skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can absolutely blame a company for this, because some things are legal but you're still an ass if you do them.
> I would put that attitude probably in the bottom 20%. I think most people want to do a good job.

I'd buy that most people want to do a good job. I doubt very much that many care much about doing so, beyond what's necessary or what they expect to gain them greater compensation, at the job they do to earn money to pay the bills. Everyone I know with even a little of that "spark" has had it extinguished by experience. Usually before they're 30. Most reserve their good work for things that pay little or nothing. They care a lot more about that.
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TLDR; We created an app that works atop your broker to help you create a personalized flavor of the S&P 500. Right now... this personalization is "cutting out" companies. Very early stage and we're building this in public as we go, so please... FEEDBACK!

I shared one of my portfolios to create that link here.

What I did... S&P 500 minus:

* TSLA - love the car, love Elon, IMO stock is overvalued

* ATVI - just cut them out since last week (obv reasons)

* SPGI - wife works there and we get a lot of stock (so just don't want even more exposure)

* FB - just putting them in the ice box for a little bit.. might add back

So I told the app to cut out those companies and within a few seconds... boom :)

What have we learned in talking to people (and would love feedback on this too).

* It's easier to think of companies that will underperform, than over perform.

* ESG is a creating a lot of buzz... but the definition of ESG is subjective and people like control.

* Especially in tech... it's pretty easy to get single name overexposure and now you can diversify w/o further exposure.

Direct links to app here (or visit the share page).

IOS -> https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/pebble-finance/id1553494910

Android -> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=finance.pebble...
Haha that was pretty funny though, an example of playing to his audience in public.
> In many US localities it’s illegal to discriminate against military veterans

Military veterans are federally protected against negative discrimination, and in most public employment at all levels, and many private employment contexts, are also beneficiaries of explicit positive discrimination.
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Finally on the USB-C Mac M1 chargers! (at least on the Air)
Yes, the results do speak for themselves: an unprofitable company with a petulant, childish troll as a CEO.

Just because you act like Steve Jobs doesn't mean that you are Steve Jobs. You can ask Adam Neumann about that.
Yeah musk is a classic con man public and private to anybody who has a brain. Jim Jones had fans too.
Demographic decline is only a bad thing from a fairly singular, industrialist, globalist perspective.

While it definitely means some reduction and prestige and power, and in some areas scale does provide advantage - in most ways, it's not decline in anything but the 'major shareholders of the economy'.

It's a 'Investor Problem' for the most part.

Japan never needed 180M people to maintain their standard living, so from the average person's perspective it looks different.

Otherwise, it's a little bit of an economic Ponzi scheme.

Of course, 'permanently fewer children' to the point where population goes to 0 - well that's a problem, but hopefully they will mitigate that and find a happy equilibrium.
Anger is a natural human emotion.

There's a time and a place for it. If you're in the NFL, on the field. If you're in the NFL of car making, on the factory floor.

Tom Brady isn't so polite for 60 minutes on Sundays.

Never once in my life have I met a world class performer who doesn't have some "field" where anger and profanity are permitted. If you want to be the best you can be I don't see how you can hit that without utilizing one of your core emotions.
See also his treatment of Martin Tripp that was documented here: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/when-elon-musk-tried-to-d...
Fortunately the law disagrees with your regressive, anti-employee perspective.
Facebook is reportedly trying to analyze encrypted data without deciphering it
I don't know, this is exactly how I would talk if I wanted to poison the data of anyone trying to run word-use analysis against my public posts. On anonymous channels I'd probably type like an 8-year-old.
The Real Story of Pixar
I don't know how to build them, just take them apart :-) But seriously, there are a lot of books on switching power supply design. E.g. Fundamentals of Power Supply Design by Mammano, who is "the father of the PWM controller IC industry".
This is Awesome! I have thought about building something like this, but never found the time.

Could you tell us about the tech you used? how did you collect the data? how often is it updated? How do you store it?

I'll definitely be using this.

