skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course there is a use to such a construct much as philanthropy - the alternative is defacto dynasties essentially - and even an estate tax doesn't do as much good if transferred before death.

Philanthropic endeavors allow for them to choose to push their values after death as a legacy instead of their blood. If they can't do that then it makes their influenced descendants the next best thing.

It may be a "fair for its day" solution compared to others and something that should have some limits. Racial restrictive covenants for housings were decidedly not grandfathered in with changes of laws for a deliberately extreme example.

The cemetery shouldn't be liable for maintaining the grave unfunded in perpetuity but being able to say take a fund for maintaining the grave for 100 years and pocket it is wrong.

Essentially I think they should be allowed to stand when reasonable in changing circumstances.
> he is a big proponent of index funds

Oddly, when I entered the passive index world I got absorbed into checking in on my index ETF purchases every day, multiple times per day, and resisting the urge to sell and buy (more index ETFs, lol). I knew in my head this made no sense - the prices will follow the market by design - yet this urge went on for like 2 weeks before I forced myself to stop.
Yeah thx, I already knew === but i still think it is strange behaviour :-)
I'd visit Loire for the Cremant alone!
What did his job description say? Did it clearly specify having to be on call 24/7/365. That would be key especially for a position that seems to require that kind of response.

Otherwise this is a bit like "unlimited vacation". Yes you can take it, but you never know when they'll come back and say "looks like you're not applying your full potential, so we're gonna go ahead an put you on probation".

> Lee also told Weathers [...] that he didn’t care about Weathers’ religious holidays or children, the suit claimed.

I think this is mostly about naming and shaming. As the lawsuit could involve a discovery phase, Yelp might want to settle to avoid revealing to the whole world their management "culture".
> Interviewing candidates in both Malaysia and Indonesia, if the higher paid senior ones can reverse a linked list, it's considered quite good.

You must be exaggerating, right? What can a developer do if they can't even reverse a linked list? I'm genuinely curious how a developer like that can work.
Yes, the real problem is that Yelp was attempting to prohibit the guy from doing anything else outside of work without even paying him for it! Unfortunately this is no longer even illegal, as overtime laws were destroyed through the "exempt" loophole. So he is (we are) left grasping at straws for something specific that was illegal to have prohibited rather than expecting congress would actually do anything for workers and address the general problem.
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yeah. totally agree. i call bullshit on being available 24/7/365 when you're the only person doing the job. even if you ignore the implications this has on you, this is a terrible idea if only from the redundancy/keeping the lights on kind-of perspective where if you quit you're left with 0 people doing an "important" job.
Given all your preparation and work, do you think you're able to beat the market on a risk-adjusted basis? What marginal edge do you have over professional institutions + quant funds, who are also reading reports and paying attention to the news? (to say the least)
This is what drives me up the wall whenever Bill Gates comes up. His net worth is double what it was a decade ago. He's not doing philanthropy, he's doing investing.
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My first instinct is it would likely be a hard fight. The limit is obviously a matter of preventing abuse, and changing it might change the dynamics for malicious parties or otherwise make mitigating abuse harder. This is probably an issue for most free email providers.

This is still a conceptually cool idea for many reasons, but for this and other practical reasons it may end up being preferable to use it with another email provider. Especially since I personally think JMAP is intriguing and this might be useful for Delta Chat.

I do worry that without good support for Google accounts and maybe even some other major free email providers (important: I really don't know,) Delta chat may face practical issues with gaining critical mass.

(Just for full disclosure and good practice, I am an employee at Google, but I do not work on Gmail and I'm speaking strictly as a user.)
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)

https://www.workplacefairness.org/religious-discrimination

10. Can my employer prevent me from taking off on religious holidays or my day of worship?

You should start by letting your employer know that there is a conflict between your religious observances and your work schedule. When your employer's workplace policies interfere with your religious practices, you can ask for what is called a "reasonable accommodation": a change in a workplace rule or policy which would allow you to engage in a religious practice without conflicting with your work obligations.

Your employer is required to provide you with such an accommodation unless it would impose an "undue hardship" on the employer's business, defined as an accommodation that is too costly or difficult to provide. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) who oversees these types of claims, has interpreted an undue hardship to mean anything more than regular administrative costs, anything that reduces workplace efficiency or impairs workplace safety, anything infringing on other employees' job rights or causes those said employees' to carry the accommodated employee's share of burdensome work, or if the proposed accommodation conflicts with another law or regulation. Thus, employers are obligated to try in good faith to resolve the religious conflict, or identify an actual monetary or administrative expense. It is important for you to work closely with your employer to find an appropriate accommodation.

