skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a common theme.

Your employer writes your contract of employment and has fancy lawyers to make sure everything works in favour of the employer. You likely did not have input into the contract at all, and also likely did not have fancy lawyers to help you understand the terms of the contract. Your employer has made up the rules of the game and you do not understand them.

I predict you're going to lose.
You could sign yourself into slavery, that doesn't make it legal.
I usually do chores while I do audiobooks. I am very imaginative and get so immersed that I feel like I’ve been watching a movie.
Ask HN: Vaccine Data?
Has anyone here dug into the research/data on the Covid vaccine?

I've heard a lot of FUD on both sides. Specially, that it was rushed, corners were cut, and this is kind of a trial by fire.

In situations like these, my default option is to wait it out, never be in first phase of anything, especially a new technology and see what effects time has.

I haven't made it a priority to dig through the papers, data and research myself - have any of you?
Stack Overflow suffers from Internet Ossification. Thousands of posts in the search engine but most are for obsolete questions. So lots of chaff shows up.

Sometimes its a melancholy thing - looking for a latest-version issue and some 12-versions-back question shows up from 2002. Still unanswered and I think of that poor soul still hoping for some direction after all these years!
Any plans for showing user's birthday on the settings page?

Sorry, I'm just kidding but that's the only thing I could think off when I heard the number 200!
>Farmland owned by city banks. Can we just stop with this BS?

The idea that the city banks are going to come operate (or, in fact, even own) the rural farmland is BS.

If the pandemic hasn't demonstrated to you how fragile the global supply chain is, I'm not sure what to tell you. People have been unsupported by cities for a lot longer than 5000 years.
Russia is even stricter: to transfer the IP from the employee to the company the company must first give the employee that specific task in writing. Even if you write something on company time and using company tools it's still yours, the company can just fire you for misusing their resources.
Seems like a valid critique for a site redesign post
No, the government doesn't own you. But the system which assigns property rights belongs to the government. If the government (meaning the public institutions) disappears so does your claim to your property and you will likely find yourself defending it by force.
Unfortunately there just isn't enough of an intensive to pay more for the same labor. If contractors stop making them self available for the work, they may have butter luck becoming employees.
Would these cities have the density of suburbs or be real cities?
This is not a DoS attack -- this is business as usual, in some environments. And the employees cannot proceed with releasing scripts, patches, or other software until they have approval (this is the case we're talking about, not "ISO installs" or "neighbor printer fix").
Not quite, no.

AIUI Autopilot is the basic "can sometimes handle steering the car through basic tasks" package, and FSD is the additional "we promise this will be full autonomous driving one day if you buy it now" package.

Evidently as of a certain point all new Teslas come with Autopilot for free (but not the FSD license), and you can always buy upgrades after the fact (unless you have a Tesla sold prior to them shipping the current full suite of sensors in every car...)

cf. https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot
I am in design field more than 20 years. The minimalism trend is just another way of lowering the cost for manufacturing.
Thats all. Designers that are capable of producing long-term value are scarce and expensive. Companies treat design as "Marketing Decoration" and lowering the standard for the profession has produced hordes of technically capable designers that don't have deep knowledge of the subject.
There is no time to learn the foundations. There is no time to explore possibilities. Just apply "best practices" and call it a day.
The end result is homogeneity on a mass scale and lack of individuality.
The anti-design and dark patterns trends are so strong, that in near future design will be successfully generated by AI like systems.
Tech founders are design biased, they hide this behind terms as "accessibility", "inclusive design", "design testing", etc. This is a direct result of "thinking big" culture - Design for big audience, big VC, big "success" and mass adoption, before you know your audience at all. Design is measured today by "market value" and judging by the designers salaries - frontend devs are more valuable than skilled design professional. So, this is what you get by paying less.
In my business I cannot give quality without being payed for the effort. I have dedicated my life to become skilled professional. There is no incentive to apply expertise and knowledge, when you know that your work will be measured as "cultural fit".
A quick look at the QUIC software ecosystem
Why screen scraping rules data connectivity in fintech
How else will they send you push notifications after you forget about the app for an hour?
The great dictator, and an even better golfer
You misunderstand.

What you said (and which I agree with) is that they always want to control the narrative. Not when they've done anything wrong, but always. I agree with that part — it's aregime that wants to control the narrative always, just so the populace won't get used to the existence of anything beyond control of the regime.

However, since the regime always wants to control the narrative, you cannot assume that wanting to control a particular narrative means anything more than "they're acting as usual". You can assume that the regime is untrustworthy in general, but you cannot assume anything particular about this instance.

