skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the opposite, actually. Here's noted HNer patio11 on Japanese work culture (https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan...):

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Japanese folks consider at-will employment to be an alien institution, much like you might be thinking about the salaryman system. [...] If you hire full-time employees in Japan, you can only dismiss for cause, and the bar is relatively high.

Imagine having the following conversation with the relevant authority: “Incompetence at one’s job is only a reasonable cause for termination if you’ve dutifully discharged your duty to retrain the employee, documented several months of poor performance subsequent to the retraining, and explored options for other jobs they could do for you. After all, everyone starts out at incompetent, right? If we let any company just up and fire anyone merely for not being able to do their job, that would contravene the social purpose of employment.”

If one wants to terminate an employee for poor performance in Japan, the most efficient way is dealing with them like an unwanted New York or San Francisco tenant: offer to buy them out. If they don’t take the buyout and don’t wish to leave, your escalation options are limited and fairly high-stress.
Yes I disagree with that. Dietary fat is not required to enter ketosis. On a lean protein diet, you will indeed go into ketosis, and your body will start using its own fat reserves to produce ketones. However, the transition to ketosis will be more difficult.

In fact, the biggest mistake keto dieters make is to assume that "fat doesn't make you fat". That's just wrong. On any high-fat keto diet you will burn dietary fat before burning your own fat. If weight lost is one's goal, it is essential to limit fat intake to moderate levels, just enough to keep you sated, so that the body is using its own fat reserves.
Yea, we can 100% handle this. If you sign up for a demo, happy to discuss further!
> It's obvious. Of course one should be on time.

It's not at all obvious. People respond to incentives, look at the incentives given by switching them around:

- "When you are on time for meetings, you have to spend more time in the meeting". The attendee likely didn't have any say in the agenda items, and isn't interested in many/all of them. Because the meetings apparently still finish on time (as they have less time for the agenda items), they neither overrun nor get rescheduled, this could be Parkinson's Law of work expands to fit the time available. It's not clear "less time to spend on agenda items" is a problem, it is clear that "less time in meetings" is desirable.

- "When you are on time, the team will trust you to be on time". That isn't any incentive for anything; "the team will expect you to be on time proportionally to how often you are on time" is no statement at all.

- "It inconveniences the team". Allegedly; they all still spend the same amount of time in the meeting either way. The lateness means there is less time for the items, not that the meeting overruns or is rescheduled. Perhaps, scheduling too long for the meeting is inconveniencing the team more, but being late for a meeting which can still do what it planned, is no inconvenience.

- "The team will trust you more". This may incentivize people, but it a) isn't obviously true; the team may respect you more for being busy, or b) wish they could do the same. If it is true, it's not obvious that it's bad - it may be that it means they won't invite you to more meetings (hooray), or they won't dump work on you trusting you to get it done (hooray). It apparently doesn't mean the employee is being fired, which is an odd way to respond to an employee you don't trust.

Paraphrasing a tweet I can't find now from a fictional manager perspective: "It's difficult to find a time for a meeting which suits every attendee. Easier to choose a time myself. Please make every effort to attend". Is the employee late because meetings are scheduled at a particularly bad time for them? It isn't obvious that the meeting is, or should be, the employee's top priority.

"When you are late, nothing happens except you hear an earful of status signalling by people who were on time"; that's not going to change anything, is it?
> You can't really blame developers for this.

Sure I can. And I do. Developers are making these choices, after all. I understand the economic drive behind them, but that doesn't get the devs off the hook.
The risk isn't the virus itself. It's our social structures breaking down: grocery stores, public transit, hospitals. If 1M people catch the virus, who will care for them?

R0 is the number of people infected on average by each case of coronavirus. These measures are designed to get R0 as low as possible, since that will greatly reduce the spread.
I read a whole bunch of that tweet thread and got nothing out of it. What's wrong with const? Been using it for quite a while now, seems fine, no trouble. What am I missing?
The bill is specifically going after Section 230 on the surface, though, which I would think would be of more immediate concern to them. Most blog posts even note that the encryption aspect is being targeted as a run-around.

