skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you cater to the international market (“make everyone happy”). The you’ll inevitably end up with cookie cutter inoffensive garbage like we’re spewing out now. Get a few reliable IPs and milk them for all they’re worth.

If I think about some indie blockbuster comedies none of them really did anything that would get the Twitter crowd going crazy. Napoleon Dynamite and Super Troopers for example I could see being hits today
> A couple of neighboring grocery stores can realistically collude to raise prices. Multinational public corporations, not so much.

Sure they can, someone on HN described the algorithm once:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22798808
Habitable and inhabitable mean the same, don't they? It's likely inflammable and flammable.
Unhabitable doesn't exist though.
Nitpick, you mean "uninhabitable". I think the reversal here might confuse some people.
Programmers, teach non-geeks the true cost of interruptions (2014)
I keep hearing all the letters of FAANG have more or less similarly competitive total compensation if you factor in RSUs, appreciation, etc.
But then I hear things about "cliffs" and how extremely high TCs are possible only because of stock appreciation.

In that sense, is Netflix basically untouchable in terms of compensation, if F/A/A/G (and other companies like Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Microsoft, etc.) can only be competitive via unexpected or non-guaranteed stock appreciation?

Plus if you reach a "cliff", you end up with just your base salary - which seems like it's not too much better than a non-tech Fortune500 company?

Is my understanding wrong?
You develop what could becomecancer cells every day, but your immunesystem gets rid of them.
More important would be tests to detect cancers early in before there are symptoms.
It would be nice if HN marked such links before I click on them (especially on mobile I can't see the link before I click on it easily). @dang?
The testing and the amount of loops you have to go through to get a tech job has gotten to the point of lunacy. It seems to me the only point of these things is to weed out people, as none of these things will determine the effectiveness and ability to do ones job in the end.
Short answer not really
https://what-if.xkcd.com/84/
Sure, the USPTO might charge $500, but the patent lawyers that will file the application for you will charge $40k - $200k.
I'm referring mainly to businesses that create intellectual property, but you are quite right... the problem is that Amazon is in so many businesses, which leads to poor treatment of employees, suppliers, and customers.

You would only be allowed to do shift work for a competitor under any of those examples you mentioned. No one would allow you to be a manager for the competitor.
That's usually why local divisions get opened. I'm from a tiny country in Europe,where all the Microsofts and Googles of this world have local offices but only a handful of people employed there. So following that logic, you could work for the US headquarters,yet be employed at the local branch.
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https://youtu.be/Os8ilgu2hbs
$13 for a 6 pack + shipping (since it's not sold in my area).

Again, this is significantly more than I pay for beer when I buy it. I'm not much of a heavy drinker, so I just buy beer still when I want some.

This is kind of like alternative meats that I love the concept, but the price point just isn't there yet to impact my shopping decisions.
> But I can type α with two keystrokes.
> Unhabitable doesn't exist though.

There's no reason why it shouldn't, though. It makes logical sense.
>or the recent release Zola (based on a twitter feed) are reaching audiences along with a ton of others that never would have seen them.

This is just an anecdote but my local AMC theater in upper NJ is playing Zola and on Saturday night the theater was empty. I was the only one in the room. Are these movies actually making money? It seems like the demand is not really there for anything other than Superhero movies.
Makes sense. Sorry for my miss the first time. :-)

So what this means is that the small players would give up before the big players even though the invention otherwise took the same amount of investments or has the same potential for reward back.
I can imagine there being a small (absolute) productivity boost due to psychology for some people.

Given fewer hours to do the same amount of work, I can see a lot of people feeling slightly more pressure, and because of this, entering into more states of productive and efficient work. On the other hand, given more hours to do the same amount of work, many people will procrastinate more often, which makes it harder to enter those more efficient states of "deep work". This could lead to a lower amount productivity per hour, and depending on the magnitude of this difference, this could somewhat paradoxically add up to a smaller amount of actual work done.

Another thing which could contribute to increased productivity per hour is more sleep and less stress gained by working fewer hours, especially when compounded over time.
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I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
Do you have a source for the success in Mexico and India?

I have seen are not blind studies where the control group is unrelated and difficult to compare, or very small studies where the good result is just a fluke that is not statistically significant.
> I'm surprised customers wouldn't go for tablets if it meant they didn't have to pay the 15% tip.

It seems to have become quite normalized to put tip jars out for all sorts of businesses that aren't really service-based. Setting the expectation. Or putting on a tip line on the credit card receipt -- sure, you don't have to tip, but we want you to think you're abnormal if you don't.

