skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no standard for this yet. We're probably a few years away of remote working becoming more common before that changes.

Compensation at big tech companies is determined by benchmarking compensation across several companies in several geographies to determine what pay scale the company should pay at. The benchmarking usually happens a few times a year. Radford is the gold standard source of data that large companies pay for access to.

This fidelity of this data relies on submissions. So its fairly easy for them to benchmark within a location where a lot of companies submit their data and build effective compensation bands.

The issue with going outside of the Bay Area for comp benchmarking, is that the data fidelity from the usual sources goes down dramatically, so HR and compensation teams usually apply a general heuristic like 50% of Bay Area or 80% of Bay Area just to make the math simple.

Startups can be all over the map on this. The good ones have access to Radford (or a filtered version of it) through their investors and they use it to benchmark. But their data fidelity will also take a hit if a different location is used, and they often benchmark less often than they should, or against the wrong companies based on their size.
If it does, that's even worse. We're polluting more than we can afford to, making people want more stuff is the last thing we need.
I think the big thing about these innovations was that the nay-sayers didn't expect how big a demand there would be for specific implementations of them after the network effect kicks in. Social media? Technically it is very simple. But now everyone is on it so the dominant platforms are making billions with advertising.

We didn't need a social media platform. We needed a social media platform where most of the interesting people (including our friends) are on.
Depends. No quick and easy ways without some catches/prerequisites.

Do you have extraordinary academic/artistic/business abilities? That might get you EB-1, EB-2 NIW, O-* visa types.

$900k to "invest" at near zero return? That buys you EB-5 green card.

A year of spare time to study and mid 5 figures for tuition and expenses? You could come do masters then stay work for 3 years on STEM OPT. These 3 years should be enough to get a green card to stay permanently, assuming you weren't born in India/China.

Single? Marry an american. It's quick but can get very expensive in the long term though, California is a forced community property state - your spouse essentially owns half of your income.
This website carried me through Intro Linguistics, lol.
It's interesting that quantum inspired classical algorithms have been discovered that outperform the previously best known algorithms, and reduce the likelihood of useful quantum speedups in those areas. https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3880

I take this tweet as Vitalik saying that a similar thing could happen for mining (or general search), and while it would be surprising, it doesn't seem like it is impossible.
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> make sure there’s enough independent oversight

Sure, any day now.
can you provide an example of a dead coin that featured real innovation without rewarding its creators?
There's no evidence the disk crashed in this case.
Also, I've witnessed first hand someone come into a cafe I where I was working, walk up to another person who was on their laptop, snatch the open laptop as the person was typing on it, and bolt out into a waiting getaway car. That laptop was fully open and logged into everything.

This is obviously a rare case but it just goes to show that you can have pretty darn good security and there are still attack vectors that you won't be hardened against.
Surgery, when allowed by the military, is acceptable to them because the military pilot's career is over fairly soon.

But the pilot has to evaluate the impact of the eye shape changing in middle-age, negating the surgery benefits, and either requiring surgery again (if possible - multiple PRKs is iffy), glasses/contacts, or retirement.

People are very casual about the risks, but pilots shouldn't be.

https://www.aviationmedicine.com/article/vision-and-faa-stan...
> You and your competitors are probably among the first results for the relevant keywords anyway and could save a lot on advertising if none of you advertised. But once a single competitor starts buying ads the whole sector has to move until the expense on Google ads is equal to the former profit margin. This in turn leads to monopolization as only the competitor with the highest profit margin at baseline will still be making a profit.

Granted, incumbents are likely to score high on organic search results. If somebody new comes up with a better product, which can deliver more value at a lower price, the page rank algorithm isn’t going to do much for them. But the newcomer’s superior unit economics mean they can afford to bid higher for an ad, which allows them to get market share from the incumbent. In that sense, ads can make the market more liquid, and speed adoption of improved products and more efficient manufacturing or business processes.

The ad publisher does end up capturing a big chunk of this value, and it’s valid to ask if that’s fair and if we as a society should allow it.
How is this not just another 'thus of ould, thus now' (https://wellcomecollection.org/images?query=j8c3mm3x / https://fineartamerica.com/featured/2-womens-rights-1915-gra...) rant?
>Not that I've ever done anything wrong, ...

When you see that people need to write this disclaimer even on this website it feels like the privacy ship has long sailed.
bad bots that don't have guards against bids that look too good to be true
Maybe too dry or I'm dense. I don't get the joke.
Why should the meager cashflows of the small business be forced to compete with the money printer at the federal reserve? I'm all for companies raising wages in competitive environments. The situation at present is not a competitive environment.
And, if a US citizen travel to the EU/EEA, your existing, ripe-for-abuse, US customers are protected under the GDPR.

