skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
supremely disappointing to see such a poorly substantiated comment upvoted this highly.

What value does workers electing their directors add for anybody?

the value is articulated in the original op-ed. among other things, reducing income inequality which is important from a societal perspective.

the idea that director appointments should be political is patently absurd

they are already political, just in a very one-sided fashion.

a directorship is a job with well defined requirements and expectations

defined by the owner / capitalist class. the job can be redefined.

the majority of workers are often completely unqualified to judge

very arrogant to assume that workers do not understand their own priorities or that those things shouldn't matter.

the rest of the comment is composed of regurgitated talking points.

edit: disclosure - ex-vc and current business owner
Notably, Twitter doesn't support adding multiple U2F keys.

The current state of USB ports makes it really important to be able to add multiple keys to an account. From my experience you need 1) USB A key that are used on most devices, 2) USB C keys that can be used on devices like MVP, 3) NFC keys to work from your Android device.
How Often Are Americans' Online Accounts Breached?
> Ignoring your hyperbole, shareholders have tangible, actual property in the form of shares in the company

Actually, shares in a company are a textbook example of intangible personal property as opposed to tangible property.

> It's not like a single worker or even a group of workers can independently create output similar to what they can at the company.

Neither can a single shareholder (or they would); laws were created to create the concept of shareholders and give them rights specifically for that reason, even though capital-providers could participate together I'm ventures by providing debt financing where the upside would be captured by the funded entrepreneur even before joint stock companies existed.

Conditioning this government-created special legal privilege for certain providers of capital on the provision of a minimum level of similar control on those providing labor to the venture only seems outlandish because of the long history of not doing it.
can't clear browser history - lol, what?
plenty companies with sane work environments are hiring :)
Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fraction of the Cost on AWS
It seems like you should still be able to accomplish a lot with 100 million. Maybe the problem is that startups are wasting too much money and not being productive and / or efficient enough with finances. Now it takes the average startup more money to accomplish the same amount of progress.
if i'm not mistaken, MTF is more common that FTM in the general population, so it might not be tied to culture.
Potent psychedelic DMT mimics near-death experience in the brain
These kind of articles by one of the compared parties only become interesting once the other party responds. So waiting for Paul Dix to show up in this thread as usual.
Did you forget the link? Or the text?
Except your concern for "the interest of society at large" was essentially zero just a few minutes earlier when talking about stocks.
So much money, and yet, the same horrible open office plans and transparent meeting rooms. Does office space in SF really cost that much?
No, the sentence talks about imaginary pain, not real pain with imaginary causes.
As a point of fact, the yield curve is not inverted (nor has it been for some time). Furthermore, forward PE ratios show returns far in excess of current government bond yields.
Have these homeless people been offered housing and treatment in a setting that preserves their autonomy and turned that down? I highly doubt it. Commitment shouldn't even be under consideration except for people who have refused treatment without confinement.
I'm not sure I understand. Why is it a contradiction for something with an angelic recipe of 100 lines to generate something with an angelic recipe of 1000 lines?
Is there a better link for this? The provided one seems to be some academic bureaucracy.

I'd be interested in knowing how this differs from pint.
If you're looking for a place to move to start your career, I highly recommend Atlanta. Huge software community, vibrant Meetup ecosystem, low enough cost of living to where you can afford to live just about anywhere you want with a mediocre dev salary. I just bought a condo in a high-rise in Midtown so my money is where my mouth is.
New projections show future of work in California
Right. We're able to fight two stupid wars at the same time and provide blanket defense coverage for our allies. It's a huge financial burden. Bringing up the US's stupid expensive wars of choice just reinforces my point. We're so productive that we can afford these follies.
Oh, thanks for the note about Twitter! I'll update the article.
The page has a link to https://github.com/yt-project/unyt
(self plug) try pgexercises.com. It's in a very similar vein to windowfunctions - I understand it was one of the original inspirations - but it covers a much wider range of material, with a gradual growth from very basic stuff up to slightly advanced.
You do have a say, and companies already answer to more than just their shareholders. See [0] for instance:

“In recent years, large technology companies have been investigated for colluding
with a secret agreement not to hire one another’s best workers; **fined billions** of
dollars for unfairly favoring certain services on their platforms over other rivals;
and been accused of mishandling sensitive consumer information or of obtaining new
customers under false pretenses,”

So this naive idea that companies run amok without recourse is political theatre in the clothing of concern.

Finally, and I hate to bring this up, but if you don't like it, then quit. That's what I did to start a business. It's tough and it's stressful, and some days are just no fun at all and I wonder what the heck I did. But it's my company, and I only answer to my clients. Yes, I am the shareholder, but honestly, what's in my best interest is serving my clients better than my competition.

I am the labor and the shareholder.

