skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Huh? I'm pretty sure they have to pay you a salary to keep you employed.

That is pretty much in the definition of employment. However, what is not in the definition of employment is how much salary they pay you.

> If they won't pay you money until you do X, then the money is payment for X, not payment for previous work, even if they try to market it as "deferred" payment for previous work. Gotta be clever enough to see through the doublespeak.

Right, but the "gotta do X" in this case is, "still come in to work".

> Future salary: you will get this only if you keep working, if you quit you will not get it.

So that part isn't true, as many people have recently discovered. Your salary can be cut, either explicitly or implicitly by inflation.

> The whole concept of unvested RSUs is basically a clever psychological trick to exploit the endowment effect to make quitting seem more punitive than it actually is.

I think you misunderstand the value of RSUs. The trick you are listing above could be handled just as simply with "bonus cash payments". RSUs have other attributes beyond the simple endowment effect.

> If you trick people into thinking their $1 million of unvested RSUs is "already theirs" then they are more averse to quitting and losing that $1 million then they would be to quitting and losing the same $1 million in future salary.

I've never seen that play out. If anything, I've seen, relative to their value, people pay more attention to their future salary than their future unvested RSUs. Pay someone more than their market rate in salary, and it becomes amazingly psychologically difficult for them to step away from the job.

> That's obviously not true, since people in RSU-ville switch jobs all the time, which they wouldn't do if the new job weren't at least matching their old RSUs.

You may not have seen it, but I certainly have... first hand.

There's this reality that as you get farther away from the time of issuance, if the company is growing and doing well, the value of the RSUs go up. It can consequently become very difficult for a prospective new employer to match the value of the RSUs, as they effectively become worth more than the market value of the employee's skills. The employee might hope that new employer RSUs can similarly grow in value like the ones they have from their current employer, but the same growth could happen with their extant RSUs. This is a key aspect of how RSUs can be different from "future salary".

The key to golden handcuffs is that they get tighter as time goes on.
>fingerprint for sudo

That's awesome! I just bought the new XPS 13 (9300) with 32gb of ram. Unboxing it today, I've heard it works flawlessly with Ubuntu 20.04 except the fingerprint reader, and Dell says that will be possible later this year.
Something went wrong with your link, replacing a large part of it with "..". I think this is the unmangled link [1].

Anyway, there wasn't actually a Supreme Court ruling. The workers appealed their loss in the appellate court to the Supreme Court, but the Supreme Court declined to hear the case.

Aside from a few specific types of cases the Supreme Court has discretionary jurisdiction rather than mandatory jurisdiction. This was one of those discretionary jurisdiction cases.

When they decline to take a case they generally do not give a reason. It may be because they think the appellate court got it right and there is nothing more to say on the issue. On the other hand, it may be because they think the appellate court is not right but what is right is not clear and they want to see the issue arise in other districts and see what the appellate courts in those other districts decide before they take a case on the issue. Or they may be ready to tackle the issue, but they just don't like this particular case as a vehicle for deciding the issue and want to wait for a case that would work better.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-amazon-com/u-s-...
Copyright.

The specifics of Tetris, including the use of tetrominos and the dimensions of the board -- are protected by copyright which The Tetris Company has successfully defended in court.

It may suck, but as The Tetris Company and the Blurred Lines ruling have shown, copyrights in the USA are pretty broad. In general, it is a violation of copyright to make a clone of a game; see Atari v. Philips in which the court found that cloning Pac-Man was illegal, despite the cloned game having completely different code, assets, and subtly different mechanics. This is why I believe Oracle v. Google will be ruled in favor of Oracle.

In addition, The Tetris Company owns trademarks on the shapes of the tetromino pieces themselves, so even without broad copyright protection, all clones of Tetris would still be illegal.
Uptick in Fatal Opioid Overdoses During Social Distancing
I have a short block of code I put in a lot of projects with just color output and formatting. But now I really want to start using this.

I like that it's cross platform and you can do very simple things or very complex formatting. This is super neat.
I like in KC, KS, USA. So back in early late November early December, I had something that was exactly like Covid19 symptoms: lasted 2.5 weeks, mild fever, fatigue, persistent cough, upper respiratory problems. The doctor said it was likely viral and they couldn't give me anything. Unfortunately, I don't know if there's a way to test how old my antibodies are IF this was in fact was Sars-Cov-2.