I'm willing to entertain the logic, sure, just not sure I agree with it. Feels like there's more at stake for them (collectively) here.
I've never had less faith in the people working in the American media than I have today: https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/123584359225130188...

This is a conversation between two respected journalists, from NBC and the New York Times, quoting Twitter as fact, and failing the most basic of simple math questions.
But those young people interact with old people. We're partially using herd immunity to protect the older folks.

At some point they'll need groceries or some other form of care - and cannot maintain sufficient isolation for what you're describing.
I don’t self test ketosis, it I believe I can eat slightly extra carbs during/post workout and not hugely interrupt ketosis. I don’t know if this is true, but certainly my body doesn’t feel ‘kicked out’ of ketosis when I do this.

(Keto vs non-keto is night and day for me, brain fog vs no brain fog, energy for life vs not being able to get off the couch)
Ah! This might explain some of the weirder "wow, how could Facebook have known about this short of using the microphone" moments that I've had recently... well, short of either (a) using the microphone or (b) grovelling through vast piles of much more easily accessible external-to-Facebook data. Interesting.
I have no clue how google stores my 35TB for $12 a month. They do at a loss and I guess they don’t really care.
Ugh I hate Teams with a passion and hope it dies asap.
But don't forget there's no such thing as male and female... /s
...and that's not saying much. I have to punch the ceiling for the dome light to work pretty often. Compared to the Subarus I was used to, the GM interior is cheap.
It’s sad how accurate this statement is.
Majority of the apps with user signup, phone verification etc use the Facebook SDK. So even if you haven’t installed their app, they are probably getting info via those SDKs.
CommandLineFu: Clever and useful one-liner commands
The only reviews I bother to look at are negative ones.
Reviews may not tell the difference between average, good, and perfect but when something is horribly wrong, it’s usually in the reviews.
Nice plugin to make sure you never mutate: https://github.com/jonaskello/tslint-immutable/tree/master/t...

You can add a rule based on the name of the variable to allow mutating (e.g. naming it `mutableSomething`)
I would assume so. If we ever find a way to prevent our immune systems from attacking transplants it would be a major breakthrough, and organ transplants would last far longer for the recipient.
JavaScript not only has (a small set of) value types, it also has frozen objects.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Austin Powers 4:

Scott, I asked you for an airplane with frickin' lasers on it, and you give me a plane covered with what? What is this guys? It's sandpaper. You covered a plane in sandpaper. Do I have to do everything around here myself?

What? Wha wha? Are you gonna cry? Does Scotty wanna cry?
Not if you ride in a group. One or two people on one motorcycle? Sure, that's efficient. Two motorcycles, six motorcycles, etc, in a group ride? Forget it.
I ended up at https://github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia and there's no activity in the last two years, the latest issues are a few "you broke my wallet with the update and my password doesn't work" from 2018.
> I don't think that there's a general expectation in the digital or brick-and-mortar world that when you buy something from a merchant the information related to that transaction is "your data" and they cannot use it.

True, but that's not the expectation in play here. I think there is a general expectation that when you're doing business in a brick-and-mortar store, that store is not going to be reporting your business to the likes of Facebook, Google, etc.
I really like Kotlin for full stack development. Unfortunately most shops are still using Spring. Which I feel really limits the languages potential. I've ended up on Vertx, but I am a bit concerned about it's lack of traction.

* Routes can be based off Open API (contract first), or a simple route via string

* First class GraphQL support

* Full ecosystem for DB, message bus, etc.

* PolyGlot, with a message bus and bindings for a number of different languages.

* For data persistence I use JaSync with a custom micro-orm, noted below. This provides non blocking async support.

