skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I'm in the US and have worked a similar job as the parent poster and have had to do similar things on several occasions.)

>What reason would you have to investigate an employee that is leaving the company anyway? Unless it has some contractual impact and your company HR/legal department is aware, there is no reason. "To see what the employee was doing" is not a legal reason.

In our case, we would and could never investigate someone for any reason besides HR and/or legal explicitly requesting it for a specific reason and telling us what they wanted us to look for and why. "Fishing expeditions" weren't permitted. (There were a few occasions where such fishing expedition requests did come from them, and our managers would push back and basically professionally tell them to fuck off.)

I'm not sure of any specific laws or liabilities, but I'm sure we also would (and should) have likely been sued if we discovered some sensitive personal information about an employee and that information then leaked. If we inadvertently stumbled across personal things like that during the course of a specific investigation, we would always ignore it and not make any record of it. We didn't care about someone's personal life and didn't intentionally ever look at anything related to it.

Due to the nature of the investigations, it was often unavoidable that we'd end up seeing something at least somewhat personal, even if it's just some random website they habitually browsed appearing multiple times in their browsing history.

So, we would never look at an employee's computer or network traffic "just to see what they were doing" or just because we could. That would definitely be extremely unethical and unprofessional, and if management discovered any of us doing that we surely would and should have been fired. However, I'm not sure if there are actually any laws against that in the US if it's disclosed in the employment contract.
Racoon smuggling seemed a good job opportunity in the newspaper, but is obvious that the profit margins are tight.
Well said, take my upvote.

Personal privacy and the belief that you are innocent until proven guilty (no matter how "obviously guilty" you are), are two things we've really forgotten in the USA and perhaps the modern world in general.
It has also been a waste of working hours at our offices. I work at libraries and am responsible for the communication towards visitors — we are slowly opening up all our venues again with lifting of corona measures, which mean we need to update our opening times. With one click I can reverse them on our own website but I have to update every location manually on google results. Anyone can also change these opening times plus they might just change them again based on some third party website that scrapes outdated opening times.
Given that they are actively curating the information and censoring "misinformation", they certainly think they are a truth engine. And present it this way. Of course you'd only believe it if you believe Google is omniscient, omnipotent and benevolent.
I sat next to one of the smartest software engineers. Here's what I learned
Yes, this is the most pragmatic way to deal with privacy issue, as much as possible information has to be make public for everyone.

>You want family and friends to know exactly how much you make?

Not really but I would like the information to be public, that is they don't have to know but if they want to know they can.

Its great that I don't have to hide it or worry about it being leaked.

If this information being public cause me trouble then we'll find a way to solve that issue rather than fixing it by hiding the information.
I'm actually not sure why I'm unique, at least in Internet times (someone much older turned up in a search at one point). Neither my given name nor surname are that rare. But they aren't super-common and are from different European nationalities so I guess that's enough to collapse into a unique point.
No, I just read it like they must have a really hard problem and hope they find a solution soon.
This is more nuanced than you think.

If you choose one variable that describes people, and assume for simplicity it's approximately bell shaped, then sure, most people are in the middle, which is "average" or "normal", and if we want to help the most people, it seems logical to focus on them.

But if you start adding independent variables, it becomes increasingly unlikely that any given person is in the middle on all of them. Even with three, let alone dozens.

So you, or any other randomly chosen person, are probably very like "the masses" in some respects, but given, say, ten dimensions, nobody is average.

Which is why disregarding minorities in general isn't a viable way to run a society.

(I got this idea from an item on HN, which I think was more or less this: https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...)
Don’t forget that you start to lose the personal allowance over £100k so there’s a point at which the marginal tax rate is around 60%.
Tweet posts get auto-downweighed here so there's big incentives* to post like that as annoying as it is.

* We wouldn't even be seeing this given the number of upvotes if it was a link to the tweet.
Not everyone arguing for higher taxation is a socialist.
I got some more information from Flatt.

The new incremental mode means the 16ms deadline is within reach. In fact if the screen is not involved, then 1-2ms is reachable.

On macOS a screen-refresh can cause a 16ms pause.
> This is not true. If something's working, you don't change it for no reason

Sure, there's often a reason like "we wanted to write it in a different language" or "we've overhauled the UI to be slower and more cumbersome".
I see Finland in the strangest places
Author has refined taste in both coffee and programming languages.

Anyone wonder why they didn't plug this with a Buy Me A Coffee link?
"Family can be very manipulative when they know you have much more money than them."

As I suspected, this is mainly a problem of the rich.

Most of the rest of us don't make much more money than anybody.

