skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not a disposable mercenary because I want to be. I am that because years of "at will" employment and layoffs made me into that. Loyalty is a two-way street, and employers have torn up their end of it with bulldozers.

Money must be my only consideration, because that is usually the only thing of value that I get out of the employer-employee relationship.

All those work-related properties reduce to money and time. A shorter commute means less time spent in traffic and less money spent on fuel and maintenance, but often also means more money spent on housing. If my company wrote software for managing cancer trials instead of flight mission planning for military aviation, I might give them a break of 2-3% on my salary expectations. But if they offer $20000/year less than I currently earn (anecdotally, this has happened to me), well, sorry doe-eyed leukemia kids, but I have to make rent.

As for the team... Well, do you pay them enough to stay? People who entice others to join because they foster a great team environment should be paid more, not less, and your suggestion implies the opposite--that people who work on a good team should be willing to accept lower salaries.

If you have employees coming to you with competing offers every six months, that means one thing: your raises are not competitive with the market. We all know that job hunting is a stressful, unpleasant ordeal, and that is a cost that satisfied employees won't be willing to pay. If you see competitive offers from your employees, not only do you pay too little, but you pay so little that someone was willing to do the job-hunting dance in order to find better pay.

Anecdotally (n~=9) I have found your final statement to be inaccurate. Companies are interested purely in how much money they can make from your work. Your individual manager at a company may value more things, but those things might not translate to another manager, or might not help you if the money is ever a problem. For instance, you might get a $500 discretionary bonus for exemplary work one month, and be laid off with 3 days notice and no severance the next (this actually happened to me).

Companies value money. I value money. As long as we are both honest about this, it tends to work out. It doesn't get rough; it's just business as usual. It is only when people start lying about how their companies value things that problems occur. Based on the statistics, companies generally value loyalty at -3% of current salary per year, or worse. The article implies -7%, I think; the math wasn't entirely clear, and heavily assumptions-based.
My point is that if you can identify how the private key is stored in the video, then it should be possible to develop a strategy to destroy that data without damaging the integrity of the file. Presumably the key will be hidden in such a way that it won't be obvious to viewers (that is, it won't be a literal watermark). If that's true, then it should be possible to destroy the key without making the video quality noticeably worse, e.g. by selectively re-encoding certain parts of the video in a certain way that ensures destruction of the private key. Of course I'm speculating, because I don't know exactly how the private key is stored in the video, but video quality is a lot more robust to bit massaging than a hidden digital private key would be.
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Segwit2x has the hash power to end this.

Also, with XT there wasn't really n alternative scaling solution to a blocksize increase, as far as I know. This time we have SegWit as an alternative and with the threat of UASF, the community is being forced to compromise on SegWit + a 2MB hardfork.
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IANAL but Google's ToS for copyright seem to be pretty safe so long as you don't share links to copyrighted content https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505

> Respect copyright laws. Do not share copyrighted content without authorization or provide links to sites where your readers can obtain unauthorized downloads of copyrighted content. It is our policy to respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement. Repeated infringement of intellectual property rights, including copyright, will result in account termination. If you see a violation of Google's copyright policies, report copyright infringement.

Given that they cater to businesses, I don't think they could do automated scans.
So I can backup my computer every day, encrypt the blob and upload it?
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I have seen it, with not too many pipelines, and it just falls over. (and no, it is not a potato - its a pretty large bare metal machine)
Yes, sure, if you record a riff or write a few sentences on paper, then you own the copyright to that - there is no "magic importance limit" that needs to be surpassed for works to become copyrightable.

Shitty drawings made by five year olds get the same legal treatment as Picasso, etc, etc.
Completely honest: I would say every word of this to someone who took this approach to hiring. It is absolutely baffling to me that managers use this tact. Their reasoning is flawed and shortsighted, but has the benefit of keeping wages artificially low, so it also has the happy side effect of being very destructive.

Is it civil? No, but neither is cutting the legs out of a generation of employees because you're too dimwitted -- or worse: greedy -- to not pick up that dollar next to the dime.
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> significant amount of selection bias possible here

There's another one: I once heard the phenomenon described as "the difference between having ten years of experience versus having one year of experience ten times". The kind of people who end up having ten years of experience will typically be the kind of people who will want to move on and do something new/more after having mastered a given set of tasks. Sometimes they can do this inside the same company, but oftentimes they will need to look outside and switch jobs for the challenges they're after.

The other kind will typically value stability and comfort over money (and let's not underestimate the stress of applying, interviewing and switching jobs). Sometimes they will have "fallen" more or less accidentally into this mode, but I've met more than a few good people who actively choses this, and explicitly acknowledges that it's not exactly a money-play.

