skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One mystery that continues to fascinate me is when people at work say things to me that are obviously irrational -- are they sincere or is it some kind of manipulative power play?

I've had managers ask me things such as "When will the rebuild of the website be done" and I answer "In two months" and they say "You have two weeks" and I say "Maybe 6 weeks, but not 2" and then they repeat "You've got two weeks." I wonder if they realize they sound crazy? I can imagine a few possibilities:

1.) Possibly they feel that they won a concession by getting me to shift from "two months" to "maybe 6 weeks" and they think they will get more concessions from me if they just keep pretending that two weeks is the only allowed answered?

2.) Is it a threat? What are they are going to do when we miss the obviously impossible deadline?

3.) Are they pretending to be serious about two weeks, or do they really think it is possible? Perhaps they are paranoid and they think that every worker is lying to them all the time?

I run into deeply irrational behavior at work all the time. I find the amount of it to be surprising. I was thinking about this when I wrote "The accusation that you are irrational -- is it the truth, or a manipulative power play" but there I focused on personal situations, and I mostly leave is as an exercise to the reader to imagine how it extends to work situations.

http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/the-accusation-that-y...
One of my co worker got an email, saying that they're beta testing a feature, where they need to upload the receipts or else their account will be cancelled. This is such a bad business model. Can anyone else confirm this.
Very cool ending

I was just about to start typing about potential legal action -- the thief basically admitted the theft (despite HR stating" there's no evidence of theft"...)

Totally agree with the other poster that lunch theft should be a firing offense, as, if they're not honest about that, they're not honest.
It's not always wrong to cause someone else harm, either legally or ethically. The principle of legal self defense using reasonable force is well established in many legal systems and is considered ethical in many ethical philosophies for example. Where the line of "reasonable" lies is often a subject of debate however.
There are four options here

1. Leave the story unchanged

2. Publicly retract the story, but keep the text available with a disclaimer.

3. Publicly retract the story and "unpublish" it, i.e., remove the text from the website.

4. Silently unpublish the story.

Everyone agrees that #1 and #4 are very bad. ColanR is claiming that #2 is better than #3, and in particular that #3 conflicts with existing NPR policy. We are inferring NPR policy from an informal blog post, not some official document, which was written in the context of third parties requesting that content be taken down. However, it is quoting an AP Editor policy that is not in that context.

You can argue that NPR didn't intend to endorse this policy in the context when they were the ones who messed up, rather than it being a complaint involving a third party. But then it seems rather hypocritical.
It is very illegal. Like, violating the Geneva Conventions level illegal:

https://definitions.uslegal.com/b/booby-traps/
If you think you need a locked lunchbox, then what you really need is a job with better coworkers.
"Sorry boss, I have stomach issues I need to take a laxitive but the taste makes me sick so I mix it with my lunch, heres my prescription, by the way and on an entirely unrelated note...has anyone seen Peter this afternoon?"
Be sure the Booster rings don't guess your experiment and bias the results!
Because their country of residence only has a limited interest in protecting them at the cost of the country's relationship with the EU. Especially if the EU ruling is credible.

Also, the EU might block them from the market completely.
Sounds like they work at a big old company with lots of layers of middle management. I can't imagine a startup with a lunch thief being able to be realistically hidden.
I mean, they fired the HR person who did it because of this. Turns out they were sleeping with the food thief.
Yes. They just rolled it out to me as well. And they’ve been doing it to other people for at least 2 months now.
I worked at a place where one of the senior leaders stole a temp's lunch and completely denied it, despite the sandwich being on his desk.

Its so shameful.
True enough. But at the same time having complicated controls can lead to more experimentation. Literally this very subject (wanting to experiment with alternative glutamate sources) led me to a bunch of stuff you can do with yeast extracts. Marmite/vegemite make great additions to sauces, acting a lot like boullion does.
Most companies would quickly have 0 employees if this was a universal policy
You do know that's fraud, right?
Are they working with Tesla to provid this feedback into their production flow? There is no mention of it. Does anyone know?
> pretty wild for a new car

This is the heart of the question. My understanding is that Tesla Motors, unlike most every other car maker, iterating their manufacturing (hardware) side as quickly as they are iterating on the software side.

For a more concrete example, the initial version of the SpaceX Merlin engine had 76,000 pounds of thrust. That same engine now has 205,000 pounds. I saw an interview last week where an employee at SpaceX said that no two Falcon 9 rockets come off the line exactly the same. Iterative hardware improvements are going on all the time. This is unheard of in aerospace.

This is a huge advantage compared to traditional manufacturing approaches.
As the update covers, they were rehired shortly after being terminated.
Iraq was subject to fairly intrusive US-lobbied inspection for much of the 1990s [1]. Inspectors were looking for WMDs (chemical and biological in that case), and did in fact find and destroy (at least some of) them.

