why "advertising" is so important. Not necessarily traditional advertising, but some form of getting the word out about your amazing creation.
Agents want to be the selling agent 10x more than being buying agents, especially in hot competitive markets. Thus in the current market dynamic, home owners (sellers) should have strong leverage against agents in negotiating contracts.

However the dynamic suffers from a typical experience level imbalance like we see in Venture rounds, M&A deals, etc.

Edit: one challenge with this is that because sellers sign exclusive agreements for sale, you can get the situation common in IPO lead underwriting banks — tell the client the highest price to win the deal, then start the process of gradually walking back seller expectations.
In other words, the company takes your shares if you quit.

The solution is to put the option strike deadline at 10 years in the future which is iirc what YC recommends. It's possible for these terms to be employee-friendly.
I'd also suggest the book Drive about motivation and how economic compensation can have counterproductive effects.

Edit: Oh, and dear Lord how could I forget Deming?! Most of the time we think we're measuring individual performance we're really measuring noise. And it's not individual performance but organisational performance that matters anyway.
Can you be more specific about the mathematics book, I d like to take a look. (like title author publisher or any other pointer)
The sectioning bit is truly disturbing.
to what end? Undermining trust in bitcoin isn't a goal on its own - unless you're some mastache twiddling movie villain.

If you're a nation state, and want to undermine the legitimacy of bitcoin, you can easily just institute laws to ban it. Much cheaper.
The politics game is a stairway to nowhere. Good on you for getting out of it, even the ones at the top are always worried about losing it, it’s much wiser not to play at all.
I worked at a company that instituted a very similar bonus program, it started just after the time the former COO of Ebay joined ... must have been coincidence. Anyways, we had similar formulas, pretty much the same thing. We were eligible for 6% of our salary but it would be paid out in 4 times a year in 2 different ways.

Our bonus was split in two, half would be used for quarterly bonuses, half would be used for yearly bonuses.

Each Quarter you would make personal goals and take on team goals. Each goal which would be measurable and would contribute to your bonus. They would be scored each from 60-120%. Each employee would have a mix of personal and team goals, totally 5 to 8.

Rather than have yearly goals, your average score of all quarters would be applied to the yearly half.

Finally, there was company goals, revenue and profit. If we met "guidance" we got 60% of our calculated goals above and if we hit the 'BHAG' we got 120%.

.....

So, lets say you are pushing a feature and you get it done super early. You your goal, complete on time, well you get 120%!

Of 1 of your 5 goals. It happened to be weighted at 40%, but fixing bugs on time was 30%. You did that ok, no problems, so that's 100% of a 30% goal. And your team didn't get that CFO cost cutting project at all, so that's 60% of that 20% goal. Some finally team sports participation one gave you the remaining at 100%.

Well how much did you earn from that 120% burst of hard work?
Well, its 120% of 40, so 48 points. 30 points for the team and only 12 points for the CFO one. Finally throw in that 10. So... you got 100% of your bonus.

How much was that, well, its 6% of your salary. But really only 1/8th of that 6%, so if you earned 100,000, that was $750!

Wait how did the company do? Well, Rev was lower than expected, so it was 80% of that. so $600.

Profit? No, the revenue drop ate away the profits. So is that 60% of the $600?

No, the bonus pool was funded from profits, so we get nothing. And.. we didn't made a profit in all quarters but one, one that you didn't bust your ass, so you only got $400.

So year end bonus of 6%? All you see if $400, but your math got better.
Use proof of stake coins like Cardano and Polkadot

They use 10000 to a million times less energy than bitcoin to process payments!
> Sometimes people underperform for other reasons that have nothing to do with you.

You can still try to find out what causes their behavior (by showing interests into their perspective) and may be able to help them and therefore the team.

- If they have a different perspective, it should be helpful to listen to their perspective.

- If they have a bad day, it will go away.

- If they have family or health problems, you might not want know the details, but simply knowing that a person is going through a difficult time might give you enough information to know how to improve the situation.

Even if you are not the cause of the situation, you might still be able to improve it as a manager.
I have faint memories of reading Misha comics in English when I had just about started reading. Do remember enjoying it along with other Indian content in Hindi like Champak/Chandamama but unlike these we maybe stopped getting supplies of these later with the USSR implosion as I don't remember coming across them later.
Modern financial markets are Ponzi schemes, and they are much larger than bitcoin.

How did you decide to compare the risk of nuclear holocaust to global warming? Anecdotally, I'd rather see temperatures rise over time and have a chance to adjust for it rather than die in a nuclear blast or issues immediately after.
I would love to. But users freak when you take things away. And when users freak, sales and marketing freak even more. The fact that a "cleaned up kitchen" may be better for the user community and product as a whole, is lost on the sales and marketing types who tend to be very focused on achieving short term goals rather than mid and long term ones.
I have a DIY Peloton that I love. $500 Echelon connect sport from Walmart plus a $14 a month Peloton digital subscription (vs $40 a month if you pay more for their bike). I have to use a conversion chart for the resistance but that hardly seems worth an extra $1000 + $26 a month.