So are we going to make our laws to advantage the rich or the vast and ever growing majority of the population who aren't and never will be rich?
Lewis Hamilton fears allowing 140k fans at F1 British GP is ‘premature’
DNS injection can be relatively easily bypassed by using DNS over HTTPS/TLS.
ISPs usually block websites by terminating the connection on seeing a blacklisted SNI which is part of the TLS handshake (So the server can respond with the appropriate TLS certificate). The only way to bypass is either to use domain-fronting (aka using different SNI/Host, not standard-compliant, doesn't work with most CDNs), or use a different protocol. (Not that practical)
ECH/eSNI plan [1] to make the SNI encrypted, and therefore uncensorable in future. (The draft is now in it's later stages). Ofcourse this can end up with government potentially blocking all ECH traffic.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tls-esni
It’s actually interesting to me that backblaze has actually reached a size where global logistics plays a bigger part in costs than the actual servers. (And the servers got cheaper).

Also, Dell and Supermicro have storage servers inspired by the BB Pods.

Glad to see this scrappy company hit this amount of scale; a long way from schucking Hard Drives
Does it still 404? Sorry I made some mistake with it. Theres a link in the post to an interactive demo.

The reason I said fastest is cause I wrote the hot loop with SIMD instructions. I'll be adding in period checking and stuff in a couple months time, will be sure to refer your work then, thanks.
Google isn’t interested in truth, they are interested in information. They are provide a search engine not a truth engine

Google has been transitioning to attempting to provide a "truth engine" for several years. Whenever I try a complex key-word search, it suggests a question format for it (often with worse result but sometimes OK). When I have finally got the key words down to filter just what I want, google whines about "Not very many results, here's what you should do..." and, of course, Google often gives explicit answers for questions in it's search results (a notable percentage of which are wrong as noted).

And Google being half-assed truth engine is all sorts of bad...
> Using them also means your CSS is blocked by your JS on initial load, instead of being a separate file that can be loaded and rendered in parallel.

styled-components supports SSR (server-side rendering). Each page's HTML response from the server will contain a <style> tag which contains only the styles that were generated during the React render for the page.

https://styled-components.com/docs/advanced#server-side-rend...

And if you're not using SSR, then it probably won't matter that your CSS is blocked by your JS, since your HTML will also be blocked by your JS!
Which first or second world country doesn't abide by big corporations? Is there a useful ranking that would measure it? I'm really curious.
Just bite the bulllet and move to Qubes
What happened was Thiel buying 1.7M shares of stock in his own startup at a value of $0.001 per share in 1999 in his Roth IRA (and then cashing out for $30M+ in 2002). It's debatable whether it was legal (because he was an officer/director of the company and that law is on the books), but the better question would be - should it have been illegal, and the answer to that, in my opinion, is a resounding yes.

I believe non-public investments should be banned from Roth IRAs (and that we should close all of the backdoor loopholes to them as well). They were meant for a certain group of people at the outset and were then twisted around in knots to provide more tax-breaks for the well-off (which should be rolled back). I think mega backdoor Roth should not be a thing, rollover Roth IRA should not be a thing - bring Roth back to it's original vision.
Florida law requires universities to survey students, staff about their beliefs
White text on white background. Windows without ribbon and decorations on multiple monitors. Single clicks registering as double click. Win 10 is a mess.
To be fair, Rembrandt was famous and very well-employed in his own day, he just spent money like it was going out of style. Had he saved a little he'd have died rich.
Yeah this vigilantism from careerists in the federal bureaucracy must be punished.

We're never going to hear about the ins and outs of their darlings like AOC and Sanders (whose wife defrauded and destroyed a college she was put in charge of).

Instead this is a hit on people they dislike or disagree with.

Edit: y'all can downvote me all you want. I used to work in DC and I know the difference between a law, signed off on by elected officials who represent you, official rules, that go through a rule making process, and guidance, which is being routinely abused.

I also know that activists and bureaucrats are actively conspiring to push policy without winning a single election.

Everybody loves when people they agree with bend the rules, but what we've seen over the last several decades is a warping and poisoning of our policy infrastructure.
Very explicitly.

This was for a project paternship with a university and hospital to improve patient outcomes with some new exploratory tech approaches. A short document that followed some standard study participation format was generated using easily understandable language in about 1-2 pages IIRC (large fonts so it was easily readable by patients with poor eye-sight). Everything done, including the document, went through an external IRB process for human subject data and was approved. Everyone involved had to go through human subject training and what not.

Physician would mention the study to patients that would likely be good subjects for the work about the work, its goals, if they'd be interested in participating. Forms were then provided to patients involved to sign (explicitly) about their agreement to participate in the effort and how their data would be used, protected, etc. The process also required physician sign-off to confirm they read the document to the patient verbally, determined they were competent, cognizant, not under any sort of duress/intoxication, etc. The patient also needed to verbally acknowledge they agreed. Oh, and there was a clause they could retroactively pull out of the work, including their data at any point of they felt uncomfortable or changed their minds.

