skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might also view them as a tacit admission that the value you create is worthless to competitors after a year (or whatever the period is).

Either way, they make little sense for the vast majority of non-C-level employees. Employers should be bidding on the employee's knowledge and skills, like you say. If it's imperative that the employee not move to the competition, then do the cost-benefit to retain that employee.
Ask HN: What are some of the best APIs ever designed?
Here in Japan, the whole industry colludes as a matter of course. Every company will ask you your current compensation, and then calculate an offer no more than +10%~15%. I'm sure there are exceptions, but that seems to be the widely accepted practice.
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Also some advice

https://www.notion.so/aizatto/Dropping-Me-a-Cold-Message-b46...
I think plain files are great but really I take notes from far too many places and I want to take notes alongside my browsing. Most of what I write is always in response to something but its a response I don't want public. It's a weird zone to be in.

If anyone is looking for a note taking app that's pretty brain dead simple, I made one. This is really more about note taking on websites rather than general note taking. I also like to think by focusing on just the notes and making it feature complete at this point means that it will last for a long time.

https://leftwrite.io

https://leftwrite.io/how-to

One thing I tried to do was make sure everything is exportable and that backups are on you to maintain. This way the data is always in your hands even when its in mine.

Maybe because I'm in the echo chamber but it feels like everyone's looking for some sort of knowledge base system to use. Is this something only devs care about or is everyone on the planet trying to keep their thoughts on hand.
Brits calling the US "the colonies" would be a better comparison.

"The Ukraine" is how the Soviet Union referred to the country when they ruled it. Modern, independent Ukraine does not want this association anymore (and rightfully so).
This is why I switched off of hard mode, after trying it a few times. For me while it was technically harder, it lost some strategic depth and the games became a lot less interesting.
> The people I met at Yale seemed to understand the world and its opportunities in a way that other people didn't. They had a confidence in their ability to shape that world like I'd never seen. My Yale education went far beyond the academic.

I'd love to hear more about this.
I think he means they were created by Russians but people are selective about punishing Russians
Businesses want some leeway to be able to bind high level employees who are most likely to have the industry connections and strategic knowledge to truly beat them using knowledge they gained during their employment.

General population finds the exceptions more palatable when the language can be presented to sound like it’s only binding deca-millionaires.

This language is a compromise solution, so contracting firms like Accenture will attempt to figure out what they can still get away with.
Yes, I was thinking it might run deeper too.

The current insanity going on there is of course a reason in itself.
> Sky accidentally block jQuery, Comcast insert ads into your script, and if you've never experienced this before, drive to an airport and use their wifi.

Sure, in the year of 2010 maybe... With https on almost every website this is hardly an issue now. We need more valid critism, not these outdated incidents to scare people
One of the major assumptions of market economics is a competitive environment. Here is a study on the policy of non-competes from the Office of Economic Policy in the US treasury.

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/226/Non_Compete_Contr...

First I had no idea how prolific non-competes are.

> Non-competes are a central labor market institution, with nearly one fifth of all American workers currently bound by such a contract.

After the policy recommendations, here is the conclusion from that paper.

> Though non-compete contracts can have important social benefits, principally related to the protection of trade secrets, a growing body of evidence suggests that they are frequently used in ways that are inimical to the interests of workers and the broader economy. Enhancing the transparency of non-competes, better aligning them with legitimate social purposes like protection of trade secrets, and instituting minimal worker protections can all help to ensure that non-compete contracts contribute to economic growth without unduly burdening workers.
Summary:
According to an email reviewed by Rolling Stone, Ukraine’s request to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) seeks to revoke domains issued in Russia and shut down primary Domain Name System (DNS) servers in the country — a move that would effectively bar access to Russian internet sites, with the potential of knocking the entire country offline.
And my point is, be more charitable to scientists you think are wrong who are acting in good faith. There is a long history of people like this being right despite the oppression on occasion. You want other things to be studied, go help yourself.
SPARC has been open source since 2005, complete with high quality implementation released in 2006. 64-bit, 8 cores, 32 hyperthreads, rising to 64 by 2007. Simulator also provided.

SPARC was able to run Linux and Solaris, and used by Sun in their servers that powered much of the commercial internet in late 90s and early 2000s (before x86 Linux took over).

There have been a few others since then. So relatively sophisticated open source cores for study and modification have been around for many years by now.

