skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue against the informal power dynamics as they tend to be far less transparent. Informal systems can be coopted by individuals far more easily, and with far less limitations on their power. Moreover, individuals who do take control of these systems have a for more vested interest in maintaining and expanding their power as they can become very wealthy by doing so. Moreover, when they give up power even well intentioned, good rulers run the risk of reprisal for non-work related reasons. I believe that formal structures emerged as a means to prevent corruption, and ease the integration of new comers.
That's the beauty of humor.
ProTip™, when you join a company and are required to declare previous IP/inventions, list a bunch of made up side projects with vague/semi-scoped descriptions.

Then when you complete a side project you just pick a name from your prior inventions.

Worked for me, I launched 3 businesses while fully employed and have zero risk of having them taken from me.
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the structure as much as it is with Valve specifically because many other organizations and companies have a similar flatter structure. Moreover, he points out that Valve wasn't really flat, it had a class of managers and a class of developers (producers). That doesn't sound "flat" to me.
Elon Musk Is a Total Fraud
Just based on history and culture, that sounds like a really awkward combination. It's trying to merge "run on every imaginable platform at all costs" with "fuck all the platforms and let's concentrate on building a rock solid operating system for the x86 because that's the only thing people use anyway."
Skip to page 54 of this book (PDF) for a light read:

http://cnqzu.com/library/Philosophy/neoreaction/_extra%20aut...

> THE CAUSE OF CRIMINALITY among the white population of England is perfectly obvious to any reasonably observant person, though criminologists have yet to notice it. This cause is the tattooing of the skin.
Couldn't disagree more. I am 32, have a kid, a diverse portfolio, and no desire to own a home. We have excellent mobility, I don't have to spend a moment thinking about unexpected housing expenditures, and I got a great deal on rent. I am optimizing for flexibility and am very happy in doing so.

Don't buy a house because you feel like it's what you are supposed to do!
Now, that's a name I haven't heard of in years, decades even! I'll check them out!
“According to Schooley, owner Henry was at a trade show and simply decided he wanted to build the tallest, fastest water slide at one of his five Schlitterbahn water parks. He immediately shopped the idea to vendors, who declined, but he refused to be denied.”[0]

The guy couldn’t find reputable vendors willing to take on the project.

[0] http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-tallest-water-slide...
There isn't really a connection to cannabinoid profile and sativa vs indica, that I've seen. E.g. Harle-Tsu is a high CBD sativa strain, but it's not going to be like most familiar THC sativas. So I mean that it's the actual cannabinoid profile that determines that, and from I've read, CBD is more calming vs THC and caffeine are more hyping.
Not everyone in tech wants to live in Austin.
> How are people writing large programs in Python? Isn’t the lack of compiler type checking making it difficult?

Python 2 and 3 both have AOT static type checkers available (this is essentially “pre-compile-time”). Presumably those for whom not having this would be a problem use it.

> And what about lack of access modifiers?

It's an issue, but use of the conventional underscore prefix makes mitigation via code review fairly simple.
Disregarding the "no true scotsman", have you ever heard of the Dunbar number?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
I don't really understand the argument here. Google once provided more OSS with Android, so they are obligated to do so forever? That's not really how OSS works. If you decide you don't want to give away quite as much of your code for free, that might be unfortunate (depending on your perspective), but it's not wrong.

A more correct formulation of the title would be "Google's Totally Normal Grip on Google Apps: How Google Decided It Was in Their Best Interest To Give Away A Lot But Not Quite As Much As Before Free Value."
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Is that what people are finding funnny these days? I was at Barnes & Noble last week and flipped through a few things in the Humor section. One of them was pretty appalling, and it was titled something like Women Are Terrible.

I really like Jim Gaffigan, for what it’s worth. He’s reasonably popular as a humorist, and I’ve never heard him resort to chauvinism. If anything, his stage persona makes more fun of himself than anyone else.
In software, isn't San Antonio pretty much a company town (Rackspace)?
Depending on condition there’s quite the market for them on eBay. But yeah, it’s a hassle to package and ship them.
Yep. One nice aspect of hierarchal management structures is that they _can_ be tools to mitigate the negative aspects of human nature.
Seeing the intrinsics APIs get filled out- in the open, no less- has been pretty exciting. The fact that something like AES would be implemented competitively in C# is not something I would have predicted even five years ago.

It's remarkable how fast the language and runtime have evolved for performance. It wasn't that long ago that I was manually inlining Vector3 operators to try to get a few extra cycles out of XNA on the Xbox360.
Outside of work hours and following any non-compete clauses in the contract, I would say companies shouldn't own ideas generate/worked on outside your day job hours. I know this is not common with many companies in the North American workplace though.
I personally had a contract which had a total ownership clause offered to me. I got lucky when discussing the general idea of it with an ex-coworker, who got me a full-time contract at a second company with no such clause. I much preferred the second place anyways, as I had done some work with them through university.
Valve bans over 90,000 Steam accounts in one week
Specifically, it's about avoiding collision of "private" names via inheritance.
Smells like jealousy.
This inspired me to create this comic: https://comic.browserling.com/13
There is a certain amount of enjoyment from learning.

