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np_tedious··on Open Salary and Equity Database
Unless they have extended their exercise window beyond that standard 90d, those lottery tickets may cost a lot is money to retain after leaving for another job. So much so that companies exist solely to extend loans for them.

You don't get to just collect multiple lottery tickets without either going out of pocket or watering down your share significantly.

np_tedious··on Should I build a Tesla coil for a science fair?
Even the capacitor inside a disposable camera (for the flash) is no joke. Used to mess around shocking ourselves with that when we were kids
np_tedious··on French moratorium on prion studies after two cases of fatal brain disease (2021)
Prions are terrifying
np_tedious··on Examining the covidtests.gov architecture
This is a wonderful service. I did it when I moved and set up forwarding, but continue see it every morning.

USPS Informed Delivery / Daily Digest is awesome and underappreciated

np_tedious··on Left Alive And Unchanged: The Heaven’s Gate Website
Isn't that more about iwarp, who are presumably still alive and running a business and paying bills?
np_tedious··on Left Alive And Unchanged: The Heaven’s Gate Website
Thanks for this comment. I was initially impressed that the site stated up that long with no human maintenance.

Also, now I want to watch that documentary

np_tedious··on PHP in 2022
It seems that PHP (or at least the community) is taking a lot of inspiration from hack for its newer additions, and giving very little in the way of credit or comparisons.

It is weird than an article like this shows nothing for ctrl+f "hack"

np_tedious··on List of games that Buddha would not play
Buddha is ok with this, as long as there's no ball, 8 or 10 route boards, or racing towards a certain configuration
np_tedious··on Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on public housing applicants
I had used total city population as denominator. Oops
np_tedious··on Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on public housing applicants
So 3MB of personal information? That's well under 1 byte per citizen how bad can it be?

/s

np_tedious··on Some Apple engineers rewarded up to $180k in stock bonuses as incentive to stay
Yep. $180k would be a pretty small Additional/Discretionary equity grant at Meta
np_tedious··on The carpetbagger’s guide to home ownership
I think you're training about i bonds, and they are capped at 10k / person / year
np_tedious··on Non-Fungible Olive Gardens
> should it be upvoted

That's up to the readers, isn't it? There is no "should". I enjoyed and thought it was pretty funny

np_tedious··on Non-Fungible Olive Gardens
Absolutely. Whole roadmap is hilarious
np_tedious··on Ask HN: Own .com for 7 years, a new company trademarked my name registered .NET
I think the idea is that it's plausibly someone else calling, since you made the documents containing contact info public (which is legal I hope?).
np_tedious··on Advent of Code 2021
I have failed to finish a few times. Not necessarily because they get harder (tho that contributes), but because I go at the speed/time I'm willing to dedicate and once the new year hits I invariably lose interest

Still enjoy whatever I get done

np_tedious··on Father-son duo helped techies ‘hack exams’, earn top scores for big payday
I took a few actuarial exams at center like this (USA, passed some failed others). I was pretty impressed. Cost was fair, seemed like it'd be hard to cheat. Most common exams being taken there looked like TOEFL, GRE, MCAT. I don't see why more professional certs couldn't do the same
np_tedious··on Hamilton teen embroiled in FBI probe, fingered in $46M cryptocurrency theft
Probably password reuse, then leaked. Like you'd see on https://haveibeenpwned.com/
np_tedious··on Why Lisp?
Probably depends what it's doing. If it's interacting with HTML and manipulating the DOM then probably not
np_tedious··on Report on Stablecoins [pdf]
Titan/Iron is (was?) an algorithmic undercollateralized stablecoin pair. Iron was the $1 one actually. This is not a meaningful comparison to fully collateralized coins like USDC or Tether.

They may have their own issues, but the certainly don't have Iron's

np_tedious··on Ask HN: State of PHP at Facebook?
Hack features have actually driven a lot of the additions into recent PHP versions. So the more relevant question might be the other way around
np_tedious··on Show HN: Simple access to your music from the web
You can. It serves over http. You can control via ssh+mpc (you'll want to turn the local volume at home to zero most likely). There's also android clients.

It's been a while since I've done this, but from what I remember the main weakness is that there's no buffering: you always hear exactly the point the mpd player is at.

np_tedious··on Python stands to lose its GIL, and gain a lot of speed
> These changes are major enough that a fair number of existing Python libraries that work directly with Python’s internals (e.g., Cython) would need to be rewritten. But the cadence of Python’s release schedule just means such breaking changes would need to be made in a major point release instead of a minor one.

Maybe time to rethink? https://www.techrepublic.com/article/programming-languages-w...

If this is as promising as it sounds, it seems Python 4 now has its "thing" and is on the horizon. Or at least may become a serious thing to talk about

np_tedious··on Understanding Python through its builtins
cool!

  >>> l = ['a','b']
  >>> l[False]
  'a'
  >>> l[True]
  'b'
  >>> d = {0: 'a', 1: 'b'}
  >>> d[False]
  'a'
   >>> d[True]
  'b'
  >>> # TIL!
np_tedious··on M(57885161) verified as 48th Mersenne Prime
Are Mersennes any more or less likely to be excluded by a probabilistic primality test than other numbers might be?
np_tedious··on M(57885161) verified as 48th Mersenne Prime
Can you explain finding Mersenne primes so CPU intensive?

Mₙ = 2ⁿ − 1 gives an easy to generate candidate set and testing primality of a single number isn't that expensive. 57885161th candidate being the 48th hit is getting pretty sparse I guess, but it isn't that crazy. What am I missing? Seems the compute would be rather small compared to much of the "big data" / NN training done every day

np_tedious··on EU court rules no EULA can forbid decompilation, if you want to fix a bug
Sounds like two distinctions. Not sure if either is legally relevant

1) browser extension (which I guess is kind of a client side JS modification?) vs decompilation 2) bug vs feature addition

My uninformed take is that Facebook's claim is weak to begin with, but that this judgment doesn't really influence anything

np_tedious··on Paracetamol use during pregnancy – a call for precautionary action
True, but not quite relevant. That is a prescription drug which does/will therefore have quite a few more restrictions than over the counter Tylenol
np_tedious··on What our research says about teen well-being and Instagram
Try that again with "cars". Clear positive to most people's lives, very very bad for some.

Your end point may or may not be right, but the logic here pretty clearly doesn't hold

np_tedious··on The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start Without Machine Learning
Isn't your organization itself a machine the learned these rules over time? Maybe the marketing checks out
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