skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Jeebus man. What is it that you FAANG developers do that is so much more complex than what regular developers do?

Nothing, for nearly all of them. Hell, half the time they're not even particularly impressive at executing on the totally-ordinary things they do. The companies just have firehoses that spit out money so can afford to spend more on developers, and choose to do so for a variety of reasons, most of which have nothing to do with how challenging most of the work actually is.

One reason (of several): insanely high comp means everyone (more or less) wants at least some time in a FAANG(-alike) job to bank some money. The flip side is that their hiring process is hellish. Put those together and you have high motivation for people to apply from one side, and a strong disincentive for anyone who's got any amount of doubt in their ability to pass the interview, any reluctance to put in the time to prep for them, or low bullshit-tolerance, or whatever. The result is that practically their entire candidate pool would be good hires (=good enough at the actual job, and willing to jump through hoops), so they don't have to bother figuring out how to spot good (for their purposes) developers, they just keep comp high and interviews unpleasant and time-consuming, and it all sorts itself out.

Combine that with several companies all in similar situations trying to do the same thing, and you get what you see before you WRT developer compensation in a narrow slice of the industry. Except when they collude to keep wages down, which they have done and (speculation) almost certainly are still doing in less-obvious ways.

[EDIT] Just to be clear, some of the work they do is Actually Hard, but that's not unique to FAANG (though it probably is more common there than, say, at your average Web agency or whatever). More of it's not especially hard but is hard to get experience with outside of FAANG (scale-related and fine-tuning stuff mostly, some of which is hard but much of which isn't more difficult than most other development or ops stuff, just different)
I genuinely don't understand why preventing people from doing the most addictive and damaging drugs in public without any help is a conservative standpoint...

Legalising weed, fine, there's an argument to be had, but leaving these unfortunate mentally ill people to kill themselves on public streets is nothing to do with conservatism or liberalism IMO.
OsmAnd is an alternative to Maps.

I don't know what kind of requirement you have that "nothing gets close". My opinion is that Osm is much more useful, but YMMV.
The full in-person loop is 5 60 minute sessions. Maybe another hour for the initial phone screen.
> For anything physical you will always need the legal system as a backup.

Or any trusted third party...
"I will never again assume that just because someone has a ton of money knows anything about they're talking about."

Well, apparently they did know, how to increase their avaiable money.
And this is what matters to most people, not solving real problems.
The problem seems, that those 2 things are not really aligned often.
> you actually have to be close-minded to read this favorably, an open-minded reading would be to consider the "slaves" as people whose rights are being violated

People who agree with you are open-minded. People who don't agree with you are close-minded.
I think you are on target.

IMO it is an attempt at employee retention as well as attracting new talent.

Purely anecdotal on my part, but I've seen post after post on LinkedIn of senior/tenured Amazonians moving on to other roles after five, ten, and even fifteen years. The stock performance has been pretty flat for the last few years, so the TC growth is lagging behind the gains you could get from being a new hire.

Also a base salary cap of $160,000 is really low. Not everyone joining Amazon wants a large portion of potential comp to fluctuate with the whims of the market. This increases the choices for TC configuration. If you wanna have lots of base and a minimal RSU grant, you now have the option.
- Daniel Lemire: https://lemire.me/blog/

- Andrew Lock: https://andrewlock.net/

- Steve Gordon: https://www.stevejgordon.co.uk/

- Scott Helme: https://scotthelme.co.uk/

- Phil Haack: http://haacked.com/
It is produced on the backend, consumed on the client.
Would you trust a guarantee from Google?
It seems in line with competing companies.
Free was always a scam.
I'm glad they expanded accreditation to licensed professionals who don't have 2 million. Before it was too much gatekeeping just on money alone.
Cmd+Shift+N works, when the UI fails.
What a great idea. I feel like this would let you make the choice on an annual basis based on your goals for the year, lifestyle needs, etc.
> But if you still see a huge problem, just get your correct model, back your results with data and enjoy getting the Nobel prize.

The "Nobel prize" for economics isn't a real Nobel prize. It was made up to make economists feel better.

From Wikipedia:

> He explained that "Nobel despised people who cared more about profits than society's well-being", saying that "There is nothing to indicate that he would have wanted such a prize", and that the association with the Nobel prizes is "a PR coup by economists to improve their reputation"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econ...
What is unimpeachable is that jobs that compensate the best can recruit the best. But that compensation isn't merely a cash amount - it also includes public perception about the ethics of the business (which will vary from person to person), expected quality of life while working (including the caliber of coworker you'll be interacting with) and expected interest - all among many other factors.

