skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone have experience commenting on how total compensation and employee retention is handled when a company's stock becomes volatile? $NFLX has gone from ~679 > ~260 in the span of about 6mo. Anyone who got their RSUs last fall has seen their TC vastly cut, but Netflix is known for paying very well.

My limited experience working at a public company has seen tons of employee turnover, especially in this extremely hot job market. I'm considering shopping around as well, but my TC has been going up through promotions, which relieve the pressure to look around a bit.
This is the key - they're repackaging a bunch of the same exercises with slightly different language. Once you have a collection of the tools they expect you to have (or did, in the 70's!) and can recognize where they're called for, you're good to go. And the set of tools isn't really _that_ expansive, and they're often very old school techniques.

I'm sure some of those tools would be useful in industry, it's just I haven't really seen that in 23 years ... but you never know! It's got an acedemic curiosity that I appreciate, it's just its utility is so low generally.

It's bizarre the roadbumps we put in front of new devs. I'd rather see:
- someone hack on a big but unknown piece of code. Open source even, and map out what it would take to add a feature, what tests they would write, where the touchpoints are, etc.
- pair with someone - are they able to work with people?
- fix a bug: go through methodically, especially on non-deterministic failures
- lay out a system using objects / functionally / whathaveyou

Or just have me implement towers of hanoi again, ick.
Comparing tuition to the growth of the S&P 500, or any fund or stock for that matter, is like comparing a first class dining experience to a computer, the two have nothing in common.

Why would you expect education costs to move with the value of public businesses? How does that make any sense? A businesses worth has actually gone up (acquired assets, generating more revenue, etc.), has the value of a college education gone up 400% from 2011 to 2022? Because that is what you seem to be suggesting. Are new grads from BU on average making 400x what they were in 2011? Even going from $51k to $79K that's about a 47% increase, is BU college education 47% better today than it was in 2011? Probably not.
Would you say it isn't enforcement then, and if so how?

I certainly spell my words differently if I get a red squiggly line. Do you not?

Tech rarely "enforces" via direct controls unless a regulation is forcing it. What it does instead are nudges like this, and pretending the nudges don't have notable and similar impact is either naive or in suggested bad faith due to the company one works at.
Why? Using non-gendered language avoids misgendering people, and even though there are people who are offended by not being gendered this seems like a great trade off.
I'm curious to hear more about this "spiral" haha. The way I use it is to create a few different plans and compare between them to assess long-term tradeoffs of different decisions, and come back sometimes to update things and consider new paths or opportunities. The tool can't give you alpha of course, but my hope is that building a better understanding of the spectrum of possible outcomes helps people plan more confidently for how to live life on their terms.
Thanks for pointing this out. I think it's possible, most of the code is cross platform, we used to build YDB on Windows, so it should not be a problem. I suppose we need to improve a layer that works with storage devices to make it effective, for now it should be very naive implementation.
It is just a catchy pronounceable acronym made up years ago by a TV show host that stuck around because it is catchy:

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-faang?op=1

>FAANG actually began as FANG. The origin of the acronym has been attributed to Jim Cramer, the financial TV host and co-founder of The Street.com. Known for his slangy abbreviations and catchy phrases, Cramer coined the term in 2013 to represent four tech stocks with outsized market appreciation. Cramer believed that these companies belonged together because they are all high growth stocks that share the common threads of digitization and the web.

>Cramer's original term was just FANG — it didn't initially include Apple. The company joined the ranks in 2017, reflecting the growth of internet services (iCloud, Apple Music,
Apple Pay) to its revenues. So the acronym became FAANG.

>And it's remained so, even though Google's official corporate name is now Alphabet.
thats cool! sadly I haven't looked into rendering raster tiles for satellite imagery

Vector tiles are just much cooler! :D
Well, thoughts and prayers. We're fighting a different fight.
That is actually a good idea but you shouldn't tax the improvement to the land. If someone constructs a building that building should be privately owned just like a car would be privately owned.

A national dividend that pays out land value taxes democratizes access to land for all citizens of that nation and thereby makes it pointless to have exclusive access over specific plots of land for the sake of rent seeking. It only makes sense to own a plot of land if you want to "work" that land or rephrased, when society collectively agrees that you should have this plot of land.
There is a counterpart to "guys". People, not infrequently, say "guys and gals" which means that the guys is gendered.

"There is not always a counterpart", means that you recognize there is (at least) sometimes a counterpart. And in English, (unlike say, French or Spanish), the fact that so few words are gendered means that it's actually relevant when they are. Guys is masculine, Gals is feminine.