I think the bigger question is, let's say it did arrive much earlier that we think, does that mean the virus grows at a much smaller rate than current models?
It's clear that the final release is by far the most significant in the real world. If there were a way to defer the big discussion till then, that would be best. In principle, there's no harm in waiting (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). But as I covered above, I don't see how we could get away with that. It would lead to even more complaints about threads being killed prematurely.
Yup those dreams are real on the medicine ! Damnn ! I SAW aliens like the little grays, they were in my bedroom when I woke up. Till this day I'm not sure if it was the pills and a dream or if there were real grays visiting me... Maybe they needed a specimen that took malaria-pills ? Never taking malaria pills again. And I live in South Africa.
If anything, given the last crisis, we should be focusing on how to address this crisis in a way that helps renters. After all, the average homeowner who can't pay their mortgage becomes a renter.
It's not just industry-wide that people say Glassdoor is wrong, it's individual companies. The last I looked at Glassdoor for companies where I knew the pay scales, the averages from Glassdoor were way too low.
Also SQLite3.
True. But you could for example say that every citizen has a right to $50 worth of food (at normal prices) per week, and has to pay any excess. Grocers might get partial refund from the government for the food already in stock; new orders going down the supply chain are not paid at all. (Btw, I know this is a crazy idea, but just for the sake of the argument).
Pay for your news, get a subscription to a local paper, participate in your local political process if you can. We're all so focused on work and what's going on in Washington that we don't allow ourselves to reserve any time or energy to understand local politics, because they're "boring".
If public comments were not a part of the decision-making process, then the agencies in question wouldn't be asking for public comments.

If they are asking for them, and piping them into /dev/null, that's a scandal that FOIA requests can reveal. It also gives political capital for a subsequent administration to overturn a ruling with minimal fuss.
You're poking holes in people's comments in this thread for generalizing while making wild generalizations yourself about HN membership? Why pick this hill to die on?
or much faster and less serious
New video calls alternative app for friends that want to have fun and play games
Count the I-s in your text. Why would you want to program for yourself if you are already happy and mentally engaged otherwise? You will want to build something once you find a problem that you can solve for somebody else.

Or think of a product that you want all by yourself that is not available right now. Use programming to make it real.
Also whenever somebody accidentally commits or stages node_modules. Seriously, had that happen to me before, and Magit choked on it.
I am not surprised, knowing that[1]:

> As far back as late November, U.S. intelligence officials were warning that a contagion was sweeping through China’s Wuhan region, changing the patterns of life and business and posing a threat to the population, according to four sources briefed on the secret reporting.

> Concerns about what is now known to be the novel coronavirus pandemic were detailed in a November intelligence report by the military's National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI), according to two officials familiar with the document’s contents.

> The report was the result of analysis of wire and computer intercepts, coupled with satellite images. It raised alarms because an out-of-control disease would pose a serious threat to U.S. forces in Asia -- forces that depend on the NCMI’s work.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-c...
I was somewhat concerned when OP mentioned having lost "friends" over their failed company. This can either mean they got their friends to invest money (which is risky precisely because those usually would not be professional investors), or they considered their professional investors "friends".
Given the correlation between cases and deaths, isn't one of the big arguments against the early community spread theory that we would have seen death rates increase earlier on than they actually did?
Good point. There’s a bit of apples and oranges here when you get down to the specifics.

Specifically, Tim is pissed because Amazon fired some whistleblowers. Not just once, and it sounds like it has happened over a period of time. In other words, there were workplace violations happening, people tried to go through proper channels, and then reported it when that didn’t work, and then they got fired.
Don't go off of anti-depressants and don't stop going to therapy.

My burnout got so bad that I was starting to forget words and had a difficult time remembering short term tasks. I had trouble sleeping. My thoughts were cloudy and it became difficult to stay productive.

Therapy has given me the tools and framework to develop habits and patterns of thinking to cope with my burnout.

If I had been prescribed anti-depressants I wouldn't hesitate to be on them.

Unchecked, who knows how bad it could have gotten.
As I've mentioned before, both Wuhan and Shanghai have busy international airports. So it's nice that France has a confirmed corona diagnosis in late Dec., but it looks like corona was widely circulating outside China by Dec. 10.
So is it entitlement for students to be subsidizing the operating costs of a multi billion dollar university (in many cases a private organization) with their student loans?
We can just bail them out too.

We're probably going to have to just give most-to-all renters a few months of free rent here pretty soon anyway.

At least bailing out mortgage-holders has zero real world cost. Bailing out renters costs actual real money (since it doesn't just defer a loan, but actually prints new money to cover it).
The german national ID card protocol is something completely different from the ICAO standard for biometric passports.
‘Time has come’ for universal basic income, says Scotland’s first minister
Fulltime WFH means you can live somewhere where the housing prices are less insane. So you can have a desicated work place (either seperate room or seperate desk somewhere). Thets the whole thing!
Indeed! That's it :)

Thank you for finding it.
I mean, to be a bit reductive, that's what a scientist is. Someone whose job is to "debunk" hypotheses.
Most will be in the range of 20-40. Some will be older, but none will be kids. So take it as you will. The true number doesn't have any intuitive meaning anyway, since the likelihood of being infected is correlated with the likelihood of being symptomatic.

