skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It was evil in the nineties. It's a different company now.

Yeah, now they just sell and support the software that their national government uses to run concentration camps down in Texas. Microsoft in the 1990s was simply anticompetitive. Today it's a horse of a different color.
hmmm thats what happened at oculus...
If you sell your company you lose your company. Everyone with the sophistication to be in a position to sell a company to Facebook for ten figures knows this. The main purpose of Zuckerberg saying “I won’t do X” is to give the Instagram some reputational repair so that when they get tsk-tsked on Twitter or at fancy parties in Napa that they can say “Hey he said he wouldn’t!” They knew he would.
See banking. TC is still less than 15 years ago, esp in London
Braid was a novel puzzle platformer for it's time, it's exciting to hear that he's coming out with a new game.
Endless browser popups just take a new form nowadays: cookie setting bullshit, websites asking for permissions to shit they don't need, newsletter signup popups, subscription popups, ads that relocate all the content you're trying to look at, ads that obscure the content until you tell them to fuck off...
I’d call that a feature
There has been considerable coverage of this attribution: https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds-articles/attribution.htm...
> It sets obvious precedent and will upset more folks when you stop.

Isn't another solution to make perks not variable, and clearly outlined in the contract as part of the employment package? You only have to worry about what your employees will do if you take away a perk when it's actually something you can consider taking away. If you treat it as part of the guaranteed compensation, you'll budget for it accordingly just like your employees do.

If you want to give bonuses, like the parent said make it a flat guaranteed amount, or tie it to a number based on company performance that people can see and make plans for (profit sharing with published numbers at regular intervals, preferably more often than it's paid out).
Thanks :)

Regarding security keys, actually it depends: if you are enrolled in advanced protection no you must have two security keys and we don't fall back. For normal users that is the case yes. Until phone as a security keys is widely used and security keys are main stream the no fall back option can't be the default but hopefully we get there :)
There are issues that, if mishandled, can sink the project. There are others that it would be nice to get right, if possible. Make sure you have straight in your mind which are which, and maintain sufficient focus on the first group, only allowing focus on the second if you can afford it. You don't get graded on the % of issues handled correctly, you get graded on the project as a whole, and some of them are project-killers and some are not, but they all will tug at an engineer's "I want to fix that" instincts.
If you're a "director" of an ammunition warehouse and screwed up precautionary measures which led to an explosion - what's your best course of actions?
a) announce "sorry, i screwed up. Pls fire me"
b) blame evil russians
I’d call that a feature. Does QUIc break Fortinets too? A boy can dream.
Charging taxes is unethical and a violation of the non aggression principle.

I pay taxes because the alternative is fines and eventually jail. That's theft, that's coercion.

The less taxes you pay the more power to you - and I'd appreciate if you shared how.
That is pretty great, but I'm rather partial to Progress Quest...

http://progressquest.com/
Streaming Models for Joint Speech Recognition and Translation
This has been a puzzle for a while, and I am not yet satisfied with the answer so far. The closest to an explanation is found here: https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds-articles/initial.html.

I feel like this says "well, we are not really sure".
I don't get the hyperventilating about this. If you don't want your kids to use children's Instagram, then prohibit them from doing so. There's a lot of stuff on the internet children shouldn't see or be involved with. If you think Instagram Kids is a member of that set then treat it that way.
> "I have no idea how this gets determined; I've just been strongly incentivized to act randomly!"

that was certainly how i felt about raises at one job. good reviews every year, but sometimes a big raise, sometimes a tiny raise. no pattern.

once that realization sunk in, i basically checked out of the work.

raises continued with no pattern.
I don't want to go too much into Apple, for sure there's some things to be worried about and keep an eye out. But at least it's POSIX, so driving CI isn't awful. I agree Homebrew is a godsend though
Quitting my last job. My emoloyer comitted misuse of public funds in my last project through kickback fraud, despite me warning them to not try to pull this off in my projects. Thing is, that I never wanted to do anything illegal at work because I don't want anyone to have leverage over me and blackmail me into doing more unethical things.

It only afterwards turned out to be a challenge. I didn't have an alternative job offer at the time of quitting, and shortly after my last day at work the pandemic started.
Not being given leadership challenges, or if I take on a leadership challenge my manager takes credit.
Yeah, try searching "white supremacy" on the default (middle) view.

The top article is Breitbart whining about an article from Cosmopolitan of all places.

I also see articles from OAN, Fox News, and Conservative Review... given that this was the search it (randomly) gave me when I opened the site, I don't have an awfully high estimation of its "middle" view.
The best set of articles in my opinion are these: https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds-articles/zetter.html
The quote in your second point seems like a tongue-in-cheek admission that it is not at all grit.
For the first point -- I believe that OP wants the manager to extend trust as a mechanism and path toward both a trusting relationship and short-term performance.