Monetary compensation is certainly important and, if driven high enough, can account for extremely poor scores in other areas - but most people will tend to be pretty holistic about their job search. If I posted a job with a 700k compensation that was accompanied by constant 24/7 stress and existential dread you'd be surprised how many senior people would pass on that opportunity.
>I need a company to get extremely serious about desktop Linux and charge me $100/yr for something that actually works

Could you briefly describe, what you'd be looking for?
I get contacted by Amazon recruiters multiple times a week. Now that I'm actively looking for a job, I thought I'd give them a chance. It would be good interview practice at the very least. So I take the online assessment and it turns out that one of the questions was a LeetCode Hard. Like... what? Did they want me to fail?
Hedge Fund Managers Are Expensive
I believe Amazon significantly increased their offers last year. FB was one of my other offers and they couldn’t match my top offers after negotiation, so I just declined. That being said, it is possible that a combination of my location (Seattle) and career stage (upper side of Senior level) are at play here.
Is there any compelling reason to limit free speech on social media by the government? There are already laws covering speech limits. Speech limits are myopic in nature, they solve a short term problem by muzzling specific people/views. But, they usually create longer term negative effects that are more difficult to see in the moment.
I think the light moderation style of HN is really great, and one of the reasons this is a space I like to come back to. Since you mention reddit, the vast majority of communities show in great variety and detail the pitfalls of moderation. Moderating a large community is already really difficult with the best of intentions, introducing more and more vague rules is only going to make it harder.

Since you mention politics in particular, it would be close to impossible to define an adequate boundary of what constitutes politics, and what is tech / lifestyle / entertainment; all 3 categories I think could also describe the thread on /r/antiwork.
Could you please name both these books?
The x210 is awesome if you want to get the old ThinkPad feel but modern processor https://www.xyte.ch/mods/x210-x2100/
I mean, as long as you go to work on time, and don't slack off, you've been duly diligent.
The core problem is with TED itself, at least that's the problem the article talks about. TEDx is a sideshow to the real issue, just like the show itself. Entities like Malcolm Gladwell and TED have done a great deal of cultural damage.

IIRC Holmes appeared on TED, not TEDx. There's been plenty of hucksterism associated with the main TED. The concept itself is a bit grifty. It's sugar coated glittering generalities and idea peddling (what if xyz were true?)

If it's truly for entertainment value, there's nothing wrong with TED, but it pretends to be something else. It pretends to be a beacon in society; a marketplace for the hottest new ideas.

When you listen to speakers like Gladwell (who I've heard accurately described as the walking embodiment of a TED talk) they are very convincing with whatever idea they're selling. After you peel beneth the surface you find the evidence is really shaky for what he claims, but he makes it seem like such a sure thing; settled science. In some ways I think he acts as an information distortion/amplification device. He makes claims with certainty no self-respecting scientists would make.

Also, this isn't talked about much, but TED has always been a gathering of the elites. You're literally not invited. I'm somewhat surprised it hasn't showed up in more conspiracies. They've been running these shows in a cult like atmosphere, too. This has never been an accessible program. It's where billionaires go to smooze and decide how to spend their money. You might as well be watching a Goldman Sac's retreat (but this is silicon valley, so it's supposed to be different for some reason)
Completely agree, noise cancelling headphones can be a great improvement to ones life. I got a pair last year and strongly recommend to people who don't have one.
This is not even noteworthy to be termed news. In fact, it would be surprising if some NFT project wasn't a scam on some level.
Google would only do that if Microsoft and maybe some other big free email providers would do it as well.

It would not be for monetization, but to start to tie addresses to well known identities. A coordinated action from the biggest providers.

Addresses like htfan199100@gmail.com (the Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking of the Emirates Investment Bank in Dubai who sent me an email with my public IP as the email subject) would disappear, since paying 20€/year for such a purpose would likely not be lucrative anymore. They'd move to some other shady domains which could easily be blacklisted.
Oculus Quest 2

Buttkicker (used from Amazon) and installed it to my chair with an amp. Now playing games and watching movies has an extra Oomph.

An Ender 3 3d Printer I got years ago and use it everyday (it's even paid for itself selling stuff on Ebay)
The challenge is who "designs" the job to make coal mining more enjoyable in a specialized economy.

In Capitalism, you raise pay until there is incentive to do the work.

In a communist command economy, some authority decides if more coal miners are needed and takes from some people to gives to coal workers until there are enough workers.

In a cashless anarchists society, I guess you hope that someone invents something to improve conditions?
Because the warning is about the payment method, not how tangible the goods are. You can directly add credit cards to the Uber app on iPhone, completely outside the normal Apple payment flow. Apple doesn't require Uber to provide an obnoxious full-page modal warning that is intended to discourage people from adding a credit card to their app.

