skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Except this anecdote is not representative of much of anything in the real world.

It relates well to my experience.

At a hosting company I worked for, many of the system admins and developers were promoted from within technical support.

Technical support had one very awesome feature I only ever saw at this company -- you had a quota of how many tickets you should complete in a given day. If you completed that number, you could leave and were paid for the full day. If you had 80 tickets to complete and did them in 2 hours, you left. If you had 80 tickets and couldn't complete them, you left after working for 8 hours. You could work from home every other day if you were hitting your quota, and work from home increased your quota by like 10 tickets. Quota numbers were based on some average of your tickets over the last 8 weeks, and for most people were somewhere around 70-100.

Categorically, each and every person who was promoted out of tech support had written scripts to fix common issues that were happening and frequently only worked a couple of hours a day while they were in technical support; other times would spend a lot of extra time working out programs to automate their jobs. Looking back at it, I think each of us thought we were getting away with something, but it was noticed and encouraged.
I'm currently listening to The Power Broker (over 65h of narration) and it only cost me one credit (so, about $15).
> CEOs in the US buy back stock a lot these days. That naturally raises the price and doesn’t take a lot of skill or vision. Maybe it is a good idea (it depends) but do you really need to give out lavish compensation when you can manipulate the price?

No they don't. Boards buy back stock. CEOs cannot realistically buy back company stock themselves. I mean, Iger only made $3million in cash, so this would be a losing strategy for him.
Related: https://feross.org/html5-fullscreen-api-attack/
But these guys are being compensated in the millions regardless of whether they are making or breaking the company. Why are they earning $5M for failing massively? If I fail massively at my job I get fired and probably have tons of trouble getting my next job. If a CEO fails massively they get millions in golden parachute, a board seat on someone else’s company, before they become CEO again somewhere else. I would buy the “they get paid for their performance” line if I ever met a homeless or starving ex-CEO. Still waiting to see that one.

Shareholders are burning their money. I would have gladly done the job of “fail to turn around Yahoo” for a mere 1/1000th of what MM took home.
From WikiPedia "Abigail E. Disney (born January 24, 1960) is an American documentary filmmaker, philanthropist, and activist known for her documentary films focused on social themes.".

Her background/experience does not make her an expert in employee compensation. Am I missing something to this, other than her family name, of course?
Maybe I can, I just haven't found an example of it. Certainly the "cc" crate doesn't seem to know how to compile Swift files. This might be more of a documentation issue than a real technical limitation though.
Every game I've worked on didn't actually use an IMGUI for anything you'd ever show a player; (unless it's a style of game that really doesn't need much UI), it's just custom gui implementations.

A lot of modern games actually put the UI in with the scene graph of the game itself (IE: Unity's new GUI system)
So you argue that Lebron James provides more value to society than people running the companies that actually keep society productive? America's insane obsession with sports is amazing.
Yes, the point is that Apple currently does not have an API for this because they seem to consider being able to have access to other apps on the device something that an app should not have access to. So presumably any solution to this problem needs to function in a way that meaningfully improves the current situation.
Also the scrolling feels "weird". Kinda like when you're on an amp page (although I think they fixed that now).
> when the price of disney shares goes up from $24 to $135, that is millions upon millions of peoples retirements that are that much more secure

Sorry, this is just rubbish. None of that money gets distributed to retirements, even if they work at Disney. What sort of lies is this?

Sure, anyone that owns Disney shares does well if they sell the shares, but that is ANYONE.
If all the credit and blame for success or failure is due to the CEO, why is anyone else paid at all?
You are not wrong, but he has to pay the loan back. The only way to do that would be to increase the price of the stock along with the interest rate on the loan, and then sell the stock. Of course selling the stock would decrease the price he could get for future shares. Thus, the price increase in stock he'd have to generate would have to be greater than the interest rate on the loan he took out in order to account for this share price depression.
No person thinks they have too much. It’s always someone richer than them that has too much. You are always struggling and underpaid, it’s the other guy who makes too much undeservedly.
Canon Lake is the opposite of OK. Its turbo modes are much lower than the previous gen, and it clocks itself lower by 600 MHz under the same workloads.

Intel's first crack at 10nm was a jaw-dropping affair for how poorly it showed.
FYI, Libby is an app made by OverDrive, (which is in turn owned by Rakuten).

