skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel this is one of those areas where it pays off if you are a bit darker and a more cynical individual. If you ask any random Eastern European (a group to which I belong) I can bet my neck that likely 90% of them will tell you "workplace well-being is a feel-good signal for the people on top and nothing else".

I have had people fiercely contesting this with me during a table conversation, only for them to eventually begrudgingly admit in the end: "Yeah, I see your point, maybe preaching yoga to very stressed people who already almost don't have free time in their day isn't the best way to go about this...". And I am like -- oh, you think, dude?

There are a number of things that can be done but I found many organizations to not care about enforcing policies like "no Slack messages after 19:00" or "minimize emails religiously" or "is this meeting actually useful for anyone except me who is in a chatty mood?" etc. Not to mention have people who police the meetings to keep them on topic and brief. And somebody paying attention if you are loaded with responsibilities outside of your job description? That's science fiction.

Start from these: multi-tasking and having too many responsibilities. Reduce these two factors for each person as much as possible -- or, if the person likes the extra load, maybe consider a pay bump plus reducing a smaller chunk of their stress.

Before something else outside of empty virtue signalling is done, the problem will persist. Companies just refuse to see the huge problems that even a single employee possessing a lot of institutional knowledge leaving will entail, so I guess they'll just keep suffering and pretending that some extremely half-done measures will fix the problem.

They will not. Nobody cares about your luxury coffee at the office. Nobody cares about the funny furniture. Nobody has their life sustainably improved by a free neck massage for 15 minutes a week (although it does help somewhat).

If any manager or business owner is here, take this single piece of advice: aim for measures that solve problems long-term.
This is also how I'd normally implement control systems in general. Sample the input, calculate, then set output.
Yep, I think for long term sustainability we need many more B Corps, because otherwise we’re all working ourselves to the bone for private equity companies (which often seem to be the aggressive profit seeking shareholders).

There is a lot of value in being good for your people, the environment and the rest of your supply chain.
Weird, I don't even see the Sidewalk option in Account Settings

EDIT: looks like my Echo is too old to be compatible. Lucky I guess!
Welcome to the Soviet Union! They tried exactly that and failed spectacularly at it. Centrally planned economy simply does not work, it's a law of nature.
I thought the 11k/mo was pre-tax but regardless, with stock they can be higher than $165k.
Interesting, there's no tea/coffee club at my office - my company doesn't provide tea/coffee/beverages, but does provide keurig machines. People either bring in their own coffee machines/coffee/french presses or they bring in their own k-pods. I am perfectly fine with it myself.
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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are entirely responsible for the massive epidemic of ransomware attacks we are currently weathering.

Ransomware existed before bitcoin, but it was very limited in scope due to the difficulty of getting people to send money to the attackers without getting traced. Bitcoin has solved that, and even bitcoin exchanges are in on the grift, helping keep ransomware payments secret.

Bitcoin is not only massively environmentally harmful, it is now also causing direct harm to society in many other ways, this situation being a prime example.

Bitcoin needs to be banned, now. There is no ethical or moral way to keep dealing in bitcoin with the massive damage it is causing.
It shouldn't be about making lots of money, personally I find it great that most good software engineers aren't primarily driven by money, but that mindset shouldn't imply exploitation. It's just a fact that large corporations and companies in general benefit disproportionally from OSS. The value that open source software creates stands in no relation to the price that companies pay for it, even if the maintainers of some projects are perfectly happy with the compensation they receive. If you don't need a large part of the money that your work justifies, then just give it to charity, but don't allow companies to take it.
>Family and friends don't give performance reviews

I don't know about you, but I absolutely got 'performance reviews' every single time a report card came in. At least my manager doesn't beat me when I fail to meet expectations.
There were really nice looking themes for the 6300 e.g. here:
https://www.deviantart.com/search?q=6300%20theme

And WinAmp was kind of famous for its themes. If well done, they didn't look amateurish at all. Even better than the original.

But it's true that currently most UIs that don't look like all the others quickly seem half-baked.

Anyway, having even a little theme support in popular programs would fix issues like the posted one easily.
8-bit Workshop[0] got me started on 2600 programming. I've since moved on to a local setup using Stella (emulator) and DASM (assembler), but it's a really easy place to start. The book advertised there is decent, but there are also some really good tutorials that can be found online, this one[1] is pretty popular.

[0] https://8bitworkshop.com/

[1] https://atariage.com/forums/topic/33233-sorted-table-of-cont...
The hacker group gives part of their profit to charity and does not attack hospitals or non-profits.
Seb is a well-known narcissist, suffering from ego created by his own Twitter myth. I cannot name a single peer among the many circles I converse in which respects the person (another matter for the technical ability). Seb has only to look in a mirror to identify the issues with the current state of the Babel project management.
This cop was assinated in an ambush after 911 recieved a call about a suspicious van with bomb making materials that lead the cops to a kill zone.