The patients and their data weren't the product, tech developed that would assist patients was the product of the data.
For patients who agreed, some would also be permitted to see some of the products of the work related to their data. Im forgetting a lot of the data collection process because it was very rigorous and several years ago now, but everything above bar, no dark patterny ah-ha-gotcha! line buried in a 300 page liability sign off they had to agree to for some necessary life saving treatment or anything of that nature.

I even got to meet some of the people we helped which was a bit rewarding to see people's lives improve a bit with technology. The specific patient mentioned and their neurosurgeon even let me sit in on their brain surgery tumor removal (patient's suggestion), which was a very unique experience. So yea, they knew what was going on.

With that said, not all data usage was as transparent and ethical as what I worked with, and I saw a lot of mistakes there that make me cringe thinking what a less ethical business with no transparency might do, given the opportunity.
Obvious stupid uses of work laptops are beyond the pale, but I can see why someone would check their gmail from a work laptop (I'm posting this on my work laptop while my code compiles).

But one thing I found which is great is setting up my work and personal laptops next to each other on a laptop holder and doing everything through external monitors.

At my desk I have an adjustable laptop holder which holds my work and personal laptops, as they're both macbooks switching between my work and personal laptop is as simple as unplugging a couple usb-c hubs, plugging them into the other laptop (the port is 1 inch away), and pulling out my other keyboard.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081GY4NM9/
they don't make money, they exist as a public service and AFAIK are funded as a non profit by people of good intention, not from related business

Disclaimer: I know one of the principals, for whom I have a lot of respect
>But that's an expensive option.

Are you saying you personally purchased a phone for use as a work device? That's completely bonkers to me. I have a personal phone and a work phone, but I definitely don't pay for the work phone out of my own pocket. I even made them order the case and screen protector I put on it.
It's fallen ever more out of use, but when I was young the colour orange was still often called "brandgult" -- "fire-yellow" -- in Swedish. (And the fruit still is an "apelsin".)
Any IRA owner with more than 50 years of average family income ($3.5m) should be required to liquidate it. These are not tax shelters for the rich!

But seriously this is no different than if he owned the stock shares outright and he just chose never to sell those shares for 50 years he would pay no tax! It's how the rich have break to the system to favor Capital over labor!
You should seriously consider suing for defamation if this isn't fixed within a few days. This is an egregious error, especially if it was done by an automated system (and this could be a systemic issue affecting many others).

I think you have a decent chance of getting a five figure+ settlement from this. Talk to a lawyer about your options.

EDIT: When I search "Hristo Georgiev" (from US IP) there is no longer an image in the infobox. (As of 21:55:10 UTC, June 24, 2021)

I think a google engineer saw this HN post :-D

(You could still talk to a lawyer - remedying it now does not alter the fact that you were previously defamed. But Google has a stronger position having now remedied it)
"Responsibility" is a very strange word in your comment to me.

Snowden leaked government program details. How in the world is that the same about thousands of private citizens (aka not public figures) personal financial details?

How are these individuals not being "responsible"?

The only unresponsible person is the person(s) who leaked the details, and ProPublica for monetizing it.
I think you need to not setup internet connection to be able to not use MS account.
> I've worked for a number of the Fortune 10, banks, telcos etc.

Are you seriously claiming that the only production users of DBs are "Fortune 10, banks, telcos"?! Or are you claiming that because those guys do something a certain way, everyone else must also do it like that?! This is a weird variation of the Argument to Authority, and even more flawed than the original.

> Everyone has put some sort of middleware between their applications and databases.

Really? "Everyone"? Or are you just generalising the state of the entire industry based off of your limited experience with a small number of players in it?

> Your claim that no one is running databases on localhost

I made no such claim. I said it's "not the norm" and that it's "untenable", not that "no one does it". It doesn't matter that there are a few examples you've seen that do; they're not representative of the entire industry.

On the other hand, for the vast majority of the industry who run databases in production, my claims hold.

The vast majority of the industry, that does not include "Fortune 10, banks, telcos".
The article explicitly states: "Mr. Thiel purchased his founders’ shares in PayPal through his Roth IRA during PayPal’s formation."

That's literally the market rate.
Interesting enough it tells me that he was executed by firing squad and not hanged. So do the screenshots of the source.
"Cause of death: Execution by shooting"

If you copied that correctly then that would imply that these results are personalized?
I guess in 7-10 years Ryan Holiday will have another fun book to write about a news outlet going under via a “this is not kayfabe” lawsuit.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36681909-conspiracy
Supreme Court backs cheerleader over school that punished her for Snapchat post
Then run a .com address and you do not need an Impressum. Problem solved. LOL.

