skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My $8k figure was based on 4 company get togethers per year ($2k * 4).

$2k for one week of travel expenses was based on 5 nights of hotel at $150/night ($750), 5 days of rental car at $200, gas for the car at $40, roundtrip flight at $500, travel to/from home airport at $60, parking at home airport at $50, and 6 days of meals @ $55/day ($330). Grand total $1930 plus taxes and tips.

When my company rented out the convention space in the Hard Rock Hotel plus rooms for 50-100ish employees, the room rates were still $150+/night. Granted that was the same week as CES, but I don't think hotel costs scale down that much unless one is willing to sacrifice location or something else.

The other things should be scalable a bit with tradeoffs. That said, I wouldn't be too keen on going on a week long work trip where I can't leave the hotel, must eat every meal at the hotel with my colleagues, and don't have any way to get around. To me, that means a successful event would have to budget for people expensing at least some of their own meals and for people expensing at least a few taxis/ubers.

Again, my experience with big company gatherings is tied to CES which is its own beast, but in the case of CES my company pretty much left everyone up to their own devices in terms of getting to/from the hotel and for most meals. Hotel rooms were also individually expensed (but out of a reserved block of rooms). My company was obsessive about expenses and the cost of CES, so I imagine if there were a cheaper way to do it, we would have been doing it that way instead.
It's a heuristic.

Furthermore, the brown M&Ms clause was buried deep in a list of technical riders. The person in charge of the green room isn't reading the technical part of the contract at all. Why would they? It's not their job. They're reading the other part of the contract that plainly says "please put a bowl of M&Ms in the green room". So the only two cases in which a venue is going to pick out the M&Ms is...

1. The technical director saw the requirement and told the green room guy to start picking out M&Ms or the show is cancelled

2. The green room guy somehow knows about the brown M&Ms thing and decides to falsely signal compliance

Presumably, the whole brown M&Ms thing was obscure enough that no venue actually decided to just check for odd requirements. Furthermore, if they did decide to just do that and only that, specifically knowing that they were interfering with such a heuristic, they'd almost certainly be liable for something. So I doubt anyone would deliberately interfere with this, and it's hard to accidentally comply with just the no brown M&Ms thing.

"Just line-check the production all the time" might not always be an option.
In the Linux kernel mailing lists, which are the submit-by-email culture I'm most familiar with and with the best documentation of norms, the main criterion for individual patches is that they be comprehensible to a reviewer. Reviewers and bugfixers face similar reading comprehension constraints.
That alone is why people sign up for Secret Santa rematching. Your gift giver probably didn't go without because someone else was kind and stepped in. Even so, given that you feel horrible about skipping out on that obligation but can't apologise to the person you wronged, you should take that energy forward in your life and use it as a reason to do good things for others also anonymously - maybe someday, as a result, you'll be able to forgive your past self for letting that person down. I don't like to give advice, and especially not to strangers online, because it's impossible to know people and their situation well enough to give good advice. Still, in this circumstance, I think it fits - I could be completely wrong though, and I don't mean to be impertinent so please feel free to disregard if inapplicable.
It’s not a great sign when the earliest OS X success dev success story is refusing to patch bugs :(

That’s a sincere frown. I don’t use Omni’s apps but I’m really disappointed that the high quality of the Mac app ecosystem is basically gone.
The case for prosecuting Donald Trump
What? Rogue-like has been in the gamer vocabulary for years, certainly well before Returnal. Returnal might be one of the few AAA rogue-like games[1], but the term is very common in indie video game circles. Common enough to warrant sub-terms like rogue-lite and plenty of digital ink has been spilled trying to narrow in on what it actually means.

1: One could make a very reasonable case that the Diablo series is a rogue-like or at least a rogue-lite, but I don't know how much the term was applied to it at the time of release.
Most reinfections are milder the second time.

The early Nevada case involved a relatively younger person who caught it once. Then they caught it again while caring for a parent who also had it and was hospitalized. The case was confirmed by PCR analysis of the samples that were taken combined with validating that the samples had the subjects DNA in them.

But they likely had a very mild initial infection and being young they fought it off with mostly an innate immune system response and didn't generate a lot of antibodies or adaptive response.

Then when their parent got sick (in the same household) I would bet money the cared for that parent taking little to no precautions believing that their prior infection granted them survivor-island-style invincible immunity to disease (which is how most people think the immune system works). They likely got a whopping large viral dose which (probably combined with a bit of bad luck) is what caused the second infection to be severe and require hospitalization.

