skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nod I think these are two branches of the tree and this problem is more in line with role disclosure (I'm not saying this well - for example, the need on job postings to list the actual salary range up front, like I know some non-US countries and I think recently Colorado? implemented into law).

The branch of this problem tree I speak of intersects more like "OK the band for level 3 is 50k-60k USD. Mark makes 60k and I make 50k but I feel my work is better than his and I've been here longer." This article is mostly about individual sharing, I think that quoted part is a nod in context to the other branch of the problem root which is just as important in it's own way. Not the best at making up examples, sorry.
It's actually just a double-scam.

Scam #1 is the level of executive compensation, particularly in the US.

Scam #2, the EMBA, rides on the back of #1. Cost is "justified" by what #1 makes possible, but nothing else.
I had go take a road trip to see for myself. Nearby Slab City is a nightmare, but Salton Sea wasn't too bad for a salt lake in the desert. There are picnic tables and campsites. There's a palm tree farm on the north end. In a little town on the water's edge, I found the sign for the the old Bombay Beach Club: https://imgur.com/a/eifJkzB
Techies especially are a gullible lot, susceptible to new age nonsense, anti-vax style pseudoscience, and a glut of other anti-science things. At least in the Bay Area. It’s ridiculous to see how quickly they take to any fad.
Agree: This program isn't paying enough per head to be employing security architects, this project is employing lots of juniors, ... sounds useful if you're targeting projects to exploit?
I wonder how many hours this will stay available before Disney sends a takedown notice to the server host for moddb.com
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Consensus building doesn't work without centralized mass media. People just have to get used to have different groups with different values inside the same country and be ok with that. Decentralized chains of trust will grow, which was the norm before mass media appeared.

Either that, or centralization will reassert itself brutally and force a new consensus.
So are we really going to go through the entire tax code and all of the potential use cases of median individuals, all so that we can conclude that the government needs to predict our deductions in advance so that you don't have to spend 1 hour and $39 per year filling out your info on TurboTax?

I'm tired of arguing with malicious people on the internet.
"If you should see grown men walking hand in hand, igore it. They are not queer"

I think this is still "normal" for guys to walk around hand in hand in arab countries, although it is a serious crime to be homosexual...
Please omit personal swipes from your HN comments, regardless of how wrong another comment is or you feel it is. It just makes things worse. Your comment would be fine without that first bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'd rather have proper federalism, but that seems less popular than secession or interminable (and escalating) political dysfunction.
The AI discovered an incidental proxy of FDA success - measuring funds level of the offshore banks of the comittee that approves a drug.
Squadrons was amazing, and amazingly disorientating at the same time. Really awesome VR experience though. Up there with HL Alyx in terms of “unique to VR”
You really can’t make a blanket statement about whether a particular salary makes you well off, unless you consider cost of living in the area where it’s necessary to live.

There are places in the US where someone with a $60,000 a year salary has a higher standard of living then someone making $100,000 a year.
Same with Clayton Bigsby.
I think there's a very narrow window where the value of information or control you have access to is worth less than the value a bad actor can extract from it.
Fly is no longer a CDN or reverse proxy. It lets you run anything packaged into container in several regions around the world and serve traffic to them all through a single domain.

You can build a CDN on top but if you just need basic CDN features then you should probably look at something else. Cloudflare allows purging all of the content, or individual URLs, for free through the UI or API. You only need enterprise for the more advanced tag-based purging. You can also look at Fastly which is another configurable CDN. BunnyCDN is also good. Start simple and then move as you need more.
My point was that a plumber’s impact on making the world a better place is obvious.
Not really. Ad hominem is directing the subject of your argument at the person instead of their ideas.

Brandolini's law is more like the adage, "a lie can travel halfway around the world, while the truth is lacing up its boots." It's very easy to spout correct-sounding lies in such a volume that countering them becomes an academic challenge.
I bought this field guide as printed book in Germany a few years ago, next to a booklet in the same format "Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany - 1944", and for American soldiers the "Pocket Guide to Germany - 1944".

It's interesting to compare the British and US military leadership's view on their own soldiers and on the Germans. In general, the British seemed to be much more cautious towards the Germans, and the Americans seemed to have trusted their soldiers more to judge a situation.
That's unlikely but he was probably told that. I contracted in IT for a Federal agency with a Secret clearance and encouraging us not to talk numbers was a key part of the company's negotiating tactics.
You can't blame them! What seem like valid differences of opinion are political, national security threats, etc. Intolerance abounds.

