skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the right way to look at it is from the "counter-offer" perspective. It frames it as adversarial and between you and the team-members, between your company and others. It also makes it "reactionary" as in a reaction to something external.

It is similar to someone exclusive and married telling their spouse: "if there's someone else out there courting you and you're considering leaving me, tell me and I'll match their offer and take better care of you".

It sets the wrong incentives and makes the care, the offer, conditional to another offer from a third party. A better clause would be one that explicitly unhibits conversations about compensation, future, careers, equity, but that should not be conditional to anything, or counter to anything. It should be "we can talk about pretty much everything here".

I think an alternative is to act from within and make your offers neither conditional to anything, except the company's finances, nor counter to anything except to your own offer. I think that showing the intent and the willingness to act from within with your actions day in and day out is better: you value and respect the people enough that you will generally do right by them throughout the relationship, that will not necessarily end with their departure, within the constraints of the company that will generally be shared. That means that your actions will make them trust you enough that they will know they're not being screwd. They'll know that you will, within your means, spontaneously bump their compensation without them even asking.

A sequence of spontaneous bumps as the company picks up steam goes a long way.

Talking, probing, observing, sensing. You're amongst colleagues. They'll share how they view things, what they want to do, what their constraints are. Doing the right thing every time, or trying, goes a long way.

Many of the problems result from information asymmetry and people's imagination. Imagining they're left behind or missing out on something or being dealt a bad hand. Your actions every day puts their mind at ease.

Building an organization where compensation is not the only factor people are choosing to stay for, even though it is important, is important. In other words people who leave an organization for just a marginal incrase in compensation is symptomatic of deeper problems. While building this, actions day to day speak louder, and doing right by the people is more effective than adding a clause that sets the wrong incentives.
OS/2 was better. It had pre-emptive multi-tasking like the Amiga, but with memory protection to prevent crashes. A friend ran a DOS BBS so I left him my OS/2 Warp so he could use his computer while the BBS was up.
Any memory intensive work. I thought his meaning was clear.
Oh, I thought there was something coming in a future release. Cool.
Man, I kinda feel like embedded software is doomed. There are only a dozen or so companies where embedded software is a first-tier product for them that gets a lot of resources put into it. It feels like everything is moving toward using super low-quality Chinese drivers/firmware and really badly-designed microkernels (or treating linux like a microkernel) to squeeze all the functionality out of the OS and into bad managed software stacks.

Then again, any company that takes firmware engineering seriously can make devices 5+ years before Moore's Law makes it feasible for others, so maybe there'll always be room for us.
It's not a dogma so much as a warning from experience. If you post to your own site first you do retain control. If you rely on the silos' api to extract it back to your site you are dependent on them remaining committed to their api. That has not been a good bet in the last decade.
Well, in the case of today's byzantine supply chain solutions, we've had a lot of failures, and I do not mean the current events. I mean that there is a lot of fraudulent products with no way for end users, or even final step-manufacturers to even know what is in their product. With Vechain, and consumer can look up the complete immutable record of every piece of his product, chip, board, screen, etc, signed by each supplier. Also, blockchains are not that expensive once you move past proof--of-work.
> Never buy financial products you don’t understand.

This quote is famous because Warren Buffet said that's why he misses out on the tech boom.

Imagine if he'd put a few $Billion in Amazon/Apple/Google.

He's be a trillionaire.
I must have gone through a maturing period where I shed many of these extrinsic wants and found myself wanting so little. It was so rare that I ever wanted things that I started to wonder if there was something wrong. Only after reading the post does this make a lot more sense to me now. I drove a BMW convertible for a bit and I know the image that goes with bimmer drivers and I just didn't care. A friend of mine actually noticed how much joy I got from driving it and said that I'm driving it for myself which stood out. For the record, convertibles are in a separate category and everyone likes seeing one in the summer with the top down and tunes cranking. It did all sort itself out anyway as I still as always have itches to scratch and challenging new things to learn and discover.
See also Walter Benjamin's short piece "On the Mimetic Faculty" (1933)[1]. In short: "...language may be seen as the highest level of mimetic behavior and the most complete archive of nonsensuous similarity: a medium into which the earlier powers of mimetic production and comprehension have passed without residue, to the point where they have liquidated those of magic."

1. http://tems.umn.edu/pdf/Benjamin-4-22-Mimetic%20Faculty.pdf
> Why are positions researching physics so closely tied to academic positions?