And due to selection effects that unusual case bubbled up to the top early because it was someone in the hospital with covid who had positive evidence that they'd caught it 3 months earlier. A lot of people with mild covid both times would never have landed into a study and the clinicians wouldn't have bothered with genetic sequencing.
Also they were trying to vendor lock third party hardware, acting in concert with OEM, it was far deeper and wider than Apple controlling access on their own hardware/software/user stack.
You're entitled to your opinion. Nevertheless, I think it's an obvious conclusion borne out by observation of the political spectrum and conversations on HN. One could even say that your reaction lends it credence ("He must be talking about me!").

BTW, friendly correction: complement vs. compliment.
It's a bit like mutation testing. Add real bugs to the code (through automation) and see what gets caught by your unit test. Do this a few hundred times and you can get some idea how many bugs your unit tests might have missed.
What about Patreon?
A succinct explanation of why I've never participated in any online secret Santa type of thing.
See also, parts of Southern Oregon which went ahead and did this anyway since all the logging companies were already gone.
Nope, although the fake currency transfer rates that are the big obstacle here are structurally similar in their economic impact to prohibitively-high export tariffs, they aren't actually taxes; they don't go to the Treasury but to the Central Bank, and so they don't pay for social services but rather to subsidize imports, further hollowing out the Argentine economy and destroying our competitiveness. But the evidence suggests that, even if I'm willing to take the 38% haircut, TransferWise and PayPal simply don't work. They just don't have service here.

Argentina does have a little bit of income tax, which I'm not allowed to pay (I tried, but the tax office turned me away because they don't accept income taxes from illegal immigrants), but most of the tax revenue here comes from the VAT, which I pay just like everyone else, because it's included in the price of everything. Exports of information technology services, which is what I do, are exempt from VAT. In fact, when I had a company here, before I was an illegal immigrant, I had to pay a lot of extra VAT that was supposed to get refunded, but it never was, because following that aspect of the law is too inconvenient to the government. (Because all my revenue came from exports, you see.) One accountant suggested that I bill a friend's domestic company for fake services in order to get the refund. I refused.

(This may throw some light on why TransferWise and PayPal have opted out of doing business here.)

I understand that if you've lived in a country all your life with a more or less reasonable government, all of this sounds ridiculously implausible. Government economic policy optimized to destroy domestic industry at the expense of imports? Tax offices refusing to accept taxes? Tax offices breaking the law by refusing to refund VAT? Accountants recommending fraudulent invoices as standard business practice in order to work around the tax office breaking the law? And before I moved to Argentina, it would have sounded ridiculously implausible to me too. Maybe I would have assumed that people were only interested in Bitcoin for tax evasion, if it had existed then! Hopefully I wouldn't have been such a fool as to accuse random people on the internet of crimes as a result of my misconceptions, but I probably would have done that, too.

Anyway, that's the way things really are.

Dude.
america is an empire, and empire combines the power of huge numbers of people with an organizing mechinism that is the human intellect stripped of everything else it means to be human. the human intellect assesses what is in its interests and how it can utilize the things around it toward those ends. so america grinds up soldiers.

i recently learned special ops dogs are put down after they're too old, but soldiers get the chance to adopt them. the soldiers adopt them because a soldier, even a special ops guy who has been turned into a killing machine, is a whole human. they can't utilize the dog, but they adopt it anyway.
Why Is Quantum Computing So Hard to Explain
I think not using Apple platform is the way to go if you cannot agree their ToS.
I don't think any one forum can claim to own the concept but it was certainly common on more traditional forums too.
I mean, good luck converting that Gold ingot back into energy...
> I also photograph the 2FA code or QR code and print it to a safe place.

This is really great advice.

I do something similar. I have a copy of the recovery codes (where possible) in an encrypted volume with multiple copies. Also printouts. The printouts have saved me once already.

Also, don't underestimate the utility of carrying around an encrypted SD card with things you want to retain access to!
It probably was a hell to debug after the first ship with such cargo capsized unexpectedly.
Then don’t buy an iPhone.

Same question to you.
Marxists would argue that naive is exactly what you were, and Marxists would reference history both to show you why and what you could have done about it. Liberalism and capitalism have always been loving bedfellows.
Low doses of laughing gas could be fast, effective treatment for depression
You're fixating on a very strange point.

No scientist ever believes any measurement to be perfectly accurate, and different types of random error, systematic errors, and statistical biases always need to be accounted for.

And they are.
It also help if you spell correctly: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=roguelik...
Huawei Entering the EV Narket
You might be a candidate to join the Audiophile club ;)

Just a couple hundred bucks a month for a decade, unlimited reading and real life trial and error, and infinite fun.

Give it a consideration
Well, it's Mars. Did you expect palm trees? Colonization of empty places almost always starts bleak, but later becomes less so, because of the efforts of exactly the sort of people who can withstand desolate and bleak for long enough to turn it into something else.
These complaints have a very similar vibe to the complaints about IE6 back in the day. Companies coyly pretending to support interoperability while actually breaking it as much as possible is getting really, really old.
> This seems to suggest that miners dictate the reward they get, rather than miners are forced to adapt to the reward they are offered.