Not sure how likely a fine would be in that case, though.
Wasn't there a wave of articles just a few months ago about how it was time to give up on two-factor because phones/sims were too easy to hack, spoof etc? Regardless, the day a service or site (other than my bank) requires a phone or other physical device to be tied to my account is the day I stop using the service. It's a profoundly bad idea for so many reasons. Passwords are like democracy: the worst idea, except for all the others.
If you have perf critical branches in your code, you should try and make them as predictable as possible. Sometimes that means using a different approach that is algorithmically worse, but has much more predictable branches.

Classic example is linear search is faster than binary search for “small” lists. The item == myItem branch is only taken once at the end. Meanwhile binary search will take the branches of it’s comparison (item < myItem, item > myItem) in equal proportion to each other, so the branch predictor is stuck at a 50% guess for that branch. There is a great talk on this but I can’t remember what it’s called...
I'm curious about this, too. I once commented that, say, my hobby website isn't subject to the GDPR because I love, work, and play in the US and that's where my blog is, too. Turns out some people have very strong opinions about this and insisted that I am subject to the GDPR. But as a practical matter, how? I don't have a presence outside the US. Even if I violated a EU law, is there a reason I'd ever need to care? For instance, I know I've violated some Chinese laws by criticizing their government, but I'm OK with that because, really, what are they going to do about it?

As an aside, I'm completely behind GDPR, CCPA, and related privacy laws. I think they're great. I definitely comply with the spirit of the laws in my hobby projects by doing things like not tracking anonymous users, not retaining identifiable logs, etc. This isn't me trying to get away with something nefarious. More like, I don't (and won't) bother with things like cookie banners even if GDPR would want me to.
Fun fact: H.323, the VoIP protocol, is pretty much just ISDN (specifically, its signalling protocol, Q.931) over IP.

ISDN PRI runs over T1/E1, so I would imagine any T1/E1 PCIe card would do, if you can find the right software for it. Some Cisco routers, including old ones, accept modules with ISDN BRI ports, though I believe these are for connection to a service provider rather than a phone. Cisco IOS has VoIP functionality (if the right licences are enabled) and it can also speak ISDN over a Cisco E1/T1 module. There's also old PBX equipment you can find secondhand which speaks ISDN; for example, someone I know has a Cisco 2951 connected via T1/ISDN PRI to an old Meridian PBX, both purchased secondhand. It even has Cisco IP deskphones attached to the Cisco router which can call through to Meridian deskphones attached to the Meridian.

I'm not personally familiar with any of this, though if you contact me I can put you in touch with some ISDN hobbyists who are. https://www.devever.net/~hl/contact
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> where does this perfect search capability exist in the world that allows one to search for goods and services free from all advertising.

That an alternative is not easily available, does not somehow make the existing services ethical.

That said, and the mystical service is called your friends/family/neighbors/colleagues/etc. It ain't perfect, but it's remarkably effective. In the 2-300 people in your first and second degree networks, there's probably a few anecdotes to help you find a good product.

It even has a neat name: word of mouth.
"Configuration space" means that the state of the world is described by some list of numbers that don't actually correspond directly to locations in space or time. Or even mass or energy.

It means that those things aren't really fundamental. What's fundamental is some other set of things that aren't too difficult to work with mathematically, but which don't correspond exactly to anything you're familiar with. The best you can do is to add in "probability functions", such that "state of the world X" means that you'd have some chance of detecting a particle here, and some chance of detecting a particle there, and so on.

It's that jump from one to the other that's awkward, and to be honest not 100% understood. But it's actually better understood than a lot of the woo-woo descriptions of quantum mechanics make it out to be.

Now, when I said that the math isn't too difficult to work with, that's a bit of a lie. It's all about Simple Harmonic Oscillation, except using complex numbers. That's really not too bad, but it's definitely new.
It is hard being a tulip grower!
This dataset search engine has been around for years! We created DataMarket (https://datamarket.es) inspired by this site (and Auren Hoffman's SafeGraph).
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/mxiufr/when_soundness...

I was one of the people who commented on that post. My point was basically that "you need to uphold invariants in order for this to be sound" is exactly what `unsafe` means in Rust. So if you're wrapping a library that doesn't guarantee safety then you should mark it as unsafe (and there's nothing wrong with that).

Rust library users will typically assume that they can do absolutely whatever they want with a safe interface and they cannot possibly cause memory safety issues, undefined behaviour, etc. A large part of the benefit of Rust is not even having to think about that. So it's important that libraries continue to stick to this convention.
Algae would probably be better.
Came looking for beer, found sounds.
Interesting, Clojure was my gateway drug to CL. I wonder how common it is for people who come to Clojure but get warned off by the JVM to migrate further down the lisp road?
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You’ve made some really good points.

