skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix separated pay and performance. Your performance was evaluated all year, and if you weren't a top performer, you were let go. In the spring we would do 360 reviews, where anyone could write a review of anyone else, to give candid feedback (although giving candid feedback was encouraged all year, but this gave you a formal outlet to do it).

In the fall, your pay was evaluated (and kicked in at the new year). You were paid on the assumption that you were a top performer (otherwise you would have already been let go), so they would adjust you to "how much would we have to pay them to get them in the door today". They needed data for that calculation.

One source of data was how much they had to offer new hires to get in the door. A second source was industry salary surveys. And a third source was your offer letters from other companies, if you chose to share them. If you get a huge offer elsewhere, they would maybe match it, or maybe tell you that you're better off going to that other offer.

It also served another purpose. It gave you a chance to look at that other offer (assuming you could get one) and really thing about whether you still liked your job at Netflix enough to stay. They wanted people to be happy about continuing to work there, and were supportive of you leaving if you weren't happy, because they know you do your best work when you enjoy it.

FWIW, my raises at Netflix were typically 20%+, and so were a lot of people, because they economy was on fire at the time.
>This would be expected in a recession.

I may be misunderstanding, but are you saying we're currently in a recession?
That’s much worse than interest rates for the vast majority (that don’t have any assets to put up or can’t afford to actually lose them).
> and I thought I had lost the tabs because when I opened it back up, they were gone with no way to restor

You know ```Ctrl+shift+t``` this opens the last closed tab and - at least in chrome - restores the previous environment after restart
> "may occasionally generate incorrect information"

The points of this thread are 1) this is a dramatic understatement; ChatGPT's output is not just occasionally incorrect, but usually incorrect in some dimension, and 2) in the absence of any fine-grained confidence value for individual statements, you must pessimistically assume that all statements are incorrect until proven otherwise, which dramatically reduces the utility of the tool compared to how its fanboys portray it as the second coming of Christ.
Is there any literature out there on how they do it at large scale?

From my understanding it’s tough and expensive ( selenium and rotating resedential ips) am I misinformed?
I agree with your general point.

But, assuming I wanted a fake background that would pass casual scrutiny, I'd make something up that was close enough to the truth but not close enough that anyone would think anything was off if we got to casual chatting. I'd probably say I was from and/or lived in some city I knew extremely well but had never actually lived in. Maybe say I got an undergrad degree from somewhere I got a grad degree. Etc.
Ask HN: Tools for Debugging Network Bottlenecks?
I've recently been having to transfer lots of files from place A to B. For example Hetzner => another cloud provider.

Anyways, I've realized I have no good way to answer questions like: "My download speed dropped to 0, is Hetzner throttling my bandwidth, or is it <other cloud provider>"?

Or, Hetzner claims I get up to 1GB/s network speed, but in practice I only get 13 MiB/s out of their cloud. Is the issue with them, or with the software I'm using to download, or with my computer?

So HN, what are the tools you use to debug network connections / data transfer jobs?

Mostly, I notice that I have never even got close to the promised 1GiB/s Hetzner bandwith when trying to download data.
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It is not categorically imperative to never lie nor misrepresent. The opposite is true. There are some situations where "standard" ethical principles (don't lie, don't kill) are unethical. If left with no alternative, lethal self-defense is not just acceptable, but is morally necessary. An exception to the exception might exist if your attacker is acting justly, but that takes it to another level of analysis.
As European who lived in the US for a while, I'm still baffled about the lax concept of paying off debt on (multiple) credit cards, vs. the strict monthly, limited and unavoidable debit from one's checking account.
Carrying a balance means paying 20% interest rate, that is absolutely not a positive thing (in the US).
Apparently Bing will release new search functionality which boosted with GPT4 perhaps that will be replacement.
FWIW "paying off a month's balance due" is different than "paying off my credit card debt" to me. The latter implies you're carrying an already due balance to a future term and adding the interest associated with that.
Historically Netflix only had one level of engineer (this changed last year) with a starting salary of $400k, so I'm guessing it was substantially more than half a million.
First agree with timing the market. But I am a bit skeptical about your overall point. Historically this has been true, but many people think we are at an inflection point and historical trends might no longer be true. This time is different is certainly often said and rarely correct, but ... this time is different, maybe?
> Your mailman might think a stranger is living with you.

All the better! I don't know why this would be a problem.
Which static analysis tools do you recommend?
In the US, using a debit card frequently means that you are liable for fraudulent use, lost money, etc.

