skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you were also struggling with anxiety writ large, not including those very stressful circumstances!
I did something similar for my kids, but I used Raspberry Pi’s running MusicBox, which can do internet radio, Spotify, local MP3s, or in my case load a folder of MP3s from a share drive on my network.

I threw on a $10 USB DAC and some cheap Logitech Z120 speakers, and I hardwired some big arcade buttons from Adafruit to it. I wrote a little Python script so each button plays an MP3 playlist (Eg one for sleep, one for daytime, and one to stop everything).

The same buttons could quite easily play an internet radio station.

I think the entire thing cost me ~AUD80 total.

Next I want to integrate it all into a 3D printed housing and add some LEDs as night lights.
> If everyone is aware how the bonuses work and feels their 'fair' share is obtained, then it just becomes another part of the calculus.

If everyone is not aware of how a bonus works, lots of people assume it's just smoke and mirrors and disregard (the correct strategy). You're not incentivized to care about your "incentives", so you don't.
Because "consent" is worthless if it is not informed consent. And it's neither expected by, nor in the interest of the user to be emotionally manipulated.

By the way, the whole "intelligent" newsfeed is likely not expected either. My guess is, most people sign up to Facebook with the expectation to see the update of all their friends, nit be subject to Facebook's AI games and product research.
Yeah, that is the smart way to do it, but as I learned, very few people treat it that way.

I know that sales people usually are smart enough to "live off the base, play on the commission", but that's because commissions are quite variable. When you get a fixed bonus every quarter, it starts to feel very much a forgone conclusion.
How can google shift billions worth of patents from one country to another without having to pay taxes on this move?

If I bought all their patents for $1 from them, I'd have to pay a huge amount based on some estimated valuation as this is seen as massively undervalued = a gift.

Are there tricks like moving a whole company from one country to another?

I think it's way too easy to shift paper values around the globe which makes these kinds of insane tax saving tricks way too low risk.

Imagine Ireland saying "we won't let you export this as some of this has security implications".

This is deeply amoral and even if in the strict sense of the law it's obviously legal that does not mean one has to let them get away with it too easily.
Woah. That is some serious perspective! Thanks for sharing
> just becomes another part of the calculus.

This is exactly what happens. So then why not just include it in the salary at that point? All you are doing with bonuses is just causing an opportunity for issues.
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This is literally a plot point in Christmas Vacation.

Is also why I think it is silly for startups to provide too many perks. It sets obvious precedent and will upset more folks when you stop. Find ways to invest in the company so that success is it's own perk. If the company truly has more, work that into raises where you clearly tie the income to the success of the company.
There is nothing worse than a weekend and sudden urgent repair to be done. Then you take out your tools and it breaks... It's so frustrating. On the other hand if you pull out a good quality tool, not only you'll fix the problem, but you'll feel good from even looking at it (or at least me).
Op got robbed. Not only did he work way more hours to meet a milestone but in the end he got the bonus because it was structured in such a way that he did not have sufficient control of the outcome. It always surprises me how genius level folks can’t do simple math to realize that salaried employees get compensated on the compensation/hours worked formula and if compensation is fixed and hours increase you are getting a screwed.

The manufacturing folks got the better deal because they worked at fixed hourly rate and got and equally sad bonus
It absolutely doesn't matter where it is. All that means is that the means of murder will change. Instead of being an airstrikes it might be someone off the street paid for the hit or an operative killing them or poisoning them. In both cases, you'd have no way to know. The only places you'd be able to know are in foreign countries where risks of capture and death are much higher and where investigations can't be silenced.
You or someone pay to companies with your money for the value they provide. However companies dont pay for the services goverment give them, like the security of police enforcement and the roads and public transport for their workers to come to work, or the justice system to ensure their rights are protected. In fact, without the goverment the business probably couldnt even be a ble to operate.
Turning down a promotion I felt too inexperienced to accept. And a close second: convincing others that I'm ready now, after learning what makes good technical leadership yet without having a recent role on my resume.
OS/2 Warp is my favorite OS name, and when it came out, was pretty mind blowing in how it worked compared to everything else.
I suspect people think about wealth on a log scale - in my mind $90 billion and $100 billion are basically the same number despite being rather different. Thinking in terms of orders of magnitude - $400k is a lot closer to $1,000k than the US median income of around 40k.

Politics isn't about precise language. They just mean wealthy people. I thought they were pretty up-front about that.
This has been my experience as well. Coaching is part of your job if you want to be a lead or a manager, but it can be very difficult to coach people who aren't receptive to feedback.