Iraq went through the trouble of accommodating the US. That didn't help them in 2003.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Special_Commiss...
Back during my Ph.D. days people stole coffee capsules from others. I remember having a few in my drawer, only to find none the following morning.

It can be mind-boggling, but it definitely happens.
Are those Dendrite core developers that had to leave coming back now that you have secured funding?
> Is it not always wrong to cause someone harm?

No, self defense is one reason.

And as someone that also loves super spicy foods to the point that I eat whole peppers raw, anyone that is brave enough to eat my food is welcome to try.

If your body can't take the heat, you shouldn't be eating my food.

This is no different than if a celiac food thief started eating someone elses food that contained gluten. Its not up to the person that brought food to make sure their food never contained things allergic to everyone in the office. The thief should keep their mitts off something they don't know might hurt them.

This person sounds like they had an allegic reaction to capsacin. They also hopefully learnt that stealing food might mean they'll trip up their reaction. And in the end, they learnt that filing complaints with the HR person you're sleeping with might end up with both of you being fired.
There are private transportation vectors like the Ambassador bridge in Windsor/Detroit. I'm not sure why in our instances we end up with them trying lobby to block competing bridges from being put up while in Japan most of the transit lines are private and work spectacularly well. But the US has probably the biggest private Subway franchise in the world, if you count Subway restaurants ;).

It's probably something to do with the black and white view of free-market vs government regulation we have in the US. Everyone's gunning for all one or the other.
This is for the same reason you don't find "chloride ions" on the label of your soup can.
Typically chargebacks can happen for 90 days. No one is going to wait that long for you to ship.
There was no lock in this case. We're metaphorically going from an open doorway to a conventional front door. Adding just a little friction means the tweaker poops on someone else's rug.
For me it looks like HR is just trying to protect an essential/key employee of the company agains a new employee even if what has been done is unethical. Some employee may think that they can do anything because the company can't replace them.
I personally would not want to edit Lisp code without some basic s-expression commands - especially the command to indent/reindent code. Indenting Lisp by hand is a waste of time.
106$ for a pack of 6 led light with CRI > 95 doesn’t seem really expensive to me...
It’s less than 18$ each.
I don't think the police are there to intervene in petty squabbles like lunch theft, annoying as lunch theft may be. Getting the lunch owner fired, on the other hand, is a serious matter, and firing the thief and HR because of them doing this to the lunch owner is a proportionate response.
The 'rogue GSM tower' episode (2018)
The literal insect poisons, specifically.
I personally don't like Lisps, although I agree with you that when I learned them that emacs felt like the best editor to use (though I ended up using the Racket IDE for other reasons). To me, the biggest advantage of Lisps is that the syntax is so simple that building a macro system on top of the language is far simpler than doing so in other languages. Lisp has practically no syntax, so the macro system's complexity is much lower. Because the language's AST is simpler it is easier to deconstruct input syntax and generate output syntax.

Also, Lisps have no static type system, and for whatever reason static type aficionados have an aversion to macros or else want to make macros typed, and combining macros with type systems again makes macros far more complicated. One need only look at Scala's many attempts at adding macros to the language to see just how hard it is, and I personally have little expectation at this point that Scala will succeed in integrating macros into the language.

At the end of the day, the major selling points of Lisps are macros, and, for Schemes, baked-in delimited continuations. Most or all other features can be found in other languages in various forms.
| There are all sorts of ways you could accidentally eat someone else's lunch

Want to give us some examples?
...most companies really don't have employees eating each others' lunches, that's ridiculous. Where do you work where this is considered normal?
Oh. I guess I don’t use for...in much (at all). I see your point now, though.

OTOH:

list.forEach( function( x ) {
callbacks.push( function () { return x + 3 } )
}

I guess I tend to use forEach, or one of the Ramada.js operations, rather than for loops these days.

EcmaScript isn’t Scheme, or Smalltalk/Self, or Ruby. But it sucks a lot less than the other language I’m allowed to use at work :-)

(I pretend that ES is mostly Ruby)
They're two beams of particles that cross at a point. It's not adequately captioned but I think the image is a cross-section view, with the beam direction "into/outof" the screen.
To me Eclipse used to be the gold standard for Java (it wouldn't even have occurred to me to use it for other languages, which usually had their own IDEs anyway. This was before Scala).

I didn't remember the exact version that jumped the shark, but TFA mentions Eclipse 4, so I googled and it must have been Juno (about 2012, then). It truly was night and day: the previous version of Eclipse was fast and responsive, and everything more or less worked, and then we got Juno which was completely unresponsive, took ages to do anything, it randomly froze or slowed down, and all sorts of widgets constantly failed to render or displayed error messages. Simply killing Eclipse because marketplace or some index update took too long became the norm. I remember thinking "but this is a SOLVED problem! All of this used to work! How can this be happening?", then reading the forums and finding out about the complete UI redesign and that they didn't have the budget to test it thoroughly. I'm not talking as a plugin writer but as an end user. It truly was a horror story.