Yes, it comes with issues, but so does everything. If you don't like the control a company has over you, then leave. And before anyone says "I can't leave because....", remember, if you get fired, you've still left, and you still have to deal with those same "..." issues. So yes, you can leave. It may be uncomfortable as hell, but you can. You'll be amazed at how hard you will work for a single dollar when it's your own firm. I've never worked this hard for another company. Ever.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/07/2...
GitHub Classroom report predicts positive student learning outcomes
Not the file input button, unless things have changed in the last year since I had to build one. Other buttons, sure, but not on file inputs.
Wonderful analysis, I was waiting for something like this to come out!

Recently, I've gone through this very same choice and ended up with vanilla PostgreSQL (Timescale was not mature enough).

[Shameless self plug] You can read some of the details here: https://medium.com/@neslinesli93/how-to-efficiently-store-an...
My biggest pet peeve is when sites use js to try to "help" me scroll. What. The. Hell. is wrong with developers who think their users' browsers can't scroll? Am I the only one?
The documentation is at https://unyt.readthedocs.io. The OP is a paper describing the package and includes a comparison with Pint and astropy.units. Here's the PDF: https://www.theoj.org/joss-papers/joss.00809/10.21105.joss.0...
From TFA:

> "[T]he IG found that you made a series of misrepresentations to Congress about the event, which were corrected for the first time in the IG's Report," the Democrats wrote in their letter to Pai.

> The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia declined to prosecute anyone at the FCC even though making false statements to Congress can be punished with fines or imprisonment.

I wonder if further inquiry into this will lead to charges being pressed.
Your point is a valid one, but Germany has a lot of restrictions on what military force it can have. It's not necessarily a choice.

What's the point of 'bothering' to keep a token airforce airworthy when your total military personnel is capped to far below a useful amount (350,000) for any reasonable attempt at defence, and for historical reasons you are incredibly adverse to using them overseas?
Of course not but let's start somewhere. Make gradual socitital changes in all the areas needed starting with this bill. Education and housing reform would also be worthwhile.
> If you want to be a woman, just act like one

And what does this mean?
There's no contradiction. My position is that society as a whole benefits when we allocate scarce resources to their most productive ends, and the system of ownership and profit optimization does just that. Adam Smith was right about the invisible hand.
There might be a small combination of pills here .. something like a muscle-relaxer plus an anti-psychotic prescription drug .. together they powerfully mute the normal human response to stress, but not so much that the subject does not appear normal, and can speak clearly enough. Then the subject sits there, on camera, sworn in under oath perhaps, and glides through the session with good notes from a hired lawyer.

For an industry measured in the many-billions of dollars, per year for many years.. how many wanna-be Fortune Magazine cover cuties would do that ? lots. This is all conjecture, for the record.. think for yourself
A bit off topic, but would be great to use SQLite in the browser instead of IndexedDB.

I love relational databases, but you're almost forced into a NoSQL approach when developing a SPA since the client (browser) only supports simple key -> value storage. It would be a dream to use LINQ-to-SQL, or similar type safe query DSLs like Slick or Quill (Scala), or Esqueleto (Haskell) in the browser.

Combine that with a single language driving the backend and frontend and voila, no duplication of model, validation, etc. layers on server and client.

One can dream I guess, but the reality is NoSQL fits the modern web app like a glove, for better or worse.
Given the cambrian explosion in tools, i am always looking for safe ways to cross a tool off my "must consider" list.
This article was very helpful in that regard!
Fast strongly universal 64-bit hashing everywhere
US western media talks a lot about how trump is damaging our image. Chinese media never even mentions how Xi or decisions made in China are giving it a bad reputation.
Heaven forbid your buttons look like buttons.
No, I’m arguing against applying democracy as a solution to any problem that seems too hard to solve. “Fuck it, we’ll vote on it!” is a lazy solution.
I have been working professionally with software for almost 20 years.

And what I defintly can say is that great leaders do exist.

But it takes a certain level of integrity and intellect, IN the company culture.

It's bullshit that we're better, more bright and what not compared to other fields. We're absolutely not. We're comfortable being pushed around and then bitching about it, maybe because we have no integrity and are scared
So that's why that happens. Why on earth would you break one of the most foundational aspects of HTML that way?
It really annoys me when a site that just needs to display some text loads a whole react-redux framework.

When it comes to reading text I honestly prefer the old school academic websites (albeit with a max-width set).

Keeping stuff simple even makes maintaining the site simple, I personally run https://www.discoverdev.io and have used zero JavaScript. Inspired by brutalist design principles :)
shrug Fight web fashion all you want, I like the high rise condo that it pays for.
I agree, gender could be a red herring here. Power structures could better explain the social behavior. However, I would like to understand the differences, if any, between patriarchal and matriarchal societies. Anyone has a suggestions for resources in this regard?
I wonder if citizens can prosecute the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia for failing to do their job?
Ironically, it’s my understanding many browsers use SQLite under the hood for storage of indexeddb
Not filepicker inputs. They are notoriously difficult to style consistently across browsers.
Not... Exactly true.

