skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The most common misconception is that lawmakers themselves are in the business of shifting the Overton window. That is absolutely false. Lawmakers are actually in the business of detecting where the window is, and then moving to be in accordance with it.”

- Joseph Lehman
Once the control rods are in, the reactor is losing more energy than it is producing and will eventually cool down. However in many old (e.g. 60's era) designs including Chernobyl and Fukushima, the reactor is losing that heat via active water cooling. If you turn off those heat pumps, then the core is still energy-positive even with rods inserted.

In Chernobyl the core literally blew up, so it's a different situation. But in Fukushima the pumps lost power and so even though the control rods were fully inserted, there was a real risk it might get hot enough to melt down anyway. That was thankfully avoided.
How does bad algorithms relate to size?
In zsh at least, you can do also do:

echo $((expression))

It will treat values as integers by default I think, so $((1/2)) evaluates to zero. But $((1./2)) treats the 1. as something else, I guess probably a float, and so produces .5.
Reactor designs differ, and they tend to have a large number of emergency backup and contingency plans. Here's a decent overview for a typical reactor: https://interestingengineering.com/nuclear-meltdown-what-wou... (scroll down to "Preventing a nuclear meltdown").

TL;DR: the control rods slow the reaction, but the fuel rods are still hot, and the space is enclosed (to prevent radioactive material from casually escaping) so it gets hotter and hotter without intervention. If the fuel rods get hot enough they start melting, which produces hydrogen, which can explode.
I brought up the 7% raise thing to a friend, apparently Google's solution (not sure if this took place earlier though) was to change their 4 year vesting schedule to a 3 year one. This basically acts like a raise.

So many compensation discussions are hard to get into because of the reliance on adding (sold or unsold) stock as part of total compensation. It's very reasonable for a junior engineer to get a $125-$150k base salary offer these days, but whether their total comp after 1 year pushes that to $300k, let alone if they can get a promotion that adds significantly more stock to push total to $500k the next (noting their first stock is still vesting and contributing), depends so much on the particulars of the company's stock price set by the market and stock grant plans that unless you name names and package specifics people won't believe you. Like it's possible as you say that you get promoted but with no new stock and a paltry raise, yet nevertheless your total comp over the next year goes up to $500k, this can be entirely due to the stock raising. Not very useful in a discussion trying to get at actual salary trajectories that don't depend on market luck.

The job I quit last year (Salesforce, fortune 137) I reached the "Lead" position (roughly equivalent to L5/senior at a place like google, but "Staff" at other places, titles are dumb) but I only ever had two stock grants in the years I was there: one at the beginning, one after reaching "Lead", and the second one was almost insultingly tiny (much smaller than the initial one) and I wasn't phased at all to give up ~70% of it in leaving. So for all my years there my comp was basically dominated by the base salary + the annual % bonus nearly everyone always gets and peaked at a "mere" $200k, stock didn't impact it much. A random mid-stage startup in Utah of all places trying to recruit me was throwing out $200k base as comparison. This sort of experience, especially the lack of significant stock refreshes ever, is pretty common, but there are companies (like Facebook) that give significant annual refreshes not even tied to promotions and can make stories like the GP's not too crazy.

A final factor in making these discussions difficult is that there are a lot of senior+ folks who've stayed with a place for 4+ years and are essentially getting shafted in terms of their earning potential and they don't want to admit that they need to change jobs (or even just leave and come back later) to get a lot more than they currently do, which leads them to dismiss very real likelihoods of newly hired junior or "standard" roles (what do we even call just a plain "software engineer" when so many are either junior or senior) getting as much as they do after stocks are added in.
LTC has a transaction fee of like 2 cents. Where I am locally you can sometimes find people dumping crypto for cash person to person, if you keep an eye out you can get it at cost. Or on an exchange like Kraken buy for spot + 0.25%. Not my fault you buy crypto in literally the most expensive way possible and then pick something like ETH which has some of the worst transaction costs.
I'm actually working on a similar problem right now so I appreciate your comments. What if the data is already in the Python process so I don't have the ability of doing a `group by` at the database level? Should I perform this functionality in the Python code itself, or should I write to another database table and do the `group by` there?

