skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Dems had no intention to fix these loopholes why would they waste time making a bunch of hoopla about it? Words imply intent. Would you rather they say nothing and look away, as the Republicans are?

Dems are at least doing something besides electing a billionaire who dropped the corporate tax to the lowest it's been since the 1930's.
Pierre Janet and the budget of life
Arguments about Germany's energy independence would be far more compelling if they were not, for example, currently building giant pipelines to import Russian natural gas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream
None, other than the historical fact that they are the ones creating and selling the NFT. You could re-encode the jpeg or convert to png and sell your own version.
Further evidence that Hacker News is the very embodiment of stupidity, an embarrassing clown car of losers who are extremely lucky to be born in a time where they're not just clubbed over the head as punishment for their repulsive idiocy.
At some companies they call it “discretionary time off” to make it clear it is between you and your manager but the concept is the same. What many companies fail to do is properly train their managers (1) how to manage this with their reports and (2) to consistently take time off as an example to the people that report to them and to set expectations. Without a program in place to encourage people to use it, people don’t use as much as the company typically intends. Due to legal nuances, it is a bit tricky to officially track performance in this regard.

Most companies that I’ve worked at which had this type of vacation policy had a directive for managers to ensure that every employee took at least 3-5 weeks of vacation every year (the minimum varied with company). It wasn’t always successful but that was the objective. More than that was fine too.

One of the original motivations behind these policies was the burst-y nature of some types of engineering work. Companies wanted to allow engineers to take 2-3 months of paid vacation after a relatively intense 12-18 months with few breaks working to ship some product. Giving people multiple months of vacation is surprisingly difficult without also running afoul of other legal and accounting complexities around vacation time in various jurisdictions. The “unlimited / discretionary” policy is essentially a loophole in US law that originally allowed managers to reward people with large amounts of time off. It has been generalized, and has other accounting benefits, but this was the original use case.
Yup, it’s incentive misalignment. The agent wants to sell the house very quickly, whereas the homeowner wants to maximize sale price (subject to timing constraints).

It would make much more sense to have a laddered commission, for example: $5k plus 10% of the amount over Threshold1 and an additional 20% of the amount over Threshold2.

That way the agent actually cares about squeezing an extra $20k out of the buyer; under the current system they get so little from the extra $20k that they just push their client to eat the $20k difference and sell the house fast.

Source: recently sold a home in Silicon Valley and was struck by how badly the incentives are misaligned.
Really? What game is that helps you be a better web dev?
I think you got cause and effect reversed. The correct chain of events is: coal miners slave away to produce coal, which is generally burned to produce heat. Part of that heat is used to run turbines to electric generators[1], and part of the generated electricity is used for bitcoin mining. Does this mean they're slaving away for bitcoin mining? I guess, but only partially. Saying they're slaving away for bitcoin mining is as correct as saying they're slaving away for steel smelting.

[1] there are other uses, like for cooking or for heating a house
About a third of the coal burned in germany is imported
National Security. Really?!
So you use up a limited resource during peace times to have less of it during war times? Is that your logic?
What? This makes zero sense. Germany gets 24% of electricity from lignite/coal - down from 45% 6 or 7 years ago.
I assume I'm just being dense, but if you have to boil the potato, surely that takes a bunch of energy? Or do you burn wood to do that in this scenario
Wow. I had a similar experience last Monday. A coworker I like personally, but who I consider myself more senior than, was given an important role on the team that I had been working towards and discussing with my manager. I felt this incredible, irrational anger as soon as it was announced and it stuck with me for days. I went to bed angry and woke up angry. It really surprised me how visceral and uncontrollable my reaction felt. It consumed my thoughts. I’m halfway through a four day weekend to disconnect and try to reset myself mentally because while I still think it was unfair, I can’t actively feel this way and still function well at work. Time will tell if this weekend was long enough...
Something something bitcoin transcends govts
Actually, they didn't. Democrats have only had majority control of congress and the presidency for 5 of the last 40 years. The rest of the time, Republicans can block any bills they don't like.

And they really don't like huge corporations paying taxes.
If you want to be real pedantic I can counter with the fact that at least in the US and with the “at-will” contract just because they promised you 25 days of vacation doesn’t mean you can take it whenever you please or at all.
The penalty for momentary negligence should not be death, especially when there are simple, cheap safeguards to mitigate the risk. No one is asking them to ship light fences with the thing. Moreover, having the treadmill standing up in a living room is exactly how they advertise it. It's hard to argue that's somehow unintended and unforeseeable usage.
It’s supposed to be fun! Stop and smell the roses. Who cares if middle click doesn’t work.
Why are NFTs a better way to handle this (from the perspective of the content creator) than traditional, centralized DRM?
This is a sloppy counterfactual, because that number could, and should, have been close to zero already!

