skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, using docusign, etc. are stupid simple for people's who's signatures are needing in multiple places in a document, and initials or certain pages, etc...
I take coffee from our fancy machine and dump ice cubes in to cool it down.
Every job I've ever had the only thing I've ever signed was a letter saying my starting salary, I'm full time, and I'm at will, that's it. Nothing like "we agree on five weeks PTO a year accrued weekly and a 401(k) plan administrated by Vanguard with X,Y,Z investment options and a 6% match and a health insurance plan offered by Blue Cross Blue Shield with a $300/month premium" or whatever. Everything's really short and generic and leaves room for the company to come up with all the policies and dictate everything.

I happen to have a job acceptance letter sitting on my desk right now. Reading through it, as far as benefits it says that the position is eligible for benefits, gives the benefits in very, very generic terms "PTO, retirement, health, dental" and they are "subject to terms conditions and limitations outlined in the plan documents and policies." Well "plan documents and policies" are under complete control of the employer, so the translation is "we decide the benefits and dictate them to you."
One notable fact that's missing from the article is that China will lie and bend over backwards to secure business. They have no problem telling a potential customer that they can meet specifications they cannot meet. They will greatly overstate their capacity and capabilities and then bullshit their way to success by "throwing a handful of shit and seeing what sticks." Meaning they will produce and produce and produce products, ship them to the customer, and accept whatever they get for RMA's. They barely do any kind of inspection. They just ship parts and hope not a whole lot will come back.

Here in the USA our companies take liability into account. Our precision manufacturing sector is much older and more experienced, but also each entity is smaller due to America being truly capitalist.

Apple is the kind of customer that small American companies don't want to deal with. Their buyers are demanding, uncompromising, and don't understand manufacturing. They want to buy 100,000 screws and cannot understand why they aren't already on a shelf somewhere waiting to be shipped. They don't care either, they just NEED the screws. If Apple is a customer of yours, you probably don't do business with many other companies. Apple deadlines and requirements don't specifically disallow it, they just don't leave enough foom for it.

Just ask GT Advanced Technologies what it's like dealing with Apple as a supplier. They signed a contract with Apple, spent all their capital acquiring Apple approved manufacturing equipment, and then fought with Apple QC about acceptance criteria that their Apple approved equipment couldn't meet. They did this until GT ran out of money and went belly up. They spent so much resources trying to satisfy Apple that they couldn't satisfy anybody else.
Yes, but I didn't need to. American producer aren't up to snuff at the moment. Belgioioso is an italian brand BTW, I used to sell it in my family's store back in Italy, we used to own a high end deli and know quite a bit about Italian food and specifically about cheese, at 15 I was the "product manager" for parent's store. Ask me anything :)
I am perfectly sure of the definition of that word. I worked as a copy editor in a past life.

I would suggest maybe you consult the Oxford or Merriam-Webster dictionary:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/snare
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snare

The verb form of the word snare is neither applicable or correct to describe a non-hostile business deal, even colloquially. Hellosign wasn't "trapped" or outwitted by Dropbox in any sense.

The word snag however does have a common colloquial/slang usage in American English to mean obtain - "I snagged the last one", "snag a ticket the show", "someone must have snagged it." You will never hear an American English speaker say they "snared a ticket to the show" or "they snared the last beer" or "someone must have snared it."
I thought bandsnatch did a great job of articulating what psychosis was like.

I spent the better part of a decade in that state of mind.

Grateful to have rebuilt my psyche from scratch and be free of that.

Occasionally I catch a flicker of it and need to bring myself back into a state of relaxation.
APPL can announce that they'll make x product in USA, announce parts they want and start accepting offers. No doubt their demands will be met. But like the other poster said, why keep producing screws in Texas if everyone is making their products in China?
Risky software is inspiring creative ways to hack transparency
This has been happening in the .au for years. One example: https://www.drop.com.au/

Registrars that run drop catch auction sites increase their odds by acquiring more connections to the Registry.
Sweat, tears, and experiments all software companies must go through
I think this is a large part of it. At some point I stopped falling for clickbait titles, unnecessarily drawn out slide show style articles, etc. These days, the automatic response I have is to block sites which waste my time. If that kills off sites which peddle such crap, maybe the media landscape will improve...
Make sure you try Pecorino Romano if you haven't already (the block, not pre-grated or sliced). My favorite, and I eat it like the author eats parm-reg.

I haven't tried Grana Padano yet, but you can I will!
Was it total, or per domain? The article doesn't clarify.

3000 total sounds super duper cheap.
I'm with you on #2 and #3. But I guess I've just learned to embrace it. Yeah...my day no longer has a defined start/stop, but I'm OK with that. Sometimes I just like doing laundry on a Thursday at 2PM :)

It has lightened my stress significantly by accepting it. There are days that I "work" 16 hours broken into 2 hour chunks with 30 to 60 minute breaks. And there are days where I'm hyper productive and work for 5 or 6 hours straight. I like the flexibility. I always felt stressed when in an office and needing to "be productive" for 8 hours (well...6).