Edit: upon further reflection I think my application is at the tipping point where it needs another database table.
People also say that Wall Street is obsessed with short term profits. Amazon's stock price indicates otherwise. Ditto for Tesla.
I agree. There was a narrative for a long time that was more or less remarking that their profits appeared low, but their investment in growth was exceptionally high. I’m not sure anyone didn’t see what was happening there, though some people doubted their potential for a long time.
"Science progresses one funeral at a time"

I think the string theory guys will stick with it while they can.
On my system, if run with no arguments, bc actually does open up an interactive shell thingy.
In my experience, the stock grant from a promotion is generally 50% higher than the previous level, and base salary is around 15% higher. Given that stock is a majority of comp, a promotion comes pretty close to 1.5x the previous comp.

In another comment, you’ve mentioned that you don’t care about levels.fyi, which is basically saying you don’t care about accurate data. levels.fyi actually underestimates total comp, because they use base + (grant / vesting period) to calculate comp. For high growth tech companies, stock usually grows so comp gets higher naturally over time.
The obvious alternative advice is if you want it to last, keep working at it, keep maintaining it, keep upgrading it. Don't spend a bunch of time on work that is meant to be abandoned, which to me implies that it's not that meaningful. The OP's message has a kernel of general truth in it, but if I interpret it in the context of CS academic research, the much larger problem is that the vast majority of CS projects are published and immediately abandoned.
I feel this so hard.

Can’t wait to hear the tortured justifications of crypto-enthusiasts for this one.
Dorsey is often directionally accurate even if you disagree with his approach, execution and tactics along the way.
As always... There is no way to know it isn't the same person buying and selling all these NFT's to make it look like there is interest in them.

Then as soon as just one person thinks it might be nice to try buying the NFT, all the other people buying and selling go away...
Car theft rings focus on particular make, model, year.
>Again, satire ceases to be such when there is mention of an actual corporate entity that exchanges real money for real unlimited breadsticks.

Satire doesn't stop being satire just because you used the name of a business.

>Or at least, you have to be very careful.

Check out the FAQ on the website for that bit[1].

[1] https://nonfungibleolivegardens.com/
Google's removed all mentions of an Intercept investigation from Search
There's no law that says you can't work two jobs (obviously)

But chances are good that you entered into some form of agreement with your employer that forbids holding another full-time job. You also have NDAs and such agreements that could be argued to be broken if you're working at two companies simultaneously if they have any possible competition with each other.

In practice, a company isn't likely to go after an ex-employee for damages in this case unless there really was a trade secrets violation.

What happens, though, is that the company that realizes the double-work scheme is happening calls up the other company and they both fire the employee. All of the person's managers and coworkers usually hate the person because they were likely sandbagging and pawning work off on coworkers (as is necessary to put in half time at any halfway competent company), so they can't get a decent reference.

Now they're unemployed, without references, and starting over again. Not the end of the world in today's job market, but I expect reference checks for remote work will continue to get much more aggressive to catch situations like this.
Back in the 8-bit days you could roll or shift left and the MSB would move to the carry bit or flag. Then branching was built into instructions like BCS/BCC (branch on carry set or clear).
It can be welding a hot thing to a cold thing, but if you dial in the layer height and print speed, the heat from the hotend is going to partially melt the area being printed on, resulting in a solid bond. Maintaining a heated enclosure and print bed makes this easier, and eliminates all (or almost all) the warps, layering gaps, and pockets.

Slower, smaller layers means more layers and more time per layer. It then becomes a tradeoff of part strength vs print time. Infill selection and parameters let you dial that in after you get layer bonding and temperature set up.

Printing solid transparent filament parts is done this way.

