skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It still seems low for that amount of experience. In a non-finance company in London, someone good with 15 years experience should be on >= 100k. I know people with less experience working at such a company making 140k; my impression is that this is on the high side for that context, but it definitely exists.

Maybe it's less outside the south-east. But OP works remote, so why not work remotely for a company that pays decent money? I know a guy who lives in some godforsaken fishing village in Scotland and has a remote London job.
I appreciate the comment, but "it's pretty easy to use" is not something I've found to be true when it comes to reflog.
You might be joking but metal spoons are ridiculously good at not letting bacteria grow on it. A quick wipedown of any sort is basically all that's actually necessary.
Best Dumb TVs
That is not an accurate description of the Nuland-Pyatt call. They are not merely "discussing who should replace Yanukovych." They are talking about actively putting together a new government, and discussing the fact that they have to move quickly, before the Russians can get involved or the EU can object.
Japan is 98% ethnically homogeneous in part because of an immigration system that keeps foreigners from immigrating for work and in part because of lots of systemic racism - different from that in, say, the US, but still systemic - in Japanese society. It's not magic or an accident of history, it's due to social factors.
If you want to analyse your payment failures with SQL you could use https://table.dog to download them into a SQLite database.
Imagine shoe weight is first randomized among all racers. Then, a second round of additional random weight is given to one half of the runners. Now, the problem is individualist vs collectivist.

From a collectivist view, adding a time penalty that corresponds to which half the runner was in looks good.

From an individualist view, they note some runners who didn’t receive extra weight still got a debilitating amount of weight from the first distribution. They note that some of the extra-weight runners are actually positioned well at the front. Accordingly, their mind reels at the idea of a time penalty applied based on which half the runner was in. “How is it first group runner’s fault that someone else added weight to the second group?” they wonder.

I do understand the individualist objections, but I also don’t accept that doing nothing is the most fair approach.
Some stripe folks are very active on HN. May be they can help ?
Hussein was a contained threat. He was a mad dictator, but we knew what to expect and mitigate him. He kept the middle East in check. Once we deposed him, all hell broke loose in the Middle East (ISIS, et al). Sometimes the enemy you know is better than the enemy you don’t know.
I stopped when you said "sinophobes". It is classic CCP counter-intel to describe all of it's enemies as racist.

Why are you here on a thread about Iran anyways?
"To stop" - sounds like you are quiet sure that they are paying females more. From experience - no, there is no bonus, companies I know have flat basic rates for juniors, and raises based on company situation/personal achievements (or lack of them).
Coming from another Germanic language helps you deal with pronunciation and orthography varying in English?

What's the relationship?
Hindi in the cities is interesting, it can turn into a 50-50 blend of English and Hindi, with English used for most nouns, and sentences strung together with Hindi otherwise.

Having said that, actual conversational skills in English were lacking even in Delhi. You can throw out words and hope there's enough of a shared vocabulary to get ideas across, but the majority of people aren't fluent, or even conversational in it. I've heard the Southern part is somewhat better though, as Hindi is less pervasive, and English is used more often as a second language if you travel out of state and the likes.
SELinux for Mere Mortals
> But General Petraeus already commented how the response would be a collective NATO involvement sinking the Russian Black Sea fleet and bombardment of Russian positions in Ukraine.

General Petraeus is a retiree who didn’t officially speak for NATO or the US government. That gives NATO and the US government some wiggle room.

My guess is that that’s a possible response, but not a guaranteed one. Let’s say there’s a detonation high above the Black Sea with zero direct victims and a prognosis of very few indirect victims due to long term effects of radiation (effectively more fireworks than weapon). I don’t see NATO or the US government sinking the entire Russian Black Sea fleet for that. But who knows?
Maybe they should do something geographical. Let's say hire a person per country and then start again. You know building actually distributed and diverse teams.
This was interesting. I consider myself left-handed, but I do a lot of activities right-handed too. For example, I use my left hand to write, eat, and brush my teeth, but I use my right to throw, to play guitar, to navigate on my phone, and to reach for things. Still, I couldn't quite keep the water rotating as smoothly with my right as I could with my left.
Those processes could reasonably be considered essential in modern times, because we all need to have potable water available anyway. The manufacture of plastic disposable spoons could not.
How many videos, outside fixed webcams, come from devices plugged into the wall? I venture that 99.99% of videos where the timestamp is questionable come from battery-powered devices. As for mains hum, portable devices pick up so many hums from so many sources that i doubt much useful mains hum is ever recorded.
This discussion, in all forums everywhere, is dominated by people who fail to understand that ambiguity and plausible deniability is a cornerstone of high-stakes negotiations.

