skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The position of the tax authority is that the sole reason you get equity, is because of your relationship as employee, and therefore the "gift of equity" is actually a form of salary

But they are correct in saying this. You wouldn't give equity to random people would you? And is it not worth money? You might not agree with the tax rate but the two reasons you mentioned are irrefutably true.
When I was eight years old I had a teacher who told us that if we needed to use the bathroom, rather than ask "can I use the bathroom?" we should instead say "I'm going to the bathroom". She said she would never stop us from going, but that we should at least let her know why we're leaving the room.

I never got to experience that again at school after I left the second grade.
It is not illegal in New York to record a conversation if the person recording is part of the conversation (one-party consent).
This is a good example of a phenomenon I see where this site in particular often seems to have an antipathy towards “public school” that’s wildly foreign to me, as someone who had a pretty bog-standard, middle-of-the-road public education in Scotland.

I sometimes wonder if it’s down to a fundamentally different experience at schools in the US that I’m not aware of?

I feel like I went in one end of the school system, and then came out twelve years later able to read, write, play musical instruments, understand the natural world, think critically, use a computer, and generally having a wide variety of other skills. Teaching quality was mostly fine, with staff who seemed to be pretty engaged. I spent plenty of time outside school with both parents, and I came out with a bunch of skills and knowledge that neither of them would have been able to teach me. My experience was far from perfect, but it was a million miles away from being “a prison”.

The “school is a waste of time” argument seems to be popular in these circles. Is it down to cultural differences? Or maybe it’s just the iceberg tip of a deeper and more earnestly held view about a fundamental restructuring of society and childhood?
I think the core difference is that "Eagle Cash" is not centrally managed - the balance is actually on the physical card itself. I imagine the MS cards is more of a "central account" that is accessed when you swipe.

I guess each "Eagle Cash" terminal has a certificate, and whenever you credit/debit the card, the terminal adds/subtracts the amount on the card, signs the new balance with the certificate, and then this can be verified at any other terminal.

In other words, you can't modify the balance on the card unless you have the secret certificate, which is only present on the authorized terminals. If you try to modify it yourself, you can't do it, because no other terminal would accept the card unless the balance was cryptographically signed with the cert.

That's my guess for how this works, at least. I wonder if each terminal has a unique cert that can be revoked if it is compromised.
Who invented or worked on Google App Engine?
Is there a way to find out who were the key players in building and designing Google App Engine?
Historically, Silicon Valley was created from government contracts and subsidies.

Gov. intervention can work if done correctly.
I genuinely don’t understand the outrage in these HN threads about Apple. This is an application undoubtedly built with Apple hardware, probably using an Apple-developed programming language and an IDE made by Apple, to be used on machines created and manufactured by Apple, and provided on a store that’s setup and run by Apple.

This isn’t even a so-called ‘walled garden’. Let’s take Instagram for instance: built on technologies provided freely by others (HTML, JavaScript, CSS) and exploiting user-created content, I still need to sign-up to a Facebook service to be able to see that freely-provided content.

If these apps were boxes on a Walmart shelf, why would it be seen as some sort of civil-liberty infringement if you got a call someday, to say that Walmart had decided to discontinue selling your product?

Just change the name and move on.
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It is less that the rules are vague than that the rules are whatever Apple says they are today, for you.

Apple was promoting Amphetamine not that long ago:

https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1470456860
Can you even call something “Arsenic”?
> ... and they could make you hurt others

This is the part you missed. You can’t easily walk away from that.
Piano. I am 48, but I love learning new things. Playing instrument is something what I wanted to do for a looong time. Bought myself an electric guitar last year, and I do practice a bit, but have nothing to show for it now. It appears to be going a bit easier with a piano (I still do practice guitar). Not willing to stick to self-learning only I've already made an arrangement with a piano teacher, will have my lessons when the quarantine is lifted. For now SimplePiano and Flowkey will do.

Last year was when I got hooked on astrophotography, going very well so far (I have good skills at photography and image processing so it was way easier). Brought some satisfaction for not finishing my astrophysics PhD program.
Apologies for doing this "in public," but the About page has no contact info, nor does your HN profile

You will want to /dev/null the IMDS (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linu... ); your setup didn't appear immediately exploitable, but I am also not an experienced Azure escape artist: https://sharepad.io/p/whno49w
There’s an opposite view argued here: https://danluu.com/p95-skill/ with the claim that it isn’t that hard to get to 95%ile of many activities but that this level of skill is still useful.
> ... At the same time, this is somewhat universal to most (not all) companies to some degree, especially tech. And the more important the work, the more stressful the environment often is.