Adding a laser would accomplish the same thing, but would still require slower speeds and the enclosure to prevent warping.
I understood as a joke. Like.... it might be satire might one day convert it something real, but it's unclear to me how a sober analysis by a conventional semi-educated investor (me), would suggest that this actually leads to anything material, at all.

A particularly unwise investor might buy into this, but, then, they might also buy high and sell low. A certain level of sophistication, even for the lay investor, is presumed.
I can hold a tulip bulb and plant it.

It might be insanely overpriced, but at least it’s not completely valueless.

These little bits of code on the other hand . . .
Hijinks & satire akin to Cards Against Humanity in the non-crypto world?
To clarify, $130K didn't go straight to the creators. This is trade volume, including people selling these things to each other.

If someone sells it to themselves (wash trade to fake interest) it would also show up in this number.
All of the Olive Gardens were minted inside an "inner circle" over a few days, before the first news article was published (a few hours after there were none left).

Then the value was pumped up by demand to be part of the meme.

Tale as old as time -- and an easy side hustle.
Any bubble offers the opportunity to make a profit if you get lucky and time it right? (I'm not a crypto-enthusiast, at all)
Third party binary packages are most often installed on Linux like:

tar xzf firefox-99.0.tar.gz ; cd firefox ; ./firefox

Flatpaks and other things are still a novelty and it's not clear it will ever take over the above.
> Stand in a doorway? (Is that a thing? Does it depend on wood Vs brick Vs concrete?)

In earthquake country we don't have brick or unreinforced concrete doorways, for this exact reason. Visiting brits tend to make fun of our flimsy wood-frame buildings. Having actually been under a doorframe in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake, I'll take the wood frame any time ;)
> Where is the cash to come from on that terrible rainy day or when a huge opportunity presents and you need cash.

1. Banks. Their primary customers are businesses.

2. Issuing stock.

3. Getting investment capital from rich people.
which company and when? levels.fyi didn't support the thesis, so obviously I don't care about it.

also, I don't believe in using appreciation of stock as part of comp. were you paid less if you held on to vested RSUs and the stock dropped? no. you just decided not to sell and faced the consequences.

same way I wouldn't count someone taking their entire salary and dumping it into options successfully as "apprecation"
It's because (in the SEC's view) crypto spot markets are highly manipulated but futures markets aren't.
I run several amazon affiliate websites like https://www.hayksaakian.com

Basically we find the top rated products and summarize why people might like them.

It's nothing too fancy, and I got into it mostly to see if I could do it without investing more than 1 day a week into it and outsourcing the rest.

I'm more focused on my main thing right now (marketing agency) so the side project's been pretty stagnant.

It's really not THAT difficult to make $500 per month if you invest your nights and weekends into making it happen.
Another happy user here. Easy to set up, never have any problems.
I mean, as long as you actually are satisfied at the end of the day that doesn’t sound like too much of a problem.

But I think most wouldn’t be.
I was surprised to see Ireland pop up as one of the places with a significant number of connections to one of the honeypots. I’m not a security researcher, but hadn’t heard of Ireland as being a place with a lot of that sort of activity. Is this a well-known thing?
This is right wing propaganda nonsense. Very few people are offended by someone wishing them a Merry Christmas. There is no war on Christmas.
Implied multiplication (with no operator) has a higher precedence than explicit multiplication (with an operator). Most mathematicians see it this way.
Still never going to buy Toyota after this. It’s a symptom that they likely have other bad ideas ready to go.
Yeah, but next year, they will be even more expensive, so I'm sure to be able to sell them and turn a profit.
> If someone is competent enough to sustain 2 jobs, they will also get quickly promoted to 2x their salary if they are working one job.

I've found the opposite is true. If you are extremely competent at your job your manager is motivated to keep you in place because that's what you're good at. It's easier to promote lower-accomplishing people-pleasers because it won't affect _their_ software throughput as much (higher level engineers write less code).
The default behavior to update everything when installing anything is bad UX, and the fact it's hidden behind an environment variable is bad design. The argument behind the behavior is divorced from reality, in my opinion.

