skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a silly way to think about the tradeoff between startup and big-co. Startup equity is typically ISOs which is to say it's literally worth zero the day it's granted, and it only gains value if the valuation increases, and even then subject to dilution, cliffs, etc. The reason you buy into it is some combination of believing in the company and valuing the experience, not because of some expected value calculation.
HN submissions with url from science.org are marked as 'dupe' automatically
It seems that if you submit a url from science.org (or a doi link referring to science.org), it will be replaced by 'https://www.science.org/action/cookieAbsent'. Hence, submissions with url from science.org are marked as [dupe] automatically.
Neat, the backend is indeed very simple. If you prefer to run things locally, just invoking `nginx -c /path/to/nginx.conf -e err.log -g "daemon off;"` [1] and your curl command seems to be everything required, save for httpbin.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/jvns/edf78e7775fea8888685a9a2956bc47...
Some differences:

Suburbs use more than half their water on lawns; water that is treated and often pumped

Availability of renewable power is limited by neighborhood rules and acreage
I would not bring it up as it would actually make you a less desirable candidate/employee because you could just quit at any time.
People seem to be missing the biggest reason why phones can't be updated permanently - it's because of SoC vendors like Qualcomm.

Their SoCs include proprietary drivers in order to run Linux on them, and because of that the kernel can never be updated. This means important features and security fixes can't be applied, as you can upgrade to the latest version of Android but the kernel underneath remains ancient.

Until SoC vendors are forced to support much longer timeframes, or ideally upstream their drivers, then we're never going to get phones which can last 10 years.
Gattaca is a thought provoking movie exploring this very concept
> Go and .NET have something that's viral about their IO code.

This is basically what some language communities are trying to capture with “monads” (like “the IO monad”)

There are some work yet on how to make such representations compose[1] (like how IEnumerable + Task = IAsyncEnumerable) but eventually we’ll probably see some form of effect systems for all such things reach mainstream languages.

[1] http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/extensible/more.pdf
I really like the Lenovo X1s with Linux, no issues, great luck with hardware so far (on my second one). I also have a MacBook Pro, and I gotta say I like the Lenovo with fedora better.
That's a good point and actually we usually take the institution's name out of these press release titles. I've done so above now.
Burning natural gas in a generator produces fewer toxic emissions than flaring it.

The reason to use it on site for crypto mining is that transporting power over distances is expensive and difficult.
>Let's just say the country isn't new to food safety scandals...

Yeah, just because I can't taste the melamine they used to water down the milk doesn't mean I want to drink melamine. I especially don't want to drink the chemical they later added in addition to melamine in order to spoof the melamine detection process and continue to sell watered down, tainted milk.

The low end of food production has some seriously determined bad actors. "Let the consumer decide" definitely isn't good enough.
> notably is absent any real management

Except for the General Contractor taking a % of all billing to manage the entire process? Construction is what gave us Gantt charts, and large projects are incredibly well-structured and managed so that heavy, expensive equipment and material isn't delivered when it can't be used.
In any large company, the team you're negotiating comp with is almost entirely unrelated to the team you'll actually be working with. The only overlap is the hiring manager, and hearing that somebody I want to hire is negotiating comp is not going to make it think worse of them, quite the opposite.

I once referred an acquaintance I knew was underpaid to a job on my team, with explicit instructions to negotiate their initial offer. They did not, and I was quite disappointed.
I have seen it happen, if a candidate is asking for so much that they seem entitled in the eyes of the hiring manager.
The temperatures involved are very high (~2000 C), which creates a host of problems (reradiation of energy, creep and degradation of materials). This also means only direct sunlight can be captured; flat panel collectors like ordinary PV modules also collect sunlight that has been diffused by clouds and atmospheric scattering.
From "Firefighters tackling a Tesla blaze in Austin said they had to use 40 times more water than for a regular vehicle fire because of the car's lithium battery cells"[1]:

> "Normally a car fire you can put out with 500 to 1,000 gallons of water," Austin Fire Department Division Chief Thayer Smith said, per The Independent, "but Tesla's may take up to 30,000-40,000 gallons of water, maybe even more, to extinguish the battery pack once it starts burning and that was the case here."

Fire engines in my municipality have ~500 gal tanks.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-crash-fire-lithium-bat...
if you are running a script blocker, you might need to block economist.com. That's what made it work for me with this link.
Generally, I think tests are used to validate changes to your service code (often as a gate to release it to production). Whereas monitoring is used to detect issues external to your code (often operated in production).

Edit: That is to say, what distinguishes testing from monitoring isn’t content, but purpose.
The first time I clicked it I also still saw the paywall; when I tried again it was gone - very odd.
> The real reason is it is completely unworkable to require a best offer from one side and not the other side.