With Kotlin multi platform, and typescript definitions in alpha. I can generate the data classes to a typescript interface. Have my react project pull those in, and use the data. If I need to do pub/sub over web sockets into react that's also supported by Vertx. This drastically reduces bugs, and developer time. As the data models are directly incremented and released with the back-end. The front-end doesn't have to write additional code. The Typescript project does need to install a kotlin dep, but that gets minimized. A few kilobytes to ease development inter opt is worth it. The message bus also does pub/sub to iOS/Android.

I've switched to kotlinx serialization. I have some parts running on native llvm+clang, graal/jdk and nodejs. So I need the modules to be easily serialized on different platforms.

This scales from a simple monolith. To if I need AOT compilation to Graal then running through KNative. I generally start projects as a hybrid monolith. But found it's scaled really well.

I'm really excited for the compiler api / arrow meta compiler. I'm looking into ahead of time compilation of the queries. Automatically generating data classes for more advanced queries. Think joins, or json aggs. Additionally compiling the ORM calls into actual SQL strings.

* Multi platform kotlin micro orm (MariaDB + Postgres) only right now. Closest JDK analogy is Jooq.

https://animusdesign.gitlab.io/kotlin-frm/#/./sql

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You can disable SGX in your Bios. It don't give you any new features then, it doesn't deny any freedoms either.
Earn more reviews and increase your local SEO rankings
Personally, weed might help in the creative phase of problem solving, but if it requires working memory weed is a big negative(at least how it affects me)
The first few times it was like this for me.

After years of doing keto I can get that keto feeling/energy/effect by doing one day of super low carbs and super low calories, I’ll wake up the next day wanting to spring out of bed like you wouldn’t believe.
The funny thing is that true end-to-end encryption actually weakens the power a lot of tech companies have. That content isn't available for them to scrape.

By mandating that the encryption can't be end-to-end guarantees these large companies access to private data they wouldn't otherwise have. Data they can then use for their own gain. When people complain that they have that access, they'll now have the excuse the government made them do it.
Who the hell is the Jim Keller of software? I don't think Dave Cutler is the right comparison, although they're both pretty fucking awesome.
"most complete" instead of completest sounds fine.
Abandoned pepboys stores don't usually have very good fiber connectivity. Backblaze and similar hosting/storage companies move enough traffic that they need to be topologically close to major IX points.

If all you want is cheap commercial real estate with cheap dollars per square foot figures, there are plenty of economically depressed areas within the United States that you could put things. Those areas usually have very poor fibre connectivity, fibre diversity, and choice of carriers.

I have previously explained this to a number of people who asked me, basically, why don't all of these gigantic abandoned shopping malls get converted into Data center space? Two reasons: poor connectivity, and nowhere near enough electrical grid feed capacity (as proper three phase service) in terms of watts per square foot. Bulldozing empty land in Quincy and putting up a tilt-up concrete on slab dedicated purpose datacenter structure is much less costly than extensively retrofitting abandoned, 30, 40, 50 year old commercial real estate.
Switched to Bing a while ago and have stayed put. Never needed Google cos the results are garbage nowadays.

DDG isn't there yet, but Bing reminds me of Google 5 years ago
Preparing your team for remote work (Webinar)
6TB might be the most reliable at the time the decision was made.
By "high carb," I only mean to suggest easily-digestible high-glycemic index carbohydrates. I really do think there's something to the blood glucose spike and crash cycle and its relationship to satiety. I suspect you agree with that. However, whether through plants or other foods, I think it's the fat that most effectively satiates. You can get those fats through nuts and plant oils, but I find it's easier and tastier to get it through butter, eggs, and red meat.
Or is it Wayland users that lose? On which side will the coin land? :)
Wait, how are they connecting 32 drives to that motherboard? They seem to be implying they are splitting each SATA plug 4 ways, which as far as I know is impossible.

The adapter they're linking to is SF8087 to 4x SATA, not SATA to 4x SATA (which shouldn't exist). That motherboard doesn't have SF8087, it has 8 SATA3 connections.