It was broken on multiuser systems for a long while, I'm not sure if that's still the case.

The requirement to write your package as some ruby scripts is also a bit of a pain, compared to other package managers where you just need a small config file (if at all).
When they described Olive Garden's food as "delicious" and "Italian", that's where it was obvious satire.

Everything at the Olive Garden comes out of a plastic pouch cooked in boiling water or microwaved. It's a place where you go to sit down and pay to have TV dinners served to you.
How much of this "volume" is simply people buying the NFTs from themselves to launder money?
Fellow European here. Indeed possible but unlikely.

Started working for 43k (Euro) directly out of university. Joined SV startup 2y later with 50% higher salary (60k). Now four four years and one promotion in, almost doubled my salary at 110k.

This is also before considering equity.
>many calculations for electric circuits are easily done using these numbers. String theory is that to the nth degree.

Not really. Imaginary numbers work really well for calculating real physics behaviour, string theory not at all pretty much. Unless n=0 in your analogy.
And that’s a lot of the trick. Folks sell it amongst themselves to create the illusion of demand. Some sucker comes along and buys it, and the trap is sprung.

I wish I was a more unethical person. I feel like I could do really well in this space.
My ex bought a new Subaru last year and I was shocked to find out their remote start system is locked behind a similar subscription service. I worked in car sales for a bit years ago, and I had never seen this before. The models that had the option, only required the key fob, same as same as unlocking your doors.

This is not the direction we want to go. Imagine if it was required the be on the subscription plan to use the remote at all, even to unlock your doors. And if you don’t pay the bill, you have to use the key by hand.
let's just make a new deck of bullshit cards and sell each cardNFT for 1ETH.
I know someone who does something similar from estate sales and has cleared 100k+
That sucks! I'm sure you're aware, but the wasted resources are insane.
Details and co-conspirator list:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/victim-and-witness-assistanc...
Original post, in the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20050316093428/http://ariya.pand...
> I have seen it happen

That's an extraordinary claim. Do you have evidence?
The proof is in the pudding.

Re: negotiating. You negotiate your comp once, it takes 1 hour maybe. Compare that to the effort it takes to maintain a fragile career based on lies.
You’re meaningfully contributing to societal prosperity with your job. These people are not. That’s gotta count for something.
> What employer is pressuring new hires for an explanation on why they haven’t publicly claimed their new relationship status?

I honestly don't care for in-person employees, but it's something I ask remote employees to do for this exact reason.

If a remote employee makes vague excuses for why they must keep their old employer on their LinkedIn, it's worth investigating further.

Fortunately it's usually easy to call up the old company and confirm the person's start and end dates. Companies love to learn that one of their employees has started a new job but hasn't actually quit yet.
They've not got round to action yet?

UK is taking a bit of action: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/22/football/arsenal-socios-a...

https://www.fca.org.uk/publications/policy-statements/ps20-1... / https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/policy/ps20-10.pdf

"We are prohibiting the marketing, distribution and sale in or from the UK to all retail clients, of derivatives and ETNs that reference certain types of unregulated, transferable cryptoassets"
There's nothing for olive garden corporate not to get. They made it clear that all you got was a token that limited in supply to one per olive garden and had a picture of said olive garden with a dynamically generated background. That the token did not imply ownership of the chain or any of the IP.

I Could sell tokens based off streets in a town or literally anything it's just a token.
Regulatory authorities are free to make independent judgements of their own.

The US bans haggis, and the EU bans Mountain Dew, and few people bat an eye.
Incorrect on background checks - there are employment verification services that get quite a lot of data (many companies opt in to sending them payroll data).
> If someone is competent enough to sustain 2 jobs, they will also get quickly promoted to 2x their salary if they are working one job.

