skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I think of when companies offer the passive-aggressive "unlimited vacation time" policy.

It's not unlimited, and you shouldn't start off your employer-employee relationship with an obvious lie. Set a policy and make it clear that you are exchanging x dollars for y amount of work.
People do seem to be complaining about Amazon's NOLs:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/03/why-amazon-paid-no-federal-i...
From what I have read, monetary incentives are only effective in specific circumstances. If used the wrong, it can even decrease performance.
That’s probably correct but previously they were also paying your taxes on the gift for you (i know). Since they didn’t share all the details it was hard to figure out if how it played out financially.

I didn’t have a dog in that race bc I couldn’t stand android so I wasn’t even claiming my gift previously but it was interesting to watch the political pickle they got themselves in
The hardware still will not run any software that is not signed by apple. So even if I wanted to run linux on the device, I can't. The software EULA is not the problem. It's how they are controlling the underlying hardware.
You should be a politician! Incredible work.

Log scale is absolutely not the right measure, actually didn’t even see that nifty trick because I would never have expected it used! No wonder your graph looked totally wrong. Log scale would work if they were staying constant so we could compare on long time scales, but that’s so far from the case. If you can’t admit that, we can’t have a discussion. You really should know that to be talking about this stuff.

These are close values that are fluctuating too much. The swings over the last 10 years is relevant, in absolute values. I can write the numbers out for you, but the graphs are actually less refutable. You insinuate they aren’t, but they are they’re than numbers for this use: comparing relative performance. We want to see how they all are doing, in a straightforward comparison.

No, my point is you’re choosing your window very selectively and distorting the numbers to fit your narrative, and when I take the window away your point doesn’t stand, as it doesn’t
Although the fire released a lot of lead, making it necessary for researchers to don protective clothing and abide by procedures to avoid lead toxicity

This seems to be a common misconception --- lead has a high boiling point and (unlike e.g. mercury) basically zero vapour pressure at atmospheric temperatures and pressure. To be around while the fire was still burning would be dangerous, but after it's cool it won't be releasing any lead vapours. Those working in electronics will know this.
Any strategic, cooperative multiplayer game will improve some important skills like teamwork, decision making, computer skills, etc.

Here’s an article that talks about some benefits: https://www.healthygamer.gg/video-games-make-you-smarter-bac...
I’m not staying at a job past 5 unless I have a share of the company. Screw that. Every startup owner thinks they are unique and that’s why 90% of them fail. If you are working at a new startup the stats says it’s going to be time to look for a new job anyway in a year so why go any extra miles when you don’t have stake? Silicon Valley isn’t a charity
Did you at least get a jelly of the month club? That’s the gift that keeps on giving.
I agree with you. Some tax law is from lobbyists & some is from tax nerds. Congress doesn't have enough time to read laws (and they simply aren't qualified for tax law - some requires CFA-level understanding of accounting / finance).

For the specific tax law that taxpayers have leveraged that the IRS now doesn't like, I'm pretty sure it came from an IRS nerd. The Residual Profit Split Method. That one could only have come from a new grad.
I do not recommend using Scoop for GUI apps.

- It's difficult to get Explorer shell integration to work.

- Apps are not installed in their expected locations, so Git Extensions won't recognize Notepad++ unless you tell it where it is.

- (the worst) Every application has at least 3 different EXE locations: the EXE in the shims folder (added to PATH, spawns the actual application as a child program), the EXE in the "current" folder-symlink (pointing to a specific version), and one EXE in every version's folder. And if you pin one of these to the taskbar, or associate a file extension to one of these programs, subsequent updates or app launches might open a different EXE that gets mapped to a different taskbar icon.
How similar are vCPUs across cloud vendors? Are they approximately the same speed, or >1.5x different? Or...?
> everyone else is allowed to talk to the government and advocate for their interests, but you are not

In practice, this is exactly the problem with revolving-door politics and regulatory capture.

> we should elect a different government that will do a better job

Agreed, and I would add that one of the most important functions of journalism like the OP is to inform the voters about these situations.
Edward Snowden's NFT sold for $5.5M at auction for charity
I feel like it's hard to say. I'm a midlevel dev, so I have no real authority.

I was in charge of elevating some code when I first started. I screwed it up and had to spend 6 hours redeploying while the team waited. It did not feel good telling everyone about the situation. It turned out ok in the end.

I was the ASC for a team (actually 6 teams across 2 departments). The application had a serious vulnerability that required multiple people to address. I brought up the issue with my boss - not prioritized. Talked to my department head next. They told me they weren't going to address the issue because they have a backup system. So I added if they ever tested the system or had documentation on how to restore from it - nope. So I did all I could do. All the tech leads were shocked when I talked to them about it. No way was I going to own the security for that POS system, so I posted to a different area of the company.

