skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do, by not giving appropriate raises. Adjusting down nominally is typically done via terminating everyone and telling them to reapplying.

Though, in at least a somewhat healthy company, adjusting down nominally leaves too much of a bad taste, so layoffs are used instead where the remaining employees’ pay to qualify of life at work ratio goes down (more work responsibilities, more hours, less amenities at work, etc).
> How is someone supposed to reasonably negotiate that role? $100k is clearly a joke, $700k is clearly a salary someone got during the bubble.

Netflix does actually compensate within this range, though.

The alternatives to these wide ranges are:

1. Create a lot of different postings with different ranges. This is how companies end up with Junior Engineer, Engineer, Senior Engineer, Staff Engineer, Senior Staff Engineer and other titles for what might be the same headcount. If someone comes in with skills and compensation expectations that don’t match the job they applied for, they get bumped to a different job listing. Nothing actually changes, but now the salary ranges are narrower in the job postings.

2. Give everyone similar base compensation and make the difference up in bonuses and RSUs, which aren’t posted in the job listings. These listings usually have lower compensation listed to signal the candidate that RSUs are going to be significant. For example, you’ll see Meta posting jobs with comp down to $129K even though everyone knows they’re going to get more RSUs than base comp. I’ve seen more companies claim to pay everyone the same, with the fine print being that equity grants can vary greatly from person to person.

Really though, I think highly compensated devs need to acknowledge that this law wasn’t made for them. It was made for the people applying to jobs where they don’t know if the typical compensation is $18/hr or $30/hr, or people who have been earning $45K for years who haven’t realized that their peers are getting $60K.

When someone is applying to $450K jobs at Netflix, they have numerous resources from levels.fyi to Blind that will reveal far more than a number on a job listing will. The law is not for highly compensated SWEs applying to the top 0.1% of jobs.
I think that's a stereotype that doesn't hold up. Nearly everyone just drops it off at the mechanic like everyone else, from what I can tell.

However, the _mechanic_ doesn't have EV skills.
My god. The comments here are like they're generated by an LLM. "Google cancel project. One more to the dead google project lol"

Even the slightest awareness of local conditions would have improved these comments. The Google developments suffered from the same opposition any residential developer faces in the Bay Area.

https://nextcity.org/features/why-one-silicon-valley-city-sa...

In addition, the towns of the Bay also made a big fuss about "company towns".

For those who aren't acquainted with the Bay Area, residents of the region in general strongly oppose any housing. Explanations given range from "The Bay Area is full" to "People shouldn't be living like sardines on top of each other" to "Where will my friends park when they visit". A housing project being cancelled after years of opposition is normal not, out of the ordinary.
That's not quite what I said. The product experience has not changed sufficiently such that I'm motivated enough to pay the 'cost' of trying to find a better product experience elsewhere. 'hostage' is a strange word to use.
"Google partnered with the Australian company Lendlease in 2019"

Worth noting the original deal announcement was pre-pandemic (June 2019). Lots has changed since then.
Technology has progressed enough that these issues are solvable with off the shelf engineering. The metadata and one frame per second should be streamed over 5G, the units themselves should sync over 5g and wifi. But the fact that it was recorded at a place and a time should be logged in a system in realtime.
Yeah, I thought it was a Canadian thing as well. Coming from an area that was heavily populated by Indians, it was a relatively large part of the curriculum back in my younger days. And I never heard that term in relation to Native Americans.
This, plus break up the broadband carriers (Comcast et. al) and enshrine open access to infrastructure into law, bonus points for net neutrality.

That would be honest wins for the US telecom market, and drive lots of competition, while preserving some common sense / fair access to shared infrastructure for all.
I have never seen a statute of limitations that can expire if charges have already been initiated.
Sure, you can do that. But aside from the ethics of it, there's always a chance that they won't counteroffer and just say "Maybe you should go with that higher offer."

You really don't want to bring up a "competing offer" unless you're prepared to take the counteroffer/just walk away.
There is a better case against the airlines since like you said, Sprint was clearly about to go bust had the merger not happened, and there still would’ve been three cell phone companies.
There's also a selection bias going on with the reviews: There are thousands of games coming out every year, so why would a publication pay someone to write reviews of the games everybody knows are going to be bad, and that readers aren't interested in reading?
> they can't think of anything worthwhile to invest in and earn with

Yeah I mostly agree with that (even though I believe their insurance business is backstopped with cash as part of their strategy), but this part isn't true because we're not talking about paper cash:

Inflation is nibbling that away by roughly 10% a year. (So about $16 billion evaporating away per year).

