skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some general points (I’m not judging your argument, just countering):

1. If you are cornered by a gang, you’re probably screwed anyway, no matter the arms involved, so I guess this is a moot point.

2. Baseball bats do not fit into jacket pockets. I can’t walk into a bar with one and no one notices.

3. Destructive power of a bat is so much lower than of a gun. Sure you can kill a person with it, but not a dozen of people on the street (easily).

4. Baseball bats are kind of localised. I can be hit by a stray bullet but unless I’m right in the heat of a fight, I won’t be accidentally killed by a baseball bat.

5. Melee weapons wound first, kill second. It is much harder to shoot to wound. So with a melee weapon you can stop more easily.

6. If I’m heavily intoxicated, I may struggle to wield a bat with any efficiency, but still fire bullets around.

If someone wants to apply direct, criminal level of bodily harm, sure, they can use a knife. Already, this is a higher risk, as they have to stand closer to me etc. But the risk of collateral damage seems so much lower when guns are not involved.
Take a graphics class online. The great thing is that learning this has a very fast reward loop. With every small thing you learn, you can try it and it looks great right away.

So:

Probably take a graphics class, with an intro to shaders and the different lightning methods.

Then lookup some cosmetic liquid simulation algorithms by graphics people.

Then learn how to do shaders with canvas and javascript.
20% sounds high, I thought it was 15%. Getting ranked TT usually means you are ripe for promotion but haven’t gotten it that year for whatever reason.
The funny thing about Apple is how people confabulate mythical powers to it. I can't wait for Apple iTulpa[1].

Jokes aside. What is the mission statement here, what is the dream? Make you never want to interact with the real world again? Help you manage your to do list better?

I feel there was much more of a mission statement for mobile back when everyone was stuck on public transit and at the office for hours every day. You could finally make your life on transit and at the office more meaningful by integrating your personal life with that through your phone.

What's the dream now? I don't get where all this is going unless it's like you're never going to leave your house again, so escape into VR.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa
Agreed. Anecdotally, I have never seen a PIP lead to a turn around. Honestly, I started to think it was just a way to cover for wrongful termination.

What I have seen is PIPs lead to so much stress and anxiety that people are unrecoverable.

I unfortunately worked with one person where a PIP led to hospitalization for thoughts of self-harm, because it was clear there wasn't going to be success in the current role, but there was no way to exit effectively (and there were confounding personal-life stress/factors). The whole thing was a horrific mess, starting with a nepotism hire, and finishing with unacceptably incompetent HR.
Third option:

Negotiate a settlement before the lawyer you hire files their appearance. That conversation should be minimal with low expectations.

Fourth option:

Compared to the cost of most litigation its cheaper to hire a full time corporate counsel to handle the litigation (if you can afford it).
OBS works great for screenshoting videos.
You should not ignore negative outcomes. And you should not ignore positive outcomes.

Yes, there's lots of money involved in FDA approvals. Yes, there has been and will continue to be corruption. But over my short life, the access to information has gotten better. The knowledge has gotten better. Most medicines have gotten better.

There was the opiate crisis. There was the nutritional pyramid nonsense. There was the ignorance of sugar and erroneous focus on fat. There was also the shingles vaccine, hep C treatments, fixes to the nutritional recommendations and acknowledgement of problems with sugar.

But I do not have a better option. I certainly am not capable of understanding the human machine by myself. My only hope is that multiple organizations consist of multiple people who are mostly good and mostly right most of the time. And that is something, I think, Americans can be proud about with regards to their civilian agencies.
In my experience most people who just want to drink at home and watch Netflix do it because the commute and the office drain them.
As a graduate of RIT I feel comfortable in advising that you visit any other city. Rochester is devoid of hope, and was the only place that helped me enjoy Ohio.
> and there is no proof that they are using your storage to spy on you.

