skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read your https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001866692/000119312... executive compensation section and was curious about the hire of Ms. Johnson in November 2020 and the massive option grant. Can you explain the reasoning here? It appears she got more than any of your older employees? Is this because half of Amplitude's revenue is spent on sales and marketing? I guess that might make sense.

Also, congratulations on reaching the rare high nine figure net worth club! :)
You're misinterpreting me here, I never said work overtime or devote your life to the company. My point was that your work and skills are an investment in yourself (especially if you work in software), and you're sabotaging yourself if you take the cynical view that what you do doesn't matter because interviewing pays off more than a capricious promo process. The fact is that doing good work has long-term feedback loops that build your opportunities from both a skills and relationships perspective. Job hopping early in your career will definitely ramp up your salary faster, but over the long-term it pales in comparison to having a good reputation.
Ask HN: Is it time for Microsoft to start a new OS?
When I was a child, I enjoyed working through a book called "Hungarian Problem Book", which contained much more interesting and fun problems than I had seen up to that point. It certainly had a stimulating and energizing effect on me. Worth a look if you're interested in math problems.
Is this a risk that you're willing to take? A handful of kids can (and frequently do) make awesome indy games. But how do you expect them to scale out a competitive software distribution platform, and who's going to pay for the marketing necessary to drive adoption among both developers and users?
The new corps learned from the old corps. I'm not sure <<we>>'re going to survive them.
I am not so sure about that. If Afghanistan and corona response have shown anything, a complete and total failure of American intelligence and military apparatus isn’t really far fetched anymore.
> Ironically, it seems to be more supported by the left (like the people downvoting you)

Speak for yourself.

> it enables big spending and debt

No, low interest rates are not what enables big government debt. The government can monetize its debt -- money printer, remember?

> , which can be progressive, while more than undoing itself with X-inflation + deadweight loss.

Well, if the losses trickle down as effectively as the last 40 years of gains, I think the bottom 90% of the pyramid should rather welcome those losses.
Yes, quite. Sometimes it's too successful and outstrips its resource. Sounds familiar.

If you have a word you prefer I invite you to use it in the future.
It doesn’t matter if it’s close to 100% that’s not enough. There’s a huge difference between a solution with and without a seed crystal and the gap is plenty large for the next platform to win and win surprisingly quickly.
Correct. The 2006 law being referenced was trying to lock in retirement health benefits to USPS workers that were generally not available to private sector workers. It was one of the many pieces of union pork in that bill, and there is no end of irony that it is being portrayed as some nefarious Republican plot to kill the post office. It is not about how the benefits are funded but that congress mandated these benefits that disadvantages the post office by raising their labor costs.

Of course the post office is advantaged in many other ways -- e.g. it is illegal for a private agency to deliver mail, only the USPS is allowed to do that. Fortunately, the post office is magnanimous enough to allow private courriers to deliver mail if they purchase a stamp and then cancel it! Why must they purchase a stamp and affix it to the letter? Because it is illegal to place anything in a mailbox (even if you own the mailbox) without postage and only the USPS can collect postage. The USPS is also the only company that it is illegal to undercut by offering letter delivery for less than the USPS charges. IIRC, you have to charge at least six times as much, thus FedEx will never be able to outcompete the USPS on letter delivery as it's only allowed to operate under the "extremely urgent" mail loophole which requires higher charges mandated by law.

"The USPS actually enforces these rules from time to time. For example, Equifax learned a terrifying lesson in 1993. Armed USPS inspectors raided the company’s Atlanta headquarters to determine whether or not the letters the company had been sending via FedEx were indeed “extremely urgent” as required by the Private Express Statutes. The letters didn’t pass the test, and Equifax ended up having to pay a $30,000 fine."[1]

You can read more about the Private Express Statutes on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Express_Statutes

See also the American Letter Mail Company, which was a private rival to the post office that was outlawed by the government.

[1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/26424/why-cant-you-start...
Sounds pretty rough still

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-G...

Unless I'm misreading that completely its saying that Sway support is not yet even in beta.
> you're saying that U.S. antitrust legislation left us worse off, historically?

Yes. For example, look up what happened to Standard Oil and Alcoa Aluminum. Both of those companies were providing their products with better quality and at lower prices than the companies that existed after they were broken up by antitrust suits.
How do you improve the immune system to convey the improvements we’ve made with mRNA to it?
>bunch of LARP

Having just watched an episode of Thunderbirds I'm the first to admire any bunch of people who want to change or change things for the better. However the sad truth is that, you're right, trying to make progress for progress' sake is little better than building a Star Trek set.

