skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you can get done in large orgs depends fully on your network. Without a network you don't have influence.

All the people with influence in the org can be ranked in importance by how large their networks are, and how strong their links with others are within those networks.

So start building a network or find someone who does it well and help them. The kind of people who can pull stuff off are influential in one large group or have a connect with many small group. So find them or learn how to be them.
It takes __time__ and lot of __work__.

People like to believe there is some quick shortcut to gaining and exerting influence. Understandable because these days networks can spontaneously emerge with just a single post or pic or tweet going viral. But these spontaneous forming networks are ephemeral. They can loose their structure and integrity as quickly as they gain them. The powers that be know this and just have to buy time till it happens.

So there are no shortcuts. Problems like the one you want to solve will keep showing up. This is not the first time or last time you are going to encounter this stuff. But if you want to influence outcomes, you have to do the work of building your network.

Just like building skills, connections, resources to fix software issues. If you haven't built those up over time you can't just show up and say I just wish I could do something about this bug.

And last point, as you build up influence pick small bugs you know you and your group can fix first. Prove to yourself and the group you can get it done. Only then pick more complex bugs.

People who pick the complex stuff first get stuck in a trap. With complex stuff there is always someone else to blame, and that takes focus away from whether you and your group have built up enough skill to be working on the bug in the first place.
LOL this looks like 60 FPS for 5000 rectangles and _no_ canvas engine .. stock. The three of the article are 10-20 FPS. (Pixelbook c0a)

Correct me if I am wrong.

Nice optimization.
I think it's important to recognize that markets can exist without capitalism, and the position "markets are useful sometimes" doesn't mean that you believe in capitalism.

Maybe start here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl2WH88wmWc

If you have questions I'd be happy to answer them, but I'd recommend doing more research before making sweeping generalizations about "anarchists", "libertarians", "capitalism", etc.
No, not the large curved shiny ones that show the specs that you are expected to remove immediately after purchase.

The small square ones made out of little metal plates that are glued on there like there’s no tomorrow, the ones you are never intended to remove, like the intel one you’ve now seen so many times it’s invisible.

They’re anything but easy to remove: you have to pry them up with a tool like a spudger, being careful not to scratch the case with either the tool or the opposite edge of the metal plate, and then use a solvent to get the 0.5mm thick glue pad off the case, then use a cleaner to get the solvent off. Years back before I resolved to stop buying cheap plastic computers, some of the solvents I used to remove the glue actually permanently damaged the surface finish of the wrist rest.

Now I just don’t buy computers with ugly spam on them. I was impressed and amazed that my iPhone 11 actually has no writing whatsoever anywhere on the case, which is a regulatory feat I didn’t think was even possible (they put the required regulatory markings behind the info button on the pre-activation screen), and I think a first for the whole mobile phone industry.
When you have billions of dollars hedging is standard operating procedure, not a sign of fear. Anyone in control of that kind of money who isn't hedging their main source of revenue should be fired.
Guessing most of their iOS teams will stay intact, but who knows.
> I'm still trying to figure out what UX problem the expanding bar was intended to address.

Possibly the same as removing navigation arrows from the context menu if text is selected, i.e. to annoy long time Firefox users like me?

Certain features should be compile time options, default off and then we could make a UX-designer edition with all the crazy stuff just line we have developer edition.

Then I and everyone else could continue you use the old ux that actually worked very well ;-)
That, again, is static view.

Game-theory view is that any organization that would like to push this would have to spend enormous amount of resources to reinvent almost anything that has anything to do with TCP. Remember, it is implemented in hardware in many different types of devices, stacks, applications, it permeates almost anything. The application I am working on right now which has lived for over a decade and will live for another has TCP artifacts all over it. Who's going to want to fix it when it gains maybe a tiny bit of additional performance?

There aren't very many applications that have TCP as their single biggest performance problem with best ROI. Almost every is integrated with bunch more other applications over TCP causing chicken-egg problem.

Maybe Google could do that? IDK. They would maybe do it after they have reinvented almost everything else in their DC infrastructure.
> Participate in some organized activities as a leader.

I've noticed that martial arts schools often cultivate leadership. Once you've been training for a year or two, you will often be asked to demonstrate technique to beginners. Did wonders for my confidence as a teenager.

Similarly with the outdoors club at my university. Once participants had gone on a few trips, they were encouraged to plan, organize, and lead their own.

Any of a number of hobbies ought to offer similar opportunities.
Union organizer Jane McAlevey recently did some webinars.

https://janemcalevey.com/speaking-engagement/organizing-for-...

https://janemcalevey.com

If you find recordings, or future events, please share.

