skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, this is something we've struggled with at New Vector (vector.im), the company we set up to keep the core Matrix.org dev team gainfully employed. On one hand, we don't want a nightmare where a rogue employee goes and claims that the work they did on the day job is actually their personal IP and tries to relicense or patent it somehow. On the other hand, 90% of what we do is open source and it's critical to let everyone keep hacking on their personal FOSS projects unencumbered.

The current UK employment contracts try to solve it with this construct: 10.2.1 is a general "everything you do belongs to the company", and then 10.2.2 carves out "...except for stuff you do in your spare time, if it's unrelated to your dayjob work". We (happily) haven't had to try it in anger yet, but hopefully it's a reasonable enough compromise. Pretty much everyone in the UK had unilateral "everything you do belongs to the company" contracts in previous gigs, so in theory it's an improvement.

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10.2.1 You shall give the Company full written details of all Inventions and of all works embodying Intellectual Property Rights made wholly or partially by you at any time during the course of your employment which relate to, or are reasonably capable of being used in, the business of the Company. You acknowledge that, save as set out below, all Intellectual Property Rights subsisting (or which may in the future subsist) in all such Inventions and works shall automatically, on creation, vest in the Company absolutely. To the extent that they do not vest automatically, you hold them on trust for the Company. You agree promptly to execute all documents and do all acts as may, in the opinion of the Company, be necessary to give effect to this clause 10.2.

10.2.2 The above is subject to it being agreed that Intellectual Property Rights created by you outside the reasonable scope of your work for the Company and not related to the business of the Company (provided in any case that they are created outside working hours) may be retained by you. This policy seeks to strike a balance between providing creative freedom for employees to pursue their own interests outside of work with an understanding that creations and advances which should properly be for the benefit of New Vector or Matrix will be assigned to the relevant one of them.
> weed is certainly the weakest of drugs (including alcohol) wrt harm for the body.

is the brain a part of the body?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3930618/

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2015/11/marijuana-brain
Holy shit I love that term "blub language."

I'm just imagining someone taking the text of Crockford's talks on Javascript, removing all his clear description of the language features, and replacing it with highly opinionated non-technical terms of derision like this.

Though not instructive, it would be really fun to read.
The piece is built for fear mongering but I'm curious how the developing brain of an adolescent will be changed from constant marijuana use and compared to if it had never happened. I'm guessing how the drug is used would also be important in the longterm outcome because someone using it to help with anxiety might benefit compared to a developing brain under a lot of anxiety.
> Your company probably isn't as important to the world as Google.

Google isn't that important to the world. China gets by just fine without it and not having access is mainly a mild inconvenience.
Please don't throw gratuitous nationalistic flamebait into HN comments. We'll get gratuitous nationalistic flamewars that way. Those don't help anybody.

Your comment would be fine without that last bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, your probably thinking of HSA's or the fact that you have something like 30 or 60 days into the new year to use the old one.
Efforts, but have companies been made to pay a cost for failing to source "ethically", even when they say "well gee we tried and it's just really hard"? Things tend to get more serious when money is on the line, rather than just PR. Doing it right would clearly take verification, not just documentation, which means requiring access for outside inspectors.
in many places it really isn't
Google Fires Another Worker for Exercising Her Rights and Protecting Coworkers
Crazy Ideas: A tactic to nurture empowerment at big companies
Great, now we need another device recording all sounds so we can play then back to reverse engineer smart speaker behavior :(
Relevant

https://youtu.be/J9gUIhkzNDk
The PC will probably never die. Become a niche product someday? Perhaps.

I would never use use cloud-based "PCs" for my personal stuff under any circumstances that I can think of. The overall security implications of it are beyond my ability to tolerate. If the day actually comes that I can't buy PCs anymore, I'll have to start building them myself.
> rogue former employee somehow acquiring IP rights over our core IP

"Rogue ex-co-founder comes out of the woodwork X years later and claims they own half of your thing" is a horror story in startup land; see Facebook for an example of this. (The Social Network movie is a fictionalized depiction, but the real-world drama was sufficiently troublesome for Facebook that they initially weren't planning on engaging with the movie. Last minute they decided to rent a theater to take the whole company to see it, and
Jesse Eisenberg started helping Mark Zuckerberg with his public speaking.)
Your points are well-taken, but some people tend to extrapolate the testing issues with specific cases like the ones you're describing and apply that same ethos to projects that can and should be unit tested, such as web applications. Manual testing and QA are great but cannot provide the sort of architectural guidance that unit testing provides. If a module is difficult to unit test, it will also be difficult to maintain. Manual testing will not readily provide those insights.
This is a very Hacker News answer, in that you wrote three dense paragraphs that are all technically correct, yet also completely divorced from our practical reality that has smart home cameras in it.

