skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what?

It's a very useful skill to know how to entice, encourage, and work with people who have more power than you. Among other benefits, it opens up positions in the very top echelons of society, where (by definition) you are going to meet lots of people you have zero leverage over. It also means you get to work on high-performing teams (high-performing employees tend to get their pick of where they work), and it's just a lot nicer work environment when everybody is there because they choose to be rather than because they have to be.

I feel like there's some fairly large subset of humanity that assumes that nothing ever gets done without some overseer cracking the whip, and just lacks the conceptual framework to understand people coming together to accomplish things because they mutually agree that it's work worth doing. It's worth breaking out of that frame.
Wouldn't Lazarus be a better option in most cases? No silly 800 line limitation, more powerful language, at least as portable etc.
Perhaps via some monad, like Swift optionals?

Unless it isn’t a monad and I still haven’t understood those?
>The audio and video quality, ... is much better in the desktop app

But is the quality actually better, or is it post-processing tricks to make it seem better on commodity hardware/audio setups? If it is actually better, surely this should be measurable and there should exist evidence to support such a claim.
"The only complaint the business owner seems to have is that the employee isn't in a desperate financial situation and thus has control over her life decisions."

This is the sad situation we are in presently.
Yeah I was surprised this made it to the front page, it looked like an obvious straw man or slow pitch / setup to me, no evidence of realism in how it is written
Yet they don’t have such an exemption for penicillin, or aspirin, or any other similar drug.

The liability shield is precisely why I am Covid-vaccine hesitant. And Pfizer’s track record of honesty when it comes to their drugs is significantly bad. Combine that with the aggressive attempts to silence even a discussion of the vaccine’s side effects makes me extremely skeptical. When “everybody” says something is “safe and effective” and the people profiting “bigly” from that something while also being shielded from literally any liability… Well, that’s enough to make me zig when others zag.

A simple arthritis drug advertised on TV has to disclose the litany of side effects — so extensive as to be comical and yet even mentioning Covid vaccine side effects can get you silenced on social media — something is just very wrong about that. You want me to vaccinate my four kids just because the government says “trust us?” Nope. I’m a grown up. I also have a scientific research background. But when even scientific papers get removed (specifically pre-Covid papers on masks and influenza,) then I’m even more likely to mistrust the “experts.”

To be clear (not that I should have to,) I don’t have the Covid vaccine, but I have all sorts of others. So do my kids. I have vaccines covering everything from Yellow Fever to Japanese Encephalitis and everything in between. But this current vaccine effort reminds me too readily of the anthrax vaccine they were giving us in the Army in the early 2000s. All sorts of neurological issues were reported in many soldiers — often so bad they had to leave the military. And then, as now, it was “safe and effective.” And a rotavirus vaccine in 1999 was pulled from the market because of a rare but serious side effect. Yet the Covid vaccines have a much higher instance of rare but serious side effects compared to that, but everyone is running around saying that the benefits outweigh the risks. Mathematically, for my age and health, that just isn’t true. Ans it’s certainly not true for most healthy children. My point isn’t to debate the vaccine though, my point is to call attention to how the debate is censored. I could very much be wrong in my concerns. Or I could be right. But the fact that we can’t even have a discussion about it is the real problem. We could also apply this to masks. Calling attention to the lack of RCTs and the over-reliance of observational studies gets you branded as an anti-science caveman extremist. Musing as to why control groups were vaccinated (thus destroying long term safety and efficacy data points) also make you an outcast.

What we are seeing isn’t science. It’s politics wrapped in an appeal to authority. The effort to over-censor literally everything contrary to Faucian doctrine has backfired and created a significant group of resisters who, frankly, have little trust in governments.
Data is forever. Privacy laws can change. Companies can break their privacy policies in bankruptcy. Even democracy is not guaranteed.
I think it means they feel they have no leverage over this person at all.
Ask HN: Employer offering preferred stocks, is this normal?
throwaway account for obvious reasons; here's the background, though:

- startup founded in early 2010's, and recently closed Series X fundraising. The company is now profitable and has a decent war chest - employees hold options/common stock and they're now worth $$$$ - with the recent MEGA fundraising, employees have the opportunity to purchase preferred stock, same price as the most recent fundraising - if IPO'd, there's a 9 month cliff from selling.

Is this a common practice? What are the benefits of purchasing preferred stocks, given I have commons? What else to look for? And what would you do as an employee in this instance?
There is a lot of nostalgia with BASIC I suspect but I agree.
The governing coalition parties (CDU, SPD) members of the European parliament recently voted for similar measures to allow providers to conduct mass surveillance on their users:

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/

> But this is not the end of the story: For autumn 2021, European Commission announced that it will propose a follow-up legislation that will make the use of chatcontrol mandatory for all e-mail and messenger providers. This legislation might then also affect securely end-to-end encrypted communications.
Yeah maybe leave out "profitable," it's too fuzzy and hard to verify. One of the bettors simply expressed skepticism that there would be "fusion as part of the electricity grid," period, so just leave it at that. At least, that's what I would want if I were betting.

