skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I absolutely understand and sympathize with what you are saying, the issue cannot be analyzed by simply comparing executive pay to that of the lowest paid employees. I know it is popular to make these comparisons, I get it, one gets a sense of righteousness from discussing things in those terms. However, these comparisons make no sense at all.

Wage scales are what they are for a reason. Simple example, in the US an engineer might graduate with somewhere between $100K and $300K US in student loans. That, right there, starts to impose a baseline on what someone can reasonably earn in order for it to be worth it to have that job. Just like a business isn't going to exist to just break even, people tend not to work just to break even. Everyone has to make a profit.

To that you start adding professional and personal necessities and you might quickly realize that $150K a year living in Los Angeles might very well be equivalent to 1/2 or 1/5 of that salary elsewhere in the world.

I'll give you another simple example: It costs my family $1200 per month for healthcare. It used to be $600 per month. Then Obamacare was instituted --under the laughable "Affordable Care Act"-- and our healthcare tripled to $1800 US per month. We eventually moved to a $1200 per month plan where we accept greater risk and higher costs. I did the math, we have to spend somewhere in the order of $25K in a year before our health insurance really starts paying for things.

In other words, context is always important in judging how much people get paid.

An executive that is responsible for managing hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue should make enough money to reflect the degree of responsibility he or she has. If they don't do their job, hundreds of people lose their jobs. You simply can't compare executive pay to that of a warehouse worker who is operating at an entirely different level of responsibility and accountability.

The problem isn't pay scales. The problem is the overall cost structure, which starts at artificially forced costs --be it wages or regulatory-- imposed in complete violation of free market principles.

Here's an example of these costs, something I learned about a couple of decades ago and just astounded me. In Los Angeles County (for those outside the US, the region where the city of Los Angeles is located) we have a tax called "Los Angeles County Business Property Tax". What is this? Well, to put it in simple terms, look around your office. The County of Los Angeles makes businesses pay taxes on everything you see: Your desk, your computer, your printer, fax machine, chair, table, lights, trash can, even any improvements you may have made to your building (dividers, painting, electrical, etc). LA County makes you pay a tax on every physical product the company owns. FOR FUCKING EVER.

This is some of the context that is missed from most of these conversations and the kinds of things only people who have to deal with them would know. As is always the case, life is a complex multivariate problem that is never well represented by a single simple variable.
> where people were trying to coast in on the reputation of their university or by getting an “internship” from their dad’s friend’s company

Critics of the tech interview are certainly not against the merit-based selection --- it's more like the 1.5x engineers fear that the standardised interviews are being abused to allow 1x engineers who are "just-in-for-the-money" to appear as 2x, making their lives harder.

Meanwhile, 10x engineers probably are not bothered by this at all since 2x isn't enough of a threat.
This is what we do as well. We just stub out the 3rd party integration and inject a dynamic configuration to generate whatever type of response we need.
IIRC adware that replaces default search can earn 10-25 USD annually per US/EU user.
Calibre Web – Browsing and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database
I remember playing Robot R&D on these (a later version I think) in 4th grade. You walked a stick-man robot around. It has 3D wireframe graphics.
It has hardly failed.
Ukraine is busy getting stomped.

The end goals and milestones of Russia seem mysterious right now though.
Interesting thought. I wonder if the value of the time in a person's life spent without having their data tracked, sold and used to influence their thought and decisions doesn't increase over time like an investment. So let's say they were not under heavy surveillance and sway from such a system for one year 5 years ago... Could that year away have given them a base formation of better adjusted mental health habits that helps them more today because it happened earlier in life than it would have if they had been free of it for only the past year, after 4 years more of continued privacy and attention degradation? I bet this is especially poignant when neuroplasticity is considered.

Optimistically, this would mean any resistance made today hurts the state-corp alliance hard now, and benefits the human being especially hard later, giving courage to make efforts for the long game.
If your dream job could be in Charleston SC lets chat :)
This is correct. Once you have an industry built around prepping for a test, interview, whatever, the candidates that you end up hiring are those that optimized for the interview. At that point you better be damn sure that interview process is the very best predictor of success for the actual work you need done. Otherwise you end up with a whole lot of the wrong people, who as you put it, can collect a paycheck to get ready for the next round of interviews.

I think what would work better is to get away from leetcode and do more internally developed design and coding exercises that are representations of the kind of things you’d see at that company. Yeah for FAANG type companies who are hiring thousands of engineers per year, maybe you need the leetcode style standardization in order to scale. But for everyone else that cargo culted these processes and doesn’t need to hire 5 engineers per day, it’d be great to step back and actually consider what you want to evaluate for.
The points have been debated ad nauseum on HN. There's really nothing more to say, hence the downvoting.
We're beginning by focusing just on slow-wave oscillations, and we can directly measure the impact we are having on those through the EEG in our headband - what was the response to a stimmed SWO vs a non-stim/sham SWO.