What is the obvious implementation out there? They just have both. They have the cheap 8-bit microcontroller from 2 decades ago transmitting on the low-bandwidth home automation network, and when it is decided that the camera should stream, it wakes up the beefy Ambarella or Socionext SoC to send its video feed over classic WiFi to the vendor cloud, and whoever wants to receive it just gets a stream URL back.
I'm not trying to be dense, I don't understand why this doesn't make sense. My employer offers salary, insurance, bonus, perks etc. and others do the same. I look at my options and take the offer I value the most. What part of the contract doesn't make sense? Most contracts have two parties with different incentives
Again, this is on a personal project.... Amazon shouldn't even have the right to claim ownership of it, yet alone be concerned about the repercussions of owning it
Selecting an AWS EC2 Instance for KeyDB
I have either gotten that clause struck from my contract, ensured it is limited to direct competition or turned down the position. People really not need to take it for granted, we are in a hot hot hot tech market we have options and that affords leverage. Use it.
Depending on future tax changes, of course, 401k participation of the wealthy may actually result in higher revenue for the government.

Yes, the current income tax is deferred, and there's the possibility that when it's realized, it will be in a lower tax bracket. For the wealthy, it may not end up being in a lower bracket. However, all of the gains, when distributed, will be taxed as ordinary income; if the money had been invested in an ordinary account, there would have been capital gains, which are taxed at a lower rate.
FB is poison. Do not ingest.
Margins on most consumer electronics are extremely small. $1 per device may seem symbolic, but it starts looking like real money at scale.
Last I checked most of Europe is expecting interest rates in the NEGATIVE. In the US interest rates are being chained to the floor at 2%.

So yes, 1% is beyond massive and the difference between 1% to 2% isn’t 1%.
That still seems like a poor design. This would also happen if you cleared localStorage before the data is synced. If, for example, when you came back online and were trying to do something on an unrelated site, hit a bug and tech support asked you to clear your browser.

For something as critical as financial records or vaccine records, the sensible thing might be to not work in offline mode, or to persist to native storage.

I think it's fine as a cache for offline data for a lot of use cases (i.e. task trackers, note apps, shopping lists, etc). But it creates an unacceptable risk for business critical data, imo.
The Rise of Skywalker Is So Bad It Makes the Trilogy Worse
Big tech companies maybe don't put kids into mines, but they have other ethical issues (privacy, manipulation with public opinion, etc). I don't think anyone can reliably tell that their issues are more ethical or less ethical than child slavery.
What the 2020 horizon hides in streaming video tech
That's fairly interesting, as employers then benefit from the progression of tech over time.

For example, building entrances and break rooms used to be significant places for unions to spread messaging.

With campus sprawl, "work from home", globally spread workforce, etc...that doesn't work.

The equivalent of the physical entrance is now often an employee portal. And break rooms / water cooler chat might now be company email or MS Teams / Slack.
I just listened to an episode of The Happiness Podcast and it made it clear that obsession over goals and other people's validation kills our natural passion. I don't know about you, but passion is what I'm really after -- the kind of state where you get lost in your work and love what you do.

It may be easy to dismiss Bukowski's advice because his abrasive and cynical delivery style, but I think he has a point. Follow your interests, and try to forget about your ego and the rest of the world.

(However, at the same time, I think it's important to be consistent and develop good habits that will prevent you from quitting at the first roadblock.)
Yeah! They want you to use the high cost devices manufactured in China.
"Robotic process automation" was indeed what came up in my web search for the term, but it seemed an unlikely fit for generic distributed app development. Why is robotic process automation sweeping "IT shops"?
It doesn't seem to have the same level of provider support though. I would rather pick a tool thats well supported by cloud providers if I need to use it for production stuff.
Why Organizations Win, According to Musk, Sinek, and Paul Graham
Waking up someone during sleep is not a tiny disruption. Year's ago, the whole house was woken up in the middle of the night between 1AM and 3AM or something, and I remember the next day, everyone was trying to figure out how to turn off the alerts.

This was the alert:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/ambert-alert-ph...
Agreed. I just feel bad for him now, it appears he was very depressed and that's nothing to romanticize.
The thing is that a long term roadmap for a startup is 3 years. So you're going to look for things that are going to get you 3 years down the road cheaply, and then you still aren't that big, you have gigabytes of data, not hundreds of terabytes of data, so pivoting to another cloud provider isn't a big deal. Now, scale up to a company that has a monthly IT spend of 50 million dollars. You aren't moving that much infrastructure between cloud providers on a dime. Past a certain scale, there is a huge incentive to standardize on a vendor that has a 10 year time scale. We know AWS will be there in 10 years. Will GCP be there in 10 years?
I was 21 at the time; I hear that this is a bit young to get that kind of procedure as my eyes may still change rapidly, but I went to a reputable doctor who ran various tests before concluding that I was a candidate, and luckily my eyesight is still going strong almost 11 years later.