Here are some notes:

If something is the "Netflix" network does that mean it is a Netflix Original or just on Netflix? It looks like everything has just one network, so I would assume the former. You may want to add what streaming platform it is on, if you have that data available, because that is all people really care about.

It looks like everything always has only one Genre too, but they could be more then one. Here is an example:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jungle_cruise
"That's all you pay", says the website.

That seem significantly inaccurate if the deploy cost could be over 100× the headline "that's all you pay" figure.
That's not my interpretation of the article.

One security officer took some confiscated "material".

One incident.
The big problems you raise are not because employees are not working 100% they are complex and have various causes. Employee productivity isn't in the top 10.
It seems we both agree it's not ethical by our relative standards. But you're not actually responding to my question. I mean hey even killing is justified against foreign actors in the name of war. Doesn't matter. I'm asking whether there's an economic solution because I'd rather not devolve into some form of war.

> That some countries legalize theft of property in other countries does not change the ethics of this at all.

It literally does. Because those people are participating in a society where their actions are not strictly unethical. Their society does not necessarily view them as sociopaths.

Well I should concede it depends on whether your worldview accommodates different ethical frameworks or not. If you are absolutely ethical then all people must adhere to the same ethical standard and you can rightly justify punishment of outsiders.
It's a typical Delta power supply.

They make good quality power supplies if you have a buck.

https://www.deltaww.com
We did for a couple new people and then replaced them with Macs (for irrelevant reasons).

But while they were on Windows, Tailscale worked perfectly on their machines too.
Amazing work guys!!! You should expand to Europe next!
See also https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
It wasn’t funny to call a guy trying to rescue trapped children a “pedo”. That was very public bullying. He says a lot of stupid and hostile stuff. I’m surprised people found his public persona incongruent with the reports of abuse.
why don't they start a partnership with a security company like they have with a server monitor and google? many security vendors use python somewhere (1), so I'm sure there would be someone willing to cooperate. scan all packages uploaded and all updates, when there is a detection put a warning on the page and in console put a warning like "this package might contain maliscious code. continue regardless?" so that typosquatting and code hijacking is mitigated

1 https://github.com/KasperskyLab?q=&type=&language=python&sor...

https://github.com/CrowdStrike?q=&type=&language=python&sort...

https://github.com/intezer?q=&type=&language=python&sort=
Vaccine whisperers gently engage new parents before their doubts harden (2019)
They know, they just don't care.
Gates seems pretty normal to me.
N.Y. Bar Association creates mandatory vaccination task force
Is it possible to have a positive view of any large company? They are all doing a lot of good things and a few bad things. Beyond that it depends on how good their PR department is.
Hold on a minute. If China is “socialist” or “communist”, and it’s a failed system, what’s there to be afraid of?

The answer is that China is not socialist or communist, it’s state-capitalist, which is where every country (yes including the usa) is heading, they just have a head start, and will likely out compete everyone in that arena.

Bringing up socialism or communism here though is just off topic…
Can you believe a new iPhone 5 only included a 5W USB-A power adapter?!

Compare that with an iPhone 10 5 years later, which came with a beefy 5W USB-A power adapter.
A lot of the chargers and cables you find in gas stations and the like are identical to the AliExpress junk, so it’s a good idea to be wary of those too.
Extreme reaction is usually used to describe a persons actions, the action they took in response to something. Acute reaction is more appropriate for involuntary things like a person fainting from the sight of blood, gagging at a bad smell or mentally gagging at a bad design.
That "everybody is lying" disease is what creates dangerous sociopaths. I'm almost certain it's impossible to get cured of it once you reach a certain threshold. It literally distorts your view of the world in a way that makes you harmful to others. And since you interpret your interactions with people through that lense it's impossible to help you.
FWIW, Tesla isn't unprofitable anymore (even if you remove the EV credits)
"Tried to get rid of safety measures"

He was annoyed at seeing his line stopped, during a crisis, who wouldn't be? He tried to convince them to start it again, but they didn't. If he then overruled them and actually started the line and actually put anyone in danger that would have been a bad thing. But he didn't, and there's no story here. Just an anecdote of an emotional moment.