For the second -- it is on the manager to know enough about the reasons affecting their report's performance to be able to adapt before the team underperforms. (and it is on the report to surface that information quickly so that the team isn't compromised)
I've often thought about how easy some issues must be to deal with with the US's "fire at will" regime.

In my country you really can't fire anyone without a major HR process that saps everyone's energy and morale.

In your case it sounds like everyone would have better off if this person had been fired early on in proceedings.

Once I made someone redundant, which can be a back door mechanism for firing in some circumstances. He just wasn't cutting it. I felt ghastly afterwards.

I ran into him months later and he told me he had no hard feelings, and the shock of it had made him reappraise his career path and he had made his way into a job which was much better suited to his skills. He was far happier.
Robert Frank is a moderately socialist economics professor at Cornell, so take his quotes with a grain of salt.

The article talks about young men playing video games excessively. A contributing factor is that online dating women are looking for the top 5%-20% or so of men now (combination of appearance and hypergamy), so the bottom 80% to 95% are not dateable online.

(A recent survey said women are only interested in the top 4.9% of men in dating apps, versus the previous estimates of 10%-20%. This is called unrestricted hypergamy and has horrible consequences for both women and society at large, as those 4.9% of men essentially have harems of short-term relationships because they can, and the other men can just play video games.)

I've never heard somebody say, "I want to accumulate the fruits of workers' labor", so I think the understanding of motivation is backwards - it's to create a company or solve a problem, and if workers are needed, you hire them. This is HN, so for most readers should be obvious.

The deeper psychology is that most men need a purpose in life, and a startup is very purposeful. Whether it succeeds or fails is kept by financial score, but it still serves the purpose of getting up daily, focusing on tasks, and trying to "make a dent in the universe." (Richard Cooper)
They do. They pay employees money
That's quite ingenuous.

It's of course easier to charge more taxes for moderately wealthy employees who don't have a clever tax setup and may need to.

Really rich people with clever tax setups will just move out and you'll get no more revenue.
Rails FTW. I’ve kept checking on other tools, but there’s no stack out there that is even on the same order of magnitude of productivity as Rails for doing simple LOB CRUD apps. Which, it turns out, is a LOT of apps. I think the problem is that there’s a common type of person drawn to programming which HATES being “told what to do” with Rails’ convention-over-configuration approach. Whatever. While they’re still writing wonderfully-typed class files in two different applications on the front and back ends, I’m done with my app, and writing the next one.
It was evil in the nineties.

Not just evil, "More Evil Than Satan Himself".

That phrase was probably the very first Google Bomb, back in 1999. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bombing#History
There is a lot of legal action about this. It isn't clear that the stock is long term affected: https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds-articles/stock.html
Are you saying that all "equipment" sold should be in the category that it can safely be installed in a multi-use area of a home with kids in it? I get the idea that there is demand for such products, but it's pretty backward to mandate that a product can't exist that requires a dedicated area to house it. As a concrete example, everywhere I have lived requires your pool to be fenced off from the rest of your yard, because of the danger to kids (which would dwarf that of a treadmill). Should we ban pools because you need to have dedicated space for a pool in order to have one?
> $6/mo on a droplet

I wonder how many extra dollars cumulatively DO makes from the $1 premium on getting a better Intel CPU or AMD CPU and/or NVMe up sell on the smallest droplets.

I pay the extra dollar as well. I doubt I actually see the difference for what I use it for. I feel no desire to pay a dollar less though, so they are making another 20% from me on that product than they would have.
For cleaning cast iron just get metal chain mesh. Use it like a sponge but without soap everything easily comes off. [1]

As for eggs. Stainless steel with some butter. Way better tasting than teflon. And either way the oil absorbed is minimal.

Sure if my day job was making French omelettes all day, I’d use a Teflon pan. But really on a day to day it’s not necessary.

[1] doesn’t have to be this model. But something like this -
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084VJG9VN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_...
Yeah, but your example is a little different than the OP's - I think part of this though is that the company is using the 'bonus' effectively as salary but with the idea that they don't have to guarantee its future.

The company treats it like salary, the employees treat it like salary, recruiters probably mention it as part of comp like it's salary, etc.

Then one day they decide not to do it, of course people are pissed. Netflix is right - you can't have 'bonuses' that are not tied to something real (like the article, and even then there are issues). If the formula is explicitly defined and publicly known then fine, otherwise it's a bad idea.

I've found companies that rely on this also tend to underpay on salary, but say things like "we're competitive when you factor in the bonus that basically everyone gets".

If you run a company this way and don't expect blow back when you slash everyone's comp by 6% you deserve the loss of talent.

