skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That does match my experience. I mostly don't participate in social media, but created an Instagram account to see if I could promote my photography. Within a couple weeks I had gathered a hundred followers and found myself worrying far more about what to post, when to post. I realized that I was no longer actually focused on my work. I was focused on its social media presence instead. So I stopped posting, and almost immediately felt my stress levels decrease.

Now I'm back to just living my life. I participate on HN, but this is about the limit of my online interactions, and I enjoy my life.
VMware Patches New Flaws Influencing Multiple Products
I Created a List of SaaS Companies Ranked by Fastest Landing Page
* I measured the speeds using Google Page Speed Insights. I have based the scores on desktop performance. This is because most SaaS usage happens on desktops.

* The landing page speed might not be the absolute indicator for overall system speed.

* I hope to update the list monthly.
I got Linus Torvalds in my contributors on GitHub
No matter how you look at it, a CEO that earns less than 0.1% of the shareholder value created under his watch can’t reasonably be called overpaid.
Speculators. It's not so hard to imagine people lining up to be first to buy whatever the latest crazy NFT there is at the chance of a 10x-100x return
Installation is not the same as distribution.
All upstream packages that I am aware of distribute in source form.
They do, unless you’re Netflix, or certain “business” apps which they change the definition of every few days.
A building is only as strong as its foundations. Companies are the same.

I'd say that the foundation Steve Jobs left (Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad) was pretty damn important to that success, considering they still have essentially the exact same product lineup.

Same goes for MS, Windows, Office, Xbox did not all come about after Bill Gates' departure.
I'm searching for an easy way of setting up a minimalistic ticketing system
Hello,

I'm currently working for a small company (3-6 people) that has an ambition to grow slightly in a future but not too much. We have arrived to a point where our customers are used to calling us or sending us an email explaining the problem.

After a disussion we arrived to a conclusion that an upgrade of the current system is needed.

Here is my idea of the whole project: - Customer would have an access to the helpdesk from anywhere
- If they would like to send a ticket, some sort of verification to databes would be needed (I was toying with an idea of just checking the users name/telephone/date of birth to allow the ticket to fallthrough eliminating intruders)
- The ticket would arrive to a destination where it would be organized among other tickets (It could be software running on a physical server or even a cloud solution I don't really care)
- There would be a basic way of managing the tickets (the ability to modify the text of the ticket, adding labels to existing tickets, retention of tickets)

The main goal is to organize workflow a bit better so I would like to keep it simple. Basically all I need is a universal system of "seeing the tickets/problems". Our current solution is a tad chaotic.

Scalability would be nice but we have no ambitions of growing past let's say 10 people so any features beyond the solutions to the main problem would only make the overall process of creation and maintaining the software too complicated.

Thanks for any advice on this topic since I really don't know where to start.
Just please keep it minimalistic and simple. Like I said our main goal is a better inner organization of resources and problems.

Have a nice day y'all
I've played enough survival games to know that all you need to do is fashion a pickaxe out of stone and wood, use it to mine some metal, build a forge, and everything just snowballs from there
> but I think we will see much more interesting boards in the future.

That's what I have been hearing since 2012 or so.

Not going to say it won't happen, but I am not holding my breath.
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> The company I work in now has no problem competing with Chinese companies working 996, despite us working 7.5h days and having way more vacation days.

My previous employer rushed to open offices in China because the CEO was convinced that 996 and China’s lower wages would double our productivity while cutting costs in half. They opened an expensive office and got recruiters to hire well credentialed people.

Despite having twice as many people and supposedly working twice as many hours, they struggled to deliver comparable work. We spent a lot of time fixing the work that came out of the 996 office in China.

Don’t get me wrong: There were some talented people in that office who I enjoyed working with. However, the 996 schtick always felt more like a performance art than actual productivity technique. The CEO was ecstatic that he could ask a question in Slack at any time day or night and within minutes they would all respond with many enthusiastically positive Slack responses. Whenever they talked about accomplishing something, they made sure to specifically mention that they accomplished it late at night or on the weekend. They seemed to send more e-mails on Saturday than any other day.