If the accommodation would impose a burden on the employer that cannot be resolved, the employer is not required to allow the accommodation. Many accommodations, however, do not require any monetary or administrative burdens. Whether your employer can accommodate your religious practices will depend upon the nature of the work and the workplace. Usually, your employer can allow you to use lunch or other break times for religious prayer. If you require additional time for prayer, your employer can require you to make up the time.

Employers must give time off for the Sabbath or holy days except in an emergency, unless the employee works in key health and safety occupations or the employee's presence is critical to the company on any given day. This time off does not have to be paid, however. If employees don't come to work, employers may give them leave without pay, may require the amount of time to be made up, or may allow the employee to charge the time against any other leave with pay, except sick pay.
Shorewall has been my goto firewall for years and still is. If any of you have ever followed my postfix howto [1] and others over the years, Shorewall has always been since 2005 the first thing to install and configure.

It fits the balance I need between powerful and ease of use (to my limited skill level). UFW seems too simplistic, straight IP Tables to cumbersome.

Either the community picks up the batton and I can still use Shorewall for years to come or I will have to start to try some of the alternatives :|

Thank you mr Eastep, and enjoy your trip.

[1] http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/#config-simple-firewall
If I was to list the companies I don't want involved in health care, those 3 would have to be pretty high up.

Anyway, this article is paywalled.
at what point exactly did I compare with sea level?
United States > California.

https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/religion.cfm

"The law requires an employer or other covered entity to reasonably accommodate an employee's religious beliefs or practices, unless doing so would cause more than a minimal burden on the operations of the employer's business. This means an employer may be required to make reasonable adjustments to the work environment that will allow an employee to practice his or her religion.

Examples of some common religious accommodations include flexible scheduling, voluntary shift substitutions or swaps, job reassignments, and modifications to workplace policies or practices."
He may have the data to make the argument. I suppose if anyone wanted to measure such things which really shouldn’t be measured, I bet Wolfram has a compelling case.
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Hello everyone!
I am Kris, the founder of uxnetworks.com. I had been working on this idea for a while and would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
I don’t disagree: it’s a dumb thing for an employer to say exactly because it leads to suits like this.
> Linting Use shellcheck

Shellcheck has saved me countless times, but I noticed it's hard to get people to adopt it into their workflow.

I've introduced probably a dozen people to shellcheck and warn them ahead of time that their scripts are broken. They try it, see a flood of errors and warnings, close the window, and never use it again.

The logic surrounding their undefined variables and improper conditions happen to work as hoped, by luck, combined with their strict adherence to "it's best practice to not use spaces" both keep their scripts crawling along "just fine".
> I'm always torn on whataboutism

I'd say there's a difference between idly attempting to gain perspective/compare, and dismissing/shaming the original content and its interested receivers via contrast. The latter is the problem, especially when it's framed as a mutually exclusive option between the primary subject and the contrasted subject, as though there is a fixed maximum of concern that can be had.
Reading is always easier than listening because you can control the rate while reading. With a live conversation partner, you cannot do that yet, until we have accurate, real-time subtitling, perhaps with AR.

The hack is to find video material that has exact or near exact subtitles in your target language. By using a short, repeatable video, you will be able to associate sounds with the words, not the other way around. Since spoken language is sounds, you have to start with the sounds. It can be easy to get frustrated as it is a process of repeated listening. For that reason, choose something you like.
>>This is excluding extreme cases like if someone claimed that their religion has dozens of major holidays a year. To my knowledge, no major religion does that.<<

Let me speak to you about the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster...

https://pastafarians.org.au/pastafarianism/holidays/
I'm going to propose a counter-argument based on an experiment I'm running on myself. I recently started trading stocks because I wanted to expose myself to a different news-sphere. I believe that I will grow and understand more about the world from doing so. Is it addicting? Maybe, but if I learn more about machine learning because I'm running models on stock data, then it doesn't seem too unhealthy to me. Am I going to gamble all my money away on the news cycle and models that I'm developing? Hell no. But then, maybe I haven't had whatever hit I would need to be super addicted to it.

Another hypothesis: the difference is whether you view it as a means or an end. I do not believe that stock trading will ever make me rich. But I believe it is a means to teach me things. Thus it is less addictive.
We can thank labor unions for the concept of weekends and the 8-hour workday. The decline in labor union participation tracks with the erosion of the benefits our predecessors fought so hard for.
Now that's a great reason to visit ;)
Yelp's legal obligations are more complicated than "treat everyone the same." The Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires employers to make reasonable accommodations of employees' religions.

https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/wysk/workplace_religious_...