TL;DR but where did it mention the war on drugs?

Don't get me wrong I agree, drugs should be freely available for consumption by addicts. Take the need to push drugs on new users by current addicts to support their addictions, take the profits away from dealers, smugglers and cartels. And yes take the career opportunities away from cops, lawers, jailers and judges. The only logical answer is to legalize and provide drugs free of charge in a medical environment so addicts dont resort to crime to feed their addictions, safe injection sites reduce user harm but those users still harm the communities they are in by creating new addicts through pushing and harm their communities by commiting property crimes to pay for the drugs. Free drugs means no more desperate people being comprimised into criminals by a narco-industrial complex.
It's unusual. But this hack was also unusual. All the rest I'd heard of had much more localized ramifications. This one they hit too hard and I'm not sure the apology will be enough to stop what they have probably put into motion.
Yes, and I would note we're discussing wealth, not money. If money loses its value, then having money does not equate with being wealthy.
It should rub you the wrong way because the language is wrong! The author has used the wrong word to describe the problem. If you replace the word harm and harmful with difficult it makes sense.

harmful:

of a kind likely to be damaging

difficult:

hard to deal with, manage, or overcome

I've done it for everyone:

>Saturated dark colors against dark backgrounds are hard to read and difficult to parse

>White mentions lack visual clarity and are incredibly difficult for individuals with visual impairment

>Color redesign lacks contrast and are difficult for individuals who are colorblind and/or visually impaired

>Elements lack unity

>Saturated, mid-value colors covering large fields are difficult for end-users

>Text contrast with new colors fail the WCAG test
I have a 27" 1440p monitor and a readable font has 400 characters width. What kind of monitor are you using my dude, are you legally blind?
I think this is a good point. Messing with oil is probably the fastest way to bring the full weight of the US gov to bear upon you.
Or the in-between variant: constant meetings and initiatives to create the illusion of worker influence on major decisions when there is in reality none at all. A complete waste of time to check a box somewhere about "horizontal hierarchy", and at the end of the day the decisions are being made "in the sauna" as it were anyway.
So funny that I can not read the content of the tweet because Twitter dropped support of operamini.jar and the tweet has not been quoted in the article.
>I honestly ask. Because all of that looks to me as a total intellectual scam.

Most upper corporate messaging I've seen is an intellectual scam or intellectual dishonesty (be it HR or any department), although I'd say that's putting it far too politely.

These are typically well educated and skilled individuals that aren't oblivious of reality. They have careers and want to maintain them, so they maintain the corproate narratives that work and pass responsibility for lower level managers to maintain plausible deniability as to why efforts seem disingenuous. There are strategies to any of these moves or messaging and rarely ever are they in anyone's interest but the business unless you coincidentally have interest alignment with the business.

It's a lot easier in business (perhaps in life) to strategically lie and achieve measures of success than to be honest and be successful.

I am completely and utterly cynical of any piece of information and communication passed off by corporate entities or those who have heavy sway in their control and direction. They have far too much incentive and motive to be intellectually dishonest and little-to-none to be honest. Even apparently benign information is often strategically crafted, reviewed, and re-reviewed before passed off with very carefully chosen wording. It's not until you get to the underlying employees that I have any trust in what they say.

HR honestly seems like a terrible career to me if you actually care about people in modern business environments (I couldn't do it). You're essentially powerless in terms of business decisions and more often than not act as damage control between what business management unilaterally decides to do and how it effects employees. If your goal pursuing an HR career was to improve wellbeing of employees, it seems like a career where you'd be in for quite a culture shock in most environments. Of course they also serve to maintain and smooth out other legal compliancey issues and staffing needs.
This is one of the reasons why I've always been fascinated by people who claim Amazon has a customer focus. It is impossible to get what you awant from Amazon. If you go to Amazon they are going to make sure you get what they want to give you. You're going to watch the content they make, buy the white label goods they produce and click the adverts they put in front of you. It is the most customer hostile company I've ever seen.
Agreed, but what do you propose? We will never have 100% of people get the vaccine due to either personal choice or medical conditions.
> Convenience should not be the end-all goal

For who? Even as a tech savvy person, that is ALL I want. I used to tinker around with home projects, nowadays I want things that work with no fuss. I don't want to play IT support desk for my family, I want their stuff to work.

