skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You never want to ask for a raise because "the other person with same job description makes more". It will never work. Make a case based on your own skills and value and go from there.

If someone comes to me and says "Hey, why is John paid 20k more than me when we are both doing the same thing in the same team?", I may counter that with "Well may be John brings more value than you. So instead of comparing with JOhn, why don't you make a case for getting the additional 20k or whatever. What if John does a better job than you?"

Yes some people are underpaid because they don't know any better but it is a losing battle to compare with co-workers. Compare with your own value and make your case. If you are worth it, they will do it. If not, they will tell you and you have the choice to go find something else that does. In IT, there are plenty of options.
Which was necessary for the economic revolution.

Balancing the money amount to the workforce.
I would even say that for 99% of the existing websites a free oracle cloud instance with 4 cores and 24GB ram + cdn is more than enough.
If you want to learn more about the first transatlantic cable check out How the World Was One by Arthur C. Clarke. Reading it now and really enjoying it: https://amzn.to/3EiACjU
I’ve had some depersonalization after I took a large dose of mushrooms at a concert in Alpine Valley. I lost track of myself. I would hear people talk, including my own voice, but none of them was more me than any other. I realized my sense of self or identification with thoughts/vocalizations I call myself was not necessary. The mushrooms seemed to turn the identification part down. I was as much the little girl talking to her father as I was Seth talking to friends. The part of my mind that creates the projections of others was still working, but the identification with any one of these projections had dropped.

Part of my purpose is to know the nature of my reality. I wish for those who are seeking the same to be able to do so legally.
MongoDB Queryable Encryption
I guess it doesn't work on/for everyone?

I have had extremely realistic hallucinations mostly from side/withdrawal effects, but they were not "life changing".
Then have an estimation challenge mode, where it picks a random latency and you have to guess within 50ms what it is. Seriously though, that sounds both fun and useful.
What kind of fucked up luxury bubble of self indulgent privilege do you live in with that idea? There are literally millions of families out there in the world (and in the developed world too) who support themselves, even with multiple kids, on much less than just one of these "low" $160K salaries, let alone two of them. Try living outside the world's most voraciously expensive tech bubbles of overpriced idiocy for a little while to see how the literal other 99% of the planet by some miracle live well enough to raise healthy kids. What blind nonsense some people here comment.
I like that if you zoom in on the US, you don't see states but you do see Indian Nations.

Also, this cable is neat: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/gulf-of-me...
>Do customers actually like bigger phones with bigger screens?

is the iphone SE the best selling iphone? We've had multiple generations for people to do as you claim and say 'na didn't like it' but instead that's not what happens. they like phones with bigger screens.

>Like, I bought a Pixel 6 Pro because of the better camera, not because it's larger.

The pro was about 5mm longer than the non pro. The size variance was basically nill. in exchange for 5mm longer phone, the pro customers get and additional ~12mm2 of screen space. The whole thing is a red herring and nothing to do with the conversation.
I always think about one memory I have that might not be true. I was very young--3 years old--and I have relatively vivid (visual) memories. But, it was a life-and-death circumstance, maybe that matters.

I fell off the dock while fishing. My dad was 20 or 30 yards away. I remember being underwater, I remember the water being stained green a bit, I remember seeing fish I was used to catching (perch), and most importantly, I remember how it feels to be lifted up by your scalp. My dad just grabbed my hair in one hand and lifted me straight up out of the water vertically. You would think it hurts, but it doesn't--at least at the weight of a 3 year old.

The event for sure happened, I'm just not convinced I didn't create a specific memory later--maybe when I was 9 or 10.
Great job, respect!
Yeah, no one actually does this.

The point about cryptography was me being glib, but the math does exist. The relevant subfield is "homomorphic encryption" and I remember seeing a paper over the last few years (probably linked here on HN if I had to guess) claiming to have an election-relevant algorithm that was supposed to be workable in practice. I can't find it right now though.
Because MBAs are morally and ethically rudderless sociopaths that only align to personal financial incentives and don't have any real integrity?