But please - that 'storming of the US Capitol' was a joke - those people were pretty well behaved, and waved in by the police. I suspect to provide a justification to portray republicans badly later on. All those riots, in Portland etc, in the middle of epidemic? Those are fine and can carry on for months.
My heuristic is to prefer flatter code. Thus, I tend to use guards quite liberally, but I also tend NOT to use

if (condition){
expression;
break/return;
}
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On Intuit's privacy statement page [0] there is a "How We Share Your Information" section which contains the following paragraphs (amongst others):

> When you connect with an Intuit Platform partner. You may be provided with offers, products, and services from third-party companies who integrate with our Intuit Platform (“Platform Partner”). If you choose to interact with a Platform Partner, apply for their services or offerings or otherwise link or sync your account to a Platform Partner’s product or service, you consent and direct Intuit to share your information, including personal information, to the Platform Partner providing the service or offering.

> For joint features, sales, promotions and events. We may share your information with third-parties companies who are jointly providing features, sales initiatives, promotions or events with us.

> With financial services providers. We may share personal Information with collection agencies, credit bureaus and loan service providers, and payment card association members. We may also share your personal information with other companies, lawyers, credit bureaus, agents, government agencies, and card associations in connection with issues related to fraud, credit, defaults, or debt collection.

> With our affiliates and subsidiaries and your right to limit information sharing. We may share your information with our affiliates and subsidiaries for everyday business purposes as described in this Statement, including for marketing purposes.

I stopped using turbo tax a long time ago because of their privacy policy. I use olt.com now.

[0] https://www.intuit.com/privacy/statement/
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I was there recently to see Salvation Mountain. It's been taken over by a bunch of acid casualties who have posted 'no picture' signs. A bunch of them came running towards me when I got out of the car to take a picture. I fully expected to hear bullets whizzing by my head as I got back in the car and drove off.
"discipline doesn't scale" is precisely why I think Robert Martin is missing the point with most of his ideology. His solution to everything seems to be "more discipline", but things don't work that way. I also find this incredibly short-sighted in an industry that can so easily build tools. Why be disciplined about formatting when you can build an autoformatter?
If it bothers you then don’t look at it.
It's a scale issue.
Unreleased products are always way better than what ships ;-)
Is my code I/O bound? Does it have no/easy SLA? Does it fall well within the send payload, transform payload, send payload to another service or DB flow ... and provided it's along these lines not running into the zillions of iterations per second GO is ideal ... there's been lots of whining about GO not have generics. As we use a lot of JSON I don't care plus it's coming anyway. Now if we get into serious SLA or latency issues, I'll move from GO into RUST. Either way we avoid C/C++. Gotta like that.
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Your source says that, per capita, Germany pays more than the US.
How then shall we perform it?--At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Curious, why do you want a GC'd Rust? I imagine there's something about Rust that you feel would be improved with a GC?
The whole point of the pamphlet is they shouldn't have to in order to be accepted by the American troops, but a white French person with sufficient linguistic and cultural flexibility could pass for a white American, and largely would in contexts where they did not have to speak.

And black person could never do the same.
The America where we pretend wars aren't about oil never left.
There is only a tiny bit of lithium in lithium batteries, afaik.
Can pay transparency potentially limit/discourage horizontal mobility for workers as a second order effect?

As in "there is no point to explore other domains/companies in my industry since my compensation will not change for my seniority level even though I understand that the value I deliver for society might increase exponentially"

Can pay transparency level up the field by removing the incentive for hyper-productive outliers, pulling wages down, as a second order effect?

As in "I'm sorry Jane, we appreciate that you've been working 80 hour weeks and is solely responsible for the success of this project but 20 other engineers in our team who have the same seniority level as you are making $N and we can not pay you a dollar more (otherwise they would have to give the same raise to other 20 engineers to make it look fair). Promotion is another option, you are on track but it will take a year or two"

Is it possible that push for pay transparency is just pandering to the lowest common denominator where best and brightest are left behind?
That's a nice fantasy. People don't get enlightened by banging rocks to start fires for 18 years then becoming a philosopher.

The art of thinking critically and using logic takes training, and far too many people don't seem to have those skills, due to an inadequate education system in the United States.

Free people should be "allowed" to listen to, and say, what they want. I don't even think Tucker Carlson should be silenced by the government, no matter how much better I think society would be without him on the air.