Yes, things are improving slowly. Yes, it is still crappy compared to the smart play.
> Never forget that your employer will gleefully lay off their most loyal employees if doing so is somehow in alignment with some executive’s comp.

I'm old enough to remember that people retired from the jobs they spent their whole lives working at... and wondered why those barely older than me were already struggling to find meaningful futures within their careers, nevermind within their company.

Reaganomics and the new business method of short term gains at all costs destroyed company loyalty and loyalty of the employee.
Maybe govts don’t like a currency created to subvert govts.
A recall seems excessive. My heart goes out to the families with injuries, but children shouldn't be playing on treadmills unsupervised. Adults get hurt on treadmills all the time, the danger wouldn't be less for a child.

Children get hurt on stuff. This is like those magnet toys that got banned because some kids ate them. Let's not, as a society, overreact to every little thing because the children.
Well, you probably already want working staffed coal plants when the war starts.
everyone is a bitcoin expert nowadays. everything has a straightforward explanation. we know a bit about everything and are experts in nothing.

for people looking at this and scratching their heads: buy the dip
That's going to depend a lot on the design of the treadmill. Generally higher end models have some spring in them while the cheap stuff you can buy at Walmart is hard as a rock. For myself, I rarely run on the treadmill, I speed walk at an incline. It takes longer to get as good of a workout as running would but I usually watch videos while on it anyway which is more difficult when running due to more noise.
> The fact remains that while DOS was an essential component for bootstrapping Windows 9x, Windows did still manage it's own memory, resources, etc independently of DOS.

Windows 95 would round-trip some calls through DOS so that it was possible to use DOS device drivers in Windows 95. There were also many 32bit applications for DOS that used DOS extenders (which Windows 95 also was) to manage memory and resources and call back into DOS as necessary. They would also do their own hardware calls, etc. If those are 32bit DOS applications than I would still argue is accurate (but a stretch) to call Windows 95 one as well.

> Not to mention a whole boat load of better home computers than IBM-clones, such as Acorn Archimedes, Apple Mac, Atari ST, Amigas (funny how they all begin with 'A').

In this era, many of these machines didn't even use protected memory. There is no comparison -- these proprietary systems didn't stand a chance.
> my view is that the individuals responsible are the ones who designed and approved the dangerous device.

That's not how that works though. Responsibility is only derived from action or negligence directly (not indirectly) resulting in harm. Lots of devices are dangerous - why do you get to decide what is "safe" and what isn't?

As for who is hurt most, I would say it's all of us. Increasing regulation of every aspect of our lives causes tremendous harm to, and increases the barrier to entry for pretty much everything.
I see it quite a bit... Managers will often have larger equity or bonus comp.
If the goal is to increase the productivity of the employees, then what you want is for the employees to be trying harder. To do that you'll want to incentive trying hard, e.g. through bonuses. The main reason bonuses are awarded for achieving good outcomes instead of for trying hard is because the former is easier to measure. Intentionally rewarding the achievement of good outcomes (which is a matter of chance) instead of good efforts will lead to strife, as those who put in just as much work but weren't as lucky will feel cheated.
Unless it subverts a perceived adversarial agent though.
Dürer shaped the modern world
The funny thing is back in Windows 7 and earlier I would tweak my theme to have the thinnest borders possible yet I still didn’t have the whole “where is my window” issue. All those customization options went away starting with Windows 8 when some UI designers decided they knew better than me how my windows should look.

Thanks for those links - I’ll play around with those options to see if I can restore some sanity to my desktop.
The maintainer you are referring to isn't one of the original maintainers. It looks like they are missing in action, but for what it is worth, I never saw them respond in this way.

Looks like a frustrating choice between a polite maintainer that isn't around or a rude maintainer that is still active.
Why the downvotes? My parents are boomers, I'm not using the term pejoratively.
GitHub isn’t simply a US company, it’s owned by Microsoft.
Germany is replacing nuclear/coal with wind/solar energy:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energiemix#/media/Datei:Energi...

(grey = wind, red = nuclear, black/brown = coal)

Both nuclear and coal are shrinking since ~ 2000 and both sources of energy have been replaced by renewables since then. Currently ~40% of power produced in Germany comes from renewables. Wind energy has become #1 source of power from 0 twenty years ago.
It seems far easier and cheaper to keep the nukes running and just stockpile, like, a suitcase worth of uranium.
400k a year is still an obscene amount of money. Likely top 1% in the US and top 0.01% on the planet.