Although OverDrive has published multiple open letters proclaiming their dedication to accessibility, they have done relatively little in this space. In one disappointing conversation with a senior executive, I was told that if they can’t charge libraries more for a feature, they won’t add it. To my mind, the definition of accessibility is making decisions that make a product more accessible even if doing so does not make more money.

Given that OverDrive has 90% market share in the US, it’s a pity that this is their attitude toward accessibility.
the biggest issue I see with Airbnb is that it favors a small subset of tenants and makes it worse for pretty much everyone else.

Running an Airbnb is insanely profitable for the tenant and it is pretty much hell for everyone else living next to it. Ask neighbours of Airbnbs, they will all complain that it brings a lot of noise, people partying in the middle of the night etc.

My solution to this is that the cities should tax Airbnbs at a very high level. Probably upwards of 50%. There is a reason why hotels are built in specific places in cities, and why they have a frontdesks etc.
It feels to me that just because you’re the CEO doesn’t mean you’re singlehandedly responsible for all that wealth being created. A whole bunch of employees worked really hard to raise that stock price, and they’re not even being paid a living wage. Some of them can’t afford an apartment and live in their cars.

I don’t believe the CEO caused all of that rise in the stock, and the issue is whether one person should even be in a position to benefit that much while others get a meager salary. Why does the CEO get so many thousands of shares of Disney stock rather than a large portion of that package going to the many thousands of workers that also helped the company grow in value? Just as you say it makes sense to align the CEOs interests, the same is true for every worker at the company. And one very committed CEO is great, but thousands of appreciated workers who can afford to live would be great for the company too.
There is previous work on the matter: A fake Firefox XUL browser if I recall correctly (UI readdressing).

This attack is for sure nice and effective!
> Doesn't it mean the system is flawed by design if you can't just pass the assets you legitimately own to a 3-rd party which wants it in exchange for cash without collapsing the market and attracting prosecutors?

Many regulations on the stock market are there because of past abuses. I'm typically rather anti-regulation as well, but it's like when you see "do not eat" labels on a box of razor blades: you know it's there because some one did it (and probably sued). Letting executives arbitrarily sell stock on a public exchange could have serious ramifications.

> What if he just wanted to retire buying an island, building a castle, moving there and forgetting the business, not because he believes the business isn't going to grow but because he feels it's enough for him?

His net worth is estimated at $350 million, from what I could find. Do you really think he's set an arbitrary target of $416 million net worth to just give up?
IMHO the micro degrees, and MOOC courses in general, can help if you already have the needed requirements and use it to support extras listed as 'wants'. Of course if the list of NEEDED skills is more than 5, then they usually do not know what they really need and a micro degree for all of their listed requirements would work. In addition, the micros could provide the difference between two candidates. "Yeah they are about the same, but this one spends time learning more, and you know we are considering opening the left-handed smoke shifter division and his micro skills would be an asset there"
> If GP meant to be dismissive of GIFs and emoji, they can easily have said so. (That said, one can post standard Unicode emoji to IRC, and will anybody call that frivolous?)

OP confirms. But that's the tip of the iceberg. Yes, you can use Unicode in IRC, and yes, people will kick you out if you "misuse" it - but perhaps I've been on weird channels.

> incorrectly-entered Markdown formatting, or other kinds of minor reformatting.

I don't know what you are talking about. Markdown in IRC? IRC was (one of) the electronic ersatz for verbal dialogue before VoIP. Chat messages shouldn't be longer than a tweet.

If you need formatting then you're writing a document, not chatting. There we agree you need another service for that. Something like Pastebin would probably be more suited.

However if you are writing something that people should remember or use as a reference, I'd suggest to use a CMS rather than a chat or IM or even email, because sooner or later you'll be sorry otherwise. Especially if your chat platform of choice keeps everything on servers that are not under your control and doesn't offer full client-side backup. Good communication starts with choosing the appropriate tool.
Yes, I've seen examples of calling Rust from Swift, and I do plan to support that. This particular thing is about calling macOS platform functions from Rust code. Projects either call Objective-C API's from native Rust code using the dynamic invocation mechanism (which I think is slow and code-bloaty but want to measure more carefully), or they use the "cc" crate to include Objective-C code (and then generally use C ABI calls from Rust code into that). I've never seen Rust code that compiles Swift from a "cargo build" but of course would love to be proven wrong.
I give you the bike, you give me credits.
But it is still potentially problematic if not all of your clients have the same endianess. Memcpy and exact layout still fails you there.
I had identified amphipods after its remains (there was two or three legs, half a head, part of the coxas and so), and is feasible, but not easy. Inside the chilean complex of this species would be even more dificult. High school students can't really do it, and local fishermen do not have this knowledge or the tools to adquire it.