When the former kind makes more money, it's not because they switch jobs often, that's just a symptom. People in investment banking or management consulting with clearly defined up-or-out career paths are subjected to the same dynamic, and also make a lot of money.
> sending money overseas with very low transaction fee

Except that fluctuations in the conversion rate make this very touchy, especially if you're talking about a significant sum of money. Also, sending crypto anywhere outside of a handful of developed nations is fraught with difficulty because recipients need to be able to convert bitcoin into spendable money which often involves risky in-person meetups and gigantic markups on the conversion rate.
Yeah, I'll assume you do not have one of 'those' uncles then, the flat-earther-ish types. Logic and numbers aren't working to begin with.
The idea is that IAmBecomeDeath and XPirateSephirothX are not implicated, since they can claim it anonymously, by simply moving the coins to a random BTC address, and then using a tumbler or something to cover their tracks.

Of course, John Doe and whoever knows about this will never trust them again to spread leaked copies, so it's hard to see $5 being worth that loss.
Having to create and track separate identities for each app, particularly transactional/infrequently used apps, does indeed seem dated. But I think it’s a mistake to confuse the identity issue with apps as a whole.

AI won’t solve every use case. There will always be a need for experiences tailored for niche needs in productivity/creativity, utilities, entertainment, etc.
i bet you could start by sacrificing horse to kings bishops pawn, forcing king to take, and mapping the checkmates from there. its an effective way to force them to play a defensive game which can be mapped out yo!
Curiously, if you read my original comment, I never used the word "Why". The question you're answering seems to be "Why would you put OpenBSD on a laptop?" But the question I specifically asked what advantage is has over other comparable distros.
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Bitcoin continues to evolve. With that comes growing pains. And internal struggles as it is mostly an open source project.

But for Bloomberg to use a 'civil war' hyperbole signals fear from the establishment. Established capital more specifically. And really, that is bitcoin's biggest threat.

Disclosure: I own bitcoin.
I always heard the Mac port of FF14 had issues. I just never knew what they were or how they affected the game until now. I think Square Enix demanding you buy a license for each platform you play the game on (non-Steam, Steam, Mac, PS4) is ridiculous and refuse to buy the same game twice. If I want to play on my Mac, I do the same thing I do for Overwatch, boot into Windows or play on my PC.
I'm a Princeton alum. The largest Freshman declared major is CS [1]. That's from a Dean's mouth. I was absolutely shocked since we are one of the most prominent WS feeder schools.

[1] presumably some will switch majors but piling into a lucrative major as a freshman is a strong signal of how students perceive the industries.
Can you name even a single publicly traded consumer VPN company?
FWIW, this isn't the Gboard (Google's official keyboard). HTC ships TouchPal's keyboard. It looks like TouchPal pushed an update through the Play Store that (maybe accidentally) ignored whatever licensing system was in place for HTC devices.
I basically only send to the streaming services as promotion. Eventually, I'd like to ignore them entirely and get all my sales on Bandcamp.
How about "the safety aspects of rust have been" DWARFED by the absolute shitshow of platforms and PC hardware. If we have to redo everything to get the full benefit, we could do a damn sight better than just memory safety and race conditions.

Another bittwiddler++ language is just digging the hole deeper.
Never run long running services in screen. Use a proper init system - screen is not the solution.
Yeah, more likely you'd get a Cease-and-Desist. But once the ArchiveTeam publishes it, they'll likely get DMCA'd (though they've survived things like that before).

Not to mention that dying websites or recent acquires are likely to be able to have the legal muster to start threatening archivists.
I think you're reading too much into it. It's clickbait.
I receive anywhere from 3-5 spam calls a day from clearly spoofed numbers. My worst was 15 in one day.
The days are counting down to the "Segwit2X" rollout, the idea supported in the "New York Agreement" (NYA)[0].

There is a contingency plan in place should the Core-supported User Activated Soft Fork become activated.[1]

Segwit2X has working code, has been tested in beta, and is now in RC.[2]

Without commenting on the merits of the different approaches, the current situation is thrilling to watch as a spectator. To call it a "Civil War" is not an exaggeration.

[0] https://medium.com/@DCGco/bitcoin-scaling-agreement-at-conse...

[1] https://blog.bitmain.com/en/uahf-contingency-plan-uasf-bip14...