Currently "cash" yields over 5% and inflation is less than that, so nothing is evaporating away.

Also, there have been plenty of times in history where cash has outperformed the alternatives (the last couple years being an example).
There's also the option to use the DuckDB PostgreSQL scanner

https://duckdb.org/docs/archive/0.9.1/extensions/postgres_sc...
Is this similar to Yggdrasil?
I am similarly shocked. I don't remember the last time I saw a job posting that had the salary range listed.
But I think they still build bunch of offices which are still in development.
The website is "games industry biz", and the first word of the article is "journalists". If you aren't familiar with Yahtzee, Zero Punctuation, or the Escapist, then that's really all the background you need.
But don't you usually take those people with you to a station, in order to take a proper statement? Or that happens on the scene directly after the fact? One would think they'd at least get to go to a hospital to do a check before they have to talk with law enforcement.
They forgot to add the safety nets to the buildings! Easy mistake.
It seems harmless compared to the many indignities officers have to suffer. I'm curious what they think themselves. How much corruption or cocaine use would be acceptable to them? Would having the sound of your pee on recording some place be worse than having corrupt coworkers?
Why is it never good enough to just have an ongoing business that works?

Unless The Escapist was really losing money or about to go bankrupt, I don't know why it needed to be messed with. It's not a "growth" project, it's a journalistic outlet. Who cares if it "grows"?
The fact that we need tech companies to build housing on behalf of the city is a huge policy failure.

The city should have just rezoned many parts of the city a long time ago for mixed used. But instead the city and its residents has always fought against new housing. It’s only because of new RHNA mandates that they are required to zone for new housing. This is going to be a win for NIMBYs.

I hope the cities involved will rezone other areas especially in single family neighborhoods such that we can get more housing when interest rates drop. There is a lot of demand still for housing and there are policy tools that can be leveraged to encourage more housing to be built.
That's a horrible idea.

It's a much more public place than home, and "let's not talk about this here, come down to the station" is likely to be... not what some folks want to hear. Easily misconstrued.
And why do rates matter to Google, they can pay cash.
Some tax break programs (bring X jobs to an area) have clawback provisions.

There’s also the matter of, if everyone is selling, now you have to fire sell into a huge market glut and realize a huge loss.
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In my young years I had little understanding of the value of time, and would spend an inordinate amount of time on eking out that last little bit of perfection (whatever "perfect" looked like to me, anyway).

Bragging rights fits in here as well for a certain cohort. "Oh, you got 5.551Ghz, not bad but I'm at 5.5511Ghz".

Another classic example of this is uptime bragging for some linux fans, as a way to both one-up each other and to one-up the Windows community, which (more so in the past) had pretty awful uptimes due to various bugs and the need to reboot after making config changes. (We used to joke: "You have moved your mouse, please reboot Windows for this change to take effect.")

I think most people in this kind of community though just enjoy tinkering and maximizing performance/whatever.
Very much so. I am very opening, welcoming, accepting. But when I've questioned some of the most egregious concerns, it's only a matter of time before you hear "perhaps you should look more closely at yourself".
Which tribe would get the land back?
They ramped up blocking text messages for months before introducing a2p 10dlc

They certainly haven’t gotten rid of spam messages, but they still block a lot of fully compliant text messages

Unfortunately, they could probably keep raising prices and companies would have no choice but to pay up

That’s because the wireless companies banded together and formed a cartel
Not every founder is a sole engineer who codes on their own.
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I’m surprised at this to be honest. At my employer (a bank) we have to do a flip a couple times a year and just continue running from the alternate DC until the next flip. Pain in the butt on the weekends of the flip but at least we know for sure that our DR plan works and is good enough to serve our regular load…
> It sounds like a lot of it just went to unprofitable SaaS companies

U.S. GDP is north of $25 trillion and has grown 75% since 2009. Annual VC investments appear to be in the $200-300 billion range, from a quick search - presumably not all of it going to unprofitable SaaS companies. I'd go with the statistics over the gut intuition here.
I believe you don't know the definition of a meme, if that is your take. They are by definition widespread, and can be pretty much any editable electronic media type.
Not necessarily; plenty of initial information gets shared at the scene.
Except that those transactions don't count until they get on the main chain and no one needs to send 1000 transactions of single penny, then have the exact same problems as everyone else when trying to get that to actually be usable.
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Or buyer will try to resell as non-fake…
It matters to us since if we are going to give land back we have to know who to give it to.
i really believe that 60-70% of back to office is about having fiefdoms for executives
I mean it's no surprise with it being one of the most popular board games right now. I finally got around to purchasing it about a month ago and I really like it as well. Has the perfect balance between simplicity and strategy.
... take a little google about seattle police oversight board. It's 100% toothless.
Believe or not, not all businesses are interested in to maximalism of profit

that's easy to disprove. there are businesses that do not care about maximizing profit, but have other goals. (look up b-corp for one form of that. in my own business the goal is to maximize the number of jobs that i can create)

regulations are shaped by lobby

which is really bad, because it means those who are the loudest get their way and everyone else suffers.