I can't remember exactly what my deficiencies were at the time to be honest, other than I could not see well far away. I was told I needed glasses but never bothered wearing them or paying attention to my sight other than knowing it sucked. When doing an eye test for my driver's permit I was one line away from not being able to legally drive without glasses, if that gives you any idea.

Now there are apparently other options than LASIK which might work better for some. For example, a few years ago a coworker of mine got a procedure that he described as them basically inserting a lens into his eye instead of resurfacing part of the eye itself. Apparently it means if his eyesight changes sufficiently over the years he can just go back and get a new lens inserted!
This. People need to understand that this isn't a McDonalds and it isn't an issue of making your own fries in the company oil. It's about "did I get my work done" and anything beyond that should be my own business.

But this is the way people think, and the way things are, so I assume that anything I make on company hardware or on company premises or while daydreaming about work or while wearing my company logo tshirt is the property of my employer, and I should probably consult them before selling or open-sourcing it...
I share the happenings in my life with friends and family by talking to them in person, through email, and/or using SMS.
Marijuana extracts for vaping become legally available in much of Canada tomorrow.
It may come to that. It's already half-way there for gaming PCs, which have become a niche on to themselves.
Idiotic policy. Side projects are one of the best way to learn new skills (they're the entire basis for my current skillset in this industry!). I often find that I import lessons and technologies learned in my freetime to my day job as opposed to stealing niche lessons from work. This fact basically makes my side projects akin to ongoing training that my employers aren't paying for but are reaping value from.

Not only is it unfair for these companies to leverage their power to try and claim ownership over side projects, but they're actively shooting themselves in the foot by discouraging a massive and free source of continuous education for their employees.
Thus solving the problem once and for all ...
I imagine the next best thing would be setting up a site/mailing list outside of the company. But I also imagine the company would take action to shut that down anyway. A very absurd situation.
There’s speculation that the negative yield in euro zone causes people to borrow euro to buy dollars to do currency carry trade. This in turn soaks up all the dollars out there.
Something somewhere has access to the key, though, unless somehow it's always escrowed instead a Secure Enclave / TPM / similar.
It's just a query language. not a "new database category".
> the biggest impact (in that simulator) to climate change was the land/agriculture methane

Hum... You mean that the only control that had an actual effect was the land/agriculture methane. The impact was really small, huge changes lead to only ~0.3°C changes in a century, but it was the only one where you could make large changes.
>there are other compelling arguments why a host of "reproductive tech" should be considered

...and also why it should be heavily regulated or restricted. Right now, the primary means of ensuring that no one person (political leadeer, cult leader, corporate owner, random wealthy person) can form their own personal army of followers devoted to them are the facts that followers are people and people are both independent and protected as such (or should be) by laws.

Freeing women from the "oppression" of having to bear children also means freeing men (who have a different reproductive strategy altogether) from the need to control or hire women to bear their children.

If artificial womb technology becomes available even at a high price, it becomes possible for one very wealthy man to purchase eggs from fertile women, fertilize them with his own sperm, and then produce hundreds or thousands of children in private without legal oversight. Said children can be indoctrinated in a cult, built into an army, sold as slaves, or farmed for organs.

Decoupling human reproduction from the need for two or more humans to be involved will also decouple it from the numerical limits imposed by natural reproduction. The risks of doing that are immense and far more impactful to our species than eliminating the "oppression" of women.
Thanks for your answer. Sorry, it was not intentional. I'll try to explain myself better.

In today's world, some of the corporations size and influence allows them to behave the way the want and, I see this as problematic.

Google may not be killing anyone who disagrees with them and, they can freely decide where to conduct business. I have no problem with these points.

However, I see Google's behavior as problematic. Google's response dşffers from country to country. They have a similar problem in EU (more specifically European Economic Area) and, they have implemented a selection screen similar to Microsoft's browser & search engine selection screen. Turkey might not be in EU but, as a country it has every right to level the playing field for the companies (in this case Yandex and Google) in order to increase the competition.

The but Microsoft! response is coming from the change of tone in response to this issue. When Microsoft became the monopoly and pushed Sun Microsystems and other browsers around, the unanimous vote was to divide or somewhat stop them. When Google does a similar thing, response changes with respect to country which Google has a dispute. I find this wrong.

P.S.: I'm a bit tired and English is not my native language. If I messed the writing, please point it out. I'll try to clarify.
$3K wouldn't buy an equivalent machine from any other vendor. For example, try configuring an equivalent workstation from Dell: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/workstations-isv-certif...