E.g. if hypothetically people under 20 never exhibit symptoms but also never get the disease, they won't bring the asymptomatic rate down because they won't be infected in the first place.

Averages suck in this context.
This! (And wait until you figure out there’s a lot of real companies running like that..)

I would say to also work in a domain you care about and like. I don’t like technology for technology sake and never did.

I like solving problems and see technology as a tool to do so. I love the company I work for, the people and the problems we get to solve. I love even more when I solve them without the need to write a single line of code.
I agree completely. Best way to get your foot in the door.
I'm sure there are terms in the employment contract that Amazon can use to justify firing these employees. And I do agree that the circumstances of condoning activism at Amazon can lead to some very bad places. I also think that there most certainly are actions taken by the employees who were fired that may make the terminations look more justified. Basically - there are parts of the story we are not seeing, context missing.

HOWEVER, that still does not make Amazon right in this. Sure, they followed corporate bylaws and did the things to legally cover their asses, but that doesn't mean they're wearing a white dress here. There are certainly systemic problems within Amazon the lower down the payscale you go, and Amazon trying to silence attempts to bring attention to that is more damning than the problems themselves in my mind.
The main value is extra curriculars being of a higher caliber at top colleges than at lower tier ones. Getting to engage with other very talented people building organizations and so on in a much more serious way matters.

There's a reason why ivy league college newspapers are far more impactful than at lower tier schools.
There's always https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard but it sounds like it was extremely expensive and hard to type on.
Very good question! This all falls under what is called the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). While it sounds very dull, like it involves making sure bureaucrats fill out the right forms, it's actually a very important limit on the power of the executive branch. Especially in the last century we've seen the executive branch get bigger and bigger, with more and more government agencies giving significant power to bureaucrats appointed by the President: unelected, and some not even confirmed by the Senate. A large portion of regulations are set by them, and the worry is that the second the other party takes over the White House they will immediately change all the regulations to their choosing, and back and forth. Regulations rapidly changing based on which party is in control, not to mention being subject to the whims of often unelected bureaucrats, is really bad for consumers and businesses. At its core, the APA says that changes to regulations cannot be "arbitrary and capricious": i.e. that someone can't just arbitrarily create, remove, or change regulations just because they feel like it. There is a required procedure you have to do to change regulations. You have to propose your change, have a public comment period where anyone (ordinary people, industry people, activists, everyone) can voice their concerns, and then they have to make a decision. They also have to specifically address people's concerns and give a specific rationale why they agree with this person and disagree with that person, and so on. If a change is made to a regulation that doesn't respond to all of the concerns expressed, or has a rationale that doesn't make sense, you can sue and have the change stopped.

Long story short, that is why comments on a website genuinely matter to the regulatory process.

EDIT: as a side note, the current administration has been sued a lot over APA violations. Most of the lawsuits brought by states against the federal government you hear about in the news hinge on the APA. An example off the top of my head is the repeal of DACA. Now, DACA was an executive order and could have been un-done by an executive order (executive orders are mostly not subject to the APA). But Trump did not make an executive order repealing DACA: instead the Attorney General removed the rule himself, which means his decision was subject to APA review. As a part of this he had to publish a document explaining why he was going to repeal it. In it he said the reason he was repealing DACA was because he believed it was unconstitutional. A number of states have sued over this change, and one of the legal arguments used is an APA violation, because there is no evidence that DACA is unconstitutional. Which gets to what I find interesting about the APA; it forces the person making the change to specifically spell out their reasoning and rationalization for making that change. If their reasoning is faulty you can sue, and the federal government can't defend it by throwing about alternative rationales for the decision.
So the point is just that Futhark map is faster than numpy map? Presumably because Futhark can ensure it's mapping pure functions?

Why doesn't numpy offer a map_pure method where the user promises to only pass pure functions?
The $6,500 Hotel Bed
Well, if IT is running a tight ship then only corporate owned/managed machines can access the VPN and not a home domain. Those machines might be just as hackable, but they should at least have some logging in place that allow detection or postmortem analysis.
You don't release disinformation to help fight the spread of a virus, you release it to hurt government's ability to do so.

The term isn't interchangeable with lying, it's purpose-driven.
I wonder if this wouldn't cause extra wear on the passport chip. I don't know if it has a counter which increments on every signature (like credit cards have); if it has, then every signature would be another write to the non-volatile memory of the chip.
This is Mr. Eddie Vedder, from
Accounting. I just had a power surge here at
home that wiped out a file I was working on.
Listen, I'm in big trouble, do you know
anything about computers?

