skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a non-paywall version:

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17683022/elizabeth-warren-acco...

And one key clause from the bill:

> "More concretely, citizen corporations would be required to allow their workers to elect 40 percent of the membership of their board of directors."

This is a bold proposal, and it's worth considering what consequences it's going to have. Companies are already wary of going public these days, with many unicorns staying private longer, and some public companies even going private again. This bill would sharply accelerate the trend for one very simple reason: A privately held corporation would now be much more valuable than a public corporation. A corporation run by leaders who are 100% focused on optimizing (long-term) shareholder profits, will generate more (long-term) profits than a board that's 40% worker-elected. By definition then, as soon as a private company goes public, they can expect an immediate valuation hit.

As more and more companies go/stay private, to avoid the above hit, the accessibility of public markets becomes weakened. Right now, any average Joe from Main Street can invest his savings into Google stock, and participate somewhat in corporate success. Not so if companies decide to remain private instead.

I think the intent behind the bill is in the right place. Mega-corps are strangling our democracy (see the recent article about Intuit lobbying against tax-filing-reform), and their successes are being enjoyed primarily by the 1%. But I think we need a different solution to this problem. Higher taxes on the 1%, a stronger social safety net, campaign-finance reform, and better enforcement of anti-trust laws, would be my preferred approach for tackling the current problems.
Where? I can't see discussion about this submission at that link.
I don't disagree with you, I just think the obvious connection between these elected directors' compensation and how well-liked they are would mean less-qualified, less-effective leaders on average.
I thought it was reasonable to extrapolate from what the US does. And in some cases, for instance, the Five Eyes countries often cooperate as a way of bypassing their own laws, so it's directly related.

Anyway, for a specific US example, Russia alerted the US about the Tsarnaev brothers. Anecdotally I heard from a South Korean about a visit in Japan from some official with photos warning him to stop associating with some North Koreans he'd met. Call me pessimistic but I think this is going on all the time everywhere.
Amazon patents driverless car tech to navigate traffic, construction and weather
I usually read that in NYC and California the is a LOT of job changing constantly. But when I see a LinkedIn profile there isn't that much job changes in the experience section. I imagine 20 jobs i.e but I usually see more around 7 or at most 10. Is this really a reality down there? At least for NYC?
"It makes sense to get another job". The problem there though is that almost every company now, at least in the Bay Area, seems to be doing these coding screens as that is now the standard set by the big 5. I guess you could consider it live practice.
haha, good one
Teach them, is the best way for you to learn more and for them to learn more :) Age should not be a concern in someone else's skills.
Yep, probably should've mentioned that above, since it's not a popular enough sport that everyone will know what it is.
First look inside SpaceX Crew Dragon [video]
Digital Transformation and the Governance of Human Society
And yet we still have the First Amendment.
You looking to take a short position on a major index 10 years from now? If so, let's talk. I'll take that deal.
> A counter-argument to this premise could take this line and re-write it as "American corporations exist only because shareholders/VC firms invested capital in them."

And how on earth would that be a valid counter argument? It's patently false! Companies _do not_ require shareholder or VC investment to exist. They require people to work at the company and produce a product ("product" being the most extended notion of a company's deliverable).
That's your manager's job. Work on your own tasks, stop trying to play someone you aren't. Concentrate on improving yourself, and if your manager's don't kick them out, search for a new place to work at.
The Science Behind the World’s Longest Flights
If workers overnight started saving half their after-tax income, effectively cutting consumption in half, what would happen to the stock price of these companies though? It would fall - so buying out the companies might take less than five years' savings - that is, if the workers don't get fired as a cost-cutting measure first!
Thanks for noticing.

For everyone else, has the situation got better?? Or has it got worse? Would someone more experienced and/or qualified care to comment?

I know a bit, but not enough.
How the Entertainment Space Is Becoming an Incredible Force with RTC
The query optimizer improvements are pretty cool too.

Even though, I don't really understand that one : "The IN-early-out optimization: When doing a look-up on a multi-column index and an IN operator is used on a column other than the left-most column, then if no rows match against the first IN value, check to make sure there exist rows that match the columns to the right before continuing with the next IN value.
". I would think there's no need to check the right column(s) if the leftmost one has no match...
Thank you these are great links, I appreciate it. Cheers.
> What you mean by distance ?

I believe the person you're responding to meant miles. Physical distance.

> It's not so easy as it sounds.

