skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Employer 1: Salary only. None of my bonuses or RSUs are included. Bonuses were over half my comp. RSUs were higher than salary at least one year.

Employer 2: Salary and bonus only (large tech co; over half my comp is rsus).

Employer 3: totally wrong.

On the plus side, I now understand why I've occasionally been low-balled and then called a liar when I explain why the offer isn't compelling...
> Nazi doctor

Asperger was never a member of the Nazi party.

I invite everyone here who has stood up against a murderous totalitarian dictatorship at the likely cost of their life to tell us how Asperger should have done better.

> now everything falls under the Autism Spectrum

This is only true in the US. And people who were previously diagnosed as Aspergers retain that diagnosis, even in the US.
This happened to me as well. bunch of random @yahoo addresses (I don't have one of those) and rando phone numbers, none of which were mine. Welp.... who knows wtf they have in there then, I guess.
If you're "borrowing" money from a friend to bump up your income, you're likely going to bump yourself up into a higher tax bracket and end up paying more money in taxes.
I wrote one using the official spec --- it has some very useful flowcharts --- but I do recommend writing a JPEG decoder as a short but possibly open-ended exercise, because the results are very perceptible and fun. GIF isn't hard either, and once you've done those, you can move on to video codecs.
Killing and restarting explorer.exe on Windows 10 is not supported and causes UWP apps to fail to interop with the system afterwards (even apps launched after explorer.exe was terminated).

Go ahead and do it, then try to open a link in the UWP mail app by clicking on it. It doesn’t work for me ever after until I reboot my PC.
That's me. And still in the same loop after several ADHD medications; this makes me think that it's not something that can be solved by a pill.

I hope I can solve this someday. My coping mechanism is to never commit to anything (outside work obligations).
This is something people here either choose to ignore or can't understand. "Cuba has free healthcare" -- at a very high human cost. When the government controls all resources and gets to make all decisions, it's easy to put all that into a free mega med school for the world. The USSR had an impressive space program but people were dirt-poor and oppressed. That said, the famous healthcare system was built during the time the country was being heavily subsidized by the USSR. Today the country is so decapitalized hospitals are in ruins and there is corruption at every level because doctors earn so little.
Ban Embed Codes
Our keyboard gives users a sense of pride and accomplishment when they type at 200 WPM. User testing has revealed that most of our customers can't spell. We are proud to have made autocomplete an integrated hardware solution on our entire line of products.
Has Google Maps got worse in the past few years? It's been jumping streets, giving turn directions that change at the last minute or upset it into recalculating even after the turn for me. I thought it was much better a few years ago.
Uh, or you have allotted hours that you can use and will use? My boss isn’t my mother, they don’t need to know the “real” reason why I’m calling in sick.
The biggest issue was the number of files - it would hang for a bit while walking through the history
Just to add on: an online unfreeze is instant, and all of the major agencies also let you unfreeze for a specified date range (even down to 1 day, I think -- although I usually do 2 or 3 days to cover a second pull if something goes wrong with whatever I'm applying for).

As a side note, if you use the online instant unfreeze, note that at least one of them (I can't remember which) handles timezones extremely poorly, and if the "start" date of your unfreeze has passed in their home timezone, they'll reject the unfreeze with an extremely vague error. You can resubmit using "tomorrow's" date and it will work fine (and be unfrozen immediately).
not all leap of faiths are equal.
> created by a literal Nazi

This is a literal lie.

See the wikipedia article for example.

The fact someone on the internet claimed he was german and a literal nazi is no evidence at all.
Then they will just offer something in the middle and try to talk you into it.

You can always say no.

In some ways you are just setting yourself up for disappointment since if you start at the top of the band there will be no significant raises without a promotion.

It sounds like you're saying starting at 80% of the band so you can enjoy a 25% raise to get to the top is better than just starting at the top. That doesn't make sense though.
Then he shouldn't advise others to "Quit your Job".

