skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if a negative leap second ever happens, there will be moments that can be labeled with a UTC time which never end up happening.
It depends on your country/jurisdiction.

Most countries I worked in, anything done after hours, not using company resources, and not in the competition space of the employer is simply allowed. No company would be able to enforce that.

In fact (I have had that happen) if the contract tries to over reach, in particular regarding IP, then that clause could just be made void in court.
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Agreed with everything in this post.

Engineering compensation at big tech is too rigid to award high performers adequately.
Some folks double the impact of others in the same role / level, and make 20% more, at most.

Leaving and joining a competitor moves you to market rate. You fall behind each year at the job / role in this market.
“Robin Hood”?? I must have missed the part of the interview where they talk about their charitable redistribution activities…
Because someone would whine about it either way.

If it's not in the upper right corner, it's wrong. If it's not within easy reach of the more typical position of the right hand (for people who touch type at least) then it's in the wrong position. It's a lose-lose, doesn't matter what they do some people will be unhappy. And whatever they do, some people will be content or happy. So they picked one that made sense for people who don't rest their hand on the number pad all day long.
The Ecmascript 4 proposal included the `yield` keyword, but the proposal as a whole was abandoned in 2008. That’s why the version names jump from ES3 to ES5. Some of the features then returned in later versions, including generators with ES6 in 2015.
Because, to me, reading the docs & source code should be skills that are learned prior to "using the code and writing code".
This usually results in a flat spin and death heading out to sea.
> It's true that long-tenured engineers (if they're good) can do amazing things. Things that other engineers don't have the implicit knowledge or political capital to do. The problem is that once that project is over, it's not guaranteed that the next project will be as impactful.

You hinted at this by mentioning political capital, but in my experience as engineers gain experience at the company their impact largely grows in ways that aren't obviously visible. It's not like they are churning out work or managing teams that have ever increasing product impact, it's that their job responsibilities expand to include things like:

- Convincing potential hires they should join the company.
- Speaking frankly to leaders when newer employees don't feel comfortable doing it.
- Seeing large cross-cutting issues that require time and experience at the company to identify.
- Mentoring newer employees so they get up to speed and become productive quickly.
- Arbiters of information and documentation that tends to never get written down. "Person X can help you learn about Y, Team Z is responsible for that, etc."

These kinds of activities are critical to highly efficient companies, but rarely ever acknowledged as impact. At least I've rarely ever seen these kinds of things show up in regular performance reviews, and yet it's painfully obvious when these activities are missing.
the underlying message boils down to:

* data driven = incremental improvement

* innovation happens when you target parts of long tail (margins)

these points are expressed from social group problems perspective. My personal takeaway is that targeting marginalized groups can produce significant innovation.
Agree that age discrimination is a big, complicating factor. Saw this impact a very qualified family member who had to tap some connections in their network of past coworkers just to find a mediocre role. (They're massively over qualified.)

I think another reason for some negative feelings is the appearance that some generations have pulled up the ladder after their accent: in real estate, pensions, healthcare, etc.
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That sucks. Though I don't know how much I give for their space grey - my M1 and iPad are both supposed to be space grey but they are not ever close to each other in color.
Consider big companies before departmental printers. A memo would be typed and then have to go to the reprographics department for copies or typing pool. Anything more complex than a memo would need to go to an outside printer to be typeset and printed.

So you're looking at hours to days (weeks in the case of technical documentation) turn around time. All the labor was also very expensive.

Departmental printing could cut the turn around time to minutes or hours and reduce the manual labor significantly. This got cheaper and more accessible with desktop printing.

While e-mail is often abused anymore it's much more manageable than the reams of paper even relatively small companies had to deal with just to communicate internally.
When people talk about comp, they usually talk about the # of $$ they took home last year - anything else is magic money so to speak.

For the same reason a manager isn't going to value a $10MM grant in company that ended up being a penny stock, he isn't going to downgrade a company that resurrected from the pits either. Money in hand last year is the best measure possible/available.
> Last, signing bonuses are quite large...

