skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These kinds of snarky calculators actually make meetings worse, I think.

There’s lots of people who I think enjoy meetings because it demonstrates power. Calculating how much their meeting costs will make this worse because it’s easier to see how powerful a meeting is.

Separately, I don’t think that time consumed as a cost is unknown to participants so quantifying it doesn’t help much. Kind of like how calories on the Burger King menu doesn’t result in fewer double whoppers with cheese ordered.

To help prevent pointless meetings, what I do is reject meetings that don’t have agendas or clear objectives. I explicitly decline and say “I don’t know what this is for” and sometimes I find out what the reason is. Sometimes it changes my mind, but usually blank invites mean not so great meetings.

And then, I try to never schedule meetings unless there’s no other solution. And I send simple agendas, and if necessary, homework with a time estimate needed to process (eg, read this background before we meet). Sometimes if I’m feeling froggy, I’ll actually mention something about how it’s a 30 minute meeting with the context and background done beforehand or a 60 minute meeting if we want to walk through everything together.

I’m not sure how objectively valuable this is to the org, but it makes me feel better. And I’ve had multiple people comment that they appreciate it and use my reputation and approach in deciding whether to attend in my meetings.
Turbo Pascal also provided a nice experience, that I quickly missed when I moved into C and C++ world of endless error messages when a semi-colon is out of place.
Perhaps "majority" wasn't the right word. Other than Levels (see below), I don't have evidence to back that up.

However, you're not comparing apples to apples. The pools of students who are targeted for FAANG or top law firm recruitment go to the same universities. People who would be able to get through law school and get an offer from a top firm can get a solid FAANG offer. I believe that those students get > $200k total comp offers from FAANG right out of college.

Vesting cliffs have been replaced with immediate monthly vesting at many companies, including at least two FAANGs, making that part of your package as similar to cash as stock compensation can get.

I agree that Levels has a data problem: sometimes people report numbers from W-2s (counting stock appreciation), sometimes they report offer letter numbers. Moreover, the numbers there suffer from selection bias; people with high numbers are more likely to report them.

But let me offer some anecdotal evidence: everyone on my team and sister teams received > 200k offers right out of college; we are generalist SWEs at a FAANG. Same for all my friends at similar companies.
It probably checks for presence of RFID before dispensing or displaying the message.

>McDonald’s has the ability to manufacture these inside of the paper.

Probably but will they figure it out? And if they do, will they actually do something about it?
That's definitely untrue. You can fire up an SDR and easily pickup encrypted radios from businesses and public safety. You can even classify the protocol they are using, P25, DMR etc based on the characteristics of the signals. They are definitely not indistinguishable from noise.

Low Probability of Intercept radios can be harder to pick up because they use various techniques like frequency hopping but even then they don't blend in to the background.
> We literally have an amendment

Feel the pain of 2A advocates. Or 14A (P&I) advocates. Or 10A advocates. Or..

The nature of government/authority is they will always creatively push the boundaries of what they can permissibly do. There are amendments that are considered "second-class" and even worse. If nobody defends it, it will not enforce itself.
Sometimes I with that intro to compilers books placed a bigger emphasis on recursive descent. Recursive descent works anywhere, without dependencies to external tools such as Bison or ANTLR. I hope that this book marks the start of a trend.

Sure, everyone should learn about LR parsers at some point. But I'd argue that outside a compiler class, knowing recursive descent is likely to be useful more often than knowing LR parsing.
Emergency powers have a tendency to not reliably get reined in.

For every time there is a functioning court override, there are ten post-9/11 border zone 4a exclusions that never get restored.

Anyone who lived through September 11th in the USA and isn't scared of emergency powers isn't paying attention. The CIA's torture prisons are still operating, for example.

We have boundaries in law for a reason, even in emergencies.
From the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Are reposts ok?

> If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

> Please don't delete and repost the same story. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place.
In some jurisdictions, courts use a "four corners of the document" test, and nothing outside of the document can be used to interpret the meaning of the contract.

Other jurisdictions allow extrinsic evidence (like this email) to help interpret the language of the contract. We would need to know what the governing jurisdiction is for this contract in order to know how much an outside email would matter in court.

But in the court of public opinion (which matters somewhat for famous people and well-known companies), these legal technicalities won't matter. The headline will be that a Marvel exec said that they would need to revisit the compensation if they didn't do a standard theatrical release.
Ah niceeeeee
You can play Diablo I and II offline.