It may be the case that they are not "spying" on you, but just because there is no proof of something happening, doesn't mean that it isn't happening. So this type of thinking is flawed.

> I can turn off all the history settings

Can you elaborate? Which settings specifically are you talking about? Are you seriously suggesting that google isn't keeping track of what you are watching or searching and tailoring your ads based on your activity?

> Google Drive offers some of the best storage

It's very convenient to use, yes!

> and you can encrypt your files

There goes your convenience. If you are encrypting your files, you might as well use any other major file storage service.
To expose the entire patent troll ecosystem, HN should find a way to cloud source a database of patent lawsuits.

Maybe include data points like -

- the patent in question

- the troll behind the suit

- the defending IP litigator (so others can know where to turn when the troll goes after their next victim)

- the outcome of the suit - settled, won, lost, costs, penalties, etc

The more information that becomes available to combat these trolls, the better.

Perhaps a site like this could run completely off donations, by saving money in legal expenses. Or maybe monetize allowing IP litigators to list their services in a directory. Maybe allow users to review IP litigators and link them to successful/unsuccessful cases and outcomes?
Wait, what? I've probably been using Gerrit too long but why do you ever need force in a rebase workflow?
The phone/android part doesn't need to be from scratch, there's literally dozens of companies that specialize in that industry. You can probably just order some whitebox logic board/chassis for 1/10th the cost of engineering the camera part, and just slap a ribbon cable between the two.
For work projects, absolutely. It would be and easier sell to a tech/product manager if there's some credibility behind the boiler plate (who's using it, last update, github stars...)

For personal project, I wouldn't find them that useful unless they are clean enough that I can understand what they are, what are they doing and how they are doing it, instead of me starting from scratch.
But "the adult stuff" is their brand. The fact that you can use the service for anything is more of a sidenote. The question "do you have an onlyfans?" implies "adult stuff".
By the way, I recommend using `push --force-with-lease `instead of `push --force`. This way it doesn't destroy the remote changes if someone else pushed while you weren't looking.
There are plenty of such sites. You don't hear about them in the Web Dev/Startup bubble because they're just getting on with life and their business model, not open-sourcing the latest JavaScript framework du jour.
> If I ask a hundred people on the street if they’d clean my house in return for getting $1000 in a year, the vast majority will expect to receive it one year after doing the job. Some might expect a year after that conversation. Few or none will expect that they will receive it one year after a future event that I don’t tell them about. LoanStreet either intentionally deceived me or accidentally deceived me but have since refused to make it right by fulfilling what a reasonable person would consider to be the promise they made me.

I feel bad for this guy, but he definitely should have got it in writing before joining. But I guess if he had pushed for it he might not have got an offer.
Yeah, they're leaving in droves. They're also arriving in droves, which is why Amazon has been able to withstand 150% turnover.

But Amazon is now worried that they've worn out much of the US workforce available for "industrial athlete"positions. (Their term.) The droves of arrivals may slow down to dribbles.
Who seem to have recently had a meltdown and compensation seems to be part of it.
Historical table with the years when the river Danube got completely frozen
Level of Detail (LOD): Quick Tutorial
I think they mean 50 hours a week during holidays instead of ZERO, which is the typical holiday workload. The manager saw the holidays as a minor discount to regular time-commitment.
They will, intentional infringement is worse than accidental infringement, but both are illegal. (not a lawyer...)
Yeah, I’ve heard it’s similarly bad at Facebook but people there don’t seem to complain as much because they’re the types of gunners that work 60 hours and claim they work 30.
They would clearly have been better off putting a diesel generator on a trailer behind the tesla, for fuel efficiency.

4 gal in 20 minutes the video said? That's about a 160kW generator
https://www.hardydiesel.com/resources/diesel-generator-fuel-...

