skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Canada you can now take 18 months shared paternal leave.

First 12 months you are entitled to employment insurance which is a certain percentage of your income.

The next 6 months are unpaid.

Our recent company ethics training had a interesting scenario on maternity leave discrimination and comments.

Some work places if you are key employee in some aspect entice you with pay, more flexible working conditions or provided daycare for coming back early.

My company deals with it by hiring contract workers.

Some content could take years to learn, so we recently shifted the core duties to remaining members and gave the contract worker remedial/administrative tasks which we all hated any ways.

Overall things still function smoothly

- however we have an interesting scenario coming up in the next few months where one employee is retiring and two are going on paternity leave (me being one, but only taking a month off using vacation as my wife plans
To hog the paternity leave lol... it does make sense financially.

It will be interestinghow my company handles losing 3 key members of a 7 person team(atleast I will be gone a month only)
Economically speaking, aren’t open offices a necessity for a startup in Silicon Valley? I can’t fathom the rent for an office with personal offices for each employee.

The solution that should make everyone happy, of course, is to just make everything remote.
"The Dictator's Handbook" by Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith.

It lays out the inevitable power dynamics behind any political system, democratic, autocratic or corporate. The rules for the players are the same, despite different terrain.

If anyone thinks politics can ever really be about policy (for politicians) here is the cure. What has to be done to get power, hold on to it, and why, regardless of motives or competence.
My big issue is that I don’t think the product team should be a priority for reddit right now.

I’m sure their product team is doing “fine” insofar as they’re setting a roadmap, delivering on a fairly predictable schedule, and doing traditional things like analytics, user research, usability testing, and so on. I would wager some really smart people actually.

The issue as I see it though is that “product” will only get you so far if there are platform/community issues. Reddit has an opportunity to leverage their massive reach and throngs of volunteer moderators to build a strong voice for the internet. But I keep seeing the fringe game the system, large communities crushed under the weight of brigading and exploitation, and the stereotypes of edgy, immature users blot out any chance at real discourse.

In my opinion you can’t UX/UI/user story your way out of that bag, and the execs at reddit have repeatedly and conspicuously refused to take on the responsibility of cultivating their platform for success. Instead, I think they’ve throw “product people” at it.
>foreign to my personal experience

Yes! I'm so glad you took the time to acknowledge that your personal lived experiences aren't necessarily representative of the experiences and perspectives of office employees as a who-

>seems almost like fantasy is the idea that people primarily working on software might sit down in cramped cubicles and prefer fake privacy to real social interaction.

Oh. Erm... I hate to break it to you, but a lot of us _do_ prefer this!
Guns, Germs and Steel. So many types of thinking and areas of science that I wasn't aware of. Not every part of it has to be correct for it to be incredibly interesting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel
Interesting. I haven’t spent enough time in Europe to encounter these yet. It sounds very nice!
Have you considered Verizon's unlimited jetpack or AT&T's unlimited tablet plan for $30 a month? https://buyasession.att.com/sbd/Common/ShopRatePlans.action
PBS, open source, Usenet, there ARE alternative models of organization that don't have revolve around profit
The Armchair Economist by Steven Landsburg. Explains some pretty deep ideas in economics in an engaging and entertaining way, and has invaded my thinking since.
https://www.amazon.com/Armchair-Economist-Economics-Everyday...
$2.04M
We sold some physical products offline and online with 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Meaning that if they were unhappy with anything at all - quality, damaged packaging, or just isn't what they expected, we return all their money. And we empowered/encouraged customer service to give full refunds whenever they felt necessary.

The people who we offered to return rarely took the offer - they just wanted someone to listen to complaints. They also ordered 3 times more than the average. Out of the thousands of customers, nobody abused the system although we probably should have been more open about the policy.

I've done this earlier offline as a barista. We sold to a target market that wasn't familiar with overpriced coffee. We didn't want to give free trials, but every time someone is deliberating on it, we offer to return their money 100% if they buy a cup but didn't like it. No abuse, but it created a lot of fanatically loyal customers.

Tim Ferriss recommends doing a 110% return policy instead, which is probably more well suited if you expect them to do returns.
Paper: Diminishing returns of chip design specialization [pdf]
30k... what? You don’t even give a currency. How do you expect anyone to engage with you when there’s zero context here?
Fantastic and I completely agree. The book helped me to get perspective on current events and helped provide relevant historical precedent for almost everything in the world around us.

For example, I never thought about how ideas that are touted by organizations or religions are frequently argued to be "natural" or "divine" or somehow sewn into the fabric of the universe. The book helped me to become a little more skeptical by portraying how versatile and diverse human societies can be, and how there is truly very little that is "natural", "eternal", and meant to be.