No one believed they could actually pull it off. No one believed they could sell the Model 3 at that price point, at those quantities, in that time span. If they didn't, they were in big trouble. They pulled it together and they actually delivered, maybe a bit later, maybe a bit costlier, but it's running like a train now.

I'm nowhere close to that factory, and in no position to judge. But sitting here comfortably on my couch on the other side of the ocean of this factory it seemed to me they pulled off an absolute miracle. I was bearish on Tesla together with almost the entire world (except the crazy people that kept buying the stock despite all the bad news).

I'm not surprised some people got yelled at, or some managers and executive staff were laid off. Am I supposed to feel pity for mr Field for being sidelined on the Model 3 line? Surely he was paid handsomely for his work on the Model S? Musk judged him to be unfit for the situation, and whether it was thanks to him, or despite him, the 30,000 Tesla employees kept their jobs and the factory became a success.

I'd love to read a book on what happened in the trenches in that factory, but if it's constantly on the edge of drama questioning Musk's every move like this advertorial, I don't really see the use of it.
For something as basic as a charger, an intro to electronics course/book is probably good enough. There's more than enough youtube videos out there about bridge rectifiers and the like.

The charge circuitry here isn't anything too special.
We got bought by Accenture some time back.

After we were on system amd thelr regular processes were in place suddenly a lot of people got a massive raise to match the min amount of money this position at this seniority level has to earn.

So far so good. But imagine the surprise of management when people weren't happy about the raise (10 20+ percent in not few cases) but a lot of resentment was voiced for being paid too little for years stating that there isn't enough money for raises and once big corporate brother rules that there is a minimum salary to be paid the money can be shelled out.

I can totally relate with the colleagues who are currently looking at other options because they feel that they were lied to over the years.
> it's my fault that the insulation degrades over time

Yeah, since the cable is not replaceable(at least, anything that's not USB-C), that's a crappy thing to say. It's obviously a widespread problem. The charger is expensive but can be replaced.

I had a frayed Apple Thunderbolt Display cable. Non removable and can't be easily replaced. Had to use some insulation tape at the time because an authorized Apple shop also claimed this was wear and tear not covered under warranty.
> GPS absolutely needs to adjust for the variable rotational speed of the earth

Sure, but that's a spacial thing, not something that's relevant to timekeeping. (There's technically a change in relativistic time dilation, but it's less than a rounding error - about five millimeters per second at the equator makes 1.000000000002388402 versus 1.000000000002388457 if I've got my math right. (The relativistic time dilation from the earth's rotation is itself a rounding error.))
I've also never frayed an actual Apple cable, but I've had some non-apple cables that didn't last very long.

But, maybe part of that is understanding that the Apple ones suck?

I know they've picked form over function for the strain relief, so I make a subconscious effort not to strain them.

My ex-girlfriends charger didn't last very long, but mine (from 2011) is still quite well maintained, though darkened and discoloured with age.

Ugh, this sounds like I'm saying "you're holding it wrong" but, what I mean is that maybe we have a bit of survivorship bias here and because we tried to keep our cables in good shape.

I highly suspect too, that Apple is using eco-friendly plastics in the cables, which might be part of why they degrade so poorly, even when not strained at the ends.
I've seen people on twitter ranting about "Longtermism" before. What an unfortunate name - in the article they try to make a distinction between "longtermism" and "long-term-thinking", but that distinction is very clearly lost on others who are content to paint with a broad brush when criticizing the EA movement. Buying malaria medicine and nets actually do save the lives of people Right Now.

Can't it just be sufficient to accept that people have different utility functions that might subtly conflict, but are still good? I might care about saving existing lives in the world, you might care about saving existing lives in your county, someone else might care about saving potential lives 100 years from now, etc.
It's intentional.

There is a business strategy called "planned obsolescence" or simply "planned breakdown"

They would've not DRM chipped a freaking cable if not for them selling them for $20.