I wish that I had not had to see out how badly my drinking impacted my marriage with my second wife when she unexpectedly left me, but it was a thing that I needed to learn.

So I take your point, and I am glad to learn things. In general I find learning an enjoyable experience. There are a certain amount of life-altering, important facts about ourselves that are painful to encounter in any situation.
Indeed I do! 20 million dollars is a lot of money and I would feel tempted to spend it on things to make my family's life easier/better. Yet then again if it served as a reminder of my son's death, I might be persuaded to instead donate it to a scholarship or charity in my son's name.

Thus my question. Since I don't know how I'd handle it, I'm curious how this family did.
There's a spectrum from "random home video" to "professional". At the "home video" end, the risk of getting sued is low, and built-in tools to help handle DMCA etc are enough (e.g. enable automatic takedowns). At the "professional" end they can afford to have a lawyer on retainer. That leaves the middle: where people are trying to make nicely produced videos, but they're not big enough to afford keeping a lawyer on retainer.

Let me try to make a case for how insurance could fit in here. Insurance like this is often predicated on the insured meeting various conditions. I could see a forward-thinking insurance company offering terms like these:

1. Require the producer to pre-declare exact claims of all source material for both music and video. For example, "1:02-3:55; Public domain music. Sourced from ...", "0:00-0:10; Licensed stock intro. License details ...", "5:07-5:15; Fair use news clip. Source at ...", "0:15-15:35; Original footage. Taken with X camera at Y location on Z date.".

2. Perform random audits on videos including tracking down all claimed sources to make sure they're documenting their sources correctly.

3. Offer running video through a ContentID system that can automatically check claimed sources with an internal database of known content. By opting-in, you can reduce your rate.

I think these bring the risk down to similar levels in other industries that insurance companies currently serve. Figuring out the exact rates, plans, kinds and amounts and limits of coverage, rates for different content etc etc etc is all the job of an adjuster. For example, fair use claims might have a higher rate of being contested, so maybe using them would be restricted and/or more expensive. It's in the insurance company's best interest to reduce the number of lawsuits and claims, so they will pursue anti-SLAPP judgements (and lobby for them!) to recoup legal costs of frivolous suits, thus reducing frivolous claims. The producer will have a well-known coverage and be able to manage their risk.

If the pre-declared claims sounds onerous to you, I could see video production tools being able to read specially formatted claim metadata embedded in any source and automatically outputting a properly formatted list of claims with timestamps embedded as metadata in the output. As long as the producer uses properly tagged sources it can be automatic. In fact, this could even be backed up with cryptographic signatures to allow in-place verification that you've purchased a particular license.

Another benefit: My apartment requires me to maintain renters insurance. Similarly, you could provide your cloud provider with proof that you maintain this kind of insurance, in exchange for them promising they won't disconnect your account due to copyright claims (and forward them to your insurance company instead). This combats the "walking up the stack" problem discussed in other threads.
How does downvoting work? I assume only some or really old accounts can do it?
The government may grant certain works the privilege of copyright, subject to certain restrictions, if it deems that doing this will promote the public good (i.e. promote progress of science and useful arts). It's not required to grant copyright exclusivity to all works nor all usage scenarios, it already does not grant it to some works and some usage scenarios, and that has not been considered a taking.
Why? MSR are not userspace registers. You don't want the userspace messing around with them either because they won't know 100% what they do. But more importantly for security.
Would you file an issue? I’d be curious to know what’s not working. I’d love to try to help. Documentation has improved a bit since then.
I read "Lost Connections" by Johann Hari[1] a couple weeks ago. He spends much of the first section on the research and history of antidepressants. One particularly interesting thing is that drugs that decrease serotonin levels are just as effective as those that increase serotonin. The same goes for drugs that alter levels of dopamine. It seems that a great majority of the effectiveness of antidepressants comes from the placebo effect, and the remainder is somewhat of a mystery. Also, doesn't cure imply something that is permanent and not just a temporary measure?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/17/lost-connectio...
This is due to cross origin restrictions enforced by the browser. It’s a bummer!
No, this really is breaking the mice, not inducing something that looks like SENS-relevant damage in mitochondria. The details matter.

Many means of breaking cell biology can produce things that look superficially like accelerated aging in at least some ways. That doesn't mean it is aging: given that aging is widespread tissue dysfunction, anything that causes widespread tissue dysfunction can have overlapping phenotypes, but that doesn't mean it has anything to do with normal aging. DNA repair deficiency is the usual example - something that isn't all that apparent in normal aging, in comparison to the models in which DNA repair machinery is missing or broken.