Lavrov won't literally say "if the USA sends one more weapons shipment to Ukraine, we will drop a nuke on every Ukranian troop concentration we can find", because then they would look weak when it turns out they won't do it after all.

This is why all Russia's nuclear threats are veiled and implied. But make no mistake, they are there, and the message one can read between the lines is put there intentionally. It might be an empty threat or it isn't, but a threat it certainly is.

There are certainly concrete and non-ambiguous threats made behind the scenes, making explicit what actions each party is willing to commit to, but those don't end up in the media.
What about federal jobs? The pay is definitely lower but it comes with amazing health insurance, you can stay for the rest of your career, move wherever you want, & they can’t really afford to be ageist—they don’t have enough candidates.
Like I said, there are plenty of valid arguments against it. But they aren't equivalent, which is what I was specifically responding to.
100% that NATO invokes article 5 because of fallout landing on the first square centimetre of Polish land, or wherever.
Then the big guns, big tanks, all conventional, come out, and the Russian oligarchs and Silovikis are left with two choices: MAD and lose all their accumulated wealth and comfort,
or negotiated de-fanging.
The smartest people in the world attacked this question ("what do we use it for?") in the 90s, and nobody was able to come up with a killer app (as in, widely-applicable-once-mass-produced) then.

I don't know what's fundamentally different this time, which is why I'm skeptical that the outcome will any different.
Working productively all night is a skill.

Just like avoiding meetings.

Just like achieving flow state.

The all-nighter that results from not-wanting to stop the creative process is not the all-nighter of the deadline death march.

Deltas between effort and outcome aren't negative in the flow-state. The are positive and non-linear..that's what flow-state is.

And the hard part is that grinding out metaphorical-all-nighters might be the best way to practice achieving and maintaining flow-state. At least to the degree learning to achieve flow state directly correlates to butt-in-the-seat time.

Which it does.
Iranian state TV interrupted by apparent hack in support of protests [video]
You know companies have budgets right? you can not just "hire more people" and remain profitable, no profit no company.

Companies are not charities created to employ people.

So sure if only 1 person is off on leave most likely another person could be hired

But 5 years of protected leave..... What percentage of the work force is going to be out on that? Also since it is very hard to terminate someone in the EU, what happens to the employees that are "filling" the positions of those people out on 5 years of leave? can they be terminate or do you have to keep them employed even after the original employee returns?

If you can be terminated would you take a job knowing the second the parent returns you will be terminated

Parental leave should be measured in weeks, not years. If you want to be a stay at home parent for years, leave the work force and then return...,.
> So if you track for example purchases per hour (but not which users made a purchase) you can see if it becomes irregular.

Yeah, nice for you! But you're requiring my collaboration in your investigations; sorry, but I can't tell which cookies (or web-storage blocks) are for checking whether my behaviour is "irregular", and which are intrusive data-collectors.

I'm not going to scrutinise every cookie a site serves; life's too short. I configure my browser to accept first-party session-cookies only. My web-storage pool is zero bytes. If your site doesn't work with those settings, your site is broken (and I'll find a better one).
which is exactly the point. birthrate is already bad enough as it is. for the moment this is compensated with immigration, but eventually support for parenting may have to increase even further if we want to keep the birthrate up.
AMS is competing with other major airports in a relatively small radius. Europe is not lacking for prestigious airports with international traffic.
Right on!

Technology firms in India have a better female to male staff ratio than the tech giants of Silicon Valley [1].
India has a much better male-to-female ratio compared with the U.S. Engineering male-female ratio in India is 1.96 as compared with 4.61 in the U.S.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-professional/2015/jun/2...

[2] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/engineering-...

What India Can Teach Silicon Valley About Its Gender Problem
https://www.wired.com/2014/08/silicon-valley-sexism/

https://blog.hackerrank.com/which-countries-have-the-most-sk...

The 2015 stackoverflow survey has this interesting statement: "Developers in India are 3-times more likely to be female than developers in the United States." See https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015 Actually it is worse than it sounds because most of the female developers in the United States are first generation immigrants from Asia and Eastern Europe.
I have a relative that worked for a US medical company. There were certain people who would take women's lunches out of the microwave right in front of them just so they could cook their own. She said they were mostly from the south central area of Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangledesh). It was only a few individuals, not everyone.

Obviously this is a secondhand story, so I can't vouch for it directly. I was shocked and could barely believe what I was hearing.
I moved north because fuck the heat, so speak for yourself nerd.
That is not a hot take my friend? Do you pay your taxes? Sales taxes? Does the company you work for pay their taxes? Do you intend on retiring with a pension at some point?

Rising tides and boats comes to mind.
> Emphasizing hiring of groups that have been traditionally discriminated against absolutely has a different moral character from discriminating against those people.

This is your personal opinion.