Michael Lopp has written something similar about the "Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit" in one of his management articles somewhere. The idea being that if you have a direct report and give them a smaller raise than they're expecting when they know peers are got larger raises (in percentage) the act of giving them the raise could be the trigger that gets them to say “I quit”. It might be because they're already on the higher end of the comp range, but without knowing this they'll be frustrated. Working effectively with people and comp takes effort and understanding how people will feel/think about comp.

This kind of sense of fairness goes back a long ways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg

I don't think it's realistic to expect people not to behave this way, good managers (and companies) should model it.

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Also - I doubt the execs at eBay saw less comp during that time.
Your "skin in the game" should not be arbitrarily tied to a metric/achievement that is not under your control or else working to the same objectives. If manufacturing have no motivation to go faster, I have no control over their speed, and I know they'll just take as long as the schedule allows? then screw it, getting it to them early won't help me get my bonus.
Now, if manufacturing was also getting a bonus dependent on an early shop date, you're in it together. Or if manufacturing reports to me, I can tell them what to prioritize.
I didn't pay the extra dollar, I got the $5 droplet - but the backups are $1/mo extra
A lot of people allow their kids to do unhealthy or unsafe things out of ignorance. It's completely reasonable to advocate against the sellers of those things.

People can always choose not to buy your unethical or unsafe product. That doesn't make it suddenly ethical and safe, nor does it exempt you from criticism.
The vector here refers to the "feature vector" where the dimension is the number of elements in the vector. E.g. a feature vector of [size, length, width, height, color, shape, smell] has 7 dimensions. A feature vector for the space has 3 dimensions [x, y, z]. The term "higher dimension" just means the number of features encoded in the vector is higher than usual.

In the context of neurons, while the neurons are in the 3 spatial dimensions, the connections of each neuron can be encoded in a feature vector. Each connection can specialize on one feature, e.g. the hair color of the person. These connection features can be encoded in a vector. The number of connections becomes the dimension of the vector. Not to be confused with the physical 3D spatial dimensions of the neurons.

The nice thing about encoding things in vectors is that you can use generic math to manipulate them. E.g. rotation mentioned in this article, orthogonality of vectors implies they have no overlap, or dot product of vectors measures how "similar" they are. Apparently this article shows that different versions of the sensory data encoded in neurons can be rotated just like vector rotation so that they are orthogonal and won't interfere with each other.

Linear algebra usually deals with 2 or 3 dimensions. Geometric algebra works better on higher dimension vectors.
This is what I meant by working it into raises. Investing in workers is investing in the company.
Unclear to me how worried he is. See https://www.turn-keytechnologies.com/blog/article/solarwinds... and other articles at https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds-articles/culture.html.
I don’t necessarily believe Instagram or any social media for children is a good idea, but these kinds of headlines “the modern Bond villain” are a bit hard to take seriously.
Moral of the story, the key to happiness is low expectations.
I know of a few companies where the pay isn’t quite competitive without the bonus. If you lose 10% of your income with the same or greater responsibilities (life often gets harder when the money gets scarce), your finances and plans don’t give a shit what you called it, they just know it’s gone.
A lot of cheaper cast iron is roughly finished and doesn’t have a smooth cook surface.

Try getting a wire brush for a drill and smoothing it down.

This is generally only an issue for cheaper cast iron pans.

That or just get high carbon steel.
That’s odd. Can you let me know which country you are from ?
I can't think of a single bigoted pejorative your "simple colloqualism" statement would not also apply to.
sort of in the same market:

https://www.greatcall.com/phones/jitterbug-smart-smartphone-...

https://www.jitterbugdirect.com/

If you see the paper magazine published by the AARP, there are ads for phones and various technology things marketed for the age 65+ group in there.
Do you think it’s OK to market cigarettes to kids?
I've collected many articles about this--currently 2099 articles--covering lots of areas. The highest quality articles are at https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds-articles/zetter.html.
Did you read the article? They provide evidence beyond a simple act of hearsay scapegoating.

Also, the Russian government is run by a murderous autocrat. The agencies directly under his control certainly are evil.
It's almost like every major world power suffers from hubris and needs to show that they can succeed in controlling Afghanistan.
>That seems like an opinion given from a privileged position

Well, the Peloton is a $4,300 device, so it goes without saying anyone who owns one is in a privileged position. Of course it doesn't mean owners have an extra room. In situations like this, there is probably at least comparative negligence.
I've had my variable annual bonus converted into a permanent salary increase.

I will say I like this a lot more.
Isn't that a bit like saying

"The sun is not a light source, it's just very hot, which causes hydrogen to go into nuclear fusion, which releases energy in form of electromagnetic radiation"?