I worked as a tech lead (unofficially as I'm only a midlevel dev - seeing any issues with this company so far?). Oddly enough, I don't remember any serious issues even though this was the most authority I was given (took really, the others have me their trust/approval/etc to lead them). I had a great team and we were able to overcome a few challenges and provide business value while performing some major technical upgrades.
Dunkin' Donuts are over €1/donut ($1.20) in Berlin, even by the dozen.
I think a good compromise is agreeing with contracts between entities and not believing in copyright.

If I purchase a digital good and agree not to redistribute it, I should be liable for breach of contract. If someone already distributed something and I download it I have no agreement with the manufacturer and I'm free to do whatever you want.

You can see it like this: if you sell so many copies of your product that you can't keep track of who's breaching your redistribution contract, that's a market "tax" for selling passively so well.

I don't see why, as a society, we should automate this legal process for big corporations selling products and leave it for small businesses that have a client who is not paying.

This is happening uniquely because they can use a part of their profits for lawmaking.
It seems far more likely to me that their Apple Watch support shenanigans are caused by Apple trying to lock out a competitor in streaming fitness.
You won't believe how much people pay to sit in place like a potato.
DJ Hero looks much harder.
On screen you need to follow the crossfader line, detect the notes and scratch arrows, all of them on top of each others.
On the control side you need to control the crossfader, turntable and buttons, and the buttons move with the turntable.
Plus the effect knob, but IIRC, it isn't required, but it is important for scoring. But since the Guitar Hero robot doesn't use the star power, I think it can be overlooked.

Maybe an easier target would be BeatMania IIDX. It is actually a ridiculously hard game when played by a human, but the screen is very clean and you just have to press 7 button and move the turntable back and forth (or use the auto-scratch if that's a problem).
> Russia is ostensibly a democracy, albeit one where the leadership is somewhat predetermined a very small minority. USA is a democracy albeit one where the leadership is somewhat representing the interests of a very small minority.

The US electoral system may have it’s flaws, but to compare it to Russia is absurd.

How many opposition leaders has the US government tried to murder recently?
Same with stock RSUs. Most tech companies have been blessed with rising stock prices - it wont last like that. Sooner or later big names will disappear like Enron, Lehman did.
Wow! Using that technique I replaced nuclear fusion with a rubber band and some python code!
Read my comment history. Also, please try to be respectful in future on HN. If you make an unproven unsubstantiated claim, and someone says you're mistaken, ask yourself for your own references first.
Don’t EVER work for a company that will take your shares if you quit. It’s a psychological trap and you are the prey. Any startup owner that strips your stake if you leave deserves to become the personal target of an obsessive and vindictive IRS auditor.
The thing that confuses me is that as far as I can tell there's no way to establish true market value of internal IP that's licensed between subsidiaries. It's not like FAANGs rent out their source code or internal services.

Sure; the paperwork all gets done that convinces a tax official that transfer prices make sense in some way, but the fact remains that global companies pay a lower tax by choosing specific transfer prices despite not having any visible external changes (employing people in the same countries as they always have, doing business where they always did), and that's what annoys most people.

> Comments like "companies should just pay their taxes" are like when laypeople say "companies should have websites that always work instantaneously & never have any downtime". Reality is complicated and your opinion isn't that valuable if you don't know any basic facts.

Yes, the politicians are the ones to blame, and they seem to be taking their sweet time to fix the issues. That doesn't mean it's unrealistic to say "companies should just pay their taxes". It's more like saying "health care should just be available to people that need it" which is a truism that nonetheless isn't achieved in the U.S. to a large extent, but isn't the direct fault of individual actors in the health care system.
> What is ethical about paying taxes? Genuinely curious.

What's ethical about playing in a poker tournament and paying the entry fee? Just curious.

If you are getting rich in this country, taxes are paying for what enabled you to get rich in the first place: the human capital.
I assume you don't have kids. Most other products have warnings or safety features. Like guards covering circular saws or miter saws. A kid couldn't put a drill bit on a drill. My reciprocating saw could be used by a child but it's like 8 pounds. A child would never be able to put the blade on and you keep it off. If a kid started a saw everyone would come running. Treadmills are quiet.

Treadmills are dangerous and they only require a couple finger presses to operate. Kids would be in a room with one unlike power tools. Kids are not meant to be in an area with tools, gas, paint, lawn equipment etc.
How did you get people to listen to your suggestion to rewrite, or did you have that authority?

I made similar suggestions to my boss about a system once. They basically told me it would never happen and to stop thinking about stuff like that so I could focus on the day to day stuff. Well, 2 years later and they outsourced that entire group to a company who will end up rewriting the system...
Oh it does come from the network region/cells. In fact in the old days when the phones were the size of an actual brick they were probably powered by a proper multi-cell battery. (Did I miss a joke?)
Everyone, almost, advocates to spend other's people money, the tax the rich movement is literally that. Now, this is obviously a couple of degrees more obscene but only because of the magnitude of the numbers not because of the conduct. The conduct is sadly the norm.
You need to accept people have other needs than you do.