So, similarly, pulling the rug out from under mitochondrial function can be done in countless ways that have very little to do with what happens in aging. I think the onus is still on these researchers to demonstrate that the method they have chosen has much of anything to do with aging per se.
An essay written in 1971, "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" really nails the failure forces that are active against structureless orgs, and well as how you can combat those forces.

It's one of those essays that is just plain important to read for life, because you will see the forces it describes everywhere around you, for the rest of your time on earth.

https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
It's been a while but last time I checked it was just a certain karma threshold. The idea was to prevent newly registered accounts from spamming downvotes.

But again, haven't actively participated in HN for a while. Things could be different now.
above 500 points or something, I believe
Correct. I'd even argue that structure in the ideal sense is more akin to a house than to a toolkit. Less a direct way of getting things done, and more securing (or insulating) people from others so that they may get things done.
This study seems to suggest classical psychedelics do not cause mental illness which I will not argue against. However, as someone diagnosed as schizophrenic in 2012 and now considered bipolar with pyschotic features my last use of LSD caused a pyschotic break. I had a great trip, but I took the drug at 9pm before a festival and by the time I made it to 6am I could not slow down the frentic pace of thoughts in my brain and calm down enough to sleep and my pyschosis manifested itself despite my experience with hallucinogens and previous pyschotic episodes. I was in a stable state and it was the night of lsd that destabilized me. I haven't experimented with psychedelics since even though I have had some of the most powerful and positive experiences on lsd and mushrooms. It is not worth the risk of ending up in handcuffs again. I do not wish the mental ward on anyone. So my advice is respect these substances and your body because altering your mind opens you to possibilities beyond considerations of sober thought. People like me should not use these substances, and you may not realise you are like me until you do. I knew I probably shouldn't but my experience led me to believe I could handle any trip, that an lsd trip is a drop in a bucket compared my psychosis, but I learned that drop was all my body needed to propel me into another episode.
Reminds me of the film "Office Space", where the protagonist has something like eight managers he answers to. I worked for such a "flat" organization once, and that's how it was. It was not a good thing.
> had you never heard of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, or read The Jungle, or Silent Spring?

No, no, and no. I at least know of Sinclair and I'm familiar with the subject matter of The Jungle.
Kind of like why you never look tired? I'm always tired.
> Moreover, individuals who do take control of these systems have a for more vested interest in maintaining and expanding their power as they can become very wealthy by doing so.

Exactly. As we all know, these people all much making much more than the upper management at Microsoft or Google, who haven't got any real personal benefit from their position.
My last job was through LinkedIn, though not through a recruiter. The hiring manager reached out to me in a DM and I ended up being exactly what they were looking for. Switched jobs, but still working with that same person. Ended up breaking into a whole new career because of it.
It's simple in practice to learn incrementally and usefully, even though it's not simple in total. In fact, I think the two kinds of simplicity are often opposed.

Brainfuck is simple, but not simple to learn to do useful things in with.
> it's also one of the reasons why I "enjoy" drinking chamomile tea: It tastes so bad, it gotta be healthy

Each to their own, I really enjoy the taste of chamomile tea :)

Agreed that it's a good thing for medicine not to taste 'good' though, especially for medicines that happen to enhance appetite...
natural selection. stupid people get tattoos
natural selection
> While Android remains free for anyone to use as they would like, only Android compatible devices benefit from the full Android ecosystem. By joining the Open Handset Alliance, each member contributes to and builds one Android platform—not a bunch of incompatible versions.

If you use an Android fork, as enabled and allowed by Open Source, you aren't allowed to use Google anything anymore. That's the deal.
Oh this is delightful. Scarfolk Council is one of the best parody sites I've ever seen, their dystopian recreations of 70s public information posters, books and toys are perfect with just the right fonts, colours and layouts. Too perfect apparently!

If you were around in the 70s and 80s you should visit. https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/
It's not one person. People with sought after skills get inundated with requests, often completely irrelevant. I get so many help desk job offers that I'm significantly overqualified for and dramatically over salary for. I usually just start any conversation there to end it quickly. People who are looking for my level of skills pay well.
The sad thing about it is, even if these organizations are truly egalitarian, in whatever sense; there will still be people who feel contrarywise -- that the failure of their ideas is on account of in-groups. It's an interesting catch-22.
But then I don't get the hipster points
The thing is that if you're extremely serious about wanting a flat power structure, you can accomplish this _via_ formal means

There's this false dicotomy between "freedom for people to self-organize" and "formal structures to maintain a system", where people see what pointy-haired suits do and conclude that informal orgs will naturally be better. But _something_ needs to be in place to maintain a good environment.

