skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How is a legitimate startup supposed to recruit the best people under these conditions?

Easy. Disclose the preference of the terms you got from investors to your early employees.

This problem is self created. If you don't tell them the terms of your deal, they rightfully assume the terms will screw them, since otherwise why wouldn't you be transparent? Good workers rationally and rightfully go to FAANG instead of a startup if it doesn't feel like the startup is being fair.

Honestly, startups should be more transparent, because they can't compete on money. If they can't even offer trust and upside, they are offering literally nothing over an established public company.
For one thing there wouldn’t have been a decades-long civil war leading up to a genocidal military dictator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_Civil_War

> CIA under Eisenhower overthrew the government of Guatemala when trade unionists were elected on the promise of eight hour workdays and better conditions for field workers.

This isn’t quite the whole story. A significant proportion of Guatemalan land was owned by the United Fruit Company (whose leadership/ownership included significant overlap with Eisenhower’s administration†), but the company was not using the land. The Guatemalan government wanted to buy the unused land back from the company at the price they declared it to be worth on their tax forms. The company went to the US government and whined that their private property was being expropriated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_900

† “John Foster Dulles, who represented United Fruit while he was a law partner at Sullivan & Cromwell – he negotiated that crucial United Fruit deal with Guatemalan officials in the 1930s – was Secretary of State under Eisenhower; his brother Allen, who did legal work for the company and sat on its board of directors, was head of the CIA under Eisenhower; Henry Cabot Lodge, who was America's ambassador to the UN, was a large owner of United Fruit stock; Ed Whitman, the United Fruit PR man, was married to Ann Whitman, Dwight Eisenhower's personal secretary.”
My experience of presenting as female online in video games is I got a lot more attention, help, and outright handouts.

I want to see an actual study, because my anecdata doesn’t match the claimed experience.
I think there's a middle ground: use a better metric, such as CIE ΔE 2000
> I've just seen the new Microsoft Office. On the desktop. With a big screen. But just pressing the File menu makes the document you work on completely disappear behind something useless.

That's been the case for I think a decade now. Maybe longer.

To be fair, now days they make really good use of that space. Earlier iterations of that UI were pretty bad, but a giant list of recent documents, a list of recent document templates, and all the main commands to do things (save, open) are positions to the left where they have always been.

Given that Word now days auto-saves (about time!), the main thing I'm going into the File menu for is to switch to a different file, at which point the file menu showing me a list of, well, files, is pretty useful to be honest.

Also it has a search box, and search boxes are nice, I welcome UI changes that allow for more search boxes in the world.
This letter is what inspired my similar O365 rant. Usability is just as bad as ever, if you find yourself in the wrong places of the suite.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14160809
There should be a simpler way. All this crap is too complicated.

Even if you manage to somehow do the research and understand it well at some point, unless your working with options grants on a regular basis, you'll probably forget it all before you ever leave the company.

People don't have time to do all this stuff and not get fucked over.
The thing is that US workers have a lower bound on the fee they can charge for their labor, due to minimum wage laws. Those laws were enacted because we as a country believe there's a moral duty to ensure a minimum quality of life for it's working citizens (and in extension humans in general). Letting industries who would historically underpay US workers to instead just underpay some other countries workers defeats the whole purpose of those minimum wage laws, causing a worse quality of life then if nothing was done at all. Countries that want to treat its citizens well need to reign in that globalist behavior.
I hear you, but if you look at the examples in the link, the before and after the update results, you'll see that there's far less of that kind of ignoring of keywords.

For example a search for "can you get medicine for someone pharmacy" used to just show generic information about getting a prescription filled, skipping over the "for someone" bit.

The new results understand what the query is actually asking, which is pretty impressive.

I'm kinda with you, I grew up with a ctrl-f Google so I sort of prefer that behaviour, I think because I don't want to rely on an unreliable NLP AI.

...I was going to say "but" but.. no I think I just don't want to rely on an unreliable NLP AI. It's so frustrating when it doesn't work, which is often.
Windows + background services probably takes 1-2 GB. devenv.exe probably takes up another gig (more if you use extensions).
I post it in a way that's obvious to humans but not to bots. Like:

Email: dyingkneepad # gmail * com
I'm not sure if you're serious, but

> Just drag/drop a PDF to a printer spool window, and it will print;

this is just the most obtuse way of doing things.

> usually you just have to drag it to the Applications folder; to uninstall it, simply drag it to the trash;

So does this, and unreliable as you noted - i.e. usually. But, ugggh... dragging things to other things to do things though?

There's a reason why certain large classes of disabled users are on Windows. Stephen Hawking used Windows.