I don’t think there is anything inherently wrong with demonstrations of purity in protest, for the record, as long as we’re honest about what they are.
Big nation-state security agencies do it in-house, like NSA's TAO. Israel itself wouldn't rely on NSO, quite the opposite: NSO is alums from Israel's Unit 8200 (IDF signals intelligence) repackaging a dumbed-down version the know-how they learned in the military for retail sale to tier 2 and 3 countries that don't have the capability, or to police departments that don't have access to national-security-grade spyware.

I know some Unit 8200 alums, and they are scathing about the ethics of their former colleagues who went on to work for NSO.
> So, technically the order hasn't impaired the rents owed to the landlords.

It hasn't impaired them? Owning an obligation is much worse than owning the cash. If someone didn't pay rent for 9 months, landlords might never see that money. When they could evict, they might only eat 3 months of losses, now they will have 9-12 months of losses. The owners are basically paying "rent" (debt service), so freeloaders can live there.

If anything, a chunk of relief money to renters should have been debt vouchers to their landlords that can redeem them for cash from the gov't. The gov't can then get repaid through federal tax returns. (or forgive them as a benefit)
Assassin's Creed Black Flag is a bit like that, but not at all like MI.
Thanks for the link, I'll have a read. From the abstract, it clearly references only hedge funds and swap traders in the study. Most speculative markets get in trouble when retail gets involved.

> Why not? My parents paid 50c for a cheeseburger in their youth and now I pay $5. What doesn't make sense about inflation? It is the expected way in which our market works.

My point is that current asset prices only make sense relative to an $50 cheeseburger at current prices, not that inflation cannot occur and cheeseburgers won't be $50 in the future. Again, I don't have the answer. Wish I did. Wouldn't be reading HN at work but building golf courses :).
Totally agree on reading about EVE Online. This is a real classic if you haven’t seen it before, and actually contains a lot of very important notions for identifying Ponzi schemes: http://web.archive.org/web/20091026234156/http://geocities.c...
I would like a tarrif that goes down as wages of the exporter goes up. Screw nationalism. Help all the workers.
Sure, all of these are examples of journalists leaving for ideological or ethical disputes with their employer.

For her frustration with liberal bias:
https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/03/sharyl-attkisso...

For a feeling that the paper is blocking his investigation:
https://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/paul_watson_may_be_the.php

For disagreement about Israel:
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/politics/cnn-anchor-resigns-after-c...

For concerns about corporate interests:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/why-i-have-...

For feeling that he cannot write about Sheldon Adelson:
https://www.salon.com/2016/04/27/journalist_resigns_after_ba...

I didn’t go too far back, but heres one from 1998, for disagreement about revealing personal details:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-sep-30-mn-27898...
Yeah, I'm the same. I got into programming because I like solving people's problems. The hardest projects for me are the ones where I'm stuck in a cave for months working on a greenfield project that no one is using yet.
> I wonder if using RLE encoding would not have been but vastly simpler and more compact...

No, mate - it wouldn't. Don't be confused by the "printf"-dump; the Python script processed it into pairs of (frequency,delay). That is, when you see...

989 Hz @ 15209
989 Hz @ 15213
989 Hz @ 15218
784 Hz @ 15222
784 Hz @ 15226

...the data actually generated are:

(989, 15222-15209),
(784, ... -15222),

Simply put: RLE can't do anything on them. The repetition has already been "cleaned out".

I wouldn't have gone to Huffman compression if I had a simpler choice.
Whoops, I got that 100% wrong. I skimmed the section in wikipedia too fast. Perhaps I could make an argument that, as currently worded, it's a bit too easy to misparse.

I have corrected my original comment.
It’s all the same. Investment firms all the time throwing money at speculation. It’s all about what your risk tolerance is.
You might enjoy raylib, a library for videogame programming.

https://www.raylib.com/
For what it's worth, it's possible to get 1GB/mo of global roaming, for $130/mo - World offer here:

https://fiber.salt.ch/en/mobile/plans/standard
They stake a lot of money on being right.
I hope they improved their service though. The promise is great but last time I tried them it was a very slow and buggy experience.
Synopsys Rapid Scan Can Now Security Check Proprietary Code
I do not see that point being in near future. All the infrastructure for fossil fuel delivery is already installed and can easily last decades. It will be a slow shift as more and more gas stations shift more of their space to electric charging. Or maybe they get obviated altogether since you can charge anywhere, but not in next 10 or even 20 years.

Diesel is still diesel when it comes to power too, and I have not heard of any electric alternative that can compare. I expect that to stick around even longer.
Sounds like you've finished tons of games. The games just happen to be sandbox gamedev games - i.e., the engines themselves. Release the engines!

