skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> pretty much everyone finds out at the same time, on a well-defined schedule.

They absolutely do not.

We found out 3 hours after the 10pm time they stated. And apparently this happens every year.
> woman who has talked to other women about their relationships

That's less relevant as actually having sexual encounters with a woman. People often don't know their close friend's fetishes, but they do (or should) know what their lovers enjoy.

For a counterpoint: open a book of women's fantasies written by and marketed to women.
There are stories on here from time to time about homemade radio systems of various kinds. The risk to life (interfering with aircraft or police radios, for example) sometimes gets mentioned but is never the focus.
Isn't it actually selective transparency that's just passed off as transparency? Just because someone states reasons A, B, and C as the supporting evidence behind a decision doesn't necessarily mean that those three were the only reasons.
"Sorry dude, that's how economies work."

There is no natural law that says things have to be that way. The economy is man made and when you look a different countries you'll see that there is a lot variation. There is no natural reason that for example investment income should be taxed lower than employment income. You could come up with a law that requires a certain share of the company's profits to be distributed to employees instead everything going to shareholders.

There are lot of things that can be tweaked.

In general I object to the idea that people who have a lot of money (earned or inherited) create more value than the people working for them. Both sides play a role in this economy and deserve to be respected as value creator.
Apparently the main value of this new product is that it reduces the infectious time period (“viral shedding”) from 3 days (using Tamiflu) to only 1 day.

Would be interesting to see what impact that has during flu season.
Prototypal inheritance, and scope controls more refined/easier to work with than IIFEs. In the end the class notation is "simply" syntax sugar giving the object syntax the benefit of Function.prototype and IIFE closures, without having to resort to layers of either/both.
The email doesn't list any names.
It is very common. Senior Software Engineers are commonly at 400+ up to 7-800. Director level for Software, Data Eng, Data Science are very rarely under 600+. VP in the same areas rarely (never?) under 800+.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_maize

> Bt corn is a variant of maize that has been genetically altered to express one or more proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis[8] including Delta endotoxins. The protein is poisonous to certain insect pests. Spores of the bacillus are widely used in organic gardening[9], although GM corn is not considered organic. The European corn borer causes about a billion dollars in damage to corn crops each year.[10]

> In 2018 a study found that Bt-corn protected nearby fields of non-Bt corn and nearby vegetable crops, reducing the use of pesticides on those crops. Data from 1976-1996 (before Bt corn was widespread) was compared to data after it was adopted (1996-2016). They examined levels of the European corn borer and corn earworm. Their larvae eat a variety of crops, including peppers and green beans. Between 1992 and 2016, the amount of insecticide applied to New Jersey pepper fields decreased by 85 percent. Another factor was the introduction of more effective pesticides that were applied less often.[18]
According to interviews with Google insiders, this sort of inappropriate behavior was accepted there from the beginning and started from the very highest levels of the company.

>Here Fisher quotes Google’s first executive chef, Charlie Ayers, and Heather Cairns, the company’s first HR manager:

Charlie Ayers: Sergey’s the Google playboy. He was known for getting his fingers caught in the cookie jar with employees that worked for the company in the masseuse room. He got around.

Heather Cairns: And we didn’t have locks, so you can’t help it if you walk in on people if there’s no lock. Remember, we’re a bunch of twentysomethings except for me—ancient at 35, so there’s some hormones and they’re raging.

Charlie Ayers: H.R. told me that Sergey’s response to it was, “Why not? They’re my employees.” But you don’t have employees for fucking! That’s not what the job is.

Heather Cairns: Oh my God: This is a sexual harassment claim waiting to happen! That was my concern.

https://qz.com/work/1326942/sergey-brin-started-google-with-...
There are many arguments provided as justification for this new license - they seem specious in my opinion

1. Big cloud vendors are making money off MongoDB's investment
Completely untrue. The big three - AWS, Azure and GCP dont have a MongoDB as a service solution. The only commercial entity making any real money off MongoDB is MongoDB, Inc. AGPL has achieved its purpose here. The only big cloud vendor with a solution is Rackspace and they release their modified MongoDB code.

2. Big cloud Vendors in China are breaking the law and they need this new license to control them
If they are technically modifying the source code and not providing it back to the community then they are already breaking the law. You don't need a new license to control this problem

So what is this about? In my opinion it is an exercise in naked extortion and control

1. Clear out any ISV Vendors/As-a-service Competitors - Any commerical entity who does anything remotely interesting with MongoDB is in big trouble. I'm talking about Monitoring, backup, performance profiling, analytics, reporting etc..anything really. MongoDB could easily bring a reasonable claim against them that the value of their service is "primarily or mostly derived from MongoDB". Also its very unclear on what needs to be open sourced to be compatible. The license seems deliberately vaguely worded so that it is as broad as possible.

