skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is certainly a perceived difference between tech workers at, what I would categorize into T1/T2/T3 companies.

T1 companies invest in their reputation, tend to have long and capricious interviews, and pay obscenely.

T2 companies cannot afford to play that game against T1 companies and so try specifically to hire on different merits - they have a flexible vacation policy, they look for people passed over by the T1 interviews, etc. They are hiring looking for bang-for-buck.

T3 companies generally don't have either the technical expertise or bureaucratic structure to properly hire tech workers. They are nearly rolling dice.

There are many more T1 companies than FAANG, and interestingly, the company does not even have to be big or successful. It requires fat stacks of cash, but this could come from VC.

Devs with a few years experience at T1 companies are "marked"; interviews at other companies are easier, and you're paid better than coworkers if you go to work at a T2 company.
Had a friend negotiate his salary and stay with the company over 6 years. Got pretty high up now that he has that much seniority.
In Montreal, primarily.

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Bless you! I have reached the same conclusion. If the economy is all that matters then only an economical protest will do.

Any restriction that prevents me from spending I will gladly follow.
The low stress jobs are the key. If I have 2-3 million saved, do I really want to grind at a FAANG or equivalent? Theres low key startups and enterprise dev jobs that are much less stressful and still pay around 120-150K which keeps healthcare covered, CoL covered, and keeps your nest-egg intact.
I think Telegram does that. I had someone send me a message about our video call we had that day and in the same minute I suddenly received a message from Telegram about their video call features
They recoup many times $500k per every employee, not just mid-level engineers, but only the engineers are able to command that much because there's more demand than supply.

HR, marketing, sales, etc. - while still paid well - are not compensated at the same level as engineers, especially when comparing by years of experience on the job.
Okay, now do one for taxes: given a taxable income, and a table representing the tax brackets, calculate the taxes owed in a single formula.
Meta: What do you think about the timestamps on the children comments here? So many/much responses in <1min from the parent comment? GPT-3 manipulation?
Not my finest post, I agree
Why do you say that's a "medievalist" perspective? The "change and continuity" perspective is endemic to an array of interpretive schools.
I run a number of proxies for (legally) scraping government data sites with overly restrictive views/hour policies.

They're just squid boxes spun up on various cheap VPS providers. A $5 digitalocean instance will power a lot of squid traffic, and as long as you stay away from AWS, the IP ranges tend not to be banned.

Just make sure to lock down your allowed source list, so you don't become one of those hacked open proxies!
Having compilers remove members would be a backwards compatibility shitshow.
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My honest opinion (as someone with no dog in this fight) is that the author was naive and really bad at PR, but is improving overtime.

I generally encourage new programming language efforts, so I'm willing to be more generous with forgiveness in the hopes that this succeeds.
> What kind of work was he doing for them to try to sell to him? Same with the job interview?

My understanding is that the oil and gas industry is pretty heavy needs for scientific computation and data visualization. That's how they discover new places to drill.
I'm curious if other people have the same experience but I find if I write something complex in Python/JavaScript the majority of the time it does not work the first time I run it.

Whereas with Java majority of the time things work first try because any trivial type issue have been sorted already by the compiler.
It’s interesting and most likely not applicable - for the very same reasons you cant get realistic sword fighting (or even street fighting) in most Hollywood movies: realistic fighting doesn’t look as exciting as the fake thing.

Glad the author sees into that very clearly.

* Could be an interesting art game tho as someone pointed out below
What if we find a way to create more universes? The power of interest...
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Also don’t work for one with more than 100 - 150 employees.

Sweet spot seems to be somewhere around 20 to 45 people.

But that’s just my experience.
what does this mean? since I'm not going to read a Daily Heil article, so, they're immune?? or they've just been irresponsible enough to catch covid by not following basic health instructions?
They are significantly different if you see the plans and the network you're in. Just look at the costs for the plans I linked above.

It's really not the same, or even close. Let's take one of the more popular plans on the exchange for Washington state.

https://www.insurance.wa.gov/rates/bridgespan-health-company...

https://www.insurance.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2020-09/bri...
> Unless, of course, you think that the vaccine is more dangerous than coronavirus. And then I don't really know what to say.

There are vast demographics for which this is actually the case. Children under 18, for example.

If you think these passports will only ever be used to check for Covid vaccination status, or that they'll be rolled back once Covid is no longer killing appreciable numbers of people, you're as gullible as they come and I can only assume have been paying no attention to how these sorts of "temporary," "for the duration of the 'emergency' " measures have progressed over the past 20 years. This is the tip of the spear for implementing permanent a social credit system in the West.