Unless I've missed something big, SF8087 can not be plugged into SATA3.
Ask HN: How do I negotiate with a startup coming from FAANG?
Hi HN, using a throwaway for some anonymity.

I've been at a FAANG for 4 years but lost my passion for this particular company. I got an offer from a series C startup with 300+ employees. I really believe in this startup but I want to make sure I'm not going to regret leaving FAANG if things go south. I'm still concerned about my family's financial security.

Said startup is offering about 15% salary increase and a few hundred stock options that vest over 4 years. I already get more than the offered salary when you factor in bonuses and the unvested stock units from FAANG.

The startup engineering is also less technical than FAANG so they've offered me a title one level up.

My problem is that I don't know how to factor in stock options in my calculations. It's unlikely that the stock price will beat FAANG if the startup goes public. Should I ask for more stock options? What happens to stock options when a company gets acquired?
Real-Time external indexing on MongoDB for joins and aggregations
I'm not into that stuff much but this may be the reason why there's often bad ads if you search for popular foss software binaries like LibreOffice or Gimp.
The U.S. May Already Be in a Recession
Same, I went from 95kg to 80kg in a few months, then I got stuck at 80kg for a few months on keto. But then all of a sudden I dropped to 72kg in a few weeks (it was such an odd and rapid drop I freaked out and went to the doctors to get checked out)
They mentioned her losing 12kg after an infection. There could be more to it, but that is a significant loss that could explain much of it
I will be looking forward to your next project: isBool
I don't think they mean engineer time here - it's assembling the servers, so technicians, and yeah I guess yeah like most people they aren't paid like in-demand software engineers. This is how most people have to get to by!
To be clear, 1k to 10k in recurring revenue (SaaS style).
I sell one time purchase apps, and I’m not sure I’ll be able to scale from what I make (2k$/month) to even 3k$/month any time soon.
I actually switched to Bing years ago and had a similar experience, good enough results 95% of the time. In the last year though, I switched to DuckDuckGo, for the obvious privacy benefits, and the results are acceptable 99% of the time.

It seems there are real options in search these days.
You're a rounding error. Most of Airbnb's volume is professionals letting out dedicated spaces on an ongoing basis
I know I've noticed on airplanes before that while some of the wing is aluminum colored, some areas in particular are painted a vaguely aluminum-colored shade of grey.

And I think the... it seems they're called Krueger flaps? Those are often painted aren't they? And those I'd think you'd definitely want to de-ice.
The same thing was true for me until it wasn’t, I stayed on DDG after trying it again probably three months ago.
Most stores near me sell chicken lobsters (1-2lbs). Most recent years, the lobster catches have been really good, and prices are generally 4.99$-5.99$/lb. Getting them steamed adds very little to the prices.

Those same chicken lobsters will cost you 20+ at a restaurant, and would be 15-20 for a lobster roll. Restaurant prices haven't moved (up or down) in more than decade.
Space-grown lettuce is as safe and nutrition as Earth lettuce
Interesting story. Some design issues don't change!

We were on Ethernet - old fashioned 10Mbs Ethernet (I think) with physical "taps" into a shared medium and terminators on the end. This is easy to remember as I recall the class doofus one day sitting there absently chucking an object up and down in his hand, while people angrily wondered why a whole string of Xterms weren't working. Duty programmer storms into the room and confiscates the item and plugs it in again.

This same guy, a couple years later, manages to helpfully try to remove "." files from someone's directory while logged in as root, and manages to remove all of the honours students' home directories.
Ask HN: Any ideas for apps that SDEs can develop to help fight COVID-19?
I look for app ideas to participate in the ongoing efforts to contain COVID-19 as an SDE (i.e. using software development skills). Maybe this can even be a thread for publishing open-source projects or projects looking for contributors.
The current fatality rate is not 3.7%. The New England Journal of Medicine suggests it may end up being much less than 1%.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387

> it is reasonable to say that we value a human life at about $8 million

We're talking about the very elderly dying a bit earlier than they would have otherwise. Before you accuse me of being heartless, I agree that that is indeed sad and worth mourning. But, no, it is not the same economically as a working-age person or younger dying in large quantities.

