skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> where's the literature on how those affect user satisfaction?

As someone else mentioned, it seems like all the issues you mentioned ultimately create user dissatisfaction because of input delay. In which case FID seems like it'd be a good metric for you to target. I'm not sure about the claim that if you improve FID then all input delay will be reduced for the entire duration of a person's session with your site, but I imagine that FID and general input delay are directly correlated. This is just conjecture however and is not a statement backed by research.

Here's a summary of some general research on how users perceive input delay: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/r...

(Tangentially related) The new performance.measureMemory() API may help you correlate memory leaks with business metrics: https://web.dev/monitor-total-page-memory-usage/
This is not true. The law governs humans, not computer technical details.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download#Copyright

The reason uploaders are prosecutor more is that they are easier targets (more evidence, more damages)

DMCA takedown copyright strikes are one specific part of copyright law, that applies to hosting services and safe harbor protections for them. There is much more to copyright law.
I think it is important to highlight what process works best for you and emphasize that to employers. Personally, I am more productive working remotely, in control of my environment and surroundings, and I frame that as a positive aspect of my contribution for the organization. Sure, some people want to see numbers or hear about previous experiences within a certain context, but I think it's all about communicating how you align with, and contribute to, that context. I've worked remotely as both a junior and more experienced engineer - mentoring junior engineers remotely; there's capacity for remote work at all levels. I think some employers are more curious about your remote processes than actual experience (e.g. how do you handle working with people in different time zones, what sort of productivity and communication tools do you use to work asynchronously). I highly suggest contributing to an open-source project that you use or are interested in - even if it's something small like committing documentation or fixing a minor issue. That is some of the most meaningful and fulfilling asynchronous remote work experience to tout. Don't get discouraged. The world is massive. You will find people that value your skills and talents, and you will obtain what you are seeking if you stick to it. I hope this helps. Cheers!
I agree with your analysis.
I, too, was joking! Just bants.
Wouldn't you pay income tax on the RSUs based on the notional initial value, and only pay tax on the options if you exercised them?
Damn, deleted the comment to soon it seems... Agree, for the US it isn't to bad a package, especially considering the circumstances and the health care system. All the best for the affected people!
yup, it's better then what you would get in most of the europe.

does US have an unemployment plan. how long and how much do you get ?
I don't think there is a "scrollbar usage" permission.
I'd expect the options might be under water based on recent funding announcements. Probably still expensive to exercise, but I can't see how there would be a tax liability if they are under water.
Oh right, it's before the state unemployment. Then I don't know.
Because it's voluntary, not volunteer - the former is unambiguously about free choice while the latter can imply working without pay.
Doing this right will certainly take some thought. As long as it's spreading among the "young" (under 60 or so), those people will miss a week of work or two and that will be it.

It's protecting the "old" that's going to matter here. Many of them are old enough that screening doesn't matter much anymore. In any case, if we let up on the lockdowns, that would free up a lot of money to pour onto careful protection of the old, which arguably would cut ultimate deaths more than the status quo.
1 RSU is worth 1x the stock price. 1 option is worth the delta between the stock price and the strike price, meaning 1 RSU is always worth more than one option.

Usually you get more options than you would RSU’s to compensate for this, but there’s still a risk/reward tradeoff. I have had stock options that ended up worth $0 because they were underwater. RSU’s would have been worth $non-zero.

The fact that RSU’s retain some value when the stock price goes down is highly relevant to a company like AirBNB which is undoubtedly struggling with the current situation. Also relevant may be that AirBNB isn’t a public company yet, making their shares relatively non-liquidifiable. This can pose problems both ways: if you get RSU’s in that situation you’ve received “taxable income” in the form of a non-liquidifiable asset and if you get options, you have to choose whether to buy stock in a travel accommodations company in the middle of a pandemic that just laid off 1/4 of their workforce, hence potentially incurring a very strong risk of loss.
>It is legal to rip ROMs for your own use

Incorrect. People say this all the time but no, it is not in fact legal. It's never been tested in court and Nintendo takes the explicit view that both it is illegal to rip your own roms and that said devices are illegal.

Now you and I can disagree with Nintendo, but Nintendo could sue someone for ripping their own roms. They won't however, because it would be an incredibly difficult case to prove. Don't mistake that for it being legal or illegal however.
Very cool. It sounds like you're basically treating this as a profitable hobby. How much alpha are you achieving, and how many hours a week would you say you put into it? Are you trading equities only or options and other derivatives as well?
This is exactly the perspective that most on the American right in my circles are coming from. The libertarians and economic populists are far more concerned about the long-term implications of endorsing mandatory lockdowns, and contact tracing programs, as well as the effects of effectively shutting down nearly every non-restaraunt business too small to sell non-essential items.