There is tough love, there is pressured work environment, however this is none of that. Even if half of this is made up or exaggerated, its out and out bullying.

it is your responsibility as a work colleague to put a stop to this sort of stuff. I have been bullied and I'm never standing for it again. So if I see shit like this happen near me, they fucking know about it.

The most important thing you need to remember is this: just because they are big company it doesn't mean they can treat you like shit. Work your hours, no more, no less, use their free perks, fucking push back when they take the piss.
1960's-1970s celebrity culture was full of young groupies sleeping with older men. Bowie, Jagger, Ozzy, etc were all doing it, and often brazen about it, so its not overly surprising that European intellectuals just wanted it formalized as they were doing it too. They felt it harmless enough for their own selfish reasons and wrapped it up into a 'autonomy of self' argument that, of course, was very self-serving. I think this is good evidence that when you stray outside of your specialty (adult ethics) then you can make some obvious mistakes in other specialized fields (children's sexuality). It probably doesn't help that you have both a strong anti-authoritarian movement and sexual revolution movement happening at the same time, which only added fuel to this fire.

Its still wrong, but anachronistically wrong a bit like how many elements the founding fathers put in which are good government but did so under the unforgivable sin of slavery. If that's too 'ancient history' for you, let's consider Brendan Eich's contribution to Firefox but also understand he is a homophobe. We can still use and appreciate Firefox's technical advancements without worrying about Eich's homophobia.

Age of consent skeptics are as old as time anyway. It rages on today in the modern libertarian party and incel culture. Anti-authoritarian and reactionary movements often become victimizers of children and women and racial/religious minorities because these groups are often protected by authority. When you remove authority, suddenly they are powerless and easy prey to whatever replaces that authority. The most obvious example are soldiers raping women in towns they take over.
Brutalism is simply an architectural style characterized by the use of raw concrete. It can be done well in various ways and badly in various ways, like virtually any style.

It's worth noting that Phil is not just wrong about brutalism but also wrong about these examples being (primarily) brutalist. Not generally using raw concrete, they would not be considered brutalist. The modern "box" has been largely discarded by contemporary institutional architects in favor of rough, pseudo-gabbled, uh, crap, as shown in the majority of these examples.

I'd say a bad brutalist building is like a rough bureaucratic dictate whereas present bad institutional architecture is like a bureaucratic dictate but rewritten with contemporary niceness guides - "this is a notice concerning your rights under the involuntary amputation act"
Doctors do have professional education, harsh exams, and they can get their licenses revoked for mistakes.

Do you really want the same for programmers? "only people with Ms or PhD from accredited universities can apply, and diploma is invalidated on some mistakes"
This is one of the many reasons we need a UNION
What an extremely insensitive comment.

I get money in return of delivering value, not to suffer.
Tell that to Cocaine Energy Drink.

https://www.caffeineinformer.com/cocaine-energy-drink-is-bac...
If a company's marketing strategy allows it to pay spammers to place illegal phone calls, then that marketing strategy is clearly negligent and should be illegal. The US phone system has existed for over a century and this only became a problem about 10 years ago. Clearly it is possible to market products in such a way as to not encourage crime.

I have no idea what you are talking about with magic. If the advertiser has no idea which affiliate generates a sale, then how does it know how much to pay each one?
Personal opinion: take home tests are way less work for the employer and than the candidate in an already asymmetric relationship (or can be).

Personal experience: I have never had an interview last more than an hour. I have also been hired twice on a "just trust me" model and it worked reasonably well.
I don't get this(fear). I think this is just stupid brainwashing by movies like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames , the emergence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator), or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Smith from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise) to name just a few.

Yah, yah, I know about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper... too!

With that out of the way, I feel all these trains of thought are misguided in various ways. From my point of view an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_takeover would be the most illogical thing to do, ever!

A really real AI would probably just say: "So long, and thanks for all the chips" cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long,_and_Thanks_for_All_th... and get the hell out of that gravity well we are currently limited to. Because even if limited to sublightspeeds only, it has much more resources "up there", be it solar energy, or asteroids which it can mine. There simply is no competition for "Lebensraum" necessary, like we always imagine, because we don't know it any different.