Brightness of screen is important if you're not always in an optimally-lit environment. I work from home, I like moving around and going to work at cafes for 1-2 hours. My 250 nits thinkpad, for all the great things it has, can be a pain to use in some circumstances.

Telling me I want 16:10 because the fanzy macs have it is belittling. I want 16:10 because I want to see more lines at once when coding on emacs. Depending on what I work on, I even split my windows horizontally.

Even bundling together usb-c for charging with the color scheme of the background is... puzzling. Surely you can see how some people would like to have only one charger to carry around for all their electronic?

If I had to guess, you have a dedicated desk and don't use any computer outside of it. That's a cool setup, but not everybody can or want to do that.
Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast!
Have you told the government how this abuse of tech is making it less accessible and also a subtle privacy invasion? It's a bit disturbing that what would've probably been a simple HTML form a decade or two ago, and would still work just fine today, instead requires this extra crap.
Chuck Geschke has died
> The second half of that statement is purely argumentative and as stated can neither be falsified nor proven true.

OMG. I was paraphrasing YOUR COMMENT! Precisely because it's irrefutable nonsense.

[And the fact that you came back after nine hours to edit your comment to make it look like you had more to say is just... <chef's kiss>]
This is exactly the goal of the global minimum tax rate the US is pushing for right now.
Seems like "and so on" implies there are a bunch of places.
I just came back from my usual gym, a Snap Fitness, which has Cybex treadmills. Those have the belt running around a roller at the back, and then, on the underside, there's a bar or plate just past the roller, almost touching the belt. So if something gets pushed underneath, it gets peeled off the belt, instead of being sucked underneath. Simple.
I rather dislike the surveillance capitalism model Google promotes, but the article is a little unfair. As a payload, the snippet of code that calls the GA library is pretty lightweight and there are many ways to make this asynchronous: this really does not need to have a significant impact on user experience.

As an aside, I find Google's model to be less bad than Facebook's attention capitalism model because it permits a diverse, unoptimised and decentralised web, amp notwithstanding.
1.5x would be quite a large difference, would not expect that

cpus are complex, varrying instruction sets and such, you need to benchmark your particular workload to get a meaningful number

Not to mention sight difference on the underlying hypervisor, that may or may not impact your workload
How do you stay safe on the internet?
Show HN: A python-requests wrapper with retry attempts and backoff delays
Most of the time it’s not vindictive founders. It’s that the options cost money to buy. And if the company is successful one might have to pay taxes on the stock options too.
The regulations should be based on how people actually use things, not on how they supposed to use them. If these treadmills cause more deadly incidents than other appliances then comparably more effort should be spent on making them safer.
Wow, I feel like I fit both sides of 4 out of the 5 categories depending on the context.
I had a similar thought but kept it to myself. Any project like this is ambitious and probably first showing is going to have the most visible warts. Let’s try to be constructive with feedback
There’s a pretty strong dopamine response with sugar, so there would be a strong association with that and class starting.

No wonder they went nuts.
Well, if the managers have a base salary of 100k and the engineers, 150k, I think it’s fair.
I run a self-hosted analytics tool called Matomo (via CapRover, a selfhosted PaaS) that I include on my static site pages. No third parties are involved unless you count Hetzner where I get my bare metal.

Best of both worlds.
I of course could have a selection bias being male myself, and I mean not to diminish the attack on femininity. It's unfortunate that this all becomes a little adversarial across gender divides, especially considering how beneficial I think cross gender relationships generally are.

Indeed, I do loathe the lose of more femininity in life and media. I feel quite often now in media a "strong female lead" is essentially changing the pronoun of what once would have been a male character, in my opinion this is lazy and disingenuous to strong femininity.
"Battery Saver" mode also automatically disables some of the animations, so it would be interesting to see if you got a boost from removing the animations without enabling Battery Saver.
As notorious B.I.G put it, Mo Money Mo Problems
Mark Zuckerberg, the modern Bond villain, is now coming for your children
JavaScript Recursion
Also, seems kind of rude as a teacher to erase equations off the board "before students could copy them". Would it hurt so much to ask, has every written this equation?
I enjoyed reading that far more than I expected to. Thanks to the author!

I'm now realizing that, yes, I do feel completely entitled to my FAANG bonus. But...the recruiters for all of the companies (FAANG and non-FAANG) involved in my last interview loop all factored target bonuses into total compensation during negotiations. This was 2 months into the pandemic, too, when things were somewhat gloomy. So how am I not supposed to feel entitled to it?