Convenience is exactly what people want who don't understand technology but want to use it for benefit.
There isn't a clear dividing line. What you have are criminal organisations who may get protection and shelter from governments in exchange for making attacks which are incidentally beneficial to that government.
I miss the times before applications had their own theming and just used bog-standard OS provided widgets that could be themed globally by the user. That this has fallen out of favor is, in my opinion, a good indication of how unprofessional and user-hostile our industry has become.

We didn't use to need bespoke "dark modes", you just changed the colors globally. We did this in the 90s, when 64MB of ram was huge. We have become pathetic.
My issues with these things is that it's selling friendliness coated in newspeak lingo to make it special.
I think it’s the “harmful” rhetoric that signals “I have an agenda”. We really need to get passed this charged way of conveying perfectly valid feedback. Because come on. It’s a chat app.
I don't think you can generalize the level of motivation. If we had aliens to communicate with, there would be much higher levels of effort deployed than we have put into whale communications.

However, it might give us a clue about how hard cross species translation can be.
They are using MY echo, MY bandwidth, MY data. Why should I give it to them for free? I am going offline with a raspberry pi picovoice. I get all the functionality of voice control without the sewage that comes with today's internet.
No, you could not care less.[0]

[0]: https://youtu.be/B4wUsDozedE
You're being a bit disingenuous here. Other definitions of harm include: "have an adverse effect on" and "actual or potential ill effects".
Depends, event forwarding is quite weird and broken. Default settings delay and buffer events for quite some time so that an attacker can easily suppress unsent event buffers. Crashes are also usually missed because buffered events have not been sent in time. That can be configured down, but all the provided defaults are useless.

Also, encryption and authentication for log forwaring is bound to AD Kerberos credentials that frequently expire, leaving you without logs again.

Any old syslog client and server is far superior in all the aspects mentioned.
I love levels but the self-selecting group who reports their comp there cannot be used to reliably estimate the average, since they are not a random sample. I would guess propensity to report is correlated with higher TC.
Keyoxide Project Update #4: The 3.0.0 Release
As a previous engineer manager this sucks . While sales people get all kinds of bonuses for doing their job. The Engineering team gets a pat in the back because nothing broke down.
Put a price tag on it, and then 5 years later Amazon offers it as-a-service and kills you in your sleep.
You can disable the feature.

> Settings --> Account Settings --> Amazon Sidewalk --> disable.
Unless Find My supports Tile hardware being able to simultaneously connect to both Find My and Tile's own network by default, this access is a Sophie's choice for Tile:

- If their hardware only connects to Find My, then the Tile network (and Android phones specifically) will have fewer connection points available, making the devices less attractive to Android users who will not have access to Find My.

- If their hardware only connects to the Tile network, then their tracker hardware is less attractive to iOS users, who have the larger Find My network available.

If Tile is able to ship hardware (or adapt their existing hardware) to connect to both networks by default, this sidesteps the issue entirely, since it'll work both with cross-platform hardware and take advantage of the first-party tracking network. And the ability to do so by default is hugely important here: putting something behind a toggle will effectively kill its adoption, and will have knock-on network effects.
Lol, time to ban alcohol, tobacco, fast food, candy, etc as well based on that argument.
Well, it depends what you want to achieve I guess. Apple and the like are very, very successful. And not because the pressure there is low. Quite the opposite.
It sure sounds like they messed up big time, and it could cost them. I'm sure Putin will never do anything to them while they are in Russia, but the moment they step out of the country to spend some of their money, all bets are off.

They deserve to be hunted down and punished accordingly. When your need to scam people out of money hurts many people and an economy, I say, "Screw You!!."
AKA their PR budget

If they also prove they donated to charity via Bitcoin I would assume some legal rights for the victims to claim this money back off the charities. (And it looks like they've given $20k USD to date which is probably a paltry amount for what they've been extracting https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54591761)
Start getting late for appointments and family gatherings. I want to see how long it will take until someone stops meeting with you or at least makes a remark.

Start promising things to friends and family, build expectations and then never deliver.

In the end you can start doing drugs and see how people react when you show up to grandma birthday stoned.

Family is also a family as long as you stick to some norms. No one loves you unconditionally. Workplace is a family but there is obviously different set of expectations and evaluation is more direct.