There are actually unambiguously non-gendered plurals "y'all", "them", "yins". Some of these are colloquial, but their existence also points to the fact that there are groups that weren't served exlusively with the gendered "guys".
I think that’s just moving the goalposts; evil still exists in the mind of the evildoer.
Let's be clear in our definitions here: when people say "Tarot is BS", they don't mean "it can never get the right result"; they mean "it doesn't get the right result through some mystical, spiritual, or divine knowledge as the practitioners of Tarot often claim it does". Additionally, if a Tarot practitioner does not make such claims, and instead points to any of the psychological explanations you mentioned, then the cards are no longer relevant to the practice anyway since they are not involved in the true mechanisms.
our essence of being is what's at stake here

Indeed: the purity of our essence, our precious bodily fluids.
I’m not convinced that actually matters wrt North Korea.

Besides, sanctions enforcement turns pretty active when you start prosecuting violators.
> A military jet with it's radars turned off is almost impossible to tell apart from a civilian jet based on radar data alone
The F35 can identify the type (and multiple times the model) of a specific aircraft in passive mode. Forget in active radar mode.
In the same vein, an auto-initiater would work like

Me: <Types question and hit send>

(Doesn't actually get sent yet)

My auto-initiater: Hi

Other person: Hi, <...>

(no chat notification, the original question gets sent now)

Other person: <Answers/Whatever>

(gets chat notification)
Ask HN: Who's working on their video game?
Are there any game developers here? I would like to see what you're working on. Can also respond with technology/art related to the game dev industry.
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What would be the cutting edge, open source equivalent for AI upscaling of video?
You don't get N64 or Sega Genesis with the basic Nintendo Switch Online subscription, you need to go for the more expensive "Expansion Pack" subscription to get those.

The N64 library is quite small, and only has a handful of games. I mean, the ideal N64 library is also quite small: only 306 North American or PAL (~English language) games were ever released. But 306 seems so eminently achievable that it makes the small selection of games on the service that much more dramatic.
One of the perks you get with T-Mobile US is free (or heavily subsidized) Netflix. I suspect we're not the only ones who would've cancelled our subscription if not for this deal.
I don't think price is the problem even though there is tons of debt. The problem rather is the high dropout rate. Students nowadays have so much financial aid. Unless you come from a rich family, scholarships and aid are abundant. Students very seldom pay the quoted sticker price.

But I agree that there is probably also a lot of waste too.
wgpu felt right for the project from the first minute. Let's just hope that the WebGPU succeed. But even if it does not, wgpu is still a great HAL
Of course, you wouldn't send an A10 without uncontested airspace, you would send F35s first.
> nothingburger

What the heck is a nothingburger?
> If high school was the significant factor, why has Canada never really become all that significant of a power?

Because Canada had far, far fewer high school graduates. It just has a smaller population, currently ~1/9th of the United States. There are enormous economies of scale due to populations. As very simple examples, look at the size of the impact - the market for what a business produces, the people affected by what an activist achieves - or compare the money and military that the populations of the US and Canada can afford to invest in international influence. Consider the difference today, from Russia's or Iran's perspectives, between being cut off from the Canadian market and being cut off from the US market.
Wow, immediate 25% drop

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/nflx?mod=over_se...
> they see it as "biased" because AI can't be socially pressured in the same way people can, so they're afraid that it will represent the true reality it learned and by doing so miss an opportunity to reshape that reality.

This is just ridiculous. Do look up what the hell AI bias is.

Also, how is the most prominent US propaganda that was all around movies - that Russians are the enemy, red scare, etc — leftist? Where do you get these nonsense baseless claims? You are seeing nonexistent enemies everywhere.
So your argument is that the only reason we stopped using the N-word colloquially is because Ford and Harvard made a pact to get rid of it?
maybe https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/theres-only-fou...
AMP pages consume less power (thus battery life) on Apple's mobile devices.
> In my experience if you run things professionally you have to set up log rotation purely for legal reasons anyways. Is serverless without logs? Or how would you there ensure to log privacy relevant data only for the legally allowed periods?

AFAIK the big providers use log rotation by default. I just know that I've been running some low-stakes serverless projects for years and have always been able to access recent logs, and never worried about disk space. Privacy laws is a good point I hadn't thought of (in the context of these projects), though.

> How do you do SSL on serverless

In the case of Netlify, they already manage the certificate if you point your domain at them and click a button, so it works automatically with their functions. Same story with Cloudflare. AWS and Google make you jump through a few more hoops, or you can host the endpoint from one of their domains and piggyback on their certificate.

