skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The first thing I do at the start of every interview conversation is ask comp. I then tell them my total comp and ask for X% over."

First, no good team will hire someone that does this, second, this is not a good negotiation tactic at all.

On the former: definitely it's prudent for both sides to be 'in range' or else it's all pointless, but that should be sorted out before the interview process - just the range.

Anyone wanting to talk about salaries up front is not going to make it past that part of the conversation for any decent group. It's the last part, not the first part, for so many reasons not the least of which is trying to put a number on something wherein fit, value etc. has not been established, and more obviously a concern over motivations etc..

As for the later, i.e. 'why it's a bad negotiating tactic' ... because it's not just about Supply, it's about Demand as well.

You may be overstating or understating your position by quite a lot thereby rending moot a real opportunity for exchange of value.

You may have some kind of special skills they really need, and some advanced insight. They might also be in a very profitable position. They might be happy to pay you much more. Alternatively, you may have little to offer, they might be cash constrained etc..

For equity again, they might be offering you a sweet deal, above industry norms, in which case asking for 2-4x just seems aggressive or uninformed.

But really, both of those things combined are bad: anyone wanting to talk comp details before demonstrating value, commitment, professionalism and the incidentals like curiosity/intelligence ... as an employee that's 'really bad signal'. If you're hiring someone you know to be a competent contractor, the scope of the job is established - fine - but that's rarely the case.

YC doesn't publish comp because it's probably not very helpful, the range would have to be wide, and they probably want people who want to be there, the comp distracts a bit from that. That said, I wonder if there were a sea change on that custom if would all be better off.
Iris classification... House Price prediction. in other words the scikit learn examples
Also from the guidelines:

>You may quote the guidelines in an attempt to scold other users, but be advised that it's something only losers do.
FingerPy is a algorithm to measure heartbeat using a video of the user's finger
The more interesting solutions oriented stuff is in the second part of the article.

> A sensible society, he argues, would have taxed the hell out of big cars, big homes and frequent travellers decades ago, but there is a shortage of common sense and yes, it has something to do with supply chains.

The dull solution is that inefficient, heavily CO2 emitting stuff should be carbon taxed, and carbon tariffed. (read: big inefficient homes and cars)

The solutions have been with us this whole time. If we went back to 19th century urban planning and transportation solutions, compact cities, apartments, bicycles and trains, we'd massively cut our CO2 emissions while having no real negative impact on our standard of living.
I get the technical reasoning, but as a policy it makes no sense because the pirates are getting 4K anyway, and a paying customer is getting a degraded experience.
The fundamentals of actuarial science: probability, time-value of money, and tail-risk have absolutely benefited me. I do gripe that much of the material is out-dated. I sat for all my exams within the past 15 years and (for example) we had a lot of option pricing models that have been archaic since the 90's and no machine learning (material has been updated with ML, but it constantly feels a couple decades behind).
Yep, it binds history search to key up and key down. Start typing a command, press up or down and it will scroll through matching completions from history
I'm not sure I understand? These examples all use the Fargate compute layer and are deployed as a Task which colocates both containers on the same hardware, so there's no cross-machine factors to contend with.
> would lie 50% of the time

If only we could go back to such simpler times.
>I never understand what pushes people to download Netflix/Disney media and share it on torrent sites.

The challenge, kindness, compassion and the joy of sharing all come to mind.

I also wouldn’t be surprised if there aren’t a few state funded groups that do it for lulz.
I teach my kids to buy less, reuse as much as possible (like keeping the glass jars to make pickles, etc).

Fix up old furniture instead of buying new ones.

Eventually you'll learn to build an emotional attachment to things and value reliable old stuff that you've improved over time. Its a good thing.
There are two tricks I know of to generative art, which, as it happens, also apply to manually crafted art.

With all things in pattern recognition this principle holds: if the proportions are like a thing you recognize, it maps to that thing symbolically. That could be physical proportion, range of pitch or rhythm, or otherwise. And that means that deconstructing a reference into a sample set of proportions is a useful way to create organic elements and reduce the "cold" of being strictly mathematical. To accomplish, for example, fantasy creature drawings is primarily a matter of reconstructing familiar creatures with new proportions and body plans - it's an art of remixing a stew of influences to create something new, and the methods can be fairly direct(a "photobash and trace" approach will take you to a mostly complete image, though it might be lacking in anatomical understanding). With {Shan, Shui}* the original sample set has a more direct and obvious source; what is interesting is the method of reconstruction. ML is very popular as a reconstruction tool now, but it's a big and unwieldy cannon. Collecting smaller algorithms together is a more intricate exercise but gives a lot more targeted intent to the result.