Possible explanations that I have seen for inaccurate targeting:

1. Some folks have a ton of money in their budget to spend on marketing, and they frankly don’t care about optimizing their targeting. In some cases, this is a shrewd decision, since the benefits of marginal optimization don’t really justify the cost of optimization. That said, in most cases, it’s just sloth or ignorance combined with the knowledge that they better spend their ad budget or else “bad things” will happen.

2. Lots of people call themselves digital marketers. Most of them who are employees suck, and I mean suck really bad. The reason is that if you are really good at digital marketing, it’s pretty easy to roll your own small business that, at a minimum, makes enough money while still having a lot of latitude in terms of free time or financial upside. Most companies are not willing or are not able to pay highly competent digital marketers what they are worth. Regardless, these employee marketers who suck tend not to do well at optimizing targeting.

3. Most digital marketing agencies suck at targeting. This is largely a byproduct of #2 above. The owner of an agency or the lead marketer might be really good, but they often delegate to people who are not. Streamlining the work of the underlings turns out not to be that important for most of these agencies.

That’s my 2 cents. I would love to hear other opinions.
Show HN: Codesearch – use ML to find code from Google search w/o leaving the IDE
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The intents or desires of our former President only have bearing on his complicity in any coup attempt. They say nothing about how close any such attempt came to success.
> Someone like Comcast wanting to charge Netflix just because too many of Comcast's customers are requesting Netflix traffic is ridiculous. Comcast already got paid... by their customers.

I don't have a preference who gets paid what in this situation as both are multi-billion dollar companies. Netflix serves as a middleman in a big machine as does Comcast. I have to care about my direct interests instead of spending energy on a crusade on behalf of a big tech company with the liability of the cost & making sure that the legislation does have any unintended consequences. Knowing politicians & lobbyists, there are always unintended consequences to any piece of legislation.

From what I'm seeing, the argument for NN is moot, heavy-handed, & rife with unintended consequences; Unless you can provide information about how somebody like me is adversely affected by something that only NN legislation would solve, why should somebody like me support NN when there are many alternatives that would be better for me? With NN, Comcast, Verizon, etc. are only going to capture the regulators to crack down on their competition (e.g. independent ISPs).

Focusing on providing better competition for underserved markets, included distributed networks & community wifi, would probably be more effective at keeping the quality of ISP market high. Improving distributed tech & removing (or rendering obsolete) legislation that limit competition to 1-2 ISPs in a region would also truly be beneficial. I also care about distributed systems. Is there something that regulation would do that the free market would not?

I'm a wee bit tired of NN being an oxygen-sucking rallying cry wedge issue that does not solve the root issues that affect me personally, but instead could be another regulatory tool to crack down on independent providers & distributed platforms.

NN is another of a long list of schemes to crack down on independent providers to capture yet another set of markets by the govt, lawyers, technocrats, etc. I wouldn't put it past Comcast to act as the heel in this charade.
> "we can see it happening overseas in major political referendums or elections"

.... Right. Overseas. Wink. [Cries in Bernie Sanders.]
BRK.B also votes, but with much-less voting power.

It isn't to discriminate on class (which is a definite side-effect), but rather to discriminate on time-horizon. Berkshire plays the long game and has taken great pains to attract/retain long-term shareholders. (As has, to an extent, Amazon)

Almost nobody can afford to day-trade BRK.A. Furthermore, most holders of A probably don't want to sell on any given day.

If you want to trade Berkshire on short timescales, B is available/liquid, but your votes don't count for much.
Also there's this:
https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Appl...
Just because the security didn't use lethal weapons (except that one shot). And the reason they didn't use it is because there never was any real serious threat to anyone in power. So the fact that the mob got onto the building speaks only that the security preferred to let them in (fully understanding that everyone important is already evacuated) rather than killing them to prevent them from access.

Once in the building the mob quickly figured out that they don't know what to do next, as was expected.
Both are defense mechanisms to prevent any responsibility to do something themselves.
Ok but it sounds like your new camera is actually better. My new MacOS is just the same, or slightly worse. The changes in Big Sur don't solve any problems I actually have. Notifications are just more fiddly. Common actions are no longer prominently available, they are hidden behind hovers and tiny buttons, or simply gone. The interface uses more space and provides less information.
Who are you writing code for? (2010)
This is very 'unhacker' advice, but I generally learn to love defaults.

I also think a lot about sane defaults when working on/deploying software to customers myself. I choose what systems to use in part based on how good the defaults are.