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, who only endorse the ideas of individual liberty and rights because they think it'll keep their taxes lower, and who endorsed lockdowns until they started to affect their pocketbooks.
Brutal winters though if you are coming from CA.

Honestly one of the under rated large cities in the US is Cleveland. I have had to travel a lot for work over the years and was impressed by the dining options available and the general togetherness of the community there. Again winters...bad...
It's been a while since I dabbled in Chrome extensions, but if nothing has changed, then not as a Chrome extension, unfortunately. If you mean theoretically, then of course; Chrome could let extensions subscribe to particular event hooks and whatnot and get very fine-grained about it. I expect that would actually be too fine-grained for most users, but what they have at the moment is a system where installing almost any extension feels quite risky. I'm not sure that Google really want Chrome extensions to exist, though. It feels like a very neglected part of Chrome.
Uber lost $8.5 billion last year. They’re notorious for continuing to operate despite it not being profitable.
I was under the impression they were pivoting rather hard into events, to diversify their income streams?
You don’t have nearly as much “optionality” when you have to come up with $X00,000 within 90 days of leaving your job or forfeit your equity
Don't forget cultures. The designers, it seems, haven't told all countries what they should and shouldn't like.
Crowdfunding should be loosened. Sure some people will get scammed but it is the same people who the government allows to sink their weekly paycheck into scratchers. These regulations are only in place to give PE a monopoly on certain investments.
Chinese factories have been doing this for decades already. I bought a 100 Games in One system at my local mall kiosk ten years ago that had an NES on a chip built into a game controller that plugged into the TV.

Given their place in the electronics supply chain, China has an incredible ability to clone hardware.
Why do you need to buy the RSUs then? Don't you already get them once they vest.
Long term employees have options. All newer US based employees should have RSUs
Humans have persistence. I guess that'll help them eventually get through using brute force.
Not where this conversation started, but surely where it's going:

Your sentence really sounds like just an 'I got mine, so forget everyone else' sort of statement.

Your FU money doesn't mean a damned thing if societal norms die due to a pandemic or disaster. If anything, they'll just make you a target for the actual collective when it gets bad.

You can't help yourself, by yourself, if the whole world is crumbling. You have to be dependent on the collective for security. That's the literal point of a society existing. We have societal norms and collective good for a reason.

We used to kill a lot of the rich people, every so often, in history. Why have we forgotten that?
You can't really compare Salt to a password protected database.
SSH is probably a better comparison as both use public key crypto and plenty of servers are exposed on the internet via it. Its just that salt hasn't been audited as heavily as OpenSSH or other implementations of SSH so its risky exposing Salt to the internet, but I can see why some admins might do that.
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I think I'm missing something here.. but how can one negotiate severance pay for termination.

I was under the assumption that companies offered severance pay as a means to save face.. and this is not part of the offer negotiation.
Does not explain why Spain and Italy that are Mediterranean countries with lots of sun were hit hard, but Norway was spared, for example.
Monthly vesting without a year one cliff is not really done, AFAIK. I also don't think that there is a lot of wiggle room for negotiated severance terms. But sign on bonuses and 200k base pay could certainly be on the table.
it's generous by startup standards, but laid off kickstarter employees are getting an even better deal because they unionized: four months full pay for everyone, up to six months of paid (not COBRA healthcare), recall rights if the jobs open back up, release from non competes

https://twitter.com/ksr_united/status/1256382357311012871
> I personally don't understand where you see a difference.

It doesn't matter what difference I see or what my opinions are. It only matters in how you practice your profession. In practical terms this difference is distinguished with one word: licensing.

If you wish to be taken seriously have credentials that certify credibility. This is a solved problem... just not in software. As an unlicensed unaccredited software developer you shouldn't take my opinions too seriously as I won't take yours.
No comments yet? I guess others are still reading TFA...

There are a number of issues that seem to be eternal. Even if there's an obvious right answer, I see year after year, decade after decade that they keep being discussed, with the same points being made over and over again. Is there a name for these?

I guess that for each of them, there is some kind of unspeakable reason that trumps any sound rationale.
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Lyft cut salaries in addition to layoffs
Do the employees have to work during these 3 months? It is not clear from the article. If not, it is quite "competitive".
>Why not create a mobile app to allow all amazon workers to communicate and organize anonymously.

