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Why are there cartoons of human/animal hybrids? Is this some fetish thing?
Well if it makes you feel better, I did find a bug: Go Start -> Shutdown, then click "Cancel" instead of the "X", and it remains in the taskbar without a window.
The U.S. military takes UFOs seriously. Why doesn't Silicon Valley or academia?
Honest question, what's a reasonable solution for a small company (since it's easier to do thought experiments on a small company).

You're a business owner. You hire 3 people. You pay them salaries. That year the company does really well. You want to thank your employees. You're not going to just give them raises because there's no guarantee you'll do as well next year

It sounds by Netflix logic you should just keep all the money and not reward your employees. They got what they asked for.
Works if you click the name of the case. I'm on Mac Safari FWIW.

Doesn't work on the image because they want that to click through the carousel. I think they are wrong (a regular clic can do that, plus they have navigation arrows).

But at least you can shop in the normal fashion, if you click on the text
Least Vaccinated U.S. Counties Have Something in Common: Trump Voters
Wow - going from posting personal insults to going full hypocrite.

You've got quite the range!
This is an insane amount of money. The article doesn't even mention if it's going to be available on prime, or offered as a premium for purchase title. In any case, I wonder what their strategy is for breaking even.
> If just feel you must give, give food

If you have the time, consider taking them out to eat if they're comfortable with it. A little food and time goes a long way.
Really? A government saying that they would ensure no "negative stories would come out", literally puppetting international institutions to pay out money - billions - for an election campaign, sent US Government agents to be embedded into the Yeltsin campaign right as he was violating every law on the books and calling in favours from the mafia and oligarchs, and very likely also used intelligence agencies to help, all of that isn't major interference?

But targeted ads are?
Me too, every time. I've felt guilty even, but never for long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36hzlFVgVa8 seems to be the video (didn't play for me at the link).

It's really a zinc and copper plate battery. Apparently boiling the potatoes can improve the power output.
Off the top of my head:

- Major players are using phone numbers to de-dup people. Use your million phone numbers to bypass such verifications and aggregate more power than intended. You could sell the accounts directly or monetize them individually (e.g., social media like farms, turning cloud free trials into dogecoin, ...).

- Way too many services believe that if you control a phone/email you must be the account holder. Banks, 401k managers, and other critical pieces of infrastructure are more than happy to harvest your phone number for "added security" and proceed to weaken the security on your account by allowing anyone with control of that phone number to hijack the account.

- Unique phone numbers are valuable in their own right. Individual numbers have max message rates and other garbage, but with an army of phone numbers you can, e.g., send out the same scam message to most phone numbers, see who bites, and use that to build a curated list of a hopefully much smaller set of numbers to target with real people.

- If you have any extra information like a plausible contact graph you can use that to impersonate people for viral marketing or something (kind of like how the Marco Polo app texted your entire contact list without your permission). I'm pretty sure permissions are way more locked down than they were when apps used to just use your phone directly, but if you control the phone number and have that contact info then you could pull off a similar marketing trick still today.

- Just snooping on the information is probably valuable. I'm struggling to imagine how you'd monetize it directly (some kind of insider trading?), but 1M person-hours worth of intercepted texts can't be worth <=$0 I don't think.
> The boy was not breathing and had no pulse and survived with significant brain injuries, the report said. Peloton said the boy was expected to fully recover, according to the report.

The PR machine is in full "there is no war in Ba Sing Se" mode.
It’s non existent. It’s weird how people were obsessed with coal miners losing their jobs, but right here in tech we literally saw a profession vanish. There is no ‘website developer’ anymore, not really. It just ... went away.

That group had to shift overnight (in relative terms) to app development. This might be more foreboding than people realize. Aside from those who need to write complex queries stitching big data together or generating reports, will we need a typical backend engineer ever again? How complex are schemas ever going to get that a UI can’t do it (and generate the corresponding api)?

It happened to the first version of the frontend developer and I think backend is next. Then frontend again at some point, and Data people have another thing coming when the backend folks need to find another job when theirs goes away.

If tech is going to replace industries, it’s going to start with replacing parts of itself first. We’ll be the first to know how this is going to go down.
I am thinking about APAs. Wouldn't transfer pricing involve an APA while APAs can also be for other things.
Being the best served by the teacher is already a reward; no need to rub additional salt in the wounds of the students the teacher is failing.
Taxes long ago stopped being the main way governments fund themselves.

If taxes were about financing the government there would just be one tax called the-cost-of-government-tax and that's it. There would be no need to tax everything you do, and at different rates and on some days but not others, but when the moon is full on tuesday you pay double except if you lived on 72nd street during 2008...