Is it a US-specific thing? Never heard of anyone getting it.
The fundamental problem with your hypothesis is the time-value of money: overnight deposits can be moved around, well, overnight, but a 30yr bond (for the bondholder, ignoring secondary markets) locks up capital for decades. A bondholder can't take advantage of future preferential interest rates when their capital is already locked up in low-yielding bonds.

This is why bond price and bond yields have an inverse relationship.
If Safari is the new IE what should I use instead that doesn't suck down battery like it's going out of style, works with iCloud Keychain, and is fast?

I'm not going to spend time moving to Edge, or Firefox (Chrome is not even an option, see https://chromeisbad.com) if I have to reset passwords across hundreds of websites and those passwords don't automatically sync across all of my devices.

These other browsers also don't integrate well with the system, have a different look/feel, don't behave the same when managed using Moom for resizing because they have their own layout engines, and don't hook into the system dictionary or editing features.

I want a single cohesive whole that works well together.
> Currently the poorest parts of the US population are stagnating at best, at a time when rates of both legal and illegal immigration are quite high. It is hard to make the argument that immigration is preventing things from getting worse.

An argument that immigration is a net positive for the economy:

https://www.thebalance.com/how-immigration-impacts-the-econo...

Some anecdotes of small towns being saved by immigration:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/...

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/08/15/hmong-immigrants-he...
They should...I think.

If anything add a 'ActiveSheet.Calculate' call to the end of your second macro and give it a test run?
I think it’s fair to assume that adding ethical gray is a well understood tactic in this world. And just that - a tactic.
There is a wide gap between borderline examples like yours and "The covid vaccine contains microchips to control the masses!".

Maybe your example can be ignored and my example can be removed without wondering into that borderline area.
Maybe they're choosing targets based on who has millions of dollars to pay social media shills to tell us what to think.
As a general rule, theft is considered a bad thing. Why do you think it's acceptable?
If they're both Macs you could use AirBuddy's "Magic Handoff" to transfer the connection between them with one click, but that's still less powerful than just having buttons on the keyboard (for iPad and Windows support). I have a K380 and the 3-device pairing works great.

https://support.airbuddy.app/articles/how-to-use-magic-hando...
Language tends to converge on good features, luckily.

Although some generator implementations are not as complete as python ones, and the ecosystem generally donc have much support for it

E.g : Very few languages have an equivalent to itertools.
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There's a lot of implicit loyalty here. You're very loyal to Intel even when they didn't treat you the best. Why? What happens when you underperform, will they show you the same loyalty?
Assuming you are not interested in the Apple Watch. Otherwise, the watch can do everything TouchID can (edit: on the mac).
Simultaneously and in parallel, is anyone MRI-scanning hundred of generations a year of nematodes and fruit flies to build basic physical correlations in neurology and genetics? Structurally, much simpler and cheaper, biochemically very similar.
Not familiar with housing in Greece. I should have clarified I’m talking about the US where housing is quite cheap to build but regulations make it illegal to build most types of housing.

I was born in the US but a lot of my family are immigrants and I know how tough the system is, I’m arguing to make it much easier.

I’m sure on the outside it does look broken and there are lots of issues to fix, but take a walk around pretty much any American urban metro area and it’s working amazingly well.

I can understand the situation in Greece is much different, especially when compare the amount of refugees compared to the population of Greece. But I think a lot of the issues boil down to Greece having a quite shit economy at the moment causing more issues. If jobs were abundant in Greece then I think immigration wouldn’t be as contentious. Although that’s just me taking from no experience. I’m interested in hearing your view.
Maybe? But you would save yourself $50 and get the non-TouchID one surely?
Unless the engineer doesn't provide some business value way beyond expectations and a promotion is done, it will all come down to the cfo and HR, that's the reality.
That pair has financial objectives and they have data and experience to know if hiring new(with all costs involved) or increase a salary makes more sense to their bottom line.
Buwhahah $150.
The problem is that the election was clearly unfair and there was a widespread sense that the people voting in it thought it was unfair. A 70-30 vote in an election where you know the authorities are watching means absolutely nothing.

As for this:

> The evidence seems to be based on the word of a single employee. If that's enough evidence to overturn an election, it will be hard to have one that isn't overturned.