throw it into trash bins? and who empties the trash bins?

the point you are missing is that if noone pays for trash removal then trash doesn't get removed. so either everyone pays for their own, or the community collects money and everyone contributes to that. there is no way around that.
For ads, I don't. For customer support however, a verified phone number (that I can look up myself, easily, perhaps as part of a FCC website function, for example) would be a huge win though.

I used the Apple Business Chat feature for support for a shipping issue I had recently with Everlane and it was actually amazing. It had its own verified icon, so I knew it wasn't a scam, I could answer when I was able, and they were able to respond as they were able (though, I did find it quite timely, even when I wasn't) and not at all did I have to call someone, or talk talk to a chatbot (as far as I could tell anyway). It was a seamless experience and it got my issue resolved.

I personally like this model of customer support. No reason this can't extend to SMS
Somebody in the new management probably needed to stir things up and show that they have a vision and direction that will take the company to new heights, which includes drastic measures like firing those holding the company back, or who were unwilling to be reduced in compensation and scope.
I thought this was an excellent question. It's easy to argue that the merger shouldn't have been approved, but seems like the plaintiffs want a time machine. Perhaps they're just looking for some sort of financial settlement?

Has there ever been a similar suit against a large merger like this in the past, successful or not? I'm really curious how the legal system views these "please undo the past" requests.
Just having access to friends, community, cafes, a social life of sorts, is enough for me to be emotionally good - and keeps all the vice/bad influences at a safe distance.

I'd also like to note that there is the possibility of LTR/marriage without cohabitating. It's just costly, but from where I'm sitting that looks like the far better approach if one can afford it. It's not that uncommon to hear about such arrangements among celebrities who obviously have the necessary dough.

Before the pandemic started I was pretty isolated for a couple years solo developing an off-grid desert property, which turned into another ~2 years of absolute solitude from the COVID lock-downs. Without access to the public in the form of cafes/bars or even the public library, it became noticeably mentally and emotionally problematic. While it's nice to know what that extreme looks like and how it negatively affects me, I have no interest in repeating the experience.

For me, just having the ability to hack from a cafe at least several times a month and have some conversations with even random strangers provides the majority of the human interaction I require. Beyond that it's diminishing returns land.
What neighborhood?

I used to live in SF and would see shoplifting all the time but now live in NYC and haven’t seen it that much.
What is one to do when a manager does not provide autonomy and also insists on paying attention to detail?
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These capabilities just aren't available for purchase right now in a form that's practical for police departments to adopt. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it hasn't been built and marketed. No doubt part of this is because of the huge market dominance of Axon which is not a company I find very trustworthy, but it is the situation right now.

Most of the commercially available on-body recorders are surprisingly bad. Axon seems to make the best, but it's a low bar. Do consider though that the environmental requirements for these devices are exceptional. Head-mounted cameras have pretty much disappeared, for example, because the cable that connected them to the recorder invariably failed after months of use. Recorders will be dropped more than once a day, and in some areas they will be wet much of the time. Difficult to make good devices that hold up for at least two years, which is usually the minimum purchasing requirement.
Love the minimalist look of the cards. I'll try this out in the coming days.
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because the alternative to ghosting is to say something. and saying something may result in being cancelled.
This seems like over-optimizing for time. For the individual there are trade offs in wear and tear, fuel consumption, stress, accident risk, and as a sibling comment indicates, a social component.

For traffic in general this increases the number of lane changes and merges, increasing risk and slowing traffic further. Depending on location it may benefit by using more of the road surface (and alleviate problems further back) or may cause problems off the freeway at the local exit either due to greater traffic at the intersection or the freeway queue backing up into surface streets. (Or both.)

It should also be noted that this is an illegal maneuver in some US states. I presume Waze doesn’t suggest it in those states.
> I can't recall ever hearing of a merger being forcibly un-done.

That's pretty much what antitrust actions are. It's super rare and I can't imagine there's a case here against T-Mobile as both Verizon and AT&T are bigger.
The overall argument is very weak. Say, unknowns are everywhere, so the very existence of unknown hardly can be a reason to turn around.