And keep in mind it's March, and flu season will naturally be on the decline this month.
Everybody with more money than you can always undercut you in anything you ever do so why bother ever trying to do anything
> the fear is so disproportional to the threat

Sadly, this is true for so much of American culture re: our current politics and social fears. We live in a culture that explicitly governs on and trafficks in fear. I don’t think we ever got out of fear mode after 9/11, but reasonable people can disagree here.

Also, people aren’t just thinking about themselves, they’re taking into account the risk of transmission to a loved one who’s in a higher-risk age group. I’d hate to contract coronavirus and pass it on to my parents who’re in their 60’s.
> It's not that there aren't alternatives. It's that people don't use them.

They do if they value the relationship. I left Facebook almost 10 years ago, and the people on Facebook that I had actual, valuable relationships with had no problem continuing to communicate with me though alternate means.
Yes but this never happens. If you cost your employer money at the end of the month because you didn't make minimum wage then you'll be fired. Employers don't want to pay out, employees don't want to be fired so nobody ever speaks of it when it happens and employees just accept less than minimum wage.
Torture prevalent, effective in popular movies, study finds
If we fail to take dramatic measures, the projected number of deaths in the USA is similar to the Holocaust.

If we take dramatic measures we have a good chance of heading off that outcome. This is worthwhile even though it will hopefully look like a crazy overreaction to the actual fatalities.

I agree that most of the people who are reacting are way overreacting to the actual facts and risks. But I strongly preferring them erring in the direction that they err than having them dismiss the risk based on few current fatalities as you are doing.
Ha! How ironic that (in part bc on phone and hasty) I grabbed the wrong URL.
Why the fuck are government websites like coveredca.com sharing information with facebook? I don't use facebook logins with it.
Pitches and in person conversations give me an inordinate amount of better insight and context that come with a deck.
I haven't driven much the last ten years, but used to find myself behind a lot of sports utes with a driver and at most one passenger. For the rest, they here hauling empty space, and I would fantasize about suggesting that they just get a sedan and a compressed-air tank.
Raising a new generation on a sliding moral scale, with no repercussions, as long as it is profitable clears the air(bnb) quite a bit.

So on the truth spectrum, are these "modified truths", "eluded to truths" or "curated truths"?

There are several example of businesses/industries talking out of both sides of their mouth and a remote orifice. Autotrader buying KBB was similar as well as the recent dotORG domain transaction attempt. Its winner take all.

Its just business as usual, though you have to admit... They don't have a public troll problem on their platform. Kudos to them!
The feedback was more than just "Please be on time". It was proceeded by multiple statements on the impact of being late. The fact that you should be on time is obvious, but the impact of not being on time isn't always obvious.

Everyone responds to feedback differently. I'm personally a very direct person, and asking whats preventing me from being on time is just going to make me feel like you're talking down to me. Understanding why it's important is enough, let me be a big boy and figure out my own time management. Others hate being told what to do, and would prefer to work through a solution collaboratively.
Meanwhile, our hospitals in Seattle are already filling up, and they're diverting people to further hospitals; as this is a virus with an extremely high hospitalization rate. We all need to do what we can to keep those hospitalizations low, so our medical system doesn't collapse and turn people away who need ventilation. That means doing your part to not be a vector of infection.
Right, that's what "span" means.

It would be a big step for a first management role, but not insane. The first time I did it got up to about that number in less than 3 months, so not day 1 but not far off it. This happened by having a regular sized (i.e half dozen) team first, and hiring another dozen person team soon after where it made sense to put them under my group.

The only reason we tried that is that a) things were going well and b) I had good mentorship in the role with the commitment of real help (i.e. time) from them if things started to get shaky.