Their point was not that it isn't easy (and I think they realize that) but that the article seems to imply that out-of-country is suboptimal, and they're questioning that assumption. (Hence the SF vs. Toronto from upstate NY example.) DNS resolvers are already computing some form of location to determine whether a query is in or out of country, and presumably the resolver knows its own location, so it effectively is already solving (to a degree) the problem of computing distance; the poster's point was just that "in country" is not necessarily "closest", "fastest" or "best" (or even that those three are the same).
haha this is bs
(answered in sister comment)
A Betriebsrat is certainly a very good tool to keep some balance in the power structures of a company. And German companies have done very well with this structure.
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yes, that's a good thread.

yeah, it's not nailed down that airdrops would count as sales.

But (a) that ICOs are securities in the US (b) that "gift" securities for promotional purposes, were obvious and not news at all to outside observers really very early on (which is also a theme of that Twitter thread); it was only crypto people who thought playing semantic games made any difference.

As I say in the article, I’d be amazed if the SEC wasn’t looking into nailing that one down too - because airdrops are done as a promotional tool.

Put it this way - good evidence against airdrops counting as a sale would be if airdrop-like distribution of non-crypto quite-definitely-securities had been clearly found not to be sales. If you know of any such, that'd be super-useful.
I think that the real advantage of something like this is that it provides a minimal template to follow if one wants to start writing a window manager in one's language of choice (assuming that language already has some X bindings). One can start from there, & then add ICCCM, tiles, whatever else one wants.

edit 1: accidentally a word

edit 2: I'm at a loss at why this isn't considered a contribution to the conversation. Can anyone enlighten me?
Can Going Private Turn Tesla Around?
>I've never agreed with that. As a private company you can be in business for whatever reason you want.

If by 'you' you mean 'the owners' who are the share holders, then yes. What you'll find is that generally share holders do want economic returns at the cost of anything else, especially when so many of the owners each own only a tiny slice of many different businesses. Part of it is that it will be difficult for the owners to come to an agreement on anything else and so they'll go for economic returns.

There is also a selection effect concerning when executives at a company are replaced. Are owners choosing when to replace executives in such a way that selects for executives who put short term profitability over other concerns?
The average price of a house sold in the US in 1989 was around $145,000.

The average price of a house sold in the US in 2018 is around $375,000.

If we adjust the 1989 dollars for inflation, that $145,000 becomes about $295,000.

That means, in 2018 dollars, the average house price has gone up around $80,000 or 27% over the past 29 years.

That's a significant increase and we should be concerned about whether or not Americans can afford to purchase houses, but framing the problem as "houses are now 35-40 times as expensive as they were in the late 80's" is terribly inaccurate as a general metric.

house price data: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ASPUS

inflation calculator: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
There is already a ton of good advice on this thread, so I will try to avoid sounding like a broken record. But something that really stood out to me is you not leaving your flat. I think by just staying in your apartment during all your free time is really hurting you. I found that even if I take a 15 to 20 minute walk outside, I will usually feel happier and refreshed. Give it a try! Good luck!
Did you deliberately change GW to KW?

20 GW in 2018 with process falling 15% year on year can lead to a sudden increase. Let's pass judgement in 2021 when things are clearer.
It's not a drop-in replacement:

"Unsupported Benchmarks:
We were unable to evaluate DTHREADS on seven of the PARSEC benchmarks: vips and raytrace would not build as 32-bit executables; bodytrack, facesim, and x264 depend on sharing of stack variables; fluidanimate uses ad-hoc synchronization, so it will not run without modifications."
Being able to "write (either code or ideas)" is critically important to communication.
Surely you aren't serious. Feudalism required working for the landowners near where you lived. In our society you can change jobs, start your own business, move, do freelance work, or not work at all if you so choose. I agree there are problems with the current system, but to equate it to feudalism is insanity.
The article practically opened with it. Did you read it?
There's a big difference between developing yet another e-commerce storefront versus something that requires legitimate research and development.

Far too many confuse the two, and the discipline and flexibility needed for both.
The whole post is a preface to an ad. What did you expect.
Your point was muddled. You asked do I read everything about Russia annexing Crimea, I replied “yes.” Not that every article about Russia was also about crimea. That isn’t true, nor is it true that every even negative article about China mentions Uighurs.
I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone here both of the replication crisis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
and of hindsight bias:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias

I see quite a few comments of people looking at the result and trying to come up with explanations for why it might hold. Heck, there even seems to be some confusion with the term "bullshit-receptivity" (and "bullshit-sensitivity"), which means that, even if the paper is valid, you might be drawing the opposite conclusion.