> hyper-rational

You don't exactly call internet fandoms "rational" in any perspective. They're simply irresponsible for what they're saying. They simply don't care about your situation.

To add an anecdotal note, Rust sucks in its own ways. No single idea is good enough to be enforced in every single context. For example, Rust makes it harder to write simple mundane logic, which languages like Python and JS could express concisely. You're still stuck with verbosity like chaining dances and long type signatures, even when they hardly matter. A full-blown bureaucracy you must overcome every single day. This puts Rust in the realm of Java, which used to enforce pure OOP.
Your hypothetical is both gross and succeeds in missing the point entirely.

You see, I am a father, and I have been the recipient of terrible news about my child.

It was delivered by someone with the expertise to do that and the time to handle the grief and done in a very private setting.

Notably, no weapons were present. No one had extraordinary powers.

As a result, camera footage was entirely unnecessary in the first place.

It would have been much worst to have that kind of news delivered by a police officer and it’s offensive to all parties that we do that.
>The Penobscots, one of the member nations of the Wabanaki Confederacy, have never been displaced from Indian Island (since settling there ~11k years ago), and acquired significant additional land holdings since the 1970s.

How do you know that? If they took land from another tribe 9k years ago do you think we would have a record of it? What if another tribe took the land from them 8k years ago and 7k years ago they took it back? Do you think we can actually determine if that happened?
That doesn't seem to be the thesis of the linked article at all. All it says is that memes with dated references are increasingly considered uncool. (I had little to no familiarity with the discussed memes, so it seems that the author's Internet bubble does not intersect much with mine--so I have no particular opinion on whether that thesis is well-supported.)
Well, I can print a piece of paper...
the cycles of the free market will never solve our housing problems.
Probably because it’s an issue that’s reaching a boiling point among those in the know.

The present state of North American city design explains so much about what is wrong with North America.

Health and obesity, housing costs, pollution and emissions, isolation versus community, human safety and premature injury/death…the list goes on. It’s a politically deep topic.
Competing job offers and other interviews lined up are excellent, excellent, excellent to have!

For this reason always try to cluster job interviews together as much as possible so that the offers come out around the same time. This situation is generally going to be very favorable for you as an engineer!

Consider that some hiring manager probably has been played games with for months in terms of head count and interviewing poor candidate after another. When they extend that offer to you, they want you seated yesterday. Mentioning "I have 2 offers, I've had 100% offers for every interview so far, and btw I'm interviewing at a FAANG tomorrow." - that will perk up some interest and can elicit a pro-active better offer.

I've had one outfit ask me, "How much for you to just stop interviewing and come work for us?" This sense of urgency on the employer side is the only time where an engineering employee has more power than the company. Most employers will try everything to make this window of time short - usually by trying to get you to stop interviewing and do no salary negotiation, or give you an exploding offer, or counter and say there are competing candidates.
> IME whenever I live with someone else my health gets worse.

Yep, same here.

> And of the few friends I've known well long enough to see them both single and married, it's become quite apparent that they have a tendency to enable one another to do unhealthy things.

I've said exactly this before, even in my current marriage (that we enable bad habits in each other).

I might try to eat healthier, but she's having a bad day and wants to eat garbage, or I'm stressed at work and not caring as much and make bad decisions. She often wants things that I wouldn't bother getting on my own as well, like a daily Starbucks or late night ice cream, and while it's easy for me to not have that stuff if I don't go to those places, it's much harder for me to choose something healthy when I do go (like going to Oberweis and getting something for her and not me can be hard to do. I still don't about half the time, but the other half I'm like screw it and get something).

And I try to eat healthier meals, like just make a salad for dinner or something, but when I do that I often still have to cook something since she only tolerates salads with a 'proper cooked meal', and then it's hard for me to spend an hour or more cooking something or picking up takeout for her and then not eat it also.

It's a tradeoff that we've been on the wrong side of more often than I'd like, and I'm trying to get things back on track, but then something happens that throws it off course again inevitably.

When I was by myself I don't remember it being anywhere near this difficult. Just buy some salad fixings and don't go out, just make that for lunch or whatever. Having to also work with someone else with different tastes (at least when it comes to healthy options) makes it much more difficult.

It was also difficult when I was living with my parents also and trying to diet while they did their own thing, so it's not something that's exclusive to my wife or anything.
This is a strange American thing. As a Brit it is utterly bizarre and
alien to me. Nobody here would ever look twice at a job that didn't
state the salary. If you're trying to fill a position the salary is
probably the most important piece of information you need to sell
it. How can an employment market even function otherwise?