The second necessary element is chaotic behavior. Randomness is often applied instead of chaos, but we recognize randomness as noise, while we recognize chaos as "a very complex pattern". Hence we tend to see representations of the Mandelbrot set as more beautiful than Perlin noise, because Perlin noise is too random - while it's a believable texture at small scales, it doesn't suggest overall composition. Chaos creates a high depth of engagement in artwork since it mixes anticipation and surprise. It's the moment when you are reading a page-turner novel and need to know what happens next - you might have a rough idea of the plot but be wrong on the details.
What happens when inflation rises to the point people can’t purchase goods effectively? Reduced consumption.

What happens when you lockdown the economy and force people out of the workforce — less production (higher cost of goods).

I agree it’s delusional, but I’m pretty sure they’re doing it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Reset

Of course, the stakeholders will become massively rich.
There's too many people that have less than they want for shrinking consumption to actually happen.
scarcity is a necessary, but insufficient condition for desirability.
Speaking from experience, feeling "depressed" about ones status measured on some scale might not be what is meant by "depression" which often goes way deeper and renders a person unable to do certain things. Simply being unhappy with ones life, that's just not it. At least in my experience.
Who has time to program something like this? To be this good at making software but not employed making it? Or is this teams working in their spare time?
It is true electryifying everything and going green on the grid is important, but do you think that when there’s oil available, no one’s going to use it? You can put laws in the big countries but what about the shady ones?
And the esoteric notation!
Possibly! I wasn't trying to get the highest RPS, rather find a baseline and compare per architecture. I also wrote what I knew how write in a short amount of time. ;)
Both. Countries that have pursued a zero-covid strategy have normal office culture these days.
Overland Park is a part of Johnson County, KS which has a part in the history of segregation in the greater Kansas City area. [0]

[0]: https://shawneemissionpost.com/2020/08/18/johnson-countys-re...
Isn’t it sexist to suggest that women don’t have the agency to allow themselves to be womanized?
Back then, i want to receive a notification directly to my phone whenever "an event" happened on my server. So, i did this :

1. Create a Telegram bot by using BotFather (/newbot), get its HTTP API access token.

2. Invite that bot to a group, make it as a administrator.

3. Invite @RawDataBot to that group. It will tell the group's chat_id.

4. Done. If we want to trigger the notification, just send HTTP GET to https :// api.telegram.org/botBOTTOKEN/sendMessage?chat_id=CHATID&text=URLENCODEDTEXT . Replace BOTTOKEN with your bot's HTTP API access token , CHATID with the group's chat_id, and URLENCODEDTEXT with the notification text body (url encoded).

Thank you for making this open source. At least, by using this, now i can self-host everything without having to rely to Telegram anymore.
The Classic Adventures Solution Archive
> If it were some small college in the middle of nowhere with a 3/3 course load, that would be a very attractive position for some people.

Can't imagine who. Maybe the childless? Or perhaps folks with trust funds.

> I bet when you look into it though, those schools want something like a 5/5 load with min 3 preps. No thank you.

3/3 was available pre-COVID. But the pandemic turbo-charged the MBAification of higher ed.

Today? Maybe you can find 4/4, but the high prep count is real. Oh, and you're definitely the chair at some point before tenure. These are like 50-60 hour weeks if you're doing the job well. Not worth the short summer off (during which you will... sit around in the middle of nowhere and pinch pennies if you happen to have a family)

>> The whole thread descended into pedantry about a multiple when everyone concedes the basic point.

> What else would you expect from a thread that has attracted a bunch of academics? :P

I visibly winced when a dean told me about the unique allure of life immersed in academia ;-D
You'd be surprised how common it is, the largest source of air pollution in the winter in the SF bay area is from people burning wood.
Great comments, though one small nitpick: For Chinese names, the surname goes first, so for "Lee Kuan Yew", his last name is "Lee", not "Yew". He's often abbreviated as "LKY" for locals though.

Interestingly, LKY was known as "Harry Lee" until he became active in politics, upon which he went by "Lee Kuan Yew" to apparently help endear himself to the local Chinese population. He took Mandarin lessons well into his old age as it wasn't the language he spoke at home. I think most of his counterparts overseas knew him as "Harry" (Thatcher, Kissinger, etc) and even his wife called him "Harry" per biographical accounts.

Lee was undoubtedly a product of the British system - an English-educated ethnically Chinese man, straddling both sides in order to navigate those early years.
Knobs to turn on and off the water spouts. Spouts were of varying diameter, so you had to try different holes to find one that fit. The little balls grab the spout so you can turn it.

You can't let any old peasant mess with the water supply.
what gives you the impression that the author of this software isn't employed?
Check the job openings at duckduckgo [0]. They offer 100% remote jobs, their postings include the offered salary for the position and the salaries are location independent (which is insane, imagine doing 150-180k and living in a super cheap place like Guatemala, Croatia or some parts of Spain). I just mention this as a counter example.
[0] https://duckduckgo.com/hiring
I have witnessed number 3 in action. My first programming job introduced pay bands a few years in (it was a young company that grew from small to a few hundred at that point) and word got around about the people who were already earning above the band for their level.