>Examples of common religious accommodations include:

>a Catholic employee needs a schedule change so that he can attend church services on Good Friday

Is being out of contact for 12 hours on Good Friday an "undue hardship" for the business? I'm not a lawyer but I'm skeptical.
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Most interesting to me here is his "walking outside" work setup (fairly simple, as he says, like you're selling popcorn). Because apparently walking outside reduced his resting heart rate more than just relying on a treadmill.
> What did they innovate recently? The notch? Air pods? These aren't exactly world changing.

Air Pods are one of the best innovations in mobile in the past 5 years. Apple's mobile and watch chips are best in class. Apple Pay seems best in class.
This is a strange comment and something I see a lot in online forums, I guess you could characterize this as the "slippery slope" or "worst case scenario" argument. Unions have no power in big tech right now, none of the top tech companies have something resembling a union -- and yet even the discussion of unionization within the tech industry, despite some really terrible working conditions for "auxiliary" tech workers (ride share drivers, fulfillment center workers, delivery app drivers) and "core" workers (ageism anyone?) the slight mention of unionization and/or collective bargaining brings up these types of scenarios. Unionization in tech is not going to look like it does in other industries, I can't help but wonder why some folks shoot it discussions so quickly with this type of argument.
>Trading stocks, or active investment is important for the ecosystem, and having people learn hard lessons like not to gamble with money they can't afford to lose is equally valuable. Free Markets depend on willing participants, and progressively greater efficiencies

How do ignorant investors making senseless trades and learning "hard lessons" improve market efficiency?
Mispronunciation is no big deal! That is just one dimension in a language and one which gets better over time and immersion.

If you wish to avoid the social aspects completely, how about starting with practising to only read a language? There are plenty of newspapers and other material to study and it helps to be able to figure out what is said from the context. It will involve some guesswork but it keeps your brain thinking. With context I mean that any big piece of news is likely to appear also in the news written in a language you already know, so you can cross-reference and figure out unknown words.
Say what you want about Wolfram, he's a brilliant guy. Brilliant people often have strange quirks and egos, but that's just a part of being them. Also, this account has only posted links about Wolfram. Is it him or an assistant?
It's discrimination if the guy was fired in part for missing work on that day.
> Neither of us are lawyers, but it's my understanding that the law is that an employer must made accommodation for religious services.

Employers must, on request, make reasonable accommodation (one which does not impose an “undue hardship”) for religious practices. [0]

Nothing in the narrative provided (which comes from the lawsuit filed by the fired manager) seems to indicate that an advance request for an accommodation was made.

An employer can fire you for failing to perform job duties due to a religious observance for which you did not ask for an accommodation, as I understand it.

[0] https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/wysk/workplace_religious_...
Sure an economic collapse in China would benefit the environment, but so would the economic collapse of the West.

There are better solutions that don't involve trading human suffering for environmental protection.
Is value investing, as a general method still work, when everybody knows about it, unlike the past ?

Or just a lucky few beat the index funds with it today ?
The alternative is you get no access to iOS.

It's not a market, it's a walled garden.

This shit is why I am so in favour of Epic's game store. 12% because they can. Finally challenging the absurdity of 30%.
I work at Google and have absolutely no clue what he's referring to.

My best guess is that it has something to do with the permissions you give Google if you add a work profile/account to your phone. But that isn't required.
No need for insinuations, that's not a point of contention.

If you look past the book, and directly at the STL, you'll find a common example: the "fmt" library, shortened to save three letters. Or compare the verbosity of these two examples from language docs, and the length and descriptiveness of variable names in them: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/cl.html to https://golang.org/pkg/bufio/#example_Scanner_emptyFinalToke...

I agree, it's a great language. These naming conventions are part of its developers and community.
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Thanks for sharing this. Helped me understand what i was reading before.

It honestly took me a while to realize the article wasn't an April fools post!

I am still upvoting the submission for its comedic value.
Thank you. Would this then hinge on whether or not he discussed it with them before hand? I'm obviously not a lawyer.
Almost everyone goes through this. It is especially bad with your friends. The hack is to pay someone to help you practice. iTalki is a great site for finding native speakers who aren’t necessarily language teachers but who have a genuine interest in helping others learn languages. Also, friends may get frustrated with you as you probably will speak grammatically incorrectly starting out and they may not be able to state the correct grammar to use, having internalized it in childhood.
Ah damn, signed up for segment one week ago or so. Some you win, some you lose I guess.