Also, you could just go work as an engine programmer in AAA or for Unity/Unreal/etc....
So when can we expect ThisEstonianDoesNotExist?
They have a position and they now want to support it with arguments, and they'd like it if people would help them do that.

I think that's a backwards because it's putting the conclusion first then seeking to justify it, but to each their own.
ruby - HTML element for annotations above the text
> Mission-driven companies tend to (AFAIK) do better than pure profit-driven companies; similarly, AFAIK, companies that take morality seriously tend to do better.

Do you have links to any studies backing this up? The idealist in me really wants this to be true, but the cynic in me believes capitalism is set up to reward the most ruthless, unscrupulous people.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...

I've seen this post brought up as relevant regularly up till 2010.

You may have been lucky to avoid the dredges but SW industry in the 2000s was a copy-paste fest (not in the "copy from stack overflow" sense but as in "copy paste instead of creating a function"), PHP with SQL in templates and string concat queries all over the place, MVC was a revolution. I'm not saying this was everywhere just that it was very common.

I'm sure some wise guy will come up with retort that MVC was used in the 70s and what not, but my point is a lot of the industry discovered it with Rails and Django.

The way that we teach programming these days and languages/tools/frameworks just make some bottom tier mistakes from the past impossible (or very impractical). People often ignore this context when evaluating modern framework
Not just interesting. Mind-blowing. Earth-shaking. Jaw-dropping.

The kind of thing that should be front-page news of every newspaper and magazine. Including Cat Fancy and Woodworker Monthly.

It would be behind cold fusion and a message from aliens... but that's about it. It would be far more important than the Higgs boson or Fermat's Last Theorem.

So if that's the only thing that rises to a level that's not disappointing, one should prepare for a lot of disappointment.
> Software licenses matter. Copyright matters.

Some of us think is detrimental to humanity at whole.
Guide to Analytics for Startups
It's time for startups to become data-driven. After building three companies with varying degrees of success, there is just no way that a company can survive today without data competency.

I wrote a blog post discussing the minimum you'll need to do to compete.

https://www.darwin.so/blog/startup-founders-guide-to-analyti...
Ah, that's interesting, so it's actually a bug. But yeah it shows the sophisticated system underneath.
Does this rule also apply to people that drive to work for jobs they can easily perform from home? Aren’t they putting us all at risk by using their dangerous vehicles unnecessarily? How about people that drive to eat at a restaurant which could be easily cooked from home? Or people that fly airplanes or cruise in their yacht billowing unnecessarily dangerous pollution from their vessels? Or people that insist on driving motorcycles, scooters, small vehicles, and bicycles which results in serious injuries and waste of medical resources? Ditto for people that engage in risky behavior like mountain climbing, skateboarding, etc?
Alec Guinness made a lot of money by negotiating a percentage instead of a fee.
Pluralsight – Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Remote (U.S.)
Solo workflow is as simple as write code, git commit, repeat. Throw in a git push every once in a while. All on master, no branching or forking.
Interesting fact: the current director of World of Warcraft, Ion Hazzikostas, worked for WilmerHale before joining Blizzard.
One major political party campaigns around delivering tax cuts and minimizing collections, and this can result in economic distortions.

A relevant example is that the last big tax cuts package in 2017 created lots of 'opportunity zones' which exempted people from paying capital gains on many real estate transactions. This was ostensibly to encourage investment in poor neighborhoods, but I live on the edge of one such opportunity zone and I can assure you it was already a red hot real estate market before that tax cut.

Everyone in this area gets junk mail from real estate agents on an almost daily basis because property prices have risen stratospherically and those agents get a 3% cut of any transaction they handle.
That's a lot of Lyme disease, deer in your windshield and 10ft tall garden fencing whilst waiting for evolution to turn bobcats into deer eaters. I prefer to turn back the clock and just restore what was removed.
They're working on a Steam release with a more accessible interface, including mouse support. I suggest trying it again when that comes out.
>Robinhood users could not sell their GameStop positions while trading was frozen, a particularly difficult situation for those traders who borrowed money to purchase the stock.

This is false. You could close positions (ie. sell), just not open new positions.

https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/keeping-customers-...

>In light of recent volatility, we restricted transactions for certain securities to position closing only.
> Microsoft SQL and VBA use &

Nope, Microsoft SQL uses +.

* https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/language-elements...

* https://i.imgur.com/7z81o8t.png

* https://i.imgur.com/VDR9qer.png

> C obviously doesn't use +.

But C++ does for std::string.

> Neither does Pascal.