Peloton really does have the best instructors but especially for the hacker new audience, you can put something together that works 95% as well for a much lower price.
> Do you have a source for your claims?

Apparently googling things is extremely hard if the search results confront ones own bias...

Here you go: https://postimg.cc/qttW8tSm

(Even the pro Energiewende org “agora” has a problem hiding the facts in their charts (https://www.agora-energiewende.de/service/agorameter/chart/p...)
They never said what "decentralized" meant for a currency, so it basically means anything you want.
Whenever I read these hyperbolic statements on Hackernews I always end up rolling my eyes.

Really? It’s spying now?
We insinctively add on new articles and submissions too.

Discussion (143 comments) from 9 days ago based on Nature article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26727878
I have no idea if this is true or not, but I think it’s fairly obvious it’s going to happen at some point. Janet Yellen has broadcast to the world for months now that she believes BTC is being used to fund terrorism and for money laundering. No one can say they weren’t warned well in advance.
Technically speaking, western China has a lot of renewable power and not as much demand for it as eastern China. If they were mining in western China to take advantage of lower rates, and that energy can’t be transmitted East anyways, then it might make sense (or they could just move some industry from eastern China to western China to take advantage of renewables, or get that UHV grid working so they can move renewable electricity East to where it’s needed).
I appreciate your use of "stated" here (serious)
Only if you believe psychopathy is being "messed up" which, as I said, in strictly medical sense, is not that clear.

Remember homosexuality was also classified as a mental illness until relatively recently.

What if it turns out modern society need psychopaths to operate properly? I know, an odd notion given the popular meaning of "psychopath", but once again... the popular meaning is kind of arbitrary and self-defeating.
> There are many roofing companies over 50 years old that have stood by their guarantees.

Name one. There are many, many more that haven't. I don't know how to find a company that is guaranteed to be around in even 20 years to honor a warranty, and neither do you.

> The choices are there in the market - you can buy a service from an upstart with no reputation and take a risk (but usually save some cash) or you can buy from an established provider with a reputation and pay a premium.

It doesn't matter how "established" or "reputable" the company is. There is nothing naturally permanent about any company. Companies shut down all the time for perfectly legitimate and benign reasons, like when the owners retire. How many contractors do you think pass on their businesses to their kids? I'll give you a hint if you need it. And if a company is facing liability, or even the possibility of liability, there is nothing preventing them from shedding some or all of their liability in bankruptcy.

The company that installed my roof was big, established, and reputable. They installed concrete tile roofs on two dozen houses in our neighborhood. The owners retired over a decade ago, long before the problems with our roofs became evident.

There was no negligence or massive incompetence, no scam of any kind. The company just didn't install the battens correctly, which was very common in the 90's. Most concrete tile roofs were installed incorrectly back then, and there is now a rash of failing roofs around our state.

Nobody except the most naive outsider would rely on the promise of warrantees lasting decades to do anything to help this situation.

> This used to just be the way the world worked before we regulated it.

Citation please. Give me an historic "pre-regulation" example of what you're claiming.
Majesty.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/majesty-retrospective

The appeal of Majesty is simulation, and the passivity of the player character. You're ruling a fantasy kingdom but rather than directing every small affair yourself, you set broad instructions and watch as they're carried out.
> whereas the homeowner wants to maximize sale price

I suspect that most homeowners don't understand the time value of money. Selling it quicker for a lower price may be better for the homeowner, as he can then invest the proceeds.

Holding out for a better price means you continue to pay property tax, homeowners insurance, maintenance, repairs, and your money tied up in the house is not making money for you.

When I've sold my house, I would slightly underprice it in order for a quick sale, which worked pretty good. That also worked when the buyer would come back with a bunch of inspection complaints, and I'd reply with "it's underpriced, sale is as is", and it'd sell.
Oh. Well you can try on the phone I guess. If thats how you normally read stuff.

I might be picky, but I just prefer kindle for longer stuff. IPads and tablets might be good too.
We allow companies to sell dangerous items all the time. People are mad at Peloton because treadmills are not generally thought of as unsafe.

The treadmills at many gyms lack a guard like other commenters suggest it should have. I can buy one for my home if I want.

I don't think this is the point the commenter above was making, but if it had circular saw blades on the corners, the pitchforks and torches would be out for the parents who let their kids near it; or even had one in a house with small children at all.
Yes it is hard, can you provide comparison data from < 2000 and the search words you used? Is the Y axis price or usage?
A nation state can’t ban it globally. A 51% attack undermines confidence globally.
I find it has massive merit on account of the underpowered ranges most home cooks have. You simply can keep a cast iron pan hotter than you can other types of pan. This makes it ideal for high temperature cooking like when searing.

Keep in mind that carbonized and polymerized layer is getting scorched every time you cook with cast iron so it's not the most hospitable environment for bacteria.