A credit card offers a ton of legal protection (stolen number is not your problem) and frequently other protections as a benefit. For example, anything I buy with my cc has the warranty doubled up to 3 years as a benefit.
All things considered, that’s not surprising that a company doesn’t want their free API/resources used to make moving to a competitor easier.
Yes, the concept of rooms is analogous to rooms in a chat service. One difference from IRC as a protocol (besides being over websocket) is that each connection corresponds to exactly one room (since different rooms may be on different servers.)
Not sure about GP, but money isn't everything. If I feel like I'm being treated badly, under stress, and lonely, no money can compensate that.
I've been a "Senior Engineer" for over 10 years now.
> The fact that any Xorg client can become a key logger without any user input or authentication is a pretty big security hole imo.

This "hole" doesn't exist. For an X client to capture input, it must be authenticated by either the unix user permission or by an access control list (where the default is to deny). Individual clients can also be marked untrusted which sandboxes them to some extent (though not as much as using a separate X server of course).

I'll grant that in practice, most the time these restrictions are very lax... in part because they can break some applications. But at the same time, in practice, it doesn't seem to matter that much since either you're running things you trust anyway or if a malicious application has access to your X connection they also have access to all your other files so you're in trouble anyway.
Visa and Mastercard are payment networks, not banks. They don’t own the debt at all.
I was an NOC Agent for Canada then I got married. There's so much data out there, nothing is easy with creating a false persona. Your eyes, walk, fingerprints, etc.

It's possible in the short run, but you're leaking a lot of data doing it. My MO when I really didn't want to end up Googleable was to just give my real first name and leave it at that even if people pressed.

Edit: The reason is simple. If someone gives a false name and you know their real one then you're much more certain that they're trying to conceal their identity. So the downside is real, even if it is practical in some circumstances.
The layoffs in tech so far are a drop in the bucket. The pace of hiring overall surged unexpectedly in January (517,000 jobs added) - that's going to keep the Fed wanting to raise rates.

On the other hand, tech (and finance) layoffs probably impact the economy more because those being laid off are generally making higher salaries than most other industries. You've gotta wonder if tech layoffs are going to start hurting local economies in the Bay Area and perhaps Seattle.
Semantic Segmentation with SegFormer and Hugging Face Transformers
Funny enough, we tried going down the road of doing a JIT, but for our use cases pure emulation was often fast enough and it wasn't worth the extra complexity to do JIT. Part of that is probably due to the architecture of how TTD works, but part of it is how efficient we were able to get with the emulation mode. Later, a different emulator was created for running x86 code on ARM64, and that one uses an extremely efficient JIT. (I didn't get to work on the x86-on-arm64 emulator though. Would have been fun)

Working on the JIT in TTD was a lot of fun though, and it's a shame it didn't make sense to keep it around.
This can be modelled formally: just drop the ex falso quodlibet axiom and its equivalents.
Send police to deal with the situation. If that is not possible for some reason, then that is the problem that needs fixing. You don't need murderbots.
Yeah. The votes are just the normal FF fanclub, which I'm a card holding member of. This post seems a bit like karma farming to me.
Having caught some Paw Patrol, I don't even know that kids should be watching genuine Paw Patrol. It's just so damn frenetic... Maybe I'm an old man yelling at clouds, but I feel that something slower-paced like Mr Rogers has to be better for you, right?
XTerm has basic keyboard locking support.
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> People are saying that these mass layoffs and the way they are conducted are harmful to society and not as beneficial to the business as CEOs and investors want to believe.

Exactly this, though I also propose as the end of your sentence, "...as CEOs and investors claim." We get told a lot of false or true-but-in-the-abstract motives.

The McSweeney's article[0] nails it perfectly for me. I am in the gap in the middle, where stable pensions were on the way out at the same time as companies dropped loyalty to employees into the bin. So I started my working life with the cultural expectation that existed--work for the same company, or maybe two companies, for 40ish years, then leave the workforce knowing I'd be stable--and am now expected to cover all of my years of life solely from the resources I can scrounge together. This, in a word, sucks, and it's part of why layoffs--especially when companies are still hiring in other areas is so jarring to me.

(Does it suck more than the generation or two who have come after me, who had neither the expectation of a pension or potential job stability? No! It's far worse for those later than me; their only "benefit" is people younger than me didn't start out with that false hope. They've always known they're screwed unless they can horde as much as possible in as little time as possible.)

0 - https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/macroeconomic-changes-ha...
In terms of "basic" search results, yes, at least marginally. I don't find them to be revolutionary but it comes with many improvements, manual control over upranking and downranking domains, it respects logical query filters such as "AND", "OR", +, -, and quotation marks. It reduces clutter of "Top X products in category" type results by grouping them in their own section of the page.