We're starting here because there is a large volume of good research in stimulating SWOs.

Does that answer your question? I've just sent you a Linkedin request if you'd like to discuss further.
Yea that sounds like a nice way to do things. I could see there being security concerns that devs can directly access data streams from their local setup. For places with data controls I could see this being a no-go.

I guess you could have an anonymizer which consumes the production pub-sub and then anonymizes the data for consumption by non-prod environments.
I love this bewildered recounting of what is (or at least used to be) the standard German shopping experience :)

FWIW their "knock-off" brands frequently, but not always, are the same thing as the premium brands. They sell cheaper stuff to ALDI and use a (purposefully bad) design so as not to dilute the brand. This is more common for single-ingredient products like flour or oats than processed food.

And the cashiers at ALDI used to be the best-paid in the sector in the times before barcodes: every ALDI product had a different price, which they knew and punched in extremely quickly. They wouldn't bag anything for you (no supermarket in Germany does), but it tended to go rather fast (too fast for most people to keep up).

I said "used to", above, because they have drastically changed in the last decade, now selling fresh vegetables and occasionally even installing lights in their shops.
4 years is a long time to suffer through inscrutable code.
Which ones were the platforms that could rot and which ones were distracting to you?
I payed for Rocket League quite a while back, as it had Linux support.
But then they removed it. Ofc. I couldn't get my money back from Steam, and admittedly its not their fault but still.
What if the failure lit all the signals in green?
Nothing of importance that Feynman had to "think real hard" about in his adult life could have been studied because the methods did not exist yet.
Should have been called Apple Juice.
I seem to find happiness when I'm not concerned with finding it, and just fully involved in the situation/moment.

Perhaps this is because I don't really pay attention to my happiness level when I'm actually happy, and so can "enjoy" the moment by being fully present.

Yet, I feel my happiness isn't tied to how good or bad the particular situation I find myself in is (as I can't really control that), but more about how I deal with it.

It's almost as if my happiness is tied to my ability to step up to the plate and meet any situation head on.
The problem is, then white queen follows up with checks which eventually also attack the black pawn. Since the black pawn is at a3, there is no immediate threat of queening. If black moves the king away from the pawn, white grabs it. If black keeps the king near the pawn, white forces black king under the pawn, and then moves his king, and black is forced to give up the pawn.

Every continuation is losing for black.
Yep I second this, Django + Heroku or Pythonanywhere if you want easy deployment
> I have spent majority of my adult life operating under the idea that I'm on the spectrum

Has this changed over time? Your opening sentence kind of suggests that it has, but you do not return to this idea. I'm curious what your current opinion is.
Do you want a happy life, or a worthwhile life? I think they're probably correlated, but I don't think you can guarantee one without risking the other. In that light, optimizing for happiness seems like the wrong move.
November of 2021, to be exact. If you want to tag this article, you will have to tag others with (2022) sooner than one might expect.
No but the failure caused a halt to all motor traffic on I5 in both directions which is possibly even more catastrophic than stopping the entire train system.
Makes me think of Lightning McQueen losing the first race in Cars because he refuses to pit to change his tires, then blows them out on the last lap.
- adding "get latest results" option to search queries at https://breezethat.com/. that experience will be similar to HN or reddit where can tab between ongoing queries, for customer or competitor site changes, podcasts, new products, etc., not live yet, DM me at DotDotJames if want to test that when ready

- rebooting a parked domain as a private imgur of sorts to streamline creating content across channels that has a much simpler copy / paste mechanism similar to what github lets you do when adding images to comments in nmarkdown, where it automatically hosts and inserts the ~[](link) of pasted file
How do you "invoke DMCA" on a random spam site? I've only heard it mentioned WRT central authority sites like YouTube, etc.
You know. there really is an argument to be made that UI-related A/B testing on the public really is unethical. Feels really close to experimentation without consent.

I think backend/performance-related testing, opt-in testing, and internal employee A/B rollouts are fine though.
And still they delay Starship because it would make they look bad.
As someone in tech but not (professionally) a developer I have to confess that all my (few) jobs since grad school were of a “know a (senior) guy/gal” persuasion. Haven’t had a really serious interview since the 80s. Hav I optimized salary? Likely not but things have worked OK.

But it’s very “unfair.”
If I may ask: How are you using addons on mobile?

Firefox for android doesn't allow addons and F-droid Fennec doesn't seem to support them either.