You see this with people talking about Toyota. So many people see Toyota and think "oh I should do kanban". But kanban isn't the thing, the processes that led Toyota to do kanban is the thing.

Similarly, the objective isn't "have a flat org chart", but "maintain an environment where a formal power structure doesn't weigh down progress for the company". That requires acknowledging the informal power structures and making sure that the players involved are willing to maintain that environment _through_ this informal power structure.

Informal power dynamics do not need to be dysfunctional, if there's a principle driving the players
That's not how it works. Most physicists didn't literally "believe" in the Higgs boson. Instead they expected it to be found based on the Standard Model theory of particle physics. That theory has been extensively validated over decades by thousands of physicists performing thousands of experiments. When a theory has been extensively validated then it has some predictive power.

On the other hand there is no theory about alien life, only a bunch of speculative hypotheses.
It is very well presented in the video. Even more is discussed. Some of it looks promising.
Copyright is not created in the constitution as some right that inherently applies to all inventors/creators.

The particular constitution clause only permits congress to grant copyright exclusivity if (and to the limits) it wishes to; it doesn't require the congress to grant this exclusive right in any particular scope or even at all - it's up to the congress to decide.
German with a Texas accent?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_German
The biggest change since then is the addition of MilkDrop emulation with butterchurn: https://butterchurnviz.com/ and https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn
Yes it's okay to ignore the recommendations of working groups. The UK is under no obligation to take them seriously.
For me, it’s just being (or seems?) more courteous by changing a common ‘No/Wrong. Your idea...’ to ‘I actually disagree. The reasons being...’

Text makes it difficult to parse tone and intent and we need to adapt accordingly.
Gaffigan's comedy is way too safe for my tastes.
Someone said:

> What you describe is kind of bait and switch. Sure, Google is absolute legal here, doesn’t mean however that is ethically in the right.

If you provide something initially as open source, are you ethically bound to provide future versions of that thing as open source for all of eternity?
Radithor
that's not the way screens work. definitely not the way immunoassay screens work, which is the most common screen that isn't just making shit up.

confirmatory testing, like a GC/MS or LC/MS/MS can tell them apart because they're different molecules, but the extraction processes for delta 9 THC can/will pick up all the similar molecules (delta 8, COOH, CBD, CBN, whatever).

that's necessary and good because they're not all psychoactive (the COOH in particular), so they've got to be separated out for forensic purposes.
It’s also hard to build bombs without killing yourself, hard to transport them, hard to deploy them for maximum effect. Then you’re likely to face the wrath of whoever you attack, and tracing bombs and bombers is something governments do well. Tracing a pathogen could be very tricky, and it might not be possible at all in some cases. Spreading a virus is something even a toddler can manage. If it becomes cheap and easy to engineer to a contagious pathogen, deploying it will be all too easy, tracing it will be challenging.
How? Linkedin doesnt let you connect with ppl outside of your network. How do you start getting in?
Could be. The meta-pattern may be more "if an organization pretends to X where X is an essential condition for Y, the organization will end up with the opposite of Y."
I’ve often wondered if I’ll end up doing something similar one day. It’s kinda scary to think about how integral the word ‘physicist’ is to my personal identity.
> portable architecture

Incidentally, hasn't Linux been ported (eventually) to more architectures than NetBSD has?
And Google uses Java and Facebook uses PHP. The idea that SF startups are so much more advanced from a tech standpoint than other cities is just ridiculous
Solution: rely on your own NI to detect that you are being mis-routed.

Then, reconsider the choice. Pretty sure the whole point of individual autonomy is life. Every bit we delegate is at our own peril.
That’s the wrong direction, though.
Well, we didn't have the walkthrough until now. I've never been contacted by a recruiter in LinkedIn, but now I see how it's done.
Not to worry. If history is any guide, Google will eventually miss a disruptive innovation and some other company will become the dominant player in the next new range of computing devices. It could be augmented reality headsets, but who knows, another form factory always eventually arrives.
Ursula Leguin nailed the problems with "anarchist bureaucracy" in The Dispossessed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed
a cannabinoids immunoassay will tend to react with most of the cannabinoid-esque compounds. so, it's not a question of whether or not the test will "show" CBD, but rather, how much CBD is necessary to get the test to think there was an interesting/actionable amount of THC in the sample.

it works as a sort of linearish equation, where you add up all the compounds at different ratios, like 1.0THC + 0.5COOH + 0.05CBD + 0.05CBN + ... and if that adds up to "enough" then the test will trigger the testing lab to consider the screen positive.

at that point hopefully it goes over to confirmatory testing, where the LC/MS/MS separates all the various compounds apart, and lets the lab know that you had CBD in your system, but not THC.
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