You are reading this very myopically, ignoring crucial context with a sliver of the article (and not being helped by some weak writing). The snippet should be read as this:

> Myers’ recommendation centers on the mailbox [which was unquestionably on Amazon’s headquarters and which Amazon management unquestionably pressured employees to use for voting], according to one of the people familiar with it. During the NLRB hearing, an employee said Amazon security guards used keys to open the mailbox, testimony that former NLRB chair Wilma Liebman said could be reason enough to overturn the result.

So there was plenty of direct evidence suggesting improper behavior, which not even Amazon contested. That was not enough to overturn the result. But just the one piece of deeply serious eyewitness testimony on top of the documentary evidence would be enough. And of course there was far more evidence than just that one employee: Liebman’s comments are obviously a rhetorical device used to illustrate the severity of Amazon’s transgressions and not a literal description of the merits of the case.
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Firefox lets you disable keyboard overrides on a per-site basis, if that's something you're interested in

Page Info -> Permissions -> Override Keyboard Shortcuts
I agree with this. While the flavor of the year frontend stack might change, since 2008 when I started dabbling in frontend, the fundamentals really haven't changed: understanding DOM, understanding the JavaScript execution model, understanding the layout models, understanding the complexities of dealing with data binding over asynchronous events and simultaneous users, and so on. jQuery didn't change any of that (although it drastically improved ergonomics). Angular didn't. React didn't either.

My experience has been that paradigms and tools can move fast and are relatively straightforward to pick up. Deep understanding of the underlying problem domain and the systems underneath the abstractions is harder to pick up, but the concepts move more slowly.
Ask HN: Any old video tutorials worth watching today?
Some old video tutorials are very well-made and relevant today. I remember watching a Lisp tutorial from the 80s and it was so clear and intuitive.

Are there any old video tutorials (on any topic) that you think are worth watching today?
Thanks, it would be awesome to hear if you use it! I'm actually a renter myself and use it for cleaning and managing some of my stuff. My email is dstein@shinybuildings.com if you have any feedback or suggestions.
Is it? I personally think it makes more sense there, it replaces the eject button (is that an eject symbol? It's been a while since I've had to care about eject) – and it matches the button position on the laptops, e.g. above the backspace button.
That, my friend, is the primary difference between protest and insurrection. Protestors are trying to get their voices heard by the system, insurrectionists are trying to thwart the system itself.
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I think it is mostly hindered by an unwillingness to listen and/or understand, and not that it requires explanation (which, in of itself isn't necessarily a bad thing... explaining things to people seems par for the course when misinformation is high).

If I'm well aware what it means by just following international news, while also not having the affected profession, and living on the other side of the world... you would think the onus should fall sliiiightly on the people directly involved for not understanding the motto, rather than it being a bad or convoluted one.

The inspection required to understand it also doesn't do a whole lot of leaps either. "Defund the police!". "What, like completely?", "Nah, that would be insane. Just the part where they need to deal with shit they shouldn't be dealing with". "Ah, ok.".

That said, I'm sure there are some who mean "fully". Probably a smaller percentage of people meaning it than people assuming others mean it.
This might be most useful in something like a condo that has board that handles collective repairs etc. Hell, something like this should be the law for something like that.
This is a braindead opinion. Why would anyone work as hard as possible when there are 0 incentives to do so? When at any moment you could be fired without warning in a mass layoff and when even the highest performers only get 5-10% raises per year when jumping ship gives you 20%+ . You want good work then create the incentives for it, currently there are none.
If I were the union I would take the opportunity to campaign on this. Say that Amazon’s leadership is so untrustworthy that they tried to rig an election they probably would have won fair and square - and, more importantly, that the federal government under Biden might actually have your back if AMZ tries to retaliate against you.
If true it's a mistake. Education is a piss poor measure of people's ability to contribute.
^ That.
> hardware that's vendor-locked to a cloud service is a risky move.

