skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We're still waiting

I don't recall you asking me for a name, but if you insist, is Richard Arnott [1] good enough for you? He wrote the highly cited "Time for Revisionism on Rent Control?" You can explore the reaction of the economics profession to his arguments on Google Scholar [3]. He cites the figure of 93% of eonomists opposing rent control, which then could be considered a consensus, but that was before the work of Krueger and Card cast a shadow on these orthodoxies coming from simplistic marginalist arguments whose empirical support was weak anecdotal evidence. Today there is no such consensus.

Incidentally, between the period of the perceived success of the New Deal and the pro-interventionist era immediately following WW2, there was also a consensus of economists on this question, but the opposite one: rent controls were viewed as a good thing.

[1]: http://www.narsc.org/newsite/internal/richard-j-arnott/

[2]: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.9.1.99

[3]: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1157340330382125689...
Compensation is like hygiene. When it's taken care of, no one notices. When it's not, things begin to stink.

Drucker was talking about this 50 years ago. I think he got the idea from Herzberg [0].

There is so much knowledge that is not yet Common Knowledge. Instead we see the same mistakes on repeat.

[0] https://www.managementstudyhq.com/herzbergs-two-factor-theor...
Scientists use entanglement to create prototype quantum internet
To me it sounds double subjective, which, in my view, is the opposite of "logical", perhaps not so for "intuitive".

I really think if you need complicated (and entirely subjective!) thought experiments like this to apply the law, your law is far too complex and unfair and should probably be scrapped.
I don't much care for the term "mansplained", but I think it's a stretch to say it's sexist language. It's a simple colloquialism that refers to a well-known phenomenon.
> So why Peloton other than it's hip to say bad things about Peloton?

Because Peloton, unlike other treadmill manufacturers for which CPSC has recommended a recall and published safety guidance, opposes the recall and the safety guidance.

There have been lots of safety recalls for treadmills and similar fitness gear (which is probably an indicator that more up-front regulation is needed), but manufacturers publicly rejecting recalls and safety guidance after large groups of injuries (including a fatality) is a different story.
Yes, 4x is a big gap, not just % wise, but dollar wise too. I'm sure they don't talk about it during the interview. But if somehow that information slipped in during interview, I would honestly just thank them for the time and walk out because I would never work for a company that believes in the large gap of the output of the 2 groups.
I agree because of the huge gulf of experiences different people have with tax authorities.

From what I can tell, most people have an adversarial relationship with tax authorities, and therefore assume any more beneficial advantage is a "loophole" like something that would even surprise the tax authorities, when a reality is that many people and organizations have a collaborative relationship with tax authorities.

Transfer pricing requires pre-emptive approval from the tax authorities involved. You are basically telling them how you won't pay taxes and they sign off on it, specifically the nature of the transaction and coming to an agreement on how it complies. Greater disdain from the general population can come from understanding how expensive that can be to collaborate with the tax authority, but I don't think that changes anything. It doesn't give a better argument with any nuance.

My tax opinion isn't based on a country passively deserving anything from the mere existence of a transaction, tax authorities aren't operating that way either and neither are the legislatures. My understanding of the tax topics seems to be more compatible and effective than what I hear from most people, just like the lawyers and CFOs of these fortune 500 companies.
I bought some 10+ years ago, and they are in storage, and I am also feeling that urge to go dust them off and power them up. If memory serves, I think I ran netbsd on them.
Question: Do you usually read HN in any form (comments, stories, having friends curate from HN for you), or just comment on GitHub-related articles?
he also invests in a company called SoFi which does the same thing as robinhood and makes their money the same way that robinhood does (payment for order flow) which he was railing against.
Yes I'm in total agreement with this. I see many people here who get absurdly passionate about programming that they forget a lot that management is not as much. The business world is brutal so you gotta hedge the odds in your favor. Busting my ass for the potential to make a significant bonus isnt worth it. As is going above and beyond. Just game the system and wait for management to figure it out. And if your managers don't monitor you, exploit the hell out of that. This is why I consider the Gervais Principal one of the greatest reads of this modern world for office laborers.
Such a sad situation. In addition, treadmills are many times more abusive to your joints that most other machines. Running fast on this at any weight of your body is like punching your joints with 80 pounds gloves. In 40 years you gonna see people walk with canes you will be moslty right if you assume they been heavy treadmill users.