Echoing other commenters, pricing plans are quite steep for the more modest businesses out there who might have a pretty large reach (Monthly users) but nowhere near the budget to shell out big $$.

Tis a shame cause as someone with a foot in tech and the other one in marketing, I know there's a lof value for the real world businesses out there (outside of the tech bubble) but having to spend what I guess is a hefty amount of cash every month just for the pipes is going to be a hard sell for folks which might be already struggling to see value in investing in technology.
Brilliant. I am the most picky person ever when it comes to SVG and I detest the rubbish that gets churned out of Illustrator. The great thing about your tool is that it enables you to learn a thing or two, there is a great amount of SVG vocabulary used. My test is to see if an icon such as the 'play' icon uses a circle or a path for the circle.

Another thing that I find annoying about designer made SVGs is that the circle will not only be a path but the points on the path will be in 'NASA numbers', i.e. to nine decimal places. It is refreshing to find icons on a sensible grid and going for integers where possible.

Download size is one thing, however, I also think SVG icons should be a bit more literal, with things like mask and use brought into play. So the 'fast forward' icon might be lighter defined as two polygons, but the polygons are the same so the define one triangle and re-use it for the second makes more sense in a literal way even though the code to bring in the namespace for use might actually make the download size of the icon larger.

In this vein the other thing I like to see is a viewbox that has the origin in the middle. In that way a circle just has to have a radius to be centred and an arrow can use another arrow and be rotated by 180 degrees.

If you put this together then you can have a symbol set that has eight different arrows in it 'using' the base arrow and any changes to the base arrow get automagically updated to the others.

Another download option that would be useful to me would be a CSS variable version of each icon. This technique doesn't work in Edge but has its advantages in that you can have pseudo elements for things like 'external link' where the background to the pseudo element is an SVG in a CSS variable. The CSS variable needs some url-data-xml-type-svg syntax and any '#' characters have to be escaped out as %23.

By taking this approach the SVGs can be in the stylesheet and therefore downloaded 'for free'. If done in white they can also be colorised to anything including black in the CSS for the pseudo element. Lea Verou has done a talk or two on this SVG in CSS approach and a tool to get readymades would help make this method more acceptable to people who are still stuffing icons in fonts.

Anyway, thanks again for sharing your beautiful site, there is lots to learn from the icons you have there!
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. It is highly unlikely that 'controlling the plane' is even possible.

All we have is a word from some dude. A very irresponsible one, if his claims are true.
I'm terrified that Stamps, MeUndies, and SquareSpace will go out of business and all podcasts will be left with no stream of revenue. /s
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This. If these emails were sent as described, the terminated employee can expect a tidy settlement with the quickness.
I've worked at companies of all sizes, and at every one of those jobs, I've had some form of MSDN access.

I've never ran into the issues you're referring to. Microsoft makes it both easy and cheap to obtain development licenses for their software.
Even if it is written on a contract isn't being on call at every seconds of your life against human rights? It seems to be near slavery condition.
I work in HFT. He is completely correct

I always laugh when people say Robinhood is a good thing for society. Their zero fees, cool app, and gamification of trading is simply ushering fools into a casino
Right after the checkerboard (or from the start with Apple) came the rasterized content. That worked (and still works) pretty well.
I heard him on the radio and he pretty much says that a lot of philanthropy and change by the wealthy is done in a way that doesn't challenge their own position. Change is only welcome if doesn't threaten their wealth.
Just rotate on-call hours around several employees. Putting "lives or huge sums of money" onto one singular employee who must be in contact at all times is a recipe for disaster.
Rotflmao
For the longest time I thought Sheldon Cooper was supposed to be a pisstake of Wolfram, specifically.
The golden age of podcasts is now, from here on I predict much much corparate efforts to destroy the free and decentralized thing the podcast scene is compared to other media.

Relatively little ads, relative many people self hosting, very direct connections between producers and listeners, not limited by my Plattform or patent – from now on it is going downhill.
I kept putting of switching from Travis to Circle-CI in one of my open source projects, But when I did get around to it the whole thing went pretty smoothly and easily and I regret not doing it earlier.

1.The builds are much faster now.
2. The configuration has virtually no hacks anymore as I'm using Circle-CI own docker images (including browsers).
3. And the UI/UX is superior as well.
I do that with tabs for online articles I (probably) want to read.