skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether it's extortion depends on whether the party asking for compensation has an "existing right" to the action and the compensation.

So it's fine to post a review of a restaurant and accept a voucher to remove it. It's even fine to post an honest review and say "I will remove it if we resolve our dispute by refunding me my meal".

But you can't threaten them with "unless you pay me 100x my damages, I will write horrible things about you", even if they're true, since you don't have an existing right to 100x your damages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn_Jackson is a good case for the boundaries here.
Do you think that abduction is just a more realistic name for “bayesian inference where I had to make up some of my own priors”?

To computer program, playing Wordle seems like a perfect application of completely solid bayesian inference. All the data is there, the space is finite. But humans have to at some level resort to abductive reasoning since we can’t do all that math in our heads. Most people that play wordle would just tell you “this guess felt like the right one”
It could simultaneously be true that including a good salary range increases the number of applicants who are good fits for the role, and also true that including a good salary range decreases the average quality of candidates.

One way you might see that effect is if both candidates who are good fits for the role and candidates who are bad fits for the role apply more often when a high salary is posted, but the number of bad fits increases faster than the number of good fits (e.g. because there is some subset of people who will send their application to every role that pays over a certain threshold whether or not they are qualified).

If it's sufficiently costly to distinguish qualified from unqualified candidates, the company might be better off not showing a salary range, even accounting for how it causes good people not to apply. That approach does feel like an inelegant hack to get around their inability to easily tell whether someone would actually perform well in the role though, so addressing that root cause would be better in that scenario if they could figure out how to do it.
If they don't bring it up in the first meeting I will. It's mutually beneficial for both parties not to waste time if the numbers don't work. If they absolutely refuse to give me any range I tell them I don't think it will work and go look somewhere else. It's not the only thing I care about, but it is a make or break item.

Part of my life is having financial goals I want to meet, the same as any business. Sure I have passions and things I want to do to help the world, the same as any business. But if the numbers don't work I need to find a different way or pivot so that they do (again, the same as any business).

A more pessimistic view is refusing to give me a range upfront (even if the gap is large like 90k-300k) tells me they're betting on me giving into the sunken cost fallacy at the end of the rounds. That's not someone I'd want to work for anyway.
> 900 train fatalities

And 600 of them were trespassers walking on the tracks, then the vast majority of the remaining were people who tried to beat the train at a crossing. The number of dead passengers was 6 and the number of dead train workers was 11, if I'm reading this correctly: https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics...
Just post about whatever gripes have with Google in one of weekly "Google Bad" threads.
The future of Pandas: landscape, Ibis, Arrow, & more
What is this sleep issue that needs a reset that might require opening the laptop case?
> If your upper bound does not greatly exceed that number*, then all of the actually senior folks that I know are not going to be interested in your role. Most of my contacts are outside the Bay.

That's fine--it's still a large number, and most roles simply don't pay it. There are, I'm sure, many openings that can pay sufficiently qualified people quite a lot of money, multiples of $350k. But it's a high number.
With regards to the difference between branding and web-design, it's fairly clear cut in my eyes. They should have been the ones guiding you and helping you understand that boundary as design professionals. Defining your brand identity and guidelines should have been their first priority, given what you asked of them, long before any development work.

I'm no expert myself, so take it with a grain of salt but I've been learning a lot about branding for my own company[0]. It's pretty much the same process everywhere, if you're interested in learning more and seeing how a project typically goes I'd recommend watching The Futur's "Building a Brand" on youtube[1], it's a great series and gives a good bird's eye view of the process. (It depicts a large project, but from what I've seen small projects follow the same process with less polish and back-and-forth.)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32064809
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxgOY2Ms-YI
I should also mention another reason why banning cryptocurrency is not like banning encryption. The only thing that encryption actually needs to function is two people, and the encryption algorithm itself. If any two parties agree on the algorithm and a set of keys then they can create a secure communication channel; it doesn't even need to be over the internet, you can communicate securely by copying the message onto a flash drive and sending it via carrier pigeon, or just writing the bits down on a piece of paper and putting in a wine bottle and tossing it in the river. Now, those methods definitely may not be reliable, but they are theoretically secure if the message is encrypted.

Crypto on the other hand, requires a running network of many publicly identifiable participants to function. The blockchain code by itself does nothing; this network only functions if it has a critical mass of miners to run the network and a critical mass of buyers to pump up the price of the token. Without those things, the token becomes insecure and worthless and can't be used. So inherently, crypto will always be an easy target for attackers, will always be vulnerable to getting shut down by governments, and will always be manipulated by ponzi schemers looking to make a quick buck. This is a fundamental design property of the system, you can't fix it by adding some more code to it. It's also the same reason why all the marketing around it is a lie. Cryptocurrency is terrible as a currency and terrible as an investment, and just all around terrible.
The company isn't suing Glassdoor - they're a NZ company presumably suing a NZ individual who posted anonymously.