The Scala IDE thing is more understandable because it was something new and Scala is a complex language. Still, it was embarrassing that this was the official IDE and it was so bad. IntelliJ was initially also very bad at Scala -- I remember it constantly gave compilation errors for perfectly good code -- but then it got improved to the point of usability, while Scala IDE remained slow and unusable. At that point I switched.
No robot, no robot. You're the robot!
I don’t believe this story, especially with the update. It makes it even less believable.

It seems a lot more likely this site made this insane story up to drive traffic.

And it’s from 2016.
Would love to see an Android naming comic from xkcd ;-)
I actually had a boss who stole my lunch. His wife cooks for him so he didn't know/remember what food he was bringing to work and he had the same kind of (IKEA) lunch box as me.

He apologized and bought me lunch the next day so it was absolutely fine in the end but there was a moment of confusion and some colleagues mocking me.
Really? You think that 100% of employees steal from their co-workers at some point? I guess I must be crazy because I've never done that, nor considered it.
$5 seems too low to be useful. Charge $500 and solve a niche.
It's 94% certain the VPN endpoint IP my work VPN (only 25 people, university IP) is a VPN/proxy/bad.

That's correct, but not at all correlated with us being likely to commit fraud.

It's 79% certain the office LAN NAT gateway IP is a VPN/proxy/bad.

My work desktop's static IP gets 23%, so that's something.

My home IP gets 60%.

(Is this thing just connected to a random number generator?)
Can't compare coffee capsules to food you cooked yourself.
It's the essence of who you are, your uniqueness against every other living thing on the planet.
I can see how psychologically compelling that idea is, even though I disagree.
Well... at least one... You can't steal your own lunch.
You may want to look into Paul Stamets’ research into this. He’s the mushroom guy, and he’s doing a pilot study with beekeepers, giving bees diluted extracts from certain kinds of mycelium. As of the last talk I heard him give about it, none of those colonies have collapsed.

There’s a whole 20-year story that led to him testing this, starting with noticing when his bees spent a few days pushing wood chips aside to get at Garden Giant mycelium and licking it, which puzzled him.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2017/06/05/can-a-...
Army researchers find the best cyber teams are antisocial cyber teams
Looks are the first thing you notice in a person, online, but not true in real life. In real life people meet based on mutual interests, serendipity, or simply having the balls to initiate convo. In those situations looks take a back seat.

People can adjust to looks given enough time, and their physical attractiveness to certain types are shaped by their positive interactions with a person. Apps like Tinder basically force looks to be at the forefront, despite all that.
The gap in the callback was only a week. The HR person might not have filed it with the government.

Internal company records don't matter for shits.
Why would they cut MoviePass in, though? They're a middleman without a clear value add to anyone involved except for "they can lose VC money."
No, Wikipedia is not in a crypto partnership with the Request Network
Since I have no fears of getting fired I would respond "2 weeks? Then you'll get a very broken website.". If they ask "Are you being sarcastic?" I would respond "Are you?".
I've been berated by people (especially HR people) for giving this advice, but I couldn't agree with this more. HR does not exist to help the employee, period. Because they manage benefits, it's easy to get confused and think of them as your advocate, but they are not. If you have an issue in the workplace, you first must figure out what to do, and then you talk to HR. It should be your last step.
PiinPoint (YC W14) Is Hiring Developers in Waterloo, Ontario
That would suck, but it's a good story.

I'd hope the owner of the company would be willing to provide a reference explaining that he was the victim of misconduct.
The map is unusual. It's rare to show magnetic declination lines - I suspect there might be a clue there. Land ownership is seemingly a clue too. Nobody who grew up in the west would hide treasure on someone else's private land and then claim he did it to get people outdoors. In many of these areas, people don't appreciate trespassing. Tribal land is out of the question too, unless he's crazy.
not going to help if HR was sleeping with the thief (which was later uncovered)
Because I don't believe the story, and the ending certainly seems to good to be true, which usually means it is.
The obvious answer is "well good luck doing it on your own in two weeks", then quitting as asap.

I wouldn't work at a place where the person tasked with supervising and organizing my work is clearly incapable of doing so and also rude.

Edit: Unless you have recourse with higher ups - in that case try talking to his superiors.
I'm sorry, but how are the other replies to you defending this behavior...?