I don't know the numbers but in my limited experience, in western Europe, this is just not possible (or very very rare among C level people if any, not mere engineers). A good senior salary (gross) is like 80K Euro/year. As a senior engineer working in Europe, you cannot expect reach 100K Euro easily. Now, thinking that you can go from 80K to 160K just by being an engineer that is "competent enough" is just plain naive. Not even the CTOs are making that around here.
Don't put yourself on the critical path if you can help it. You will be interrupted lots and slow down the rest of the team.

A wrote up a few links to resource I found useful at the start of the year
http://zoenolan.org/blog/2021/02/resources-for-new-managers/
I think this is the best way possible. I operate a Mastodon server. Users can take my moderation policies into account before deciding whether to join. For example, I ban COVID antivaxxers. My users like this. If someone disagrees, there are thousands of other servers they can choose from.

With Mastodon (and other federated systems), each server can cater to its clientele. It doesn’t have to be one size fits all. Want to host alt-right content? Go for it. Other people might not talk to you, but no one will stop you. Want to host BLM content? Go for it. Other people might not talk to you, but no one will stop you. That’s so much better than the centralized model.
I do pretty well out of serverthiefbait.com, despite having built it in a weekend and not touched it for 1+ year...
Ditto for Twitter, where "end all moderation" seems to be working fine. (I am in fact writing that with a straight face, because the day-to-day experience of being on Twitter is very different from what you hear in the headlines.)

Of course, being on a highly moderated site, it's unlikely that a viewpoint like this will seem reasonable to most readers. But it can work.

The problem happens when (like here) the goal is to show people specific things, rather than people choosing their own things. Facebook, I think, doesn't really want people to choose -- the algorithm is basically why their business prints money, and the algorithm has its own optimization agenda.
> Anyways, please don't dismiss my comment. What is Beijing's supposed motive here?

Oh yes, I'll gladly dismiss it: You introduced it with a carefully weasel-worded "a good start would be"... So even if you got an iron-clad motive in reply, you'd just go on quibbling, because it was, after all, "just a start". So: Dismissed!
+1 for umami here too. I have been using it for https://mailsnag.com. It has event tracking feature that I'm looking forward to use.
Because it's just another example of the decade-long trend where the former middle class is being gradually turned into corporate drones priced out of having a family, house ownership, savings or retirement, and all things that were associated with the good old middle class days are being carefully erased under various noble guises.
Any bubble that lasts long enough is a legitimate investment strategy
Show HN: I made a dashboard for Covid in Australia
Heh, just came here to see if anyone else noticed the blurriness of the app on Mac.
I make Mac utilities at https://fadel.io/ and iOS apps (https://podbuddy.app/).

I’m at $4k/month and revenue is growing.

I do iOS consulting as well, but I’m inching closer to going indie full time.
The proven best way to reduce deaths is to remove yourself from the groups with co-morbidites. It appears the past 1.5 years the obese numbers have increased, so many people have chosen to exacerbate rather than reduce the harmful factors.

Lifestyle of eating to death on the couch while watching fear-TV does not increase survivability. Your body, your choice.
Is freeing everyone from the Matrix a good idea
Subaru disabled their telematics system in Massachusetts rather than comply with the state law requiring they give access to independent mechanics. They are incredibly petty.
They have ~15yr of being the official car of people who want to give off that upper middle class aura and moneyed commuters. Not having to seriously compete does crazy things to corporate decision making. This is likely only the tip of the bad idea iceberg.

Edit: You people need to compare MSRPs and check out what adorns the driveways of "nice" places before you tell me Toyota is the people's car.
Author here. I cannot use BSR, because have to execute code for all bits, regardless their value. The range is: the last bit to the first with value 1. It's a non-obvious iteration schema. :)
In Canada Toyota themselves offer Start+ which is long range starter add-on where you get an extra fob. I initially thought the subscription requirement was to give users a reason to keep buying it.