Right, well my BLT drive on my computer just
went AWOL, and I've got this big project due
tomorrow for Mr. Kawasaki, and if I don't get
it in, he's gonna ask me to commit Hari Kari...

Yeah, well, you know these Japanese management
techniques.
Could you, uh, read me the number on the
modem?

--Dade social engineers a security guy over the phone in Hackers
As expected: https://twitter.com/timbray/status/1257383599424315397
Several prolific podcast creators would argue that being decentralised is a feature, and they worry about your last point. I haven’t saved any of the conversations to be able to link you to, but if you search in Marco Arment’s twitter[1] or perhaps Daring Fireball[2] and their podcasting friend’s circles (like Relay FM[3]), you may be able to find specific arguments.

NPR’s announcement of RAD[4] or Spotify getting into podcasts[5] are bound to have generated comments from those sources.

You may also try asking Marco on twitter. He seems to have strong feelings on the subject.

It’s worth noting that several podcasts are part of networks but are still open to listen to in any platform, such as 5by5[6], Radiotopia[7], and the aforementioned Relay FM—which also has an app[8].

[1]: https://twitter.com/marcoarment

[2]: https://daringfireball.net/

[3]: https://www.relay.fm/

[4]: https://rad.npr.org/

[5]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/5/18243729/spotify-podcast-s...

[6]: http://5by5.tv/

[7]: https://www.radiotopia.fm/

[8]: https://www.relay.fm/app
Sounds like a solid manager!

People wanna feel safe... And go figure, when they do their output usually goes from being minimal effort to above and beyond. Also feeling safe has sooooo many more institutional benefits etc. Errors are identified + corrected quicker, people don't play politics near as much, things just get "easier"... hard to explain.

But yea - definitely give that guy some positive feedback in your 1:1's. That was one thing that helped me really design a system that people wanted to work within, solid feedback when things work/didn't work =)
All cost based optimisers rely on statistics being correct. And inevitably there will be a case where they aren't. The problem with PostgreSQLs optimiser, and I assume with others too, is that it's too risk happy. It's optimizing for the average case based on the statistics, when people actually tend to care about the worst case.

As an example, say you have a database of all cars ever produced with indexes on model and production date. If you are looking for the latest Ford F-150 then the best plan is to just start looking backwards by date and you will find one soon enough. Much faster than looking up all F-150s and picking the latest one. On the other hand, if you are looking for latest Ford Model-T, that plan is going to be catastrophically terrible, going through 93 years of car production before finding the correct one.
Castaneda is the undisputed authority on the subject of "dreaming". I would recommend you check out r/castaneda; it's a very friendly non-toxic community where you'll get any questions you have answered--but be prepared, it's a mixed bag, you'll see discussions about things among the "advanced" users that will disagree with your reason. I forget which book Carlos dedicated just to detailed discussion of dreaming, but most of them discussed dreaming to some extent. I send my best regards to you on your journey to stay focused!
That's the curse right here. Anyone can easily make a half-baked solution to their problem, so those solutions end up as half-baked libraries, if they get released at all.
You are your biggest failure
Think of an interesting non-software related domain that you enjoy and then use software to solve a problem in it. 10 years ago I scraped a run logger app backend for my running statistics and did data analysis on my GPS tracks that helped my training (things that Strava is doing today).

Don't make it into a product or publish it or do anything else that creates pressure on you. Just do it to solve your own problems. Be ok with the vast majority of those projects never being completed. The deal is to learn something and enjoy the pure act of creating something.
I felt that Greg Grandin's Myth of the Frontier was actually the second-best counter-narrative to the standard accounts of American relations with its neighbors published in 2019. The most interesting was How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/books/review-how-to-hide-...

One of the more interesting sections for the Hacker News crowd is how technological advancements in World War II like artificial rubber and international standards allowed the US to cede the huge amount of land it directly controlled after the war (which is not to say that US influence completely disappeared in these places).
If my two late model Audis are any testament, German engineering and standards of quality are headed straight for the shitter.

Get your extended warranties people lol
When the parent talks about jumping to random byte offsets, they mean you don't have the first part of the file at all. You just have an arbitrary 512-MB chunk out of the middle.
Can we also do something ourselves?

AWS spending and consumers turning a blind eye enables such issues to arise

These things are fueled not just by desire for profit, but also our own materialistic focus. If we buy into the latest and greatest products, rather than where they came from, then to some extent isn't it we who have enabled these rights abuses in various countries and companies, to support our own appetites?
Why companies have open floor plan offices:

* Reasons 1-9: it costs A LOT LESS than offices or cubes
* Reason 10: Collaboration :)