This kind of double standard reveals the true nature of this warning dialog, which is just retaliation against the app makers who wanted outside payment methods and the regulators who agreed. Otherwise, Apple would have already required Uber to add such a dialog.
I can only speak for myself, but it doesn't feel that uncommon. It probably depends on the kind of business you're working in. I've heard bad things about finance, for one.

Having worked for almost ten years now, I've always been able to take off an hour here and there without having to battle for it or come back with doctor's notes. When I was a contractor I'd generally have to tell someone and make up the time, but even then it was never a huge deal. Where I work now no one cares what I do at all as long as I'm reasonably productive.

Technically your work hours here have to encompass (IIRC) 11-3 I think? Or 9-3? Something like that. So no working third shift, I guess. But it's pretty flexible.
Here it is... This is the latest edition, I used the prior editions

The Complete Sailing Manual Hardcover – Illustrated, June 1, 2021
by Steve Sleight (Author), Ben Ainslie (Foreword)
Yeah, the bundled software for the RCX was pretty awful, and was Windows-only. That's why I used brickOS, which let me write C (or was it C++?) code to run on the RCX, and it also worked on Linux.

The next generation, "NXT", was somewhat better (I believe it's based on LabView), but I remember it being ridiculously slow and unstable on Macs.

One of my kids uses Lego's "SPIKE Prime" at their robotics club, and while I haven't used the software myself, it seems much better.
I have a feeling these things are heavily related to both WiFi (congestion/protocol/support for sleep & awake/distance to AP) and cellular (if enabled), in addition to other usage (like Bluetooth, including distance to host phone). This is also (educated) speculation.
iRedMail stack on a hetzner machine. Migrated mails with getmail and dovecot import, but it isn't perfect, and no calendar etc. But nobody is ever kicking me off a platform again.
His series of posts on Another World and its ports are a solid read.
Very interesting, was looking into Nintendo Switch lately, I just don't do gaming all that often.
Ruining your health is an aspect that I think gets far too little attention. If you're honestly working 16hr days your quality of life is going to absolutely tank and you'll be paying serious interest on the damage you do to your heart, back, eyes and wrists for decades to come.
Anyone know of any alternatives? This honestly doesn’t seem like a hard technical challenge if you’ve got a high quality webcam.
Well, the most basic pro is to avoid indentation and have pure function which are clear and have less assumption to take into account; if I know that my pipes always return me a result such as the one I want, and the "bad path" is discarded automatically, code is way cleaner.

Imagine a code without `if result is not None` basically!
This is a nice step towards paying a living wage.
So it's not broken or fucked up, it just:

- is splintered

- is divided

- is hard to govern

- has an economic structure that encourages division

- has an increasing dive between the haves and have nots
Could some of that simply be because Amazon has always had non-tech competencies?

Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. Those have always been pure tech plays. Amazon started out competing with Barnes and Noble.

But yes, I get what you mean. Companies are very reluctant to change the secret sauce.
This is explicitly true, but also morally wrong. There is absolutely no reason the government should be able to take something from you, and then make you prove that they shouldn't have done so.
Well they have all tried breaking Steam's dominance on PC. The ones that come closest are probably Microsoft (especially with their acquisition of Activision Blizzard) and Epic. Almost all of them still publish on Steam, because they basically have to.

Gog and Funcom are drops in the ocean in comparison.
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My experience with ex-Freescale employees has been a consistent tire fire. If NXP is worse…
TL;DR

The founder of Coupang was one of Christensen's students; the check he put in turned out to be one of the all-time great investments.

Rose Park is flooded with cash and credibility (but under-indexes on access vs. traditional VCs), so they're working hard to get into a lot of deals.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2021/03/15/rose-park...
If the money went anywhere except into the police coffers, the practice would end overnight.
> “Inexplicable.eth” from Sky Labs (an NFT project development company) had emptied Ratz Club’s SOL wallet and transferred everything to another one

How did this happen? The article doesn't give any details.

Have similar projects put safeguards in place to prevent this sort of thing?
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The article is relatively ok though I disagree that not being rational can be attached to individualism. There is one dentece suggesting that. Looks like politics shoehorned into the article.

My opinion is that rationalism can only come from individuals.

Only individuals exist. There is no such thing as a collective brain.
I used Trelby on Linux to write it, then just print to PDF.
Lightform's LFX project is really cool. Unfortunate that the company is shutting down.
Archive ( https://www.archive.org ) has a massive set of ROMs. I just downloaded a 14GB file of them over the weekend.
I'm confused, if the CRT doesn't do anything at runtime except to call main(), how does argv get onto your program's stack? :P

Look, I get what you're saying, but it's not exactly relevant here. Yes, after your C program is loaded, execution follows by just moving the PC to the next instruction in the loaded binary. In C, adding two integers can be compiled down to a concise, machine supported operation; whereas in a language like Python, adding two numbers is a branch-heavy operation that cannot be compiled to a concise instruction ahead of time, so it must be interpreted at runtime. That's true. But that's really more about C being a compiled language than whether or not it has a runtime.