If you want to stay in shape and lose weight, climbers are heaven comparing to treadmills. On a climber you can set low speed and because you support yourself with hands, your legs joint are not as heavily abused as on treadmill. Do and hour on the lowest speed and I guarantee you lose bunch of weight and also will stay in shape heart wise. Nobody does slow speed on treadmill. Thats boring. But also average climber is some $15,000 comparing it to much simpler design of a belt and two rolls aka treadmill. That’s why Peleton has chosen them. btw treadmills were banned as cruel and inhumane by 1900.
To be clear, the "esoteric mechanisms" are invented by some relatively low paid IRS tax nerds and then signed into law by congress (people that certainly cannot understand the rules and probably don't even bother reading them). I agree the rules are ridiculous, but don't think they've been created by "the elite".
Maybe he secretly posts under an alt. Some suspect this on Twitter.
Bankers and Salespeople have a different structure they get a minimum salary too low to live on and then get bonuses based upon performance.

My son was an O'Reilly Auto Parts store manager, turned out he didn't realize his salary was $500 a month until he was in an accident and was out for a six weeks... he was stuck, he had to go back to work even tough his femur was just broken in half.
its not that bad writing kernel code - just remember if you get anything wrong you'll hose your filesystem beyond repair ;-)
2008, it was a T-Mobile G1 which was the first Android phone on the US market.
My current employer does bonuses based on both individual and company performance, and I think they can be sizeable, but I pointedly never did the math when accepting the offer or since then. I don't want to know.

Base salary is in the contract, bonuses aren't. Base salary gives me a floor for how competitive the offer is. Bonuses, if they actually materialize, could theoretically help keep me from wandering off to a higher-paying job -- but I'm probably not going to do that math until I want to leave anyhow.

It's basically like stock options and whatnot. Lottery tickets.
Definitely don't agree with "Transfer pricing requires pre-emptive approval from the tax authorities involved". Maybe you're thinking about an Advanced Pricing Agreement. Transfer pricing is the pricing of goods and services between related parties in different tax jurisdictions (multinationals typically).
I have a rule for buying tools. The first one I buy, I buy the cheaper version (Harbor Freight house brand for instance). If I use it enough to break it within3 years, or become frustrated with its shortcomings, then I go buy a "pro" version.

Yes, it does mean I have spent more money than absolutely necessary, but on the other hand I have a lot of cheap tools that are perfectly serviceable for the two times a year I actually need to use them.

It works for me, you go do what works for you.
I really think sensor fusion is how we get there, like LIDAR or imaging radar on top of a really, REALLY good multispectral machine vision system.

It’s similarly disconcerting how bad I am (and other humans) at spotting people crossing the street at night if they’re wearing dark clothes. I gotta imagine there are analogous corner cases for machine vision, and a sensor fusion approach should help solve that.
Thats very harsh to the designer. I know many and nobody would design machine to kill. Its obvious the management decided to cut few hundred bucks to get higher bonuses.

This thing needs to be banned first, company investigate second. Bet there are email trails from angry engineers telling exactly what most of us say here. The excuse that only few people get killed so its all kumbayah is the most despicable thing a CEO can say. He needs to resign immediately.
That is true, mostly i think that the initial commenter underestimated the costs, but it seems that i myself have overestimated them.
We had a quarterly cash bonus program that was variable based on company performance. In the fastest-growth times, it often paid out at the cap (250%). After one such payout, my neighbor stood up and theatrically loudly exclaimed, "I have no idea how this gets determined; I've just been strongly incentivized to act randomly!"
Yes, most definitely
The year before i joined - 2010 was last one afaik (also when it got leaked)
A potato battery can light up a room for over a month (2013)
Arianespace announces competition for free nanosatellite launch
If you make a donation in someone's name, you get the tax deduction, not them. Google couldn't "pay" the employees in some non-taxable form and then let the employees take the $1000 deduction even if they wanted to (which they don't).
Study links poor diet to pro-inflammatory gut bacteria
Honestly, this is a problem with everything. Snobs are sort of a double edged sword. They are great because they are very passionate and likely spend a lot of time on the topic at hand (could be anything. Maybe it's running, classical music, Buddhism, beer etc.). You can learn a lot from them. On the downside, since they are so opinionated they can be frequently insufferable. I think you have to learn to not take their opinions too seriously and continue to have fun.
Should be back soon - issue was related to the underlying openssl dependency, which is currently being updated in the newest Node release. I'd expect to see quic back within 2 to 3 months at most.
Bonuses always seem like a perverse way to do compensation anyways; if a worker requires a bribe to do their job properly, they should be fired.
If you're talking about a healthy balance between elite expertise and proletariat sensibilities, that's hard to argue with. But there's danger in the prospect of destructive laws and regulations based on the popular idea that, say, vaccines cause autism, or 5G causes cancer.
I really want to give substack a shot, but couldn’t get past recaptcha to sign up. Maybe I’m impatient or not good at identifying crosswalks, cars, bikes and buses. Kudos to all the publishers who made it …
They didn’t share the details but most likely the company. The donation was “on behalf of all employees”
Should've doled them out based on performance. My fourth grade teacher used to give out candy bars for good grades. King sized ones, too. No other teachers gave out much of anything except gold stars. I was an overachiever so I usually managed to get a treat.
HTML without all the warts and boilerplate. No cascading style-sheet. No ribbon. No hamburger menu. No drop downs. No frames. No cruddy forms, no JavaScript, No modes, No show codes. Just live layout and editing with plain, bold, italics, links, underline, strikeout, and text formatting that I used to see built into pretty much every Application on the Mac. The "browser" needs to be a full fledged editor. It needs to provide sensible defaults and guides for layout of text, charts, graphics, animation, and interaction. We had all this before the web. The good parts of retro we want. The bad parts of the web, we can do without.
> very poor sad little came up to me asking for help

Never give to beggars. Ever. For any reason.