It should have been titled "I Quit My Job"
Doesn’t this argument go both ways? Given you have so little time left for actual coding, you should be squeezing every last bit out of it.

Depending of course if your meetings are necessary discussions, or just pointless constraints.
Those answers suck though. I would not consider a human who said them to be intelligent.

For the first one, it’s not that you can’t see, it’s specifically that you will fall and crack your head. An answer that doesn’t mention falling is a bad answer.

Number two, it goes off on temperature and sample sizes which is not germane to the question. The answer should tell a story about causality and instead it goes off on ephemera.

Three is a Wikipedia search, ie Siri can answer this today, and it’s wrong.
> Most people, though, live in a NT-dominated culture where the terms "Aspergers" and "Autism" both carry extremely different connotations.

All the more reason to use "autism" and push people to understand it's dynamic nature.
In practice future salaries are heavily based on current ones because that is what the new employer is de facto negotiating against. Very few people, in my experience, are willing to entertain a new job with a salary much lower than their last one. And very few employers are willing to 'leave money on the table' and offer more than they think they need to close the candidate simply because the candidate thinks they have 'mad skillz'.

If you want to actually get paid more, get two competing offers. Or you can try the strategy of not lying and just telling the new employer, 'I'm not going to tell you my previous salary.' The downside is that this clearly signals to the employer that you weren't making very much before and you are fishing for a big raise.

This kind of goes against conventional wisdom, but I actually don't think that switching jobs is the strongest time to ask for more money. I think it's after you have gotten into a role, are killing it, and adding crazy value to the company. That's when you actually have a lot of leverage to say 'hey, I love what I'm doing here and I should be paid a lot more'.
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> the term is literally named after a Nazi

Asperger was literally never a member of the Nazi party. So what you said it literally a lie.
WhatsApp just downloaded 12k photos of other people's information on my phone
Amazon Engineer to ML Scientist: notes on a 2-year journey of growth
While Firefox's JS usage is more ingrained and near to its core, GNOME's and KDE's JS usage is nowhere as deep. They both use JS (and QML in KDE's case) as strict scripting engines, which directly bind to C++ codebase underneath.

GNOME's JS introspection libraries are even "autogenerated" from the source and header files.

I played with both, and the weight the JS parts are lifting are pretty minimal. All the stuff is done by the C++ parts underneath.

It's like using TensorFlow, SciPy or a similar C backed library and telling that you use Python for computation. Same thing.

At the end of the day, any Electron app I use (I use TiddlyDesktop for example) is using more RAM and CPU, and bogging down both considerably more w.r.t. Firefox, KDE or Eclipse. When a simple application which has a very optimized C++ core is using more resources to show a simple web page and manipulate it is using comparable resources to my IDE or primary browser, there's something very wrong.
Ok, so someone above already cited how "Aspergers" is a literal, direct reference to a Nazi. My burden of proof is covered, now you have the claim and must prove it. Go on :)
a) Lots of people consider their salary quite private/personal. Equifax are, in the eyes of myself and many others, a pretty awful company, AND proven to be terrible at data security. Them hoovering up all sorts of private data that nobody wants them to have, and then selling it off, is gross

b) A potential new employer knowing your current/previous salary is bad for your negotiating position, not good
If people are upset their employers are selling this information to Equifax, you know it would be a fantastic thing that an organized bargaining unit of all your fellow coworkers could demand your employer cease. Might be time to start talking to coworkers about this and many other things that upset you about your employer.
Yes, I peeled myself out of bed to leetcode and got back into full time. It wasn't fun.

I was pretty confident I could get back in, that was the safety net that let me walk out of a job with nowhere to land.

Honestly didn't imagine I'd use it, and I don't love it. But it beats the alternative right now. My entitlement was through the roof :) I'm more grounded now.
> actual German Nazi

Asperger was Austrian.
Asperger was never a member of the Nazi party.