Inspiration is vital but real progress comes a byproduct of understanding things better as they are now, and how they fit together now, I think.
Will the machines work against Talibans as well?The best U.S tech couldn't deter some medieval-like army. You can't talk about a super army/next level army and forget Afghanistan...
People sent 50 million SMS messages in the UK in 2020, your social group isn’t the same as everyone.
Or MAYBE the solution is to enforce antitrust and pro competitive market laws.
That sucks. If this is what the future holds for Android, I think I'm just gonna switch to Apple already. There's no point to Android if Google insists on destroying everything that made it great.
Location: Stockton, California

Remote: Yes

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Technologies: (Beginner-level at each) C++, Python, Java/Javascript, SQL, HTML/CSS/React

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15Zxp68qzqYxDAJc8obX6v8aE7vd...

Email: christiantemartin@gmail.com

I'm a recent CS college graduate that has been struggling to get my foot in the door. I'm a beginner at multiple languages, but eager to learn. I have a preference for companies that focus on directly helping the lives of others, such as the health and education industry.
It's a game on Xbox.
This feels like an extended ad for tipranks.com
Economists do talk about asset inflation [1]. The Fed and the media not so much. The price of housing is very much a symptom of asset inflation and this is plausibly the result of the Fed continually injecting money into and/or "backstopping" various capital markets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_price_inflation
(Cardano Blockchain) Marlowe and Actus
No. Microsoft’s strength is backwards compatibility. If Microsoft broke that they face an uphill climb to get anyone to develop software for it.
Theres survivor bias - the success of ARM ignores the relative failure of other alternative instruction sets. SPARC, Itanic, MIPS, the road to today is littered with instruction sets that didn't make it in the same way ARM has.

Oracle and Fujitsu will still sell your business SPARC servers, but I don't know that I'd buy that business unit (never mind that I don't have that kind of money). It's easy to buy the lottery ticket after you've got the winning numbers. ARMs successful now but there was a lot of luck and hard work up get there.
It's still under ULA for 12-15 year olds and for booster shots.

Then again what does ULA even mean when in my county 84% of 12-15 years olds are already vaccinated.
First defector wins cheaper goods than everyone else.

The only way it could work is if the USA, China, the EU, Russia, Japan, and all the other major powers and modern economies all formed a tight unified front. I see basically zero chance of that happening.

The US, EU, and their orbit seem like the only ones that care even a little, and they are doing half measures at the very best. China pretends to care and burns more coal. Russia’s entire economy is dependent on fossil fuels, as is much of the Middle East.

Then keep in mind that any measure that squeezes the middle class is going to provoke a huge populist backlash. Do anything that impoverishes working people and climate change denialists will be voted in.

Make low carbon energy cheaper than fossil fuels or prepare for 800+ppm CO2. That’s how I see it.
No. The same developers and leaders will repeat the same patterns.
Thanks. Since no company is registered under that address I'd bet there simply is no company and the guy is just a sole trader under the name Six Ace Games. No official registration needed for that, you just have to report the income to HMRC (taxman) and that's it.
True, my bad, read the exact opposite.
Unless you have a fab in your closet, your ability to get customizable computers will always be contingent on someone else making them for you.
No, I don’t think it would serve a useful purpose. The police arrest power in the UK is already quite limited and unlawful arrests are taken seriously.

I don’t think there is much to gain here.
Software engineer salaries are increasing following a bimodal distribution, i always thought you had to be a genius level person to work at FB, GOOG, then i see my own coworkers (whom i consider smart but not exceptional) do the leetcode grind and 2x their salary. I'm pretty much in the same boat with you, i worked mainly outside of SF/Seattle for a long time and i'm amazed how much these engineers get paid compared to other cities.
I have to wonder how much of this support is the military trying to find a technological workaround so they can keep using schedules that intentionally leave everyone sleep deprived all the time, instead of just adjusting those schedules to let people get enough sleep.

While the worst cases of that are generally in the Navy (for example, entire ship crews running on 4 hours of a sleep a night as standard practice, serving as a major factor in those lethal collisions back in 2017), it's pretty common for Army grunts to get six hours of sleep a night or less while on deployment.
What specific purpose does choosing to identify as a candidate from an underrepresented demographic serve? That is, how is the data used? Who involved in the hiring process is provided with this information?
Was this found by mere luck or do we have a warning system for objects heading our way?
SafetyNet makes it impossible to run most Android apps on Linux using a container-based solution like Anbox.

SafetyNet is also stifling innovation.

Linux/*BSD/macOS can run many Windows apps without emulation via WINE, and those innovations allowed Steam to create potentially billions of dollars in value by making many of their games cross-platform with Proton, and allowed them to create new products like the Steam Deck. SafetyNet precludes ever creating value like that with mobile apps.