Yeah, let's let the state mandate that you buy an injection every year from private pharmaceutical companies, with extremely dodgy records and motivated entirely by profit, just to participate in normal life. What could go wrong?
This is only true if all the complexity is necessary and intrinsic to the problem. Simplicity means there is as little incidental (unnecessary) complexity as possible.
Very well put. Hans Rosling (RIP) in his book "Factfulness" talks about how the leaders of a nation or even the system of government make very little difference in the rising standard of living in a given country. What makes the difference is people getting up and going to work. Ie, incrementally and steadily improving what's actually in each of our spheres of control rather than losing our minds over celebrity politicians' latest tweets.

As Epictetus said, "If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters." As true today as it was 2000 years ago.
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> Till was architected to follow best practices that DataHen has accumulated over the years of scraping at a massive scale.

The best practice is not to build a business that's built on evading the security of the people you're depending on.

Just get into crime if you want to do that.
Why was oil and gas a target for sales for them? I'm sure the industry has a ton of money, but back then what was the use case?
Whenever a client connects (whether the first time, or on reconnect) or sends a message, Pushpin sends an HTTP request to a configured backend to retrieve WebSocket messages to be delivered to the client. This can be used to restore state on reconnect.

If you mean how is reconnection handled on the client side, that's up to the client. Pushpin is a server-side component with no client library. But the client could use a WebSocket library with reconnection ability, like reconnecting-websocket.
The simplest response, although there are several, is control. If I am on your site you have (some) control over my experience and potentially information about me & what I do. If I consume your content via a feed I can (more easily) ignore your ads and you have less information.
We've been hiring in Panama and its not cheaper really at the end of the day but there's a lot more people to hire. I might do 10 interviews for a position there and find someone vs over 50 in the US and not find anyone.

In the past two years, it seems like the only quality US candidates come from active recruitment - job ads do not seem to produce a high quality of applicant. Even after initial screening I still get people who can't parse a simple CSV applying for senior dev positions (you can use google, you get full credit if you copy-paste from stack overflow, you get full credit if you launch into a monologue about how parsing CSVs seems simple but there are a lot of hidden pitfalls, you can use any language you want, you can use a library or read the file and parse line by line and split (no trick cells with commas, all numeric), it's not meant to be a hard test). Some of the interviews are just brutal.

So really the only difference I've been experiencing is it's a lot easier to passively recruit in less competitive markets (specifically overseas), in the US I have to spend a lot more time ensuring I do things like volunteering for pitch event mentorship so I can find people I can encourage to interview for us or keep in contact with so I can actively recruit them if they don't enjoy their job.
I think lately it has been more about keeping the investment class happy.
> TypeScript is not really big and complex, it's just a type system.

It's a very complex type system though.
>the language itself may become very complex to permit such a short program

Hit the nail on the head. We can't fight thermodynamics, we can only cheat by drawing lines and pumping entropy one way. "Simplicity" is obtained by hiding complexity away. Modern container ships are reliably run by 13 people because of a huge system of builders and maintainers for everything from diesel engines to navigation systems.
> “anti-capitalist” - how does one become an “anti-capitalist” when it’s abundantly clear that, even though it’s not a perfect system, it’s the best system there is?

Uh, its not “abundantly clear” that its the best system there is, which is why it was mostly thrown out in the mid-20th Century in favor of the modern mixed economy, which mitigate its harms with elements of socialism that are hostile to the basic property relationships underlying capitalism, and the major subsequent debates in the developed world have been largely about fine tuning the balance of capitalist and socialist elements of the modern mixed economy; there is a strongly pro-actual-capitalism faction in modern developed world (e.g., adherents to Austrian school ideological economics), and they are naturally popular among the disproportionately powerful, but they aren’t the consensus, any more than the faction that thinks that the problem with the mixed economy status quo is retaining capitalist elements (the anti-capitalist faction) is.
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Isn't the whole belief of Republicans is that Govt is a waste of money regardless of the sector?

They want to be taxed less (cause the people in power actually want to privatize in order to achieve maximum gain on critical sectors)
Visually seeing ads is usually not the biggest problem, although there are issues with too many ads (bandwidth, bad UX) and the security risk of malicious stuff embedded in ads.

The issue (for me), and I think for many people, is the quantity and nature of the data that is collected, and the total lack of oversight for its sharing and usage.

Also, no company will ever remove you from the tracking/data pool just because you're a paying customer. Why would they? Now they can extract revenue from you in two ways!
I have not served, but my sense is that there are some additional factors at play:

* If you are deployed, I believe there may be some tax advantages?