I don't think switching to tablets would do anything to reduce the expectation of tips.

And it hasn't been 15% for years.
You should try tonic syrups. I love them as you can adjust the water:syrup ratio to your taste, and mix and match syrups and waters. My impression (correct or not) is also that there's more tonic syrups out there than bottled tonic water, so a lot of choice (at least last time I looked). Finally, the syrup concentrates take up a lot less space in the refrigerator.

The only tricky part for me was figuring out what ratio of water:syrup to go with for any given brand, but that isn't too difficult.

I've thought about making my own syrup, as I'm a lifelong tonic water fan, and make a lot of other things myself, but haven't wanted to mess with it.

There's relatively dry tonics on the market now too, but nothing will get you to quite the same place as the syrups.
HN isn’t the world. Amazon recruiters get tons of positive responses to their reachouts.
And the coolest for the rest of your life.
What are the effects of this list/Focus on employee? The article mentions performance hell but at the same time says people don’t know they are on the list so they probably don’t really feel the effects?

Or is it slower promotion less bonuses that are somehow not obvious?
increasing awareness of the problem
Thanks for the link. Interesting that PFAS are so much more common in sparkling water vs. flat water. It must be leaching from the equipment used to carbonate or otherwise process the water - possibly facilitated in part by the fact that carbonated water is slightly acidic.

Makes me also remember that there is PFAS in all kinds of food processing equipment that we know very little about. For example, in the US pasta extruders are coated with Teflon and who knows how often or how well that coating is maintained. (In Europe the pasta extruders are not Teflon-coated by regulation)
He didn’t say it has bad traffic, he said it’s dangerous. I grew up in a place like this - isolated houses along a 2-lane road through the countryside with no shoulder. It’s a local road, but the speed limit is typically 55 mph because the housing density is very low. There’s not much traffic, but the traffic that is there is flying down the curvy road just trying to hang on. All of the stores are centralized in small towns and villages spaced 20 miles apart or so.
Gotta love how you misread their comment and then accused them of not reading what they wrote.
I feel like putting more burden on the red cross to police their “trademark” instead of their primary mission is a massive waste considering what that mission is. And the symbol is inherently common because the main place the average person sees it (on ambulances and hospitals) is actually an intended and authorized use of the symbol per the Geneva convention.
Do you think that this culture will shift with his retirement, or do you think that this culture is so embedded within the fabric of Amazon itself, that there is no separating this kind of behavior from the company without a dismantling of the corporate structure itself?
>(That's across the Atlantic for you Canadians)

It's probably safe for you to assume that most Canadians know where Europe is.
Job Openings Are at Record Highs. Why Aren’t Unemployed Americans Filling Them?
The military will love that stuff. Could you drape it over vehicles as well to hide from infrared optics?
I appreciate how this comment respects the fact that your knowledge is spotty and possibly fictionalized. I'm always scared to ask questions or make assumptions based on things I half know from narratives and period pieces etc. Something I can learn from.
Honest question: Who cares if people are cheating? It's not like I can't call my friend when I have a question at work.
The biggest problem with public instructions is bullying and everything being targeted at minimum competence. Some 12 year old prodigy graduated college and high school at the same time because the pandemic and remote learning letting him zoom ahead at a ridiculous pace.[1]

[1]https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/27/us/12-year-old-graduating-hig...
> Quality content can be unpopular, niche, wonderful content.

I was about to say this exact thing. I've seen some amazing content on various streaming services that would have simply not even existed in prior decades. Even some of the "big boys" of media have been able to produce some shockingly good content these days thanks to the lowered risks and costs of available outlet channels for their more "experimental" media offerings.
What if the down vote button was rearranged like this?:

https://imgur.com/a/xJOO0Bu
For me it's not so much about being unaccustomed to the taste of pure water, as much as it just looking for variety in life.
You're (understandably) conflating GraalVM, a JVM using Graal to jit, with Graal Native which compiles java to native code ahead of time. The latter needs some help with runtime features that obscure which code is run.

This is about the former.
Because brilliance is about the people not about the technology it is political by definition
Or just grade other work that doesn't require proctoring.

Personally, I removed exams entirely in the last courses I taught in Spring 2020, and it seemed to work out OK. I had no faith that the proctoring systems would catch everything, and I had no desire to inflict them on my students in any case.
Has the world ever not been "increasingly uncertain"?
Was reading this at face value heh. Anyway, nice try Dennis, now get back to work!
So where do the Grateful Dead fit in? There's audio from their Acid Tests with Ken Kesey in 1966 [0] - a lot of the music they are playing is more blues/country based but with a definite "psychedelic feel" to it. My understanding is that the Dead and JA worked pretty closely together at this time, along with other lesser known, or now forgotten bands, like Quicksilver Messenger Service (John Cippolina) and Big Brother and the Holding Company (Janis Joplin).