2. End users using MongoDB - While MongoDB claims this does not affect end users in any way I would be very wary of this claim. The license in authored in such a generic way that there are many possible interpretations. If MongoDB, Inc for some reason does a claim against you then your only defence is to buy a license or go into litigation. "Trust us, we will never do that" is not a good enough argument.

To summarize, be very wary of this. If you are a developer and dont think this affects you run this by your legal deparment or VC and see the alarm on their faces :)
I would really not like to work there, but out of the FAANG companies, Netflix is definitely the most all-in on its quirks. My sense is that the culture at Google, Apple, MS, and FB are all in a cluster compared with the culture at Netflix, which is a real outlier. It's also an outlier in my unwillingness to go there. But I think they and I are both happier that way.
Its obviously done Microsoft so much good /s
The guy has a pretty good stance, but I don't think looking at the computer screen while throwing kicks in another direction is such a good idea, I kinda expected him to round-kick his TV-set, almost disappointing he didn't.
As I understand it, that money was the legitimate severance pay of Rubin (who, by the way, might have left the company for reasons completely unrelated to this sexual harassment accusation- the nyt article is written as to suggest a connection, without really stating it). There are plenty of perfectly reasonable explanations for Rubin leaving Google (dissatisfaction or other). Anyway, that was the money that the company felt was adequate for his contribution to its success. What is or should be the relationship between that sum and the claim of sexual harassment is frankly unclear to me.
> Netflix employees, why do you accept this?

Money, of course. Plus, people working in tech and making very good money are not known for "spine-straightness".
Wages depend directly on the supply of and demand for labor, and only indirectly on the amount of value produced in an hour of labor. So if assembly line workers notice that coders are making tons of money, and so the assembly line workers move en masse away from assembly line work toward technical careers, then the factory owners would have to compensate the remaining assembly line workers higher since there is no longer a ready supply of competent labor ready to replace them. It would not even have to be that assembly line workers switch careers, just that the number of new workers entering the field declines as young people choose other, more lucrative career paths.

Unfortunately, it is quite difficult to make your way into a technical career without a significant investment in education and (I would argue) a certain personality type. So we aren't seeing thousands of people moving away from low-skill jobs into technical careers. The supply of labor for jobs like "warehouse worker" simply hasn't declined enough to offset the decline in demand (due to increased automation, outsourcing, structural changes, or whatever). The result is that those workers see lower wages. At the same time, compensation in technical careers seems a bit ridiculous: $200k to write Python for 35 hours a week? I've heard numbers like that thrown around - but companies still complain of a lack of qualified workers for those roles.

This is all just to say that the owners of capital aren't going to pass excess profits on to labor out of the goodness of their hearts, just as labor isn't going to work harder than the bare minimum required to keep getting their paycheck. But they might be forced to pay higher wages if they can't find good workers. If the structure of the economy changes so that some sectors are more productive, then the supply and demand of labor should shift to keep things from getting out of whack. That hasn't been happening in recent decades.
I've preferred facetime audio over "regular" cell phone calls for years now.

I prefer them because the audio quality is shockingly better -- but facetime calls are also a whole lot harder to listen in on.
I agree with your last point. Anecdotally, as a kid I hated having a full schedule of mandatory activities, constant regiment, always getting ready. My friends who were the most stressed and unhappy were the ones with the most extracurricular responsibilities. Yet their parents were always pleased that they took on 4 AP classes, did 3 seasons of sports, lead role in the play, stem program after classes, etc. just to build up a college resume rather than improve a child’s happiness.
I like this. I currently do the "plumbing" the OP refers to using files. This has generally worked for me, but want to give this tool a test run and see if it's faster than my current approach and this cache command.
OTOH your feelings for your reports correlates highly with the quality of work they're putting out
Mentoring, InfoSec and Insecure Software
Again, ignoring the likelihood she had no choice, or perceived it as the only way to go forward.
Also, I don't think after you get KIA in the armed forces, they hold a special funeral where your commanding officer tells your entire battalion that you were a coward and a poor soldier so justifiably you got shot.
> "I mean I guess technically it's a layoff, but a layoff and getting fired are functionally the same at Netflix as they both come with the same severance."

hmm, but unemployment is a concern too, and you wouldn't get that if fired?
"this" isn't bound in functional components because there's nothing to bind it to.
Is this actually true, though? Do you have cases you can point to which establish that lower bound (parents who have had CPS called and CPS actually did something) or is this just the normal evolution of keeping up with the Joneses.