Similarly, the book helped me to realize how unprecedented the current rates of economic and technological growth are. Its an exciting time to be alive, filled with almost infinite possibilities, and that fact is especially inspiring when you understand how much more restrictive previous generations and cultures were.
Someone should start a business renting shoulder-high partitions that you put between desks.
You have your principles backwards. Non-technical founders should not stay the owners of a technology company if shit happens. The ownership should be usurped by technically proficient people. It is called 'nerd's revenge'.
I remember reading a comment on youtube about the ending of the movie. Supposedly who ever wrote the script wanted something to happen where Peter would detest his new job in construction. The director didn't want it and so the ending is a happy one.
The personal website in your profile says that you live and work in a converted school bus, which is, "as much an engineering and teaching platform as it is a home". No judgements, but maybe you're just not the typical office dweller?

Me? I don't want "role-crossover". I'm a coder, who wants to occasionally enter a state of flow by getting to code uninterrupted for longer than 3 minutes.
You can be an extrovert and also hate open plans because they are incredibly distracting 90% of the time.
Bloomington. We have some of the highest rates for rental properties and apartments in Indiana. Downtown, costs are upwards of $1000/mo, not including all utilities.

Right now, we're saving for a house along with paying for Harvard. We don't want a house here, primarily because we know we're going to ending up on the East coast.

At our local hackerspace, we had someone construct a tiny home. They ended up making so many compromises that it was a lousy not-even-a-house.

In our trailer, we have 2 bedrooms, a full bath, full kitchen, and living room. Its small, but its like a house for the most part. We'd like a study and a craft/hacker room, but thats later.
In some places graduate student income is tax free.
Small team rooms for up to 8 people who work on the same project -- promotes collaboration, no pointless distractions, and cost-effective real estate. Add a library room for people who want complete silence, and enough conference rooms for meetings that don't fit in the team room for whatever reason.
Maybe that's a good thing .... if your tech support is that unsatisfying to users that your ombudsman is overwhelmed then perhaps that's the message?
And the “cube farms” as we called them back them were almost as bad. Worse in some ways. They gave a false sense of privacy and people could be louder than they otherwise might have been because they thought those fake 3” walls were sound proof somehow. I remember one co-worker drumming his desk in his cube opposite me all day. It was unbelievably distracting.
I think it may get philosophical/semantic very quickly, but let me put it this way: I have worked on projects, even with 50+ team member size, where I can identify a single person whose removal would cause us to miss KPI/SLAs. Thus, in practical ways, they are at least temporarily [for given value of "temporary", which may be days or years] "practically irreplaceable" and their absence hurts.

They may not be "strictly/formally irreplaceable", but it would take 5 people 5 times as long to do certain aspects of their job poorly, and we'd blow our targets.

Note that this was not usually due to specific skillset as such (which theoretically, for a price, you may be able to find on the market), but usually their personal, deep, historic knowledge of the specific project, client, requirements, and system.
Things that are currently a 30 second question to this person, many many times a day, might become hours or days of reverse engineering either code, or requirements, or both, only to still not have complete answer, for each instance. Multiply by factor of 10-20 occurrences daily, and force multiply during active IRs.

Typically, both this person and project recognize this SPOF but there's some reason why it takes a long time to remedy.
(Occasionally though, but rarely, this is instead a particular type of contractor/consultant who believes withholding information is a job security method; depending on the market, this is a short gain as word spreads fast once project has finally routed around the problem)
The woman first met her bf/ex-killer because he successfully impersonated/hijacked a verified Instagram account. Both the BF and the other accused killer were part of UGNazi, accused of mass phishing and successful site attacks. Hell, there’s even an anecdote involving getting yelled at by parents for not logging off of IRC.
No, it is totally fine to make requests! NVC just advises you to give some context about your feelings and needs before you make the request, instead of jumping straight to it. The prescribed sequence is:

1. Observations: things that are objectively observable

2. Feelings: your feelings about them

3. Needs: the needs you want met

4. Requests: a proposal as to how you want your needs met

It's not always practical or necessary to go through the whole sequence. Sometimes all you need to say is "I'd like you to stay." But if things get tricky or contentious, it can help a lot to separate observations from feelings, and start with objective facts first.

For example, if someone is really upset that their partner isn't staying home with them, they might be tempted to say "Obviously you don't care about this relationship because you never spend time with me!"

That's not going to work nearly as well as "When you leave me at home alone a lot, I feel lonely and ignored. I need time and connection to feel good about our relationship. Could you stay home tonight?"

Explaining your feelings serves (at least) two purposes: (a) it helps the other person have empathy for you; and (b) it provides information about the true purpose of the request. The extra information helps ensure the right need is addressed (in this case, it reveals that what's wanted isn't just presence at home; it's quality time and connection), and helps the other person find alternative solutions if they can't accept the proposal (maybe their partner has an appointment to visit a friend at the hospital and really can't stay; but they are still many ways to address the underlying need, e.g. "It's important that I see my friend at the hospital, but I do want to spend time with you; can we make a plan to spend tomorrow night together?")