Because it's cheaper that way. A lab that had to pay market-rate salaries would be outcompeted by the ones that sucker grad students with the promise that a few of them might get tenure someday and pay them peanuts in the meantime.
"Woke Marxist coke" was great.
Sure there's some of it, but not in my group and it's not something I'd be tasked with hiring for. Occasionally there's some infrastructure related task but I'd prefer someone on the team who actually has to use that stuff be the one to work on it.

We don't have a lot of glue code because we don't glue things together. We write the things other people glue together. That's why this is fundamentally different than 90% of anything I've ever done.

I also don't mean to say that all FANG work is like this. I could see some roles at, say, Google working on Android where it very much would be the kind of gluey work I've done before.
>The current generation of COVID-19 vaccines trains the immune system to have a fighting chance against COVID-19 and are effective at practically eliminating the risk of serious illness, but they do not prevent infection or spread.

It does prevent infection and spread. 10% of the time there's a breakthrough case. That is still effective often enough to bring us to herd immunity despite the high infectiousness of Delta.

Everything else is accurate.
No sweat, I'm glad to see the reply at all :) those perks do indeed sound really cool haha
Have you looked at Keychain items as well? It seems to go very slow for me, and I wonder if that’s part of some similar-sounding slowdown I have.

Quitting Safari seems to resolve the slowness, but not always.
> You might have business rules, such as "a person can only have one legal name at a time[...]"
If you are playing as white and know in advance black is going to play the bongcloud, then 2. Qh5 is forced mate.

i.e.
1. e4 e5
2. Qh5 Ke7
3. Qxe5#
57600 baud is incorrect. It was 57600 bps which was achieved over a 3200 baud connection by utilizing sophisticated signaling and compression.

https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO-23.html
It was fascinating trying to get a letter to (I think it was) Phys Rev Letters published back in the 90's calling out the fundamental limitations of Quantum Crypto in response to the original Quantum Crypto paper.

The Physicists who read the critique I wrote all said "well the Physics arguments you're making are obviously right, but I don't have the background to judge the Cryptography details" and the Cryptographers all said "well the Crypto arguments you're making are obviously right, but I don't have the background to judge the Physics details."

Each side was in love with the idea of crossing over into each other's field, but neither side could see they'd built a house of cards in their joint ignorance of each other's fields. The amazing thing is from what I could tell it took more than a decade for any serious papers demonstrating its inherent limitations to be get properly published.
I'd never heard of bongcloud before but searching YouTube for "Fischer Short" yields many videos discussing this apparent incident. One from a popular channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B9p2PrsKWY. Great story.

I like to believe that there's a mysterious and excellent human opponent on the other end. I find it difficult to believe an engine could have such a terrible opening, then go on to defeat a top blitz player. This is just my speculation.
If I recall some parts of 3gpp specs were also “secret” or at least were when I worked in the industry. Now compare it with a Wimax spec from ieee…
Internationalist is code word for "we can auction off our need for an underclass to other nations so we don't actually have to address their cultural needs"
Always been a hobby of passion for me. I have sold them from time to time to chefs and do intend to purchase land soon which will include a bunch more space for larger number of plants. Culminating in more seed saving projects and breeding.
Thanks for telling me that I have low standards. Amazing considering MacBooks on my desk.
I want to know that there isn't enough disk space before going through a half-hour installation process...
Kind of yes, but I wouldn't say so about all of the Python's standard libraries. Some of the old 2.x ones were pretty weird. Same thing with e.g. PHP, standard library was quite a mess of different styles and philosophies.
I had a strategy for this that I frequently recommend to people. Back when I was "in the game" and living in NYC, I used to take 1-2 interviews per month despite being happy in my then current role. I was up front with current and prospective employers about this.

This strategy served me well on many fronts: confidence in my skills and my options, familiarity with evolving interview trends, and networking opportunities with team leaders in a tight knit industry. It also allowed me to chase roles/positions which I wasn't immediately qualified for without feeling stress and anxiety, and was immensely helpful later on as an engineer turned startup CEO to know what product/project management interviews should feel like.
In my story linux didn't work well at first. Then with some time and work, it worked fine. An HP windows laptop didn't work well at first - but after I spent some time removing the HP bloatware, it worked "fine". This article says that mac laptops aren't working well because of memory leaks. But in a few months Apple will probably fix their software bugs and they'll work fine too.

You said:

> The [mac users] that don’t complain have low standards

I agree with you. I'd go even further and say most users have low standards, because the out-of-the-box experience with most modern computers is pretty bad. Apple users should absolutely complain more when the out-of-the-box experience with their computer isn't perfect. We all should.