While family doesn't expect you to deliver value for them every day like a workplace, there is still a lot of expectations to be met.
>But the amount of funding they're getting is scraps from any of these organizations that, I'm sure, get way more than $24K/year value from Babel

It's hard to measure the value it provides, but generally thats a weird way to look at things that are open sourced. If they wanted their fair share of the profits, they could've chosen a different license, or sold the product.
once you go down that road you will find preppers (e.g. doomsday preppers)
That's taken care of - I knew we'd need to register using the non-union VAT MOSS scheme, so I sorted that straight away. What I wasn't expecting was that VAT MOSS would no longer be supported within the accounting software. What I've found is that all the accounting softwares I've looked at only allow you to have one VAT registration per account, so we'd need to have two separate accounts: one for EU sales, and another for everything else.
The only thing disappointing here is your comment about ONE block on the whole page that talks about connectivity, and you present it as a complete website. The website itself maybe is little outdated but does a great job telling what Blink does and what tech it uses to make your life easier.
Switching Windows to dark mode
> it is recommended not to vaccinate within 6 months of infection.

24/7 ads and encouragement for people to get the vaccine, almost to the point that it's a moral virtue means that tons of people are getting the vaccine, even having recently caught covid-19.
More like buying indulgences
Time to go back to horse and buggy. Scoundrel robbers are able to flee in cars far too easily.
No need to shout.
I don't entirely agree. A better analogy might be that a restaurant's landlord doesn't care if the food is good. I've run into the problem that sellers of adspace will often prefer to work more with customers who have lower conversion rates. Makes perfect sense when you think about it, people with the crappiest products need advertising the most, while the best products can lean on word-of-mouth.

Edit: Come to think of it, the fact a product is advertising at all might come to be seen as a negative signal of value by the public at large.
Skiing or wakeboarding behind this would be pretty rough except on really smooth water. What else do people use a little boat like this for?
Of course they have an agenda. Discord is harder for them to use now, and they want it fixed. When did "agenda" become a negatively charged concept that only bad actors possess?

Slack and Teams are chat apps too. Why would chat apps not be important?
And a rebuttal by Evan You, absolutely torching Seb for being a massive hypocrite https://twitter.com/youyuxi/status/1392096427313147908
This is highly atypical, but they are probably worried. They just created a geopolitical incident that Russia has to clean up, and I would imagine there will be consequences for the group.
Much like starting a 'garage team' for innovation, it doesn't seem like it makes much sense to use generalist hospitals to handle extremely intense covid patient waves. It seems like field hospitals where more resilient doctors and nurses make significantly more money from a hazard pay perspective that can handle significant ramp would make way more sense. That way, the people who can handle it get the extra comp and treat one thing (and become very good at both the rapid changes in the course of the disease and the treatment of it).
I don’t know about the simulation part. But we definitely live in the future...
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Shareholder liability is much too limited.
It's certainly lacking in both rigor and utility, but the "Jungian" cognitive functions that it builds upon are fairly well-established to my knowledge (not a neuroscientist).
"Our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society."

You see, they just want to make money by extorting people with malwares, and not create problems for society. It's all forgiven.
Building a Space-Based ISP
Publish or perish, right? This was when much scientific process was young, so she may not have framed things that way. It is also possible that she was more concerned about making progress than taking credit for it or monetizing it.
Misallocated and misappropriated are two very different things. The linked tweet makes no mention of misappropriation.
TBF their previous design isnt the pinnacle of readability either, it's basically 50 shades of grey (I use the web version only and haven't seen the new one yet). The audible beep seems to be always random. In general I think these chat interfaces are the worst kind of discussion boards we can have, but discord is free and still allows adult content so i guess its a compromise.
> Our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society

By hacking the way they do, they are creating problems for society. It doesn't matter if it's a fuel pipeline or a bottling plant.
Yeah, I thought they'd stopped doing this, but it appears they've simply removed the option to disable it from the admin screen, presumably keeping it on in the background.

Christ, I loathe BT.

- ed

turns out you can turn it off, but have to log into your BT account, rather than direct from the router.
As far as we know the attack didn't even touch the systems connected to hardware.
Not really related and I don't know about Beyonce, but during the dot com bubble, a company called Pixelton had a party with KISS, Tony Bennett and a reunion of The Who. They went bankrupt.
No legitimate charity would keep funds donated by criminals in order to justify their means.
I do know Henry personally and Henry actually consulted me when he was debating whether he should quit his job to work on Babel full time. We also occasionally talk about the burdens of OSS maintenance so I know first hand how hard he's been trying to keep Babel afloat.

That said, a statement from the current most active paid contributor to Babel is probably more convincing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27116357
I'd argue all day that it's sustainable. The crux of the issue is scale; at what scale does it cease to be sustainable?
One possibility is that if we are talking about biological life, it might not be possible for life from planet A to digest matter from planet B. After all terrestrial life has special enzymes and processes to deal with other terrestrial life.

In that case if you wanted to colonize another planet you’d have to look for an empty one, or you’d have to erase the whole native ecosystem and start over. Looking for an empty planet might be a lot easier, therefore expansionist civilizations might be specifically avoiding inhabited planets. Maybe?