Your argument is tantamount to "any control freak can and probably be assumed guilty of everything".
It can help with rate limiting and preventing abuse.
It's the same thing, really. They pay you for eight hours but continue to own you for the next 16 hours. They pay you for two years but continue to own you for the next two years after they no longer pay you.
If you aren't turned off by the girly aspect of it (The director previously worked on Sailor Moon) Revolutionary Girl Utena is comparable to Evangelion in terms of being ambitious and Avant-guard. (The movie is meant to be watched after the show. There's a fan website with a bunch of essays analyzing the show still active, there's a lot of subtle stuff going on in it, it was also partially inspired by japanese avant guarde theater in the 70s counterculture era.) I feel the dub hurts the material because the actors sound like they are doing children's theater so it's best watched subbed.

Big O is also a good show though it gets better as it goes along. It gets kind of abstract and embraces a sort of "theater of the absurd" sort of atmosphere so don't go into it expecting a typical narrative to the story.

If you like American superhero movies or comics at all Tiger and Bunny is a great Japanese show with a unique take on them.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica was sort of described as a "deconstruction" of Sailor Moon type shows, a writer with a horror background does a grim and gritty story that starts off like a Sailor Moon sort of thing and goes somewhere else.
Does that complete the circle now, where you'll have a nag from one of the top browsers no matter what you install?
The question we all ask ourselves:

Do I suffer from Dunning -Kruger, or Impostor Syndrome?

Relax, learn the ropes, find where you can add value. And learn.
If the seller pays the buyer is the actual one who pays.
Propellerhead, right? I remember opening Reason for the first time (I had no experience with music hardware) and was completely lost. I played around with knobs for a long time trying to make sounds with limited luck. Then I clicked something and the entire rack flipped around and there were patch cables hanging there that I could plug anywhere. I think I plugged things into different holes, the one sound I had going stopped, then I quit the program :)

I eventually ended up reading the manual and getting the hang of it. My friend turned me on to it, and he had it mastered. He produced house music and frequently toured the world with Mark Farina back in the day.
I have no idea. It seems like, in the US with spotty social assistance, people aren't able to conduct typical investments and savings for retirement and spend much more at convenience businesses for life's essentials such that they become trapped in poverty / economic immobility.
I hear Myanmar has some excellent leaders with a military background.
> It's a good reminder to watch what you say on the internet. Nothing ever really disappears.

That's why I always use my real name online; keeps me from saying something I wouldn't say in public.
I wish Google nagged every 5 weeks, and only if you were already on chrome, instead of every time you use it with any browser.
Honestly, yes. You're going to be doing this for a long time. A sizeable percentage of your entire life. If you're not enjoying it while you're doing it - it doesn't matter how much money you're making. You're just not going to be happy like that.

A certain amount of any job is going to be drudgery, that's why they have to pay you to do it. But if it is mostly drudgery then it's time to change jobs or careers.
Glad to see you are volunteering to submit PRs to resolve these issues on an open source project
The number of people who buy homes to live in them greatly exceeds the number of people who buy homes as investments. That seems obvious to me. The only way most housing could be investment property is if investment vehicles each had so many houses, literally tens or hundreds of thousands, that their total ownership exceeded that of ordinary people .

As it turns out, this is not the case:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/187576/housing-units-occ...
The Super League (new breakaway league of top Euro clubs)
What Is SOS?
> Having circuit breakers and carefully tuning timeouts can help.

Can help, for sure. Can also turn a 'slow' into 'unavailable', which could be what you want, or could be a disaster.
LA is uniquely messed up since you need a car as well as paying NYC rent.

Cars add an extra 300$ to 700$ a month . Most people just can't afford it so they live very precarious lives.
Animate Extruded Text
I have this feeling with Tatoeba, a sentence-translation website.

You can download all the data, sliced and diced in various ways, via their download page: https://tatoeba.org/eng/downloads - and also via perma-urls. It's easy as pie. I've written a bunch of scripts to do it.

But then in their FAQ they have ( https://en.wiki.tatoeba.org/articles/show/faq#does-tatoeba-p...? )

> # Does Tatoeba provide an API?

> No, it does not (yet). We unfortunately do not have the proper infrastructure to host a public API[...].

And I'm like, "Nooo what you have is amazing. It's fine!". No need to be ashamed about having downloadable files!
> Every version of "cycling around the world" I've heard seems a bit unsatisfying somehow.

Well make up your own version, no-one's stopping you.
i just left a 3+ year stint as a contractor at Apple. Some of the stuff from the article rings a bit true to my experience (we get "sad grey apple badges" and apple employees get colored apple badges, we don't get to go to any corporate events (even though we get the e-mails to attend with the asterik at the bottom loljk) but on the whole i always didnt really feel like a second class citizen too much.
that being said, every 3 years wondering if my contract was going to get resigned was a bit nerve wracking. im much happer in the past 3 weeks being fulltime somewhere else :).
Honestly if having varying levels of service enables services that wouldn't exist otherwise, I'm all for it. First Class seats don't hurt me and subsidize my flights, so yay first class!