> There are a variety of ways to argue against the former practice, but to draw equivalence with the latter practice is dishonest and/or willfully ignorant.

This rests on sharing the former assumption. Hence, not necessarily dishonest or ignorant.

Or if you want to maintain it: Want to lay out that difference for those of us who are (in your opinion) ignorant? Because I don't see it.
> it does not tie to the bottom line

I completely agree with you, which is what makes all these recent trends in hiring all the more fascinating to me. If the only concern of a company were the bottom line (which I would expect it should be), then there wouldn't have been any conversation about marginalised groups etc., because, for companies, a candidate's demographics would have been irrelevant. The only thing that would have mattered is which candidate is expected to be the best fit for a given position. That it doesn't work like that suggests that companies are also political creatures, and are concerned about their public image and, possibly, about things like ESG scores. It may even be that the public image and things like ESG scores are a strong contributor to the bottom line.
Well, I mean your boss can fire you from the company but you can not fire your boss from the company. So in that sense they are "superior".
In 2018, we went with school to the national forensics institute where they (among other things) presented their research on this. Not sure if it's also online somewhere; their website is nfi.nl
Grey mass is a huge problem in most of Europe and we do realize most people want children and not break their back trying to fund them.

There are better solutions (teaching individuals to be more financially responsible and kicking overly rich capitalists to the curb, for one) but that's preaching to the choir.
Discrimination at least in this case means attributing value to a person (seemingly) belonging to a certain group. The word you're describing is called choice.
Isnt that called negative externalities in economic theory? e.g. the overall cost od producing the spoon will be paid by governments who will have to deal with environmental demage... (and likely increased healtcare costs..)
Industrially washing the spoon may be more efficient than someone washing it by hand. However, that's not really the comparison here. Even if the step of washing the newly created plastic spoons (if that exists at all) is more efficient, there's still a lot more going on.
That's not exactly right. I don't live in UTC, when I use timestamps they don't automatically (whether implicitly or explicitly) refer to UTC.

A Unix timestamp is a difference in time, not a time point. It's a number of seconds. It's a duration, not an instant, which is why it doesn't in and of itself need a time zone attached.

That being said, people do use timestamps to represent time points sometimes, and that does requires picking a particular timezone. That's fine too, but it's not the only use or meaning of a timestamp. It doesn't make timestamps without time zones meaningless, and doesn't mean they implicitly refer to the UTC epoch.

Durations and time differences are timezoneless numbers. When you add a duration to a time point (like the Unix epoch in your preferred timezone), you get another time point, in the same timezone.
It's even a business model:

> If you or a loved one gets sick after eating at a restaurant, contact OFT Food Safety & Injury Lawyers.

> To successfully sue a restaurant for food poisoning, you must prove that they had a duty, failed to meet that duty with negligent action or inaction. As a result, you became ill, and you suffered financial damages.

https://www.oftlaw.com/blog/can-you-sue-a-restaurant-for-foo...

> If the food is prepared with unclean cooking utensils

https://www.findlaw.com/injury/product-liability/food-poison...
Another fan here. I am a terminal user so Git is 100% CLI for me. Maybe this has helped me learn it to a level where I feel confident with it. I was the sole Git CLI user in my longest role and I tended to be the 'git fixer'. I agree it has sharp edges (like a lot of things, though) but I'm happy to be adept at something powerful and useful. It's a transferrable tool across pretty much all stacks so it doesn't feel like a pointless investment.
I think i understand where the issue stems as there are a lot of defensive insinuations here. I am not misrepresenting. I am potentially misunderstanding. I can critique germany or america and there will be nowhere near this level of tension. I never looked down upon india or indians and i never considered india as a weak country. Thus i felt at liberty to critique. To me it appears tho that my comments are taken as insults instead of just the usual debates that country or culture X has wrong Y policy or view.

Educate me as i am listening. Clarify my misunderstandings so i can make better judgment next time.
China has openly acknowledged these camps, going so far has to request the UN acknowledge their sovereignty:

“The Chinese government officially legalized re-education camps in Xinjiang in October 2018.[422] Prior to that, when international media had asked about the re-education camps, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that they have not heard of this situation.[423]

On 12 August 2018, a Chinese state-run tabloid, Global Times, defended the crackdown in Xinjiang after a U.N. anti-discrimination committee raised concerns over China's treatment of Uyghurs. According to the Global Times, China prevented Xinjiang from becoming 'China's Syria' or 'China's Libya', and local authorities' policies saved countless lives and avoided a 'great tragedy'.[424][425]

On 21 August 2018, Liu Xiaoming, the Ambassador of China to the United Kingdom, wrote an article in response to a Financial Times report entitled "Crackdown in Xinjiang: Where have all the people gone?".[432] Liu's response said: "The education and training measures taken by the local government of Xinjiang have not only effectively prevented the infiltration of religious extremism and helped those lost in extremist ideas to find their way back, but also provided them with employment training in order to build a better life."[433]

In September 2020, amid condemnation from Western countries, Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping acclaimed the success of his policies in Xinjiang in a 2-day conference expected to set the country's policy for the next years.[445] The Chinese government published a white paper defending its "vocational training centers," claiming that the regional government organised 'employment-oriented training' and labour skills for 1.29 million workers a year from 2014 to 2019.[446]“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps
It’s true that you can’t logically predict the meaning of “irregardless” from its smaller components.