Unless you're trying to say that there were NO MBAs under Jack Welch's management team and organization?

MBAs are absolutely the problem.
Ketamine and depression: a mechanism of the antidepressant revealed
That's Sir Arthur C. Clarke to you!
I have not been there or done that, but just a normal exposure to popular culture and the history of the 20th century led me to the same conclusion.
There's a difference between acute benzodiazepine/thienodiazepine use, as "break glass in case of emergy" thing, and daily use resulting in physical addiction.
Case in point: https://www.thedailybeast.com/crude-homemade-shotgun-used-to...
An Anecdotal Guide to Pivoting into Software Engineering
And if the python community has to suffer from the actions needed to support said customers, fuck em right? It’s not like python ever did anything for canonical (a company that has been entirely built by python from the ground up), eh?

“F you got mine” got us climate change. Be constructive.
Absolutely. The US unfortunately was too politically pigheaded to build manufacturing for solar and wind and continue to pay for it. Go thank your local GOP rep and global warming conspiracy theorist for handing out those jobs offshore.
Is it possible then to perhaps experience some of the effects via other anti-inflammatory supplements that are both legal and maybe carry fewer risks?
Not worried about BD. Worried about their customers retrofitting their product with weapons.
Out of curiosity... for utility-scale solar, do they tend to dismount the old panels, or just leave them in place for whatever small fraction of their original generating capability they still provide?

I imagine that they'd eventually run out of land to put them on, but from what I've seen, utility-scale solar often sits in places with a fair bit of room for expansion.
>When I was an attorney and involved with these kinds of subpoenas, we always worked with the third-parties to make document production less burdensome for them.

>SimulaVR should be working with Meta's attorneys on this instead of throwing a hissy fit online.

Question:

Is meta's lawyers bound in any way to treat simulaVR the same way you treated your subpoenaees?

I don't even care if they do, or would, the question is, are they legally bound to do so? If not, that's a systemic issue.

I suspect the answer is no they aren't, and the burden is on the subpoenaees to convince the court to limit the burdensomeness of the subpoena, which is itself a burden that is unacceptable.
Of the people I've known who did hallucinogens, I knew them all before and after.

NONE of them were better off afterward

You can read all the "life changing experiences" that people have online, but when you take these you roll a dice. Keep this in mind. There's a lot of people who shill them super hard, and they might've had a positive experience, but consider the risk vs the reward and tread lightly

edit: And even the people who had "life changing experiences", they weren't better off. They never came out of it "enlightened" or any better than where they were before (based off of their behavior and the lifestyle choices they made)
You're going to be shocked that I peddled to work today, and saw a ton of deliveries done by people peddling!
That would require proving a negative. I agree with your conclusion that nothing is truly proven.
Meta’s defense on not being anti-competitive is to use the legal system to force all potential competitors to turn over incredibly sensitive information about their business & operations…

how is this even allowed under the law? Can Facebook really just demand this?
If you're able to cheaply print firearms, then it doesn't really matter too much if those firearms end up being disposable; if it breaks, just print another one.

As for machining parts out of metal, people can and do build "slamfire" shotguns out of two pipes and a nail. Needless to say, I think you're overestimating the difficulty of shopping around at Home Depot.
Well I think you'd need to draw more of a causal link between those outcomes and the voting system. Maybe their elections really all are democratic outcomes, and there's something completely independent of the ballot-counting process that is causing bad outcomes.

If you zoom out and think about the entire voting process, it's rife with inefficiencies and bad assumptions:

A ballot proposal implies that the proposal is well-described and doesn't have perverse effects.

A voting day implies the voting population is ready to decide, and fully understands the proposal, and that everyone with an interest is aware of that interest and has an opportunity to vote.