I've often wondered if mass transit would do better if we just openly had first class cars and otherwise segregated them on a price level.
No one tell IBM that they own Redhat now and have a direct/vested interest in seeing the kernel that it depends on be non-shitty.
I have friends that have the same setup at their jobs at Intel in Portland. Its not just Google.
Yeah no kidding. Based on my reading the comments of other crypto posts on here it seems like 80% of the people here hate crypto and like 5% are in favor of it (the rest being neutral).
Have you looked into nbdev?
Thanks for you anecdotal evidence that you never got shot because you aren't a criminal, drug abuser or incapable of following orders given to you by the police.
Yup I totally agree this why I was a little surprised they make huge profits why not hire them as employees
I've had a lawyer review my employment contract before. I've had it modified.

It's totally worth it if you're getting paid a good SWE or higher salary. You can run the numbers on odds of litigation and on expected costs/benefits.

Once you do it once or twice, you start being able to understand the legal code a little bit better.

And yes, it is a code. Employment contracts are overly broad, and then limited by statutory law. At one point, I had an OC tell me I was reading something wrong. I make it a policy never to take advice from an OC, so I called up my employment lawyer.

For once, OC was right.

That almost never happens.

The layman's read made the contract totally untenable, but what it meant was perfectly reasonable. This was years ago, but I think it was some overly-broad we-own-your-life clause (non-compete or out-of-work-time or similar, probably). Statutory law made such clauses of limited power in my state, and it didn't block what I wanted to do.
I beg to differ - my wife always puts mayo on hot dogs. She's Mexican, though - maybe it's a cultural thing?
> If contractors stop making them self available for the work, they may have butter luck becoming employees.

There will always be a steady supply of people willing to work in shitty conditions because either the employer is a big name (Google) or they have no other alternative to put food on the table.

The latter aspect is why government regulation and minimum standards are the only way to prevent exploitation.
Healthcare. Biomedical informatics IIRC did/does a lot with this in nosology.
Not only US; lots of companies in Europe have similar clauses.
I wonder to what extent this is a problem from the global timesteps of LTL. They seem to require global transformations to work around and the result of the transformations seems to be harder to reason about. I wonder if some alternative logic would work better (eg one where time is more continuous and so there is no such thing as the X operator, or maybe one where time is partially ordered in some way but I’m not sure what that would look like).

I don’t really know how to talk about the problem of the shared variable coupling the two processes too tightly. It seems like the logic is too relaxed in allowing any variable to change at any time forcing specifications to lock down variables and therefore be too brittle to connect.
My original point was just that; public housing is not something you just do with a one-time investment, and it requires a serious long-term commitment to keep it viable.

I agree that many of the previous projects failed to commit to keeping those buildings in shape and I also doubt that any modern democracy would ever commit to such endeavours in the future; nobody wants to make very expensive, very long-term promises like that.
Service latencies are typically not Poisson distributed, partially because their queuing systems are non-trivial, but mostly because there's typically a lot more going on than just queues.

For one great deep dive on the topic, check out https://drkp.net/papers/latency-socc14.pdf
Send a Graph or Plot via Postcard
A permanent opener that was always presented as a joke but that's also eerily close to a rule of life, albeit on the nihilist side.
Does anyone know if Google uses these folks via a "services" type contract or a "staff augmentation" contract? That is, is the data center floor 100% from one company, with someone from that company directing work?

The 2 year limit suggests "staff aug", as that's a tactic to avoid them being classed as employees. If it were run like a service, there's no need to roll them off every 2 years.
There seems to be enough evidence that points to a fire problem. This is NOT the first Tesla fire, and it won't be the last.

There is plenty of evidence towards rich assholes driving fast in residential areas (Tiger Woods). Why didn't Tiger Wood's car catch fire? Or I'm sure we've all know our high school jock who was a bit dangerous with his own car (maybe died of a crash while young). In my case, they didn't burn to death either. Etc. Etc.
It sounds like your area had a major influx. I think it's partially a group-think issue. Once you get a few bloggers/influencers in your area, then it seems more follow because your area is now "on the map". Yet, they could spread out and choose to move to other areas, but I think al ot of it is just that they don't know of, or as much about, those other places.

I know of places where houses sit empty or are even demolished because they are no longer needed with the shrinking population.
In the US you can get a USDA home loan. The minimum down payment is ZERO. The mortgage insurance is incredibly affordable as well. The catch is you have purchase a home in an approved rural area. I grew up in a house paid for by a USDA loan. We lived in a small town just 5 miles from a larger city that had all the opportunities we needed.