If the only information provided is the request, then the receiver can only say yes or no; they aren't equipped with enough information to find a solution that might work better for both parties.

(I guess I should add that this is my interpretation; it seems like people have different interpretations of NVC. I think of it as a tool to use when things get difficult, and for me its purpose is to convey information more clearly, not to obscure my true preferences.)
This site seems to be out of date: the current development site seems to be https://sourceforge.net/projects/previous/ while https://bytecellar.com/2018/04/25/bbsing-on-a-virtual-next-c... seems to have some relevant links too.

How does the experience of running NeXTStep or OpenStep in Previous compare to that of running x86 OpenStep or NeXTStep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz2nPJGx4Qg on x86 hardware, on an old x86 box as in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz2nPJGx4Qg or on a modern x86 system?
I've got to say, I'm not sure I ever met a software engineer who prefers open plan to individual offices. You said cubicles, but I'd argue that cubicles would be better than the proverbial nothing that open plan is.

I'm certainly happy that I have my office, and if I need to talk to people, their offices (or their open plan, unfortunately) is usually not very far. But a lot of the time, I just need and want to focus a lot, and for that open plan is absolute cancer. My office seats two people, but it actually helps that the other person is not directly in my team.

I don't see what standing desks have to do with it, as offices can have standing desks as well, and ours do.

The last time I sat in open plan, I felt like an animal in a cage, to choose a seemingly paradoxical wording. It wasn't the walls closing in, but the distractions.
If that was legitimately a concern then why not just have everyone telecommute? Then you get an office for every employee and $0 in rent.
YC doesn't take on many large technical projects itself, but would be happy to fund a startup to build a better browser if there's a sustainable business model.

The problem I want a browser to solve: I don't mind paying for content, but logging in to paywalls is a hassle. Ideally I want the Spotify model, where I get all the content for a flat monthly fee that gets apportioned among all my content sources. Brave seems to have ambitions in this direction (and it's my current main browser) but they don't have enough deals yet.
I spent 15 months as "the glitch".

Started on a 3 month contract to cover someone on maternity leave. After 3 months nothing was said, after 6 months the woman on leave came back and nothing was said, after 12 months still nothing. Eventually after 18 months they told me they would not be renewing my non-existent 12 month contract.
Fasting and zero-carb diet have done wonders for me.
Open plans are much better than cubicles. The transition to open plans and standing desks has been a boon for social interaction in teams, more role-crossover, and just more physical movement in general.

My $DAYJOB is for a big multinational corp that has embraced this insanity... my floor is all "open plan" except for a smattering of offices that are reserved for the elite VP level folks. But some of the other floors are cubicle based - sometimes I go down there and just wander around and dream of how nice it would be to have one of those cubicles.

"What cruel twist of fate", I wonder to myself, "led to me being banished to the eldritch and grotesque horrors of the land of endless noise, constant distractions, free-roaming viruses and germs, and - most terrifying of all - sheer and utter hours of non-productivity?"
Social engineering your way into an Instagram account, or hiring DDoS services are not "hacking". By the standards of late 1990s Phrack magazine, or modern PoC|GTFO, these clowns couldn't hack their way out of a wet paper bag.
UNCLOG THE CLOG: My adventure to find me
This has a very different impact on me, since I enjoy experiencing taking apart and putting back and restoring and playing etc... vintage musical instruments in my spare time.

It never gets old. There is no real reason to sell one because each instrument is almost childlike in some incorporeal manner.

I ended up purchasing more things, but just being more tidy.
Yeah, there was another Lumbergh at a similarly named company. Intertrode?
EFF is hiring an activist
I agree with you, but most I've met would prefer to set expectations with a private office. Preferably with a door and social contract to leave alone unless needed.
It’s perhaps also worth mentioning that he lost his government position due to the conclusions of that study.
Great point. I never realized that open floor plans made it harder to keep things professional. You're absolutely right.
Hot terminals?
> some people even noted having multiple flow control schemes at multiple layers would become a problem

It could, but it didn't in reality. HTTP/2 has two levels of flow control, stream-level and connection-level. You use 1 connection per site and as many streams as you want multiplexed inside that connection, thus stream-level flow control is necessary to avoid stream head-of-line blocking.

The actual layering violation is connection-level flow control, which seems to duplicate TCP flow control, but it's not mandatory, as you can see most if not all open source implementations simply set a very large connection-level window size to hand off flow control at this level to TCP.