AFAIK from an above comment by @rozzie the protocol is open and the domain can be changed. So it should be possible for someone to write a self hostable server

https://dev.blues.io/reference/notecard-api/hub-requests/#hu...
https://github.com/blues/note
Firings, garnished wages, jail time.
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I've been thinking about this a lot as I consider the scripting language for finl.¹ I had considered an embedded python, but ended up deciding it was too much of a security risk, since, without writing my own python interpreter (something I don't want to do), sandboxing seems to be impossible. Deno is a real possibility or else forking Boa which is a pure Rust implementation of JS.

1. One thing I absolutely do not want to do is replicate the unholy mess that's the TeX macro system. There will be simple macro definitions possible, but I don't plan on making them Turing complete or having the complex expansion rules of TeX.
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Awesome! Having recently bought half of a 100 year old duplex building in new england, I've frequently wanted something like this - why is there minor fire damage in one corner of the basement? What year was this porch updated into a full room? Is this window an original? Is there a reason the previous owner bought an electric dryer when there's gas hookups?

As a potential user, my biggest concern would be the longevity of the platform. Investing in using this platform might pay off for me after 5 to 10 years, much longer than the average startup or side project lasts.
I continue to hope they bring FaceID to the Mac in a manner similar to Windows Hello, where you can buy a webcam certified for it
That depends very much on the product. For iPhones, which are ubiquitous in China, what percentage of the value added comes from China? The final assembly is in China, but most of the value is imported. The same goes for many products.
I think cops are not so hot on heading towards gunshots.
I like mosra's search, implemented in m.css for magnum. He wrote a blog post on it here: https://blog.magnum.graphics/meta/improved-doxygen-documenta... and you can try it on the magnum docs site: https://doc.magnum.graphics/magnum/#search

Fast and can be served from a static site.
Agree. I've been at my place for 11 years now, and have had four very distinct roles over that time. Each change gave that revitalizing jolt of fresh challenges, technologies, etc, but with the benefit that I got to keep my seniority, influence, expertise with the in-house systems, and so on.

Have I given up potential pay bumps by not going external? Sure, probably. But I have enough to be comfortable and my company has treated me well, both monetarily and in facilitating these kinds of changes when I've wanted them.
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That's a solution that takes up an awful lot of desk space.
For me it wasn't about the matching the machine (although I do expect the trackpad and keyboard to match), it was about having the black keys and the non-shiny surface. Thankfully I have ~3 sets of the keyboard/trackpad, but I might have bought a spare had I known it was being discontinued.
What is this kind of annoying cookie consent dialog? Takes over a minute to disable advertisment cookies, probably just to coerce users into accepting all cookies
It’s in the top right corner on every other device that has one though. If I’m reaching for it that’s just where I expect it to be.

The downvotes clearly indicate an unpopular opinion, but this to me just looks like they bolted on a 10 key to the existing product.
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> Ah, blockchain innovation, which is somehow so vital to the shining future of mankind, yet has utterly failed to produce anything of technological or economic value

Do you know what economic value means? If there was no economic value, then it wouldn't be used.

Your comment sounds like one that will be hilarious in the not-so-distant future. It's analogous to the whole trope "X technology is useless" or "People will never need more than X amount of memory" type of thing.
One of my favourite pointless internet arguments! I usually just point to this link and walk away:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explai...

Answer: because a surface of a certain geometry produces a force perpendicular to fluid flow as per the Navier-Stokes equations. But that's not a good explanation to give a room full 2nd graders, therefore your pet-explanation will have to make a compromise somewhere. You are all equally right and wrong at the same time. Unless you say "equal transit theory". Then you are just wrong.
> Nah, not really. My second example has to do with internal frameworks inside a FAANG, where the average half-life of code is about a year (i.e. half your code is deprecated or deleted a year after you write it).

That's exactly the same web-dev mindset, only applied to backend code. I find it remarkable that you take a half-life of 12 months to be a given, rather than a screaming red flag.

Yes, the world changes, and code needs to change along with it, but it doesn't change that much. Replacing 50% of your codebase every 12 months, year after year, indicates to me that the organization is just replacing poorly architected code with different poorly architected code, not better code. The codebase is on a random walk, and any forward progress it makes is due to chance and evolutionary pressure, rather than reason and design.
There are some points mentioned in https://youtu.be/l9SHUSP_LJ8 to tame everyone's expectations for this SOC.