I wonder how diesel generator + tesla compares to an actual diesel car.
The analogy is more apt than saying e.g. your leg has a brain due to the nerves in it. The nervous system in the gut has a lot of neurons in it (the human gut has about as many as a cat's brain), and they are not just simple sensory or motor neurons relaying information, many are at least similar to the kind of 'decision-making' neurons you find in the brain.
It's not very intuitive, but after some tries I could make a function and evaluate it. :)

* Perhaps avoid function with more than one expression in the body. Since this has no side effect, then two expressions in the body is confusing.

* Perhaps add a frame in the side to evaluate any function with any argument. The trick to make a last function just to evaluate it is fine, but a way to evaluate it on the side is easier to understand.

* When I have to choose which function to call I get "*(a b)" instead of "(* a b)", but later I see the second way to write it.

* I closed the window and now I don't see any predefined function. Refreshing the page a few times fixed this, but I still can't use it. Using private mode fix the problem, so I guess there is something wrong in the cookies.
He assumed I was not working or doing work for a different manager (they implemented matrix management and he was at HQ 70 km away from the town I worked at). I made a judgement call as that migration was a $20 mln project. That corporation had time budgeting. I was supposed to account in a production tracking system every task I did in 15 minute granularity. I have a ton of crazy stories like that out of that place.

In essence, the guy was a micromanager with trust issues. They later replaced him, with someone that was actually worse.
This reads like something straight from The Onion.

What's even worse is that I guess those government services must pay royalties, so this means Canadians will be subsidising music they clearly don't like (otherwise it would be popular and this kind of law wouldn't be necessary)
>retarded dead-end boondoggle of a device

It was the amazon dash button wasn't it.
That doesn’t sound right, I was HV after promotion and still got 2%.
A small counterpoint: I once worked in a code base where small changes would regularly ripple out and cause bugs far far away. You had to traverse a 30-50 source file chain of logic to find what was happening. This was “normal.”

I’m not saying you have to be afraid, just that you sometimes have to tread a bit slower and do a lot of testing as you go until you learn the internals of whatever system you are working on

(Aside: this is what coupling does — you should fear coupling!)
> Yeah, no. The west industrialized by polluting the world,

That’s not relevant, unless all you care about is blame.

> and it still reaping its benefits at the expense of the rest of the world.

Anyone who industrializes or uses the products of industrialization reaps the benefits of the west’s industrialization.

If ‘the expense’ you refer to is climate change, the west will experience that too.

> Historical emissions are absolutely relevant because they affect the present.

They aren’t relevant because the past is not changeable.

> Nice try though.

Nice try at what?

> present levels are high because of the historical emissions of the west.

And because of the historical emissions of everyone else, but that’s not relevant to the future.

> And presently the west is using way more than their allocated CO2 footprint.

Who allocated a footprint?
Why would he work during holidays?
Ask HN: Was taking a pay cut worth it?
I was lucky enough to join my current company a few years before the IPO, after the IPO and the subsequent price rise my pay tripled. I have a couple more years of vesting of the original grant.

At the same time, I am really bored of my job and would like to do something else. I can't seem to get jobs that match my current compensation, which is inflated due to the post IPO rise. I can't see a lot of options apart from a giant pay cut.

0. Take some time off, maybe an year, travel, clear my head, recover from the burnout that's setting in. Try 12 months 12 startups or something, eventually start something of my own or go with 1, 2 or 3 below if nothing works out.

1. Joining a startup(most exciting): ~4x cut assuming the equity is at 0, going by angel list & recruiters. I'd still get paid enough to support my current life style and save a little. I've really low spend.

2. Big N/FANG: ~1.5x - 2x cut, going by Glassdoor/blind. Some of these places I find interesting as an outsider, having used their product.

3. Finance: I hear ridiculous numbers, some firms might match/go over my pay but I don't want to really be working in this domain. This would basically be a comp driven decision.

I could possibly switch roles and teams within the current company or wait out the years while the equity vests. The latter feels like wasting time. I'm only 26 but at the same time I am not sure if I can make this kind of "safe money" again in my life, especially in the mid future, cause I feel like I got 'lucky'. But do I even have to? That's(feeling luck played a big part) the biggest thing thats stopping me from quitting.