Take a look on my experience from a decade ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26134006

> I recalled that when in 2015, working for another sourcing shop working for likes of BestBuy/Futureshop/Target/London Drugs I was asked to tear down few chargers for them.

> I found that diodes in parallel are surprisingly common around the industry.

> This is such a thing which you are pretty much told on day 1 of any electronics course that it is impossible to not to know.

> My only thinkable conclusion was that people keep doing it on purpose.
Very cool! Thank you!
>...Working lives are lengthening. A smaller population living well...

Wait a sec - a population being economically forced to retire later (or not at all) is not one "living well". People are being squeezed.
It's a sellers market right now, so jumping job to job is beneficial. Companies are willing to pay top dollar and salaries are on the rise.

I like this approach. It incentivizes and rewards. Even if things changed and this turned into a buyer's market, it should help with employee happiness. Buyer's markets tend to drop employee happiness as employees feel trapped.
Does a sleeve really do much? I just carry my cards loose in my pocket (a credit card, my driver's license, and my health insurance card). If I think I might need cash I'll toss a $20 in too.
I know this is a common complaint, but not one of my iPhone or PowerBook/MacBook/MacBook Pro cables has ever failed or started to look anything like these complaints.

I don't really think myself as one to "baby" my gadgets, so I'm not really sure what the heck you all are doing to your cables.
Anger is the ego being upset that people and the world didn't do what you expected. It's natural, but it's absolutely not a good leadership quality to be angry.
> stark contrast with his public persona

I don't really follow Musk, so pretty much everything I hear about him comes from whatever antics bubbles up to a tech-y press (such as Ars Technica or posts here). As a result, the mental image of him that I have is that he's an arrogant, egotistical smartass with a selfish streak that sometimes can be seen as altruistic. Which is basically the kind of behavior that this article seems to confirm.

... so what is in his public persona that is in stark contrast to this constant portrayal in the news? What am I missing?
I think everyone does this to some extent. For Musk, publicity is a large part of his work. That requires a certain friendliness.

When someone is yo ur job, you adapt your personality.

I am certainly not my authentic self at work and that is to facilitate my work.
We deal with this by having multiple vulnerability scanners. Product A and Product B both scan your active environment. Product A scans Product B. Product B scans Product A. Additionally, make the vendors of those products sign NDAs so your threat actors, other than insiders, don't necessarily even know who they are. An attacker then needs to not only compromise both, but figure out who they are in the first place.
If you see slave labor, then you have an obligation to report it your local authorities.

update: see above
Isn't that kind of what's described in physics? It's forces interacting all the way down.
When was that then? I saw the spin animation, she did not refer to it then … although I was baking cookies at the same time so I might have missed a remark here or there.
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I agree with you. Also, the Gervais principle should be required reading for everybody on HN. Half of the discussions would be so much simpler. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/ To put it simple: it would be hard to operate a large organization without some of the above mentioned tendencies. Regarding awful fathers: what do we know about the father of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos or even Arnold Schwarzenegger? All of this plays out in society in a non-black-and-white way.
Ah, the TLS shortening aspect of a CDN is something that seems obvious in hindsight but I'd never really thought about it. Thanks!
He's gone out of his way to cultivate that image.
> After the box was installed, Amazon sent a text message to workers urging them to vote against the union and to use the mailbox outside of their facilities—where Amazon surveillance cameras were trained.

From an earlier article on the subject.
I think it's not so much that meta is discouraged as much as knee-jerk emotional meta reactions are, because they rarely lead to useful discussion. Complaining about downvotes or that you think the mods are being unfair are ultimately selfish actions most the time that drag the rest of the discussion down. At the same time, people sharing some of their favorite "HN discussion brought amazing person to the fore that shared" moments and links to them has allowed me and others to revisit and share in those moments and learn some of those amazing things shared even though we weren't part of that discussion.
Would love to see this type of post for framework's power adapter: https://frame.work/blog/power-adapter
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Not that OP, but in keeping with his concern about incentives, it is not like Karpathy (at least) has no incentive in keeping Elon Musk's public image intact.