You'll usually find that the Mac is cheaper than an equivalent configuration from another vendor (at least if selecting Intel processors - that all changes if you switch to equivalent AMD compute cores). And the bigger/more powerful the configuration, the higher the price from an equivalent vendor. To exactly match the maxed-out configuration, you'd pay $75k to Dell (vs $50k for the Mac Pro).
According to Harper's magazine, which conveniently published that after his death. From the same article:

>Ehrlichman died in 1999, but his five children in questioned the veracity of the account.

>"We never saw or heard anything from our dad, John Ehrlichman, that was derogatory about any person of color," wrote Peter Ehrlichman, Tom Ehrlichman, Jan Ehrlichman, Michael Ehrlichman and Jody E. Pineda in a statement provided to CNN.

>Ehrlichman's comments did not surface until now after Baum remembered them while going back through old notes for the Harper's story.

>Baum interviewed Ehrlichman and others for his 1996 book "Smoke and Mirrors," but said he left out the Ehrlichman comment from the book because it did not fit the narrative style focused on putting the readers in the middle of the backroom discussions themselves, without input from the author.

How convenient. He was sitting on a massive admission because it "didn't fit the style".
My interpretation is they're saying that Chromium's address bar code is complex deeply integrated with many other parts of the code-base (including many parts that interact with Google's search APIs). On the other hand, Firefox's address bar code exposes a simple javascript API. This means that making and maintaining custom modifications to the address bar is easier with Firefox.
I read a recent opinion piece that sort of mellowed my feelings on the space, basically that crypto was never made to be mainstream (I'd argue many would view widespread use as 'meaningful').

Most of my thinking you can read crypto as bitcoin i.e. some general payment system, where in bitcoin's case its stated purpose is sort of this inexorable transaction system, it feels intuitive that the meaningful use space is intrinsically going to be fringe/taboo, because it's outside government, outside permission. I know its cliche that freedom isn't free, but what is the honest practical value of freedom unless it's scarce i.e. its impossible or someone it trying to stop you?

But the point is that crypto may be an inherently fringe construct, it may provide no benefit to society because its value add might solely live in activities outside the confines of society at large. Now you can argue whether that is a net positive or negative for humanity, but I think that if "that's it", you know, I think that is a meaningful use.
no longer is too good or too bad, it depends on how much time you spent on it and how good you're at it actually.
> Since only the rich are employed by employers who offer the benefits of these accounts

So, being an employee of a company that offers a 401k is the new definition of "rich"?
Your first source states in the abstract that causality between marijuana use and altered brain function was not determined

edit: if anything I think more research is needed to inform effective regulation. I'm astonished how little there is on this drug
Lots of employers offer these. Only if your definition of "the rich" is extremely broad is it restricted to "the rich", first of all. Certainly many people making 60-80k have access to these accounts, and quite often some level of employer matching. I guess you could call that "rich" relative to some people, but it's not what I think of when I hear "the rich".

Secondly, nobody (well, maybe some people, but mostly nobody) describes the progressive tax schedule as a "give away" to the poor, despite it representing a much larger wealth transfer than these retirement accounts.
Alcohol and cannabis are both detrimental to brain development.
It's a university email, not Pentagon backend accounts.

It is a stupid law because they're being way too thorough and abrasive when they shouldn't.

How much do you wanna bet the German parliament is not protected in the same way... actually don't answer that... here's an article published today about a stupid vulnerability in the Bundestag's internal chat app: https://zero.bs/osintrecon-vs-pentestschwachstellenscan.html
The case was about Snowden receiving royalties from the book and not availability of the book. The book has been available in print and electronically.
Mind mentioning which companies? I’ve tried in all companies I’ve worked with (some FAANG, some medium sized companies) and none of them are willing to even touch terms including IP assignment clauses. Without exception it was “Sign it unmodified it GTFO!”
> There will always be uncertainty about the supply chain. That's the nature of the mineral trade AFAIK.

Not entirely true.

There are tools like SiliconExpert which track "conflict mineral issues" in the supply chain. This tool or others like it are used by the tech giants to screen their supply chain for this as well as other more mundane problems. It's a standard part of compliance engineering (https://www.siliconexpert.com/conflict-minerals-compliance-d...).

If a component/material gets flagged in a tool like that, it certainly is fair-game to go after a manufacturer & supplier for knowingly profiting at the expense of human rights. The penalties should be severe.

Yes, there's some uncertainty. But once exploitation becomes known, it's not THAT hard to trace it and stop at least the largest supply-chain users from using it without consequence.
I am not a doctor but from what I have been reading, consuming THC on a regular basis before 21 (the commonly accepted age for the latest stage of brain development) is definitely a bad idea, as it will prevent the endocannabinoid system to develop correctly. I would not dismiss teen smoking/vaping as a public health concern, it's not just about counterfeiting, I think we need better education about the risks and benefits.