However, that’s true of virtually all words. Ones where the etymology makes the meaning obvious are the exception.

Human languages aren’t math or programming languages; you can’t apply the same kind of logic to them.
The infrastructure projects being done take much longer and cost a great deal more (even after adjusting for inflation) than a few decades ago.
There is no next race, it’s an ongoing relay.
Not sure how I feel about websites blocking vistors based on their browser type. Is that just a necessary evil at this point because of all network abuse on the public internet?
Funny how I mentioned I got an NXDOMAIN from your main host, and your secondary one is called nxdomain.no :)
Disclaimer: runs free events, where organizers are volunteers, in which we're still trying to find sponsorship money for small speaker honorariums.

While I'm grateful to ccc organizers and understand that things are sometimes clearer and easier without the distorting effects of money...

I think defaulting to offering an honorarium to speakers is really healthy. The cultural baseline can easily be set to that any "financially comfortable" speakers donate it straight back without collecting, while only those who need it, keep it.

Why? Because speakers with many areas of expertise cannot afford to spend time speaking for free. Some really rad people can, but just saying that many cannot. And while it's maybe not a big deal if there's narrow representation of ppl volunteering at the ticket booth, there is a larger loss of possibility when cash-poor types of speakers can't afford to show up.

Speakers are the bringers of ideas, and who speaks affects the intellectual space that an event creates. And it might be said that creating that intellectual space is the main point of an event. The other motivation is maybe creating a new relational space, new relationships between people that tend to be fostered and grown around the feeding trough of presentation content.

So the "intellectual" is about "what gets broadcast" and "relational" is more about "who gets enticed to attend", and "which ideas fuck and make new ideas in the conversations between those attendees". All of the above flows from the speakers, and so I'd argue that it's more important to use the powerful magic of money to help certain speakers show up.

I think the sweet spot for starting to experiment with honoraria is: low enough to be a bit insulting to those who would be driven by the money, but high enough to meaningfully cover some costs for someone just trying to get by :)
Infosys stopped hiring Indians in US at least 2-3 years ago, may be before President Trump moved out. Al their job ads (in Indeed) would have this line: "U.S. citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time."

Example: https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b8ca8d3db6e11c9e

Majority of those who need visa sponsorship are Indians & Chinese.

And this is not just Infosys. I have seen the same wording in job ads of many American companies.

My friend who worked in Infosys told me that they were so desperate to hire Americans that they conducted a job fair and if selected, they would give offer letter on the same day.

I am pretty sure Infosys did this because of all the negative media about them preferring to hire Indians in US causing Americans to loose jobs.
+1 I came here to say something similar: don’t buy smart TVs!

I gave away our very expensive smart TV to a friend and purchased a $200 plain TV that only has two inputs: HDMI and an old fashioned antenna jack. I also bought a little black Apple TV device.

If you don’t mind commercials, you can access a vast amount of TV shows and movies for free on Tubi. My wife and I pay for HBO, Netflicks, and Hulu, and we are Prime members.

For me, the important thing is to be able to temporarily download what I want to watch for a few day period, and not have any of the nasty smart TV ads or other bullshit.

For just the two of us, we also often pre-download stuff to a large iPad and watch on a small device.
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Yes, for example even after decades of saying there should be more women and minority people on corporate boards, it's all still dominated by white men.

California brought in a law banning all male boards in 2018 because the problem is so endemic. Not 1988, 2018.

A majority of companies in the S&P 500 have at least one woman on their boards, but only about a quarter have more than two, according to a study from PwC.[1]

So this is still happening now, and for decades most boards just had a token woman at best.

For me personally, when I found out about how unrepresentative corporate boardrooms were, that changed my mind about positive discrimination.

It showed me clear evidence that network effects were too strong, meritocracy is a farce and it had to be broken by forcing a cultural change, i.e. positive discrimination was the right solution.

If you go back far enough in my comment history here you'll probably find me arguing against it. But I learnt about the persistent gender and minority inequality on boards a decade or two ago and changed my mind.

You should too.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/30/business/california-requi...