For an example of a runtime-heavy language that can compile highly performant code, see Julia. Thanks to dynamic dispatch, you get the best of both worlds. Yes you pay a heavy upfront cost (TTFP), but it's the same deal with compiling code -- pay once upfront, benefit forever with improved runtime performance.

You used Java as an example of a runtime-heavy language, but I think Java demonstrates why C should be considered as having a runtime, regardless of how small it is. Imagine a hardware Java Processing Unit (JPU), which is a CPU that has Java byte code for machine code [1]. I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to handle all of the stuff the JRE does in the OS, and everything the JVM does in the JPU. Then we could say that Java has no runtime. But really all we've done is taken the runtime and moved it to another place.

You could also imagine a version of C which compiles to CBC (C byte code) and runs on a CVM (C virtual machine), which itself runs on the JPU. You could write C code as usual, but the resulting binary would be compiled to CBC, and would have to run through a number of layers before it is executed on the JPU. Then could we say Java is an inherently fast language, and C is necessarily slower because it has a runtime? Maybe in this strange reality, but it's not necessarily the case. And it certainly has nothing to do with the languages per se, but their implementations on specific hardware/software platforms.

Or to get even crazier with it, we could imagine a version of Java which compiles directly to x86 machine code, because why not? There's no reason that should be slower than C.

Anyway, I think the point is that whether or not one considers a language to have a runtime depends very much on how a language is compiled, what hardware it's targeting, and how much you're able to leverage the OS (there's usually a lot of leverage available when the OS itself is written in the language you're using). So really, all languages have a runtime, it's just a matter of where it's hiding.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor
We're working hard on adding SMP support to Unikraft which is planned for the next release. The PR you have linked has all the details about the on-going work!
>The ads were just plain awesome. Case in point: This 1981 ad featuring a young girl with her Lego creation.

That picture of the girl holding up a lego set is only "AWESOME" for parents. As a kid if I saw that I would barf. First off as a little boy back then... there was no gender equality. All girls were stupid and had cooties and I was a little sexist tyrant.

Second little boys aren't dumb... that blob of a thing made by girl is infinitely less interesting then a space ship designed by a professional adult with a cool color scheme. Case in point I loved the M-tron series: https://imgur.com/a/bK7w8. Of course being a little boy my skills were only good enough to produce that multi colored blob but that doesn't change the fact that I knew what quality was when I saw it.

This article is just an adult projecting his opinion and woke sensibilities onto a kid. That being said yes it's ok for a boy to like doll houses. Perfectly fine, but let's be real, legos are mostly for boys and most boys would prefer dinosaurs over doll houses and any advertising that doesn't target that is advertising that doesn't understand the majority of its target demographic.

My main argument is against the author of the article and their complete blissful ignorance about how kids think. Lego knew their shit though. That photo is an ad targetted towards parents. The M-tron legos had advertising targeted directly towards me when I was a kid, while this article on the other hand is an article targeting parents who don't understand how kids think.
Yes, I am quite privileged. Anybody who’s privileged (most people reading HN fit into this category) and isn’t thinking about the sacrifices they can make today for the good of the future needs to take a good hard look in the mirror.

But like I said, humanity is fucked. The next 200-250 years are going to be unimaginably awful for the descendants of people alive today who can’t imagine their lives being unimaginably awful.

Drive if you want. Live in a big house. Do whatever. It clearly doesn’t matter at this point.
It's a factor one ought to consider - but at the salary ranges that we're typically talking about and at the typical match levels most employers offer, including 401K contributions doesn't change the math much, so it's mostly not counted.

For example, an employer who does a 1:1 match up to the IRS limit would be contributing at most ~$20K to your total comp, but when you're dealing with the rest of the package being in the $500K-1M range it tends to get glossed over.
I'm not sure I agree. In his own words, he had to ship around for a respected authority so that it would be taken seriously.

I don't see how that contradicts the person you are replying to. Ze is saying there is a path to contradicting established science. Ze didn't say that it was easy, or that it didn't involve working with people who are in "the establishment" - just that jumping on podcasts and talk shows and spouting off as an outsider with no credibility isn't the best way.
1. Nice.

2. First time I'm hearing about something called butt kicker. Looks interesting.

3. This is awesome! I was thinking of getting a 3d printer for a while now, I thought that they were much more expensive.