A counting method implies that the outcome will actually reflect the democratic will of the population.
Musk-Twitter Deal Is Said to Be Stuck on Debt Contingency
This surprises me. As a C++ developer myself, I see fewer and fewer jobs that seem to focus on this skill. Everything seems to revolve around web development and cloud integration these days. I am not looking for anything right now, but I occasionally browse the job sites looking to see what employers are currently focusing on.
I’m a lot less important than Ben but just wanted to +1 that it’s pretty compelling use case once experiencing it. It’s not there yet, mostly due to resolution issues and long term comfort issues, but it’s close enough to show it’s absolutely viable.

I bought the quest2 since it was cheap as a pandemic entertainment device and while I never play it, I regularly wish for a VR monitor (eg a high res nreal air)
> In the US, 60% of firearm deaths are from suicide.

How many suicide deaths would happen with fewer firearms available? I suspect a large portion of the suicide victims may not even be the owner/purchaser of the firearm used. Among all the methods, suicide by firearm is awful because it's so effective. Without an available firearm, attempting suicide by another method might be something that could be recoverable with some intervention after the attempt. Seems like a buyback could reduce the opportunity for deaths and injuries due to suicide attempts.
I wouldn't expect a $21,000 ad campaign to have much effect either.
you got it, these are the 2 ways. except i wasn’t aware LE would issue a “star cert”. is that new? my experience is you have to go through the CA cabal
Stage IIIC NSCLC, specifically a superior sulcus tumor, advanced enough to be considered inoperable. Standard of care in this case was induction radiotherapy, followed by a single course of combination chemotherapy consisting of carboplatin, pemetrexed, and pembrolizumab (the last of which is the cutting-edge immunotherapy I'm talking about; brand name Keytruda.) After that, patients are prescribed the pemetrexed and immunotherapy alone for a long 2-year "maintenance" course, at which point treatment options will be reassessed.

Surgery was not an option here because of the size and location of the mass, but after the initial course of chemo a PET-CT showed an 80% reduction in size. After some time on pembrolizumab, symptoms continue to improve and surgery may be back on the table soon.

(edited for a more accurate picture of maintenance treatment; thanks to borbulon for refreshing my memory)
> a simple ad campaign

Ads of course are free and universally effective, as we all know.
Could you elaborate on the girlfriend, best friend, and other friend? How did their experiences play out? What about it changed them?
I agree. It's probably good enough for a lot of use cases.
Far from hostile, he seems like their biggest fan and number one contributor.
The very term is a lie. These guns were almost surely never owned by the government, so it is not buying anything back. Guns do not belong to the government by default. The word has also been used to describe involuntary confiscation of weapons, which many people who value their rights would oppose in the strongest terms.

In addition, guns have value to people for more than functionality. There's endless stories of people selling "back" their grandpa's WW2 take back piece that would be worth thousands of dollars to the right collector and would be restored and enjoyed for decades, only for a police officer to at best "lose" it in transport or more likely send it to be melted down for scrap so someone could get a $50 gift card and local police can post to Twitter about how another dangerous war relic is off the streets.
Exactly. The people who benefit the most from the current system are the already rich, who can afford to the legal fees and come up with creative defenses.

Crypto also benefits the rich (like everything), but not as disproportionately as the current legal system.

This debate reminds me of the nature vs nurture debate in biology. It's a mirage. In reality, it's nature via nurture. Similarly, there is no inherent divide between government and crypto. One can extend the other.
Yeah normal consciousness is normal, of course. That's not an assumption that I make, that just a basic fact.
> in recent years, a very effective checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy has been developed for the cancer in question. ~2x the success rates of traditional chemo

> I think they've been saying this for a long time now, but it's truer than ever that a real cure for cancer is right around the corner.

I think thats quite a leap. For prostate cancer( most common cancer among men), top line therapies are still androgen blockage that was discover 70 yrs ago, chemo and radiation. Keytruda failed to deliver any significant survival benefits[1].