My intro to McAlevey was this interview:

A master class in organizing
https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2020/3/17/21182149/jane-mcaleve...

I did the Camp Wellstone general purpose organizer training ages ago. It was superior. https://www.wellstone.org

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The book The Logic of Collective Action transformed my thinking about unions, orgs, work, etc.

TL;DR: What to do about defectors, a la game theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action

Wish I'd read this book ages ago.
There is an unwritten rule that it is allowed to comment on clickbait articles without reading them.
The trend is still just searches. Do their historical search numbers closely represent actual figures for people coming and going?
Is this article meant to be sarcastic or something?
I don't recommend using a Cloudflare DNS resolver, I would use something like AdGuard. Also using either TOR browser or Firefox with super hardened settings (changing about:config, NoScript). One of the more important things is not using something like Whatsapp or Telegram, but something more like Signal or Keybase, or Rocketchat, or riot.im. Also don't use Dropbox, iCloud, etc. but something like Nextcloud or KBFS(not so sure about this one). If you have an Android or an iPhone, use it rarely or close to never and use your computer instead as you can do all the things on a computer.
Thank you for this good article, I want comment the 4 suggestions:

"Focus on specifics" ... don't have a problem with this but sometimes the pace is very fast and then after it, I feel depressed

"Make daily plans—and work on sticking to them" and "Use reminders" ... yeah I will give it a try

"Stay social" ... Have to say that I am feeling very good when I am alone. But maybe it's not so good for me. I will try to become more social in the future. My wife will support this ;)
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Wouldn't a UBI just raise the floor on the costs of basic things, like rent and rice?
> Small orgs don't have the resources to hire lawyers to figure out if they can do 1099 or "new thing"

Well there you have it. If small orgs don’t generally have the legal capability to correctly classify employees among three whole choices, then many probably also can’t choose well between two. AB5 helped them make the correct choice, and good thing, given what you’ve said here, but maybe even two choices is too many. Maybe there should be no 1099.
there's an artificial 500ms delay in there between fake data gen and chart drawing so it's easier for me to isolate the two in the perf timeline :)

> Would love to see how Safari handles your benchmark!

i don't have access to a Mac, so you won't get this from me!
Data shows which tech roles might be most vulnerable amid layoffs
Thanks for the kind words! There certainly is uncertainty around these loans. We wanted to make it super simple to estimate how much you could get forgiven, given what we currently know from the law itself and the SBA guidance.
Not sure what would be worse to hear about at the housewarming party - the Palo Alto homeowner's idea for a disruptive new startup or the Ohio homeowner's thoughts on a disruptive new offense for the Buckeyes.
Higher order abstractions and more general control flow, usually.
NASA could have found life on Mars
It happens at both F & G in FAANG.
Arguably Trump voters in many ways are very class conscious and his working class voters are well aware of their working class status. They have voted for Trump because he promised things to them that Obama and people before him failed to deliver.
Provide a source for that 500 headcount... Hotels.com lists 1100-1500 employees depending on where you look, and LinkedIn shows ~1600 employed by Hotels.com today.

With that said, Hotels.com is owned by a multi-billion dollar conglomerate called Expedia, which employees ~24K people across multiple brands. AirBnB is operating on their own.
The available evidence, and scholarly consensus, shows they vote based on their established personal ideologies. If you are claiming it is more complicated than this, Occam's Razor is on you.
Yet they are quite common in late stage pre-ipo companies bc few will take their options
The rumor I heard from within is that they are still in planning stages, and the information got leaked, so Uber went ahead and became transparent.
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PixiJS is the only one to reach above 100 FPS on my desktop, though that's inbetween frequent GC pauses. Two.js gets ~70 and Paper.js gets ~48.

There would probably be less GC pauses if the benchmark code wasn't doing things like

[...Array(this.count.value).keys()].forEach(...)

instead of a for loop.
Good luck! Let us know how it goes!
And? What was is dear machine?! :)
What part is that? And what's the average salary there? It's easy to give 6 months of severance when you're severely underpaying compared to global labor markets.
Mmhmm, how many other corporations do exactly the same thing?