The NZ company issued a subpoena to Glassdoor to produce information necessary for discovery for a NZ lawsuit which an American court upheld.
Yeah 500k all day. People love to preach about secondary benefits, but cold hard cash allows you to pay for most benefits you actually want.

I think work is work, the more a workplaces tries to trick you into believing you're in a family or home environment they're not being clear on the work. Competency trumps all benefits.
My primary reason for where I work is my salary (FAANG), and I have never been happier with my job.

I work to live, not live to work.
The comparison Obama made is between a speed boat vs an ocean liner. Democracy doesn't move fast but that prevents some incompetent like Trump from driving the country off a cliff. Meanwhile whoever wins the power struggle after Big Daddy Xi can careen off the bridge faster than Louis Hamilton, because there is no system to prevent such realised incompetence in an autocracy. We will see.
Tesla cashes out $936M in Bitcoin
To be clear, I agree with your assessment and I would not recommend an agency unless you are a huge company as well. It's a mis-match of interests and goals.

The work I did as a web programmer for an agency (freelance) was similarly imbalanced with many "leaders" telling me what to do, (ie, project lead heavy, 1 designer, 1 programmer) and it was a mess and I won't bother with it again.
Salary ranges are great, and I think it indeed can save time for some job seekers (as well as employers) but on a side note, regardless of posting salary ranges, sometimes you want to hire people who do not only look for a better pay. Sometimes you can't pay better, and sometimes you know you can only pay worse (e.g. a seed stage startup) and all you can offer is - interesting problems to solve, culture, upside, vision, working with other crazy people who took a pay cut to try and move the needle and make a bigger impact.
A Decisive Blow to the Serotonin Hypothesis of Depression
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30797879

I asked but now we get some details, lol
6.4 GB/s

#include <libc.h>

#define BUFSIZE (512*1024)

static char buf[BUFSIZE];

int main(void){
memset(buf,'y',BUFSIZE);
while (1) {
write(1,buf,BUFSIZE);
}
return 0;
}
So I read the full article and it's interesting. Maybe the title is a little misleading, but when you actually read it I think they make it pretty clear that it's an extreme example designed to prove a simple point: bad data practice has a cost. For somebody who isn't super data savvy but wants to get into the space, I actually found it helpful.
This makes a lot of sense. Like with brutalism the first designers created beautiful and useful art. But as the movement expanded, limited time and budget, bad copies, and misunderstanding of the movement created authentic monstrosities.

In some cases removing the bar made sense. Now it's just fancy copy/paste where it does not apply and the bar would have been useful.
Even before that it used to be called Industrial Relations (I am referring to the practice in India pre-1980s).
ECDSA signatures can be made deterministic by deriving the nonce deterministically, e.g., by hashing the secret key together with a challenge provided by the user.

The problem now is that you need a way for the wallet to prove to the user that this has been done, without leaking the nonce or key. There are a bunch of ways to do this, but the most basic idea is to generate a zero-knowledge proof (probably a zkSNARK) that shows correctness of the signature w.r.t. the public key. The user would not put this zkSNARK onto the network -- it might contain a covert channel of its own! -- they would just check it locally and then dispose of that part. (Of course if the wallet was stolen by a malicious user the wallet might be able to exfiltrate the secret key to this thief through the zkSNARK portion.)

I'm assuming that all other transaction information is chosen by the user, so there's no other latitude for the wallet to cheat.
Naturally! "This is bizarre" is referring to the commercial decisions leading to this point. They seem to have chosen a hard market to crack, and then cornered themselves before even reaching the starting line.
>... while simultaneously handwringing over every incident ...

And then there's those Tesla accidents that must happen thousands of time a day, because they're always in the news.
I don't work with antibiotics or directly with the microbiome, but I have some questions about how these rats were housed. As background, I work in autoimmune pharma discovery, and my role is primarily with rodent models of disease. I also sit on my institution's IACUC, so I see a lot of other departments' protocols.

One thing that has become common in some facilities is housing males and females in separate rooms. Female mice and rats get pretty stressed when you house them next to males, or when you handle males first and then females after. This is a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't situation, because either these rats were housed in different rooms, which could cause microbiome differences, or they were housed together, which could cause stress, which could cause microbiome differences.

I think overall, this study is reasonable, and the fact that it confirms previous studies bolsters the hypothesis, but I'm not sure how you actually tease these out without a mechanistic proposition.