(I do think it's entirely possible that fusion will be solidly profitable, especially with carbon pricing.)
when you see "online" written as "on-line"
Disbelief and betrayal: Europe reacts to Biden’s Afghanistan ‘miscalculation’
A well-thought out use of the scientific method to prove, in a way, that nurture is more a more advanced tool for change than nature is.
Trump put sanctions on Russian pipelines, which Biden later lifted. Is that evidence of Biden being beholden to Russia? Every president makes hawkish and dovish diplomatic decisions, the inferential correlating of them to lurid rumors is not evidence for the rumors.
Are you using Wayland? That might be an artifact of Steam and games running via XWayland.
Penn & Teller said it in 2004: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0771119/
no shit, I thought covid taught us all that we need some fat on the hog
There is a semi-documented phenomenon among book store workers regarding just this: employees at retail stores like Barnes and Noble and Borders Books report famously bad cleanups in their bathrooms on a daily basis, reputedly due to this.

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariko_Aoki_phenomenon

The academic consensus seems understandably mixed, but it is certainly a fascinating ponder (what a wonderful avenue of research)!

I'd wager any significant breakthroughs in this would certainly be up for consideration for an IgNobel.
The fact that Fleksy, a keyboard originally designed for the blind and now owned by Microsoft, has not issues and Apple tried to buy them really is aweful. And all while all sorts of govts want them to allow other app stores. This proves their point.
Notably, the Rust borrow checker has exposed a tonne of bugs in the LLVM noalias optimizations. I believe the latest versions of rustc now have noalias enabled since the LLVM 12 release, but it's been a long cycle of enabling it, discovering a bug, and disabling it to this point.
If you want something you don't have with a standard employment relationship, perhaps you can negotiate a contract that also gives them something that they want.
Yep, the version of automerge I benchmarked for that blog post includes automerge’s performance branch changes.

They’re working on it, but it’ll be awhile before automerge gets close to Yjs in terms of performance.
IANAL, but in the past I've heard the term "impliedd license" applied to things like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_license

I'd assume the license for viewing the file is implied, but I have no clue if it would hold up in court if you viewed the file -> traced the output (which is copying the typeface, not the font.)
Which is interesting, as plenty of businesses treat their workers as commodities.
> Its reasonable assumption to assume that they might attack another precinct, not a reason to assume that a precinct will fall. If they say, barricaded the bridge between the two precincts or setup a cordon, that would seem like a prudent response. If the rioters were at the gates and they initiated this policy, that also would be reasonable.

We're also dealing in hindsight. I still think given the climate back then and that a group of people stormed a police station is a pretty incredible circumstance to be dealing with. Now, whether their bias to action was innocent or correct is up to investigation to determine.

It's perfectly okay to speculate and ask for investigations. It's less okay to speak in very definitive terms about something that is quite in flux. That's why I'm a bit wishy-washy on what I believe happened, because any number of variables can produce each outcome -- or both.

I am not "side-stepping" the issue. You think they lied and now you're into searching for an MO to match that. To me, that's pretty improper and it's not how I come to conclusions.

I don't give them the benefit of the doubt, that would imply a conclusion. This, to me, has not concluded. Both theories are still plausible based on the information we have today.
I think the tone I read implied into your post was that it was something malicious or arrogant. "Don't protect the men because they don't need to care about giving it to women", followed by "oh noes, men can get sick too! Better protect them!" rather than a resource allocation problem, as the quote is arguing.
> Contact tracing has not worked and will not work for covid.

As an Australian, I can say with certainty contract trace does work for COVID. It is one of the tools Australia uses to keep it's cases near 0.

There are caveats of course. Contract tracing's big brother is the lock down, where everybody is forced to isolate. It's the big brother because all contact tracing does is limit the lock down to those who have been exposed. They are found by tracing the contacts of existing infections.

Contact tracing achilles heel it is labour intensive. It works beautifully, right up until the number of new infections overwhelm the labour force available to do the contact tracing. So in Australia contact trace is always paired with an initial lock down, to give the contact tracers a head start. Delta in particular with its R0 of 7 can easily overwhelm the man power before within a week if you don't stop it dead. (This has now happened in our most libertarian state, forcing said libertarian state into the longest and invasive lock downs we've seen in Australia.)