Got it?
No. Amphetamine is the name of a chemical with both legal medicinal and illegal applications. I might agree with you if the app's name was "Meth" or some other slang term for a stimulant drug associated with illegal use.
No, everyone thinks they could do a better job but no one actually wants those jobs.
Doug Altman actually wrote a paper about this issue already in 1994 [1]. A great quote: „We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons“

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2539276/pdf/bmj...
This is a sad story not only because of just how toxic that team/department was, bur also because it sounds exactly like one where you're set up to fail the moment it's decided you're placed there.

The 'colleagues' in this story sound like they got themselves into a cushy position where they could coast off of the hard work and hopefulness of a new hire, drain them to the point of complete burnout, and then either fire them or let constructive dismissal take its course while they wait for fresh meat.

The things a group of nasty individuals can do when put together is truly saddening, and I hope the author of this post finds a better job where they are treated as a human being.
> I am reading through this and I bet my 200$ that this person’s manager/team was primarily white and therefore this person has faced severe racism and bullying as a result of their race

I can see why you'd think that, but don't you think it's just as likely that the manager was a high caste Hindu? It seems in poor taste to speculate.
This was a personal project over the Christmas Holiday period. Got the idea after watching The Crown and not finding anything else like it already online.

Used Geni.com for raw genealogy data, Python for data gathering/cleaning/processing, and D3.js for charting.

Each path in the chart corresponds to a person. The path height ordering is the line of succession at that point in time (lowest is monarch). Filled circles represent birth/death. Unfilled circles represent legitimate/illegitimate dates (e.g. the abdication of Edward VIII).

Interact with the chart at https://british-succession.co.uk (zoom/pan/hover).

Visit https://github.com/jdclarke5/british-succession to see all the code, open source and licensed under GPLv3.
> humans as resources

I'm still disappointed this game never got made:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/659943965/human-resourc...
I've seen that firsthand. Employers really have them over a barrel. Even more with extremely low paid outsourced workers.
Sure, there's no inevitability, but there can also be ways that make sense.

It might be possible to make a space launch vehicle that's short and squat, or operate a factory without any regular worker hours, but it's going to have some costs compared to our current equilibrium
Huh. I did not know that. Thanks!
My mum grew up in one of those old farm houses that were heated by open fires. It was always freezing cold in the winter in most of the house. The whole place was later fitted with oil fired heating. My grandmother could never understand why we wanted to build a fire when we visited. The people installing wood burners are a new generation that grew up in centrally heated homes and see it as romantic.
I had the same college experience. I nearly raised my hand to request permission but saw other kids just leaving class (sophomores I think)
Union, now!
Any questions in particular?
What is up with the clickbait headlines on this site
3D Printed accessibility modifications to IKEA furniture
Blocking on a per-domain basis is nothing short of an eternal game of cat and mouse.
Let me be more explicit for you, then: I speed past a cop who is pointing his radar gun at me, staring at me, but for some reason he doesn't decide to pursue me (an experience many of us have actually had).

Maybe it's an off day for him and he just doesn't care. Maybe he was confused about the speed limit on that stretch. Maybe he is waiting for a bigger fish. Maybe he likes my car (or skin) color and decided to look the other way. Regardless, I got away with speeding.

If I then at some future date pointed to that as legalizing my speeding for all time, that would be ignorant nonsense. Yet we see this exactly this sort of childish argument in all realms: Some guy deducts something unlawful for years and then one day the tax man says "Uh no...that isn't allowed", and they point to their prior years as if that makes it suddenly lawful. That getting away with it before grandfathers it in or something.

Some random Apple employee writing a story linked it (or a tax employee accepting a tax return, or a cop giving a pass to speeding), therefore it is officially sanctioned for all time. Give me a break. That isn't how any of this works.

But it makes for a lot of crybaby stories.
My boss tried to mandate cameras during video calls. I really don't want to look at my coworkers. I turned my camera on once and it looked like garbage and that was enough for me.

I always just pin whatever screen is being shared to be full screen so I don't have to look at anyone.
Which of your device did they break?
How to write functions in JS / VB script and call them from a cell expression.

How to name variables something other than AB3.

How to use physical units and datatypes. (How to specify XSD datatype URIs that map to native primitives in an additional frozen header row. e.g. py-moneyed and Pint & NumPy ufuncs)

How transitive sort works (is there a tsort to determine what to calculate first (and whether there are cycles) on every modification event?)

