skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True! And in 1875, do you know what happened if you got hurt on the job? They left you for dead because there was no consequence in doing that. Maybe if they were nice they would drag you back to town to see the doctor first.

But then you couldn't work anymore, and so you died or begged for charity.

The nation was built on the fact that if you became unable to work, or were never able to work at all, you were discarded by society.

I don't want to live in a society that discards people because they can't work.
I know what you mean, I learned it around 1.5 years ago and there was almost no written material at all. The way I did it was to source dive into libwayland and weston for a couple weeks. There is no coalition of big Unix vendors all putting money into it trying to build their own desktop platforms this time. It's all the embedded people shipping small devices running mostly static software stacks.
If they don't have the money they can take a loan (maybe hard without a job) or try to raise it (lots of people will be happy to invest). Let's not forget that many of these individuals have been making top dollar. Airbnb is known to be very competitive, even with FANNG level salaries.

I don't see it as a tough choice. Airbnb will IPO, it's just a question of when. It's a safe investment to make. This is a company operating all over the world that had $4.3B in revenue last year. If not COVID-19 they would've probably IPO'd very soon. They will get through it.
Don’t host it on AWS, though.
Magic Leap has churned through so much money ... what could this health care company get out of this by putting more money into Magic Leap that nobody else got out?
Extensions fill this role for Firefox. I have used LeechBlock previously and can recommend it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock-ng...
The equation fleshes out the detail that the visualization misses. I do best when I have both.
Thanks, I will take a look.

That explanation is much more reasonable. If people can choose which covenant to belong to, that's better then some larger collective (like a federal government) imposing it's morals on smaller groups.
> The few conservatives I know who legitimately consider reopening to be first/foremost about minimizing deaths are the kinds of conservatives who live affluent lives working desk jobs they inherited through nepotism

Wow, I must have missed that queue.

As for taxes, they're screwed, for decades. I don't think it really matters which path we take--our tax load to pay for it all will be epic.

At least we can try hard to save lives, though.
Ugh, to be honest I get tired whenever I see the "Why did company XYZ need so many people, they're just a website!"-type comments. While it is definitely possible AirBnB was bloated, it's not hard for me to imagine at all what all these people did.

AirBnB is a relatively high-touch business, so I imagine a huge number of those people were in customer support/customer relations, both for travelers and for property owners. AirBnB also operates in a huge number of countries, and each of those countries need (a) marketers, (b) people with regulatory knowledge (often at a level much more granular than the country level - and to head off any 'but AirBnB ignores the regulations!' comments, while that may be true, I guarantee they still have people that know what they are), (c) again, customer service people knowledgeable with the local language and customs.
In this situation, their guidance says to embed the secret, because in this context it's obviously not a secret. Here's the current page [1]; here's the earliest Archive.org snapshot of its one-earlier predecessor page from 2015 [2] -- the advice has been consistent.

[1] https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2/nati...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20150520223809/https://developer...
My brother (in Australia, where I grew up, before moving to the US) recently got laid off from his firm (actually, I believe they were going out of business due to retirement or such). Their policy was 1 month severance per year. He'd been there 14 years, 14 months severance.
Sure, I had to wrestle with this a bit myself: to make it easier, imagine a 16-bit floating point format (P&H call this the "Nvidia format", but I can't find that documented anywhere but there): 1-bit sign, 5-bit (biased) exponent, 10-bit mantissa. One thing that TFA leaves out about floating point mantissas is that there's an implicit leading 1, so a 10-bit mantissa of 1111100000 would be interpreted as (binary) 1.1111100000 or 1 + 2^-1 + 2^-2 + 2^-3 + 2^-4 + 2^-5 = 1.96875. So, take the mantissa, convert it to a fraction, add 1, and then raise it to the power of the (biased) exponent.

So now, take the 16-bit pattern (0000 0011 1110 0000); you get a 0 sign bit, an exponent of 0, and a mantissa of 1.96875. So, with a bias of -15, that's 1.96875 * 2 ^ 0-15 = 0.00006008148193359375.