The closer you are to accepting defaults the easier your life is. Obviously there are exceptions, but things like mouse scroll direction? Just learn to love the new one.
>I’ve never actually gone to a bank first before buying a car.

I don’t think you’re paying much attention to what you sign when buying a car, you don’t go to a bank, there’s a person at the dealership who sets the loan for you from different banks. There are buy-here pay-here which is financed by the dealership but that is usually for conditions that banks won’t accept like rebuilt title vehicles, heavily modified or too old.
That conflates different cases in a way that strikes me as misleading.
I read it. It’s great that he’s working on something that is alleged to be a little less horrible. Doesn’t make it good, or even acceptable.
Exactly. And this goes beyond the company itself abusing your trust. There's a major data breach at a large company almost every month now. Unless absolutely necessary, never give any personally identifiable data to any company, because they will get hacked, and that info will end up on the net, where it can be abused.
Yes if push comes to shove they could obviously just shut down websites or go after companies that continue to use Disqus and they in turn will drop it. There's also plenty of countries outside the EU who have adopted GDPR compatible laws and so the EU could likely pursue them in their national jurisdictions. Also EU and US regulatory agencies tend to cooperate routinely because it's in either case to keep market access so if the case is large enough I wouldn't bet on being sheltered from enforcement.

There was for example one case of Canadian firm 'AggregateIQ' being pursued by the UK's ICO over privacy violations, and Canadian regulators agreed.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/26/brexit-data-fi...
the WSJ piece mentions fake comments on both sides (paywall..) https://www.wsj.com/articles/fccs-net-neutrality-proposal-ma...

"Investigators also found 9.3 million comments supporting net neutrality that used fictitious identities, most submitted by one California college student majoring in computer science."
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I’ve been thinking it’d be neat to have a program running that watches the web camera continuously and if you look away from the screen then it locks the computer after 1 minute. And if you disappear from the image it locks it immediately.

This would also immediately lock the computer in the case of someone snatching it from you, even though the main use case I had in mind is just for falling asleep and for leaving the room.

Dunno if it’d drain too much battery. Also having the camera active indicator led glow all the time would be annoying. And it would also mean that you unfortunately no longer know if other software on your computer is recording your face while you are sitting there.
Either through the ingame recruitment tool, whispering guilds from wowprogess that are recruiting Or even city chat.

Blaming lfg/lfr for the current wow community is misguided at best. The rewards from it are just too low for it to have such a large impact.

I mean the game has become pay to win at this point as you can pay real money for ingame gold... Which you can use to get carried through mythic raid/pvp/m+, giving you a gigantic ingame advantage.

This isn't even a niche thing anymore. There are spammers constantly offering carrys for all ingame content.
I don't hate rust, but I think I get where they are coming from. The hype to results ratio of rust is off the charts, possibly higher than any language I've ever seen. This makes sense seeing as how a safer C both sounds amazing and also is incredibly hard to pull off apparently, but I can see where this is grating to the casual observer.
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That would get exponential real quick. But Intel’s Tremont does have an instruction decoder that’s 6-wide only when decoding a taken branch, since it also starts decoding the branch target in the same cycle.
Isn't the difference that a refrigerator is a closed system whereas many industrial/workshop air compressors are open and must maintain relatively high pressure due to a "controlled leak"?
I am certainly no expert but they don't seem the same to me?
Each ad serve is not worth that much to start with, facebooks CPMs are about $7-8, so they are getting $0.007 per serve with extensive targeting. The falloff is something around 10x+ for completely non targeted ads which for most sites push them below the level of economic feasibility.

This is also why if you stumble into some parts of the web, they vomit out a billion ads per page to try and compensate.

Really the problem is that there is a tremendous gap between the costs to serve content and users willingness to pay (either directly or via any indirect method). It is a tremendously deep hole we've built with freemium models that will probably require some level of societal agreement to dig back out of.
Aren't week/weak and piece/peace pronounced exactly the same?
Yeah, it seems like programming language decision is, at least in part, a proxy for "At what point do you want to be held accountable for your program's correctness at runtime?"

Haskell/Rust - Immediately

Java/C#/Go - Relatively quickly

Dynamic Languages - Whenever you decide it becomes important
I suppose the "answer" to this critique (billionaire bad, basically) is that the world should make billionaire-ing illegal. But how do you do that without having a central authority determine the maximal value of anything? And who will police this hypothetical central authority from skimming profits from companies/people whose value is held back by them?

People with a lot of money have a lot of power. I'm okay with people like Gates at least trying to use their money to improve the world in a big way over people who squander their outsized wealth while also foot-stomping people beneath them.