Lastly, based on my experience, there's something a little odd about their weight data. We use weight as a loose proxy for wellness, so it's regularly measured. The body weight for both the males and females are about 30g higher than I'd expect for this age (8 woa). Most rats and mice are very consistent weight for a given age, and this is just a minor red flag, but it makes me wonder more about their husbandry.

Just my 2 cents.
*Adds "peanut butter and sriracha" to list of improbable combinations to investigate*
This isn't just a Discord problem, it's a consumer rights problem.

I've gone through this same thing with multiple companies, most recently after an identity theft, and the only recourse for consumers at this point is to indefinitely wage a campaign of turning a grievous issue into such a massive PR and/or legal department war that they have no choice but to attempt resolution.
> The biggest thing I learned is don't play devil's advocate.

Or do it well. Most of the time, “playing devil’s advocate” is just hypocritical trolling, so we’re more or less trained to assume bad faith. Which is an unfortunate bias, but that’s where we are.

On the other hand, posts really need to be very bad to get greyed out. Even if you get a few downvotes, it’s not a huge problem.
Those platform are pretty bad unless you are a beginner or you're into a very specific niche.

I started on those platforms and I couldn't scale up my rate well enough as without those platforms.

At the same time I know a few crypto devs who built their reputation there and can get good rates.

For high paid normal web development, nothing beats a good network of wealthy companies who constantly need crap done.
Sometimes people just aren't ready for new knowledge or they don't know enough to understand it. I see this when new person enters an industry, healthcare in my case. It takes about a year to understand the nuances between healthcare providers, funders and administrators. I am guessing people read what Leonardo wrote but they just didn't understand the significance.
#upvotes !~ effort put into comment

either you were one of the first to comment, said something really flame-baity, or were just lucky. most of my high-effort comments fell flat, while I get a +160 from a lucky two sentences.
Show HN: A sample chapter of my book about ALS research
I am not a scientist, not even an English native speaker, but a few years ago I wrote a book about the state of research on a motor neuron disease: ALS (aka Lou Gehrig's disease).

I would deeply appreciate any comment or advice on a sample chapter of this book. This sample chapter (45 pages) deals with current efforts on replacing or healing motor neurons.

It is available here: https://padiracinnovation.org/en/ALS/ALS_FSTDTRMF-v32_en_partial.pdf

Thanks!
Not defending the practice (which feels so dishonest) but it's a chicken and the egg thing of their on demand drivers system.

I know there are drivers who basically sit at home and check the current rates and when it's "worth it" to them they walk out and jump in the car and do a few rides.

That wouldn't happen if people were looking in the app seeing no drivers and not putting in that they needed a ride.
> Much of the rhetorical analysis is based on the medical premise that getting vaccinated has no individual or contagion reduction efficacy. Politics aside, this was simply not true (though thanks to variants may be true today). We will never know now if specific variants could have been avoided if people got promptly vaccinated.

Delta arose in India before widespread vaccination was even available there, and Omicron comes from a sublineage which even predates Delta. So we actually know the answer to the question of whether immune escape variant mutation could have been prevented had fewer people been unwilling to take COVID vaccines -- it could not have. (And all this is setting aside the fact that there is not actually a magical solution to the impossible logistical problem of getting a shot into every person on Earth all at once, to say nothing of animal reservoirs.) This should have been expected given that decades of research prior to Operation Warp Speed had failed to discover durable and effective sterilizing vaccines against coronaviruses. Even with the original strains which predominated at the time the vaccines were introduced it was never studied and not clear whether they could prevent transmission, and many public health authorities and the CEO of Pfizer said so at the time.

And this was all quite clear long before the propaganda and scapegoating campaigns the article is criticizing kicked into gear. The CDC Provincetown study which showed the vaccinated were transmitting quite easily came out in late July. And today, a simple comparison of highly vaxxed jurisdictions to less vaxxed ones suggests that the shots are actually raising the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, which may be why we've stopped hearing so much about the "vaxxed vs unvaxxed" outcomes and increasing numbers of public health authorities are removing the breakdowns from their reporting.
> And alot of this is in good faith. I'm honestly interested in understanding and discussing the realities of peoples political motivations over and above my own beliefs about them.

Related, I really liked the feature on Slashdot where "friends of friends" could be given more visibility, and a karma boost. If I friended you, I would then be exposed to your friends, which I would probably end up valuing, resulting in an amplification of a certain type of mindset across the site. It was a nice way to boost rationality. It would also be a terrible way to make an echo chamber, but to each their own I suppose.
The Rise of Domain Experts in Deep Learning
Not possible because their $500k/year likely only materializes after vesting. Leaving after only 3-4 years on the job would mean the realized yearly comp is closer to 200-250k.
I don't understand. Could you explain in more simple terms?
> If your primary reason for responding to an ad is based upon salary you are not going to be happy where you work.