It definitely helps if your employer truly embraces remote work vs. just "work from home but keep your normal hours and be available for phone calls just like if I were to stop by your desk randomly"
Further: what’s wrong with publishing articles that challenge evolution?
As a European every time I read articles like this and the comments that go with it it makes me happy that I never moved to the states. In my last job I had a basic of 25 days PTO + public holidays + whatever days I carried over from the previous year. If I had to work a public holiday I'd get two days PTO in lieu. Reached the point that my allowance for my last two years before I left was 35 days per annum. I'm contracting for the last three years and just take the days(unpaid) I want , I just can't imaging living under the American system.
Now switch the preferred shares to common shares and eliminate all liquidation preferences and you'd have something closer to a fair term sheet template.

No young start-up should ever agree to preferred shares or any liquidity preferences. This is the next great battle for founders to win over venture investors. To push that risk back onto the investors where it should be instead of allowing the investors to unduly offload even more of their risk onto the founders and early employees.

Liquidity preferences should have never become common with start-ups, they should be quite rare. There is no more important territory for founders to be focused on taking back from venture capitalists than that. Liquidity preferences are a routine source of screwing over the founders and early employees. YC could do something tremendous for founders by fighting on their behalf to put that shifted risk back where it should be: with the investor; the founders and employees already shoulder enough risk as it is.
Not sure if it's a good idea, but maybe try:

foo-bar # kebab-case
foo−bar # subtraction
foo minus bar # subtraction? (infix identifier "minus")
foo - bar # subtraction (infix identifier "-")
foo − bar # subtraction (operator symbol)

using \u2212 as a explicit subtraction operator for people who really can't stand having 'extra' whitespace?
Perhaps you haven't had the real thing? If you are sure you have, then perhaps you need an olfactory receptor checkup.
>, but also reading about advantages/disadvantages on the official website of given technology should be very easy to do.

Yes, it's technically easy but not socially easy. If I go to the Elixir landing page at "elixir-lang.org", it doesn't list the disadvantages and warts.

Obviously to us, they didn't avoid writing negative things because they ran out of disk space to store the text or didn't have the network bandwidth. The reason is that it's human nature not to do that. We have to find that alternative viewpoint from people like you (since you're interested in explicitly writing about some of Elixir's issues).
> Not necessarily! For example, a mage might cast long-range magic

For me that is just a difference in data properties. The event is the actual attack. A ranged attack would be the distance between the two parties. A melee attack would have a distance of 1. A self-inflicted attack would have a distance of 0. If you attempt a melee attack from a different room the attack action still happens, but the other party receives no damage and probably no awareness of the attack. The handling of the action and consideration of the data is still the same regardless of who commits the action and who is the attacked party.
I was raised in an Italian-american home with a traditional stay at home mother, authentic home-cooked meals were served every day.

Every week I had to grate this stuff to fill the repurposed glass Smuckers jar kept in the refrigerator for sprinkling on damn near everything.

Us kids were regularly being scolded for devouring the small chunk kept in the drawer, reserved for thinly sliced antipasto use.

This article however seems completely absurd to me. This cheese when grated is basically a dairy-derived flavorful salt substitute.

It is not a health food. You wouldn't tell someone they're practicing healthy eating when shaking salt over their spaghetti, they're doing basically the same thing with grated parmegian while adding more calories than salt alone would.

If you put a block of parm anywhere near me it'll be in my belly within the hour, but every time I do this my pants fit tightly for 2 days from all the retained water. It's a decadent treat I indulge in few times a year, to give myself a block of parm and eat it in one sitting. Mostly for the time machine effect of revisiting childhood. The linked article implies I should do it more often for positive health reasons, and I'm certain doing so would not improve my health one iota.
the latter, although it doesn't have anything to do with sea levels in these cases
Why Are Machine Learning Projects So Hard to Manage?
According to SanDisk support[0] they only support the High Endurance line of SD Cards[1] for Raspberry Pi.

[0]: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1257129 (2nd to last comment in the thread)

[1]: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00V5Q1K3O/
As a Series A investor who invests in startups outside of the Valley, it's hugely useful to have something like this (independent of us) that we can point to as to what's normal, especially for founders who don't necessarily have the network to help them.

Founder's (and lawyers) who've never seen a term sheet before will often argue against standard terms (which no mainstream VC would move on) and on the flip-side, bad VCs will often try and put onerous terms into term sheets which can hurt the startup in future fundraising rounds or liquidity events.