The mood around those who were already above their band went from "yeah they're okay devs" to "wtf, those guys aren't nearly good enough" pretty quickly.

I'm just happy to be one of those that got a good raise to meet the bottom of my payband and not the other way around.
> You can sue the other driver and their insurance will cover them if necessary, but generally you’re only able to be reimbursed up to a certain amount

Well, you are generally (AFAIK, this is true of all US jurisdictions) legally entitled to your full actual damages if the other driver is completely responsible, but they are only required to carry a certain amount of liability insurance (or, alternatively in many cases, bond); beyond that, you are stuck collecting from them individually after securing a judgement, which may be impractical if they simply don't have the assets.
I run https://keygen.sh, a software licensing and distribution API. I built it back in 2016 to scratch my own itch and it grew from there. It’s now my full-time job, sole income source. Still just me.
Shrinking consumption would mean either that developing countries would need to stay in poverty forever, or to somehow find a way to greatly impoverish people in the developed nations that would not lead to widespread rioting.

Additionally, the bulk of world emissions currently comes from developing countries: https://www.cgdev.org/media/developing-countries-are-respons...

So shrinking consumption in developed countries would be far from enough. We'd need to find a way to make China, for instance, accept that they should accept a vast diminution in their living standards in order to satisfy mostly Western activists.

Solutions to climate change based on shrinking consumption or reducing growth in general are political and technical nonstarters. We need to focus on decoupling growth and consumption from resource usage and emissions. Only by developing the technology to do so do we have any hope to mitigate the effects of climate change.
I avoided saying much because, like I said, I'm not expert and don't want to mislead people. But I'm pretty sure laying your cards on the table is the wrong answer.
If a company answers this way, it is likely that you would succeed on a claim under the California Equal Pay Act. This kind of hair splitting doesn't generally go over well.
I do all that but still want my kids to build wealth. Like don’t you want them to retire? Have a better future than you do?
Context for others who may have not read "Compilers" by Aho: it's a great textbook and a wonderful resource to learn about compilers, but I wouldn't call it a "good read". A good read is "The Pragmatic Programmer", for some. The dragon book is raw knowledge and it's filled with proofs.

The content in the dragon book is the equivalent of a two semester course on compilers, and that's with a prof and TA. Ideally, to get the full benefit of reading this book, you need to reserve a year of your free time after 5pm and be ready to build an optimizing compiler.

It's one of those books that requires your full attention for an extended period of time and you come out the other side a stronger developer, only because it didn't kill you with knowledge.

Edit: I realized now you may be saying the 2 chapters (10 and 11) are most likely a good read to learn about optimizations, not that the entire book is a "good read" in general. Makes sense - I'll leave the comment up, with the disclaimer that I'm referring to reading the entire book cover to cover.
> If you simply use Unicode-aware version of "to lowercase" function […]

There's no such thing. What's the lowercase of ‘I’ — ‘i’ or ‘ı’?
OP mentioned that he believes that liberal arts colleges do teach critical thinking. You responded by saying that universities do not teach critical thinking and then you went on to claim that the liberal arts initiative is a "clear demonstrable failure" but I am not really sure what you mean by this. I think you are conflating liberal arts the subject, sometimes used as an umbrella term for the humanities, with liberal arts colleges. Could you explain?

Liberal arts colleges, as OP was referring to, have only awarded 4-5% of all bachelor's degrees conferred on a yearly basis for the last decade[0]. In light of this information, I find it difficult to believe that liberal arts colleges are the source of the problems you claim, considering that the vast majority of bachelor's degree holders went to a non-LAC. It would be strange to look at the entire population of BA/BS recipients, note some lack of critical thinking ability in them, and then focus your energy on the source of only 5% of them.

If you are interested to point fingers at a major source of student debt and a place where "critical thinking skills" are definitely not being taught, consider for-profit colleges as a potential candidate. "For-profit colleges only enroll 10 percent of students but they account for half of all student-loan defaults."[1]

[0]https://www.gettysburg.edu/offices/institutional-analysis/pd...
[1]https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/whos-fault-student-loan-...
That's why reduce and reuse are before it. Recycling is not about emissions and energy. It's about trying to reduce the amount of stuff going into landfills and our environment (like plastics and electronic waste) and trying to reduce how much new material we're stripping out of the earth.
I think comparing people in groups who are competing for glory and promotions to idealistic scientists trying to find the truth of the universe isn't accurate.

Science is a collective endeavor that transcends any group boundaries. The objects of study are simple physical entities. They don't have dreams or goals and cannot be negotiated with.