As you creep up to the "next" exponent, you see that the boundaries are respected. The last 2^-15 number is 0000 0011 1111 1111 (0x3ff) and the first 2^-14 number is 0000 0100 0000 0000 (0x400); now the exponent has changed from 0 to 1, but the floating point converts to 1.999023 * 2 ^ -15 = 0.0000610053539276123046875 and 1.000000 * 2 ^ -14 = 0.00006103515625: a bit-by-bit comparison has 0x3ff < 0x400. (This would be true regardless of bias).

Now imagine that IEEE 754 stored exponents in two's-complement format instead; the exponent 01111 would be interpreted as +31, but the "next" exponent, bit-wise, would be 10000 = -32. This means that you'd end up with 0011111111111111 = 1.999023 * 2 ^ 31 = 4292869204.475904, but the next binary number, 0100000000000000 would be 1.0 * 2 -32 = 0.00000000023283.
Hashes are inherently lossy. Although a rainbow table can maybe tell you one possible input for a given hash, it cannot tell you exactly what was hashed.
How is this an even better deal? About the same amount of pay, half the healthcare paid (COBRA healthcare is same plan). As for recall rights and release from non-competes, these are slightly better than nothing I suppose.
The best way to know if you're getting fired:

If you don't have a "cue" from your boss that you are safe PRIOR to the layoff, then you are pretty much on the chopping block.

In other words, if you don't know who the sucker is, you are the sucker.
It's an implicit 1 or 0 (because it's binary floating point). The implicit 0 is for subnormal numbers. That's the part people usually don't explain when they're first introducing it. It's literally {1,0}.xxxxxx where x is also a 1 or 0. I.e. a binary floating point number in scientific notation. I've seen a lot of explanations that kind of gloss over that part of it (not saying you don't understand it, just that even the article doesn't make that clear enough IMO).
https://linux.die.net/man/3/ansible.fireball

It definitely has them however.
I sorely miss the ability to make my homepage a layout of the sites I visit daily. On Chrome I had this grid of most frequented sites that I set up myself, fine-tuned so I could launch Chrome and immediately open up any mail, read the news, check some of the blogs I read, etc. On Firefox, I've been using bookmarks but that's not as effective.
Oh yeah it's a "snowclone"
Options are awful. Exercising them can trigger AMT, where you get to pay taxes on money you don't have yet (and cannot get) at a time when you probably just spent a lot of your savings to purchase the options.
It's actually an HR(human resources) term. There's a standard document employees sign called a "separation agreement." See:

https://gusto.com/blog/people-management/employee-separation...
I would look into using ZFS w/redundancy and snapshots esp for backup purposes. This can easily tie into third-party backup services as well unless this is just for transient storage.
Three Years of Swift by Sundell
Just FYI, I wanted to go to your second URL from the first, but I mistyped "platform," and ended up here:

https://qbix.com/communities/platfrom

Which isn't the most well-put-together 404 (well, from the message, looks like a 412) page, but hey, I'm not a designer. :)
My brother (in Australia) got that this year. 14 months severance after 14 years.
As an AWS employee I doubt there's a ton you can do to influence Amazon's physical product side. What you could do is try to influence AWS to stop being the backbone for ICE and DHS's extremely cruel deportation policies. Since I went to an AWS Summit in NYC and walked through protesters shouting "Cut ties with ICE"[1] I've done my best to divest myself from AWS solutions, though it's slow going. Get AWS more employees to stand up to AWS over ICE and DHS.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/07/12/no-tech-i...
Somehow 14 weeks also seems less than 3 1/3 months, even though they’re the same.
CRA?
Ribs (recordings made from X-ray films)
ah you might be right. wording confused me.
Depends on what you mean by “traction”. You and I may sit at home with our gigabit internet connections and think that the limitations of TCP are a minor annoyance at best. However, at the internet factories, where internet is made, in large data centers spanning the globe, TCP’s flow control translates directly to poor utilization of expensive, high-bandwidth links between different data centers. The problem gets worse as the links get bigger. The utilization left on the table is easily enough to pay for the salaries of a few world-class network engineers and kernel programmers.