Only if you think the power dynamics between the two parties are equal. Or in other words, only if you think that both parties would get the same benefit (or harm) from some sort of mediated negotiation (e.g. both parties share their best offer with a third party who then follows some agreed-upon rule to settle the transaction at some price in the range of mutually-acceptable prices if any exist).

What you're describing (both sides providing a best offer) obviously doesn't work without some sort of agreed-upon method for sharing the offers before knowing the other party's offer and then settling on a price if any mutually-acceptable prices exist.

In reality, even an auction among a large set of workers and employers is unlikely to be have "ideal" outcomes (according to some reasonable definitions, although all definitions would be debatable), particularly when relevant qualities of the two parties are different (like how much information about the market each party has, how risk-averse each party is, etc.).
Data suggests that murders aren't affected by deterrents like the death penalty: https://www.amnestyusa.org/a-clear-scientific-consensus-that...

To claim that murders are up because people don't "respect" police seems absurd to me.
Show HN: Brief Evaluation of “Mostly” Open Source Speech Recognition Packages
Great work putting this together. Really highlights just how safe Tesla’s approach is to lithium batteries. Considering the number of cars, Powerwalls and mega packs out there I was expecting far more incidents.
The chart title comes from the actual paper (linked right above the graph: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28912/w289...) that includes two charts (COVID-19 and Great Recession), but the article only includes the first chart (so it makes less sense in the context).
Membrane keyboards are so incredibly common and simple to make that I'd be willing to bet they make dramatically more profit on that keyboard than on a $1500 laptop (proportional to price). Even after accounting for all the wasted R&D and refunds and repairs spent denying problems with their butterfly mechanism.

So kinda yes... but also kinda no, I don't think that really supports a claim that it's cheap enough to do everywhere.

But yeah, I'd totally be fine with an LED glued into a hole. The indicator is the important part, and it's a shame that it's gone.
If you plot anything exponential from t=T-60 years to t=T, it'll look just as dramatic now as ever. Try it. Plot Imagine you have some function like population or number of transistors per dollar or something that's exponential. You can model it as y(t) = a * b^(t+c). To look at how it feels when you look backwards, make it relative to what life is like today (aka divide by the "normal" value y(t) to get a function of how it seems looking backwards y(t)/y(T) = b^(t-T).

Let's make a variable for `years from now:` dt = t-T. If we look at the last 60 years, this is just plotting b^dt from dt=-60 to dt=0. It doesn't matter when you look at it from. The last sixty years of exponential growth always looks the same. It's just b^dt from dt=-60 to dt=0, which (being the exact same function) looks equally dramatic from any point.

tl;dr let's make it concrete and plot 1.1^t from 1960 to 2020, and then plot 1.1^t 1060 to 1120. They look exactly the same, even though each just spans a human life time:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+1.1%5Et+from+t%3D...

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+1.1%5Et+from+t%3D...
Stossel was once a legit anchor/news-program talking head.

Some time ago, I don't know when, he _really_ went off the deep end into libertarian la-la land. Suing and aggressive legal maneuvers are practically a sacrament to such hardcore libertarians.
But at the end of the day you have zero evidence of any of that actually happened. The backbone doesn't exist, the spike doesn't exist, the effort necessary to culture that completely unknown virus in the lab isn't documented anywhere. And the grant proposal very specifically is concerned with using the WIV1 and SHC014 backbones, nothing related to SARS-CoV-2. And going from sequence to live culturable virus that you can work with is _difficult_. They aren't out collecting bats in the morning and whipping up live novel virus backbones in the evening. And if they actually carried out the research in this grant proposal you don't get from there to SARS-CoV-2, those are all SARS-1-like.

It is research that "sounds like" what happened with the SARS-CoV-2 zoonotic spillover, but that isn't a strange coincidence. They were researching the thing they were worried about happening, and then it happened. Their research proposals naturally rhyme with what actually occurred because they had studied and understood the problem enough to guess more or less accurately what the process would be. There are still massive gaps in between this proposal and SARS-CoV-2 that you could fly a plane through.
I never understood why I should be hibernating instead of suspending so I can't talk about that - but I haven't seen a laptop unable to suspend for years.
That could be luck and not buying laptops with terrible linux support but I wouldn't paint the situation as this tragic.

The experience out of the box is still crap because the ACPI signals from the hardware are often a complete mess - but disabling most of them generally works.
For those downvoting the user, it was also paywalled for me. On mobile if that matters.

Edit: but revisiting worked.
They need an additional column to track which type of battery (lithium-nickel vs Lithium iron phosphate) as I believe the latter is beginning to ship in some models?
> The United States has the largest prison population in the world and the highest incarceration rate. Every time there is a crime thread on HN it is full of anecdotal stories about how we can be tougher on crime. It boggles my mind that this is the accepted framing.