It looks to me like the difference with RISC-V is that a larger community has formed around it due to smart organisation and the timing being right, rather than availability.
> We had back then, and still have, a huge amount of experimental evidence in that field, and no one can explain any of it... so they gave up.

I'm not a physicist, but from the outside, it appears to me the last 10 years have seen a huge leap in understanding the nucleus. See [1]. Or am I misinterpreting that article?

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2020.00379...
Indeed - it's not like linux. It's an ISA spec, not an implemention.

It's more like POSIX or something from that comparison.
This might seem like an old school idea, but may work if all forms of "modern" communication are out of reach. As in you have no access to cellular at all.

Trusted ham radio operators with one time code books, but with some kind of "protocol" upgrade to somehow establish trust. Just thinking off of the top of my head here.
I do exactly this. http://len.falken.directory

Extremely relevant: http://len.falken.directory/misc/writing-for-the-internet-ac...
Another reason cash isn't accepted is usually the money can come from non auto based loans (student loans, home loans, etc.). Loan service companies can't repo a vehicle in these circumstances because it was never collateral in the first place and if the person taking out the loan signs over the car then it can't be part of assets that can be sold to recoup losses. So dealerships have a good reason to refuse cash when loan service companies are the ones that give them kickbacks.
NBC News team kidnapping in Syria (2012)
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Y Combinator has a small ~10 person team that builds all the software that runs YC. We don't hire for this team very often, but we're looking to hire a couple of people now. Several of the people we've hired have come from prior monthly Who's Hiring threads.

This is a great role for somebody who loves startups and is interested in being part of the YC startup community, and wants to own projects from start-to-finish.

It could also be a great role for someone who's interested in doing a startup in the future (though that's certainly not a requirement). If you're interested in getting funded by YC as a founder in the future, but you don't have a startup that's ready for that yet, joining the YC software team could be a great step. Several former software team members are now running YC startups.

We work primarily in Ruby on Rails and React (learning on the job is fine though), and we spend most of our time coding. That said, we encourage everyone to participate in all of YC -- read applications, join our batch talks, help out with Demo Day and speak up on the projects you'd want to work on.

The software team you'd be joining has about ten people with lots of collective years of start-up and big company experience, so you'll get the best of both worlds: moving fast and shipping and strong teammates/mentors to help you learn. About half of us are YC alums and several of us are parents. We're open to people 2+ years out of school or with 10+ years of experience. Lastly, the work-life balance and compensation are great, and you get to work with people across the company.

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https://www.ycombinator.com/careers?ashby_jid=ef00c8d1-76e7-...
To be fair, that is a bit hard to read and some people probably just read it letter by letter in the heat of the moment. Maybe you should have put underscores or hyphens between the words :-).
First Europe is broken, then the global climate, and now physics.
Reality has had a bad week.
> I think I'm gonna call my mom.

Please do that. I used to always backpack around, barely went to her or spent some time, always restless, always on the move, always angry (kinda still am), used to fight with her over little things. Though it seemed she always forgave me, or I just took it for granted. Joined work after college and I kept planning for the vacation I would take her to or the house I’ll help her build, and the gifts, for almost over a year but never actually did it or found time. And one day she was gone.
Working fine on Chrome 98.0.4758.102.
There are few trading firms in California because (i) most trading in the US is done in New York and surrounding areas during New York hours, and (ii) New York is very far from California.

If a trading firm is going to use human traders they would not do it in Cali, because they will have to force their traders to work at uncomfortable hours. If a trading firm is going to use solely computers, they would not do it in California because the time a network signal takes to reach California from New York actually matters in computer based trading.
Leave no doubt that MAD still applies.

That reality remains the one means we have of stopping their nukes.
Session cookies are just a password for the server to lookup the information _on its side_. So when you revoke the server's portion of the session, it no longer exists even though the cookie is "valid".
Rep. bill would allow US citizens to seize yachts, planes of Russian oligarchs
Hmm. My own entropy estimating code suggests a minimum entropy of 17443 bits with a 63 bit word size (I would need to change how I do things to search above 64 bits, which I would like to do and probably will one day). I used this list:

https://gist.github.com/cfreshman/a03ef2cba789d8cf00c08f767e...