In Australia contact tracing was done with no technological help whatsoever at the start. It was all via interviews. Now we have QR codes everywhere, which you are by law required to scan when directed to do so by the Chief Medical Officer, which is invariable while there is local transmission. This is done as a force multiplier of course - it both raises the number of infections needed to overwhelm the system, and speeds up shutting down the outbreak. Time is money, and in this case the money is measured literally in billions.

The sad and bizarre outcome is those QR codes are very invasive - we had a much better solution available. If you visit places that must have QR codes (which broadly is any business), you by law must take a smart phone with the contact tracing app installed. You have to enter all your details into the contact tracing app. When you scan the QR code it uploads the exact time and place to government servers. The uploaded information has already been leaked beyond it's intended use.

In contrast the original bluetooth tracing app (and probably this 5G solution) was designed to never leak your position unless you become a close contact of a person contacted by the contact tracers. They were far more private and resistant to abuse. Yet Apple and Google effectively made them impossible to use, due to erstwhile "privacy considerations". And in doing so, forced the adoption of solutions where, as far as I can tell, privacy was never a design consideration.
This doesn't help in the short term, because building takes time. Moving people is faster than constructing buildings.
How to Provision 100 AWS Graviton Gitlab Spot Runners in 10 Minutes
To be fair, people redundancy is hard. Not only is hiring them expensive [0], but you also need to find someone that gets along with you, the company and especially their counterpart. Then this person needs to also have similar competencies and even if you have all of those points checked, you still need to get them to share enough so that they can actually replace each other - which is in itself already a hard problem. And, if they get along too well, you might end up in a situation where they leave together.

Engineering redundancy really is a children's play compared to people redundancy.

[0] It's not too much of a problem for large corporations, but small businesses with less than ten people can struggle quite a bit to hire replacements, especially if they don't have the workload for two people right away.
1. urban streets are too narrow, so ban parking
2. urban streets are too wide, give electric cars their own lanes.
3. what about the bike lanes???
4. Profit!

Even if this is a good plan, it sounds like social engineering and not math.
Thanks for replying and pointing out the framing. I am not going to set minimum hourly requirements but I also dont want him to work 3-4 hours a week and expect to see results. I said "making him work", because he will be ultimately working on my idea. But yes, the wording could be better. May be "collaborate " on my idea or some such thing
Yes. They aren't allowed to use a stick to beat you anymore so they need other methods.
The verbosity can only be removed at a superficial level. Many people object to begin and end, but they’d chafe even more if they got further. For good reasons (Ada leans toward explicit declarations in favor of implicit ones) you have to list each sub program you depend on in a module by name. Even if you don’t import it’s symbols. And you have to explicitly instantiate generics (like C++ templates) rather than the compiler inferring your intention. Things like that cannot be removed from the language so only a superficial improvement can be achieved, for what benefit?
Afghanistan: Doomed from the Start
They care about those metrics because they know the conversion rate on those users.
I didn't mean for that to read as dismissive as it clearly does. Should have waited till I had more to say. :)

I don't think the number of places dependent typing could have helped me is zero. Just like linear typing is nice. I just know that many of the dependencies I work with are much more dynamic in nature, such that getting them in static types has tough ROI to justify.

Bluntly, the hardest program failures I've ever seen have been second systems from people learning generics and higher kinded types. I'm convinced these techniques are worth learning. I'm not convinced that they provide the immediate return on effort that they are usually sold with.
This must be a popular attitude with your employer?

Do you really see no option to have a firm that requires the coordination of staff be a large enough task that it deserves its own specialists, or are you violating HN guidelines for fun?
I can easily believe either. However, while the default assumption of laziness/incompetence works well for good faith discussions, it also provides cover for malicious actors. At some point, even though any given actor is likely to be non-malicious, there is no way to distinguish them from the malicious actors.
Who will clean the toilets?
by people who show themselves to be willfully negligent of the basics? fuck no.
I think that an employee who has little to lose is going to make better decisions and. take smarter risks. An employee who feels they can't lose the job is probably going to be overly cautious and not risk speaking up or taking action when they should.
It does seem overwhelmingly likely to me that Apple intended to clear a path to E2EE of iCloud Photos with this, however, I'm utterly stumped why they haven't made any announcement nor even suggested it as a motivation. It is clearly their best possible rationale for moving the perceptual hashing from cloud to device, and many people would say, "oh, well, I guess I understand that trade off, then." But without that announcement, this looks pointless on top of invasive. And after more than a week of punishing press, it seems even more unbelievable.
Hours will be mutually determined but a minimum number of hours a week will help in getting out something tangible.