I need to learn how to value my time & mental health more I guess. Heck, the startup I join/start might have outsized returns. Have always wanted to startup, but the short term greed is making me use my time less optimally.

Tangent: How does one go about getting advice on these things outside of HN?
There's a Second Brain in your Gut and I can't even
There's an almost solipsistic angle to that. "I'm young and healthy so I'm gonna just check out of the situation," only works for as long as you can remain young and healthy. As soon as that stops being the case - which could be any day now - you might find yourself being much more personally interested in having an effective system for getting new treatments onto the market while maintaining reasonable standards of safety and efficacy.
The "intended" way generates a completely spurious merge commit - it doesn't represent a real commit, and rarely do you care about keeping track of merges into a short lived branch which are already tracked on master.

Most people want a single source of truth workflow that corresponds to the old total ordering imposed by svn or p4.
But you’re vesting 40% of your initial grant this year was the point, not that you didn’t get the initial “fill in” cash bonus.
Curious about how effective this kind of "private" PIP can be?

PIP is scary to foreign workers who are on temporary worker visa. Losing a job means that you may have to leave the country, which is a life changing event.

It is so scary that, in immigrant communities I am familiar with, it becomes a common sense to not to even dream about getting out of PIP. If your manager put you on PIP, start looking for a new job immediately because you don't want to risk losing your immigration status.

Don't try too hard on the PIP project, don't try to please your manager, only put reasonable amount of effort into the project so they don't have a reason to fire you immediately, and try to get the f** out as fast as you can.
The Great Reset 2.0
> Doesn’t it always feel manufactured?

No. Spacey, Weinstein, and Epstein, to name a few, felt the opposite of manufactured. Repressed? Those stories took years, or decades to break, even with high profile advocates.

Now, you might say that they didn't have a "dissenting opinion of the social media culture" - but their actions would show otherwise.
Ironically, those are all the same platforms that made me want to contemplate ending it all because I work at Amazon. After I blocked them at the router level I started to feel better, until I realized people think I’m inferior no matter if I see them say it or not.
probably the first time a comment on HN has made me laugh.

I hope the prosecutor has enough leverage with the court! Justice truly is blind!
The point is that you shouldn't have to learn everything by brutal trial and error, losing hours of work each time you try to learn a new operation and make a small mistake.

It's the same reason consumer operating systems have a trash can and undo features. Just railing on people with "you should've known better" doesn't really help.
I'm blown away by your willingness to take on these cases pro bono. There are too many greedy lawyers out there who put money over people.
The way to learn any language is to give yourself a project. Any project, it doesn't matter what. You will throw that 'learning one' away anyway, because the more-learned you will see how primitive it is, and rewrite it several times till you are (pretty much) satisfied with it.

A simple enough project, but one that is sort of useful, is to use your own income/expenditure information to produce the sort of information that you (or your accountant) will require to work out your taxes.

That's one of the projects I have used anyway. I first wrote mine in BASIC, then in COBOL, and my latest in a mixture of C and SQL.
These would all be highly relevant points if I were arguing that bats and guns are equivalent. But my argument assumed the opposite of that.
It's free on F-Droid because they haven't bothered to implement technical countermeasures to unpaid downloads. The app developers are still updating that content and providing the bandwidth.
I do not absolutely get this obtuse question.

It is not my place to justify why modern software is so inefficient, pointing the finger to Windows 10 in particular as if it's an outlier.

Why are YOU using inefficient languages, heavyweight virtual machines, GB sized binaries, Electron and Javascript to write your applications? Why is your boss asking to add feature upon feature upon feature? There is a reason we're in this place, but until then, my point is, stop complaining everything is slow on your old PC. You know exactly why that is, and it is your fault as much as mine.