* You may get combat pay

* Don't you still get a pension? And free/subsidized healthcare, even after you leave?

* Does a captain typically pay for housing?

All that said, your point is taken. However, I'm not sure anyone is joining the US Army to get rich.
A mob has a reverse synergy: the more it grows, the lower their common sense, until they can't regulate themselves. At least democracy tries to put some balances to prevent runaway demagogy.
There's a growing base of evidence in both the US and the Netherlands (from news media websites, I believe), that targeted advertising is effectively a bubble, and didn't yield higher metrics or revenues. In fact I believe in a couple of examples, they saw higher growth and revenues from ads by going totally non-targeted.

There's an entire sector now focused on trying to hyper-target ads, on the presumed basis they're more effective. If the house of cards falls down, and people realise untargeted ads perform better without all that extra cost, things could get interesting.

Unfortunately it isn't as simple as that, as "independent" audience measurement seems to still be a requirement that leads to adtech type solutions emerging.

To go back to your observation about the quality of targeting though, this shows in a way that it simply doesn't work... The trouble is advertisers continue to throw money at the services falsely claiming to have these accurate data-driven targeting models, without seemingly ever thinking to cross-validate them to be sure they aren't absolute nonsense of false claims of targeting demographics - your ones having entirely the opposite of Boolean demographics show how wild it can be.

I fetched my data from Spotify and the limited data they had (in theory objective data) was chronically wrong - they had tried to put me into a group based on phone network used, but it didn't even get that right, despite that being trivial to do(!)
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"As of [todays date], the CDC recommends the use of masks in indoor spaces.

Droplet transmission is currently thought to be the leading mechanism of Covid-19 transmission and masks have been shown to reduce the quantity of droplets expelled and inhaled. Definitive data is not available on how effective masks are on reducing transmission of Covid-19 specifically."
Ea were shipping games on PS3 and Xbox 360 until 2017. A modern game likely has code that datds back to the early days of that console, so it's a choice between maintaining eastl or porting all of their games to the standard library, along with the tooling theuve built around it (as someone else mentioned, tagged allocators are a big thing that aren't supported by the standard library.

Also, just because something is x64, doesn't mean it's standard library is up to snuff, or that it has the same features. You might be using a 5 year old compiler with a standard library to match it.
And there’s still a market for hitmen too.

This is such a shallow comparison, which seems to come up with every discussion around criminalization. Law enforcement isn’t 100% effective but that doesn’t mean every criminalized activity should be legal.
What year are we talking? I get that is a pretty big use case now, but back then (mid 1980s?) was it also the case?
> The iAd framework then collects just the impression metrics — how many times each ad was shown to a given user — and then every-so-often batches those metrics out to Apple's servers.

If Apple knows how many times you were shown each ad, and which keywords are associated with that ad, then they are able to reconstruct which keywords appeared in your encrypted chat, and how often.
Yeah obviously, but I have a supported PC and don't want to update to Win11 either :)
Ex-avionics engineer here.

If there was a risk to the aircraft, do you think that safety point would be left to the passenger to turn off the device? Of course not so if there was any risk at all of them being used they would not have been allowed on the aircraft.
Say we expect a fatal accident to cost an airline $1 billion in lost equipment, training, loss of business, etc. The average cost of leaving cellphones on per flight is 0.0000001*$1,000,000,000 or $100. Frisking passengers and taking their phones costs more than $100 per flight, so airlines wouldn't do it.
Stop getting your opinions from Facebook misinformation as if it’s a Macdonalds burguer bro.
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I'll try to answer these:

-Fragmentation I'm assuming you are referring to the debris clouds of small objects after a conjunction. This is a very hard problem. We are starting with removal of large-uncontrolled objects before they collide. The solution to removing those small pieces of debris might be something very different such as insertion of clouds of inert gas or giant balloon type sweeps.

-Initial design is based on orbit modification of operational satellites then moving to defunct satellites or spent upper stages. Salvaged material could hopefully be entire satellites in the future. We have some friends at Inversion space working on re-entry vessels. The possibility of space-based recycling centers is also exciting.

-We have talked with Space Force, US department of Space Commerce, NASA, consultants. One of our advisors on the team is Kevin O'Connell to help with this. We also joined the group started by DARPA called CONFERS to work with others in the industry to develop standards.