If you just feel you must give, give food--something that can't be converted to cash. Nothing pisses off "beggars" faster than giving them a sandwich.

1) Most of the time it's a scam.

Often the individual isn't really that badly off or, if they're children, the money is being skimmed by adults.

2) A lot of the time it's criminal.

Many of these encounters are used to snag your attention while you become the victim of a crime.

3) You are not solving the fundamental problem but you are making the area worse for the people who have to live there and deal with the beggars on a daily basis.
>expressing anger at the companies themselves is pointless

Nah, it is not pointless. It affects the companies' public image.

And when we are talking about a company that built its empire marketing itself as a Do Not Be Evil collective, the anger at swindling us is not misplaced.

Politicians do deserve the ire, but so do the swindlers.
It's a weird incentive model when you get down to it. It's rare for individuals who have been with a company for a long time to be fired. While RSUs/guaranteed equity incentivises individuals to leave when they get bored. Options provide an incentive for bored/uncommitted employees to hang on.

I wonder if this is why mid-life startups that stop growing start to feel "stale". Too many people who just want their money and to get out of dodge.
Scientists 3D print graphene aerogels that purify water at scale
I've read a lot of the comments here condemning Peloton, and I don't think I completely agree.

A treadmill is a big fast moving piece of gym equipment. It is definitely dangerous to kids, as are all treadmills. And what about like freeweights or those universal gyms with the plates that go up and down?

What about power tools? Or vacuum cleaners? Or plastic bags, or cleaning products, or whatever? Lots of stuff is dangerous for kids. This is not something for kids or suitable for use around kids, and it's hard to believe anyone thinks it would be. What happened is horrible, but I don't see why it should mean peloton cant make their product
> I recently removed all animations from my android and the zero latency blows me away

Jesus fucking christ, just discovered this now thanks to your comment, it does make a huge difference!
Majority of goog employees were making high salary in California so very few people in head office were taking standard deduction especially before trumps tax changes
No that's not the issue if Staples does not have any AMD laptops in it's brick and mortar store locations to begin with and only sells AMD laptops online. So that's the issue of not giving AMD's laptops any showroom floor retail presence and gives Intel an unfair advantage!

Shoppers are much more likely to purchase directly from the showroom and with AMD's laptops Not stocked at all at the retailer's brick and mortar locations and only Intel's laptops in stock there and Intel's more than likely to get a retail brick and mortar store sale so really the Antitrust folks need to be made aware of this tactic!

Staples has no display AMD models to speak of, stock of AMD laptops or not, and Display models are not sold until that model is no longer being sold by the retailer as they are display units! I was told that AMD laptops are only available Online from Staples! Staples is being incentivized it appears!
Ask HN: Games that made you better at your work?
I recently found that playing a certain type of game can increase my productivity at work (web dev). I wonder if people here experienced similar phenomena. I remember a blog post of one of Heroku's founders who used to play a certain game and told that it helped him take better strategic decisions. But I can't seem to find the article.

Thoughts?
The thing to remember with battery powered tools is that you are not just buying a tool. You are buying into a battery ecosystem. Plan accordingly.

Fortunately, you can buy batteries for most popular tool brands long after the brand stops supporting them, and in a pinch you can buy adapters to make brand a batteries work on brand b tools
I agree we can't win at paying politicians but the technical battle will always be hit and miss.

I think we need a political campaign to remove power from the hands of the government and putting it back on the market.
Yes, my experience is that companies always come up with reasons not to give the bonus. Recruiters like to include them as part of the compensation. As yeah you ask X but you get a bonus of Y which makes your request Z salary, awesome right. Of course the contract says it’s a discretionary bonus...
Depends. The US is a bit special and not everyone works to maximize salary. But where I work, small startups absolutely struggle to compete with large banks on salary (Hong Kong, we do banking like France does croissant or the US middle east wars).