When I started as a lead I devoted a lot of time and energy to someone who was underperforming and difficult to work with (and whose self-perception didn't match reality) when I should have devoted myself more to engineers who were doing well and receptive to feedback.
Don't forget the murder of Fred Hampton, for which the US government was found to be civily liable (greater than 50%)
How? The article explains exactly how. They followed the law.
Ok, so clandestine manipulation is freedom of speech. Is that what the founding fathers intended?
I took up fencing after I stopped rowing, which is apparently even worse, so maybe just do the opposite of whatever I say
> This is literally a plot point in Christmas Vacation.

Ha! You're totally right. I'd forgotten about that. He acts out what everyone wished they could do. :)
> Windows 95 could easily be thought of as a very advanced DOS application.

"Easily"...perhaps, but not accurately. It would be like arguing that Linux is a very advanced GRUB application or that DOS was a very advanced BIOS application.

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. Sure, Windows managed it's memory in a way that was sympathetic of DOS applications (basically using DOS layouts wholesale for 16bit applications) but that was a requirement of the era. But you see similar examples of standards being used as a based (for compatibility) and then expanded upon in the Linux/UNIX world with Linux and macOS having POSIX components but support for so much more added on top.

> I disagree with the author when he says "we didn't know better"

I disagree with the author there to but for very different reasons than you. In the 90s we already had OS/2 (who's DOS emulation was so sophisticated that it could run Windows 3.1). 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'). By the late 90s there was BeOS too. Windows 9x always felt like the shittiest desktop offering to pretty much anyone who'd used pretty much any other computer that wasn't an IBM-clone.

So yeah, some of us did know better. But that didn't stop the IBM/Microsoft partnership from monopolising the desktop market. :(

Windows 2000 was the first (and, frankly, only) time I ever felt impressed by a Microsoft OS. Then they went and ruining it with all the bling in XP (for those who weren't aware, the first release of XP was basically just a skinned version of Windows 2000 but which required literally twice the system resources to run. It wasn't until somewhere around service pack 2 or 3 before XP became the platform that everyone identifies with these days).
No such thing. Governments are inherently extractive same as any other monopoly.
I disagree so much with this. I don't pay 250 to 1000 euros for each of my tools because i use them a lot (even though during the lockdowns i did). I got them because professional tools are:

- easier to store
- easier to use
- pack more power (thus less time spend)
- more precise (i'm annoyed if my angles are one millimeter off)
- less brittle (its not that cheap ones are breaking, its that even a small, almost invisble chip of metal off your torx head will make your life harder)
- less dusty
- safer
- easier to clean
- Combine themselves (transformers for woordworking smh)
- Have complete accessories (angle transmission being the most usefull, also the protractor going directly on the radial saw gives you perfect results)

If you want to replace a door with cheap tools, be my guest, i did it once with a friend, i'm not doing it ever again. I'm now bringing my tools every single time.
> The problem is not someone experimenting with your unhealthy addiction, it is your unhealthy addiction.

Why is it my unhealthy addiction if a multi-billion dollar company uses all tools at their disposal to push me into said addiction?
Someone trapped under a stopped treadmill is much better than some trapped under a running treadmill.

At least with a stopped treadmill you’re not fighting with the treadmill the escape, and if the belt enters a free running mode when off, then it’ll make it easier to escape.

If you watch the video you can see the kid get trapped by the treadmill and completely stalls the belt. But rather than shutting downs, the treadmill just keeps trying to run forwards. There’s even a moment where the belt runs backwards for a second before it start running forwards again, re-trapping the kid.
Probably won't be as exciting as you remember.

We maintained some Wildfire systems on Tru64, which somehow took all the possible coolness of the "Digital Unix" name and inverted it into bizarro horror, into the late 00s, and it was mostly just depressing seeing what happened versus what could have been. Icing on the foot-gun cake was the IA-64 replacement ended up being EOLed before it was even delivered. That one came in on HPUX, which seemed to have been more often pronounced PHUX.
I will be interested to see if a similar result ever comes of moves in hospital methods inspired by aircraft results. I know a lot of hospitals have adopted such measures, and many others have not.

They include, first and foremost, mandatory checklists for surgery and other procedures; and also pre-assembled kits of all the tools and supplies needed for each procedure, and stable teams who know one another's habits and work styles.

Amazingly, none of these were common only a few years ago. Even hand-washing was a tough sell, and rules are still only fitfully obeyed in many or most places.

The fatality rate from infections picked up in intensive-care units was 4%, except in places that follow checklists, where it was brought all the way to zero.

Pilots took up checklists only slowly, and reluctantly, starting after WWII.

Probably the next place to start bringing down stupid fatalities will be in police work. Disarming most police would have the biggest immediate benefit. Police unions will fight each measure tooth and nail.
I looked into the trope that "you're more likely to accidentally kill or be killed by your own gun than to use it to protect yourself" a while ago, and found it was wrong.