I can honestly say I never heard of the Elevators though so I wasn't sure how far back in the 60's you and the parent are talking with regards to them.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6H7maZ1das
When cooling a dwelling, the trick is figuring out where to move the heat. Typically we dump it outside (waste) but we should be heating our hot water tanks, swimming pools, or anything else that needs concentrated heat at the same time that we're removing it from the indoor air.

Alec from Technology Connections recently made some videos about heat pumps on YouTube that touch on this sort of thing.
The argument is that diluting the mark can cause confusion, and that confusion can cause death.

"Videogames cause death" feels like a bad-faith oversimplification of the point they're trying to make. It's understandable, as video games are often wrongly attributed as creating violence... but that's not what they're saying.

They don't want video games to stop representing medics, for example... they just don't want the red cross to be synonymous with health, because it's much more specific than that.
I've got a 2004 14" iBook G4 I was thinking the exact same thing about. Diablo II and Simcity 4 ran just peachy on it last time I got it out during COVID lockdown.
Folks doing shift work don't usually have intellectual property constraints, but someone working on software for pay (even if it isn't games) who makes software and tries to sell it while he is working at company in that same business, regardless of the genre of the software title, is acting unethically.

Again, this is an argument in favor of working for yourself, which I totally support!
Article 19 of the First Geneva Convention covers all medical units, not just the Red Cross. It is just as illegal to target an enemy medic as it is to target a Red Cross medic. Both are war crimes.
IMF, World Bank advocate for benefits of central bank-issued digital currencies
Sorry to be a downer, I like the concept but the renderings on your website look so cold and impersonal to me, like tired clichés of their styles. I personally wouldn't want to live in a WeWork
Those shows most definitely assume prior knowledge of the universe. That said, having avoided "superhero movies" for years (due to not being impressed with random one-offs that I watched), I finally bit the bullet and watched the whole set in order with my kids and it made a huge difference, with enormous payoff in Infinity War and Endgame. FWIW, I think both WandaVision and Loki are fantastic.
Yep, fully agree. Unlike many MLs, Go nails syntax, tooling, runtime, ecosystem, standard library, etc but the type system could be better. In my opinion there's space for a "Rust with GC", but every time I say this the OCaml and F# people come out of the woodwork to evangelize their languages but those languages miss the mark in many important respects.
For those who never heard of him the intro from wikipedia does a good job summarizing his style, which the article goes into more depth:

"Pessoa was a prolific writer, and not only under his own name, for he created approximately seventy-five others, of which three stand out, Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis. He did not call them pseudonyms because he felt that they did not capture their true independent intellectual life and instead called them heteronyms. These imaginary figures sometimes held unpopular or extreme views."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa
But it isn't a creative work. It is an adopted symbol more akin to a national flag or religious structure. The laws that protect it from violence trump things like freedom of speech. Use of it in a game, a situation where people can simulate the misuse of that symbol, reduce its realworld significance.

Prison Architect actually received a notice about this. Their answer was very simple: replace the red cross with a green one. There is no reason other games cannot also make this very minor concession to the Geneva Conventions. It is the law.

Look to TV shows. It is very very rare to see an actual red cross. Ambulances on shows like Scrubs don't use them. Film/TV people know to respect that symbol and only use it in very specific scenarios. MASH used it extensively, but then too very carefully.
I get what you're saying here but isn't that just whataboutism?
I've worked for an organization that had a mixed hardware/software/services components. These were $50mm - $100mm+ contracts running for 5+ years, and the Service Component was just charged out at person years - flat fee, so - a project manager might go for $600k/year, an application engineer for $500k/year, a field-engineer for $300k/year and so on. Each project would then have so many person years at each stage of the project - project manager would be pretty flat at 1 project/manager/year, but in the initial years, it would be 3 application-engineers, 2 field engineers, etc...

Once the contract was won, we'd sub-contract to a local (to the region) contracting agency, who would in turn essentially do the equivalent of a craigslist search for a body, that we would interview to ensure that they could be taught, and then we'd take 30-60 days to teach them our product - depending on the initiative and experience of the candidate, the customer (who remember, was paying us $500k/year for an application engineer) - might get a recent-high school graduate that was making $30k/year and had never even heard of our technology a week prior.
SOS (Stephen's OS)
Significant number of prefixes rerouted over Russia due to BGP incident
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Maybe they are just trying to hide their unspoken requirement of firing a given proportion of their workplace for managers to be considered good. It should help give them plausible deniability when they need to fire someone that wasn't on the list as well.
Silica better yet a net http://nnf.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/files/GH...
Cars with manual transmission.
Sea snot, stars and sleeping elephants
> What if the university only admitted students who don't cheat?