I can think only in one reason to not contact the chilean biologists, or visit Chile, and is a language barrier, easy to overcome since we have google translate and similar tools.

On the other hand, amphipods are really easy to keep in aquariums for many months. Females incubate its eggs under the legs in a sort of pouches (kangaroo style) and there is often a clear and obvious sexual dimorphism, so their reproductive life is not dificult to study at all. You can easily observe the breeding behaviour, clutch size, embriology, hatching, season and number of generations by year. Why they didn't it in all of those years is a mystery to me. (Shrug) maybe fear that the species would be disclosed as belonging to a yet described species and became a synonym?.
Not trying to be rude, but do you know retirement accounts work? That money isn’t just growing by magic. It’s invested.

And as a side note, I (living in Orlando) actually know several folks who invest heavily in Disney stock as Disney employees. I’m guessing they get a preferential price on it and it’s a growing investment for them.
And therefore wrong?

I actually thought of adding a trigger warning for the sponsor but then decided against it for being too cynical.
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I was debating the best way to handle that - the front end is currently written in React (so I could get a taste for it) and I knew I couldn't just include the source files from that. I'm completely open to alternative way to handle this though.
Does it count as aerobic if you get out of breath and develop lactic acid?
Toys. The 6502 is still being used in them, as well as in many basic UX tasks.

Same for many of these devices. Mature libraries, low cost, ease of use all play a part.
But 84+33>100...? I know you have sources there, but something doesn’t as up.

I suppose there is overlap in top 10%, and retirement accounts. Also, top 10% are a lot of people, and they are probably mostly the ones close to retirement.

Not saying there’s not wealth inequality, but look towards the top .01%.

Also, I have an online brokerage account that I use to invest in stock. It’s not tax deferred, or labeled as retirement fund, but it is definitely a supplement to my 401k, and I only plan to withdraw as retirement. I would wager there’s a bit of “unlabeled” money like that out there too.
Why is any success that company experiences attributed to the CEO's actions? Warren Buffett said that when a business known for difficulty encounters a manager known for brilliance, it's the reputation of the business that remains. We saw this when an ex-Apple retailer tried to revive JC Penney, and when Marissa Mayer was at the helm of Yahoo. These companies died in spite of their management, how do we know that it is not the same for when they succeed?
Not a parent, but perhaps you could teach your minor about the dangers of the {internet, apps, etc.}?
In the US market, I am in the paranoid camp ... I have 80% cash right now. Waiting for a major drop, which is long over due.
It certainly looks accidental. It hides on scroll on other pages but this one causes it to half hide and then it pops back up again.
We are not compensated monetarily, but we get one day off for each week on-call, and any time worked is also added up, so we can take extra days off later.
I think he’s referring to how retirement funds are invested into index funds.
> I wouldn't mind being able to buy a computer and not have to worry about upgrading it for 10 years (I think we're pretty close to this point already).

I used an i5-2500k for 7 years. Only retired it because the rest of the computer was falling apart and I had already had too many computers. I think that a CPU built in $CURRENT_YEAR will be completely usable in 10 years.
It’s missing a css property that enables the throw feeling.

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/momentum-scrolling-on-io...
Well I don't know what's up with your model, but I can get a replacement keyboard for my seven year old laptop for $25.
How does it work to call C for the missing peripherals?
For instance using the exiting vendors libraries. The book in question does not seem to cover this, unfortunately.

I think for a long time we will have to accept that Rust and C are going to co-exist on these devices. So that story should be workable.

My embedded code tends to have a strong split between application logic (in platform-independent, data-driven functional code, with automated tests) and underlying hardware-dependent "app host" (as little custom code as possible), with a data-based interface.
I would be quite happy doing C for the hardware layer and Rust for the application logic layer.
Immediate mode, if anything, makes this harder. (You absolutely have to run the GUI on one thread, for instance). Really though you can get around that on either of them by spawning a worker thread/coroutine/etc. on button clicks and so on.
That’s because the site messes with the scrolling in an attempt to prevent the top chrome to not come back, which unfortunately (or fortunately?) doesn’t do anything because Safari refuses to hide it.
Some of us don't care about owning. I always gave 95%+ of my paper books away, long before I started reading digitally.
I have to say, in hindsight I am pretty annoyed with the general teaching methods.