I agree that losing an extra 10 minutes to a sit-down train vs. a car is a big deal.

However, the New York subway is jam-packed and failing, so you have to stand 24 hours a day, dodge other riders...

You can't do work on the subway, so subway is basically equivalent to the car, except the car is much, much less likely to break down.
Learning to spend effectively with your own money, before spending the money of others can be a valuable lesson to achieve many times return per dollar. Startups benefit from swinging above their weight, and this is one big way.

Spending alone doesn't solve problems. It's similar to management by abdication and dumping the responsibility on someone else and wondering why it didn't turn out.
I think so as well. The intent of this write-up is explicitly to advocate for a practice to "Expire cookies early". "Depreciate" might not be the perfect word, but "deprecate" is outright misleading.
Brandenburg v. Ohio and Dennis v. United States provide a pretty clear legal standard for this:

"The constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/395/444

Twitter, of course, is not the State and can do what they want.

But if the State censored or in someway punished Jones, they would have to demonstrate that his speech constituted "inciting" "imminent" "lawless action." And there have been several cases since which have focused mostly on the "imminent" part.
I've seen pull request interactions where a moderating authority would have made all the difference.

We mostly accept the need these days to moderate other online social behavior, like on HN, to reduce potential damage from ego/politics. Hopefully the need is lower in a professional environment like SD, but I could still see it being useful when things go off the rails.
This paper ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29141112 ) simulates schwartzite with a macroscopic 3d-printed model and finds that "these structures hold great promise as high load bearing and impact‐resistant materials due to a unique layered deformation mechanism that emerges in these architectures during loading.".
He's a hostile actor, an enemy to this nation. I said it before and I'll say it again.
Exactly what I said? The article states that those who act like woman from a young age, simply become them. No surgery, nothing physical changes, they simply are treated as woman from that point on.
Most people don't give a single shit about your font choice unless it is egregiously unreadable, but the people who do care are especially strident about it.

I tend to prefer leaving it up to their browser default when possible, on the assumption that the few people who really care have customized their browser and don't want me to override it and nobody else will appreciate my refined sensibilities in font selection.
Skin in the game is unrelated to a voice in decision making. This would increase worker representation, more employee stock ownership doesn’t do that.
Suppose your query is:

SELECT * FROM tab WHERE key1=1 AND key2 IN (2,3,4,5);

SQLite starts by doing a single b-tree lookup on the index on (1,2) - composed from the key1 field and the first possibility of the key2 field. If that works, then it proceeds to look up (1,3), (1,4), and (1,5). But if the (1,2) lookup fails, then it backs off and tries just (1,) to see if that matches anything at all. If (1,) finds any record, the search proceeds with (1,3), (1,4),etc. But if (1,*) fails, the search stops immediately.

The insight here is that a multi-column key value can be resolved using a single binary search. It is not a sequence thing where we first look for the key1=1 and then do a separate lookup in a subtree for key2. Both key1 and key2 are resolved in the same binary search.
>It's about who takes on the initial burden of risk and what kind of compensation that risk demands. A worker takes on little to no risk when offering his/her labour in return for a steady salary.

Who takes more risk, the worker standing 70 stories up on an I-beam with no health insurance or life insurance (couldn't afford it!), or the guy who borrowed money to start a business? Who creates the profit that allows the owner to pay back that loan? Who dug the metal out of the ground? Oh, right, it all comes back to the worker. Workers risk their lives and livelihood. The worker takes on just as much risk, if not more, especially with 80% of our country living paycheck to paycheck.

Let me know how you start a business on $7.25/hr?
This is an Android problem that is sold as a feature by Google... still a problem on my version of Android (in Android 5.0 and later, an app can request the permission for reading/writing to a folder on the SD card though: https://metactrl.com/docs/sdcard-on-lollipop/ )
Eh, I don't think CEO's should get 361X the normal employee. I think 42X was already insane. $250 billion towards shareholders vs $7 trillion is also insane. Workers just arn't getting compensated the same now as they were in the 70s. Worker quality of life should get better as time goes on, not worse. So I'd support anything that aims to even out that ludicrous greed filled gap.
> Code Review should be about catching mistakes.