Here is the code:

X = fread(fid, sprintf('*ubit%d', nBits));
M = numel(X);
words = double(unique(X))';
binEdges = [words-0.5; words+0.5];
binEdges = unique(binEdges(:));
P = histcounts(X, binEdges) / M;
P(P == 0) = [];
H = -sum(P .* log(P) ./ log(max([nBits, 2]))) / nBits * log2(max([nBits, 2]));
E = H * M * nBits;

This is a textbook entropy implementation and I've been under the impression that you'll never do better than this (for a given word size).
I'm not sure what to believe anymore, honestly. Certainly there has been military action between Kyiv and the separatists. But there's been so much anti-Ukraine propaganda coming out of Russia in the past 8 years, plus what seems to be questionable or incomplete reporting from Western outlets, that it's hard to know where the truth is.

Did the separatist movements start because of Russian agitation, or because of actions the government of Ukraine took? Is Ukraine targeting ethnic Russians in the Donbass region, or are they just attacking separatists, who maybe(?) happen to mostly be ethnic Russians? I'm having a hard time understanding the true history here.
Outskirts of Poland and Russia.

Regarding name change: be careful what you wish for; it may indeed be coming.
I do not in any way post in jest.

Slack is an abomination.

Slack is all the bad organizational behavioral issues of email, except harder to filter with rules & with more sender-side options for creating noise for the recipient.

It's lovely to send a slack and get quick response.

It's a huge productivity killer to get dozens/100s of half-thoughts ad-hoc sent over IMs to individuals and blasted to groups.

Is there a massive production outage? (I care about)

Did someone just share a funny GIF? Is Bob helping Jim debug a firewall issue for a client? (none of which I care about)

I got that stupid red dot, hard to tell without checking.
I have a little knowledge of actual gambling “games” ala video poker etc. They seem to be dominated by large publishers who farm content from a collection of in house & contract “studios.” The studious crank out an entire new game on the order of 12-16 weeks using a single integrated team of development, art assets, marketing and production management. Releasing multiple games varying in assets/branding, but identical mechanics, is a very intentional strategy. Applies to “refrahing” popular older games as well.

History wise I suspect the micro monetized mobile apps trace their origins back to the “social platform” games of the 2000s ala Zynga, and the online “game platforms” of poker, faux-scrabble, etc of the yahoo era.
> Whataboutism would be if they said it's fine for Putin to commit atrocities in Ukraine because the US commits atrocities in various countries. That's not what was pointed out. It was pointed out that the narrative doesn't follow past precedent.

That's just a somewhat deniable -- i.e. more chickenshit -- way of saying the exact same thing.

Ergo: Yes, it's whataboutism.
Yeah, as a Sikh from Delhi, I can confirm that you've read the fairy tale version. Caste is ever present in Sikhism.
How do people then communicate with the Russian people to tell them the truth of what’s going on in Ukraine?
Kinda wish npm gave you a little more info up front, like ‘this package will download # dependencies, do you wish to continue?’
Occam’s razor argument could also be that he’s arrogant and tends to underestimate his enemies. In which case this is all perfectly “rational”. Russia is only a superpower in military might so he chose to use that tool. He thought the sissies in Ukraine wouldn’t fight and the dorks in EU would at most send a sternly worded letter.

It’s probably very very difficult to internalize that half the globe would love to see you dead so various delusions take that truths place instead.
Makes you wonder if removing the patent system would have similar benefits.
There actually exists at least one GPL-licensed GPU core (GPLGPU), but it's based on a 90s PC 3D accelerator that's really just not that good.

I believe the team behind LibreSOC is also working on a 3D processor, but I don't know how far along they are.

However, if a vendor instead ships a decent framebuffer and high-performance vector unit, I think LLVMpipe would not be a problem for most RPi-equivalent use cases, either light desktop use or server use (especially the latter!)
I run a free website, and I consider it my duty to support whatever device the visitor happens to be using. Just like if I had a restaurant or a library, I would build ramps for the less than 1% who need them.
Saving children from a cave wasn't empty promises, it's just a hard problem that actually requires product development and testing in more real environments than SpaceX had easy access to. They did indeed deliver a prototype-level product.
Yes, the ability to prohibit an employee from choosing who to work for, while costing the company nothing at all does indeed lead to worse outcomes for the worker.