I imagine the security practices of all four would hold up to the security practices of a 4 Euro / month VPS host.
And certainly at least Big Law (at least up to the point where you become a real rainmaker--which you probably won't make without the other things) has a lot of fixation on schools, law review, and clerkships.
Except, in a competitive/expensive market, the developer will pick the high-rise (almost) every time when allowed by law.

Locally, when I see people complain about luxury housing being built, it's because the developer is building high-spec townhomes and selling them for $800k+. Instead of lower-spec townhomes at $500k. The developer can't fit appreciably more homes in the same footprint (they're all 3-4 stories tall here - reducing size likely means one fewer stories). And the market will bear $800k+, so that's what we get.

The real answer is build even more homes. Or allow high-rises on the same lots.

In theory, the family that buys the $800k townhome came from somewhere. The smaller house they vacated is now open for somebody else (who in turn moved out of a studio flat that's now open, and on down).
I wonder if Netflix would consider not charging you when you don't use their service. Then there would be no reason to cancel and your subscription payments could just resume whenever Netflix has content you're interested in. Netflix then would have a more natural incentive to focus on quality content as well.
Interesting. A _lot_ of libs use ByteArrayInput/OutputStream extensively, this could have some deep reaching effects.
"Hey everyone..."
"Hey there..."
"Hey..."
Yep! Provided you mean ProjectiFi, same account should work. Man, that first "i" really did get lost a lot, didn't it?
It's an absurd system. How about we stop encouraging kids to go to college unless they have a plan on how to manage the incurred debt?
It's easiest to hear on the classical pieces, most notably the Debussy piano pieces during sostenuto sections.
Most males have traumatic experiences with that. And anybody that has been bullied has very traumatic experiences with it.

Honestly, never noticing that is even strange.
There are so many factors at play here. The stage matters a lot.

Early stage = idea + team

Mid-stage = idea + team + traction

Late-stage = traction + team

At the later stages the ideas might as well not matter. VCs will seek out high performing “hot” spaces and companies. And if you’re one of those then you’re already on their radar.
If you work on Web3 projects you can easily make a living in the open source model. I did it for a year; there is a large amount of work and funding available on Github through gitcoin.co. and other organizations. If you have the skills you can pick and choose projects at will and get paid handsomely for it.
Surely their points system as opposed to family reunion encourages highly educated immigrants
Yeah I agree with that. I can also buy a few books and go from there. But essentially O cannot do that now because of X, Y and Z.
I know Simon's Rock fairly well via some of its graduates, and have been really impressed by the program. All of the Rockers I know went on to a traditional college, except for the handful who entered with trust funds.

But any discussion of workforce preparation that ignores hiring disparities is irresponsible. McWhorter is no doubt familiar with the studies indicating that the US job market places roughly the same value on white college drop-outs as on Black college graduates[1]; I'm not sure why he chose not to mention it.

The data quite obviously leads toward the notion that a Black high-school graduate will have even fewer employment prospects than a white high-school drop-out. Perhaps their prospects will be similar to those of a white drop-out felon or the like? Compounding that against lifetime earnings, it's really hard for me to make a case for any able Black student to skip a college degree.

(Yes, I know individuals can overcome etc. But since one only gets one shot, it's a huge gamble to bet that one's outcomes will be statistically better than all of one's peers, especially if one has not taken the socially-prescribed steps to signal that one is serious.)

1 - https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/06/27/white-hig...
> I am also struggling to see how they plan on keeping track of this "no pay cut".

As with other wage and hour rules, if an employee thinks it has been violated they file a complaint with evidence, and the agency investigates. Since it's typical for pay stubs to report all the relevant information, proving that the pay per 32 hours after the law was not at least the pay for 40 hours before is...not that hard.
Disclosure: I'm an IBMer

IBM research has been looking at data model poisoning for some time and open sourced an Adversarial Robustness Toolbox [0]. They also made a game to find a backdoor [1]

[0] https://art360.mybluemix.net/resources

[1] https://guessthebackdoor.mybluemix.net/
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that's very common in distributed databases. even traditional databases, it's very common to not have FKs on large tables, and just handle it in software. indexing billions or more of rows is non-trivial.
migrated to fastmail from free g-suite. Has worked great for me.
"The logic seemed to be that if people are trained to eliminate bias in hiring, the the results will be sexist because not enough token women would be hired."

If this was implicit in your presentation, then I think I can see why you were reported to HR.