As per academic credit, it is a great point. Thx
This alone would solve almost all the wage "problems" in the Bay Area.
Reading this article I picture John Travolta offering rats as a way to get leverage. The whole thing was cringy. As a manager you will find diminishing control over your employees and will need to hire more people to pick up the slack when someone wants to live life.
I believe they mean grab the absolute path to the real executable, run ldd against it, and parse that output to see if it links against libX11. That doesn't tell you a program is really using X11, though, as plenty have some sort of no-gui option to launch without a window. You can always cat /proc/{PID}/maps to see if libx11 is actually loaded into the process' address space, and just use readlink on exe to figure out the application name.

That's a really stupid way to figure out if a program has a window, though, compared to just using the X11 API directly.
Is the risk any worse than a terrorist making a bomb that spreads a bunch of non-radioactive heavy metals, or any other toxic substance? What about when compared to the general damage caused by mining and burning coal?
Nice - great advice in there. Aside from capturing disabled ships I didn't really use escorts to trade cargo, but your freighter strategy can really rack up the credits!
Yup, 1:1 calls and voice messages are E2E encrypted (if you do them in a private room, which are encrypted by default these days).
I agree. If you can't afford to pay wages people will accept, then you don't have a viable business.
I have no idea how heavily edited the questions are on Ask A Manager, or whether the "reader" is an actual person or a contrivance, but let's assume it's real.

Although the "no leverage over her" language is misguided, the fact is that among the duties of a manager is laying out the expectations for a role and finding the right incentives to motivate workers to reach or exceed those expectations. And in this case, the manager is having trouble finding the right incentives because the compensation lever doesn't seem to work.

So the manager could spin their wheels trying to come up with lots of creative alternate incentives that may or may not work ... or they could start to chip away at all the things that make it hard to get rid of a person who isn't meeting expectations -- work on documentation, spreading knowledge of their duties around, researching whether a temp agency can help, etc. Or they could adjust their expectations.

Which is not to say that it's totally unreasonable for someone to take a month's unpaid leave. The manager should also address the organizational stuff that keeps that from being an unreasonable expectation.
end all state subsidies of residential mortgages
3dfx made a bad acquisition with STB, and decided to abandon the OEM route while NVIDIA/ATI embraced it. Lack of hardware T&L also made a big difference, so by Voodoo5 it just wasn't an appealing option for games like Quake 3 and Half-life. This was also the era when MS was really pushing DX, and 3dfx DX support was always lagging.

The Voodoo2 was the first PC peripheral I ever purchased, and I have fond memories playing the first Delta Force game with it. Was also the first box I wanted to keep like a trophy.
Non-action decisions (e.g. not getting vaccinated) is currently harming other people. Inaction is also harmful.
GOA is no replacement for the NRA. To date, anyway, they're a political/lawfare organization. The NRA is much more than that, supporting local ranges, the shooting sports, actual [safety] training programs, and affiliated local clubs/organizations. GOA is no replacement and has never expressed a desire to be. The NRA needs to be cleaned up/out, but we all lose significantly if they're shut down.
Make sure you understand the exact terms of the stock. There are many different varieties of "preferred"; it's good to know exactly which rights you're getting with preferred stock.

In general, this sounds like an excellent deal that is not available to most startup employees. Most employees get common, and the big problem with that is that they're last in line to cash out and can get wiped out even if the company IPOs or gets acquired if other investors got preferred stock with better terms. For example, things like liquidation preferences mean that a VC might get back all the money they put in before the remainder is divided up between stockholders; a 2x liquidation preference means that if the startup sells for any less than twice the amount of last funding round, the common stock holders get wiped out. Warrants can also dilute the common shareholders in the event the startup does well. Again, be aware of the specific terms of the stock.
People are people. But don’t forget - many people consider the second invasion of Iraq an aggressive war of choice. And that makes every single participant a war criminal. From Bush on down to your friends.
Message dang and see if they were erroneously flagged by users. I think he said something about stories getting removed from the frontpage based on how many users flag them.
> It's a new kind of exploitation we haven't really faced before.

I think the industrial world would love to disagree. Working at a factory my grandma would have carefully regulated break times, food times, etc. All controlled by a central clock for everyone on shift.

It makes sense when you consider factory line workers as part of the machine, but it's also kinda bullshit from a human perspective.

And that was after the big wins of the labor movement in the early 1900's. Imagine how bad it was in the late 1800's.

The new innovation our generation introduced is that because everyone is supposed to be following their dream and passion, you not only have to be a good worker, you also have to love it. If you don't, you are expected to perform the part of someone who does.
This is an obvious case, you treat them like you treat anyone else. You show respect, and manage them the way you manage everyone else. If they don’t want to meet expectations then they receive the consequences.

I don’t see why more needs to be said