One possible explication is that the people put into prison are the wrong people. That would explain how many people on Hacker News say we can be tougher on crimes, while also recognizing that many people are in prison for no good reasons. How much people we put into prisons is a variable, but who we put in is another one, and I would argue that it's more important. Focusing simply on the number is partially missing the point.

> You would have to think the criminal justice system in the united states is extremely fair and that we have a dramatically different population to place such a high priority on the people that are possibly victims of crimes over people that are inappropriately incarcerated.

I think what most people mean by that is "Instead of putting into prison someone for smoking weed once, put into prison the guy that stabbed one of my neighbors, because I don't mind people smoking weed but I do mind getting stabbed and people around me getting stabbed". This is of course an oversimplification and in some cases people stab people for good reasons and they shouldn't end up in prison for that, but that's besides the point for this example here.
Lab leaks are not rare the actual thing is that lab leaks that turn into pandemics are an anomaly but only because pandemics are an anomaly statistically speaking
The dual interfaces of the knob and the exercise ball looking thing are interesting.

I found Google Earth in VR hard to use. Maybe a more direct interface like this would have been better.
I worked with a guy who made several million dollars from a prior startup and didn't need to work any more.

He was a good guy, wrote good code, was fun to work with. But at the same time, his FIRE status was front and center every time it came to task assignment and other issues. His manager was always afraid to give him un-fun tasks or push back when he was behind schedule for fear he'd quit. Not a great dynamic for the rest of the team who didn't have as much leverage and therefore received a disproportionate amount of the un-fun work.

If a candidate came to me suggesting that they didn't need this job but they only wanted to work if it was fun, I'd honestly have to proceed very cautiously. The last thing I want to do is hire a candidate who opens with an indirect threat that they're going to leave the second the job isn't fun any more. We have one of the better team environments, but I can't guarantee that work will always be fun and never require some hard weeks or months to get things done.

I'd personally not mention it. It's not only irrelevant to the hiring discussion, but it's a weird warning shot to your future manager before you're even hired.
Terraserver was definitely one of those “Wow!” moments of the early web.

Lots of detail on the architecture, in a paper with Jim Gray as a co-author:

https://jimgray.azurewebsites.net/papers/msr_tr_99_29_terras...

One of the hottest applications on the Internet of the time, and they hosted it on 8 servers!
Keyhole became Google Earth. Google Maps came from Where 2 Technologies, acquired at about the same time.
It's actually better than I thought based on news reports - only 3 of those fires didn't involve a crash.

And this is out of over 1 million cars sold globally.
You may check at https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=science.org, submissions above "Private companies will launch a new fleet of moon landers" are all replaced by 'www.science.org/action/cookieAbsent'
I agree with everything you wrote except your last sentence:

> "Negotiating also means giving up things you don't value for things that you do..."

That describes "compromise", not "negotiation".

In my experience (23 years in software, 5y consulting), in some ways negotiation is more like poker: coming out on top doesn't always mean you had the best hand, just that you played it right. On the other hand, it's not necessarily such a starkly zero-sum game. Of course it is in the sense of absolute #s, ie the less they pay me the more they get to keep -- but by insisting on being well-compensated for your skills and experience, you rule out the wrong workplaces and send the right message. If "I'm expensive, and worth it" isn't how you -- and your employer or clients -- see yourself, you're doing it wrong.
Context: A lot of Adrian Zenz's "research" is pretty sketchy. However, a lot of criticism directed his way is straight up Chinese propaganda, which also means that anybody else questioning his methods gets labeled as a wumao shill.
Do you like gas flaring? Because this is how you get gas flaring?
How likely is this to be real?

If real, was this work originally widely read in its time?
The actual journal article https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00822884.2021.1...
There's the key. Windows wouldn't be so terrible if you could turn things off. As it stands, I just feel a lot more comfortable using apple or linux or any unix based system basically.
This is amazing, thank you so much for the info - just registered!
There are probably many discoveries thought to be more modern, that were actually made earlier than we realise but were never written down. Word of mouth stories are often lost during mass population upheavals like war and famine.
I know people who've used their FIRE status as an argument for why they should be able to take a long sabbatical and decide whether they want to come back at the end of it, but I've never seen anyone use it to argue for special treatment in the job. I kinda feel like I'd be uncomfortable working with someone who got that kind of "favored child" status.
That's very true in dollar terms, but wealth is owning 4 homes, or a couple apartment blocks, or being able to retire at 40, right? That's what most people are seeking. And if folks were able to achieve that in the 80s from being extremely-impactful ICs at big companies, maybe big companies were paying select employees more than the general public was aware?
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My manager is aware only because we have worked together several times, but he still fights for a yearly raise on the 5-15% scale of things without me asking, and does for other team members as far as I know. For the most part I work 5 by 5s but if there is a meeting or it’s my turn to be the on call engineer I don’t get to shove those duties to the side because they aren’t fun. I have followed and will continue to follow said manager for the foreseeable future due to the relationship we have
There's 1,000 nucleotide differences between the closest known progenitor and SARS-CoV-2. That is an evolutionary distance of 30-40 years in a coronavirus. You can't replicate that many years of evolution by serial passage in a lab. Serial passage isn't a magic wand.