Miners don't dictate the reward they get. The subsidy is the "block reward" that started at 50 BTC and halves every 4 years, which is currently at 6.25 BTC - it will be halved again in a few years to 3.125, etc. Blocks are as full as they can be right now and rarely get to the 1.0 BTC mark, so basically if you want the transaction fee market to pay for blocks without increasing the size you'll need to pay close to 6X to 10X higher fees than the current price.

> There's no required amount of energy used for mining

This is true and actually the difficulty can decrease, but none of that changes how many transactions can actually fit into a block.

> Mining difficulty automatically increases and decreases depending on how profitably miners can operate.

Mostly accurate. Mining difficulty decreases if a block took too long to mine. There are lots of scenarios where mining difficulty could get easier - most of which don't seem plausible right now though.
The title missed one important piece: employees who don't choose remote work are required to come to office at least half of the week (i.e. three days). This is a less of a good news for most people.
I’ve never had success with their .onion link. I suspect something may be wrong there.
I'm talking about those who have recovered when I say natural immunity, not all unvaccinated.
Around 40% of the population of Nigeria (a country of 200+ million) does not have access to electricity. The per capita electricity consumption of Nigeria is _two orders of magnitude lower_ than the US.
Yeah agreed, I wasn't being clear there.
It does help, thanks, its trending up.

others also use a hyphen
Agree, it's an interesting trade-off: Completely private if you can use an anonymous address but completely traceable if the address is identified. I wonder if Satoshi intended it that way or if he would have preferred the greater anonymity of Monero.
All scientific findings are obvious or wrong.
This is sometimes called an "up or out" model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_or_out
It doesn't meet one definition that one advocacy group choose to use.

Other "open source" companies are somewhat more realistic and honest about the term and it's history: https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/open-source/what-is-open-so...

I'm not saying the OSI's objectives and motivations are bad, but they did not invent the term "open source", they were not the first to use it, and their ongoing attempts to gatekeep it's usage are - at least to me - tiresome.

(Having said that, I also find rms's hardcore free software stance tiresome, but I'm glad he chooses to dig his heels in so hard there, as an opposite-end-of-the-bellcurve outlier to counterbalance the vested commercial interests trying to extend and embrace the free software movement for commercial greed...)
It’s possible if you become a contractor. That’s what I am now, and I have worked for two companies so far. I live outside the states now.

But it does mean dealing with your own taxes, charging a higher rate to compensate for those taxes and other bills, etc. however, I’ve found that I can charge higher and the company can still save money simply because they don’t have to pay for things they would normally pay a permanent employee.

But, it does come with a risk of losing your job more easily.
> Do you really need a crutch like the white board?

Umm, what? Having been a manager and an IC I don't see a white board as a crutch at all, I see it as a highly effective tool for a specific set of problems.

I definitely prefer working at home when I'm heads down, I know what the problem is and I just need to crank out a solution. When I'm designing the solution to a problem with a group of people, or heck even just trying to fully clarify the problem, having an in-person session is just much more productive and efficient. What's more, having now done lots of remote design/problem solving sessions, both as the leader of the meeting and the participant, I find them always less effective in every way when there are at least 3 people in the meeting.
Eventually. Probably.

The characteristics that make Bitcoin unsuitable as a currency right now isn't is deflationary printing, it's that it's unregulated, uncontrolled, and subject to tragedy of the commons (as is seen with the multiple rejected block size increases).
Sorry, but French is not even in the same league as Spanish or English, that boat departed long time ago.
Interesting passage:

> The following email exchanges occurred on the 24th December between the Company ship manager and the Master stating “Since the cargo is very wet, would suggest to do Can testing as per IMSBC code. Although not listed in appendix A, it is better to be cautious.” In reply, the master wrote, “what do you mean by testing procedure please clarify."

Ship's master, who is responsible for the proper loading and safety of the ship, does not know how about how to test for moisture content. How is this possible? Is this the best they could find to watch over that big, expensive ship?
In my experience, it's very easy to denounce something else as wrong, but it's a lot harder to actually put in the work to improve the situation and to demonstrate that things have actually improved. That's all I mean by building things. If you are an open source company, you still need lots of lawyers, lots of licenses and lots of contracts. You can't really avoid that, copyrights and patents are still an issue that everyone has to deal with, because these are still copyright/patent licenses after all. So maybe in some cases things are better but in other cases it seems that they aren't. For myself, I personally won't try to claim the high ground without the results to back it up.
It helps enormously to know who you are trying to reach. This doesn't necessarily have to be a single person, but, yes, know your audience is terrific advice.