I have never "accidentally" eaten an entire lunch that wasn't mine. I'm actually offended that people are defending this. It's stealing. It's petty, childish, dishonest behavior. I think I would just be dumbstruck speechless if a coworker actually was brazen enough to just take my food and eat it. It's comically absurd.
Reddit's /r/legaladvice subreddit has had a lot of interesting corporate mismanagement stories lately (with the typical take-with-a-grain-of-salt caveat).

There was a recent "poisoning" case where instead the OP was the victim (https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/89wgwm/tricked...), commenters found out the perpetrator posted in the subreddit before (https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/8825e8/threw_a...), and the outcome is just as satisfying (https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/8d0z1u/tricked...).
Not every place is so insane, this sounds like a small company with an involved owner.
Yes, I made the videos a few years ago. This video series is mostly for beginners as it goes pretty slowly.

The exercises are open source and can be found here:
https://github.com/xorpd/asm_prog_ex
I think that more experienced developers can take the instruction set and bash through the exercises.
The story reminds me of burglar suing the house owner and win, because slipped on his way out ...
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They are making that case now. If they can get discount ticket prices and stop people from abusing the service (like the guy in a post here whose friend buys and gives away tickets) then they might be able to break even.

The “one movie a day” thing becomes moot though after this change. Since there will really be no more than 3-5 new movies a month anyways (outside of big cities at least where you might get indie and foreign films).
It wasn't contaminated, merely spiced; assuming the story about him eating some himself to demonstrate that it was his normal (hot) level of spice. The idiot here is someone eating something that is obviously far too spicy for them - which is not going to be a secret, something obvious from the first bite.
But the person who makes a mistake should be willing to own up to it and buy the other person a new lunch, at least.
No bugs ever made it to production.
Do tell, which are a couple of those ways that someone might accidentally pick someone else's lunch box, open it, and start eating some unknown food without realizing?
The credit only persists as long as your account is active so if you accrue a bunch of tickets and then cancel, you also lose your tickets.
Thank you! Do you have any thoughts on Elixir/Erlang/LFE? Elixir is dynamic, but seems to have many of the benefits of a static type system by use of Dialyzer, Erlang's static type analysis tool.
> A retraction is exactly that -- a story being retracted, i.e. pulled from view.

This is not true. Retraction means you withdraw endorsement of the story and cease to publish new copies of it. It does not mean you pull it from view. Likewise, retracted scientific papers are not expunged from the websites of scientific journals. See for instance this:

http://www.jbc.org/content/283/45/31012.full

You can tell infer that this is the correct use of the term "retract" because daily newspapers retracted stories long before the internet, when it was obviously impossible for them to do anything besides removing endorsement and admitting error.
Theaters can cut them in because movie pass puts butts in seats. And theaters make the vast majority of their income from concessions and not ticket sales. Most of the ticket revenue goes back to the studios.
The arguments fell apart the minute independent archiving systems (other than archive.org) also had the same blog posts. The narrative they have been going with doesn't fit. They can't use the excuse they were hacked at the time the posts were made either because she was actively using the blog and for her not to notice new entries like those is absurd.

They bluffed and got called on it. Instead of admitting to it like before and hoping for forgiveness they double down on stupid hoping it doesn't get picked up by the rest of the media.
You don't need much land at all to plant a bee garden. You actually don't even have to have land.

We've got a little wildflower patch, maybe six square feet. Was covered in all kinds of bees & insects last summer.
Aren't progressives fans or regulation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism

"Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform.[1] As a philosophy, it is based on the Idea of Progress, which asserts that advancements in science, technology, economic development, and social organization are vital to the improvement of the human condition. Progressivism became highly significant during the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, out of the belief that Europe was demonstrating that societies could progress in civility from uncivilized conditions to civilization through strengthening the basis of empirical knowledge as the foundation of society.[2] Figures of the Enlightenment believed that progress had universal application to all societies and that these ideas would spread across the world from Europe"
John B Calhoun's "utopia" experiments.

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Escaping+the+Laboratory%3a+th...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Z760XNy4VM

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-doomed-mouse-utopi...
How to make Japanese – styled iced coffee
For all useful purposes, it's false. A detailed in-person survey of homeless people in King County found that 10% of them said that homeless services were part of the reason they moved to Seattle, and it's more likely that they moved from other parts of Washington than from far away.

Homelessness rates in Seattle track rising (and falling! lol) rents very closely, which is a difficult-to-explain coincidence for anyone who really believes that the cause is actually random people from all over America catching a bus to Seattle to get into a shelter.

summary piece for reading
- https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/king-coun...

the survey mentioned
- https://thecisforcrank.com/tag/applied-survey-research/
- https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480319-City-of-Seat...
do it in 14 business days.
How the Metroid Series’ “Varia Suit” Was Originally a Mistranslation
That's what at-will employment means. Really he was fired for crossing the power structure of the office, which is always a disaster even if it's a secret power structure.