Impressive to make 2 errors in 3 words.
2030 and Equifax “uses the latest blockchain data” in their composite score sold to HR customers. A blockchain-based system doesn’t have enough centralized database control to appeal to Equifax.
As a linux admin java launch options drive me absolutely crazy. In the process list a lot of normal, easily understood things, and then a 400 char list of -XX -Xms -Xmx overly verbose randomness. Don't get me started on how it's also always the java apps that have mem leaks and eat way more than intended mem. I don't have time to do your heap dumps for you devs!
In Colorado, employers are not allowed to prevent people from discussing compensation with coworkers and they can't retaliate if they do.

I'm working for a DAO and our salaries are public because governance had to approve the budget and all the transactions are on the public blockchain. It's refreshing to that level of transparency not to mention it forces us to have fair compensation.
The author is Wolf Tivy, a cofounder of Palladium Magazine. Palladium Magazine is funded by Peter Thiel. The other cofounder of Palladium is Jonah Bennett; he now works at a stealth web3 startup and he says on his website he’s a political moderate. However, he also used to work at Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller and pal around with white nationalists and neoreactionaries. He resigned from Palladium after those ties and several hateful emails came to light: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/03/04/emails-reveal...
Must be recent decision. I was at Stripe last year. They have a ton of Ruby. They were full throttle investing in Ruby.

And yes, Sorbet is magical. They’ve taken good ideas from typesystems such as Typescript including the tooling for code completion, inference and refactoring.

Sorbet truly brought joy to my lift.

Although Ruby is way too dynamic for my liking. Many ways you can shoot yourself with it.
Before you bring out a snappy "Will not work", try to think about exactly it won't work for, and if you're making unwarranted assumptions about the goal. Just a few seconds would have helped.
a favor? how so
My favorite programming language remains Pascal, I wonder that that says about me? I've been described as slow but reliable.
This article resonates with me quite a lot especially after two years of repeated lock downs and travel restrictions, I reflected on my purpose more than ever during this period.

I came to realize that the most valuable possession I have is my time, that life is exceedingly short and that we can only really dedicate ourselves to one project at a time.

So, I reduced my hours down as a swdev to a handful of days every few weeks to pay the bills and maintain a humble quality of life and began building my own project relating to electronic music instruments.

The result is that I've become a much better engineer, learning embedded Rust, circuit and PCB design. These are skills I could never have learnt in my siloed web-development job, despite the pay being very reasonable.

But most importantly I am happier, less stressed, feel more connected and confident I'm building a vision for my own future that I can see myself doing into old age.

And I'm happy to announce that my first Eurorack instrument is in its final stages, it may not be an immediate financial success but life isn't about avoiding perceived failures, its about having a great time and pushing your own self-imposed limitations.

At the end of the day everyones path through this world is different, we all come from different backgrounds and we all face different obstacles and challenges, its important to stay true to whatever is true for you. Just don't accept a pay-check because society tells you to.
Not sure if you lurked much before creating an account. This is not my first account - I've been here since 2014. HN took a strong left turn a couple years ago. Before that it leaned more tech, and before that more founder/entrepreneurial. If I had to guess, it comes from this change in user distribution as HN is a decent way to keep a pulse on tech and IC's simply have more labor concerns.

(this is a weakly held take. just spitballing)
Your employer sold the data to equifax. There's no law that makes your income a secret. I agree it's ridiculous.
Their customers are happy. And that means Congress is kept happy.
You are not their customer and Congress doesn't care if you are happy.
Do the old scarface quits his job...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0aF9kSLpeY
I don't go to McDonalds much anymore, but if I ever detect that I'm talking to a machine I will just drive away. I don't use the order kiosks either, because they take 5x as long as just telling a person that I want a Big Mac, fries, and a medium Coke. I can say that faster than I can even get to step 1 on the kiosk.
First Grichka Bogdanoff, then Igor Bogdanoff, and now Peter Bogdanovich. Is the grim reaper slicing through his celeb list alphabetically?
My guess is because it was not a counter-point to what the previous poster wrote. Although what they wrote does not exactly address the comment being replied to either.
It's not at all clear that this can't be measured, tested, or replicated.