[2] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x...
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If you think "The Establishment" is scared of Bitcoin, I've got some bad news for you.
Well, the data wasn't showing that the past few years were anomalous; rather, there were fewer high-magnitude earthquakes than expected. I don't think this has anything to do with being overdue for an earthquake. Most likely this is just because with events of low frequency (e.g. these higher-magnitude earthquakes were predicted to occur once every ~100 years by the linear model), large percent deviations from the expected value are more probable. Basically if you flip a coin 10 times you might imagine that 3 heads and 7 tails is pretty common, whereas 300 heads and 700 tails on 1000 tosses is comparitively extremely unlikely.
Oh man, it's gonna get way crazy. Imagine the 'mean girls' in HS with this tech. Imagine trying to be a male HS teacher with this around. We're gonna have to regulate the shit out of the internet just to keep teachers in schools and verify that they did not in fact cuss out a classroom and chug vodka.
> To be specific, fully 88%(!) of miners are actively signaling support for the upgrade plan known as "segwit2x".[1]

Unfortunately, signaling is more like a bumper sticker you slap on your blocks. The rules you deploy and actively use don't really have to conform to what values you place in the blockheader. It's supposedly a way to communicate your intentions regarding your future enforcement of certain rules...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6ns1o6/antpool_jus...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6ntfhd/superb_segw...
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I would not be surprised if that were the case. They might even start doing IP-over-technician while they repair the problem with avian flu that spiked the packet loss in the ip-over-carrier-pidgeon channel.
I hope you verified the interns' ages.
Seconded I have seen many occasions of outstandingly dumb decisions
Yeah angel investing seems to be a wealthy mans game. You probably need to make at least 10 bets to have a chance at earning your money back. I did a little research and it looks like the first YC batch was comprised of 9 companies. Two of those companies, Reddit and Loopt, likely generated all the returns for that batch.
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Okay, but that means keeping an eye out for personalized medicine based on genetics; what does the scientific frontier have to say about that?

One good way to live long is certainly not to die young (e.g. avoid risk factors) - would be helpful to know which of those are not as well known.
Why you need a technical founder and how to properly fill this gap?
To have plausible deniability, yes. Maybe they don't wish to destroy it as much as damage it using a laser or they have some way of pushing it out of its orbit or causing it to go out of control. Say the US attack satellite was 20km away and could attack and damage another satellite. Blame could not then be attributed back to the US, right?
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Mac gaming isn't going to go much of anywhere... I mean, Apple is still trying to push Metal instead of updating OpenGL on macOS. Practically no one except the largest AAA developers and engine authors care about Metal. Everyone else doesn't have the time or money to learn another graphics API and implement it in parallel. OpenGL performance on macOS is stagnant and Vulkan is nonexistent.

Apple's hubris is starting to catch up with them. They're trying to pull devs in with Metal but are instead pushing them away by making it harder or impossible to use APIs that devs actually want. To add insult to injury, the games market on Mac is small anyway, even relative to its market share. Windows has been absolutely dominant in this space for so long that I can't believe that Apple would try to get developers working on their platform by making it harder, not easier, to develop for.
Well the argument I've heard (but I don't know if it's true or not) is the cultural expectation of covering up BO was invented by marketing. That BO is is disagreeable and something that needs to be covered rather than just a natural part of life was what was "invented" by marketing.

You took at face value that BO is bad, but that's a cultural expectation, not something "natural" or inherit of humanity. Some other cultures probably don't find "body odor" to be objectionable.
God dammit. I just did this. That's shady as fuck. I didn't realize this. Thanks.
It was a dumb example, that's all. In 2005, I went from being a state employee to a contractor and doubled my pay that year. Is that relevant, though?
Mine:

1	194 38.8% git
2	88 17.6% curl
3	62 12.4% clear
4	45 9% npm
5	17 3.4% cd
6	10 2% rails
7	10 2% nvm
8	10 2% atom
9	8 1.6% ember
10	7 1.4% vi
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Next time you submit a permalink to a reddit comment it would be helpful to include context on the link, like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/6nhyur/t... (append ?context={number} to the link)
> 1. If the employee is only motivated by money, he will be gone rather sooner than later as there is always a higher offer around.

Do you have a lot of millionaires trying to join your startup as an employee? If you don't, then money is probably a major motivating factor for all of your employees.
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In my experience it depends largely on yourself. No one is really checking what time you clock in and what time you clock out. That said many people like their job and work long hours voluntarily.
Further irony: The article tells us "Detoxing is not a thing."
May I ask how you reached this insight? What field do you work in?
That is touchpal
Because they set industry standards for pay which is why the pay suppression cartel was so important
A valid question, but I think the answer really is a personal one (one could debate in another thread).

