skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Assuming the outside work was performed on the employee's own time/equipment and doesn't compete with the employer's business

The rule actually encompasses more than simple competition, but in any case work on OS components for an alternative (and therefore competing) OS for the employer’s hardware for which they also sell proprietary OS software does compete with the employer’s business, so... (The particular thing the employee was denied permission to work on seems to be VNIC for IBM Power)
The future of work is not working
Slightly different. And also covered on Ian's Shoelace Site: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/berluti-knot.htm
> Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer’s equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information except for those inventions that either:

> (1) Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer’s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer or ...

I am not a lawyer, but I think it would not be unreasonable to believe that work on the kernel would be related to IBM's business (like RedHat).

Its not just that it doesn't compete with the employer's business but if it is related to the employer's business.

Furthermore, while the own time/equipment is there, there is also trade secret information mentioned beyond the time and equipment constraint.
I'm interpreting this comment is saying we think this is a "leak" and that it unprofessional to show off internal politics with our bosses.

Your response to a working in a dysfunctional workplace is to go soft and hope for the best? Sure, us white collar workers we think ourselves as so international and sophisticated and professional, but all this shame-driven toxic positivity gets us is a dystopian workplace.

At an old job I had, we got our functional workplace back by being combative against rude dysfunctional rules such as "no hobbies allowed" There was no reason to give in to shame and limit ourselves to peaceful, professional, and toxic positivity if all that would have got us in this situation is workplace dysfunction.
Yep, that "employer's business" part is relevant here. The person in question is writing a kernel driver for an IBM hardware while being an IBM employee. IANAL but I'm pretty sure that means "Employer fully owns employee's work" even in California.
IBMer her also. I don't know the VNIC initiative but it might be a question of contract, where all IBMers working on that specific open source project need to clearly disclose (being an IBMer) and the email is the way to do it (IBM might measure the participation).

Might also be a question of tracking a "conflict of interest", where the professional in question might work on a similar proprietary product inside the company.

IBM certainly allows you to do your side gigs, but you need to be transparent with the company about what it is and that there is no conflict with your work.
Keep a list of everything you’ve shipped
A quick look (by searching for bgp) suggests that this handles the upper layers, but doesn't try to simulate some of the deeper layers of a network such as bgp. Which something that emulators like core can do [0].

0. https://github.com/coreemu/core.
But to be fair, those aren't the taxes that get raised when one raises taxes. They raise the portion that is effectively zeroed out for a large portion of households who don't earn above the cutoff for the first tax bracket after deductions.
For a little additional context, a few days ago, Pan removed himself (using his IBM email address) from the maintainers list in the same file and added himself (using the gmail address) to the reviewers list. The linked commit removes Pan entirely.

There’s more going on here than is visible from the out-of-context quote in the commit message.
The manga goes where edgy mainstream sci-fi wishes it had the fortitude to venture. We're talking VanderMeer and Cixin and Dick all mixed in with Peele's brand of politically-aware, existentially-fraught dark humor. People attach their heads to rockets to serve as targeting systems; the genetic engineering virtuosos of Venus eat babies; the most efficient form of assassination is arguably of either the "space karate" or "massive kinetic bombardment" varieties.

There's a lot. It's like Tim Burton's Seveneves.
Happy to see my favourite library Python Requests[1] on the list. Congrats team.

[1] - https://github.com/psf/requests
It's gotten a refresh since the last time I saw it. I didn't recognize it at first but the writing style is pretty unmistakable. https://web.archive.org/web/20181102121447/https://www.fiegg...
So, um... what are the "noprocrast maxvisit minaway and delay" options on the user profile setting screen for??

I'm guessing they are documented, but I'm too lazy to find/read. ;)
I think more amusingly for this audience is his involvement with Theranos via George Schultz (who died in February).
No, they pay you a salary based on agreed working hours, usually a 40 hour working week. If that wasn't the case, they'd be firing you for going home at the end of the day.
Perceptions of Internet Information Credibility
> 60% of all voters thought that pressure from women's groups had led to Mondale's decision, versus 22% who believed that he had chosen the best available candidate

I'd imagine some people felt that both statements were true. Measuring opinion is an interesting challenge.
> I have seen far to many overachievers who break down when they realized the vast majority of their time and effort has been wasted

Why was their time and effort wasted?
Growing my Substack newsletter (First 1000) to 10k readers
Does second wave of coronavirus in India count?
> Is it just me

no. I stored the entire python document set locally, yet I still search online for functions.

stuff like: is it str.beginswith() or str.startswith()?

Blast, how do I convert to/from unicode again???

I think what we need is some sort of mashup of rosetta code and the docs and an index.
Microsoft Offers Rust for Windows
The question has so much baked in assumption, ignorance, and disregard that it's unanswerable. The answer rests on fundamentals the question itself already discards.