It's because of us, software engineers, that everything is slow, so it is completely hypocritical that on HN of all places one has to explain that sadly to run modern software one needs modern hardware.

We've put ourselves in this situation and now there's a lot of surprised Pikachu faces around, complaining about Windows getting slower and alt-tabbing to their day job writing yet another crappy Javascript abstraction layer on their shiny M1 MBP.
> It's this kind of stuff that I think makes it suck to work in software anymore.

Good news is Amazon's management practices aren't representative of the rest of the tech industry. Bad news is, of late, a lot of Amazon execs (frustrated with lower compensation) have joined SV start-ups, which relatively are (were?) known to be more Google- or Facebook-esque than Amazon- or Microsoft-esque.
At this scale it doesn’t really make sense to think in terms of good and bad people, but good and bad cultures. Scandal after scandal is a sign of a bad culture, and steps should be taken to correct it.
So I did the math and the average water tower holds something like 1/2 kWh worth of power. (50m tall, storage of 1m gallons, efficiency of 90%)

Hydro power storage is fantastic but needs truly ridiculous amounts of water and height deltas to make sense.
Do you know what a citation is?
I would love to see re-certification of "professional" drivers. Almost daily I encounter taxi or semi-truck operators driving at the limit of what is acceptable.
I changed my diet and my stress level. Eat at regular times, learn to let go (it helps to see the big picture and remember that you'll be dead before long) and add some probiotics to your gut. Eating lots of Kimchi and Kombucha helped almost immediately. I'm sure you can find lots of similar advice on the web.
It's not marketing, but clickbait media watering down science that can't really be watered down.
First day of statics - you can't push a rope.
As long as it's not Celine Dionne I'm fine with this. Edit: I read the article and apparently she counts. It's a dark day for my Quebec brothers.
A somewhat more practical approach: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/9/18538030/germany-ehighway-...
exactly, who needs common sense when you can sell the bright vision of self-driving future.
A Computer Glitch Stopped Hubble's Operations. So Far, Restarts Failed
Typical turnover in engineering is around 20% annually (maybe higher for Amazon), so this 6% target is unlikely to have the impact you are imagining.
My point still stands, though for any amount of figurative-ness. That's the point. The author had an experience which amounted to a terrible year, after admitting some terrible misdoings. Almost everyone had a terrible 2020 regardless of their past, and employers fire people from jobs for much more tenuous reasons than what the author admitted to.

Homosexuals, African Americans, other minorites, etc. have their lives taken from them literally and figuratively just for being who they are, along with jobs and future prospects, so we can be spared the pity party here.

That's the perspective that those banging on about cancel culture here are lacking.
Interesting. So you think they are not even working on making this thing faster? Shame. Windows needs some performance boost.
If I didn’t have so many distractions that could be me, honestly, but not for the same reasons - for me Amazon is just evidence that I’m innately intellectually inferior and will forever be a lower social class and that hurts like hell.
hello fellow Tiger! ('08, '10)

Besides Wegmans, I struggle to argue your point. I really keep hoping for change and feel like the opportunity to use the local Universities as a source of economic growth just continue to be missed.
New old stock Thinkpad T480's ;)
Should be around 600-700

Though it seems they might be harder to find these days.

This also looks more then decent: https://outlet.bluelink.nl/product/20HJS0XA07?path=NOTEBOOK/
Amazon's security works for Securitas at the Seattle campus, and turnover is extremely high as they try shenanigans like "Cover the Alarm Panel, do entryway guarding at the main entrance at the same time (despite both requiring 24/7 physical presence and not being in the same area of the building)".

Amazon has very high security staffing requirements compared to most other Seattle companies. Absolutely bonkers IMO
Get a refurbished thinkpad x1 carbon. Great hardware, good ubuntu support out of the box.
If that’s the case, then you are simply waving things away that don’t meet your preconceived notions.
Which coins currently use it besides Monero?