For the downsides, it requires linking a payment card so it's impossible for them to guarantee privacy (cryptocurrencies could save the day here) and it completely relies on other search engines like Google and Bing for search results which is a questionable long-term strategy in my eyes.
Sure, feel free to point out how it makes me less anonymous.
Kagi is the way to go. Search results are more useful, and I'm rarely faced with spam sites.
What is it you dont trust? This Fear Uncertainty & Doubt clashes heavily with the excellent security sandbox the web browser is. What is the harm you are afraid of? What are you supposing the risk is/what's in jeapordy here?
I don’t think so… I mean which inflation figure are you talking about? The one that happens to be about what a 30-year mortgage would also be right now? That’s not usually the case. Mortgage rates are “fed benchmark” + a couple percentage points. Beyond that, correlation to inflation is coincidental.
Yep: in that sense the longest structurally valid x86 instruction is unbounded in length, so long as you conform to the group restrictions.
"Why are people reading mediocre content with questionable accuracy?"

Because it's literally everywhere you look and is very hard to filter due to huge amount of it everywhere. Particularly if you are trying to learn and grow on a certain subject, it's difficult to filter out what you don't know is 'mediocre' or 'questionable' at least not until you've already consumed it.
I agree in the broad that much (most) of reddit is awful, wrong, and not worth viewing. (I wonder how you feel about HN over the years. To me HN got as bad as parts of reddit were at some point, however reddit has gotten worse too so there's still a quality gap.) Still, it can be occasionally useful to filter it as a site for queries, like with HN. (It's fun to see if a company I've thought about working for has been talked about on HN at all.) Recently I found some useful travel posts on reddit, like how to best get to a destination with some tradeoffs highlighted for time sensitivity and helpful links for everything, and as an augment of location reviews, some offering quite a bit more context than the one or two paragraphs I usually see on google maps. Though to be fair, a sample of short reviews is usually good enough. Another use of reddit remains finding other people who want to talk about relatively niche things, but these days it's more common that it's just one way that leads you to a discord server whose contents are sadly invisible to search engines.
It does indeed render and index them: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
> (Center here, Container there)

Usually, it's a sign that you refactor something to a separate StatelessWidget or at least a function.

If you're coming from web dev, you will be used to having all this container, padding, center, column code in CSS. Now you have it in UI. But on the flip side, this has its flexibility. You can usually refactor the styling part out of the actual widget if you want.

For me the big problems with flutter are state management and platform interop. Yet it's nicer than most other options for developing UI.
Why is weak acid like that so hard on the stomach? Stomach/gastric acid is way lower pH and is a strong acid.

Orange juice is more acidic and less associated with stomach problems (but not unassociated).
I can see tons of jobs disappearing even with current level. Web these days is filled with mediocre articles, and quite a few bureaucratic jobs can and will be replaced by some next iteration.

Instead of army of mediocre journalists filling web portals, you just need 1 person to proof read it per business, maybe not even that. I can see the same for software dev in less than decade with current pace, 1 senior going over generated code and doing minor tweaks. Which is probably road to hell long term since how will juniors become seniors, but cost savings can be real and massive, drop in quality small if at all and it may be good enough for many.

It has very good language skills, in my obscure and rather difficult native language which only cca 6 million people use it formulated perfect sentences consistently. I can easily imagine faking social, even love chats easily. This can help lonely or elderly people (with good speech recognition/generation, since language skill itself is there already). With image/video generation porn industry will be steamrolled, 24/7 streams of anything you can imagine, looking realistic enough, tailored just to you.

Or just help with learning foreign languages, heck few months ago a guy was posting here on HN just a smart chat that could be used for training and got standing ovation also from me for that, this has it and everything else.

I understand google's reaction, instead of browsing through paid entries it gives me answer directly, no need to click through search and then wikipedia and then parsing texts. At least in some cases. This could help google massively if they could somehow do it on their scale.

People trying to find errors in it are missing the point now - its not about academic perfection, but often good-enough almost for free. Also, this is not final product, only 4th alpha/beta/whatever, previous ones were much worse. Imagine 10 or 20 years down the road...
Googlebot has been able to index SPAs since 2019. They use a Headless Chrome instance and allow a number of seconds for things to render after each interaction.
May I ask if selling your share in voat was lucrative
There can be a substantial difference in the flavor of coffee based on the composition of the water used to brew it.

