skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not describing a sabbatical policy, sabbaticals are generally unpaid.

PTO is accrued, is part of the compensation package, and when unused results in a check for those hours of unused PTO at the salary rate in effect when employment terminated.

The "unlimited personal time off" scam is a compensation regression from the previously standard accrued/earned PTO package.

For employees with leverage, the "unlimited time off" can turn out fine if they take advantage of it without harming their role in the company.

But, for such employees, the previous system of accrued/earned PTO is typically advantageous anyways because they will often be able to take time off or "work from home/remotely" while effectively taking time off without depleting their PTO balance, leaving it for payment when employment terminates.

In any case, for the majority of employees, "unlimited time off" is really just a loss of compensation as they don't usually have the leverage and/or diligence to take sufficient time off before termination.

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At a past startup, in an attempt to get better terms in an upcoming funding round, the executives got the brilliant idea of switching from a standard PTO policy to "unlimited". They sold it to the employees at an all-hands meeting as a compensation upgrade.

The sales and operations folks celebrated, while us engineers, who had largely taken zero vacation under continuous crunch since starting immediately asked what would happen to our respective unused PTO balances.

Their response? The unused PTO would be zeroed "now that it was unnecessary, since you could take unlimited vacation anyways."

It was a sleazy attempt to erase the unused PTO balance commitments to all employees from the books before raising the next round. At everyone's expense.

We engineers called the executives out on it, and threatened to quit immediately which would force them to cut PTO checks to all of us - and said we'd be in tomorrow to interview and renegotiate our positions if desired.

That forced them to instead freeze our unused PTO balances. We were unable to prevent them from pivoting to the "unlimited time off" plan however, everyone was effectively demoted that week. I did however receive my substantial unused PTO check when I eventually left that sinking ship.

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Hopefully that (true story) helps illustrate the difference...
Good to see philanthropy from up high.

That said, I haven't seen the term "American dream" used unironically in years. I've never been shown it as something worth reviving, insofar as it's deeply intertwined with notions like savage capitalism. For you and ourselves I'd rather have a great American awakening. But maybe I'm arguing semantics.
I was an incel for a long time. I wasn't mad at anyone for not being attracted to me, just upset with myself for having some genetic conditions that are not yet curable. I think a lot of people in my position would be almost completely satisfied with legalized prostitution. Some romantic female contact, even if it's done purely as a financial transaction, can really change people's lives for the better.
If the guy is high enough up in the hierarchy, there's a good chance that he can sign off on even illegal things.

Looking at how Google is handling the GDPR, for example, there's just as well plenty obvious violations that someone had to sign off on and that are gonna cost them a few billions once they can't drag the lawsuits out any longer. In the meantime, though, they're very likely making enough money to offset that, which is why executives can sign off on illegal things in the first place. It's just a basic risk analysis in the end.
Coincidentally (or not?), Harvard's equivalent program has awarded $1.8B in need-based grants since it was launched in 2005 [1]. Perhaps that gives a rough ballpark of how long this amount of money will last.

[1] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/03/the-personal-...
Is that actually true? I've met very few project managers who know any discipline other than project management with anything I would call depth. I can't even imagine talking to a PM about any serious technical question anymore. Their answers in the past have always been a unique type of unhelpfully vague but hard to argue with which puts all the effort back on you, but not in a way which adds anything to solving the problem.

Things like "what's best practice" when I've just exhaustively explained how we're in the precise corner case to which the normal best practice doesn't apply are, for me, the hallmark of PM ideas. Deep technical insight or domain knowledge are not.
Interesting. The latest season of Serial claims that cooking shows are what's on the tvs in the waiting rooms for courts (in Cleveland) because they're so apolitical.

Makes sense, I guess.
> But it's human interest, and it's fascinating, if inconsequential.

Lol be careful or you'll invoke a non-notability deletion.
When you have many years of climbing under your belt, and you have a deep well of muscle memory to draw from, pulling at your absolute limit becomes a matter of will.

It's really apparent with someone like Adam Ondra, who has been climbing hard for 20 years. He'll get spit off of a problem a half dozen times and then suck up these elemental forces of nature and crank through it. I mean, he's a genetic freak amongst the upper eschelons of strong, he's more flexible than any top climber today, his ability to climb swiftly with technical precision is the best I've ever seen, but the real X factor that puts him head and shoulders above the rest might just be that he tries harder than anyone else.
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There's a spot right across the street from Original Joe's. I'm not sure exactly how much of the building has been sitting empty for the past 10+ years, but the only time I've seen the corner retail space occupied was for a [temporary] pop-up store for SuperBowl 50's memorabilia while that was going on. This makes sense for somebody, and at the moment that's not me.
> how it mirrors the way humans spread knowledge. Look for the same article in Wikipedia in different languages [...]