The asker has already decided what matters, what doesn't matter, and why.

The answer "Because X matters." is as meaningless as the question "Why does X matter when X doesn't matter?".

It's a thoughtless and effortless question that expects a thoughtful answer which is not effortless.

The answer is these three assertions which you will have to just accept as given. Your question exposes that you have either never taken 5 minutes to think about things like this, or have, and arrived at some other conclusion, and so would not make these assertions yourself. That explains why open source doesn't impact your product decisions. You asked why it impacts anyone's.:

1 - One doesn't need to do a thing personally to benefit from, or value the fact that a thing is possible, nor to appreciate the difference between possible (however difficult) and not-possible, nor the difference between natural and artificial difficulty or impossibility.

2 - It matters who ultimately controls ones possessions, and through them ones life.

3 - Ideals matter.
A kilobyte can be defined as either 1024 bytes or 1000 bytes. Similarly, a megabyte could be 1024 kilobytes or 1000 kilobytes, and so forth. Really, 1024 is the number that makes more sense, but hard drive manufacturers promoted the “1000 bytes” interpretation so they could advertise their hard drives as having more megabytes.

Some standards organizations tried to “solve” the issue by defining a “kibibyte” as 1024 bytes and so forth, but you only ever see those in abbreviated forms (ie KiB). I personally hate that convention; the words are aesthetically atrocious and were only invented to please pedants (who annoy me) and dishonest marketing people (whom I detest even more).
America Needs a New Motto
You can't help being born black, or being born a woman. However, you can not be an entitled person who abuses their privilege in order to get ahead of literally everyone else, which is the attitude a "Karen" embodies. Sure, I'll concede the name has been picked poorly, but to be honest, I really do not think it's nearly on the same category as racism or sexism.
Microsoft's 'Netflix-for-gaming' service launches on iPhone and PC this week
That's a good idea! Although, it could still potentially backfire for the same reason as scrypt; now if an adversary is able to obtain your nonce, they are much more likely to fool you.

I guess my broader point here (which I neglected to mention in the OP) is that we already have an excellent means of verifying identities: cryptographic signatures. Avatars are fine, but our interfaces need to make it clear that an avatar is just a costume, not a fingerprint. The Hard Problem, as we all know, is tying real-world people (and objects) to virtual-world pubkeys. If we can manage that, the rest is moot.
another undocumented feature: HN shows me all of my flagged submissions when i am logged in, when viewing anonymous it shows me only one flagged submission - but that one got 114 comments before it got flagged. is this a bug or is it a feature?
True, however as you are no doubt aware, one more digit or one less would double / half the karma requirement which is somewhat extreme, and it would no longer be representable by two hex digits.

The CSS colours are specifically 3 octets written as 2 digit hex, so you so while I like the broader idea that "it's a byte of karma" is sufficient, knowledge of 2 digit hex codes also applies to the privilege directly.

Plus, non-standard byte lengths would be a much more niche reference, and I don't think people would get it.
The ‘metaverse’ bet: crypto-rich investors snap up virtual real estate
doesn't password manager solve
This will make my contention that The Hunger Games is a sort of twisted, modern reapplication of the same (very American) perspective and values that underpin WoO much easier to defend.
You picked another trough as your baseline. Only up ~40% since Oct 2018. Still two very big years -- double the long run historical average -- but also a good deal less sensational than the numbers you're pulling out.

For what it's worth, a look at the annualized returns chart for the S&P500 might be interesting. https://www.macrotrends.net/2526/sp-500-historical-annual-re... Those green bars on the right don't look tremendously out of place compared to past years. What's really different from previous decades is not the rate of growth but the lack of financial market downturns. Hard to say if that means we're ramping up to "the big one" or if we have fundamentally figured out how to better run the economy so that we have fewer downturns.
DNA robots designed in minutes instead of days
All the time, man. I cargo cult the fuck out of the following:

# https://stackoverflow.com/a/246128
DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" &> /dev/null && pwd )"

is a
I have a feeling you would be shocked at the percentage of people in wealthy country's who would wake up at 1:30am every day for a meeting for 130k. Fucked up is very strong language.
Re: the various comments here relating to IP ownership for work performed outside of office hours; what state are they in, etc --- this seems to be quite another thing than "dude works on his side gig in the evening" because it appears that they're actively working against the interests of their employer (and not just "greater IBM", but the specific part of IBM they work in), and have already argued against instructions to cease doing so.
In Australia this is not a problem. There is massive demand but there is no supply. All the vaccines are going to the US and EU first.
Massachusetts only requires them in townhomes and houses over 14K square feet. In other words mansions. NY only requires them in three story buildings, otherwise it's up to the buyer. So these are nonsense arguments. Considering how many existing houses are exempt from all of this, I would estimate that less than 10% of the homes in CA have them, and less than 2% in these other four states.
Ask HN: Why is the Twitter UI so bad?
I've been using a third-party Twitter client on my phone for a number of years. I'm no power user, but it fits my needs perfectly.