And the rest of it is that you're arguing in favor of a science fiction explanation for the capabilities of the WIV lab.
So some grown man play acting as a fighter to help keep people's mind off anything that might improve their situation reacts with violence to being called out on it, but Stossel is the "whiny baby" doing "cutesy stuff idiots seem to like"? That's rich.

> I don't condone any violence

No, you just talk about "an open slap that most of us might slough off", and call someone a "whiny baby" for not sloughing it off.
We already know the NIH partially funded field survey work that appears to be very similar to this. It's pretty obvious to see that they continued applying elsewhere and may have been successful in getting the funding the requested. It just might be from several grants.
Thanks for the laugh :) Seriously, I see a lot of people thinking like this as the headline give the impression: this is something that's going to happen overnight.

I blame the media. When the press release came out about the Gulf Stream, several media personalities, including the weather reporter at CBS News in NY made a statement like "Remember 'The Day After Tomorrow'? That's what we're looking at," regardless of how many scientists have stated that is not the case.
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The real problem with these guides is that they always assume the hiring manager is 100% adversarial and will be using everything in their power to minimize your salary.

Some companies definitely operate that way, but as a hiring manager I have a lot of incentives to hire and retain good employees. If I'm constantly low-balling every candidate and squeezing the lowest possible salary out of them, I'm also going to be constantly losing my best people when they realize they're underpaid in 6 months. Then I have to go out and recruit, hire, and re-train someone else.

It depends on the company, of course, but many hiring managers are more than happy to carve out as much compensation as they can get away with for new hires. It improves team morale, decreases team turnover, and gives the hiring manager additional leverage over highly paid employees who know they can't just walk out the door into a higher salary somewhere else.

Unfortunately, most candidates these days have been taught (by guides like this and other internet wisdom) that salary negotiation must be played like an ultra-competitive game where the first move is to always force the company to name their price first. Hiring managers aren't dumb and we do this all the time, so whenever a candidate starts reciting hardball negotiation playbooks I just start with an offer that's 5-10% lower than what I think we'll end up with. The candidate then comes back and demands something 5-10% higher and we settle back at the number I had in mind anyway.

In the odd event that the candidate doesn't negotiate back up after forcing me to go first, I just throw the extra money into the offer anyway. Employees are even happier to see that I've come up on my initial offer, which is a great way to start the relationship.

On the other hand, when some candidates come in demanding multiple months of delays while they collect competing offers and want to go through endless rounds of re-negotiation even after we've agreed on a number, I just cut them loose and wish them luck on their career search. Unless you're a FAANG hiring many people at once, it doesn't make sense to play endless games with candidates who are going to end up at a FAANG anyway.
Interesting thought.. and the data is surely available, someone must just find it and use it to connect the dots
Throwaway account, for obvious reasons...

I hit my FIRE number about a year and a half before leaving my last corporate gig, and have a BATNA (Best Alternative To Negotiated Agreement) of, basically, "fuck you, fire me" meant I went into my last couple of salary/role/location negotations with enough excess confidence that I was always able to press for what I wanted (within reason), presumably because everyone opposite me could tell they didn't have a lot of wiggle room.

It only works until it doesn't, though -- I left that job when they closed my office out from underneath me and straight-up relocated my role elsewhere. They asked me to move with it, and I said "no thanks". Obviously they called my bluff (I was being totally unreasonable, to be clear), and...now I'm self-employed.

On the upside, I did mention that I'd already hit that FIRE number, so...
Looks like a pretty probable lead to me to continue investigating, especially since this leak evidence directly conflicts with many previous statements from Daszak and associates.
> Stock and bonuses are W2 income and taxed at your marginal rate

If you click on the link of that text, their point is that stock is not always W2 income.

For example, if someone joins a startup, pre-exercises and files an 83b, that gives a vastly different tax outcome than RSUs at BigPublicTechCo. Conversely, if someone joins a startup and does not exercise their options, then wants to quit after the stock has gone up 10x but isn't liquid, they will have to pay a hefty AMT when they exercise.

Many people aren't aware of startup stock tax implications, and they should learn more about it (i.e. click the link in the article).
I don't see how you can possibly make any meaningful conclusions about relative probability from this thread.
You might try contacting them [1] and ask if there is a parameter you can add to the url to not require a cookie.

[1] - https://www.science.org/content/page/contact-us