Apple customers keep buying apple computers despite their issues not because we have low standards. We do it because the alternatives are even worse.
Interactive music co-creation tutorial ISMIR2021
Fork and fix? I’ve personally been pleasantly surprised by how fast maintainers will merge a PR I submit.

If it causes an issue with our own systems it also gives me a very good justification for doing it.
I really don’t think it’s what is being intentionally tested. Evaluating people is a necessarily stressful process to some extent, and it just takes a lot to counteract how different people handle it.

Just like I wouldn’t want to be written off for a place for being nervous I wouldn’t write off a place for doing the standard tech interview day-of-45-min-white boarded-questions.
It's an accessible Lisp with square brackets.
ME1 has more RPG elements but ME2 is the best of the serie.
Hell yeah.

Conversations on this topic have gone off the rails, to the point of being flagged, with groups talking past each other, a set critiquing a cheesy blog post or Thiel and another group defending Girard's idea. I haven't read as much of Girard as my library fines for his books might suggest, but what I have read affected me deeply, it brought clarity to ideas I was perceiving in a muggy form that I couldn't quite communicate.
If mimetic theory seems silly, I think it's worth reading it from Girard, rather than from primates such as myself, chattering incoherently about happened in their head when they read his ideas.
Word has track changes which lets you view what changes have been made and who made them. But you need to turn this on (I think it's under "Review"), and you should still follow the rule of "save early, save often". C-s is my fidgety muscle-memory behavior when otherwise staring at the computer screen trying to decide what to type/do next.

It's not quite the same as versioning, because it's still possible to clear out the history of changes (in fact, when you accept changes that's what it does), but it's pretty effective.
Yeah I was confused because the new design looked like an obvious anti-pattern to me, in contrast to adding an index to the original table. And then I was wondering whether I had a completely false understanding of what database normalization means (especially since this is the first time I’d heard of 3NF).
> Yet, I haven't seen a language include real amounts of Unicode in its syntax.

Raku does in terms of built-in operators (but all of them also have ASCII n-gram names), which aren't quite syntax (because Raku is a language where operators are not syntax but identifiers.) Agda uses Unicode fairly freely (again, for built-in identifiers, not syntax per se.)
You must have been using DOS or Windows. We Macintosh, Atari ST, and Amiga users had no such IRQ, DIP switch or jumper issues. Also, the Amiga wasn't limited to 16 colors.
> this is truly an issue of diminishing resources and exhausted low hanging fruit

The fulcrum of disagreement is the power of paradigm shifts. Paradigm shifts change how existing knowledge is interpreted, even by a feeble mind. These are, from what we can tell, randomly distributed. There is no indication that we are running out of them. If anything, their rate of discovery is increasing.

Since paradigm shifts are about prospective, not knowledge, there is no reason to believe they are limited. If anything, our growing knowledge base implies the next shifts will be more powerful than the prior ones.
> H1B's in Big tech are about as far from indentured servants as you can imagine

False.

> they're in high demand and switch jobs for better pay constantly.

And each time they do so, their new employer has to go through the entire process of getting them a new H1 visa. When your right to be in a place is dependent upon your labor to a specific contracted employer, you are an indentured servant.
to me, the fact that Africa is the only place where the majority of megafauna have survived to present day is the best proof that we caused them to die off elsewhere. African megafauna evolved with humans as they emerged and learned to treat us with due caution.
Terrible post. It's nothing like the turbo button. This iteration is based on aggressive DRM that gets it wrong. Maybe having different game threads on one or the other type of core might matter but that's not what the current problem is.
As a kid, for me it was a place to find fun shareware/free games (like Hack, Rogue's son and Nethack's daddy) and chat with folks from other places in town.

When I was 16-ish I built a few small BBSs (online after 10p until 8am) and signed up to message networks like Fidonet. It was very much like a very, very slow forum to chat with people (I'd say Usenet but BBSs and Usenet both lost ground when HTTP started taking over the net). Eventually the internet rolled out around here and BBSs phased out and/or were bought out. My BBS phased out but we had quite a lot of dedicated users that ended up following us when we were hired by ISPs.