And I add two additional points here.

1. English is the gateway language. Once an article has an English version, it is more likely to be translated into other languages.

2. Since this article is now being listed on the homepage of Hacker News, it's more likely to attract attention of a Wikipedia contributor who speaks another language, and eventually leads to a new translation.

Really interesting by itself.
Talos using POWER is about the only option for us.
Author here. The algorithm used here is based on Google's 2007 paper "Scaling Up All Pairs Similarity Search." Since then I am sure they have started to look at billions of sets. Generally speaking exact algorithms like the one presented here max-out around 100M on not-crazy hardware, but going over a billion probably requires some approximate algorithms such as Locality Sensitive Hashing. You maybe interested in the work by Anshumali Shrivastava.
Responsible newspapers don't coordinate news coverage with editorial pieces, as evidenced here.
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Will this top down agenda be anything different from paying journalists to send out a few PR articles for my company? I doubt not.
I wear essentially the same clothing every day: jeans, which I try to buy the same version of and a black t-shirt. I do have other thing for special occasions, but in general I don't have to worry about anything.

Same thing with writing down things like appointments. Google, for all its faults, is much much better at remembering things than I am. Plus when I have things in a system that I trust my mind stops bugging me about it.

I guess the meta-answer is to never do something that a) doesn't matter or b) can be done better by a machine.
One could say that is both true and false. Many people eat so many processed foods and artificial ingredients they literally have no idea what real food tastes like, and anything that doesn’t have a sugar/salt/fat “hit” just doesn’t taste “good” to them. Essentially their taste has been trained to think that only things in the very narrow range of industrial flavorings are good, and everything else is bad or bland. E.g. people who can’t drink water without adding some kind of flavoring.

Once their taste is retrained, then yes, many healthy things taste good.
You don't think that Franklin was a polymath? That's a pretty jarring take, can you expand on it?
"a stunning Chinese-backed effort that pilfered … patented American technology."

Why, pray tell, if its patented did they have to steal it?

Surely they just had to download and read the patent from the chinese patent office, in Chinese no less?
It's kind of funny that they made sure the explosion sound was heard when the explosion happened and not when the person filming it actually heard it.
> then delivers silly things like this definition of a "generalist":

> No, it's because the thing you're talking about is a "genius" not a "generalist."

I think you may be misunderstanding that definition. It's not saying that you have to be the top 1% of practitioners of those domains. It's saying that by gaining general competence in at least three disparate domains and identifying ways to integrate those into each other, you inherently create a top 1% skillset for that amalgamation of skills. You might only have an average level of competence in each one individually, but drop into a situation that involves more than one of your competencies, and you've suddenly become far more valuable in that environment than more competent specialists that don't have the cross-domain knowledge that you do.

I have the type of "deep generalist" skillset that the article references. I'm competent enough to get by in about a half dozen competencies and a career that has hopped between technical, business, and consultancy roles in a variety of functional disciplines and industries. If I tried to pivot to a role focused on any one of those skillsets, I'd be hard-pressed to pass an interview for a role at the appropriate seniority level to be commensurate with my current salary.

But in the right environment and right organizational structure, I'm incredibly effective. I currently work for a consulting agency, and in the past year I've mainly worked on four different accounts. For two of those accounts, their needs were such that I was able to leverage a combination of my skillsets for them. The results were uniquely impactful enough that the client teams for both know me by name and both have tried to poach me from my agency, along with one vendor I worked with (on a client's behalf). For the other two accounts, I was brought in to fill a singular need that happened to be one of my competencies. While I filled that need adequately, the results weren't noteworthy enough to warrant me even having any direct contact with the clients beyond being one of the disembodied voices that pipe up sometimes on a conference call.
I don't think it's disingenuous or ill-informed at all. Maybe people get sensitive when it comes to intelligence, but say I said something like "Drew Brees is one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time despite being short for the position". It doesn't mean that height doesn't matter for the position (short stature is a disadvantage as a quarterback), it just means that he found other ways to succeed. I think you could make the same argument with intelligence: once you reach a baseline of "good enough", what you do with that intelligence is more important than just having a lot of it. Obviously Feynman applied his intelligence really well.