Yes we've gotten better at slash, burn , poison methods. Radiation is more trageted and sophisticated. Diagnostics are more precise. Chemo drugs have better safety profiles.

But these are all marginal improvements. None of which indicate anything that we are close to a cure.

Only hope we still have is to catch it earlier and go ham on it. Most of the slash,burn, poison methods are being FDA approved for earlier use.

The other two things(one of which you've mentioned) are immune checkpoint blockade if you have MSI-hi/dMMR or PARP inhibition if you have BRCA2+. Even if you are lucky to have these mutations these drugs are a hit or miss[1].

I don't feel optimistic about a cure at all.

1. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220803005334/en/Mer...
I think the less obvious point is that you don't really know what the effect will be. Thanks to crazy drug policies gone amok, we still have very rudimentary understanding of their impact until recently passed mostly on a word of mouth basis.

There are stories of actual mind blowing experiences that truly do expand your mind. I did not share my personal experience, because a feeling of absolute peace while being engulfed by light is not that uncommon and hardly life changing unless you are easily swayed anyway.

There is a chance your mind will expand. There is a chance something bad will happen. It is a gamble, but I personally think we are still in dark ages of drugs. Maybe one day we will know how exact dosage affects specific mental profile.
Are there other frameworks designed with edge deployment in mind?
We also had a lot of lockdowns/work from home/etc in 2020, which prevented a lot of people from driving, probably lowering that driving stat. It would be interesting to get statistics for a non-covid year.
Regulate me harder, daddy!
Not sure why you'd need a specific law. I'm not an expert (or lawyer) but damage caps are a pretty common feature of big contracts and AFAIK they're perfectly enforceable.

The legal commentary I've seen on this deal states that monetary damages are capped at $1B (and actual damages would obviously be much higher) so the two outcomes are basically 'Musk forced to buy Twitter' and 'Musk pays Twitter $1B' without much in between. Assuming the lawyers who took the time to read the contract know what they're talking about it would be a pretty big surprise for the Delaware Chancery to throw out the contract and award higher monetary damages.
Except you cut part of the sentence there. The full clause is

"Specifically, this termination fee is payable by Parent to Twitter if the Merger Agreement is terminated by Twitter because (1) the conditions to Parent’s and Acquisition Sub’s obligations to consummate the Merger are satisfied and the Parent fails to consummate the Merger as required pursuant to, and in the circumstances specified in, the Merger Agreement;"

The "terminated by Twitter" is important. Musk does not have the right to terminate. Twitter has not terminated the acquisition.
You could probably run a CockroachDB edge cluster
3D printing is largely "set and forget" too, with occasional monitoring. A remote employee can easily spend less than 20 minutes per day babysitting the printer while going on with their regular life.
We know what the others make. There is a system that uses certain events (years of work in the company, training) to level up the pay.
Would you consider a variation where the Condorcet Winner is awarded the win if the Condorcet Winner exists, and where in the cases there isn't a Condorcet Winner, IRV is applied to the Smith Set?
The mob doesn't elect our government. Individuals go into a booth and pull the lever. In a fair election, their is no interaction between people when the vote is cast. Sure, there are campaigns and such, but the voting moment is one person at a time inside their head. Mobs become a thing unto themselves and group into a dangerous thing. Their are numerous studies about how people act differently as part of a mob.
A new technology is developed with the potential to make you 100x more efficient at your job. Today, a creative artist can only contribute to a project through a narrow slice. Tomorrow, the same creative artist can single-handedly orchestrate an entire project.
Yep, we have remote developers using parsec with unreal engine, maya, 3ds, etc.

Author seems to be stuck in the tech mindset of 5 years ago.
Seeing the Lake Powell level decline ( and knowing that also means electricity, not just water shortfalls in the future for the Western Coast ) it does seem all this conservation and logistics thinking might have had a chance to be meaningfully effective if it started around 2010 at the latest, and been completed now, or within 5 years. Best get ahead of this rather than chase the target.