Also, scientists are human - they are allowed to have opinions and ideas that aren't yet backed by evidence, as long as they do not present them as scientific ideas. Science isn't a religion where you take some sort of oath.
Neoreactionary IDW cult, but gussied up as respectable long from journalism. It’s worth doing research about Palladium.
> In Colorado, employers are not allowed to prevent people from discussing compensation with coworkers and they can't retaliate if they do.

That's the case across the entire US. The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 protects workers' rights to discuss working conditions, including compensation, on company time or off.
Pretty sure Google needs your SSN to be employed at the company. Whole I-9 form, withholding taxes, giving you a W2 and all that jazz...
> Are there any conspiracy theories you don't believe

I don’t like words like “believe” that imply a reliance on faith. I seek truth through evidence and my goal is to filter signal from noise.

> Does it strike you as a bit suspect to rely on a mutations/time period, and completely ignore the number of infections?

I’m far from a virologist, but I think OP’s postulation around mutation frequency is a bit more subtle than simply N / time.

See Exhibit [7.7] for example, which makes it visually clear just how distinct omicron is from any other variant. I’m not qualified to speculate beyond this, but it seems OP is saying a bit more than “there are a lot of mutations” – indeed, he spends multiple sections disambiguating the evidence of pure volume of mutations from that of phylogenetic distance. Still, you may have a point — maybe it only takes one mutation into a new dominant “clade” to produce such distinction, with any subsequent mutation being of little surprise given the prevalence established by the first one.

> It's a workday and I'm busy

On this we can agree.

[7.7] https://i0.wp.com/theethicalskeptic.com/wp-content/uploads/2...
5. Unlimited PTO
> Why misdirect from the real issue just to rally an internet mob in your favor?

Because what you described worked? They got customer service from two higher ups at Twilio who cared way more about the internet mob than literally everything else happening at their $42,000,000,000 company that is teetering on a confidence crisis based on share price trends, or the multiples that investors are willing to accept from this management team.
Those people were not speaking candidly due to being observed or fear of being reported. Also, they are not allowed to leave the country and can, along with their extended family, receive harsh punishments for things that would be considered unjust in much of the world. Prison is a fair description.
If I was conducting the interview "yes", If my less knowledgable coworkers who settled on irrelevant puzzles as a lowest-common denominator then "no".
I wouldn't frame it like that because now you're bargaining over what percent Y you deserve over your old salary--they are always going to try to push that down. Frame it as, "an engineer with my skills in this market is worth $Y, let's close this deal now". Remember they have a budget for how much they can spend for a position and you're trying to put yourself into that bucket.
Indeed. But the old debian and the new debian images may have a common layer.
It's massive collusion by companies on a country wide scale.
Congrats, you got me there.
I was nodding along until i reached:

>Yes, even the bane of Darwin’s faith—the humble ichneumon wasp that lays its maggots inside the living bodies of caterpillars to eat them from the inside and burst out on maturity like some alien xenomorph—is a beautiful creature with a sacred task. Like many parasites, its role in the great chain of being is to test the health and defenses of its caterpillar host population. Its predation weeds out the sickly, preventing the much uglier injustice of collective weakness and disease, and spurring the evolution of stronger and even more beautiful life. Even fearsome Nemesis, born from chaos via night and darkness, is ultimately the hand of God and the minister of justice. Even the supposed exceptions to justice prove its rule.

Which sounds like a self-indulgent justification to hurt others for your own gain while still being able to sleep at night.
It’s hilarious that companies try to stop you from discussing your salary but at the same time they will give it away for free to a shady company.
A good workaround is "reader mode", makes it perfectly readable on a mobile device.
> If you verify with tax returns, it would be easy to borrow money from a friend and count it as income every year just for loan qualification.