Recently I've been checking a specific account for automated covid vaccine availability info. I opened it on my laptop so I could refresh it while doing other work.

I could not believe how awful the official Twitter UI is. This is the tweet timeline that I see on my laptop for this account:

- Pinned tweet

- Tweet

- Promoted tweet (takes a full screen)

- Tweet

- Tweet

- Who to Follow (list of suggested accounts) (half a screen)

- Tweet

- Tweet

- Topics to Follow (half a screen)

- Promoted tweet (full screen)

- Then a pretty a reasonable mix of tweets and promoted tweets

That's 5 screens of scrolling to see just the first 6 tweets. And this is Twitter, whose whole concept is based on short, digestible bits of information. I think it's fair to say if the service had started with this UI, it never would have taken off in the first place. I imagine the ecosystem thrives on most content generating users using 3rd party clients, and then serving ads to the suckers who don't even know there are other clients.

So, I understand the ads. The company needs to make money, and that's the best way to do that they've come up with. But what about the 'suggested' bits? Are they actually supposed to be helpful, or are they revenue generating as well? There's no way to turn them off, so I'd think they have to be.

I don't pretend to know better than them, so I'm sure there's good reasons, lots of data, and many hours of meetings behind the design, but I really am mystified. Why did it evolve this way and how does this service even still exist?
I was really hoping that this was some sort of reboot of the HotDog[0] HTML editor by Sausage Software[1].

[0] https://archive.org/details/tucows_194462_HotDog_Professiona...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_Software
related, but "higher level" project: project:https://github.com/testground/testground
To actually answer the question posed in the headline: I'm guessing whistled languages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language) would be nearly impossible, right?
What are the great successes of machine learning in finance?
TIL that the original "the other gold", silver, is only 9x more common than gold, in terms of "how much have we ever mined". Platinum, we've mined about 1/20th as much as gold.

So that part of the D&D economy actually works pretty well; copper, on the other hand, is something like 3600x more common than gold.
To not act contrary to the interests of your employer (unless, I suppose you are whistle-blowing on some illegal activity...) is a universally expected norm, no?
What are the reasons for killing an app through a bad UX
I think there must be some misunderstanding.

My point is that everyone will have to deal with not being the best. For the vast majority of people being the best at anything is out of the question, regardless of effort or focus. Even if you are one of the lucky few who can be "the best", it'll only be for a moment in time. All of us age and our capacities fade. Then you're left dealing with the additional burden of having once kissed the sky and now being earthbound like the rest of us.

The whole point of the philosophy is finding something else to focus on other than the (true but depressing) objective rank-ordering of you among your peers. Leaderboards are useless to all but a chosen few.

However, everyone (even the ones that will place on the top of the leaderboards) can benefit from taking their focus off the leaderboard and putting it on their own process and effort (in some sense replacing the comparison to others with a comparison to their yester-selves).
What a great poem:

“A centipede was happy – quite!

Until a toad in fun

Said, "Pray, which leg moves after which?"

This raised her doubts to such a pitch,

She fell exhausted in the ditch

Not knowing how to run.“
This is totally missing the point of the post. This post is maybe the most humane, grounded, kind thing I've seen in a while -- and I go to the comments section and I see a bull whip. We all need to take a break and chill.

There is an antique question put to Napoleon -- after you conquer the world, what will you do? Napoleon says: I'll sit back and drink a glass of wine.

Our time on Earth is limited. If you want to spend it "winning" go on right ahead. But you need to make sure you also know you're perfectly okay right where you are, too; lest you go insane, lest you spend your whole life in a tizzy about where you rank. Which unequivocally seems to me to be a life... wasted.
Could the raspberry pi intermediary approach be used to format the data in a way that's more palatable to the Kindle's built-in browser? If you're going to spoon feed the ESP32, why not spoon feed the Kindle?
They're playing to be the best. They forget or don't realize 1) This thing they're the best at is something they hate 2a) They've ignored a bunch of stuff so in other areas they're significantly worse 2b) If they are good in other areas too they're so over stretched that they're not enjoying it. Not reaping the rewards from it. They're constantly achieving without understanding the purpose or how it makes them feel.

It's missing the fact that a lot of times 80% is good enough. You need to be okay with that and also stop when that is not the thing which you need/want to get to 99%+
I'm actually a happy IBMer (unpopular opinion here I'm sure:), and happen to have a great long term relationship with my management chain, so I inform them of everything, both in a friendly and official capacity. Makes everything easy. I even told my boss when I had a completely unrelated side business (music at parties) etc.