I think we write or create for some faceless other in part because it's easy to criticize and criticism is rampant and people are happy to dog you, your writing or your creation for any old reason. People start trying to figure out how to defend against that and it's not unreasonable to want to defend against that, but it can end up putting the cart before the horse.

If you are writing or creating from a defensive position first and foremost that will impact the creation. It will tend to be all defensible facade and little real substance behind that.

Get to know your audience, try to make sure your audience is some specific individual or some real group of people to whom you can genuinely relate and then consider tweaking it defensively after the fact.
Keystone proposed to transported one thing - Canadian Oil to Canadian tankers. Outside of running the pipeline in the states, it would not impact US oil prices - outside of extra capacity which is heavily regulated to control price.
The support for, and ability to, develop web front-end projects directly in PyCharm continues to grow which is awesome -- automatically reloading previews when HTML/CSS/JS files are saved seems like a tiny change but a huge time saver.
Dinocrates, Alexander the Great and the inspiration behind Mount Rushmore (2019)
Why is a very narrow niche as a starting point a bad thing?
I don't actually disagree with your point of people taking more responsibility, I just think the brown M&M's incident isn't a good example to illustrate it. The production crew had an extensive document outlining all the requirements, likely built up over time as they encountered things venues did not actually take the care to ensure (like the stage not sinking through rubberized flooring).

> This is it. This is the difference in mindset. I now think of it as "mine". Not that it's mine and no one else's. But I choose to take responsibility for anything that went wrong that I could have been prevented.

That's fine, and you can take responsibility, but you can't do all the work, not in any way that scales. Even in the preflight checks for the plane, you're not disassembling wings and checking for cracks on internal struts I imagine. Someone else does that occasionally and you have to trust (or not) their opinions and that they've actually done the work. And you can't always spend a week doing a thorough background check of those people either (or for some reason you're forced to use someone you would rather not), so sometimes little tricks that might indicate that you should be wary are useful.
Ostensibly there seems to be a lot of evidence supporting ivermectin, and obvious it would be great if it was borne out. What I don't get (I hate to say "genuinely curious") - why does it always end up that the proponents are vaguely shady or at least not mainstream actors. Like why is it this c19ivermectin.com website that tells us about it? I want to be open minded, and the early treatment advocacy group looked legit to me, but there is still something a little off that all the info is coming from sites like the OP.
Fastly directly allows you to run custom VCL: https://developer.fastly.com/reference/vcl/
I for one like the single store because it creates consistency. For developers, for privacy info, for subscriptions.

If sideloading is allowed when then malware is also close to get on the phone. Not my phone probably but the average joe, my family members, students, etc.
CNBC reported that the seizure was able due to the sloppy password storage.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/08/fbi-likely-exploited-sloppy-...
That doesn't mean the impact is as large
I don't have it backwards, you're just not following what I'm saying. I agree that denser housing and construction in general is far more efficient. However...

I'm not talking about constructing a town from scratch. I'm talking about an existing town. Adding the infrastructure for high density housing to a town that wasn't originally designed for it is very expensive.
Every place I've worked as an FTE, the focus was on the job, not the hours. In fact, I've had many bosses say as much, usually implying that after hours work might be necessary and they'd expect me to take it uncomplainingly.

And I have, though it's always tempered by two things, namely, A. If the job routinely requires > 40 hours a week, then the job is poorly defined and we need to modify expectations, and B. That if I'm working to the job and not the hours, it doesn't matter if I only put in 30 hours one week, if the work is being done (and, likewise, if THAT is routine, the job is also poorly defined, and I need to ask for more things to do).
Many EU countries will take either proof of prior infection, a vaccine cert, or PCR test for international arrivals. It's very much public policy for some.
There was Bleem! (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem!) Which was a commercial PlayStation emulator that won a case against Sony, but ended up going backrupt from the court cost (according to Wikipedia).
I don't know. For example, I'm not even active on Twitter but rabid social media lynch mobs scare the hell out of me. Sometimes an imaginary group of people imagines itself into existence and decides you will be the main character of its crusade.

Am I allowed to use the word "black" to describe a visual aspect of an evil character? Am I allowed to release code with a master branch? What if I misgender or deadname someone accidentally? What if I don't have a code of conduct?

Creating anything right now is fscking terrifying.
Why do you presume me to be unwise? I think a better rhetorical strategy is not to be snarky, it telling of an underlying resentment, but doesn't change anyone's mind. samatman's response though a little heated, answered with knowledge and real world experience and has somewhat changed my perspective. I can't say my anecdotal experiences match theirs
> Linux is developer friendly but user experience is abysmal.

I'm of the opinion that if Chrome OS would suit a person's needs, then so would desktop Linux these days.