As an analogy, consider high power factor power supplies. Nobody is gonna care, at home, what the power factor of their PSUs are. However, a poor power factor at a large scale (electrical grid) translates to millions of dollars of unused current capacity. The money left on the table was so large that PFC is everywhere these days. The same thing will happen with TCP's replacement. Just give it time.
https://jsfiddle.net/vas71r68/3/

Don't do stuff like pushing rectangles to an array to have their position wrapped, instead of simply doing it right there, unless you want to test the GC.
hotels.com managed just fine with only 500 employees in their headquarters.
Immediately visible on what size screen and font size?
ChromeOS runs a full linux in a VM, so I use that for stuff like signal-desktop. It also ships with docker. 99% of my daily tasks are chrome + zsh,docker,ssh,vim,go,python,git,syncthing.

I also just got the special closed case debugging orange cable that will let me reflash the bootloader (even the normally r/o parts) to turn them optionally into normal computers. I rather dig the security “guarantees” provided by ChromeOS but I also simply adore the design and build quality and screen and keyboard of the Eve, so I will probably do that to my 16GB/nvme one and put Gentoo hardened on it (all the others are 8GB/sata).
I would be surprised if middle managers at Uber have access to the plan at this point.
Kinda? But there's infinite number of other things that will hash to that same value.

So you can assume (probably with good certainty) that you've got the correct password, but you can't be sure.

So pedantically speaking, it's not really reversible.
Physiology of Hypochlorous Acid
They can't all work at Starbucks :D
It's pretty much impossible for us to say in this case since the terms weren't disclosed that I know of. They've been described as debt and equity. It's reasonable to assume the equity component would imply a certain valuation, and that valuation could be down from previous valuations.

If you received options at a strike price at the peak valuation, then the current valuation may be below that level.
oh I might be confused about the COBRA situation actually. I can't tell if Airbnb is actually paying for COBRA.

aside from that, assuming that non-engineers get paid better at Airbnb than elsewhere is a big assumption.
SF Bay Area: What Might Have Been
Ah got it, thanks for the clarification. Might be a good way to backfill a portion of lost revenue, but I still don't think travel is going to pick up in Q3/Q4 as much as AirBnB is forecasting.

Only time will tell.
AirBnB was really a leader in these types of consumer-to-consumer payments. While AirBnB has also changed their strategy WRT their mobile apps, I think it's certainly commendable how they were leading with the technical approaches they took.
I think if any employees were relying on that paper wealth... that's the problem.

IMO People need to understand what that really is (usually not much) rather than blame the company.
I thought it was simply that uploaders get charged with distribution which carries a stiffer penalty or something. Like the difference between getting charged with drug possession and drug trafficking. How getting caught with drugs, unless in massive quantities, will have less steep punishments than getting caught with a bunch of drugs, scales and baggies.

At least in the cases i've heard of. It could be one of those old wives tales kind of things though. I honestly don't know.
I think I didn't write it clear enough:

He was well informed and acknowledged as much, he just still tried to twist it around to a situation where he was right.
> I guess that for each of them, there is some kind of unspeakable reason that trumps any sound rationale.

I think the general unspeakable reason is pretty simple: once you give people power, some of them will misuse it. And since it takes more effort to correct a misuse of power than to commit the misuse in the first place, any institution that gives people power becomes more and more corrupt over time as misuses of power outweigh valid uses of power.
What's the worst thing to do with a pressure cooker?
I think you should use a 7-day moving average to account for the consistently low reporting on Sundays.
Coal power obviously doesn't suck as its pretty much powered the planet for the last 100 years.

It's perfectly possible for something to both be incredibly popular and to suck. An appeal to popularity is certainly not better than a click-bait headline.