I'd like you to imagine, without going back to check right now, that you are wrong about the result. That they've found the opposite correlation to the one you thought holds. Can you find a reason why it would? Does it seem justifiable, explainable? As much so as your original belief? That should be a warning sign that your explanation might be a bit pre-emptive.

I am glad for the commenters saying they found the result "counter-intuitive". Noticing your confusion in this way is a good skill to learn, especially in this day and age. That nagging feeling in the back of your mind that something is off or that you forgot something.

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As an aside: If you are interested in more on biases, may I suggest reading "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman. One of my favourite non-fiction books. Some of the results in there (notably priming) have themselves unfortunately fallen prey to the replication crisis, but the book as a whole is still brilliant.

Some links RE: the replication crisis and Kahneman's responses regarding it:

The Irony Effect: How the scientist who founded the science of mistakes ended up mistaken.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...

Replicability-Index
Improving the replicability of empirical research
Reconstruction of a Train Wreck: How Priming Research Went off the Rails
https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/reconstruc...

Kahneman's Comment:
https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/reconstruc...

Retraction Watch
“I placed too much faith in underpowered studies:” Nobel Prize winner admits mistakes
https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und...
> I really wish "reading mode" was a prominent feature in desktop browsers.

What do you mean here by "prominent"?
Interesting! My first thought went to fermats library, as that's doing something very (and quite well I think) but they don't have a voting system
What would you propose as an alternative strategy?

The billing rates tend to be high to compensate based on my experience with consulting. There is no city in the world like NYC, and it has so much to offer. That's not to say there aren't constraints of different types, but it can be an amazing place to live and do business.

I'm a Northern Irish guy now living in Philadelphia. I think in a lot of ways it is now much more preferable to NYC for me. Anytime I go back to NYC I feel completely energised by the environment.
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Google has ideas to replace cookies, possible introduction of HTTP State Tokens
"Considering how this would decimate the market and cause large amounts of frivolous lawsuits,"

Why would it decimate the market? This just sounds like fearmongering.
Because if you don't like my plan you can go find a new CEO. And finding a new CEO is harder than it looks, especially in big business. CEOs should have a lot of leverage with their board, if they don't, they're cooked anyway. I have said to the external shareholders many times that their opinion of putting the business first and my opinion of putting the business first may differ because, unlike the investors, i'm responsible for the internal shareholders as well, and need to balance their views and opinions.
How long you spend in the subway is entirely based on where you live in relation to Manhattan and where your office in Manhattan is. If you live in Brooklyn or Queens, you don't have many options outside of the subway. If you live farther out in Long Island, upstate NY, CT, or NJ you would take the train which often (but not always, it depends on which train you take) has considerably more elbow room. And if you take a train from those places, you can transfer to a subway and get to almost anywhere in Manhattan within 30 min.

Yes this is a long commute, but while $2k will barely cover rent of a tiny studio with a roommate in Manhattan, $2k elsewhere can cover the rent + utilities for a 3 bedroom apartment but with a 90 min commute each direction.

I think its fair to say that COL is inversely related to your distance to Manhattan
To Catch Robber,The FBI Attempted an Unprecedented Grab for Google Location Data
From a reading only of the WSJ article (no additional research), I would be inclined to oppose it on Constitutional grounds, as a States' Rights issue. I see no standing that the federal government has to force all companies with $1BB in annual revenues to get a federal charter. (Feds have the power to regulate foreign/interstate commerce, so over $1BB in interstate/foreign revenue is a threshold with a chance at having Constitutional standing, though it's still a stretch from there to say the feds have the power to force specific corporate governance practices unrelated to commerce itself.)

I doubt this will go anywhere (I think it's another grandstanding issue for the Bernie-types), but if it does, I'd expect a challenge (with a reasonable chance of success) on Constitutional grounds (see Article 10).
I agree with what other folks have said. Participating in a hobby with others (e.g., workout class, painting, tennis) will give you a shared interest to begin conversation, which can make connecting less anxiety provoking. Finding a group that helps others (such as mentorship within the tech space, or helping at risk youth with college prep, or working with animals at the shelter) is also a nice way to connect with others on a mission that has greater meaning, which can be motivating from an attendance perspective, but also help with making conversation since you can also talk big ideas with those around you.

I also think that taking time to notice people in your environment can be helpful. We are all so glued to our phones that there are a lot of missed opportunities to talk to others and connect in our day to day. Maybe someone is struggling with their coffee at starbucks, and the simple act of helping them starts up a conversation. That interaction can either be a practice interaction (a smaller short term interaction to prove to yourself it isn't as scary as perhaps the anticipation made you think it was) but also has the potential for a real connection with someone.