While there's been a huge increase in transparency at the pre-seed/seed/SAFE fundraising stage, Series A and beyond is still very opaque.

Great to see YC extending their work on transparency into the Series A stage!
How much are you earning on this?
>ZoL was caught flat footed

Which would essentially be impossible.

OpenZFS is designed in a way that uses a shim layer between ZFS's internal Solarisish API usage and the native OS's usage This allows the same ZFS code to run essentially unmodified on many *nixes without major changes.

In ZoL, this is called SPL (Solaris Porting Layer), and is one of the two kernel modules required to use ZoL. Linux does not export the proper APIs that ZFS requires to work here, and SPL fills that gap.

ZFS modules do "break" often due to internal API changes, but the fix is usually shipped in ZFS stable before the kernel itself is shipped. Only people who follow ZoL development closely ever see the sausage being made.

It is highly unlikely that Linux can ever do anything that ends up with a situation that the SPL and ZFS kernel modules can't easily #ifdef their way out of. It wouldn't make sense for Linux to, either.
Thanks, this is basically what I was looking for.

With quic I'm guessing you could have multiple Websocket and http3 streams within one connection and have them not block eachother on packet loss, which is pretty neat.
I'm not anywhere near an expert in this field, but I feel like I've been hearing a lot of noise about on-site power generation recently. Apple even (reportedly [1]) has their own on-site plant for Apple Park and only uses utility power as a backup; is there such a substantial difference between the power needs of a major corporate campus (with significant technical R&D onsite) and a manufacturing facility?

1. https://appleinsider.com/articles/12/03/10/apple_provides_ad...
> now i work in a office, doing this cyber security work. i would never stay past 5:30, i'd never forgo PTO, or force myself to over work myself beyond respectable limits.

> is this the right attitude?

being professional and setting boundaries is absolutely the right attitude. it's just a job.
segment.com
At that point why not rent a small office? I don't know where you are, but small offices are usually pretty cheap. The thing that gets me about co-working space is that they are pretty expensive compared to normal office rents. The equivalent of studio apartment as an office in a building can be the same price as a co-working space.
Some minor wordsmithing that reflects lawyer and investor /founder preferences happens a fair amount.

The veto on company sales breaks founder friendly occasionally (you need a decent amount of leverage). Some examples:

1. It doesn’t exist
2. It only applies to sales that return less than X multiple of investor’s capital invested
3. It only applies to sales where the founders are getting retention packages (from acquirer) that substantially exceed their recent compensation

The veto on financings is present almost always. A founder would need rare leverage to get rid of it.

On both of these vetoes though there are additional constraints on abusive usage by investors — reputation being the most obvious one.
I remember seeing this building and thinking the building would fit for Wayne Enterprises. Didn't know one could go inside!
Calculating Median with Sql on Pre-Bucketed Data
BuzzFeed sucks, their journalists were providing benefit to the business, so they pivoted.

This isn't about BuzzFeed "sucking".

But rather, about its screwing over its employees while trying to appear "hip" and "anti-establishment".

Can we move on?

Until Jonah digs into his piggybank and coughs up the backpay owed to his laid-off employees - no.
do you instead pay for a good, reputable source of news?
"v5.0 removes the ability from non-GPL modules to use the FPU or SIMD instructions"

Any reason why?
Interesting and good to learn about this real problem. The show had me really on edge (like all black mirror content) until they kind of broke the 4th (5th wall?) with the netflix thing at the end. Watching this guy talk to his therapist because he was being controlled by netflix was friggen hilarious to me...

I think i have felt this way at time, usually when really high. The whole LSD trip with colin in particular.. I liked that rant, the multiple realities, the time is a flat circle thing.

The movie hit pretty hard, good on black mirror guys for pushing boundaries of film as we know. Even some folks who dont usually get into black mirror were like, well i want to retry it and pick the different cereal to see what happens!
Tesla Wants to Deter Break-Ins with Music and 'Rick and Morty' Easter Egg
"The ongoing Syrian conflict, which began in March 2011, has drawn attention from both the scientific community and the media to the
question of how climatic conditions can contribute to political unrest and civil war. Recent studies of the Syrian uprising have shown that
growing water scarcity and frequent droughts, coupled with poor water management, led to multiyear crop failures, economic deterioration
and consequently mass migration of rural families to urban areas (Gleick, 2014; Kelley et al., 2015). Rapid growing population,
overcrowding, unemployment and increased inequality put pressure on urban centers and finally contributed to the breakout of political unrest"