I'd argue that most of the stuff we use sucks in some ways as well; suck isn't an absolute term. TCP sucks in very specific ways the article talks about.
I wouldn't be shocked if Wordpress has singlehandedly tarnished the reputation of PHP in general
I have thus far managed to turn down Amazon every time one of their recruiters comes calling, but I won't lie, it probably has more to do with their reputed office culture and their views of side projects than the plight of their warehouse workers. I just don't know enough about the warehouse conditions to have a particularly informed (and therefore strong) opinion.
This made me really sad.

Donovan Oxendine
Age: 14 Date: 4/9 Location: Red Springs, NC

Aiden Christopher Manning Caldwell
Age: 13 Date: 4/9 Location: Red Springs, NC

The news article doesn't mention that they were brothers, but I found obituaries that link each other.
You're absolutely right. This particular approach has limitations and potential shortcomings. Of course, the same might be said about any approach.

Do you have something else in mind? A discussion here could be very interesting!
Yeah, but you always "kinda" know where you stand with your boss.
Wait but, you had no backups? I don't mean email access or sync access, but simply a backup of your system with your photos, documents, application data (including firefox' password database), none of that?
Maybe so, but recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding new employees is expensive. If turnover at AWS suddenly spiked it would inflict some pain on the company.

Yeah there are always people applying, but institutional knowledge would suffer, hr costs would rise, and they may have to spend significant time finding the right person for the job. Especially if more people avoid AWS because of the culture.
I'm not clueless. I know this. This doesn't detract at all from what I said.

In production, an outsized number of companies are using SaltStack a certain way.

The reason is because of the way we all evaluate business risk. I could have said that out of all of the companies I've worked with using Salt that have compliance requirements, 100% of them are using it Masterless, but then some smart-ass would have piped up with a "not me" comment.
This is a really weird article. It's dated today but seems to contain information from 2010 or so.
> CA is a regulatory leader but not usually an outlier in the long run.

This comment was typed on a keyboard manufactured with chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer.

While sitting in a chair manufactured with chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer.

At a computer manufactured with chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer.

And the cables supplying power to that computer were also manufactures with chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer.
Unfortunately, it's not as common to have meeting scribes as it once was. If a project manager exists for the project, then (s)he takes them. Absent a project manager, people take notes individually, which is not ideal.
That is great. Also helps remind you that for very large numbers, the precision is in the hundreds-of-thousands.
Have you tried the many advanced shader packs that've been available for years and don't need raytracing?

https://youtu.be/JJeb1eEZYhI
> Most large applications today uses SPA and an api.

[citation needed]
Not sure how relevant Airbnb equity really is at this point going forward.
With every thing like that that you read, you get closer to them!
And, hopefully, just hopefully, governments will actually step in and stop the supply from going back to AirBnB, helping alleviate some of the housing crisis in their country (I know AirBnB is a huge issue in Ireland, and several of my Irish friends are praying it fails to force all those apartments and houses back on the market; I am myself, as I'm possibly moving there this fall for a masters.)
When the alternative to being a "wage slave" is being unemployed, then no this doesn't come off as problematic at all. Lyft and Uber drivers aren't slaves. They chose this line of work on their own volition. You might think that those jobs aren't good - and for someone with your skillset that's probably true. But what makes you think you're more qualified to make life decisions for people you don't know?

As the above poster wrote: ride share drivers that can get better jobs quit and take their jobs. It turns out, though, that there are a lot of people for which driving for a ride share company is their best opportunity for their skills and schedules.
What do those mean?

> Hashing

> Encryption

> CLI commands with option/argument parsing, colored output, progress bars etc. (Do you mean a management console? All of them have it.)

Except for those, Django has every single one.
Agree with you but....

4x12 = 48 weeks of compensation disbursed by the entity. Restated compared to some nightmare no severance scenario meant they effectively terminated 4 FTEs to achieve slightly less than 3 FTEs of cost savings (adjusted for healthcare costs).