Any non-compete clause must come with a requirement to pay that employee to not compete. That will quickly get rid of non-competes that aren't actually their for the purpose of protecting trade secrets.
So Ukraine says "hey, we think we probably want to join NATO". And NATO responds "cool, that sounds good", and... so what? Ukraine is a sovereign nation and should be allowed to ally itself with whatever country or group it wants to. Perhaps Russia should take a hard look at why Ukraine didn't feel that allying with Russia would be in their best interests?
Yes. For me, it solves the problem of more annoying, superfluous HTTP requests on the local network.

There is often a privacy benefit, too, if the request are being used to send data to an entity that supports online advertising. In some cases, not making these requests avoids supporting the practice of unconsented user data collection, telemetry and online advertising.
It's jarring to me how much tptacek's comments are usually very succinct and heavily factual, and this blog is ....long for no reason, very rambling (I don't need biblical references in technical discussions...), and way too emotional to be convincing.

My main takeaway from it that JWTs aren't magical, there's exploit vectors that need to be taken into account, and as any security related thing, you need to do your homework to have a decently secured application.

That's pretty far from "don't use JWT"
https://archive.is/kWex2
You clearly have no idea what it's like to live under a dictatorship.

Well I do sir, I lived under the Islamic Republic of Iran for half my life.

If you think people can just "rise up", protest and overthrow the government, then you are clueless. Dictators will not hesitate to fire live rounds at their own people, they will torture and imprison everyone, cut all communication from outside and spew propaganda 24/7 to keep people in the dark.

Further, you don't even need to look far in history to see what happens if people do indeed "rise up", it happened in Syria [0] with the Arab spring and the civil war has been going on for over a decade now. It has basically turned the country into dust and it has been made inhabitable, if you don't believe me checkout "For Sama" [1]

So no, I don't blame the ordinary Russian civilians. My prayers go out to the people of Ukraine AND Russia right now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9617456/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/3u2QUPuXBEFPaBQXU2R8mJ/When...

I'll edit this with more links later, it's 3am in my TZ atm.
Do Not Use Sha256crypt / Sha512crypt – They're Dangerous (2018)
Because it is easy to do so.

Western media is extremely India phobic and Hindu phobic.

The caste system, as per scriptures, is just a categorization of work that people do. Every one is prescribed their duties and jobs as per caste. However, there are innumerable instances in the scriptures when people have taken up jobs of other castes, as per situation demands.

The discrimination of people based on castes, is an invention of society and its degradation.

However, I often find that an ingrained sense of "my religion is holier than thou" leads to a subtle thread of anti-Hindu outputs.

Some publications are blatant. Some are not.
In most goal-setting advice, Steve Jobs comes to mind, having a reputation for being a finisher is the most valuable attribute.

Employers basically hire staff to get stuff done. The rest is details about specialization, experience, skill-set, etc. All of which is rendered irrelevant if you don't get the jobs you are assigned done.

Re: a PhD -- ideally you should ask the question why you want one is before you start. Cursory research quickly reveals that academia as a career track is very challenging. You don't need a PhD to be a great SWE. A PhD is training to be a researcher and an expert in a specific field.
Depends on how well integrated and power gated those "Unnecessary" features are - it may be of functionally zero cost when running the "same" use case, while allowing significant improvements in newly-accelerated use cases.

If it's loosely integrated (e.g. doesn't need super high bus access) it's not even as if it'll affect stuff like the clock tree or bus complexity much either.
Do you have any of those studies at hand?
You calculated the sum of entropys of each word, not the entropy of the entire word list as a whole (which would be much lower due to the cross-correlation).
What's with the downvotes? Yes there are plenty of green sources of energy, just not sufficient storage to account for ebbs and flows of energy generation.
It's not so complicated though -- for big budget games, the budget has gone up while the box price has been eaten by inflation. People still pay $60 for a game in the midst of 9 figure dev budgets. $60 isn't enough money to make many types of games, leaving publishers with three choices: charge everyone more, charge a bunch of people a little more (dlc, some loot boxes, ads), or charge a handful of people a ton of money (loot box mechanics searching for whales).

When you watch interviews with some of the early doom developers, the level designers could make a level a week. Now levels in Doom Eternal are years long collaborations between a team of people. Content costs have exploded.

There's an identical trend with ios apps btw: an email app in the late 1990s like Eudora cost $100 to $150 with paid updates. Now people expect email apps to cost under $10 with lifetime updates while doing 10x as much.