Billionaires don't pay income tax, that's why Dems are raising the corporate tax rate too. They're also looking at increasing estate tax and capital gains tax, and those almost exclusively effect the ultra rich
If this mutates me into something where my back hair can be sheered and used to make sweaters and blankets, I'm all for it.
yeah, well more specifically they could force a preferred fork to assume the "Bitcoin" ticker (BTC) by denying power to chinese miners on the disfavored fork. exchanges and miners, rather than the developers, ultimately determine this, as there's no in-band way to control what ticker is used for trading what token.
Maybe we need more of this kind of corruption then
It sounds like what the other person is saying the primary motivation for this “engineering” is not to save money just because they could, it’s to avoid disputes and compliance risks as much possible (which incidentally results in them saving money). I can’t comment if that’s true or not, but I can easily imagine that this is the situation.
Thing is that whole point of the local applications as opposed to running it off from a browser, is that it can do things sandbox would prevent, like in case for VSCode.

Though, I guess it is beneficial if it is sandboxes where any of those "special" access is not needed, but then if that's the case, it just as well can be a applications that runs off from the browser or PWA...
that’s not how 51% attacks work. you have the miners but you also have the actual bitcoin nodes that are witnessing the blockchain growth.
> Never forget that your employer will gleefully lay off their most loyal employees if doing so is somehow in alignment with some executive’s comp.

I work at a global mega corp run by private equity guy. This is definitely not the way our management works. From my manager up through our BU head, people are valued as a long term investment and are not casually discarded. Yes, if you are not productive, you can be dismissed. But valuable people are not taken for granted at any level of seniority in my experience.
Cool good to know and thanks for the clarification!
A great man. Really cared for his employees and knew everyone's name at Adobe even when it had over a thousand employees.

I was at Adobe during the early years, including the time when Mohammad Albukhari and Mohd Sayeh kidnapped him and held him for ransom. They're now serving life sentences at San Quintin.
I'm not sure about that. Most miner operations in the US run only a fraction of the day to take advantage of electrical savings that a lot of operations in China wouldn't be doing. So if miners started returning higher yields we would output a larger hash rate. If we actually needed to protect against a 51% attack we could ramp up accordingly.
It's not the penalty, it's just a natural consequence. Momentary negligence does frequently result in death. Taking your eyes off of two small children could kill them in many situations. It's easy - just watch your kids. My living room is perfectly safe for me and other adults, but I could come up with 5 ways those two kids could seriously harm themselves if I left them there alone for 5 minutes. The world is dangerous. The responsibility for protecting your children from harm ends with you.
I suppose inherent in my argument that they're slaving away for bitcoin is how lowly I view bitcoin.
I have lots of tiny hobby projects. I never want to do any of those things you mentioned. Just a simple page, with the minimum amount of javascript to make it work.
Boom, now they’ve eliminated “toxic customer” critical of the brand out of the equation.

This is such a horrible line of thought, but if their founders and investors don’t go actually personally financially and/or physically punished from being morally corrupt, that is only a good thing for the company!
But the network is still operating despite government intervention? If the government sent Men With Guns to SWIFT headquarters then it will be actually down.
<grin> Coins are cash.

I rarely have more than a few dollars in coins, because I consciously work to get rid of them.

If you can't be bothered doing that, just walk along to your closest supermarket and "pay" in coins. (You don't need to buy anything, if you don't want to.) Then take your change.

Your change will be given back in foldable, and the left-over balance under a dollar will be converted to as few coins as possible.
I qualified with "non-automatic" because semi-automatics are easy to acquire.
I don't like the Solarwinds Linux agent. When I last looked, there was still an sh syntax error in the cron job it installed (look for a file named 1 in your root directory) and I couldn't reach anyone who could understand my bug report. It also frequently exhausted the space in its log partition. I replaced the agent with SNMP 3 read only access. I don't believe I'm authorized to describe my employer's current monitoring posture.
Yeah, so much for the fantasy of cloud platforms eliminating the need for ops staff. The guy who used to setup and manage your Linux VPSs just switched jobs to manage your AWS infra and charges extra for it.
the parable leverages our feelings of injustice tickled by the very relatable narrative to carry one point home, the Heavens part.

the other, secular reading, has a heavy taste of prosperity gospel, putting employers into God's boots to justify blatant injustice and better margins, fka profits. it is and remains unfair to offer different employees different wages for the same work.

please don't use the gospel to justify injustice.

btw,bI'm amazed there are employee owned companies.

For example whenever there is another round of Huawei bashing I remind myself that Huawei is fully employee owned with no majority shareholders.

https://www.huawei.com/en/facts/question-answer/who-owns-hua....
Power outages could be qctuqlly used as a tool to localize miners.
I watch fight videos all the time. I enjoy them and I know many guys that do. It doesn't surprise me at all that it might suggest them for you if you are a young man and i don't think it has anything to do with the election
Probably the cost to set it up is high and fix, and you need a lot of revenue to justify the setup.

Alternatively you have a much cheaper options: collect in crypto or cash.
> We are lucky enough to have a regular bonus program even now at work, it’s been going on for years. Every time it is handed out my boss will say something like, “so we had a good bonus this time, but don’t count on it in the future.”

"Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning."
Dude wut? Git itself is open and decentralised. You are supposed to backup your data not your SAAS provider. There are bazillion git hosting services/tools much lighter than hot heavy mess of Gitlab.
This is just highly dependent on the structure of the company and the ability to objectively determine an individual's input into the final profit of the company. Small companies, sales orgs, hedge funds have an advantage here. If you're not so lucky, your industry / company size may result in bonuses getting handed out completely based on who your boss likes, and no one can argue because it's subjective.

Spend months sorting out a rat's nest of code that your predecessors created? Over the long term, this is value creating behavior for the company. Is a portion of the bottom line measurably attributable to it in a particular year? Maybe, maybe not.
It could be not necessary Russia's motive.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/czech-minister-says-russia-ro...
Imagine if a - let's say Westinghouse Electric Corporation -
wants a juicy government contract and wants to kick China General Nuclear and Rosatom out of competition. How would you do that? One way to do it - dig out 7 year old skeleton and drag it through the streets of the town with the mask of Putin.

Cheap and effective, ~7 billion $ is at stake.
Out of curiosity, with COVID I imagine people are WFH more and there's a tendency for that to continue. Did you think about buying a desktop instead? Usually is much better value for the money and Linux is likely to run without issues too.
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Sure, in energy rich nations! But in lots of parts of the world people do not have access to much electricity for lighting.
Soviet children’s books became collectors’ items in India
That was tried a few years ago with the segwit2x fork. A group of miners comprising 82% of the hashpower got together and agreed to activate the segwit2x fork. Despite having a overwhelming majority of the hashpower the fork was never happened due to lack of community consensus.

https://dcgco.medium.com/bitcoin-scaling-agreement-at-consen...
No, it means that theoretically a 51% is possible but the levels of coordination required to do that and the ability of the bitcoin network to figure it out and ignore it are means that it is unlikely to be effective.
The biggest difference is chocolatey is designed around admin installs. Even the command line tool needs to be run with admin rights. The advantage is things are installed the way Windows expects.

Scoop, by contrast, keeps everything user level and installs programs to its own folder in Documents aiming to portable.

Scoop is a fair amount simpler and doesn’t have any sort of pro version to upsell you on. Scoop’s catalog is smaller but still pretty well managed.
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Nope Germany is massively relying on nuclear energy produced by its neighbors.
It is because of a Supreme Court decision that ruled that citizens have the right to do everything in their power to avoid paying taxes. Therefore it is only the letter of the law that can be enforced, not the spirit of the law. This makes tax code different from all other legal domains. It also means that intent is a moot point since tax evasion isn't illegal.
And in the event of an attack you just hope they won't target nuclear power plants to recreate Chernobyl and Fukushima?
There was a story I read a while back about Veterans being unhappy with the red cross for not offering free donuts because they had back during WW2.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/13/156737801/the-...
I take about 3-5 weeks of vacation a year + our 14 company holidays.

I typically do one big road trip for ~2 weeks and then a week randomly through the year plus random days fishing, doings tuff with kids or just taking a break from work.

I could never do that having to accrue
The difficulty adjustment only happens every 2016 blocks (~2 weeks), so the higher yields wouldn't happen unless they're down for an extended period of time.
Ah, the fine slogan, “Corruption for everybody!”

[https://spectator.us/topic/corruption-for-everybody-slavoj-z...]
Was this true 25 years ago? I don’t remember.

In any case the attitude of the NYT was that people with any money would want to lord it over others. Back before the dot com boom that attitude had not migrated out here.
> companies are required by law to maximize their profits

No, US court rulings say that mgmt. has "wide latitude" in how the company is managed. It's up to shareholders and the board to step in if they disagree, but since they appointed mgmt., it's rare for major disagreements.

Which makes sense in a capitalist country, as there is little central planning outside of certain industries like defense and banking (regulated.)

(In both the US and UK, the govt. tells industry how many airplane or ship builders they want, and who has to merge. After WW2, this caused concentration in the airplane industry. My understanding is that Northrop was told to drop the F-20 (an upgrade on the F-5 and a challenger for the F-16) to focus on their bomber contract, and then still told to merge.)

I'm not going to comment in detail about offshore tax structuring like Ireland except to say that it is an abuse of tax avoidance.
The article mentions that 75TB of data is stored across 40 nodes. Does this mean that sharding is already done ? What is the CPU/RAM/Disk of each node ?
That's mostly for heating, though. Heat pumps are being increasingly used in new homes but nearly all homes older than 10 years are using gas or oil furnaces. Electricity prices are also very high, amongst the highest in the world, so heat pumps aren't as cheap to run as in other countries. It's definitely a problem that needs to be fixed, potentially within the next 30 years because that's the timeframe where the law requires old furnaces to be replaced.
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