Although they use emulation in WSL 2, Microsoft has done something similar with WSL and Linux apps, creating an untold amount of value for not only their platform, but for millions of developers, as well. SafetyNet prevents using something like WSL to run mobile apps on Windows.

For those reasons, you can't build an alternative OS and run many Android apps on them with a compatibility layer, despite apps without SafetyNet working pretty well using compatibility layers like Anbox.
Trilium Notes
I wish I understood hardware at this level. His “PS I built a scsi disc drive emulator with a rasberrypi” is an awesome humble brag.
> Or the ban against lead additives. Or against child labour.

Sometimes the government manages to mandate something that happens to be a good idea. But that does not mean that government mandates, overall, are a net benefit.

> Or any one of hundreds of massive benefits that government fiat has brought us.

If you really think there are "hundreds of massive benefits" brought to us by government fiat, I suggest a review of history. You will find many, many more cases of government fiat causing harm than of it doing good. In the extreme, government fiat killed hundreds of millions of people in the 20th century.

If you want more local, individualized information, try asking anyone who has had to deal with a government bureaucracy when it makes a bad individual decision (which happens all the time) about their experience. (My wife and I have had this experience multiple times with multiple government bureaucracies.) You will get a very different viewpoint on the "benefits" of government fiat.
Please Google make a fab. You guys have smart enough people to figure out the chemistry and physics, and the world definitely needs more 5nm fabs.
I've happily used Firefox on Windows and Linux to access all of my Google services, without issue, for years.

Can you expand on which services don't work with ff?

At Google there is a requirement to use Chrome - due to certain browser extensions - but that doesn't impact any of the services they provide.
I like reading other people's opinions.
Imagine if we could largely eliminate sleep, it seems like science fiction for now, but what if?
So can a shorter one.

(In a box at 120°C for a day is roughly equal to a thousand days at room temperature).

Smarter not longer. Write in a memory-safe language and you don't need to pay people to maintain spreadsheets of memory allocations...
Arpanet was really useful early on and got more useful as they added nodes and protocols.
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
I always thought it was the opposite. M2K had vision and some awareness of history and irony. (Albeit pickled by pharmaceuticals.)

Wired was mostly just a hype factory, and often comedically lacking self-awareness.
Nancy pelosi's trading returns beat every well known investor, she is running far lower amounts of capital, but shes averaging 70% a year. Meanwhile, the rest of us slave away at our jobs like cattle, and listen to her speak on TV about "fighting for our rights, justice, equality"
> The number of outgoing SMS and MMS messages sent in the United Kingdom (UK) fell to 48.68 billion in 2020, from a peak of 150.83 billion in 2012. The fall in the number of SMS and MMS messages sent over mobile networks in the UK, coincides with a surge in popularity of apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/271561/number-of-sent-sm...
Actually, I'm pretty sure all domain registrar's may do this. This is, sadly, an inherent characteristic that f the centralized DNS model, and the decision to embed so much value and brand identity into a domain name.

Squatting! Interesting that namecheap is being accused of it now. They've specifically denied it in the past, and sometimes lurk here. You might get lucky and get a response.
Some of my favourite people are LARPers!
> how do you expect them to scale

How quickly does it have to scale? Google itself was a niche product for quite some time before it had to scale.

I'm not proposing that someone try to displace Google all at once. Google took a long time to get to the position it's in now. It will take a long time for it to be displaced, if it is. But you have to start somewhere.
Do you think sceintists who have in the past worked for the pesticide producers and are still affiliated with them in various ways should be included in the decisionmaking?

Do you think these scientists are more or less trustworthy than activists with an education and a strong interest in human health?
Did they get it wrong? I've always viewed IFTTT, "function as a service" offerings, many of the automation systems we use for building and testing and deploying software, and others as applications of those ideas. Maybe not as full-featured or ubiquitous as we imagined at the turn of the century, but certainly still in the vein of software agents.
Holy crap indeed

... but the Australian car industry was nothing more than rent seeking anyway, so it was a good thing we stopped funding a non-utility.
When Google does share location information with advertisers it is obfuscated to approx this range.
Great summary but I remember a few nuances.

Windows ME had some legit quality of life improvements over 98. Although 98se had a few of them already.

Winxp SP2 was good. OG winxp had its issues.
Money Can't Fix a Broken Family
We haven't really made any improvements to the immune system with mRNA, we're just giving it some training film to be ready when the fight comes.

An immune system that has a hair trigger to new antigens would likely cause more problems than it solves. Some kind of ability to have contagious antibodies might be an actual improvement but the fact that we don't see that in nature tells me it has downsides that are difficult to see.
Mostly: I don't understand it very well, and I think the bugs aren't all worked out (societally/legally).