The only browser on android that gives me full devtools and addon support is kiwi browser which has it's own skeletons to contend with: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/ppygw1/can_i_...
Fischer Random is a much more rewarding game to play imo. There’s a lot less people playing it though.
There are parallels with the college admissions prep industry that grow deeper every year as the code prep industry gets bigger and the big tech companies dig their heels even deeper into their pattern of contrived algorithm puzzles.

Google/Facebook etc should feel an obligation to deflate this thing.
Well that is just an isolated case. There is simply no evidence to support the baseless conspiracy theory that postal voting results in widespread fraud. This has been well established by the experts and journalists.
There are tools that can perform a diff of your databases and generate a change script. So we just diff local vs staging and capture the changes and check that in along with the code changes. Every change to the database create a schema change record so its easy to apply only the latest changes if they're versioned.
The other side looks like this:

That person gets hired and fits in with the team. The team puts more effort into mentoring because they are friends and you end up with a strong teammate.

Team made of friends tend to level each other up or cover for weak areas.

Teams of strangers need to fit in socially.

Relationships level teams up quicker so if you are hiring every 6 months gets friends if you are hiring every 10 years it matters less.
The choice part comes in that people choose to buy/rent into an HOA - they don’t just spring up on you unannounced
> Men on average work

Just to be clear, the above discussion is not about median wages between genders, it is about median wages between genders for similar job experience and job titles. The former is a 17% difference in wages and is related to men and women choosing different types of jobs that have differences in pays while the latter is a discussion about differences in pay for similar work. There are different decisions that women make in a job, but that doesn't explain everything. Hence the "no smoking gun" argument that keeps being said.
It's a good thing reality doesn't exist, and there is no such thing as truth!
In all likelihood it was exfiltrating data or setting up a C2
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Unraid is frustrating. Its good at making a dead simple nas and offers enough customizations with the "community apps" that you are stepping into the world of mixing NAS with a linux server. No docker compose support is maddening. Using the UI to customize docker apps absolutely blows. Every thing that you should be able to do requires 3rd party plugins. Ie you "can" do docker compose with a 3rd party plugin. You "can" do zfs if you get a third party plugin. You "can" mount drives outside the array with a plugin.

I gave up after the RC update bricked my flashdrive and support told me well your flash drive was just bad and well its your fault you didnt backup.

Im now on Proxmox + ZFS + VMs and I couldnt be happier.
The Investment Theory in Product Management
When we talk about the market, we have often heard about the transactional nature of exchanges between buyers and sellers. The sellers could be companies or individuals and the buyers could again be companies or individuals. In the last 300 years of micro economics we have often perceived the nature of exchanges between buyers and sellers to be transactional but as it turns out it's an investment that each party is making till entropy rips either apart. In product management too, we tend to treat these exchanges as one dimensional transactions but the day we start viewing them as an investment ,each is making in each other to succeed, is the day the game will shift from competing with the competition to ways to make perfect investment in generating more per capita outcome for a customer through products or services. The Job Theory has already established what the value of a product really means. The investment theory would go a step further to explain how this investment on both ends will eliminate the system of competition and give rise to value providers or operators who can make better investment in their customers and in turn will have their customers make better investment in themselves.
If you’re doing an emailed TOTP, you might as well do a “magic link” at that point. I dislike both (prefer a secure TOTP app), but here one offers a better UX over the other.
Plenty of people are also brilliant and don't go on to become Feynman.
Alternatively, what’s wrong with just accepting that there is no meaning to our existence..? Why not laugh at the absurdity of it all instead? Don’t worry about this or that, just be…
Cool! Would love to chat with you :)
UAC is generally quite easy to bypass and not a real security boundary.
A shocking thing for me is that if you're an American living abroad registered to vote in California you're allowed to vote by email (well technically fax, but there's a DoD email alias you can send your scanned ballot PDF to and someone will print it out and fax it, which counts). Oh, and if you vote any ballot this way other than a write-in for federal offices you might also get a residency audit and have to pay California's personal income tax (which doesn't recognize any US tax treaties). You're not allowed to vote by fax or email if you don't have a non-US address.
Bitter? Not at all. There are some good teachers deserving of thanks. Some I was fortunate to have as a teacher. But I am cynical of an industry that demands 6 figure salaries along with no accountability. Where teachers are rewarded for length of service and educational attainment, not success in educating the students.

Want to improve education for the kids?

Give teachers a base salary, plus $X for every student of theirs that meets grade standards at the end of the school year.

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A long time ago, the company I was working for hired a team of 6 or 7 older contractors to do a special job for IBM. They completed it on time, under budget, and IBM was completely satisfied. They also each received a $10,000 bonus for meeting those conditions (a lot of money in those days). I asked them if the bonus had any relationship with meeting that goal, and they were offended, saying they were professionals and gave it their best regardless.