Isn't it ironic that the internet, which should've been a boon to labor organization, has been quite the opposite.
AB 5 has everyone suffering. Consider this for a moment, Silicon Valley: the Tiger Teams you contract to pull your fat out of the fire when your infrastructure starts melting down, well you can’t hire them under AB 5 if they are California-based. Persons (which includes Corporations) cannot be independently contracted to produce your main line of business. And when your business is Tech and so it theirs...
I suppose you're right. I did not mean people who shrug and say "Yeah, PHP sucks, but I'll defend its use here for X reason."

I was more, in my head, describing people who say "Well, all languages have issues." or "You can write good/bad code in any language." or whatever other bottom-of-the-barrel defenses I often hear and read.
Are you an engineer or a professional athlete?
In other words, you'd consider switching to Java if it was exactly like the system you already use.

And note the question you didn't ask: does Java do anything better than python? Didn't even cross your mind.
It's a possibility. I agree that we need a lot of people to "science the crap" out of this one. It does need to be done, though--we can't just assume than a COVID-19 death saved is a net life saved.
(Under US law,) You pay income tax on RSUs only when they are both vested and released. (These typically happen on the same day, but in the future, not on the grant date.)
I was paid to build a Wordpress extension once. It was the most miserable programming experience of my life.

Wordpress is no doubt a powerful force on the web. As a no-code website-creation environment, it's fine. Maybe even good. But as a library, it is godawful.
>Popularity is a B.S. metric of correctness, quality, or pretty much anything other than zeitgeist. It blows my mind that people still argue there is causality between quality and popularity.

Yes, but "quality" is a fuzzy and personal metric in many domains...

Or conversely, "quality" can be defined as "popular with the critic type" in these domains - so it's still just a kind of popularity metric...
Depending on the role not everyone is going to have an easy time finding another job. Technical roles sure but areas like marketing and recruiting no.
> does US have an unemployment plan. how long and how much do you get ?

Each state has unemployment insurance. In most cases, the benefit amount per week/month puts you around the federal poverty line for an individual. No state has a severance requirement (although some do require your PTO balance be paid out as wages).

https://fileunemployment.org/unemployment-benefits/unemploym...
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Yeah that's absolutely important, and donations like that have been important for keeping strikes going. But unfortunately we're not at that point yet.
A thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13152255

Thread from 2014 - interesting top comment there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8791791

(Reposts are ok after about a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)

I've made the year in the title a gwernian range.
One significant change since that era of unionization is that programmers can't actually shut down the business with a strike. If programmers stop working, that doesn't actually directly impact revenue—if a group of factory, warehouse, or service workers strike, then the business halts until the strike is resolved. SRE/Ops could take down revenue generation, but that starts to be something with legal liability. Laws prevent businesses from hiring new workers to break a strike, but if you sabotage the code, then my understanding is that there could be criminal charges against you.

That's not really relevant in the context of Amazon's _warehouse_ workers unionizing, but I think it's an interesting constraint for us as software developers.
My “cherry picked examples” are the life stories of people I have personally met (and with high likelihood of your own ancestors and their neighbors within the past 150 years – certainly of my ancestors ~5 generations ago who were European peasants). It obviously wasn’t the case that every peasant was raped and then murdered by a local lord, but such violence was common and a constant threat.

Rural peasants were and are typically a foot shorter than people living in wealthy industrialized countries today (or people in hunter–gatherer tribes for that matter). Almost all of their calories come from staple starches, which they supplement as best they can. Periods of extreme hunger are common enough that most peasants experienced them at least a few times over a lifetime. What kind of good nutrition do you think people have/had?

Life expectancy was under 40 years old. Even life expectancy after age 5 was pretty short.
Yeah it's going to be a hard decision to make for a lot of these people, especially given some of the bad press that these kind of gig factories have been enduring.
Plants are much easier to recycle as well.
I would too, but the thing holding me back is if the shit hits the fan, and I need to do something like buy a freezer to store extra food, I can't conveniently do that in an Airbnb. And if I somehow get sick, I'm at the mercy of the doctors and hospitals in this foreign land. I'd rather be in my own home with the doctors and hospital system that I'm familiar with. I think more than 50% of people feel this way, which is why I think a 50% cut in revenue is too little, I would say its more like an 80-85% cut in revenue. This is catastrophic for Airbnb.
It's not, people just love shitting on America. 14 weeks + 1 additional for each year served at US salaries + unemployment + paid health insurance for 12 months is extremely generous compared to the peanuts that Europe pays engineers.
If that's getting though then for me it worked first time. It asked for "men" and the blurry outlines seemed pretty obvious to me.