I know that I want to live as long as possible while maintaining the best possible health - I just need to know how to pull it off.
This was bound to happen. A lot of financial analysts have been saying for a while that Blue Apron is a good idea that will be successful under different circumstances. Right now, Blue Apron's cost to attract and retain customers is astronomical and ripe for a competitor like Amazon to undercut.
Human fund managers may still control more trading than people think
I've had this thought too, but the counter argument is gold. Spending millions in fuel to dig up chunks of gold, just to go "re-bury" them in a bank vault somewhere is an equally appalling, use of the world's energy resources, but that hasn't stopped it from being a profitable venture for thousands of years.
I'm at the point where I think developers should bid on specific projects and not be full time employees, ever.
Great article! Thanks for sharing!
Cryptocurrencies are crashing, but Bitcoin isn’t falling as badly as the rest
You mean you didn't hold for 1 million a coin. :)
> Everybody makes serious mistakes that don't show themselves for years.

I'd rephrase that as simply knowing the trade offs, knowing in which conditions your solution is valid, and estimating how long these conditions will be present, and then estimating what's next, and then taking that into account when choosing a solution (and trade offs).

Some people are absolutely terrible at estimating change and pace. Some people don't see when it's time to involve higher ups, and some don't know when to do the inverse of that.

> Those who don't stick around usually assume that any mistakes they find in their new company were due to incompetence.

That's too general, but also not completely unfair.

> Similarly, people who have not stuck around for years have never been instrumental in doing difficult culture transformations, or fixing long term architectural problems.

Again, too general. Maybe you get hired for a transformation/migration/rewrite project, and basically you have a good chance to be hired as the Captain for the mighty Failship.

And now let's discuss how all of the aforementioned are discussed to death in [Project] Management 101, and all of the following are discussed to death in [People] Management 101, yet what you write is still valid as ever.

> It's truly unfortunate that the industry rewards those who don't tackle these kinds of difficult problems.

Industry is full of incompetent showmen, useless middle managers, and a lot of extremely biased, uncompromising, uncooperative, power-hungry completely regular but overstressed underloved normal guys/gals.

Yet society has a freak approach to freaks, because people think oh fuck them, why can't they just behave, but when I freak out, it's because reasons. And when Joe from IT is a social trainwreck then it's ostracization time!

> The legacy is an industry where the problems are ubiquitous: flavour of the month architecture, my way or the highway bullying, either process of the month or "pragmatic" (aka ad hoc) processes, absolute disrespect for coworkers (I'm the only one with an ounce of sense).

Yes, indeed. And this largely happens in other industrial sectors, but since change is slower there, these problems usually don't present themselves so acutely.
Also: which datapoints would you need to give pointed advice?
Yeah - I can't remember the actual failure, but it did not work out well.

We also need the VMs to survive across build steps.

We are working on an P/IaaS - so integration testing requires actually booting a full stack, then running an install, then testing the resultant servers are actually running Kubernetes
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yeah. The Daily Show has got a pretty standard formula. I read an article about how they, and their spin off shows like John Oliver, basically use the same script pattern for most of their shows in order to hypnotize their audience.

Hold on, I'm going to try to find the article.

edit: well, the only source I can find after a quick search is this post on an anonymous message board, but it covers the main points pretty well: http://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1479/14/1479145599055...

a more detailed discussion is here: http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/98690960/
While "source listings as an aid to debugging" was definitely done, and still is (e.g. Microsoft Windows source is available to researchers), Wikipedia disagrees with the use of the term "open source" as ever meaning this.

The term "open source" was first proposed by a group of people in the free software movement who were critical of the political agenda and moral philosophy implied in the term "free software"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_model
am i wrong?

no youre not wrong.

am i wrong?

youre not wrong walter. youre just an asshole!

all right then.
> Since IPFS is perfect for archival

I don't believe this is true. IPFS doesn't have any built in way of easily distributing parts of an archive, doesn't support (as far as I know) any form of erasure coding, making overhead quite high and requires that you use its own weird block + hash scheme for integrity.

It's also very immature, we don't know if IPFS will be around in 10 years and we don't know what kinds of bugs it will have.

IPFS is a great tool and it has its uses but I don't think archiving is one of them yet.
There is no perfect world, but i am seeing the temp forward backfire on a family rebuilding their home.
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I had the same experience with the same numbers too. Except I've now been at my current employer for about 5 years, after accepting a matching offer a few times. I would never be anywhere near where I am had I stayed at those first few companies.
I owned a web company and anytime an employee told me they had another job offer they were considering, I either let them go or started recruiting. I never wanted to keep someone on let alone give them a raise if they were considering leaving. If they came to me and wanted a change in their job or salary I'd work with them, but as soon as you considered my business "one of your options" instead of where you enjoyed working, it was time to move on.

This was a small company though. I'm sure larger companies where mid-level management is in charge of hiring, the strategy of taking competing offers to your boss works well.
Well how did you get a credit card? Wasn't it by going to a financial institution and submitting some type of identification?

You understand not everyone has that privilege right? Not everybody has access, the capital, or the identification to a first-world bank.