Haha, I didn't buy that. Do you?

Remember that earthquake in LA where a freeway interchange collapsed? They offered the contractor $1,000,000 for each day ahead of schedule the reconstruction was finished. I don't recall the exact details, but they finished it months ahead of schedule.

Money talks. Want results? Pay for results.
I think the term originated out of bodybuilding communities and is used in a humorous/self-deprecating way to label those "just trust me, bro" types of arguments. It's a bit weird seeing it used as a general term to refer to pseudo-science, but it feels appropriate under the original context.
I remember working on a project with endless exception class hierarchies - that was a monumental pain when trying to diagnose what led to an exception.

In a subsequent project we banned subclassing of exceptions.
Heat pump dryers don't exhaust air to the outside, which saves a lot of energy relative to what is pulled from the house.

(The water is either collected in a container or goes down a drain)

For modern top loading washers, the final temperature of the water is restricted by limiting the hot water let in, they don't have a heater.
My guess for the attacker : conti ransomware group. They've been pretty active since Ukraine war. Last weekend they targeted the central bank of Tunisia
I wonder how good it would look at 320x240 and 16-bit color.
What programming specifically was used? Most of these "news" networks include a lot of opinion pieces.
The government made extra payments to their typical supporters like pensioners and rural areas. Economically strong regions and younger professionals pay the bill and are free to vote against, but they remain a minority.
I used to work on the open source Marathon port and I have to say, I regret us making it high-res bilinear OpenGL just because we could. In the end the effect was to make everything look unbalanced and blurry because the geometry and textures weren't meant to be scaled up so much.

Obviously very different, but Return of the Obra Dinn struck me as a modern game that actually manages to look "low res" in a resolution scalable way.
Do you have any sources to get an overview of these? Curious to learn about them.
I'm curious if there is any actual advantage to this leetcode style of interview. It is nice that it helps people without degrees get a fair shake, but does it actually correlate with success in the job? I have always favored the assignment style of interview since it gives me a chance to show that I can actually build a fully functioning piece of software that we can discuss, as opposed to solving a little brainteaser problem.
Facebook also managed to lock themselves out of their own network for how many hours again? :P
Very well put - participating in the prep industry is a completely rational decision.

Context: I work at a FAANG

Interviews and hiring at big companies aren’t perfect, but they never will be. Any type of evaluation or test will at best be a proxy for the thing you want to ultimately measure: true performance in the role being interviewed for.

I don’t think it’s any company’s place to discourage the interview prep industry. Those who are most determined will seek out resources to increase their chances of interview success.

The big downside to the prep industry is that, wherever the cost is high, it lead to greater inequality. Not everyone can effort practise interviews and paid online courses.

One positive step I have seen recruiters at Apple, Facebook, and my own employer do is to share free 3rd party resources to help with interview prep. Candidates may not be aware that there are free, high quality sources. These being unofficial endorsed by recruiters helps candidates avoid some of the scammier sites.
Hibiki HTML – The front-end framework for back-end engineers (Console interview)
Technical breakthroughs don't seem correlated to enjoyment, at least not in the short term. My favourite game still has 700 AD graphics and no sound effects, at least until someone blunders.
> Well just tried it. Edge > opened Bing > "Firefox" > Click on first Firefox hit > Download. And nothing like that happened. No pop up or nothing. And I'm using a Windows 10 PC with an MS account logged in for Office365 + Gamepass

Mozilla was caught "studying" (read, spying) on a tiny portion of its user-base who have explicitly opted out of telemetry. The fact that most weren't spied upon doesn't mean that it didn't happen.

This is what I don't like about people who make misinformed statements on HN.
I don't agree with "hiring a friend" but I can certainly say that nothing has higher signal value than previous coworking experience with someone. The validated network of your current high performers is the best place to look for more.
It says they "merge into the main branch" and it will be immediately deployed to production presumably via CI/CD system that detects code changes and does the necessary dirty dance.
like the site + graphics. it's a really hard problem.

we've committed to making our search engine site at breezethat.com as minimal as possible -- hand-coded HTML, etc. and even now it's still too big -- one big next step is creating a boostrap & fontawesome subset package which should reduce our total asset size by 50% or more

we haven't and probably won't minify for a while mostly cuz wholly bootstrapped and it's one layer of potential debugging for which we don't have spare bandwidth

we'll likely switch to images off by default for similar reasons + speed

the most striking thing is when going to regular sites and running into all the bloat; working on a separate extension people can use to mitigate that and also better set options-per-site in general.