It's not really clear what "primary" means here. It's certainly one of my primary concerns.

> Of the top reasons people are happy at work, salary is way down on the list.

Okay, but that doesn't mean that if the salary were zero they would take the job. It just means that they have enough options within their acceptable salary range that they also considered other factors.

Asking whether salary is the primary reason for choosing a job is a bit like asking if width is the primary reason for choosing a storage unit.
There's just more opportunities for things to go wrong when you give million of people across all walk of life the ability to control deadly vehicles and forced them to do it as a matter of daily routine.

In contrast, public mass transit just have less things that can go home. Trains can be really safe if we wanted it to be.
> An unvaccinated young adult from New York recently contracted polio, the first U.S. case in nearly a decade, health officials said Thursday.

Of course he's unvaccinated. Goddammit, people.
Why do you think people work? For fun?
So much of the complexity and cost overrun of the Webb was because we lacked a heavy rocket with a large payload fairing. The need to fold the telescope so delicately and intricately was the biggest challenge. Hopefully the larger rockets in development mean that future telescopes will not suffer from such constraints.
I meant risk register https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_register
Plot twist, that was the monthly rate.
And yet blaming victims will solve nothing but incentivise more bad actors that think themselves morally justified.
This is a difficult topic. We evolved to the 40h/week mentality. This is a big luck for us.

I think things should be more based on goals than on time itself, honestly. What I mean is: if you work 40h but you do not deliver anything, how is that good compared to someone that in 32 delivers more? We have to put ourselves on the side of the employer also, even if some people hate them.
Just a note: in California you have the right to request a salary range after your first interview, and the company is forbidden from asking your salary history. When they ask you what you want, give a big number and negotiate from there!
The example in the article is 40k/day for querying on 14 GB of data, every second. You can do that on a ~100/month machine or a somewhat modern laptop.
Ya, those are the professional version of a second back yard job by an American teen six or seven years back who put a handgun on a cheap quad copter. The remote warfare cat" is as the say "out of the bag" for sure.

I think the only real debate is how autonomous are we willing to be with respect to these platforms.
It's poorly written, and the subject matter is interesting, but it's only worth reading if you can also trust it.

Take a look at the screenshot https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YoT5zTT4p9Y/XuGVBfGPpaI/AAAAAAAAP... the author describes as

> According to this widely used textbook for learning ancient Greek, published by Oxford University Press, slavery was benign, and enslaved people were ‘lively and cheeky characters’. (Balme and Lawall, Athenaze, 3rd edition 2016, ch. 2)

Do you think this is anything even remotely close to a reasonable paraphrase, or rather, brazenly lying to the reader? As I am not a classicist, that means I can't trust anything else he says either. (At least HN now lets me retract my upvotes for articles.)
It's not just that people are bad at statistics (we are though). It's also that we place value on individual agency. Getting into a self-driving car (or onto a train) means giving up some of my agency and because of that I have higher expectations of safety from the self-driving car (or train driver) than I would if I had retained that agency. I don't think that's weird or unreasonable.

We do need to get better at statistics and realizing that when we take on risk, we rarely are the only person impacted if something goes sideways. When I take the wheel of a car I become a risk myself and to others and I need to place as much value on their agency as my own.
I think your experience makes sense. Over time, salary has become less than half my total comp. If salary is the headline number in the posting, I'll assume total comp isn't interesting.

Put another way, I'd rather work somewhere that's investing heavily in tech talent and also has good market fit. Stock tends to go up at places like that, so it had better be a big chunk of the offer. This makes total comp impossible to predict, and therefore hard to put in a single number.
Relative to this, I've seriously thought about whipping up a funny little website that displays a sort of meter showing positive/negative reception for every HN post based on the top comments using sentiment analysis.

I was curious because it seems like whenever I check the comments on a post the top comment is like "ackchyually..."
I believe the reason they don't post salary ranges isn't to lure new hires into underpaid positions, at least not primarily.

it's in order to avoid renegotiation with current employees, who may have negotiated a less favorable deal, under different circumstances or because they can't haggle.
I love knowing this stuff, and getting to see the faint light that comes to us from so far away, and so long ago. I still think it's almost totally useless.
"I expected the new website to increase sales by 10-20%, but it’s been closer to 40%. In July, the TinyPilot website hit an all-time high of $72.5k in sales, 66% higher than before the redesign."

That's awesome tho
agree, but also this is where tech needs to get if we want to have private experiences + actual control over downloaded binaries

(could also do dataflow analysis on code in a trusted third party CI system)
Do you mean this is an actual important difference, or that it is a difference in how it’s perceived?

My gut is public transit is still safer than even the most attentive and sober driver. So it’s the feeling of control that determines perception rather than an actual materially different risk profile.