The reason I ask is that I hear this sentiment from parents a lot, and I got curious so I talked with actual CPS officials who laughed heartily at the things the parents thought.
> I wonder if their aggregate compensation even comes close to $150 million.

at 200k/yr on the low end, to 500k/yr on the high end (excluding outliers), let's call it 300k/yr average. That's 500 engineers costing 150m per year. So, yeah I think it comes close and probably exceeds.
It probably wasn't a trap, just a way to get him to hire her while avoiding unwanted advances by dressing with a clear message.
discussion 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18282766
I am glad I cancelled my subscription early this year and never bought its stocks.
So, you agree with everything quadrangle said, and that means he's lying?
No matter how people perform on any side, It sounds a little draining to work with people you don't like, regardless of the reason of dislike. Some people aren't in control of that so they just suck it up, whereas others get a say over their lives. The question is whether they will find sufficient incentive to prioritize company interests where they differ. One thinks of that when one joins a team with a lead that is a center of social activity outside work, and whether one has the energy to participate. When social dynamics are involved things are always a bit more complicated than the performance which strictly happens at work.

If people don't want this, I think it's up to the organization to do this, as opposed to the vigilant wall of an ethic. Presumably the organization doesn't want little cliques, and should structure their incentives properly.
Microsoft Decentralized Identity
Hi, thanks for your reply! I've had a look at some of the higher-level abstractions for Redux [1], but none of them really appealed to me. I'm just looking for something magical and opinionated so that I can write less code, so I might even try to write my own abstraction. I want to see if it's possible to automatically generate actions and action creators just based on the reducer. Maybe a special way of writing reducers, or maybe leverage the type system and write a babel plugin.

[1] https://redux.js.org/introduction/ecosystem#higher-level-abs...
All those shots look amazing, but they're of stationary objects.

I really want to know how that works for people! 99% of photos I take are of people, and the lighting is always bad.

Are there any photos of people?
Don't worry, the propaganda machine is already at work. Maybe they will send a CEO-hand-written letter with lemonade mixed with tears.
> to make sure that the team was always the right people at the right time.

That is what contractors are for.

Full-time employees are hired because they know/learn the business, get things done, and adapt to changing circumstances. You want them around to help you get through changes. If you are hiring full-time employees to fit a narrow niche need that will change in the future, with the intent of "easy" hiring and firing, you are just setting yourself up to have a bad reputation as an employer.
Because Netflix pays 360k a year plus benefits. It’s a shit place to work if you don’t fit the exact culture though, which is pretty brash and confrontational
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18302634
Ah, yes, sorry! I forgot exactly how that all shook out. I thiiink that prevents dirty reads, and with client monotonicity you can recover sequential consistency? Not sure how many clients actually do that; maybe they just do regular reads at RC...
Dyn have traffic director that can be used for the above.
That assumes most managers are skilled / engaged enough to correctly judge the quality of work put out by the individuals working under them.

My personal experience puts that at about 2/4 as far as previous managers go.
Before we worry about that, lets stop all the tax concessions and handouts given to corporations which hardly benefit the public at large.
Ufortunately nobody here is going to listen to you. A flock of DO fanboys downvoted my comments into obl livion despite I was just merely posting my experience. Some ambulance chaser even turned out to be a psychic reader because he knows better than me myself whether we been provided with GDPR related response or not, because - well, some DO CS worker told so on this forum.

I guess getting your droplets cutoff in the middle of business day and waiting 4 days for customer support copy and paste template answer has to happen to everyone before they themselves realize how crucial over the phone support is when it comes to hosting a production website. Its all good anyways.
JD uses desktop simulators, then simulation using real hardware on test stands with recorded data, then field trials, then controlled trials with partner operators. THEN they release to the public.

I'm terrified somebody will think their tweak is 'obviously safe' and share it online and before we know it a combine will run through an elementary school.
Well, that's the result.

The change is not to interview for "cultural fit" but for "values alignment".
i did not get the memo that safari and chrome supports them now
Just looking at the code I came to the conclusion it had to work that way, I don't like it, way too easy to break and some people are going to be very confused when things goes wrong. It's a uncommon/unfamiliar coding constraint. If you have to declare them all in the same order every time, you might as well force a single state (like the setState API) and/or keyed state values and have a safe API.
> What about all the engineers who helped build Android? I wonder if their aggregate compensation even comes close to $150 million.

Aggregate? Surely yes.
Transparent lies are still lies.
"FAANG" seems like a bizarrely arbitrary grouping overall, with Netflix as a clear outlier; I understand that it might make superficial sense to an investment banker, but in terms of the businesses they are engaged in and the type of work their employees are doing, Netflix should be dropped from the list and replaced with Microsoft.
> Money, of course.

If they are such solid performers, they can get jobs in other FAANGs who pay just as well. Netflix pays well, but does it pay so much better that I should put up with this BS?

I doubt.