When it comes to open source contributions, both business conduct guidelines and open source mandatory yearly certs are unambiguous about transparency and approval of open source contributions. So it's pretty mandatory I think to inform, and limited if any impetus not to open open about it.

Working for a big corporation is a bit cyberpunky/Snowcrashy in that way I suppose.
The 700-year history of the musical alarm clock
> The better alternatives include:

> ...

> The RFC8709 ssh-ed25519 signature algorithm. It has been supported in OpenSSH since release 6.5.

As an added bonus, in addition to increased security, because the ssh-edd25519 keys are so much shorter, it is much easier to use to cut and paste keys from the command line to a web page for ssh access (ie Github).
With Bandersnatch at least you are still being told a story.

One of the central themes is how you are controlling the character, making the character feel a lack of agency. It's far far too Charlie Brooker to be as simple as you describe.
It may sound ridiculous but I always thought I was a good reader, a tad slow but really good with comprehensions/recollection.

Then I went to law school and ever since I have said tongue-in-cheek I didn't know how to read until law school. I terms of recall, many classmates would highlight and write notes in the margins, but I would typically draw pictures of the case.

Coincidentally law school (at least my 1st year when I went) employed the Socratic method, it is certainly not everything regarding deep thinking or wisdom (probably nothing is a better teacher than experience itself) but it forces you to confront your own ideas, beliefs, and biases (good and bad). Lawyers are often the butt of jokes, and in most cases they deserve to be, but having insight into a wide breath of legal opinions spanning a few hundred years and the legal minds that wrote them does tend to reveal how shallow and poorly thought out most people's ideas are with respect to issues they feel so strongly about in the law (1st amendment rights, 2nd amendment), and its not even that I always disagree with someone's ultimate positions or conclusion, just how there is no meat on the bone.

I am not really sure how you might go about understanding my experience, but maybe you could find some law classes that have been recorded and put on youtube, find an are of the law you are interested and watch a few classes (1st Amendment, criminal law, torts, contracts might be good if they interest you)
The region between alcatraz and pier 47 might be a bit higher.

Honestly I think it would be nice to have a magic drinking water creator, but wouldn't it be distilled water? (which isn't good for you, depleting minerals)
I thought the same thing! I was pretty excited.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020603235020/http://www.sausag...

https://web.archive.org/web/20040605112000/http://www.sausag...
1. Because I want.

2. Because a few years ago, I could have, but right now, I can't because I'm fully retired of the software world to learn about restaurants.

3. Because by default, I take the side of the Chinese employee.

If the manager is innocent, he certainly has nothing to fear.
Hmm, I think it would be better to remount ro and only then do the lvchange.
> Banks take deposits and list them as assets.

On the bank's balance sheet, a deposit is a liability. In fact, it's a short-term liability, since most deposits can be withdrawn on short notice. A bank's central business is to borrow short (from depositors) and lend long (to individuals and businesses).
I'd prefer a 1:30am meeting compared to a 9:30am meeting lol, I was just trying to appeal to what is most preferred, i.e. normal 9am to 6pm "working hours"

I was gearing my response in terms of what seems reasonable to expect... but yeah I'm sure everyone would try to stretch themselves to absorb more capital.
Mycology is mushrooming!
Thanks for this. I felt myself reaching for the pitchfork. There are too many unknowns here. No one really wins in situations like these.

Unless proprietary tech is used, I think I would advocate for laws protecting people from being restricted working on projects that provides such a public good... but that is another argument entirely.
Really good points.

It might take me being further from covid for how similar it is to the Manhattan project response to really sink in. Might be too “fresh.”

Maybe this is a chance to learn something about those times. So until the bomb was dropped, the public wouldn’t have had any conception of it being a way out of the war. Yet if the war was in decline when the bombs dropped, I suspect we can agree the bombs did make the finality pretty certain. (Edit-I would argue the bombs absolutely did end the war in a way that wasn’t assured without them dropping, but that’s a point for another time.)

As someone living through covid, the vaccine was something we all were essentially waiting around for while others developed it. We’re aware of it, even if we don’t know how much work was needed to develop the mRNA vaccines. So in WWII your average person could have perceived much more terror from not even fathoming the end of the war at various points.
Even if you didn't have a free-standing cheap microcontroller, couldn't you do a "Winmodem" style scenario where the printer is a bag of dumb mechanical bits tethered to a PC doing all the heavy lifting in software?
I like to take pride in being good at things that I do. Some things I just do for fun and don't care, but I'm quite competitive so a lot of the time my enjoyment comes from getting/being good at something.
Let's do both - changing the stupid policy, and making sure whoever is stupid enough to stay stupid things like this and not realize the policy is stupid and brings negative value to VNIC, RedHat and IBM shares needs to find a job better suited for his "unique" skills.
Because Chrome is awful in general. Google only cares about collecting as much data from you as possible. Use safari.