Or is my comparison flawed?
Myanmar.
I’ve changed entire distros, back in the day, based on font rendering. However, you’re on crack if you think Windows fonts are great. MacOS makes everything else look like children’s scrawl. I’ve been running on Macs for about 6 years now (with a PC connected to the same external monitor) and I still sometimes just stop and admire how nice the fonts are.
When I was a young kid me and some college friends started a software shop (very early 00’s). It became clear a friend was not making it and only producing obstacles rather than progress. I was nominated to fire him because, and I’m not joking, “he trusts you the most”. So I fired him and he never talked to me again. That was about 20 years ago.

Edit: the company lasted maybe 2 years and barely fed us at all
You can do an http based live stream of any video or audio using ffmpeg as a server, and VLC as a client. With the right scripting VLC can be launched in a non interactive mode and begin playing immediately.
Great job on this video. You took an interesting concept, implemented a solution, and conveyed it to the audience in a concise way that was respectful of our time. I love to see folks flexing their creative brains in this way across software and hardware. Video editing and production too. Subscribed and rang the bell.

One nitpick on presentation--I am a youtube addict and the first thing I notice on any vlog-style video is mic quality. I don't have words to describe the audiology of it all but I instantly know when someone sounds 'pro' vs. 'amateur'. This video and the others you've posted recently, have narration that sounds 'amateur' to my youtube addled mind. I don't know anything about microphones and stuff, but if you can tackle that I think it will noticeably elevate your videos! Cheers.
> Facebook would have some real competition today if they hadn’t sold it.

Would they? Why do you assume that they’d be able to grow to their current levels without Facebook money, engineering and know how?

Building, growing and sustaining big social network is truly challenging, as we can see by how few companies were able to do it successfully. Even companies with bottomless pockets like Google failed at it spectacularly.
Being decisive. Nothing is ever perfect.

If you continue to lead, at some point, its going to feel like all the walls are crashing down around you and your team.

Your path forward will most likely not be perfect, but it is a path, and the team will look to you. Be open to ideas and feedback, but I'm talking about when nobody on the team knows what to do because it feels everything has failed.

Pick a direction, start running, and scream "this way!"

It's your job to say "Get to the choppa!" if that is what the situation calls for. Nobody else is going to do it.
A conspiracy theory is any suggestion that two or more people have conspired together to do something. It’s recently become a synonym for “anything I believe to be false”, but that’s not really what it means at all.
Thanks. Its interesting that this only applies to countries with the concept of fair use, which is unfortunately not widespread.
And you would think that a bit of analysis would be done on software and the company that built it for something that you install and give it full administrative control.
I've seasoned my cast iron pan many times. I don't think it ever beats teflon, though it gets to a point where things wash off of it pretty easy with just water and a chainmail ringer.
People who live inside New York City could be in that income bracket while lacking the space you assume they have. There are multiple areas of the country with that cross-section of high property costs and high income.
I was a trader at a IB for years. Honestly dont bother. Get a good tech job. Banks are terribly bureaucratic, political and now highly regulated. As a result they (mostly) have been in steady state decline since the GFC.
There is something buried deeply in our minds that recoils at being treated unfairly. I have a good job, the pay is decent, the work is interesting - but I'm in the process of looking for a different job because I didn't get a promotion. Some junior members on my team did get them though, and it feels unfair (I absolutely have no idea if they don't deserve it, and I like them as team mates). However, I had previously talked to my about the promotion, set the targets, and went above and beyond to meet those ambitious targets.

I've introspected a bit, and I admit it's weird reaction - nothing changed about my job, except knowing my colleagues were being recognized and getting something I am not. The perverse thing is, if no one got a promotion, I wouldn't be this pissed.
Wow. I looked, on your behalf, for Australian-sourced full brisket and came up with zilch. Do you have a local butcher you can go to? Instinct or perhaps lore tells me you should have outstanding access to incredible brisket down-under but, I guess not.

That's a ridiculous state-of-affairs. I will keep looking for full brisket sources.
Would the potato be safe to eat afterwards?

If widely deployed, I would imagine that a non-negligible number of potatoes would be eaten after being exhausted as a battery.
I always thought those lawyer tabs were so dorky... until a branch or something somehow unhooked my qr lever descending camino alto, at which point the lawyer tabs really were the only thing keeping me from a pretty nasty accident.
No, the potato is basically acting as a salt bath here. It would be more like thinking the empty space the sun's light travels through is the light source, not the sun.
Agreed, it's really cool :). A lot of this is very new -- it's only been in the past decade and a half or so that we've been able to record from large populations of neurons (on the order of hundreds and up, see [0]). But there are a lot of smart people working on figuring out how to make sense of this data, and why we see low-dimensional signals in these population recordings. Here are some good reviews on the subject: [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5].

[0]: https://stevenson.lab.uconn.edu/scaling/
[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.3776
[2]: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2015.04.003
[3]: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2019.02.002
[4]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.00145
[5]: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.05.025
> Nobody at Facebook is trying to manipulate you

Except when they’re running psychological experiments to purposely manipulate you into being sad