Taxes are about control, about influence, and about corruption. The loopholes are there becasue someone put them there, they are not hidden. The tax-code is so complex because someone made it that complex, someone doesn't want it to be easy.
Charity is an above the line deduction.
By netflix logic you’re already paying top of the market so you should be good.
If I could describe why I've been an Apple laptop user since their Powerbook days, it's because I didn't want to worry about fiddly computer setups and stuff - just purchasing a machine that works and an afternoon to get my environment up and running (for dev).

In all my previous experiences, purchasing into newly released products has always been a step forward in every measurement. I would say dongles have been the only pain points when moving to new generations.

This is the first product that took a step back in an important way and I wasn't expecting it. And it doubly hurt me as Apple's website store suggested these LG 4k monitors to go along with my new M1 and their store showcased the awesome thunderbolt daisy chain and driver support out of the box.

So while DisplayLink technologies do allow for an inferior multi-display setup - I haven't found one yet to drive dual LG 4k monitors that Apple sells.
1 dozen donuts from DD where I live is $13+tax
So much condescending presumption in this article.

Calling "wealth accumulation" (Frank's term) "the closest thing they have to fun" betrays his own bias.

It's quite possible that the work is just inherently fun. My work is, to me; sometimes I do it for free.

This reminds me of an article from the NYT probably 25 years ago when the author was astonished to see Mercedes' in the parking lot of Costco. "If you can afford a Mercedes why would you go to Costco?" Perhaps you prefer to shop there and don't give a shit about the old fashioned sumptuary habits.
One of the biggest takeaways from a college lit class was utopias and dystopias are the same thing, simply from different perspectives.
What a misleading snake of an article.

The study wasn't some mad scientist 'lets splice the species and see what happens' or 'we'll grow hybrids for organ farming'.

It was studying the signalling mechanisms between cells of different species. They used embryos because simply injecting foreign stem cells into a matured animal does not work.
I've seen these too, but the LG 4k monitors that Apple sells on their website, and suggests as a display purchase along with the M1, have only Thunderbolt and USB-c IO. All these example setups use monitors with HDMI, etc.
I just deployed Plausible.io[1] for my blog $6/mo on a droplet, it's self-hosted and 100% open source. It seems very privacy focused, and provides basically the same minimalist data described in this article.

I always find it weird though that privacy advocates still go for "I have this hidden treasure trove of analytics about my site that you cannot access"

Analytics should always be 100% anonymous and aggregated. And if you've met those two bars, making them open and public should be a non-issue. If you can't make your analytics public, that's called spying. There should be no issue making your analytics public. Mine are[2]

[1] https://plausible.io/docs/self-hosting

[2] https://devlog.hexops.com/about#open-analytics-data
So you are saying lobbying by these companies is unethical?

Is all lobbying unethical?
We stack rank where I work. My mgmt can't imagine any other way to evaluate employee performance. And the manager I report to isn't very technical, so he can't evaluate actual performance. So he goes by tickets closed, word of mouth from his peers, and how gung ho you are. Since he's not technical, he can't set realistic goals for his staff. So promotions, raises and bonuses are all political.
I’m back at a more traditional company after being at a startup for two years and the unlimited PTO was amazing.

It wasn’t passive aggressive at all and now I sit here one my hands waiting to accumulate enough pto to take an extended break.
Can we just take a moment to reflect on what Zuckerberg did with regular Instagram? The typical pattern of abuse: say you won't do x, then do x (namely that he would keep it independent and not merge anything with facebook), then bully the original founders out of their company
There are many treadmills out there.

And those treadmills don't tell to pull people underneath them, like this device did.

Let's not be facetious here, Peloton didn't get CPSC's attention because it is a treadmill -- it got that attention because it is an unsafe treadmill.

As far as treadmills go, preventing being pulled underneath has been a solved problem.

EDIT: compare and contrast: what Peloton does [1] vs. a $700 treadmill design [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onXNnlCYJ4Y

[2] https://www.walmart.com/ip/3-0HP-APP-Bluetooth-Control-Incli...
I get that in other contexts. In this case I would feel bad for the person with the lower bonus because they were never made aware of the program. If management let them know, then they might have sped up and earned more. Isn't that the point of the bonus program - to reward performance so that it will provide an incentive for it?

I've seen the opposite too. Managers have violated policies to my detriment, sometimes benefiting other team members. I don't resent the other team members - in the cases I've experienced, they deserved the highest rating/bonus. I have also recieved that level of rating/bonus from those same managers. I don't feel guilty about it as I had no power over the decision. I might feel pissed off about it, similar to when it has happened to me. I don't respect those managers though, and I think it will end up causing issues in my performance and the company as a whole.
> Taxes long ago stopped being the main way governments fund themselves.