In fact, by keeping up this abusive charade, Netflix is guaranteeing that many of the best candidates will never apply. So my guess would be that their employees aren't the best, but perhaps the best candidates willing to accept this BS.
That was a moderately common thing in those days. In particular, iirc, there used to be a cable between the CD-ROM and the sound card that let you play audio off the CD without having the (limited) CPU needing to get involved, deal with audio encodings, etc. The CD would have a data track followed by a bunch of audio tracks, then the game can just say "Play track 5" and carry on with its business.

At least, that's my understanding. I was pretty young in those days and some of this is reconstructed "Oh, right, that would make sense".

The downside is that if you find a dump of only the data track/files it's hard to reconstruct the full experience of abandonware games. FireFight just isn't the same without the background music.
That doesn't really solve the problem. The dust will still get into the joints and abrade the outer layers.
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I'll never understand US-style at will employment. It just seems so barbaric and arbitrary. Where I'm from the current conservative government just proposed legislation that would make it slightly easier to fire people in small companies (at most dozen employees or so). This caused the left-leaning part of the country to throw a collective hissy-fit, including several political strikes organized by major unions.
Yea, you're definitely right. The direction I was going was more along the lines of "you're fired because x/y/z" instead of "hey everybody, this person was fired because x/y/z, they are now available as a blame dumping ground for all your problems."
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Actually the at port to the web is in beta. Unfortunately, it is a webgl canvas though.
That part I'm on board with. Work conversations, kid conversations, spouse conversations that would never be aired in public otherwise, and now I'm privy to toilet-stopped-up issues on the bus.
A pension might have been swell if you planned on working at pan am for half a century. I can take my IRA anywhere. The worker is unshackled from the pension purse their employer dangled over their head to keep them complicit and loyal to the executive board for decades.
This is just plain wrong. A romantic relationship between a subordinate and superior is definitely the employer's business. If you want to date a subordinate one of you needs to quit or hide it and accept the consequences if it is ever discovered.
And an expression can be boring and trite, and we can judge it for being such.

The fact that rich people are willing to pay for some bland expression does not confer anything but monetary value to it. It doesn't become less garbage.
from what I can tell, Marc Levoy is the main reason why the Pixel has all these abilities.
This study is laughable given that dual-earner households are now the norm.
> This isn't pornography or gambling

It's much worse: it's health data. It shows how often and when you were ill. Employers may want to check that before hiring you. Insurers might want to use this data to decide on eligibility and calculate your premium. Or that, but in the future for your child, who never had a choice...
You can get similar comp at Google and Facebook, to name just two examples. Why should I choose Netflix if I can get the same pay there, minus the BS?

Also, I won't have to live in Los Gatos.
I think then perhaps redux may simply not be for me. I do feel like unfortunately a lot of teams use it anyway, giving React and a few other things a complex feel. When you suddenly take it out of React, at least for simple use-cases, you suddenly feel like React is incredibly simple.

If more teams had been more selective about Redux or to simply use it JUST for global state things like color themes, logged in user, and probably a half dozen other things it might have fewer people burned on it.

I'm definitely not in your shoes - you're a redux maintainer and I do apologize for my "clusterfuck" comment. But I think fewer people would be burned if architects at the top didn't mis-use and abuse. I've been in projects where just about every tiny little input, checkbox, on 30 or so forms had to go through a convoluted redux action. Then when I finally got into my own React usage, without redux, it was like a super-genius baby landed in my lap dancing like it was 1999.
Presumably it wasn't structured like MS's stack ranking, it was arbitrary. It's a weird feeling to come in regularly and be uncertain if you'd still be employed by the end of week, but not for anything you specifically did.

Now that I think about it, it was a bizarrely nepotistic environment. An engineering manager would hire their friends, many speculated as at least partial insurance against being fired. But once that manager was gone, job security for those people was also gone.

Weird how people put up with madness like that when your field is in high demand.
> Maybe Rubin knews $90 million worth of secrets?

I am not very familiar with the monster sums of money that are paid in SV (read: I'll never see 1/100 of them in my whole life), but do you really think that to justify a $90M severance pay to the creator of Android you need to assume knowledge of secrets and whatnot? That sounds like a rather typical sum to me in this context.
which channel did you use to learn vim?
When your manager is a sh*tbag, two things can happen: You will either get sick of him/her and switch teams, or you'll keep taking it till the manager decides they really don't want you any more, and they give you a bad review, and a warning. Which basically means you're fired.
Thanks for coming on here to weigh in personally. I always appreciate research that adds nuance to a discussion.

Do you have any plans to explore wealth concentration in future essays?
> Dentists fought for quite a while but I don't think they are in use anymore.

The anti-dentites won.
Yes, most folks forget the original background color of the web was #ccc with black text. Readable day or night.