I think the argument of "so and so was a genius so don't bother you can't do what they did" is a really defeatist attitude.
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In my experience, the vast majority of companies will not be reporting 'dinner' as a gift, probably not even golf. Maybe 'material gifts' i.e. things that are directly gifted that have value, but even a small basket might not get reported.
Having lost and kept off about half my body weight, I'd say 1 is correct. The most reliable way to control your weight is calorie counting, end of story.

2 is not. No matter how much you lose, you will gain it back once you start eating more calories. In fact, it will probably take much fewer extra than it did the first time around.

3 is kinda irrelevant. "healthy" doesn't have a concrete meaning, which is why people selling things love it so much as a word. However, if you don't like the taste of what you're eating you are a lot less likely to overindulge, so there is that.
"Pentagon Suggests Countering Devastating Cyberattacks With Nuclear Arms"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/us/politics/pentagon-nucl...
one thing i always see glossed over is using application factories [0]. they are a bit harder to grok initially, since you have to hook your dependencies up via the factory, but they really help with testing/deploryment and scaling up flask apps. it's so much easier to do it at the start than to try and retro-fit it. similarly, blueprints from day 1 also make sense.

[0] http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/patterns/appfactories/
Quality declining is an interesting point that's hard to quantify. I went to a very well-viewed public school, and a large potion of my classes were quite unimpressive. (Think poor teaching; questions/answers to exams basically provided to you the night before the exam by the TA, exams graded on a ludicrous curve such that you don't really have to master anything, etc.)

Friends of mine who have stayed around the university swear that things have only gotten worse since our time, with the rise of more and more online classes and less and less true understanding expected.

I can't provide hard data on whether quality of education is declining, but I can say that large parts of my education were somewhat suspect.
It’s the best heuristic for those things though. Read antifragile by taleb
When people say “salad” they don’t mean fruit salad, and I think you know that. Salad almost always means something with lettuce and other kinds of raw vegetables, sometimes with sprinklings of other things in there.
> c preprocessor macros are complex

At its core the C preprocessor language is a simple token substitution scheme (meaning it strictly operates on the word level). I couldn't write one without looking at the spec because it has some ugly edges. But fundamentally it's a simple technology. It's flexible but that also means it must be used carefully.
Wow, such an arcane bug causing such dramatic problems. My god man.

There should be a blog for this kind of stuff.
In fact, the addition is almost a subtraction. To make restartable exceptions to work, all you need is a way to search for points without unwinding the stack, and invoke closures there.

In TXR Lisp, I unified conditions and restarts into a single mechanism, which is called exceptions.

There are two kinds of handling frames: ones for which an unwinding takes place first, and ones which just intercept the search. Both are identified by an exception symbol which exists in an inheritance hierarchy.

It's all documented in detail here: http://nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-0146B946

There are dialect notes comparing with ANSI CL, and an example program shown in both TXR Lisp and a CL translation for comparison.
Yes, there is difference, but there is also a staggering difference between Google which doesn't have anything on the market, and Tesla that you can go out and buy one and drive it today.
No. They're just a well enough known target for the latest round of hyperbole. News isn't news if it isn't bad.
They could "afford" it, but it's not cheap, the Wikipedia article said that Hershey was sending 400 lbs of chocolate a year. The cheapest price I could find online (after a very brief search) for Hershey's kisses is $5.79/lb, so that's over $2000/year - that's a lot of money to pay to feed your colleagues just because you happened to sit at a particular desk.
Correction. Holding ESPPs is worse than I thought
Interesting point. I am not entirely sure that Facebook can't do anything to get out the scapegoat situation though.

Of the top of my head, they could say that they want to focus more on your friend and friends, so for the next 2 weeks it will not be possible to share news articles at all and the feed will prioritize messages from people you have lots of mutual friends with.

It is kind of hard to argue with, and it would show the media exactly how much power Facebook has over them.
> 400pt wide to 2560pt wide

There are 2 major strategies for responding to such a difference:

1. Vector scaling. It will make the difference irrelevant and the resulting UI will look approximately the same on whatever a resolution.

2. Capacity scaling. I.e. keep the same font letting more information to fit in the control without scrolling.

It may be a little bit hard to formalize but these two can be combined intelligently. It is also important to know which one the user prefers (e.g. I mostly prefer the second while many prefer the first).
Technically true, but smoking-related illness can be one of the more horrible ways to go.
[WP:NOTPAPER](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOTPAPE...).

> Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia, but a digital encyclopedia project. Other than verifiability and the other points presented on this page, there is no practical limit to the number of topics Wikipedia can cover or the total amount of content. However, there is an important distinction between what can be done, and what should be done, which is covered under § Encyclopedic content below. Consequently, this policy is not a free pass for inclusion: articles must abide by the appropriate content policies, particularly those covered in the five pillars.

It basically says if the content is encyclopedic by nature, meets guide of general notability, well-written to meet the quality standard, it has its full rights to be included, and niche topics are usually deleted. However, if it has been mentioned multiple times in books or by the media, even as anecdotes, it can be included, so it depends...
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"outright took money from a foreign government to help them interfere in the democratic process to the foreign governments benefit"

That gives the idea that it was Facebook's intent. They took money for advertising from someone who was gaming the system - FB didn't know the system was being gamed. They're just selling targeted advertising (reprehensible for different reasons), which is just what FB does as a business.

That's also somewhat why I used the example of a media mogul obviously having enough power to have a Prime Minister of a country replaced. That's well beyond what should be considered legal. It's not treasonous because it's in corporate interests as opposed to a foreign power, but how big does a 'corporate' need to be before it's considered a foreign power? It's still against the interests of the country.

The shame of it is, most efforts to increase transparency and close loopholes in political bribery (cough donations cough) are watered-down:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-15/labor-and-coalition-r...

Facebook were passively, not actively complicit. Greedy and naive, stupid and blind; not malicious. The irony is that they ARE actively malicious when it comes to selling out their users' privacy to the highest bidder, but that's not what this is about.

I haven't read everything about all the angles on this topic, so if I'm obviously missing specific information about how Facebook actively colluded with foreign powers (allegedly or otherwise), please point me to it.

Fundamentally, Facebook shouldn't be used as a scapegoat for Trump winning the election. (US) politics has been a cesspool of corruption since long before Zuck had any influence on the world. Wholly and solely blaming FB would be an injustice whilst allowing the more fundamental injustices to continue unpunished.
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The core idea of the C preprocessor is relatively simple. But it has very complex effects on the surrounding language.
It's funny, Chinese ride sharing companies enjoy this exact same advantage in Vancouver Canada. We remain a staunch ally.
Exactly the wrong tack. Firstly, Facebook is 100% in the wrong here, they did bad things (including helping to facilitate genocide) and there needs to be consequences for those. They need to accept that they have done wrong they need to accept that they need to accept responsibility and they need to accept that they need to make big changes. Instead they've been avoiding taking full responsibility and issuing wishy-washy press releases. It's going to catch up with them sooner than later and the public is going to stop giving them a pass for their awful behavior.
This is why people like Stallman warn about the cloud, at the extreme end of things. But usually these services offer a way to back up your data, at the very latest close to whenever it is time to finally close up shop. :-) I personally use Pastebin.com a lot and have a lifetime account there, but any information that's really important I immediately back up. For me it's important that if I can't make backups or export the data, at least it's in e.g. plain text so I can get my data out without losing anything.

I have gone back to using LibreOffice quite a bit, too, in lieu of cloud word processors. I use the cloud stuff when I'm not working on mission-critical data.

Essentially, the more nuanced you can be about what you'll post where, the better your results will be. If you have to pick the One True Software, you're screwed one way or the other.
Publishers knew about the GDPR; there was a two-year grace period before the GDPR went into effect, which ended earlier this year. No, it's a conscious choice rooted in business.

News websites make substantial amounts of money through advertising. These ads serve scripts which collect information about users. The collection of the information isn't strictly the problem. It has to do with storage and consent.

For any company operating globally, the GDPR created two zones of consideration: the EU and the not-EU. Data on EU citizens must remain on servers located in the EU, UNLESS explicit consent by the user is provided and the data is only used expressly for the purpose was intended.

Say you link up ad networks into your news website. The scripts the ad agencies include with their ads don't ask for consent when collecting data. This is standard practice across the Internet. To comply with GDPR, a news website would have two options: scrap the ad scripts, or just don't let EU citizens on the site. The not-EU has a lot more people than the EU, so building a separate site wouldn't make financial sense. As a news organization in 2018, you also need every cent you can find to stay afloat. Subscription models don't work for every site, so you still need to provide "free" access to the site by using ads.

Considering all of this, blocking the EU is often the best option for news organizations. Not all, but some.