Overly-complicated code is a mistake. Maintainability matters almost as much as a passing unit test. You want your code reviews to catch meaningful things, but they often end up being about things like this (fixing inefficient small bits of code).

e.g.

function isDry(weather) {
if (typesUtil.isSunny(weather) ||
(!typesUtil.isSunny(weather) && typeof weather.hasSnow === 'boolean' && !weather.hasSnow)) {
return true;
}
return false;
}

vs

function isDry(weather) {
return typesUtil.isSunny(weather) ||
(typeof weather.hasSnow == ‘boolean’ && !weather.hasSnow);
}

vs

function isDry(weather)
var hasSnow = false;
if(typeof weather.hasSnow === 'boolean') {
hasSnow = weather.hasSnow;
}
return (typesUtil.isSunny(weather) || !hasSnow);
}
Token amounts means you're never going to ask yourself "can I afford this 3 euros ?", compared to the "should I really do this x-ray and eat up my 500$ deductible ?"
> No, you are not fine. As the paper explains, an adversary (which is by definition more privileged than you are) can operate between the moment you use secrets in L1 and the moment you flush them out. Only the CPU (silicon or microcode) can assist you in the flushing of L1 when you exit enclave mode.

It gets worse, if the adversary has root they can force all the data in L1 cache. This allows them to read all memory pages of an executed and non-exuctuted encalve.

There is nothing what can be done against this from the enclaves point of view.
Exactly! That's the point I made elsewhere in this thread [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17766788
I am surprised that the NYTimes doesn’t see it as a positive sign: the structures around start-up (accelerators, investors, hosting, third party tools, etc.) have grown in maturity and relevance quite considerably. I certainly expect people familiar with YCombinator to agree.

More funding like that means more companies trusted to spend that money into creating something profitable. If this goes into people who have grown companies into a unicorn a couple of times; scaling faster local operations lead by managers with relevant experience; AWS, GCP, Twilio & Square bills, it’s certainly expensive but overall sensical.

I don’t know of an investor who, since 2000 has said: “This is silly, I can’t invest anymore.” and left, so I don’t think the game got non-sensical overall. Real-estate in SF certainly has, but high valuations proved when they made sense and gave investors confidence. There certainly has been cases where the value wasn’t justified, but very few at that level of money raised. Certainly less in proportion than the rounds with crazy valuations in 2000
> You don't get to bitch about doing something that dumb when you could have gotten the exact same degree for $40,000 and paid for half of it with a part-time job over four years.

$40,000 euros for a degree is still a ridiculous amount. It costs $11,000 to go to Oxford per year right now, and before the ridiculous fee increases it would be about $11,000 for a 4 year degree.

It's about $5,000 per year on average across the EU, with some countries offering free tuition. Because, hey, it turns out educating people ends up a net benefit to society!
>Maybe the problem is that startups are wasting too much money and not being productive and / or efficient enough with finances.

Definitely. I was talking to one startup and they were on the 5th round and they started in ~2016. They bragged that they had raised $100MM, but no mention of profitability or why they were raising so much.

Tons of people think "we raised $100MM" is impressive, what's more impressive is not blowing out your cap table and diluting everyone except investors.
Is this similar to how California gets a free ride on the dollar at the expense of Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana?

Seriously, I don't understand, what does a cheap currency (what does that even mean) have to do with trade surplus?
It is true that not everyone agrees it is not a bad measure. But that's not what I mean. What I mean is:

- "I" don't think it is not bad.

- Some policy makers in the U.S. are doing similar things, so there are at least some people who (agrees with me and) also think it is not bad.
Software folks reinventing the wheel is a problem that extends far beyond teambuilding
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Agreed. The same as most teams cannot be run without a dedicated DBA. The question is whether or not the DBA does other things, not whether that skill is needed or not.

If you've got six or seven people that need constant management, you're working at a burger joint, not a tech shop.

If I remember correctly, in the book "In the Plex", Google scaled out to thousands of developers without having a dedicated management slot. (This is a good time to mention that all generalizations are false, including this one)

In general, in the tech world I find the biggest supporters of "X should be its own job" are either the people who do X -- or train people to do X. Customers don't care one way or another. Neither should we. If we need an X, we get one.
We're way off in the weeds now, but you've described a bad bar. There are more than 60 thousand of them in the U.S.

Go to a better one.
"raid" 1/0 and 10 are stable, others are not. Theoretically btrfs can protect against bit-rot where other fs's typically don't.
How is this germane? He's also not on all the major television networks, radio networks, or newspapers. Why are you deeming the Internet special?

Alex Jones made his name originally driving around Austin with a sound truck.

You're not guaranteed an audience, full stop.
Are there really no commercial products that support this? I'd be keen to buy one that did, current fallbacks seem fairly crazy by comparison.
...weird baseline.

Is that caused by the tails of the letters "y" and "p"? The one box that doesn't have a tailed letter, "base", looks fine. There should be a way to tell the system to use the normal font baseline instead of something it can figure out geometrically.