An exhaustive discussion of my opinion is here:

https://www.rosshartshorn.net/stuffrossthinksabout/nyt_opini...

...along with some odd things about writing an opinion piece for the New York Times.
... which is to say: what mature cataloguing practices have developed is a change management process. A recognition that boundaries shift (metaphorical, physical, and political), knowledge evolves, and terminology may come to be outdated or even prejudicial.

LoCCS isn't perfect. But it has developed the self-awareness, capabilities, institutions, and processes to change and adapt without destroying itself in the process.
"it is illegal for a private agency to deliver mail"

At least there's some rationale for this. National postal agencies typically have monopolies, but the flip side is they have universal service obligations, i.e. they have to deliver mail to even unprofitable locations, e.g. rural areas.

This is analogous to taxi regulation: in theory, the monopoly granted to medallion holders has a flip side: rates are fixed, and they can't discriminate between riders based on destination.

In practice, taxis in NYC skirt these regulations pretty often.
> Autonomy — enabled by artificial intelligence, edge computing and other technologies — allows you to operate at scales and speeds that you simply cannot do under the traditional model of big, expensive, heavily manned systems that, no matter how much money you throw at them, will only be able to do a limited number of things.

I can't wait to see the headlines in 2050 about a badly-trained neural network leading to US warbots gunning down anyone carrying a banana.
Depends on the org but often new hires make close to the same salary as a manager that's been around for a few years. The difference may be in the bonus though.
There are many versions of Android, and some that don't do this.

Check out:
CalyxOS
GrapheneOS
LineageOS
AOSP
>But what would scammers gain for complaining about Google?

Well, it is probably more what do they have to lose? Plenty of internet hate mobs have formed backing a cause that later came out to be misleading, if not outright fraudulent. Even assuming they are scammers, it is quite possible they think they are in the right (there are cultures that have... different views about business ethics), but they could also just be rolling the dice.
> "In two decades the SEC hasn’t brought a single insider trading case involving trades made under a 10b5-1 plan."

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: the defendant changed his 10b5-1 plan multiple times, and one of those times he profited hugely from it. The defendant's excuse that his advisor told him to do it and he needed the money for his daughter's college is just unpersuasive.

Anyone see why a prosecutor might be reluctant to bring such a case? It might well be true, but the jury may or may not stay awake long enough to agree. Best to concentrate scarce resources on cases you CAN win.

Note that I'm not saying insider trading is harmless; just that it's like illegal drugs: no policies will stamp it out entirely.
The Honda E is pretty cool and a good step forward for them, but it's pretty weird in a few places (the camera mirrors are pretty crap, range is dire etc). They could probably turn their fortunes around overnight by redesigning the rest of their butt-ugly cars around the styling of the E and slapping big range on it. The rest of their current range look like a Gundam that ate too many pies.
> This is an area where I'm torn. Should I be buying only organic produce or should I be spending the same money and energy on eating less sugar and more of any kind of produce?

Well, if I were you, I would do both, and I would stop working a full-time job so that I could focus on raising my kids.

I would also stop trusting the FDA or any other large org, because they have shown themselves to be untrustworthy and corruptible.
(Also the argument that applied pesticides are on the surface of plants/produce only is incorrect as a blanket statement. There are many systemic insecticides on the market and they are usually preferable due to duration of protection.)
“crypto consumes more electricity than country X” is such a tired and low-effort talking point. There are things more useless than crypto that consume more energy than certain countries.
> not the actual cells(if that's even possible in any way).

It isn't, but there are some controller circuits that switch off permanently if the voltage falls out of range, making changing cells more difficult.
Normal ICU levels are levels lower than "every available nurse and doctor is busy with ICU patients".

It's really not that complicated. Under normal conditions capacity can usually scale to meet the needs of the local community. Under COVID conditions, all theoretical capacity is already taken by COVID patients.
I'm pretty sure humans are supposed to at least slow down if they can possibly do so, which in this case appears to have not happened
To me Confluence's problem is the not-very-relevant search, which either gives me generic blank documents that someone created as a placeholder (?!? -- I've started suffixing these with (blank)) or fails to find synonyms or related words when I can't quite come up with the exact search term (wonder if these "related words or synonyms" could be manually added...)

I'm sure it is a difficult problem but I haven't really found any good solutions other than "make really long titles that use many words to describe the content" or "Add lots of tags" and even them I'm not sure it helps or not. Does the search take into account click-through rate? Link count?
Yeah, I understand the logic. But I was pointing out that yes, while Congress does mandate retiree health benefits for postal workers, it also advantages the USPS in other ways. It is a weird monopoly, with all sorts of carve outs. I am not advocating for some kind of drastic postal reform one way or another.