That's the introduction paragraph. "Blaming the US" for all turmoil in the Middle East is far too simplistic.
You get used to it. What you went through is nightmare for the initiated. But for Palis who have to get "filtered" through cage complexes and fondled and split from their families by aggressive guards who each hate them with every ounce of their soul, just to go the next town, your experience is light.
It's interesting to see so many new businesses forget the lessons that previous businesses learned. Brand identity and trust used to be the foundation of businesses, and at some level (I'm not sure what level) it still is. Even as someone educated on the differences between BF & BFN, I still never knew how to take BFN seriously with all the regular crap on BF. I don't really feel like it's my job to figure out how they fit together, and it would have been pretty simple just to completely split the brands if they actually wanted to have the two faces of the company. To the average internet reader, there was no difference between BF and BFN. People have either always known, or are learning (however slowly) that they can't vet every story themselves and they have to trust. BF corrupted that with their two faces.
We'll monetize through the enterprises. We've had lots of conversations with larger companies and it's clear that engineering time is really precious to them, as is shipping faster. We're not really sure how to mechanize charging enterprises yet. When we had a freemium offering we didn't like that e.g. students didn't get all the features. Github had an elegant approach with their approach of charging for private repos. Maybe Kite is paid if you're working in a repo that's not open source and has lots of active contributors. Would love any ideas!
Where in the (mainline) kernel is there C++ code?
Internet watchdog Citizen Lab targeted in comically inept undercover sting
it's funny you don't like this argument in the context of buzzfeed. when i made the same point to the thread-mob hating on facebook employees, no one shared my view that maybe not all employees of a company that has issues are responsible for those issues.
I am suggesting that you are bound by the terms of contracts that you sign.

The law says "unless you've explicitly agreed otherwise, you can end an employment relationship with no conditions". This person explicitly agreed otherwise, then reneged on their agreement, that's a breach of contract.
AI Chip Startup Puts Inference Cards on the Table
Interesting, I really appreciate you sharing your perspective.

I mean no judgement by this, so I put a certain word in scare-quotes, but would you say that perhaps everyone who doesn't have DP/DR is actually more "delusional"?
Obvious resolution: There's no such thing, the universe is deterministic but not predictable. This doesn't matter very much in practice, punishment is about game theory so your 'free will' to perform or not perform an action is kind of irrelevant.
Get your daily dose of climate hysteria!
Any idea why they don't maintain a stable kernel mode counterpart to FUSE? (FKEE?)
The layoffs in this case are especially unusual as they are indiscriminate: BF employees with years of experience at the company and championed the company’s growth have been hit.

Here’a a new post by the Director of Quizzes who was laid off: http://www.fluxblog.org/2019/01/how-laid-off-are-you/
They're good at getting their message out and submarining things.
A lot of places do this, but taxes on fuel are high. Largely the only major thing you can do is run on diesel if you need power in the few tens of megawatt range, there is other issues that accompany this also.
All states are "at-will" states. There is no state in the US that over-rides this, and many explicitly state it in their own labor laws. Only company contracts can modify the at-will nature of employment.
Hosting for the P2P Web. Your files online, even when your computer is off
Can we add a date? This is about Squeak and feels like it's 20 years old.
should be plenty of time to find another source of income

Are you under the impression that journalism is a hot job market?
What Is the Next AI Platform?
I cringe every time I hear someone going "fully Serverless" or NoSQL or whatever is popular these days.

From the article, it mentions Torri, a site that is ~1.5 millionth in Alexa rank. I understand they probably have a backend with different server loads, but I highly doubt going fully Serverless has benefitted them for this particular site. A 1.5m Alexa rank is less than 5,000 page views a month.

> Serverless, because we like to sleep at night.

No, this is a solved problem already. Spin up a load balancer in front of your web servers, add health checks, and go take a peaceful sleep.

Using react, and then creating a static site, trying to beat the 50mb Lambda by deleting readmes and test, and the fact that you hope AWS would do something for the 500ms warm up time... They are big hints you are doing something wrong.

I'm not against Serverless, and I understand it has it's place. Just don't go overboard.
Should whistleblowers be entitled to some portion of the fine levied against the offender to offset their losses (and encourage whistleblowing)?
Very different. I've tried cooking with Bel Gioso's products a few times. If their packaged mozzarella is anything like their parmesan, i'd pass.
No it's making a whole generation of people coming from agriculture or other water/climate dependent jobs looking to change their untenable situation. When they don't find it, they're easily recruited cannon fodder for hate/terror orgs.
It’s abbreviated as “XSS”, lol
The author lost me at "Back in 2015 I wrote that BuzzFeed [Was] the Most Important News Organization in the World."
The whole point of a desktop PC is that you can produce, not only consume. Otherwise you might as well buy an iPad and browse the web/watch YouTube.
ZFS-FUSE existed before ZoL did. The reason they moved to their SPL-based solution is because FUSE didn't want to make the required changes to support high performance file systems.

SPL now handles the guarantee to separate ZFS's userland components from Linux's constant internal kernelspace API churn. ZFS, internally, doesn't really know what a Linux is beyond a few little bits here and there.