"Benefits kick in at 30hrs / week"

Oh, you're scheduled for 28 hours every week and no more, no matter how short staffed we are? Sucks to be you.
Not that I'm advising you to do this but the most impactful thing you would be able to do would be to use your access to find non-public information about labor abuses etc. and leak it publically.
You can install the extension directly from a cloned copy of the Github repo (basically as if you were the extension developer). No auto-updates or anything since it's just loaded from some files on your disk. Chrome will nag you about it from time to time though since getting people to install unsigned extensions is a common attack vector.
The whole point of AB5 was to render your statement incorrect by law.
> if you had code that did that, that code would not be "lock-free"

Are you replying to the right person? That's what I just explained to the person I was replying to. You've quoted part of my comment but left out the "...which is not allowed in the definition of 'lock-free'".
There's a reason nobody has ever extended him this offer, and I suspect this is it.
That too is a generous severance. But the AirBnB severance is considerably more generous:
Longer Severance (14 weeks + n vs 16 weeks)
1 year of Cobra vs 4 months
Equity vs None
That's exactly what's researched in the book:

"Regulation of Pharmaceutical Innovation" by Sam Peltzman
Saying Uber is simply a tech company is basically doublespeak. Uber doesn't sell their app.. Uber maintains partnership with businesses, and managers their business using technology. Why shouldn't Uber employ their drivers, who power their app just as much as the developers who created it.
They are definitely favorable conditions, you get the loan at 1% interest and are eligible for forgiveness of up to 100% of the loan if you use it on certain types of expenses. Also, payments are deferred until after the initial period is up (June 30th). Overall a very positive program.

By making the funds loans, they also were able to quickly disburse them by using the existing legions of SBA lenders.
Portugal absolutely collapsed, due to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. Voltaire wrote about this[1]. The Portuguese Empire couldn't cope with the near total destruction of their capital, and never recovered. During the Napoleonic wars, the emperial court moved to Brazil and, basically, hid. They were a shadow of themselves.

The United Kingdom, similarly, collapsed, under the weight of two world wars. Europe as a whole was devastated, and the whole world started to coalesce around the only remaining global powers.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po%C3%A8me_sur_le_d%C3%A9sas...
I think you're just trolling
Hosts definitely are pulling properties already - based off stories I've heard/read, many AirBNB hosts were/are overleveraged on their properties and have had to sell or convert to long-term now that their income has dried up, to avoid defaulting.

Further anecdotally, I've been closely following the rental market in my city because I'm looking for a long-term place for August. There's been a noticeable drop in prices, and _huge_ quantities of listings in buildings that were notorious for being "AirBNB hotels". Furthermore, lots of listings are obviously ex-AirBNB units - tells include being only available furnished, only available for ~4 month rentals, descriptions that include "Perfect for your next stay!" or words to that effect, and my favourite: hotel-style "No smoking" cards caught in the listing photos.
seriously wtf. 1900 people lost their jobs and you think that's "Good". Check yourself
FYI - They're already gone.
During what ‘normal times’ are salary cuts okay?
Without getting fired? ... you need to trust your coworkers and cripple operations with a "blue flu" for a day or two. You (theoretically) can't get fired for being sick but you'd better be pretty careful to organize this anonymously.
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Guesss Xcode on ARM might be a good and necessary step towards ARM MacBooks?
If Airbnb is willing to pay 14 weeks (3.25 months) of severance, they must believe this is going to go on significantly longer than that. Or they're using this as an opportunity to cut underperformers at the same time.

Because if they believed things would start to recover by fall, wouldn't you just pay the people as normal and make a judgement call around then? You're spending the payroll money either way -- 14 weeks of severance and people stop working immediately, or 14 weeks of payroll and people are still working.
Which Americans? All the ones I know IRL want them ended immediately, regardless of their political positions otherwise.
The other stuff column goes far too fast.

It takes me two hours from waking up to walking into work, so now we are at 6 hours. Then it takes me an hour to get home, down to 5. After prepping, cooking, eating, and cleaning dinner, as well as making lunch for the next day (usually just packaging leftovers), I lose another hour at least, 4 hours left. Getting ready for bed is a whole process, and the average human takes 14 minutes to fall asleep, so call it a half hour there, and throw in a half hour for just misc. waste time throughout the whole day for good measure, and you are left with three hours, or 12.5% of your day, that is truly yours. If you need to run an errand after work or do some chores, that time evaporates.

I guess you can strive to make productive use of those 180 minutes, but after a whole day it's hard to work remotely efficiently. A quick peek on HN turns into a 30 minute stint. I love playing guitar and reading books, both make me quite happy, but I find sometimes there just isn't enough time to engage in these hobbies, which makes me depressed. Sometimes I indulge on the dopamine hit of playing guitar for an hour or two, which makes me very happy, but at the cost of sleep, which ruins productivity and energy the next day, I get less done, and fall to a new low.