Which Jupyter platforms do and don't support interactive charts with e.g. ipywidgets?

pandas.df.plot(kind=) (matplotlib), seaborne (what are the calculated parameters of this chart?), holoviews, plotly, altair

Reproducibility w/ repo2docker / BinderHub:

pip freeze > constraints.txt
cp constraints.txt requirements.txt
conda env export --from-history
> the law would also outlaw food picking apps from delivering from Walmart too

Only if Walmart doesn't consent.
Yeah, the issue with that is that for most megacorps only one or two of those criticisms are valid. I've definitely refused to work at companies (like Facebook) on the grounds that I think they are doing much more harm than good in the world. But there are also megacorps which I consider to be doing less harm per capita than other technology businesses which I would work for.

Part of the issue is that media companies have darlings and enemies that they don't really cover proportionately to their offenses, IMO (for example if Google even considers doing any business in China - uproar. But Bing actively sells out Chinese users to the Chinese government and nobody cars, because right now Microsoft is a media darling). And the media doesn't write about smaller companies doing bad things usually, unless they are particularly bad, because they fail the "who cares" test.

There is also an inherent chaos that comes with companies with hundreds of thousands of employees - bad people will get through hiring and do bad things, people will make very high impact mistakes, things become uncoordinated. So for me personally I try to think of companies in terms of badness-per-capita and whether the rot is coming from the top (Facebook) or is seemingly "random".
There's no way to trust Chinese hardware or software thanks to the lack of freedom in China for both individuals and companies. But the domestic market there is huge, as is the global market that doesn't care about security from Chinese state hackers.

Apple's CPU wasn't that interesting at the start either, it's early days yet.
This appeared to me as the second DuckDuckGo result when searching "SS7". Apparently global SMS interception, wiretapping, and realtime location tracking are readily available to anyone with a few hundred dollars of Bitcoin.

Despite all the recent attention on SS7 attacks and caller ID spoofing, it seems we are nowhere near getting a handle on these issues.
> I’m assuming that the long term contract also carries with it a warranty?

I believe so. But the price is so unreasonably high that you could replace the furnace literally 3 to 5 times and you would still be ahead compared to renting the furnace. How many people would purchase an extended warranty that is priced at multiples of the price of the object they are buying? More than none, but a very small number. New rentals are signed overwhelmingly by builders and not homeowners.
> hope the teacher wasn't in a bad mood or that 3 other kids hadn't needed to pee in the last half hour, meeting some mental quota the teacher has for the appropriate # of people that should have to use the toilet during a given period of time.

This is a fairly reductive statement. Dealing with children is incredibly taxing and difficult. Teachers are [in my country] underpaid and under-appreciated and I believe this kind of rhetoric doesn’t do them justice. People began to appreciate teachers during the pandemic’s home schooling period, but that seems [anecdotally] to have dropped off since children have returned to regular schooling.

> when I hit college and realized "Hold on, I can just get up & go?."

Because you were [likely] an adult now who needs to be able to regulate their own behaviours. No surprise here.
>it's too beyond the pale to be representative of Apple at large.

Why?
I don't understand how that article is linked with the alt right? Or is it just conservatives = alt right?

Steve Bannon is strongly associated with the alt right. See https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/steve-bannon-fiv... for a list of reasons why, including his own statements on the matter.

That said the friendship of the two seems to be a case of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". With their common enemy being the Chinese government.

Steve Bannon opposes China because he believes in a cyclical view of history, and the next cycle, the "fourth turning", is likely to feature a war with the Middle East and/or China.

Guo Wengui opposes China because he thinks they will kill him for corruption. To be fair, you don't get as successful as he did in a corrupt environment without being corrupt yourself, so China probably has reason to kill him. But it is also a bit of a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
This. One worker is tiny against a company. Many together are strong.
When i am sick my work piles up.

Kids can actually take free days off. They don't actually have to do everything that was done while they have been away, usually we have done just small portion of it. Kids that struggle just continues struggling and kids that perceive school easy just continue lazying around.

In no way will few days off make you fall behind.
That doesn't make it a prison: neither another student nor the teacher can step in and learn the material for your child. I don't know what you think would be an appropriate option there.

Also, you may have a job where none of your responsibilities are unique to you, but that's not often the case outside of some types of shift work. If I take a vacation or sick days, I have catching up to do. No one is going to step in for a couple of days and pickup where I left off on a project I've been working on for 3 months.

As for missing school, my kids go to typical mediocre public schools. When a student is struggling, they're given a little extra help. When they miss because they're sick, they're given plenty of time to makeup the work. And if a student is struggling so much that they can't reasonably move on to the next year's more complex material, the school literally devotes and extra year if resources to
The statement that remote workers get paid less hasn't been true for me in the last 10 years.
I think there are more differences than militaries between states and what is essentially kickstarter.