It doesn't matter, the perks. In fact each time I hear of some I think they must have huge salary issue vs the competition and try to find leverage points real company cant follow (a bank wont do your laundry, as I heard FB was offering at some point).
By the same token I’m not going be doing ANYTHING beyond job description scope for a company that doesn’t give bonuses. Bonus goes both ways.
This reminds me of a story back around that time about a guy who was, like, employee 200 at Amazon. He goes to the can, and sees a vestment sheet for the early employees, and realizes that he’s been hired just after people were getting stock grants. Just just prior to him are shortly to become millionaires, and he’s sitting there with a regular job. He quit because of the inequity, and did a tour with this story as a “comic,” but it was just bitter. (I can never find this story any more.) Anyway, the point is that he has a great job at a booming company, with nothing but bright days ahead, and he can’t enjoy it because he knows other people are getting a lot more. I mean, I get it, but everyone can point to someone who has made a better deal for themselves. It doesn’t mean you have to despise the deal you got. I know I can’t make that kind of money because I know I don’t have the personality or family situation to make that kind of deal. And that’s ok. I can’t complain. I do alright.
> Does it really make a difference?

In my view, it does. Maybe this was a good company with reasonable management who set realistic targets. Maybe it was a not-so-good company, someone in management saw the line item for bonuses and decided to "solve the issue" by setting a target he was sure would not be achievable, just so they could reduce payroll costs with minimal hassle. I am sure both happen in the real world.
Would you be happier if FB censored every negative post on their site? I’m sure there would be less unhappiness but would it be “better”?
Fuck furries. Block them on social media, preemptively if you can. You won’t miss much from walking away.

This my comment needs to be downvoted but because it must be said and this will be downvoted anyway I have no problem making their life silently harder. That is the way they are playing this game.
All of these leaps though were commercializations of existing technologies, or they were novel applications of existing technologies. The automobile was a novel use of combustion, radio was being played with and used in military applications.
What do you think lobbyists do? IRS tax nerds write some rules and then loopholes lobbied for by corporations get injected into the final bill.

Just heard the other day from AOC that the new COVID relief bill had such a ridiculous clause that no one even stepped up to claim they put it in, so they just removed it without any resistance. The whole bill authoring model is currently broken, representatives receive ridiculously little time to review what to vote for and massive bills are basically take it or leave it.
This is false. Some of it is, maybe even more than half, but to say “all” is simply blatantly untrue.
Here's the linked study to https://gut.bmj.com/content/early/2021/03/08/gutjnl-2020-322... its very readable I found (a non specialist) and has more interesting figures and tables.
I have seen lots of trade mills without a guard there. Just googling image shows quite a few that don't have a guard there.

If the issue is the guard it's more than just peloton that then needs to revise their design.

What I do find more interesting is how the treadmill is still running even after the other kid gets off. There is a reason a lot treadmills have lanyard that shuts it off.
FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store [pdf]
Every single gui email client I tried out a few months ago let me send plain text email. Some would not send HTML email though.

I suspect the author of TFA is using a webmail client, but as they did not state which client they are using, I cannot be sure.
I think all bicycles should be recalled. They kill far more people, kids included, per year. And their design is ridiculous -- 2 wheels? How could such an inherently unstable device pass regulatory scrutiny?
Amazon Cancels Its the Lord of the Rings Mmorpg
Thanks for reminding me of this.

It's very useful identifying known patterns and also discovering new patterns by entering random number strings
You could literally google this and get 10 answers.
Having to assume a non-zero possibility that anyone you interact with on HN is secretly Zuckerberg makes the whole experience just that extra little bit spicy, doesn't it
The article vaguely describes the build system being compromised. Have any details been published to indicate what build systems they were running and what the exploits were there?
Where can I read more about how 72pt ~ 1 inch? Where does one g to for a "course on typography"?
Also standard works on this are:

Robert D. Austin, Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations (1996). This book coined the term "measurement dysfunction" to describe how reward structures work against company goals.

And Alfie Kohn's 1993 article in Harvard Business Review where he summarizes decades of motivational research (also citing Herzberg), concluding that giving bonuses to staff is usually a bad idea, and it is an especially bad idea for jobs that require cognitive sophistication.

https://hbr.org/1993/09/why-incentive-plans-cannot-work
Guilt for not feeling gratitude but instead feeling entitled.

Feelings of entitlement often lead to anger and sadness.
Court Permits FBI to Hack Computers Around the US to Eradicate a Hack
Ok, but please don't post comments that just put others down. If you know more, great! please share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn. If you don't want to do that, that's fine, but then please don't post. Supercilious dismissals don't help and aren't nice.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

I know it's frustrating when others are wrong on the internet, but the portion of the internet that isn't wrong has measure zero—a fact we all have to make peace with, or else we end up making things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wonder if all the boomers would pay for this. Supposedly they are the ones with lots of money. The market might only be good for 20 years, but you could make a lot of money in those 20 years.
> Ebay's situation was probably even worse, as their business stopped growing fast long ago.

I worked there a long time ago. :) This happened right as they peaked in growth and started slowing down.