Anyone who traveled through "The Dust Bowl" or the Salton Sea as mentioned, or looked at the end of the Colorado River, which now does not make it to the Gulf of Mexico, knows that California in particular is on a knife's edge when it comes to water, and electricity.

Needs to be a paradigm shift here, and one that is sustainable from the start, rather than micro improvements and figuring out things that are decades past being common sense.

- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-colorado-r...

- https://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/feb/19/few-weeks-colorado-riv...
Peloton to cut about 12% of workforce in a move to 'save' company
That's a very misleading article that plays loose with the math. e.g. It makes assumptions on things that are flat out not true (for example, assuming people would vote for thing they clearly didn't vote for).

If an article is going to sit there and make up votes that didn't occur, I can't really trust it.
No to all of that, never. I lost my debit card once along with, stupidly, my PIN (both were in my wallet, which was left somewhere). The maximum daily withdrawal was taken from ATMs that night. The next day, my bank made me whole. If that had been a crypto wallet, I’d have been out $1000 I couldn’t afford to lose.

Man, was I grateful for the human considerations built into traditional banking!
Yes, that's the one. Thank you.
I'm not sure I understand the part about corruption. How would data in memory become corrupted?

How Memgraph currently works, it stores data in memory, and async starts writing data to disk in small data chunks called deltas, later these chunks are deleted and replaced with the whole graph snapshot (there is also a sync option, but that's slower in terms of committing a transaction, letting the user know data is written, e.g., RocksDB works similarly). All disk-related stuff is purely for durability (recovery after the Memgraph process restarts and all interactions with the disk are made automatically in the background during standard system runtime and startup time).
I long for the day when the idea of enhancing cognitive ability with 'a chip implanted in the brain' is as quaintly amusing as starship captains using their slide rules to navigate.
I find that about as plausible as the other side's claims about Dr. Fauci's role in the AIDS crisis. In the (lengthy) interview I linked I never once heard him make those sorts of claims, he just hammered the point about informed consent. Which I'd really like those who agree with his deplatforming to stop dodging.
I was genuinely interested, so thanks for the response.

I think a note-taking system would be great for the current version of what you're doing, because it would make the whole thing really easy to grep for keywords.

I kinda wish I had all my really old bookmarks, but as you say--I can find what I want with google.
This adds too much distortion to people wanting to express their sincere preferences, which they can easily do in RCV: A > B > C

RCV actually literally has the exact same problem you're describing with voting strategically, it's just subtler and harder to understand. The problem is, if you rank A > B > C, then your subsequent preferences after A only matter if A gets eliminated. If A comes in second place, then your "B > C" preference has no impact, and C may be elected whereas if you "dishonestly" voted for B first you might have allowed B to win.
Turns out that if you hollow out a giant company you can turn out huge profits and it takes awhile for the corpse to fall.
I have several services exposed to the internet which I also use internally. I also have some services which I just run internally.

I run split horizon DNS[0] (As I manage both my internal and external DNS zones), which works just fine.

For external-facing services, I use Let's Encrypt (LE) certs and when internal services run on the same hosts, I use those LE certs for TLS/HTTPS.

For internal only services, where encryption is desired, I use self-signed certs. That said, in many cases, since the internal services don't actually have any data that needs data privacy across my internal network (e.g., Podgrab[1], Deluge-web[2], etc.), often I don't bother.

I'm not sure (but I probably would) if I'd go that way in setting this up in 2022 (the origins of this set up go back to the 20th century), but it works for me and as it's already set up, there isn't much to do except maintain and update the zones/certs.

It's not that hard or that big a deal, IMHO.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-horizon_DNS

[1] https://github.com/akhilrex/podgrab

[2] https://github.com/MAESTROHANTER/deluge-web

Edit: Added missing references.