Maybe I'm an android and I don't know it. Surely not I remember my childhood.
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Both for learning and to reuse a viable electronic device that would otherwise just end up as waste! The CPU in this device also support hardware decoding for many codecs, including H.264 and dolby digital, and it already comes with a lot of output ports to connect it to a TV, making it an ideal candidate as a media center if the right software can be installed on it.
So you're argument is that they should be grateful that they could be wage slaves on the most precarious edge of society because they weren't lucky enough to be a software engineer/VC? Don't you see why this comes off as problematic?
Not sure if you even understand what you're talking about.

As for node.js, I set up pm2 to watch for file changes and restart ts-node process and this takes a few seconds, which is slower than I can hit alt-tab back to the browser, which is annoying to see 'Bad Gateway' error page quite often, not to mention embarrassing to explain and help set it up to someone new to other languages than PHP.

PHP is instant and I'd like to know if there's a solution in node.js that can do the same.
The only thing California cares about is having these companies collect and remit payroll tax. It's too much to work to chase down 200,000 contractors for $500, so they want Uber to just cut them a cheque.
Nope, no one. And I could negotiate terms with directors, VPs and CEOs (of small firms) over lunches: meaning that they deemed it valuable enough to spend a few hours of their time on me, make a sales pitch and listen. Some admitted that while my terms were reasonable, it would just too expensive for their company to hire me.
Bcrypt password cracking extremely slow? Not if you are using hundreds of FPGAs
What sort of events would be taking place at this point? I have a friend who works in conferences, and he said his business is 0 now.
Yeah so severance is what you get from the company directly.

That counts as your usual pay. So during that time you don't get 'unemployment'. After the severance runs out then you collect unemployment, how much that is varies state to state.
Autohotkey could work, at least if you hardcode the coordinates where to click at.

The problem with games is that the UI is often rendered by the game engine to a canvas, so outside software doesn’t have a representation of discrete UI elements to click on, as opposed to a browser where every element is part of the DOM and can be targeted by CSS selectors.
4 years at Airbnb would be quite a long time.
anything is for sale and on the table, you just have to ask/demand it. Doesn't mean you're going to get it though.
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Oh, they're rare, but they exist: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15261/turemetal-fanless-pc-ep...
browser.urlbar.update1 set to false will disable
it, but that option is being removed in FireFox 77.
I think that someone in your position could shift a dial a few degrees. And the resulting consequences, compounded over time, would be absolutely staggering. I'm guessing you did shift a few dials while working there, and probably in a good direction.

It seems like you are painting a picture where Amazon was destined from the beginning to be dealing with the issues it is now. Were there no other possible futures? Were there not individuals who had a massive impact?

I'm related to someone who runs very fairly large warehousing operations across north america. His decisions have certainly been influenced by employees. Hell, I think I've changed his mind on an issue or two over dinner conversations.
What Google sites are you referring to and what "do as I say, not as I do" behavior are you seeing? I'm not doubting you, I'm just asking for specific URLs so that I can forward the feedback to specific teams.
Excessive I/O is indeed another common issue. The number of times I've seen a slow system and discovered excessive number of flushes, often in something like logging system to be the root cause... Or gazillion of unbuffered 1 byte writes or reads.
What can I use if I need more performance than 2d canvas can give me? WebGL ?
Airbnb laying off 25 percent of its staff
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Between the recession and a general fear of unnecessary travel during coronavirus I doubt there will be increased demand for Airbnb.
I know that the Tech Workers Coalition (TWC) has done some significant organizing against Amazon, in the form of protests/drawing media attention, and in deeper/less visible aspects that more directly work towards warehouse worker protections. Definitely a good group to reach out to if this is a cause that's important to you.
Are you referring to the AdSense and DoubleClick websites?
Presumably because none of those platforms actually ban any app, unless I'm mistaken?
Good point. If they're wanting to part ways with 25% of the workforce now, covering 3 months of full salary and 12 months of expensive healthcare, they must be expecting fundamental market shifts.

Also, the debt they took on may have been partly to cover these lavish severance packages while also extending the runway.

And yes, this is extremely lavish. Paying severance that appears roughly equal to the median annual income in the USA.
A protracted war benefits the military of the weaker side but I doubt their people would like it. Also, I can't recall the last time the United States was deterred from entering war because it would last too long.
If it means that more employer-employee relationships are as strong as the one described, I'm more than happy to give small businesses a leg up over major corporations.
From the first figure, this one is highly specific to SARS-COV with like no off target effects from looking at the negative control.