Original Pascal didn't, but I think most modern Pascals do (e.g. Object Pascal known from Delphi).
Because then they have can the display under the counter glass label itself with your name so the bean guy can fuck off back to the beans instead of waiting on you to focus your eyes on your misspelled name on your cup.
The housing market is BOOMING!!! They are probably sitting on a ton of equity. If they don't want to deal with the tenant, they can sell and put a nice chunk of cash in their pocket.

And the eviction moratorium does not remove the financial responsibility for past due rent. They can use threat of eviction after the the moratorium expires to force the tenant to pay past due rent. And if that doesn't work they can take the tenant to court. And as mentioned in my original comment, there will likely be financial assistance.

And to reiterate, I have zero sympathy for landlords who are essentially engaging in rent seeking and speculation (whether they realize it or not). If grandma and grandpa loose all of their money speculating on bitcoin, I will have zero sympathy for them. It is no different if they loose it all speculating on real estate. If they can't handle they downsides they should have put their money in a safer investment.
Really don't overthink it.

Historically "no code" products run out of steam at some point. I don't believe that has to be the case but, just as the Wright brothers discovered there were six degrees of freedom you need to control to fly, somebody is going to put the essential elements together some day.

Given that there is so much ferment you can learn more from attempting a prototype and taking the risk that you might have to make another prototype than you can from carefully studying the competitive landscape.
Every time I see a sodium battery story I get excited and think increase in energy density, then I remember no, thats lithium-sulfur.
What about all the other articles, which are not titled "Much more than..."?

What about the individual paragraphs, with their unendurable periphrasis and opacity?
Especially when it's on a page which is super-niche and obscure to most people but vitally important to a single company's HR department.
Hmmm. No email w/ promo-code for replacing my DX sent to me yet.
The submitted postimg.cc screenshot had the following cdc.gov link [0], which appears to be flagged as false information. The following text was on that cdc page:

> After December 31, 2021, CDC will withdraw the request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel, the assay first introduced in February 2020 for detection of SARS-CoV-2 only. CDC is providing this advance notice for clinical laboratories to have adequate time to select and implement one of the many FDA-authorized alternatives.

> Visit the FDA website for a list of authorized COVID-19 diagnostic methods. For a summary of the performance of FDA-authorized molecular methods with an FDA reference panel, visit this page.

> In preparation for this change, CDC recommends clinical laboratories and testing sites that have been using the CDC 2019-nCoV RT-PCR assay select and begin their transition to another FDA-authorized COVID-19 test. CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses. Such assays can facilitate continued testing for both influenza and SARS-CoV-2 and can save both time and resources as we head into influenza season. Laboratories and testing sites should validate and verify their selected assay within their facility before beginning clinical testing.

I'm personally not sure what to make of all this, the cdc link doesn't seem controversial, and perhaps flagging this as false information was done in error? But screen shots are lame so I figured I'd repost as a link and the text for convenience.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert...
It seems like the bigger issue is that Apple isn't playing a bigger part in developing web standards. If Apple doesn't like certain features, they should fight to keep them from being standardized, instead of just refusing to implement them on their own browsers. Where else are web developers supposed to look towards when trying to figure out what's standard and what's not?
If you're a junior worker in a field dominated by unions, I'm not sure how you can have "rate" to lower that hasn't already been set based on the market rate—which is already taking those unions into account.

And the evidence is overwhelming that unionized workers make more than non-union workers of equivalent skills/qualifications. So it sounds like this boils down, once again, to the argument, "I am amazing and exceptional, and I'm afraid that if there were unions, I wouldn't be able to get more money for being amazing and exceptional."

First of all, this argument cannot be true for the majority of workers—by definition, most people in any given field are not exceptional. So even if it would benefit you to not have a union, it would not benefit most people.

Second of all, there is absolutely no requirement for unions to prevent compensation from being increased based on actual performance. Some unions may have strict seniority-based pay schedules, but not all that currently exist do, and if we were to create a brand new union for tech workers (or just for game devs), then the people actually forming that union would be the ones to decide what its priorities would be.
A nice article with many important insights, such as: "In the extreme case, the cumulative costs of all the checkpoints within an organization can exceed the working resources the organization has available, and forward progress becomes impossible."

A generalization of this key insight also appears, illustrated with many historical examples, in The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter

In his book, he outlines how bureaucracy increases in complex societies up to the point they are collapsing under it. The key reason for this collapse is the diminishing marginal return of bureaucracy.

It is my hope that we find a way to prevent societal collapse due to bureaucracy by automating arising tasks cleverly. However, most things I see at the moment, even most computer projects, tend to further increase bureaucracy and even also add new failure modes.