Aside from the disabled, the mechanics of Windows have always been better, no matter how bad they actually were. That last bit is my opinion, but it is true that many, many more disabled users are on Windows. If they can figure it out, couldn't your roommate? I'm joking of course, some people just seem to have a completely different way of thinking about things and certainly it is a fact that at least some portion of the population prefers the way macOS does things just like there are some people who can only use their chin to move a mouse.
> It might be harder to get parts for it in 8 years as a result

A Volt is a PHEV, which is an ICE+EV, with the associated complexity and wear.

Pure EVs, however have far fewer parts to replace, and put very little wear on those parts. Most of the wearing parts are pretty generic, like tires and brake pads (the latter being replace rarely). AC induction motors also have a very long lifetime.

The most specialized part on an EV that wears the fastest, the battery, is reusable/replaceable.

Already today, there are people taking battery packs from totaled Teslas and installing them in classic cars like the VW bus. There is a shop in southern CA replacing drivetrains in classic cars w/ EV drivetrains [1].
So I can totally see replacement batteries being produced by aftermarket manufacturers for existing EVs in a number of years. Of course the vehicle manufacturers themselves probably won't supply those replacements, but cars aren't mobile phones, and I bet that right-to-repair will resonate with people a lot more with EVs.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neYuohLzVdg
The Vickrey auction and why we're using it
Bad clickbait rehashing a Twitter joke. Compare enough graphs and I'm sure you find some that look similar... But those don't even look very close.
Was it ever announced? How are new users supposed to figure anything out?

My C=64 came with a thick reference manual, with circuit schematics in the back. Every computer I've bought since then has had a smaller manual. I think my smartphone came with a small pamphlet with a couple screenshots.

It seems you're supposed to learn how to use electronics these days by having people say "oh, don't you know?"
ello breaks the back button on my browser

i have to click back 2x in order to go back to my previous page.
If they didn't care about software they'd just use whatever came pre installed on their computer
I don't think all of that rationalization constitutes legitimate reasons to not just have a decent password.

Generally a random people do not have access to your Gmail account.

The fact that the password is so simple makes it much easier to discern the from the video.

Just because his work is in the public eye for the government does not mean everything he does on the phone is supposed to be open to the public.
I think they change the way it works, and then existing filters may break at one point. I've had this happen to several filters.

TBH, it's just easier to re-do the filters. There's also an option to make it apply to old conversations on a one-time basis as well.
Accusations of astroturfing are against the guidelines. Downvotes often signal disagreement or call out a low-quality comment.
I suppose no-one is reading this thread anymore, but for the record I was now able to check, and I do not have an option to download Safari, neither in the App Store nor after clicking the secret link in System Preferences.
How to Use Loop Blocking to Optimize Memory Use on 32-Bit Intel Architecture
Wikipedia and IMDB Are Endangering Porn Performers
Water is not subject to capitalism. It's managed by policy, There's no profit motive.

It is not priced too low, it is priced so that EVERYONE has access to water.

Water security is not damaged. Government manages things better than capitalism does. For example the telecommunication monopolies..Capitalism can't get the INTERNET right and you want to apply that to water?
Also see American the boondoggle healthcare system....

Resources having the properties of infinite demand but limited supply do not follow the normal rules of capitalism and should be regulated by policy instead.

Not everything fits into the rules of capitalism, and the fact that you believe it's the solution for our most precious resource is terrifying.
3440x1440. Less pixels overall than your current setup, but incredibly nice to use. Also affordable, you can get them for under $400 during sales / end of year clearance.
You can amp up a team by challenging them to give the very best possible user experience, so that your customers loves your product.

Exhorting the team to "crush the competition" or "dominate the market" is not necessarily the best way to amp up a team. In fact, I'd argue it's the worst possible way, since that means that playing dirty patent troll tricks or financing things like the SCO lawsuit is a legitimate way to "win", as opposed to winning by delighting the user.
I love this! I've been wanting a page just like this - a lettersofnote but for business.
The internet has enabled developers to track user behaviour in apps and on websites on an industrial scale. And they've done it so successfully and implemented it so widely that the idea of tracking user behaviour in your app or on your website is now considered an expected and completely normal practice.

Of course, when it's developers on the receiving end of such tracking they will complain loudly (as they did recently about GitLab). A reflection of the sheer hypocrisy that runs right through programming profession.
I had seen and passed this book over a number of times because I never experienced what I thought was true trauma. It was only after evidence of past trauma came out in some neuropsych testing I recently did to see if I had ADHD that I reconsidered my past experiences and how they may have impacted who I am today. I’m looking at some things differently and understanding how they may have affected me - growing up LGBT and isolated as a result, with parents who had a dysfunctional and often rocky relationship. I’m starting to see that trauma doesn’t necessarily mean you were subjected to some sort of violence or single life shattering event, especially as a child.
Even more insidious: Participating Preferred, which is effectively double-dipping.
how about this -> we are going to tell you how to defeat the polygraph, which is easy because it is actually mostly BS, and we will pay you $100K if you successfully deceive the polygraph when the examiner asks you if you have been told how to defeat the test.