But, look, maybe you didn't deserve to be reported. Anyone can report anything to HR.
NY Times summary, which includes information about the likely timetable for release of updated boosters: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/19/world/covid-19-manda...
What's the inappropriate word list?
a 10% bump over market price quickly adds up to a high rate of price increases simce that bumped price helps form the new, higher market price which is then bumped up by the auction process even higher.

In addition, the process being described is NOT a "sealed bid first price auction" as the seller opens the bids and requests rebids without disclosing the current winner or top bid. The only reason to do this over a normal auction of that type is to trick people into thinking they didn't win, so they bid higher.
I know that this is about inserting data into training models, but the problem is generic. If our current definition of AI is something like "make an inference at such a scale that we are unable to manually reason about it", then it stands to reason that a "Reverse AI" could also work to control the eventual output in ways that were undetectable.

That's where the real money is at: subtle AI bot armies that remain invisible yet influence other more public AI systems in ways that can never be discovered. This is the kind of thing that if you ever hear about it, it's failed.

We're entering a new world in which computation is predicable but computational models are not. That's going to require new ways of reasoning about behavior at scale.
How do you feel about autocorrect?
>What's problematic about it is that it's enforceable by private litigation. In one recent example[0], shortly before the law was passed, a group of Florida parents demanded action be taken against a 6th grade teacher for disclosing that his marriage was to another man after taking time off for his wedding. Had the law been in effect, it's likely one or more of those parents would have sued.

Thanks for the article. Assuming it's accurate it sounds like only the school districts are able to be sued. I assume teachers themselves would fall under qualified immunity which applies to all government workers. Florida teachers also have (albeit weak) union representation. Unfortunately in the US anyone can sue anyone else for any reason, so for the individual there doesn't seem like anything would be legally different. Having said that, many Florida schools are absolutely horrible at education outcomes.

>Parents will be able to sue school districts for alleged violations, damages or attorney’s fees when the law goes into effect July 1.

This whole enforced by private litigation trend is troubling, I wholeheartedly agree. Texas is doing something similar with abortion clinics. I believe some democratic states (CA maybe?) is doing it with gun shops too. Hopefully when enough people lose in court and lose their attorney's fees, it will cease to become a thing.
A little late to the game here. You say “it is about the dishes“ but in the next sentence you yourself claim that it’s actually about your ADHD in your inability to handle other peoples levels of conscientious organization. And I guess that’s what I meant with my post: the dishes are involved but as soon as you describe the problem you realize that the locus of the problem isn’t the dishes the dishes are just an external symptom.
The copycat model means watching Netflix is like walking into a Trader Joe's and finding their uncanny valley own-brand stuff.

Netflix are going to end up with lots of content but very little original IP that people are seeking out.
My org just bought a professional bootstrap template. It takes 3 build tools and 1500 node packages just to build the SASS into a CSS bundle. It boggles my mind that this is normal in the front end world.
So what you're saying is that America became a superpower because it had a lot of people who, notably, weren't busy spending their time rebuilding society after a war? That seems like a much more reasonable explanation, honestly.
No commercials, which is why their strategy seems to be to become a commercial free basic cable.
I was hoping SXG would help people leverage CDNs on their mostly-static domain without requiring TLS termination. I wonder if there is enough non-AMP value there to make the spec worth it.
didn't say it invalidated your point just that it was a bad example. just because something has inertia doesn't mean its good or even okay. it just means it timed the market correctly.

you could have used UDP for example which being as old as TCP has spawned many new protocols on top of it (including quic) and in its own right has been the backbone of many applications.
Do you have evidence that engineers create more economic growth? HN is a bit biased of course, and general reactionary culture is biased against humanities. But generally engineers have a bit of a ceiling on their careers. Management, leadership, and roles in society depend more on what you learn in the humanities.
Netflix doesn't generally do RSUs for engineers (they might for execs, I don't know), so total comp for engineers is not impacted.
If that's how you wish to express yourself, go ahead, but if you're writing as yourself (as opposed to writing in the name of someone or something else) there's nothing wrong with using the words and spellings from your own dialect rather than that of your audience. Would you try to hide your accent when speaking in person?
They literally hire the smartest people they can find for this, e.g. David Donoho [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Donoho
Labor generally ranges from 20-40% of the cost of a home, the land and materials make of the majority. An absolutely massive percentage of all immigrants would need to be in construction to outweigh the increased demand from their presence.
I heard about this idea from Yuri at State of the Map US. So happy to see it happening.
The web tries very hard to avoid backwards incompatibilities. I don't expect the WASM standard to ever directly get any backwards incompatibilities, unless they're opt-in (like how using JS modules stops you from using with-statements).