I think maybe the creator of that trope was including suicides, which is misleading and I'd argue just plain wrong. According to [0], there are about 50,000 self-defense uses of a firearm per year. [1] suggests there are about 4-500 accidental firearms deaths per year in the U.S. (and I'd bet many of those are "accidental" in that the decedant's family wanted it classified as an accident for insurance and / or religious reasons).

Any way you slice it, the rate of actual accidental deaths is really, really low. Not something to worry about at all if you're okay with things like...driving to work (about 30x riskier in aggregate per year assuming half of U.S. households have a gun [edit: and assuming everyone has the same risk of death by car accident, of course]).

Oh, and when you're thinking about "gun injuries" it's important to keep in mind that the vast majority are things like small burns, injuries to the web between the thumb and pointer finger caused by exposed hammers, things like that. Some places have enacted laws with harsh penalties for doctors saying that any injury resulting from using a gun must be reported as a firearm-related injury or some such, which of course artificially inflates the numbers and makes it difficult to differentiate between "someone was accidentally shot and survived" and "little Timmy burned his hand on Grandpa's .22".

0: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf
1: https://injepijournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40...
Instead, they (Dems mostly) parade around publicly shaming companies who reduces tax in a legal way.

Yeah, come on AMERICANS, get off your asses and go vote for Ireland politicians who will close the loop hole in the IRISH tax system. <eye-f*cking-roll>
That sounds incredibly logical and intuitive. It seems so weird that something like that hasn't been proposed for the US (or i haven't heard of it if it was at least).
Yeah what should I look for? Is it like this just a piece of plastic on the 'outside' of the tread? [1]

My proform doesn't have one? though i always wear the emergency clip on treadmills. cheaper treadmills though motors are super slow to ramp up and down. [2]

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0027/4490/9879/products/TR...

https://res.cloudinary.com/iconfitness/image/upload/f_auto,q...
Have you looked at https://reserve.org? Might interest you!
It would be interesting to find out if these experiments lead to any suicides etc. Although I suppose that Facebook is not interested in releasing that type of information.
"The guilt I felt after that, and shame even for my behavior, well it was real."

Why? If they knew about the program and potential, then they might have felt the same way. They games management plays are the real issue.

Edit: Why downvote? The article even says the way the program worked caused issues.
Hmm

Which C++ version you guys are using?
Excel can barely handle a moderately sized csv these days. It’s inspired me to write a performant csv editor.
Treadmills aren't child-friendly machines either, so why is this video showing two children messing around with the machine without any supervision?
One of only two Independent senators in Congress shouted "tax billionaires" for years, then when he didn't win the presidency, the billionaires just carried on unmolested.
That would require another language to know to maintain the script while Wordpress already requires some PHP knowledge. PHP is very OK for that. The only significant gripe is that even with PHP 7 the language does not have a utility to start an external program directly without going through shell and the need to escape arguments.
Intent is a part of the law, not only actions. If you use an exploit in computer systems to get unauthorized access you cant just say "well, thats how its designed, write better programs next time".

Retroactive taxes should apply here, what was written in the law was wrong with the actual intent of the lawmaker, we shouldnt encourage this stupid cat and mouse games, just pay your taxes.
By September 2018, US–controlled corporates were 25 of Ireland's 50 largest companies, paid 80% of Irish business taxes,[126] and directly employed 25% of the Irish labour force,[127] and created 57% of Irish value-add.

From here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement#Conce...
Why shouldn't companies do things just to avoid taxes? I'm sure most individuals would do whatever they can to pay less.

About this law, what it really creates is an insane amount of insecurity. When other people get to decide whether what you do is reasonable or not, the only question that matters is who gets to make the decision.

And you should not have to waste precious time explanting anything to a bureocrat. Maybe Faang companies get to have that luxury
Yes. I had a high school teacher [underpaid] that gave us donuts in the morning. One day that didn't happen. Anarchy. Screaming, yelling, crying, breakfasts ruined. WHAT WILL WE EAT? This teacher was now an evil villain. The teacher learned: never give out free donuts again.
It's open source and therefor easier to migrate to a self-hosted version, though.

It's also arguably a US HQed company while GitHub is simply a US company.
"Incentives happen because they are empirically effective."

Only for the people who haven't been screwed by the system.
Blockchain applications in the UN system: towards a state of readiness [pdf]
I have the strong suspicion that in the majority of home invasions in the U.S., the intruder does not have a gun. I think that most are unarmed (to be armed and caught is a much, much worse situation), and most do not intend to encounter anyone.
It's intended. Enlightment is the logical culmination of the changes started in the Renaissance.
If you're taking stands all the time, you're the cranky person who's hard to get along with and you'll be in real trouble the first time something goes wrong.