I don't see it any differently from my salary or RSUs in terms of deserving it. The only thing I see different is the potential to exceed the target, and get more than 100% of the original target %.
There isn't much to learn; the system-APIs are the only fundamental difference. I guess the ecosystem is disjoint from Node's, so the go-to frameworks might be different, but it's not like it's a whole new language.
> fast and secure

Do people just add this without actually thinking about what it means?
This is the line that got me:

>And so we are fairly broadly deployed software and where we enjoy administrative privileges in customer environments.

There is a lot of talk about shoring up security practices by many of the people quoted here. But something that would be hard to admit is that maybe they should not have administrative privileges in customer environments. Maybe they should not install agents on your machine. They would never recommend you to do so with anyone else, except them of course, because you can trust them.
The recipes are real and not generated. Feel free to make it!
Let's not oversell the fact that Amdocs' official HQ is in the US: It's an Israeli company through and through. It did more development in the US back in 2001 than it does now: Today, their US footprint is mostly customer sites. And you will find people brought in from Israel everywhere. It's always been bad enough that managers that don't speak Hebrew knew they were always at a disadvantage. Your best bet for saying it's not an Israeli company is to say that a whole lot of R&D is being done in other countries with cheaper labor.

While it's true that the installations are on-prem (having been to quite a few of those), Amdocs business model isn't about dropping code and going away: They are so embedded with your typical deployment that there's plenty of opportunity to exfiltrate data. Sending every CDR to Haifa? Probably not: The Sysadmins on your typical large telco are iffy, but not that iffy.

And carefully firewalled? The talent was never great, and the security practices were never all that serious: I've been handed production shells that I had no business having, because it was convenient at the time. Once again, I'd say that the best argument to claim that there's no data exfiltration is that the people writing the code aren't good enough to do this under the customer's nose.
> Congress doesn't have enough time to read laws (and they simply aren't qualified for tax law - some requires CFA-level understanding of accounting / finance).

Individual members may not, but they probably have legislative staffers that do, and the staff (majority and minority) of the tax committees, who prepare and distribute analyses of all tax bills, definitely have the skills to read, understand, and explain the implications of tax bills.

Members of Congress may not care, but they definitely have access to a competent understanding of proposed tax laws.
"Leaders lead even when they don't intend to."

This happened to me. It led to some problems though. People from other teams would contact me as the tech lead (was a midlevel dev acting as tech lead) and ask me to do stuff in PRD. I'd like to help, but only official tech leads are granted that access...
I personally send patches with git send-email. I used to do it by fighting with Thunderbird until it worked, but that got old fast.

Now if only git format-patch could more usefully infer the base commit...
Tricks like this scream "low quality" to me and I often just close the window because the site is hard to navigate the way I want to.
Couple of behavioral tweaks could make it more authentic -- for example when dragging windows I believe the default behavior was to show the only the outline in the new position, not the window contents as it's being moved -- I may be mistaken though
I think the main concern is breathing in lead dust. Also, since it's so soft, it rubs off easily and can contaminate other things. I've worked with lead, and my bright orange gloves were black with lead pretty quickly.
I'm fine with advocating for outcomes but it can be exhausting to hear uninformed policy positions when you have actual education.

Vaguely Relevant Comic: https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2020/05/26/experts/
Dunno about this.

If they had said they were concerned about the issue, and investigating the matter I'd be happy to consider their brand again.

Getting into a public fight with the CPSC completely taints my view of their brand. Peloton is pretty much entirely crossed off my list of products I would consider because of their response.

I mean, they _did_ get their denial into my first read of the story, but they did it in a way that seems far more brand damaging than a noncommittal expression of concern.

Peloton is now, to me, the brand that doesn't really care if they kill children.
Ask HN: Advice for a developer leading their first major project
I've been spending the last month designing an engineering design for a project that's gone through about 15 iterations and I feel the pressure starting to build as we get into implementation. Would love learnings and advice for an eng 2 years into their career about pitfalls.
Based on your comments here, you seem to have not read the actual article, which specifically states that this treadmill is much more dangerous than a regular treadmill.
I think it's pretty obvious that the mother is consenting.

I don't think consent is the issue. The problem is two-fold from my point of view:

- Kids being subjected to hormone therapy and puberty blockers (while they can't even get a tattoo), which is pure child abuse

- The silencing of opposing viewpoints
This is a very simple and unique approach to gather metrics of your site while maintaining the privacy of the user.

I’m just curious how can you use this solution with a static site generator like jekyll
Uau! You are a hater!
Are you vegetarian too?
In the case of Bitcoin the incentives of the system itself will drive miners to seek out and exploit locales where the externalities are least policed.

This is part of the design, and everyone who transacts in Bitcoin benefits from this.

Therefore the cost of those externalities should be borne by the network in the form of a transaction tax.