-The timeline has been fairly well modeled by aerospace corp using monte-carlo simulations. You can find an old version of this in the "Catcher's Mitt" report. The models will drastically under-predict the problem if more conjunctions occur like the Iridium incident, however so it's really hard to say. The short answer is that ~10 high-risk objects need to be removed per year to stabilize the issue.
While it’s possible to be infected and vaccinated the possibility is lower right, even “only” 40% is a huge number! If only vaccinated people are in a space it dramatically decreases the likelihood I’ll become infected by more than 40% because every one of those people is also personally 40% less likely to be infected, so this is compounding. Please correct me if I’m wrong on that assessment.

As to the hear disease comment those comparisons are disingenuous because you can choose to exercise or not and your choice doesn’t impact others. My 7yo son cannot be vaccinated, he has no choose but to rely on others doing their part
Find some legal stuff that could do this (with potential for neuroplasticity) - like huperzine A maybe ?
If you are young and have a rough idea about what’s happening I can even see it as an experience you should allow yourself.

It’s probably more fun in hinsight.
> You wouldn't want strangers mandating injections into your body that you don't want.

I mean, compulsory vaccination is a thing in many countries, and I think it's a net good for the world?
When I was a kid in the early 90s, a nearby university had a Cray 1. We went on field trip to see it. IIRC, they got it because some oil company had gotten a better supercomputer and didn't need it anymore, so it was probably originally purchased sometime in the 80s or earlier.

Also a quick search found this from 1985: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/003754978504400...:

> Supercomputers are becoming a useful and important tool in the finding and developing of oil and gas reserves. Applications of supercomputers in the petroleum industry involve two important aspects: enormous computational power and massive data management. Vector computers are being used in petroleum engineering to simulate the flow of oil and gas in a reservoir, the faster performance of the vector machines making many, heretofore, unmanageable calculations possible. In exploration for oil and gas, supercomputers are being used to store, classify, and interpret huge amounts of geophysical seismic data.
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Does anyone have a cybersecurity glossary?
I'm looking for something that can explain some basic manufacturing cybersecurity terms (firewall, DMZ, jump box).
This is ideally for manufacturing, so anything that explains interaction to relays, modbus, etc would be a plus.
Even modern city builders are inaccurate in the sense that timelines of how long it takes to build things aren't Modelled correct. Plus organic city growth is rarely simulated. Cities skylines for example has no concept of slums.

Also the annoying Western/Eurocentrism.

Eg: See the recent game Dorfromantik, its aesthetically pleasing, it is rustic european scenery, but why isn't it not set in Indonesia or Ecuador or Uzbekistan?
good luck!!!
It's hardly capturing anything.

People in HN complained a few months back that after they got the vaccine they felt like they suddenly had long covid.

The CDC stopped measuring outcomes for vaccinated people in May. Isreal's data is showing things that are not published in the United States. Policy in the United States is not based on Isreal's data.

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/quick-update-on-the-isra...

Basically here's the gist that I'm guessing is happening: (This next part is just me and I haven't seen this ANYWHERE in the world - just fyi this could be considered mis-information but I'm sharing it anyway because I think I'm right and why wouldn't I ? lol)

The Covid vaccines are NOT generating memory T-Cells that react to the spike protein. Instead the vaccine is simply causing a slow IgA reaction, much like you would get when you catch a cold. That IgA is protective against Covid - that's something we already know. We already know that if you recently had a cold or anything really that boosts your iga, you're going to have temporary protection against covid.

That's what I think the vaccines are doing. We know that mrna does cause an iga boost, so one hypothesis I have is to just find things that can help boost IGA, and something less dangerous than mrna of the spike protein would be a much better idea for a iga booster than something that is failing as a memory t-cell responder.
If you mean “subscribe to the ideology of the Austrian school” when you say “understand economics”, the above makes some sense.
> Today I turned on my Windows 7 machine for the first time in months. I checked my old Facebook account.

That's brave of you, I hope you had installed the latest security updates, which for Windows which hasn't been updated in months can take several hours, multiple reboots and has 1/10 chance to update successfully.

Update mechanism are another reason for someone to run Linux, Especially a rolling release distribution.
modern day treasure hunters. so damn cool
s/initiation/intimidation/

I hate how phones have made posts on the web so incomprehensible, but I usually double check
Does FAANG really pay 300k for "mid-level" engineers?
This measure can't be a way to create "zero covid spaces" because people who are vaccinated can still transmit the virus (even though less than unvaccinated people, but it doesnt seem to be a 90% reduction either). So the goal here is to increase the vaccination rate.

It seems pretty weird to ask the indoor business owners to be the ones who are in charge of controlling that the vaccination rate is increasing and to be the one who are punished because the vaccination rate is not high enough.
How about decrypting the messages on the device and then sending them for ad classification to a remote service? Sounds like a no-brainer.