I think there is a space for content to be labelled as "bullshit" by the people hosting it. Youtube labeling anti-vax lies as "misinformation", the FCC disallowing Fox from using the term "News" on its marquee during their "Four Hours of Hate" from 5-9pm.

Just as fast food is allowed to be sold to people, but they're required to disclose nutrition data - people should be allowed to listen to and spout bullshit, but it should be labeled.
Related, the three categories you outlined above are described fairly well by the “Mountain Climber,” “Freedom Fighter” and “Craftsman” entrepreneurial types as defined by John Warrilow (and summarized well here: https://gallerosrobinson.com/insight-inside/what-is-your-ent...)
Could these issues be solved by providing connectors to different data stores to Gorse can use multiple signals in a configurable way?
Par for the course for Southern Republicans. I’m a lot more surprised that 47% of Pacific Democrats would like to secede honestly.

The South would have control of the Mississippi watershed and thus eventually control of North America, the Pacific would have nice weather?
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One thing I think I missed, was how pleasant it it is to program in modern C++. There are no pointers, for the most part completely automatic memory management (with the RAAI) idiom. Build systems are still a pain. I recently built a physics simulator for an n-body type interaction problem in C++. Not a a large program (about 40K lines of code) but the experience was extremely pleasant. For build I used a combination of make for Linux and macOS and nmake and VisualStudio projects. Debuggers on Linux are still a bit bad. GDB with Emacs is fine but, is somewhat primitive compared to VisualStudio and even Xcode. Other than that it was a joy to actually write in C++.

The primary reason, I think was because there was no legacy code I had to deal with.
I once worked for a bodyshop where the director was the only guy hired by the actual company we were working for.

One of the first few things we learned about him was that a clause in his contract forbid him from discussing our salaries and working conditions with us.

Long story short, I switched jobs shortly after because we were doing a lot of unpaid overtime, and tons of things that had nothing to do with a software developer's job.

But the straw that broke the camel's back was that we found out every engineer had a different contract -different salary, bonuses, etc.-, even when we had similar experience. The director's boss thought we wouldn't find out just because of that silly clause.

If you are being asked not to discuss your salary, apply Occam's razor, and either deal with it or run away.
https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic

hasn't been updated in two years though
I agree there was an overreaction, however it would be risky to open schools before school personnel were vaccinated.
I would think a cockpit VR experience would be much superior to a FP one.
I think a tit-for-tat approach is fair. If the other party is demonstrably not listening to you, you can drop the duty to listen (and you should probably just disengage). If someone is participating in good faith, but wrong or an asshole/obnoxious/offensive, I don't think that justifies censorship.

In any argument at least one and frequently both positions are plain wrong. Both parties think that is true of the other. If that were a reason to drop free speech norms, they would always be dropped.

Civility is an aspirational value, but communities that enforce it invariably will do so in a biased way. Rude behavior is easy to spot in the outgroup and easy to overlook in the ingroup. Offensiveness is nebulously defined- someone might be offended by the word 'asshole', someone else by the banning of vulgarity. How a community defines civility privileges people from backgrounds that define it similarly. Those closest to the issue will have a harder time keeping their emotions in check- eg. a white person might have an easier time arguing dispassionately about racism than a minority.

If you can get around those issues, I think you should. Civil discourse optimizes for a lot of the factors that justify free speech in the first place. Not so with being wrong; a major benefit of free speech is that those who are wrong and participating can be righted, to the benefit of all parties.
It's worse, Tesla's claims endangers others on the road.
I don’t want to know what bob or jill make but i do want to know the company pay bands. It’s really silly when im looking for other jobs that i pass everything then get to the offer to counter it and ooops looks like your 5k over the band for what we wanted to hire you for. Great would have been nice to know up front that unless I interview at whatever your requirement is for staff level on the day of the interview this wasn’t going to work. Its draining and a waste of everyones time.
The title is inaccurate. It should say 66% of Republicans in Southern states would be willing to separate.

... and the poll also shows that 47% of Democrats on the West coast want the same thing.

... but forgetting all that, we need to remember that these online political polls are of garbage quality.

... oh, and also the content probably doesn't belong on HN at all.
Lithium is everywhere, especially in salt lakes. A long time ago I met someone whose family ran a mineral extraction company, of which there are many around Salt Lake City. They take the lake water and evaporate it. The main non-water ingredient in the concentrated brine was lithium.