Rules and general movements were explained and shown to you once, and then you were left to your own devices only to be judged later on what you learned. (Learning by osmosis at that point, really.)

Several times it took one small comment from someone else years later and I was able to do the thing considerably better. (Which muscles to relax, for example, or wrong direction of a movement.) That should have been a teacher's job.
> You prioritize your ideals over the welfare of others unable to avoid paying the price you think yourself able to dodge.

Wow, that's a lot of assumptions. Both my (3) and (4) include "then do (2)", which seemed to be the solution you were proposing; they just more clearly communicated to developers that (2) was coming, and more clearly communicated to users the consequences of implementing half-baked solutions before (2) was done. I can imagine a lot of practical problems with what I suggested, but it's hard for me to see how increasing the communication in either or both of the ways that I proposed, while also doing what (it seems) you're proposing (and what Apple did), constitutes adherence to a selfish ideal.
"Using our tech, I think we’ll be able to produce carbon-zero gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels that are cheaper than fossil fuels."

Goodbye oil fields. And we get to keep our ICE cars and trucks!
Cool - this attack is perhaps worse! Fullscreen should require a more explicit permission dialog, like webcam access, web push notifications, etc.
FWIW, opening that link in mobile Safari shows a large “X” in the top left of the screen and trying to scroll sets of the “it looks like you’re typing in fullscreeen” warning.
For anyone else running into this sort of garbage, I just discovered that ublock lets you block individual elements. Block the GDPR notice and you haven't accepted it and they can't be assholes and set a ton of tracking cookies (or if they still do, someone in the EU please file a GDPR complaint).
Thanks much to japaric (Jorge Aparicio IIRC), he's contributed heavily to projects which support embedded use cases.
Everything looks correct on chrome mobile. I don't ever see the HSBC bar, regardless of how I scroll.
They are stockpiling working chips to prepare to send them to the OEMs for verification. Intel probably has to send out tens of thousands of CPUs for this, every OEM is going to want hundreds to verify their systems before they start mass production. It's an indicator that Intel thinks they have worked out the major yield issues and is preparing for production runs.
The bible of doing business with the city of New York
> If the CEO of a non-profit decides to quit abruptly, wouldn't that make everyone rightfully worried over the future of that entity?

It feels very reasonable to worry yet it is not totally impossible a person may happen to want to quit for no business-relevant reason.

> Then, it's appropriate that the share price fall because the cost of transitioning leadership so abruptly will certainly affect the previously forecasted future earnings off of which the share price was established to begin with.

Makes sense but can't the new leader be and seem much better so the prices could actually rise?
Memory and graphics are the limiting factors these days moreso than CPU.
I see you conveniently left typescript out of your reply.

Anyhow, regardless, the point is TIBOE is measuring some meaningless stuff.

There’s not really any defending it; it’s just some arbitrary metrics about languages, not really worth paying attention to particularly...
But you're also pushing data back in. Generators are coroutines that can be suspended and resumed, and the yield keyword is a mechanism for two way communication between the routine and coroutine.
> Sorry, this is just rubbish. None of that money gets distributed to retirements, even if they work at Disney. What sort of lies is this?

Disney is an S&P 500 company. Many mutual funds and retirement funds track the S&P 500 and various other indices. They do this by investing money in the public companies that make up those funds.

Of course it's not just S&P 500 companies that get invested in by institutional investors. Retirement funds typically seek to generate higher returns on retirement funds from younger employees. To do this, they have to invest in riskier businesses, which typically means smaller investments in larger numbers of newer businesses. Thus, to simplify things, we can pretty much say that any public company traded on a major stock exchange can (and does) affect the price of retirement savings accounts.

At the core of it, every public company, regardless of their business, is simply an investment vehicle in which people can put wealth in the hopes of competing successfully against inflation. The creation of a share price increase greater than inflation increases the wealth of the shareholders, and creates new money from thin air.

This creation of money is how all people can afford retirement. Simply saving your money in an account which keeps the nominal amount of cash would lead to loss from inflation. Most people will not contribute enough money to have enough in retirement savings. Thus, they depend in some way on the creation of money by private enterprise to subsidise their retirement.

This is true regardless of whether retirement accounts are self-directed (as in a 401k), centrally managed (as in a pension), or government run (as in social security). The connection to self-directed and managed accounts is obvious. Governments of course rely on the creation of money to fund tax revenue that is then put towards government retirement programs.