There is a good reason for this to exist, which is to compete for bandwidth with HTTP/1.1 domain sharding technique which uses N connections per "site", effectively having N times the Initial Congestion Window (IW) than what HTTP/2 can have in one connection. IW was a huge issue in improving connection startup latency, and after managing to convince Linux netdev to raise it to 10, Google couldn't get them to allow applications to customize its value anymore. The only solution for Google was to add some flow control information in HTTP/2 and pass it to coupled TCP flow control to improve IW. So in reality only one flow control scheme is working at any time, instead of the common perception of TCP over TCP meltdown. For anyone else they can simply not do connection-level flow control in HTTP/2 and nothing of value is lost.
I'm an extrovert, and I hate open plans. Sometimes I feel being an extrovert makes it worse, as I get tangled up in conversations. It's still good and important to have conversations, but we just have them in the hallway, or visit our offices. That way you can go back.
Pinterest dethroned Spotify, Tinder as the most-popular app in January 2019
Much like voting in politics our usage does add up. If a significant portion of users abandon a browser then the producers will notice.

It's only hopeless if we all agree to do nothing.
I'm not an accountant, but my understanding is that the tuition reimbursement is not taxed, but the stipend is. All I know is that I filed taxes on my graduate stipend 30 years ago.

Hope I actually owed the tax that I paid. ;-)
I think the DVD had both endings -- I'm sure I've seen the other one.
It sounds like you need to spend more time designing -- alone and with peers -- or installing tools, so that you don't spend so much time starting at a wall of text.
software. I have a 1070, and hardware decoding (using mpv) works excellently.
> Putting in another hoop for abusive corporations to jump through does have a function. There would be additional opportunities for whistleblowers to spot it happening, opening up the company to legal and regulatory action. Also, it wouldn't necessarily have to be centrally controlled. 3rd party companies could be hired to do the administration.

In which case DRM doesn't do anything, but regulation and whistleblowers do?

> DRM could well be implemented as encryption and decentralized services.

How would that work? You don't have control over your own machine, but everyone else does?!

DRM is the idea that your property has a function that controls what you can do with your property based on instructions from a third party ... who would that "decentralized third party"(?) be? And what would even be the point of that? I am not sure I even understand what kind of construction you have in mind that would qualify as DRM and also be useful for the end user in any way.
op said he's lived in it for 9 years, this says 30. also first name doesn't match his username.
$1000 for clothes!

$3000 for transport!

I'm pretty sure a frugal grad student could push both down to $0.
FOSDEM 2019 – GBForth: Using Forth to Understand the Game Boy
$2.42M

$35k x 12 = $420k
As someone who is young (mid 30s) but suffers from Dysphagia, this is interesting to see. As instances of eosinophilic esophagitis continue to increase, more and more people will experience this.

If you have trouble swallowing sometimes, or it feels like food or pills get stuck, you may want to go see an allergist to get tested for food allergies. Don't procrastinate it thinking it will go away or is just in your head. If you do that, you'll get be at huge risk for Dysphagia, which is Hell. If you distrust the medical establishment, want concrete results (medical tests have false positives/negatives all the time) or would rather save the money, check out the book "The Elimination Diet" by Tom Malterre and Alissa Segersten.
Actually it works far better for new businesses. People don't know your product and won't risk it, especially buying online. The guarantee leads to a hell lot of sales and marketing.

People avoid manipulating the little guy and usually the people at your doorstep early on are quite desperate for a solution.

If anything, this scales poorly to large companies, because they get on exploit forums and it's difficult to train staff to make the call differentiating between valid and fake claims.
Next up, drop “Best”, “Gourmet”, “Jade” snd “Garden”. Funny enough even in China and Taiwan you see “Golden” (Ex. Golden Bowl Soup) in restaurant names, though perhaps not the same frequency.
That's... exactly what I was suggesting.
I can't disagree more. Having worked in cubicles (at Netscape), those were far superior to open office. We could get work done and we still were able to socialize and have cross-team interaction. These days I eschew open office, preferring to work from home. At most open-office environments, people trying to get work done wear headphones, which is like a virtual cubicle (minus the personal space).

The reboot of office space would have everyone in an open office, that is for certain.
Long touch can replace 3D Touch.
My full stipend recently was definitely not subject to income tax, and I then had a zero rate tax bracket on top of that for my supplementary income.

I wonder if they should tax stipends but also increase them by the taxed amount, so people see they’re more realistic than they first look. But then you’d lose the zero rate bracket for the rest of your income.
Are you talking about the Panopticons?
Why is nobody considering the possibility that the seal had knowingly swallowed the memory stick in order to conceal evidence?
It doesn’t mean you disagree with them. It’s that they write their comments for maximum shock value.

It’s not the end of the world, but it’s hardly desirable.
This is true, but the counterweight is that there are good actors who recruit other good actors too.
> The problems Reddit is facing now are largely a result of the admins getting more activist as Reddit is more visible than ever.

Really? It seems to me that the problems come from not banning things, still: see all the complaints about racism and other "undesirable content" on the site.