(Though the guy was drinking the stuff as a supplement, which probably affected his personality a bit)
lithium recovery:
https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3421...

Seems possible; not sure of economic value at this particular point in history. There's a bunch of recent headlines about trivial extraction of lithium from seawater, so might get less economically feasible if those techs pan out. OTOH, even if it's not obviously worth it, you could try burying it all in one place and then 'mine' it once the economics swing towards recovery.
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Seems fairly straightforward that there is nothing sexual about holding hands.

In fact, here in America, it's common to see friends (who are both women) holding hands. But you'd almost never see two male friends do it.
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It’s an anachronism that doesn’t fly today, but to be fair this seems descriptive rather than prescriptive.
It certainly feels a lot less sanitized or "corporate bland". The tone is very casual, like you're talking to an older buddy. Lots of colloquialisms like "southpaw" and "lick" as in beating someone. Even some puns "Yes, Iraq is hot spot in more ways than one".

The one thing I can't tell if that's just how it was written naturally, or if that tone is on purpose like in the propaganda films and posters of the time. Obviously they wanted soldiers to read and follow the instructions, not get bored and toss it aside so I think the style is intentional.

Can you imagine if it was written today, what would they use to make it approachable for young soldiers, emojis and memes?
If you want to optimize for everybody getting paid perfectly fairly, sure. If you believe there are diminishing returns to that and our time as people is better spent growing the pie, then that isn't information, it's noise.
> why is it so easy to drastically improve one's performance on standardized tests

I'm going to guess you're gains plateau or you get to a near-perfect score pretty quickly. The gains you're seeing are just familiarity with the test.
good on ya
The movie Her[0] is a great exploration of this. Not sure it will make you feel less sad, though.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/
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They weren't *all riots, for the most part they were peaceful non-violent protests. Your view of reality is through an obvious lens of propaganda if you think protests in Seattle about racial violence vs. attacking the US Capitol to stop an election is even remotely equivalent. You should be ashamed.
Every system will offer some disproportionate rewards to the groups that are able to exert some control over it. In our system it seems that large business interests, wealthy individuals and the politicians themselves are the ones able to cash in somewhat on this control. In general, I think most people living in the real world accept this as human nature and we collectively try to minimize this corruption.

I’m aware of many systems where this disproportionate distribution of benefits to certain groups is much worse. But in theory, it would be utopia!

Which countries do you feel operate in a “better” or less corrupt way?

Note that I wouldn’t consider “in theory” responses valid answers to that question.
Good point. You're right - the intention behind these laws is obviously to secure our elections (since we had such a fraudulent, unfair election last time) and not at all about trying to disenfranchise the opposing political party and undermine the democratic process.

Separate but equal facilities are fair, right?

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-wisconsin-election-2...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/02/texas-pollin...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/02/politics/georgia-voter-rolls-...

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-07-01/supreme-co...
Terrible click-bait headline. The actual story has a lot of "mays" and "mights". As it pertains to tech: a person at the CDC would like more data in order to track how COVID is currently spreading so they can be more effective at stamping it out.
I’m sure it’s also for marketing and business decisions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I was thinking the exact same thing.

One interacts with so many more people online. So even if the same proportion of people are awful in both spaces, the odds of interacting with someone like that go up online.
Isn't Slab City just a place that people go because they can squat there and no one cares?
If anyone on here has built a flight simulator rig, I'd love to hear about it.
None of it was serious. :-) Although I have indeed noticed that particular optical illusion of the clock digits moving relative to the clock.
Indian Engineer here.

We don't have a Firewall (yet). All of these common tech sites are still accessible here, so same.
Lithium battery recycling of high efficiency requres a known feed of one type of battery, Most scrap batteries with a mixture of assorted chemistry laptop batteries in small quantities can not optimize. Big players sort all their cells into knows metals/chemistry etc. for best recovery
Tesla and other car makers will present a known consistent feed of old batteries and will be able to reclaim 95%++ of the battery metal content. The recycle field is getting crowded, but car makers have the high card as they can make their own recycling system in house. I bet Panasonic and LG have recycling - they will not leave that $$ on the table.
> I have electricity coming to my house to make my life convenient

Wait, what? Are you actually arguing that electricity is a convenience?
They're referring to the Cloudflare product suite which has massively grown from CDN to registrar to application security to corporate networking and more. I agree that it can be hard to see and use all the different product lines given how fractured everything is.
That's true. I was under the impression that the article title was more important, but I may very well be wrong.