We don't have an affordable housing issue. There are plenty of affordable places to build and buy a home outside of NY, SF, and <your-big-city>. We have problem where everyone wants to live somewhere that has cachet not a small rural town.
That's how it was originally designed. The main use case was quickie animations and simple interactions on the web. Web Apps were not a thing. That was all supposed to be done in Java.

It didn't turn out that way, and a ton of stuff has been backfilled into Javascript to make up for that: modules, classes, just-in-time compilers, frameworks, etc. This was all done in a somewhat half-assed fashion, leaving a ton of warts and buried land mines.

Javascript suffers from being too flexible (a thing it inherits from its Lisp-like origins). It's easy to work around problems, so everybody does. Differently. Those solutions come and go, and code written for one becomes Linear B.

By the time you get to Typescript you have a decent language with the possibility of code that can be read, not just written. But the effect is an enormous language and even enormouser language ecosystem. Whole paradigms have come and gone -- jquery, Angular 1, a host of old bundlers -- but of course they never disappear. New code is still written, and only maintainable by the people who wrote it.
Imagine if international disputes were settled by one-on-one combat between world leaders. Our ruling class of flabby fiftysomething bureaucrats would disappear fast
I'm really excited by Cloudflare Workers. I hope to get a chance to build something tangible with it soon. The developer experience with Wrangler is superb and paired with Durable Objects and KV you got disk and in-memory storage covered. I'm a fan of and have used AWS for 10+ years but wiring everything together still feels like a chore, and Serverless framework and similar tools just hide these details which will inevitable haunt you at some point.

Cloudflare recently announced database partners. Higher-level options for storage and especially streaming would be welcome improvements to me. Macrometa covers a lot of ground but sadly it seems like you need to be on their enterprise tier to use the interesting parts that don't overlap with KV/DO, such as streams. [0]

I played with recently launched support for ES modules and custom builds in Wrangler/Cloudflare Workers the other day together with ClojureScript and found the experience quite delightful. [1]

[0]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/partnership-announcement-db/

[1]: https://dev.to/pilt/clojurescript-on-cloudflare-workers-2d9g
I think the fail here was that it continued to nag Linux users who already had Firefox set as their default browser.
I'm an Australian in London so for me its only mid afternoon :D

Goddamn those are some crazy numbers, how does anyone even begin to afford that? You'd be saving for 20 years just for a deposit....
The airwaves can be intercepted, sure, but that isn't what I mean. I've done quite a bit of work that involved ground processing of signals from government owned spacecraft and all of it was encrypted using pre-shared hardware keys, not PKI. Granted, that was military applications and maybe JPL and NASA don't have the same security requirements, but seemingly they should? Maybe the Mars rover is less of a desirable attack target for a nation state adversary than a spy satellite, but it is a pretty expensive project you would seemingly still want to protect as much as you can.
Dark Patterns in UX
Isn't this the difference between speed notation and size notation?
Serverless Collaborative Editing Service
I came to the conclusion early on that that is the nature of capitalist work generally, so pick your poison. I don't agree with the whole system, but also don't think this employer is worse than most others on that front. It's just formulated in a legal clause where other employers might just litigate later if they needed to.

I get paid well, and have never had a problem -- or seen others have problems -- open sourcing things where it made sense; including things that I worked on at work during work hours such as abandoned/cancelled projects or things that made sense for the community to have access to.

EDIT: also your tone sucks, this is HN not reddit.
Still nowhere near as bad as Windows popping up a system level notification on consumer configurations of Windows 10, with a big advertisement for Edge and trying to get people to change their browser to Edge.
Same for me, in the USA.

Generally, most companies use boilerplate employment agreements provided by their lawyer/HR person/firm. The reaction I usually get is that employers are surprised to learn that clause was even in there, and had no problems removing it.

Granted, these were small companies and not tech focused. There was really no conceivable overlap between my side projects and their line of business.

MY ADVICE:

Use a little human psychology here.

Don't create conflict by refusing to sign it, or create work for them by asking them to amend the contract.

Instead, amend the contract yourself. Draw a line through the offending clause. Sign the amended contract. Let them know about the amendment you made because you have side/hobby/opensource/whatever projects whose ownership you can't sign over to the company. Ask them to re-sign the amended contract.

In other words, make the acceptance of your proposed changes the "path of least resistance"... know what I mean?
> You are an IBM employee 100% of the time.

As a German, this just amazes me, and not in a positive way. This would not fly here at all.
I can totally understand what it feels to miss out while seeing others enjoy at the same time.
> Besides, I don't think anyone wants a government based on military service today. Military is important, but not as important as say, infrastructure, hospitals, schools, technology, engineering, or a myriad of other government services today.

I think the fact that one of the world powers today is all about military and projected power disproves this. Almost 50% of the population of that country made it clear that the military is of uttermost importance for them.

Then there are other countries where this is true too.

I wish what you're saying is true, but I don't think it is in most places today, although in many it is like that.