It’s a common fallacy to attribute behavior to innate qualities of people, rather than situations.
There aren't usually non competes for workers and I totally agree there shouldn't be... unless they're salaried workers who create intellectual property.

You can't have your cake and eat it, too. If you want to sell software, don't work for someone else in that business. Just sell it yourself!
Prestigious universities get a lot of negative attention for precisely this, at least in some circles. MBAs used to be a no brainer, but the return on their investment has plummeted and much of the value that is retained by the few that retain it is tied up in the exclusivity of the brand.

I think (hope) we're also starting to see a reaction to this. For example google is offering free education and at least claiming to consider their graduates as equal to university graduates.
In the featured art, I don't see the why of the voxel sprites compared to the beautiful 3D rendering.

I probably love my old classic games more than average. (Still have Prince of Persia 1989 installed.) And love some new indie game with old graphics. (FTL is awesome if you haven't tried it yet.) But 3D and proper physics enable so much more. It feels odd that so much time is spend on recreating old game feeling for some nostalgia sake compared to let's say exploring new 3D physics engine. (Teardown is an indie awesome game if you want to play with an adventurous physics engine in 3D.)
In addition to the DURATION and 'USE' (in an actively produced or utilized real world example): (PS: these should also apply to copyright)

A maximum license fee and/or scheme. Lesser values might be negotiable. A fixed rate always paid to the government per licensee.

Short initial duration, renewal requires exponentially higher fees.
If your shooter intentionally drops frames or adds network or input lag, nobody is going to want to play it. This is the genre that generates most of the consumer demand for > 60 Hz refresh rate monitors.
Note that the Red Cross organization doesn't have unique rights to the red cross symbol under the Geneva convention, it is slightly more complicated than such.

From Wikipedia [1]: "As a protection symbol, they are used in armed conflicts to mark persons and objects (buildings, vehicles, etc.) which are working in compliance with the rules of the Geneva Conventions."

This means that in contrast to what many commenter here are saying non-Red Cross medics (including military ones) can and do use the red cross symbol to signal that they are such.

This of course does not really change much in regards to the usage issue, you are still not allowed to use the symbol for other purposes than specified in the Geneva convention.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblems_of_the_International_R...
I use Letterboxd. Its pretty easy to get started, look up a bunch of movies you know you like, read some of the reviews, follow some people who seem like they know movies and would be into interesting stuff, and then see what comes your way.
It being jstor, I was expecting some intriguing paper of what house cats get up to when no one is looking...
Are they supposed to wait until videogames cause an issue, and not be proactive? And how would you ever prove such a thing?
I’m of the opinion that Nissan did more for the Electric Car than Tesla did. The LEAF was just not as flashy as the Model S.
I didn't even realize you can potentially upload videos on Peertube instance which is not hosted by yourself. I'm totally not surprised this feature is not allowed on most instances.
That’s standard practice in nearly all hospitals worldwide.

In the UK, the most senior doctors are actually called “consultants” - they consult on the work being done by the others
Correct. This also provides some protection from gaming of the system. You can't simply upvote a bunch of popular items to get other people who already upvoted it become connected to you.

You have to be good at prediction what people will like in order to get them connected to you. And this is what a good curator does.
> Keep the "build a case against the employee so we can fire them without a lawsuit", ditch the "actually trying to improve their performance"

I'm less optimistic. I see two main uses for PIPS.

1) 3rd parties usually get involved in communicating the performance issues and expectations.

2) It explicitly documents failures if an employee doesn't improve.

I'm assuming employees usually only pass the PIP if communication is the major issue. But a manager should communicate performance concerns before starting an official PIP process. I'm not confident that a well intentioned PIP process will lead to a large minority of employees passing it.

Documenting failures only helps in firing someone. It isn't a benefit to the individual engineer.
I don't think pirating video games and Hollywood movies deserve a separate category from "replicating information" to be fair, but facilitated information asymmetry is the quintessemce of most businesses... So
... Yeah. To each their own.
Isn't the point to play games and being able to login to most sites these days?

It also gives you backup internet..
Chronic use of Phenibut is associated with psychosis and physical dependence. Alcohol is no angel, but Phenibut is probably not the answer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6758981/
Yes, exactly. I was seeing this as a net positive. :)