Then tell the polygrapher that everyone will lie on that question so they should flag all responses as lies. Then everyone's results can be evaluated by another polygrapher to determine who was lying 'well', with no payout needed.
i still can't figure out how to do screen splits on iPad, since it was introduced in OS 11? i watched videos on it, etc, and still couldn't get it to work. the only way i got it to work is to split screens for an app that's on my dock, which itself is very limited.

i ended up giving the ipad to my 5 year old as his toy and the other day it died completely.

i guess i will never know.
Unfortunately history would indicate that actual slave labor, or something close to it, (high volume, low unit cost) is required to rapidly scale new technologies to the point that they are ubiquitous. This is invariant on the amount of subversion of democracy there is or not.

The choices are 1. Slow down 2. Use bad labor practices 3. Completely automate production. Nobody seems to want to do #1 and we're not advanced enough for #3
Parent poster

>You can already see this happening with some open source libraries coming from China, where the documentation and all discussion being in ZH already completely blocks foreign contribution.

You

>Given that one in five person on the planet speaks Chinese as their first language, lack of “foreign” contribution will probably work out okay for them.

The point is you are using number of native speakers as a proxy for the population of developers being sufficient to support development.

First thing is the single most popular l1 language in China manderin is more like 1 in 8 humans, next the distribution of talent is nothing like distribution of speakers. It looks a lot more like the distribution of wealth because access to computers during formative years or indeed at all is of substantial importance.

There are of course still many Chinese developers of substance. But because highly educated developers in China are both a smaller portion of the population and likely to speak English starting a manderin only software project would mean choosing between only Chinese developers and Chinese devs and the rest of the planet as well.
I spent a summer in college working in a chem laboratory with no air conditioning. Sometimes I would give the big standing CO2 cylinder a shake, and if I didn't hear any sloshing, I knew we were in for a rough day.
I'm reminded of the episode of Max Headroom, where the boss was poking around in someone's apartment and noticed something on the TV: "An off switch? She could get 20 years for that!"
That’s what I find admirable, when you put hard work into something you learn to value things and the work of others.
On keeping it objective, brush up on nonviolent communication statements.

Basically only speak about things that have can (as in video camera could capture them) been observed (and ideally have been documented).

“Your start time is 9:00am. On 17 occasions you arrived after 9:45” is clear and clean.

“You’re always late” - hardly provable and there’s always an exception.

“You are not reliable” - very vague and based on the speaker’s subjective criterion for reliability. (A camera cannot record the “not reliable” subjective evaluation and so it would bring up defenses.)

I teach NVC — hit me up for a 15 min zoom intro.
Very true! It depends on the particular variation[1] of the game being played. Which is one difficulty of MH - the ambiguity. Probabilities change when the initial conditions are slightly different or when the problem is interpreted differently. I've never assumed Monty picks at random. But it's entirely possible someone else would make that assumption, in turn changing the optimal strategy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem#Variants
I've heard this from several sources, but never been able to make it work. What apps, and what version of iOS? Is it new in iOS 13?
It was certainly unpleasantly complicated.
One thing to remember is that the acquirer has probably done this before while the acquiree is a first-timer. The details are almost certainly going to favor the party with the most experience.

I once worked for a company that was acquired. At the first all-hands meeting after the acquisition closing, the CEO was practically gloating about how cheaply he was able to get us. All because he knew how to structure the deal in a way that wasn't transparent to our company owner.
Completely agree. I do hope this makes a dent, especially given this statistic I didn't know about:

> KCLS has been the top digital-circulating library in the U.S. for the last five years and third worldwide.
I installed Blender at the school I work at because it had an MSI installer. Did not install Krita because it did not. If you want it to be the default used in schools, make it as easy to deploy as possible.

The gimp fork Glimpse is planning an MSI installer, so that'll be installed soon
I use Ubuntu at work and have to update once every other week (at the most, sometimes every week for a stretch) to install updates.

While my Windows 10 at home hasn't been rebooted more than once a month (at the most, sometimes not for months at a stretch) over the last few years.

I'm sure a lot of people have their own counterexamples to either case.

I will say the Macs at work and home are the least hassle update-wise, but I don't use them heavily so I don't know how representative that is.