Source: I am also a German, I publish .com websites.
I hesitate to even comment given the divisive nature of the thread but…

Hummers cost north of $100k USD. Assuming the mayor of Vancouver’s salary is listed in CAD it isn’t enough to buy one after tax. Furthermore on that salary it probably wouldn’t be prudent to buy one at all.
The cheapest Pinephone ($150) costs about the same as the average smartphone in India.
It didn't necessarily bring anything to this one conversation. It did, however, communicate that "this is the type of information that that person finds valuable on Hacker News". And knowing what other people in your social group like to hear/discuss is an important part of keeping that group vibrant and wonderful.

So no, it's probably not as useful as the comment it was referring too, but it was useful (to some of us) as it pertains to the community as a whole.
I'm of average intelligence. Some sections of Ulysses are straightforward and understandable, some are strange, but others are completely impenetrable without some kind of guidebook, and intentionally so.

Example
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/u/ulysses/summary-and...
https://blog.feather.systems/jekyll/update/2021/06/21/WasmPe...

Here's some benchmarks. But in summary, for small simple hot loops, chrome is just as fast using js, but for firefox wasm gives big performance improvements.

Of course, if you can use SIMD instructions, then wasm will win, but that's less fair.
SEO Split Testing: Using React on Product Pages
Yes, it's probably called Windows 11 Pro
Is DNS resolution enabled on the server? If so, do the clients all have reverse DNS? Are all of your DNS servers working? Have you enabled debug logging for a period of time? Is there a common pattern of the source IP's that have the delay? For what it's worth, you will get a bigger audience of windows server engineers on serverfault. [1] You could also point testssh.sh to your server to see if it finds anything odd. [2]

[1] - https://serverfault.com/

[2] - https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh
There are at least hundreds and probably thousands of locations. AAA is shockingly good. Maybe not shocking if you consider it's a 120-year-old nonprofit member services organization, but still: anyone who drives an auto in America is leaving serious value on the table if they aren't a member.

The bottom line is that if you're having a problem and you're in an automobile (doesn't have to be yours) AAA will do their best to help you solve that problem.

Unlimited, free, high-quality paper maps are just another perk. Walking in to a member branch and walking out with maps is just the beginning: a AAA employee will help you plan out a road trip, and make what's called a TripTik, which is a custom spiral-bound route map, with various sorts of amenities you can choose pointed out for you.

There are campgrounds as well. It's truly remarkable how much AAA offers.
I'm pretty open to the ethical version of this article omitting Thiel's name.

I also think it would be interesting to talk about what it is in this reporting that materially harms Thiel. That he is a billionaire and that he owns PayPal stock was previously public knowledge. This only seems to introduce information about how much tax his Roth is sheltering him from - which the anonymous version of the article would also cover.
Personally I'd just respond to stuff like that with "Sorry, but that's a very obscure combination, and as a single indie dev I unfortunately don't have the bandwidth to support that, I can send you a refund if you want".

As long as you're nice about it and don't turn it in to a bland cookie-cutter "corporate" response most people will understand.

As someone who just runs Linux, and occasionally runs some games on it, I'm always a bit annoyed when people report these kind of very specific bugs with old/weird drivers/distros that aren't in the supported platforms list. It turns developers off for completely understandable reasons. It's a shame, because for most people it does usually work.

I run Void Linux, it almost always works, but I'd never report these kind of bugs without testing Ubuntu (or whatever is supported) first.
Since when is being smart and successful a crime? I definitely would expect this from ProPublica but not Hacker News?

“Hacker” News!
Walmart’s AI is getting smarter about grocery delivery
The problem isn't that settings are missing, the problem is that there are related settings in multiple, entirely disconnected locations that interact in subtle ways.

I have 4 UIs on my windows machine where I can set things related to inactivity/power down states. That's unreasonable, and nobody was confused in windows XP when those were all in one place (with an "advanced Settings" fold).
why would minimum wage keep pace with productivity if those workers aren’t the ones being more productive?

overall productivity increase because of tech and globalization, of course a work whose productivity has stayed the same shouldn’t expect to make more just because other parts of the economy do well
I have a relatively uncommon name, yet I've still come across two people who could be mistaken for me at first glance. One comes from the same county as me, and the other went to the same university. The former died 18 months ago in a car crash, so the first result for my name is now "[name] named as victim in [location] crash" (and there's a recommended search for "twitter" that uses my photo), which is a little strange to see.