People in corporations have a strong vested interest in being attached to goals that would help their own careers. People job hop so often it's easily possible that any concern shown for the good of the company isnt sincere. Nobody will come out and say - I built this solution and my promotion depends on it so we just go with this. Anyone savvy will learn to couch their interests in the language of collaboration and solidarity. Repeat this across hundreds of people at many different levels and you have the dysfunction that is typical to any large organization.

The only way to fix this is to work on culture and incentives. And it's a constant work in progress. At scale everything becomes about culture.

Even science isn't free of this hence the saying - "Science advances one funeral at a time".

Eventually this happens to companies too and hence we need a way for companies to die without taking down the world with them. Hence I would say - Capitalism advances one dead company at a time.
Robert (Mouseman) Thompson
Many historical "bullshit jobs" are basically "reward to the metropole from colonial extraction" (how many of Graeber's "bullshit jobs" exist in colonized vs colonizing nations, hm?)

But for this newest iteration of cryptocurrency bullshit, I'm gonna go with "crisis of capital accumulation".
and then remember that's the one you're paying and consider why you do the paying part in the first place
I’ll admit I don’t understand how people can ethically pirate content. I dislike a lot of business models but I just don’t feel right calling them “silly” and looking for ways to take things I know I don’t have the right to take.
To add to what I think have been many other good comments, in my experience the productivity differentials between individuals in the same job can easily be vastly greater than the upper and lower bounds of that job's payscale.

I can recount cases where I've worked with relatively new engineers (a couple years out of college) who were easily 3-4x as productive as some of their peers. Of course, the pay scale for "Software Engineer" usually only has a band width of about 15-20%. Yes, the better programmer would get promoted faster, but still I've nearly always seen that there is more variance in "creative"-type jobs than pay scales will allow.

So for these types of jobs, posting a payscale is nearly always a bad idea, because it can further compress what is already a "too compressed" payscale.
Shrinking consumption would create deflation, which would impact gains which could impact employment.

Any change that affects economy should be taken slowly or else there's no time to prevent negative side-effects.
Seems like it taught you a lot about finance, which is different from economics.
Batchelor Farmer went downhill when the original chef left, years before Covid. Spoon and Stable spelled the end of it what with being a block away and far better. I visit MN a couple times a year from CA, the food scene is strong and getting stronger.
AFAIK, there is only a single country that isn't part of the global economy and thus isn't vulnerable to sanctions, and North Korea doesn't have any oil.

Carbon tariffs are one of those brilliantly awesome ideas that would solve a lot of issues like these.
> Living standards have depreciated sustaintally.

Sounds wrong. By what metric?
Once the big countries seriously start to transition, they’ll need the shady countries to stop benefiting from oil as well. We’ll all end up paying poor countries to not use oil, and embargoing them if they keep it up - and that’ll be a worthy thing to pay for.
Magical acronyms and thinking.
> that was reporting on false intelligence not NYT providing the false info

That’s a pretty amazing get out of jail free card.
Great point! We replied at the same time and I think we’re thinking the same way. :)
The big counterpoint to the coin theories are the ones that have very small holes, if none at all: https://www.historicmysteries.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03...
Love doesn't work when you treat it like a bank note, to be collected by the creditor when due. No one is the debtor, no one is the creditor. If you love your children, you don't do things that cause them to cut you off. Likewise, if you love your parents, you don't cut them off when they they don't do what you want. You forgive.

Every day, you choose to be a part of each other's life, and help each other get through life. How you do that changes through life. Not every child will be successful, self-actualized or achieve anything near their potential. Not every parent will make good choices, be successful, or even be worthy of respect. People mess up. They make mistakes. The way love really works, is you forgive. And keep forgiving. You keep the relationship alive. You celebrate the good, and you sympathize through the bad. The greatest gift a parent can give is loving their child despite it all, and the greatest gift a child can give is loving their parents despite it all.
I currently live in a nice wealthy suburb. The folks who run the place go through great effort to ensure we do *not* have access to public transit.

Public transit attracts people who can’t afford cars. It also allows the “wrong element” to pass through our neighborhood.

Politically, how do you propose forcing public transit into communities that actively campaign against it?
> But guess what, you can still pay the person in Vietnam or India or Belarus or Oman a very strong regional wage and free up cash allowing you to offer a competitive VHCOL salary. There's no realistic reason to pay someone in eastern Europe $400k TC.

In my experience with working with foreign developers, specifically those in eastern Europe, real talent can easily command SF-level compensation from companies that pay SF-level compensation in the US. Employers often get what they pay for when they think that outsourcing means that they'll get equivalent quality work, just with lower costs.
Nice series, thanks.

In day2, the author refactored some "old-school" code[1], I'd say I prefer the old-school version (the new version is less readable to me). Old-school is not out-dated nor in-correct IMO.

[1] https://ibb.co/C0cYbdt