It was a really fun time...
Having lived through the modem era and having run a BBS, I've never seen N81 or E71 before. You must have been running a particular piece of software that made up it's own nomenclature.
If Spacemacs is vim-in-Emacs then shouldn’t SpaceVim be the reverse? :)

https://www.spacemacs.org/
> Thought Deno would be mentioned in the article. It's a language

Its not, though, its a JS/TS runtime. JS and TS are the languages, not Deno.
Franz Kafka asked his friend Max Brod in a written testament to destroy his entire work after his death. Max Brod didn't obey. Do you think he was wrong?
Sad to hear that, F# is an excellent programming language. Scala has matured a lot, there is no "better-Java" anymore, that's the reality, there are three ecosystems today, Akka, Typelevel and ZIO. The competition between these is also seen in the social media and other mediums. There's also Clojure, which in my opinion is still an uncharted territory.
Thanks for pointing this out. I did think about the pi-hole scenario, which is why I provided links to the article's Markdown file in GitHub. I also just realized that my adblock detection doesn't work with uBlock Origin. I'll need to do some extra work on this one.
How to Stop the Climate Crisis in Six Months
I think about the 2010 article often as I develop- often little line of business apps etc I have to put first/last/middle on the ui and database because that’s what the paper form always had. I really wish for this, as well as other common scenarios- address and date/time entry also- there was a standard library to pull from for various languages. Need a simple user friendly ui for names that follows all the rules? Copy this. Or a DB schema for names? Here’s the TSQL.
interested on hearing some lawyers opinions on this. hope they chime in.
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Can you point me to the source that says they bought 15k homes in Q2 alone?

Zillow says they bought 3,805 homes in Q2: https://s24.q4cdn.com/723050407/files/doc_financials/2021/q2...
- Introduce a constraint: introduce a deadline, or unplug your laptop from the charger and do the work only on the laptop's charge (the urgency you get from this is amazing as you're up against the battery as its charge depletes), or disconnect from the internet and do the work only with the resources at your disposal: This is great because you don't have necessarily access to resources to "look up the best way to do something" and it pushes you to do the first draft of things (prototype, proof of concept, draft of a document) and not start editing before the first draft and getting lost. You can't get lost in Wikipedia's links because you simply are not online.

- Break down work into units, do one unit at a time: break out a book into chapters for example, and read one chapter at a time.

- Reduce the size of the unit of work: if you broke down the work into units (book into chapters) but still could not manage, then your unit is not a chapter, but it's a section. If you're still unable to do that, break it into a darn paragraph and just do one paragraph in each setting, but finish the unit, however small it is. You're not reading a book, you're reading this paragraph and it is the most important thing right now.

- Vow not to leave until you finish a unit of work: it takes you two hours to read a paragraph? I guess you're staying two hours, then.

- Select the day after's work the day before, or commit to do this thing and only this thing this hour (for example: during this hour, I will read and finish this article and that is the only thing I will do and nothing else). In other words, earmark specific time slots to specific work, even if you're freestyling and earmarking this next hour, to this arbitrary thing.
If it were really obvious that "the vaccine is good, everyone should get the vaccine", then public vaccine mandates would not be necessary.
I got divorced, lost almost everything, and had to do it or accept living on sustenance net pay for the rest of my life. I really didn't want to do this. I had a cozy gig in my past life, but I couldn't make it on the engineering salary in my town.

I don't come from a CS background. I'm a EE. I just happened to get an embedded job right out of college and kept getting more and more software work. The only algorithms I'd dealt with were linked lists, circular buffers, and synchronization.

Burn out is a constant worry. I still question if my chosen path is even worth it. If I didn't still have hope of having a child someday... I don't know. I don't think I could find the motivation to keep going.

I don't try to climb the ladder. I hit a level I'm more than happy with and now I just need to try to stay on. I find I'm much more compatible with my team because I'm not trying to make the next level. I can share advice freely with the younger folks because I'm not trying to block them. On the contrary, I want my teammates to go far and kick ass.
Do FISC rulings set precedent? Or are they more administrative in function?
> I posit the reason this is the case is American culture and anti-intellectualism.

Or perhaps awful schools
You are conflating internationalism with globalism.

Globalists believe that the time of Westphalian nations is over and everyone should live in one big borderless capitalist utopia ruled by global institutions/MNCs.

Internationalists believe in bilateral diplomacy and trade between sovereign nations, sometimes through international institutions like the UN. Internationalists value national sovereignty.

The key difference is that the basic unit of internationalism is the nation, while the basic unit of capitalist globalism is the individual or corporation.

Secondly, nationalism does not have a horrible track record. America was incredibly prosperous in the "big government" era of the mid 20th century. If 2021 USA existed in 1941, it almost certainly would not have effectively waged war across the Atlantic and Pacific. Once the global capitalists took power in the 70s, things have been going downhill every since. Nationalism got replaced with the fake performative "nationalism" of Reagan, et al.

Meanwhile, strong nations are currently on the up and up. Much to the chagrin of the global capitalists.