I'm not arguing against AirBNBs approach btw. Their CEO had a wonderful podcast on the Masters of Scale pod roughly two weeks ago.

However the Rawlsian philosophy on that marginal employee that got terminated effectively to fund the severance for herself and her colleagues is a tricky ethical consideration.
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It would be nice if you could just hand over a percentage of the options to the government as a tax, instead of having to pay in dollars at a guess of the value.
Additionally, this policy has been modified since COVID arose to only apply to 1.5 months out.

In the past, and in fact when I booked my airbnb (late last year), extenuating circumstances would have easily covered an epidemic 2 months out.
Dumb question here, I don't really understand what an option is in this context - can you just think of it as a call with a expiration of the vesting date and strike price at whatever they set? So they're giving you calls, with a $0 premium?
Not necessarily. I recently rewrote an old web application written in php and jquery with django, react and typescript. The new application has roughly the same LoC count while having more features and better interactivity.
Just to add to this and spell out the obvious: if they have no better alternatives to being an Uber driver, then how does removing the option to be an Uber driver help them? The list of jobs they could do as an alternative is either the same or even smaller now. The conditions at alternative jobs are going to be worse than at Uber. If the conditions were better then people would already be working there instead of being an Uber driver.
> AB5 was a terribly written law with good intentions (aren't they all?).

Not at all. How many bills have you read? Did you study political science? Have you not seen how you’ve personally benefited from the laws (and case law) on the books? Or could you be perhaps overgeneralizing?

> it killed independent journalism in the state

This seems patently false given that I read lots of independent journalism from California journalists every day. Maybe you are conflating independent journalism, the sort that exists in an organization devoted to practicing journalism that is not subordinated to the interests of another organization, with freelance journalism. (And you’d still be wrong, but at least choosing the right words. “Independent journalism” has a longstanding meaning.)
I'll agree with that, even given how much I hate AirBnB as a company for what they've done to local housing in cities. They're at least doing the right thing here.
In my experience, that is generally true. But if there have been any recent stack ranking efforts, that's certainly a dead giveaway.
But you dont know where your boss stands or if they even get to make the call
When I left my last job, I "lived" in Arizona. There was only plan on the Obamacare exchange there, and it was the same price as my employer's plan with much shittier coverage.
… in its current state.
Exercise your shareholder right to vote.
I agree. But I think you're looking at it differently than Uber... they likely are doing it this way more for the sake of keeping investors happy than employees.

Compare it to Airbnb's 25% layoffs today. This has had a negative reaction, and Airbnb's has mostly been met with empathy. I think it shows a stark difference between the two companies and how they operate.
I guess I was bitter because of the argument I got when originally discussing it on HN. I do feel validated. It sucks for these employees but everyone working for a VC fueled startup lives in this same boat. They had to know at any moment they might get tossed overboard, they were going to have layoffs prior to IPO as is.

And AirBNB has caused plenty of strife in the communities they operate in over the years, impact is always relative to ones perspective.
So here's the hard way:

Ensure people understand, in general, that when you are correcting them you are doing it for a good reason and that it is always intended to help the other person AND the team.

Ensure people understand you are always asking for the same treatment. Make a point to regularly show you follow up on constructive criticism.

Don't be too serious when giving criticism. The only time to be serious is when the offense is grave and career ending, you are his/hers superior, and even then only maybe.

Never give criticism without honestly complimenting for something else.

Never give criticism without honestly giving reasons why you think it was necessary and in the best interest of the person you give criticism to.

Never give criticism without seriously considering the point of view of the person you plan to give criticism to.

Never give criticism immediately. The times you avoid mistakes when giving criticism will make up for the fact you need to exercise your willpower to wait. If you can't do that, you are probably not a good person to give criticism anyway.
I've already accepted it because from all decision that I make related to this issue this one feels less bad. But I have always the feeling that I need this ONE information, this ONE meaningful advise, this ONE mentoring to use this impulsiveness for my benefit.