Sometimes I wonder how older generations of my family coped with full time factory work half a century ago, then I remember all of the raging alcoholics and realized that no, they didn't really cope well with this post industrial revolution work week construct either.
There is a hitherto-unwritten rule that it is allowed to comment...
> 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.

For internal traffic they have the option to choose custom congestion controllers that don't care about being fair to Reno and can also tolerate a few packet losses. Linux has offered options here for a long time.
IIRC Bootstrap was the first responsive framework that exploded when everyone was struggling to get mobile compatible websites.

There were others but Bootstrap was lightweight and easy to use, so much so that I, with no frontend experience at the time, could use it to hack together pages for some of my projects.
Well, average developer salary in Europe is around $70k vs $163K average at Airbnb.
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Here's a solution to COVID-19 boredom - I wrote a quick and dirty tool to build Mosaic Photos from a bucket of other photos as color palette. Give it a try! Beats the news.
I propose that legally consenting adults can get whatever treatment they want, provided they are willing to sign a clear contract that the treatment has not been approved by the FDA.

Approval by the FDA would also come with legal immunity from lawsuits if the treatment is later found to be defective.

Those who are fearful of snake oil can choose to stick with only FDA approved treatments.
Gmail and YouTube were the first Google products I could think of (other than search), neither loads in under a second over WiFi where I have 50Mbps. Not even with a warm cache.
The best I can say for myself here is that I was sincerely misinformed. I apologize, and will make sure I don't repost the misinformation.
Monthly vesting in the first year?
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Some do it purely for the love and others for (directly or indirectly) promoting their paid courses.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23084576 see
> Ansible has had numerous code exec bugs due to e.g. interpreting strings coming back from remote machines or third party APIs as templates.

Sure, and that is bad, but the exposure is still way smaller. Let's say that Ansible has a bug that allows code execution on my machine by any target server or API, and Salt has a bug that allows code execution on the master server. In that case, the salt server will be owned by script kiddies within hours and the only way to stop it is me killing it or restricting access. But at the same time, the Ansible bug can't be passively exploited without me running it, and can only be exploited by my own servers or vendors when I decide to interact with them. I don't actually expect AWS/DO/whoever to attack me, and my own servers could be compromised but that's still a much less likely jumping attack.
Less competitive no, rather similar to what most white collar companies give. Some go way beyond, ie my own when fired due to similar reasons (and not say criminal behavior) will add 1 salary per year worked. It can lead to some serious package for long timers. This ain't for some C-level managers only, but regular desk IT folks for example.

Now if they would be firing say 30-50% the rules might be different, this ain't part of any written contract, but they did so for all folks fired for last 10 years. But that's probably the best package I've ever heard of, regardless of location.
The funniest case will be if governments don't even have to step in - I've read cases of AirBNB hosts being extremely overleveraged in their "investment" properties. With some luck, they'll be forced to sell or convert to long-term rentals (which are _very_ strongly protected where I live) to avoid defaulting on the cheap debt they gorged on.
Possibly, but only because labor costs would rise. It would be a wealth transfer. Rents might rise, but so would taxes for those collecting rent (presumably they are on the upper end of the income/wealth scale).
Fair enough! Thanks anyway, though.
Did no one else get 'Select all squares with dicks'?
I've been at AWS for almost 3 years now and I don't share the negative sentiment. From what I'm seeing, in general, management tries to do the right thing. I think it's more likely that given the size of the company and the public spot light it is in, incidents that happen everywhere are given more than average attention.

Can you clarify why you see "run as a startup" as a bad thing? I'm genuinely trying to understand your perspective.
Or the author may have been aware of it, but decided not to include it.

The Python tutorial teaches a good bit of the language, but it doesn't teach how to use it. You're on your own for figuring out good problems to solve to practice using it. It's more of a less thorough but less dry companion to the Language Reference and the Library Reference.
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You can serve as a shadow union organizer, provide organization and a plan for warehouse workers. Study what the Teamsters did https://teamster.org/content/first-teamsters-building-union
1. Organize offsite meetings for influential warehouse workers, convince them to become local union reps for each warehouse
2. Those leaders recruit lower level members to join the union and pay part of their wages into a fund used to recruit more union members and hire outside leadership (lawyers, others experienced in forming unions)
3. Quickly grow your membership while building a war chest but not actually hurting operations
4. Organize a strike that actually stops the ability for more than one critical facility to ship and receive products
5. Block access to the facility for any scabs or temporary workers that the company hires
6. Be ready and willing to negotiate with management, understand what you actually want.