Softer water doesn't necessarily mean better or worse tasting coffee. Just different tasting coffee. Hardness of the water impacts extraction yield from the coffee. Alkalinity will have a huge impact on the acidity, or "sour" notes in the coffee and you can adjust this to taste.
What I have been doing is buying 1 month CD's. They are at great rates now and don't have the long time commitments other CDs have(you can get them via a brokerage like Morgan Stanley or Schwab). I have been seeing rates of 4.2-4.3%, the rest of my money is in high interest savings which is yielding in the high 3's. I think we will see a sharp correction and have alot of money on the sidelines once things start to fall apart.
Commenter is saying that it could be possible to get to the same outcome but through a different mechanism. So maybe if we do invent an AGI, it will be able to do all the things a human can do, but the underlying mechanism will not resemble or imitate what our brains are doing.

See also:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
Ya I would agree the stats are probably biased based on the US border vs Canada's.

However at the same time it would not be difficult to travel from the southern US border to the US-Canada border. I would wager its easier than making the journey from south america to the Mexico-US border.

But being a better place does not always equate to more people wanting to immigrate there. If it did we would see more people coming to countries like Canada than the US. I think part of the major appeal of the US is the basically open southern boarder and very lax immigration law/policies. You have entire states that advertise they flout federal law and are a sanctuary state. That has to be a major major appeal for someone considering an illegal crossing. Basically you get to one of those states or cities and your likelihood of being deported drops significantly.

I am not super familiar with Canada's policy or system but based purely on numbers it seem like they keep a much tighter control on the number coming in.
Wow. I was just about to code a key part of our startup's platform using workers and durable objects. I had zero idea that workers are intended for html output and that if they were used for JSON-RPC they would ban us if we are too successful. Crazy. The whole point of the service is free egress. What a joke. Pass. Will look into Fastly.
This. If you're trying to hide from governments, that's Next Level stuff. You have to be prepared to actually live underground, which involves sacrifices most people aren't willing to make.
> Carrying balances is a positive thing if you pay on time every month.

It improves your score, for sure. Your credit score is an assessment of your value as a customer. A customer who pays off their balance every month before incurring any interest is lower value than a customer who runs a balance and makes payments. The bank wants more people like that.
(Beaten to it, woops) One of the major upsides of a credit card is that in the case of fraud, mischarge, etc your bank account isn’t affected while you get things sorted.

From what I understand many debit cards do have fraud protection of some sort but among other things it’s not instant so if the timing is bad…
> We need more basic financial education in the US and probably the world.

We do, definitely. However wouldn't that also produce the same result as regulating the cards?

Ie i imagine cards are profitable for the responsible folk because they so heavily abuse the irresponsible and/or uneducated folk. If we were to educate everyone then the cards wouldn't exploit "anyone" and suddenly the card makers have no incentive to offer the profitable cash back/etc.

Now of course, we can't educate "everyone". And i'm not a fan of systems that build themselves on the back of the exploited.

Do i have the wrong framing here?
I don’t think that’s the highest good in life. I think it’s important that humans have access to well paying jobs because that gives them more agency. Money gives you options.

In a perfect world nobody would have to work.
When someone is waving money in your face and saying "please just give me the thing I want and I will give you all this money", it's ridiculous not to listen. So many competitors just don't listen.
Yeah it did, it's called basic math.
If I search for something that I know I'll likely find on a "specialized" site, like your IMDB, etc examples, I'll go there. Most Linux-related stuff, I'll first try my luck on the Arch wiki.

But for general searches, I'll hit google.

A few months ago I was looking to buy a NVMe drive, so I hit google looking for product reviews, etc. I don't do this often enough, so even though I know some of the usual review sites by name, I don't usually think of going there right away.

I'm looking to set something up on windows at work. I'm not a windows guy, and it's not something very common, so my colleagues can't help. Windows docs are questionable on this subject. Hit google up looking for this and found some random blogs.

For tech searches, I often end up on either some stack exchange site or that product's forum. But not always, and I don't tend to look there in priority. I sometimes get reddit results, but I absolutely loathe the experience, so I try to avoid going there as much as possible.

To your point, I don't do it all day every day, but it's pretty much my go-to way of looking "new" stuff up.
There is no interest paid if you always pay full statement balance.
"Terfs" aren't the ones in control, not by a long shot. Radical feminists have been consistently mocked and marginalised since their activism started.

By contrast, trans-identifying people are comparatively celebrated in our society.
Any must have extensions?
If your categorization can be subverted by changing a title, it either needs a better definition or it needs to not exist. Otherwise you're making decisions based on daydreams that can wreck people's lives. And I'm very pessimistic about a better definition, since I think technology is going to make the line between "worker" and "manager" even blurrier over time, in practice if not in law.
This is such a contentious topic in the US that my post was flagged for merely pointing out this kind of problem. The attitude is basically once you have the kid, get fucked and pay and then we'll tax the hell out of the kid thank you very much for your investment. It's incredibly easy to be "selfless" when the other guy is making the lions share of the investment and you still get your full share of social security receipts.