Have to pick your spots.
Or if they don't follow their own rules
I always use annual subscription if I plan to use the service long term. Less clutter in my accounts, less things to think about. And if I get 15% off it's even better. In fact, if I plan to subscribe I always calculate the annual price anyway - if it looks too high, then the monthly is too high too. It's the "dollar a day" trick - once you realize what is being sold to you is $360+/year or so - you may look at it differently. I don't know the nature of your service but if it's such that people are likely to use it for more than a year, I don't see what's strange in them preferring a better deal.

Think before you raise your prices though. Price, once paid, becomes an anchor. People would ask - he's asking for more, what extra services we're getting? If the answer is "nothing, I just feel I underpriced it and now I want more money", people would feel you're being unfair and bail, even if the original price was completely arbitrary. Once they paid it, it's now the fair price for them, and changing it requires "fair" explanation - even if the new price is as arbitrary as the old one.
Past some point, it's just more money to put into savings--and lack of it is annoying and something to take into account for evaluating future options but not much more.

But, yeah, you have people making less money for whom the expected quarterly bonus was factored into paying their mortgage.
This was really good to read. Thank you for sharing.
They were very competent... and they held together really well with clients. We were a small consulting firm. But I think the 'mask cracked' with us internally, where they had their dysfunctional behavior.
It's emblematic of the approach to guns as a whole. We're not very concerned with why people are trying to kill themselves or others, but we're awful fired up about the tools they choose. It's crazy!
The Alpha boxes were nice.

A grad school officemate had previously worked at Thinking Machines, but, to do the number-crunching for his doctoral dissertation, he instead had a slightly-old Alpha workstation/server under his desk.

He was big on efficiency (e.g., out of the lab by 5pm, but intensely focused while there), and I'm sure that him coding his models in C for a 64-bit dedicated Alpha box was more productive than getting supercomputer time.
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Ah, I remember this!

Lbl A

If 1=1

Then

Goto A

Will always crash after a couple seconds. Used to show it to my friends sometimes as a gag but it sucked to have to work around it.

(TI-BASIC uses = for equality comparison (iirc this includes comparing strings(?)) and -> as a single arrow symbol (STO on the keypad) for variable assignment (5->A for example is the same as A = 5 in Python).)
Learning to let my go of my ego and trust...

Understanding that delegating tasks, instead of doing them myself, was of the utmost importance the more people I managed... especially, greenfield work. Literally: do not steal the fun. This also means inherently trusting people, and if you can't do that you shouldn't be working with them. two important notes about that:

1. If you just thought of someone you can't trust instead of thinking about how you can give more trust to people, you just had your ego stand in the way of mutual success. You are a shitty manager, and today is hopefully the first day of you recognizing that and learning to trust.

2. When people don't deliver what you expected, it's because you did a shitty job of communicating it to them. What seems obvious to you after 45 minutes in a meeting with three other people already prepared for the topic will most of the time seem obvious to no one else. If it does, I can almost promise, their vision of it is totally different than yours. Learning to work through the defining the problem (that includes asking "does this problem exist?") and then guiding solutions (we have x days, engineering hours, etc available) to ensure they meet the needs of the business. If no one but you delivers things correctly, you're a shitty manager, and today's hopefully the first day of you recognizing you need to learn to communicate and trust.

Not many people are lucky enough to be told so plainly it's their ego, but it's your ego that causes your team to fail. Maybe it's your boss's ego that's causing you to fail... I was told plainly to my face to not let my ego get in the way of the goal... and yeah it punched me in the gut too, so if you're hurting, or in denial know it's okay. We all have to grow, it's worth it.
winget uninstall works fine in my experience. It may still be locked behind an experimental flag though.

And if you’ve had telemetry turned off globally in Windows 10, as most people who care do, winget doesn’t send anything back to MS.
Ah I thought they were actually moving patents but they're just cancelling an intermittent licensing agreement and then license it directly from the US. That makes it a lot more difficult to stop, yes.
Top tech talent, even in software, weren’t making the kind of money they are today. Top new grads going to the hottest employers could hope to make $50,000 all in (not counting stock options paying off down the road). $100,000 in guaranteed comp was all but unheard of for ICs. Programming was not yet at the doctor/lawyer level, much less the banker one.

That started to change in the dotcom frenzy but that was still a couple of years away at that point.
In the case of Google, look at the internet. All the base-level physical infrastructure that allows Google to operate is paid for with taxpayer dollars.
Couldn't they just pick the lowest 6?