1) Where do I make friends with people who have such large piles of cash laying around they're willing to front me stacks large enough so I can lie and claim it as income on my taxes to inflate the size of the loan I can get? Multiple years in a row?

2) Once I claim it as income, I owe about a third of it to the federal and state governments in the form of.. income tax. Is my friend okay with only getting about 70% of each loan back after each tax season?

I mean, if my rich friend loans me $100K each year, after three years (the number of tax returns I had to show for my last mortgage), He'll have lost about $90K on the deal... wouldn't have just been easier for him to gift me the $90K the first year and I could put it towards my house and then not needed such a large loan in the first place? It'd have saved us all three years of hassle.
DAO raises $10.4M in 48 hrs selling NFTs; plans to buy a golf course
Yup. I don't really get why car manufacturers try to "differentiate" themselves with navigation and apps of their own. I mostly just want it to be a dumb screen that my phone can display on.

I have a Honda from 2004 with a navigation system. The last map update was in 2014. And that update was done by replacing a DVD, of all things, in the trunk. Granted, smartphones weren't a thing back in 2004, so I can't blame car manufacturers for not foreseeing this sort of thing. But nowadays there's no excuse.
Crypto is such a unique and compelling idea that it's not going anywhere. There will definitely be bumps along the way, but those are because of implementation issues.

The only thing that can kill it is legislation.
> allistics are the exception?

Actually this seems unlikely given the sequence of evolution. But...

Here is a spoof of Allistic Spectrum Disorder imagined as if it affected a small minority of people (trigger warning for those obsessed with status).

From [nonexistent] DSM-VI: Hyper-Social (Allistic) Spectrum Disorder

HSSD is a syndrome in which there is an over-focus on social phenomena at the expense of other aspects of the world. Contrast with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, which is in many ways the opposite.

Diagnosis: Any 5 of the following are present:

Inability to express self clearly; use of ambiguous and vague language; discomfort with clear language

Obsessive interest in knowing personal details of acquaintances or strangers e.g. celebrities, or even fictional characters

Unfounded belief in being able to read other people's minds, in particular to know if someone is lying or not.

Difficulty in thinking in a systematic logical way, e.g. to do math or program computers

Tendency to try to bend and stretch rules for no obvious reason. Discomfort with accurately following instructions and processes.

Forms beliefs based on the opinions of others rather than on facts and evidence
Tendency to affiliate with groups and to align all opinions to the group

Frequently lies, mostly for social convenience (studies suggest 3-5 times a day)

Preoccupied with social status and “looking the part”

Focus on status symbols, and symbols of virtue and group affiliation

Focus on appearances more than underlying reality

Intolerance of diversity of opinion

Intolerance towards people who do not have HSSD

Spends large amounts of time on shallow “social” activities with little actual content. May lead to destructive activities such as substance abuse e.g. alcohol, and over-eating.

Lack of interest in mastering difficult, especially technical, subjects in depth
Tendency to stare into people's eyes, and to believe that this gives great insight into the other person's mind. Usually unaware that this can create discomfort in the other person.

Tendency to think that staring into people's eyes demonstrates trustworthiness.
Omicron's 'mildness' is an 'evolutionary mistake'
Under the heading Notable People[0], there are a fair number, American McGee and Sidney Rittenberg[1] especially jump out at me, the latter for being the first American citizen to join the CCP and for his work with Bill Gates to break into the Chinese market. Yes, that Bill Gates.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_in_China

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Rittenberg
Oh wow, this is a total outrage. Details have been shared for about 80% of my previous employment, and many of those employers listed details on a per-pay period basis.

They even include my net pay after voluntary deductions, such as 401k!
I feel like the medications can make my "doom loops" even harder to avoid. The stimulants make it easier to hyper focus on one task, and feel even less guilt for ignoring the rest of the world. Executive Dysfunction is killing me
I don't get why companies play such games when paying someone.

Because (some of them) are narcissistic jerks and play games with others on general principle, just to test their mettle. Or to separate the wolves from the sheep, as it were.