Looking for facts can also be helpful in managing social anxiety. For example, if you're worried that people won't like you if you speak with them, think to yourself "how would I know if people didn't like me? Would people tell me Im affable? What does it look like when people don't like other people, and is that happening to me?" Often how we feel isn't really based in facts, and by realizing this, it is easier to overcome the feelings that interfere with our ability to do what we want to do.
I did an MBA, and have built and led software dev teams for decades. Just to establish my bona fides, because the "known art" of building cohesive teams and what actually works for software teams is definitely two different things.

Actually, having talked to friends in other creative industries, I don't think anyone gets this right for creative processes. And I think TFA gets it completely right when it talks about estimation as the root of the problem.

We know there is no method of correctly estimating software development timescales before the development begins. This is also true of other creative processes, but usually they have the ability to ship a half-complete product. Think of writers meeting a deadline with something they know isn't "right" but doesn't actually burn the reader's eyeballs out of their skull. Or graphic artists who have to send something off that they know isn't great, etc.

Software actually is unique in this respect, because it doesn't work if it's not complete. There are bugs that need to be fixed, features that actually need to be complete, etc. While a graphic artist will usually get a couple of requests for changes, there are usually contractual limits around this. No such luck in software (imagine saying to your customer "you can report two bugs or incomplete features for free, then we start charging you again").

So the basic problem (as TFA says) is that estimates are never accurate, and yet businesses need accurate estimates to make decisions. A good software team leader/project manager/CTO/IT Director/Tech Wiz bridges this gap and manages both sides so that the business can function.

To do that requires empathic understanding of the needs of both sides.
Authoritarian leadership, either from development refusing to heed deadlines, or management insisting on them, will (as TFA says) break the business. Servant leadership allows both sides to make the necessary concessions to keep the business afloat.

Awesome that someone has written this up so well :)
Structural engineers do not work primarily with other SEs. They have to collaborate with architects. Architects tend to take lot of artistic freedoms when designing a structure. We get to tell them to shove it as implementing some of their artistic designs would involve defying gravity and other laws of physics. Although that doesn't work and then you get failed/delayed/extremely over budget project

SEs also work with civil engineers/site supervisors etc.

No there's no veto resides in hands of engineers in any industry. There's a reason why bridges collapse and buildings need to be tore down for safety. It's not because engineers got to decide what's right.
my own huffman story: I took huffman's class, cybernetics, in college (thinking that it would teach me how to build robots that interfaced with humans). However, the class was mostly about how to build circuits, and Karnaugh maps weighed heavily. The final problem on the final test was a tricky Karnaugh map and I got it wrong- although I knew that you could form squares that "wrapped" around the top and bottom edges, but he put a square that was wrapped around the four corners:
1 0 0 1
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
1 0 0 1
and I totally missed that the symmetry applied in both directions at the same time (I'd call that a tricky question rather than a trick question).

That class led to a ton of imposter syndrome that took me decades to overcome. Thanks, Huffman.
Aye, but there's the rub. Everyone is free to divest their retirement holdings from all companies that aren't B corps. But then you have to be willing to (maybe) accept sub inflation level returns. So do you want 8-10%+ returns in your retirement holdings? This is happening exactly because businesses are being run to generate economic returns to its owners. Obviously the super large shareholders make out even better but we come along on the ride for free.
It is kinda-sorta free and open source, though (at least the decoding part). Cisco pays for their codec, and as long as you use their implementation you are covered by their license.

Specifically, to be covered you have to download a binary release from https://github.com/cisco/openh264/releases during the installation to be covered by Cisco's MPEG LA patent license, but they provide builds for most major platforms.
Nosferatu is only viewable today due to piracy
Yes, this is devilish clever stuff :)
> But the CEO doesn't own the company, the investors do, so why would the CEO be the one to state the goals leaving investors to "take it or leave it"?

Well, one point of the article is that these days 62% of CEO income is equity, so in most cases the CEO is also an "investor".

It does seem to me that creates a conflict of interest, in that a short-term plan to increase share price may not be in the long-term interests of the company. Yet, the CEO will likely not be around for the long haul and benefits more from short-term thinking.

I'm generally not a fan of Warren, but a good bit of this makes sense to me.

I think the most questionable part is: "At least 75% of directors and shareholders would need to approve before a corporation could make any political expenditures". That is just thrown in there with no explanation, and is likely intended to cripple Republicans by not allowing campaign contributions in almost all cases. That is likely the poison pill that will doom this legislation.