(shrug emoji), I guess ?
Still to this day people view Windows through the lense of XP experiences. I always wonder how much damage that era did. People claimed to "love" XP, but they are all rose tinted in memory. Everyone hated XP until SP2 and SP3. The Security Center was something everyone hated too. But yeah, some things it did really well, but others not so much. 10 is so much better than people give it credit for, and yes there are still bugs. But, all things considered it without a doubt the strongest OS Microsoft has ever built, and it is moving forward...where I feel like OSX is finally moving backward.
Such extracts are too pure imo. Especially for edibles, I'd rather have an ethanol extract that got a run of related chemicals and some other stuff that came along for the ride... aka "flavor".

Super pure extracts that then have added back flavorings, or even blended concertos of specific chemicals, miss the charm and much of the value of taking the "light oils" off the plant. Flower is hard to fake, home extracts are easy to do, and who knows what's in that commercial oil, really?
You heard it first here: Technical Recruiting and Hiring is coming out November 19th =)
Holy moly, until now I had absolutely no idea about the existence of supercritical CO2. And now all the comments here are making me so incredibly fascinated and excited about the potential utilities for stored CO2. I am thinking not in terms of the science, but actually making a business case for CO2 storage beyond just CSR projects!
I hate hearing this. I don't even understand how good unions are an inherently anti-conservative thing. I cannot understand why the US would fail to build up countries in its sphere of influence in order to encourage gratitude. A crutch can help you grow and recover or it can hobble you, and everything I've ever heard about our influence in central and south America has suggested we've hobbled them. -- I hope I'm just ignorant and wrong.
> just go to dropbox.com and click the hamburger in the upper right.

Wow that is sloppy.
> (edit adding "?hl=en" to the url tends to fix the issue in most of google services)

Seriously, you shouldn't have to. Your browser sends language preferences, doesn't it? Nope, IP trumps user preferences.

Had the same problem when using my job's VPN with an exit point in Germany (working from France). Very annoying.
I've found one good tactic to be the 'reading lists' that some of the arts/science subreddits have in their wikis/sidebars. It's a good way to find solid entry points to a given topic that are at least respected by a good number of people who know what they're talking about.

Examples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/books

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/wiki/booklist
> Well that can't be true.

Think it through a bit more, there isn't any physics being broken here, because the load (i.e. mass) only travels one way.
People overestimate how noticeable their embarrassing behaviors are
It's also interesting to consider the role SoftBank has played in this shift. Whoever takes SoftBank money will have the deepest pockets and will be able to play hard against competition.

This means you're pretty much forced to either take SoftBank's money, or compete against someone else with SoftBank's money. They don't care much who takes their money, because either way they have the most funded pony in the race.
Also a referendum that wasn't legally binding, oh well, we banned guns so had to find another way to shoot ourselves in the foot
Are you suggesting that the black text on blue background in the article is easier to read for certain low-vision individuals, while the white text on blue background version is easier to read for normal vision individuals?

I have no data about this. It seems plausible, but it feels unlikely according to my intuition. To me it seems more likely that their naive algorithm for contrast ratio (which is based on their formula for relative luminance) doesn't match human perception in some cases. Color perception is complicated.

https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#contrast-rat...

https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#relativelumi...
For those who don't know much about computer-verified proofs, the way I'd sum it up is that there's a complexity crisis going on (similar to the "software crisis" which might not be completely solved but which has seen significant progress). And that Metamath Zero is one of the more promising projects out there aimed at this problem.
I don't know of good English reference off the bat of my head, for obvious reasons.

I'll try to find some, but in the meantime check out these code samples:

https://gist.github.com/alexaandrov/739e16e1786ab2b3d6bc

https://guesto.ru/1c-razrabotka-konfiguratsii-menedzher-zada...

Etc
It's the correct mathematical term for that operation in german though
I use Shapr 3D for making 3D models for printing. It's an iPad app, feels like I'm living in the future when I use that. Subscribed for about $200/year.
What, you don't like your editor freezing when it tries to look up a symbol?
"That's why people hated Windows 8."

However, Windows 8 had an attempted solution for the specific problem called out in the article (the lack of a standard convention for getting an overview and jumping to a section of a long document or content scroll): semantic zoom. You could pinch-zoom out to get an overview of a view and then quickly jump to a specific section. (Scrollbars still existed but were only shown while using a mouse or pen. The mouse had access to the zoomed-out view as well, via a button on the scrollbar.) This was sadly removed in Windows 10 and I really miss it.

So, people may have hated it, but it solved the problem the article highlights, which today's "less hated" products don't.
I wish all the energy being thrown at "repair" laws would instead go into better warranty laws

This is a very good point. I've noticed that when companies are on the hook for warranty, they tend to make more repairable products. Example: Hilti angle grinder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9xhr0MsAZw

Those models are oriented toward "fleet" contracts. The Hilti grinder in the above video is designed so that all of the gears can be replaced by replacing the "head" section.