No they didn’t. Most governments are mostly funded by taxes.

(The rest of your post doesn’t support this thesis, but instead the thesis that funding government.
operations isn’t the exclusive purpose of taxes, which I don’t think anyone would dispute, and which is orthogonal to whether governments are mainly funded by taxes.)
I agree that's fair (normalized for any past regulatory overreach). Products that are death traps compared with others in their category should definitely be called out. I did a google search and the first link [0] says about 3 treadmill deaths per year and 24k (!) injuries is typical in the US (well, those are the numbers the article quotes).

That's not enough information, but certainly not a smoking gun showing that peloton is dangerous vs others in its category.

[0] https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/exercise-equipmen...
Don’t put the gym equipment where vulnerable kids can access them, then. That’s what I do.
And yet it hasn't been that. Plenty of countries with 0 corporate tax, Why aren't all the companies incorporated there? Plenty of places with 0 income tax too, why isn't everyone moving there?
The truth is balanced and properly planed taxes with a stable economy are only a minor part of doing business.
I think it's a wash. If your company is performing poorly and needs to cut costs, eliminating a bonus will cost you staff. Lowering salary will also cost you staff.
It’s not job security. It’s insecurity and peer pressure and identity validation usually with a sprinkling of adhd medication (surprise, we all know what that kind of code looks like) powering people through intense coding sessions where they over engineer things obsessively.

I’m getting pretty sick of it myself.
From what I understand (this might be a Windows 2000 feature) but it was implemented for machines which had the performance to render it.
When I take dividends, 20% of the value I take gets distributed to the staff
There's no reason to admire or have anything but distaste for him, so no.
Doesn't that describe his behavior in creating Facebook as well?
Before google analytics juggernauted the problem space, there were a bunch of log analysis tools which produced metrics similar to what the article describes, and more, locally and based on nothing but server logs.

A ton of them still exist : things like webalizer, goaccess, and the venerable analog. See the self-hosted category here (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_analytics_softwa...)

Like the article, I recently realized that, while I did use it, I didn’t take advantage of google analytics at all so decided to nuke it from my sites. I had additionally been running webalizer for over a decade, but recently replaced it with goaccess (took about 10 minutes to set up) which is more actively maintained and have been quite happy with the basic metrics it produces. Sure it won’t stalk a user as they browse my site but I don’t care, just having an idea of how many hits I get, from which countries and which browsers is enough for my few personal and hobby sites.
What kind of range do you have? Resistive heating can be a bit tricky with cast iron, but I’ve found that preheating the pan in the oven can help. Cast iron has really high thermal mass compared to clad cookware, and lower thermal conductivity
Yeah, I took my kids to a train show (having had them as a kid myself) and someone started telling my seven year olds that they have to pick an era and a location so they could make sure they got appropriate stuff.

My daughter just wanted the rainbow painted grain hopper. Steered them away before he could ruin the whole thing for them.
tl; dr - It's not legal to hang stuff from the rearview mirror, so it's a technicality that officers will use this infraction to pull people over then interrogate them.
I love the blanket statements in this article.

“They manipulate me into buying things I don’t want”

I believe that is called marketing. Might want to look into it. Interesting stuff.
"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."

Why is HN always full of people advocating that companies should be above the law?

You harm someone in self-defence and a judge of jury decides whether what you did was reasonable. We just have a stack of case law that says 'in the past, X was found reasonable".

On the other hand, when Boeing killed hundreds of people, no one was even charged. If any individual commits the acts corporates do regularly, they'd be in jail in no time.
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2010. (posted article from 2013).

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Boris-Rubinsky/publicat...
> my experience is that companies always come up with reasons not to give the bonus

This isn’t true in my experience. If you’re trying to make a decision based on comp+bonus then ask what the bonus ended up being the last few years
Not necessarily. You just need to be aware of personal boundaries and how deep you are willing to go into it. At some point, a tradition need people to develop and keeping it alive vs benefits of participating in it. Awareness that no relationship last, is key.
There's an argument that a 51% attack (or threat thereof) is a form of governance so all miners/stakers ultimately have governance rights.
> To be clear, the potato is not, in and of itself, an energy source. What the potato does is simply help conduct electricity by acting as what’s called a salt-bridge between the the two metals, allowing the electron current to move freely across the wire to create electricity. Numerous fruits rich in electrolytes like bananas and strawberries can also form this chemical reaction. They're basically nature’s version of battery acid.

That doesn't sound so exciting to me.
While there is no question (it has been proven in court, IIRC) that Intel has used leverage to coerce computer makers into favoring their CPUs in the past, the fact is that currently AMD is selling all the chips they can make. So a less dramatic reading is "Alienware Wants To Convince Everyone Willing to Buy Intel To Do So, Because They Can Sell All Their AMD Systems Regardless".
That seems like an opinion given from a privileged position, wherein you own a large enough dwelling to have a dedicated gym area you can prevent children entering.

Equipment should be safe enough to have in non-optimal circumstances, rather than basing things on rarely obtained ideals held by a privileged few.
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> People left because of it

So, one question: After they left the company, has their income increased/decreased/stood the same? Maybe it's a hidden key factor for the decision.
I wonder if this kind of reasoning might be why Mozilla keeps dropping features of Firefox I liked such as RSS, bookmark descriptions, FTP, while adding stuff I don't care about like Pocket and Hello. I've recently finally caved in and installed Chromium and Brave, to see if they might be worth switching because of the reasons I had for using Firefox are just not there any more. After 15 years using Firefox (and advocating for it and installing it on many of my families computers for many years) it's hard to switch, and with the state of privacy and tracking I feel like my only choice is to pick what type of poison I want to drink.
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> Startup employees going home at 5 and fighting unreasonable schedules?

Absolutely.

First, overwork doesn't lead to more productivity for knowledge workers. You get to pay that piper one way or another in the end.

Second, back in the day, if your company was acquired for multiple billions, you had a pretty good shot at a life-changing infusion of cash.

Nowadays, stock options given to employees often end up being worth nothing, even on a successful exit.

Why work hard for a slim chance at bupkis?
> then bully the original founders out of their company

They sold Instagram. It was no longer their company.

It’s too bad, too. Facebook would have some real competition today if they hadn’t sold it.
Microsoft is complex. It was evil in the nineties. It's a different company now. It has some evil aspects, like any large organization, but it seems to treat customers better, and is a major open source contributor. On the whole, I don't feel bad about it anymore. I feel like it's one of the better tech giants, ethically, in 2021.

But yes, leaving organizations like the RIAA, BSA, and similar groups of evil would provide for nicer optics of the new, non-evil Microsoft being, well, non-evil.

It's a good business model too. MSFT stagnated based on evil when it no longer had the same type of monopoly power. Non-evil Microsoft is doing much better. I'll take Azure of GCE now, despite GCE having better tech, since Microsoft is more honest than Google.

(although, to be clear, I did pick AWS over both)
Wise defensive teams operate under the dictum "Presume Breach".
Matt Lauer, Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose, etc, the workplace provides access to something they can't get anywhere else.
Because part of those money flow back to the government, while middle class and small business are left paying the bill for the entire of society.

That said, I'd rather have the government disappear and be replaced by companies providing insurance, protection and lawmaking - than these companies to start paying taxes.
It wasn't unlimited though. If startups will let you take 4 weeks, or 8 weeks, or 12 weeks, or whatever - they should simply publish that up front.

I am fairly certain that they would have had an issue with you taking 52 weeks of paid vacation time off per year. The actual policy number is somewhere between 2 and 52.

I agree that 2 weeks of PTO for an employee per year is too little, but I think we are talking about different things.
The article approach requires access to apache access logs, so you'd need to host your static site on an apache (or other) server with logs you can access.
App Development is the next to go; there's already a handful of competitive tools that will build an App, complete with cloud services, without any need for writing code.

And yah, there's only so many ways to write CRUD, auth, profile, and presence; backend is already commodified as B2B products.
Most countries finance themselves with the always convenient "future-taxes" excuse, in other words, debt. It is the reason congress has to keep raising the debt ceiling, so they can keep borrowing money.

Last year, the US collected $3.42 trillion in taxes, but spent $6.55 trillion for a record deficit of $3.13 trillion. This year is projected to break that record.

https://www.thebalance.com/fy-2020-federal-budget-summary-of...
Amazon did that for quite some time
In the last few months there has been more of these not people posts. If we call them out are we just training the algorithms?
youtube-dl's main feature is its frequent updates

Ah, yeah, now they do frequent updates. But here's a fork that I switched to for a while because the maintainers of the original youtube-dl were slacking off. :) https://github.com/blackjack4494/youtube-dlc

I can't believe the level of entitlement my comment exhibits. :)

My attitude (a bit tongue in cheek) is probably why many open source authors abandon their products. Too much work, no thanks, lots of bitching.
I like the self-referential sequences, like “Numbers n such that OEIS sequence A_n contains n.” https://oeis.org/A053873
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