But they weren’t actually doing as much as you’d expect for as many people as they had and as much as they claimed to be working. Their code was notoriously unpolished and was often submitted in “good enough” form as soon as they got it to compile or work enough for demos. We also had strange problems with a lot of employees who were trying to use company resources to do freelance work for other companies, assuming we wouldn’t care or notice.

Unfortunately, their 996 performance worked on the CEO for a while. He was convinced they were our highest performing, most dedicated office. It took several years of buggy software and imminent product launches that never materialized for management to realize that they weren’t actually getting more work out of that office, contrary to their impressions.

The lesson is that you get what you reward: If you try to build an office or company around rewarding people for the appearance of long hours and weekend work, that’s what you’re going to get. If you build the culture around expectations of solid software shipped reasonably fast, people will start figuring out how to accomplish that within their own time.
until it stops being true that the lead scientist at the wiv pioneered work in & published papers about inserting FCSes -- which other than covid do not exist in coronaviruses -- into bat coronaviruses for gain of function research, you will be facing a very uphill battle. there are so many damning claims in that piece that would be convincing on their own that i suspect you haven't even read it.
Are we watching the new way of laundering money? What's wrong with laundering in the traditional way at art auctions?
Just like the Sineloa Cartel! People would die to get their hands in their product.
And during his lifetime, this money is locked away, only accessible by him, taken out of circulation and thereby not adding any worth against ever-growing inequality, supporting economic prosperity or tax-funded investments.

This is just once again a case of philanthropic green-washing of what should be actually simply heavily taxed.
Ask HN: Job contract limiting Outside Activities?
Hello everyone,

I recently got a job offer but it contains the troubling clause that any the employee couldn’t engage in any employment, contract or any other business activity without a written consent from the company.

Having a few projects that I do evenings and weekends it seems like a big overreaching by the company to require disclosure of any business activity in order to get permission from them.

Have you guys come across a clause like this before? Is it standard and I’m overreacting? How have you dealt with it?

Thx
Uh, what? Wasn't Linux about the user's freedom? If people want Adobe and Solidworks (which will definitely behave like Nvidia), let them have it.

It would be a benefit to Linux adoption.
Can you donate your old unused RPI?
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Thanks
> We don’t actually know what string theory is, just that it’s a “framework” that encompasses QFT and much more. We can’t predict anything with it now and don’t see any plausible way of predicting anything in the future,

> but the theory is a successful theory of quantum gravity, unlike our competition.

These can't both be true... Either it's capable of making predictions, or it's not a successful theory.
Apple has how many employees? Cook was involved, but clearly is not the sole force contributing to that shareholder value.
There’s nothing preventing “someone in the 75th percentile of USA income” from signing that pledge, is there?

Also, why would one assume billionaires are better at judging what’s good for society than, say, elected officials or people currently making peanuts working in Amazon warehouses?

One could argue that the bubble billionaires live in is further separated from society at large than that of those people.
If you look at this NFT stuff along with the many other absurd things humanity is busy focusing on, one might deduce that Roger Waters was exactly right with the phrase,

"But on eliminating every other reason

For our sad demise

They logged the only explanation left

This species has amused itself to death"

NFTs are mostly used as a ponzi game. There's not enough physical art or exotic cars or other collectibles for the moneyed folks to trade, so now they have NFTs.

This, plus the stories of groups and corps buying up homes, negative interest rates, etc., all suggest that too much money has been concentrated in too few places (hands, people). And those people seem to be focused primarily on just making money, so they need vehicles like NFTs as another place to play. It's just mind boggling where humanity has ended up.
There are vanishingly few good programmers in China, proportionally. I have a friend that heads a computer science department at a regional university in China. He's an old friend of my wife. The vast majority of graduates from his department have never run a single line of code on an actual computer. The teaching and assessment is 100% theoretical on paper, and this is typical.

Now I'm sure there are colleges and universities where this isn't true, and there are lots of Chinese programmers that do it for fun and love it just as much as any 'westerner'. I've actually met some shit hot C and C++ coders in china professionally and these people absolutely knew their stuff. However the base level education system is woefully unfit for purpose and the vast majority of computer science graduates cannot be assumed to have any practical knowledge of the subject.

This was as of about 5 years ago, so maybe things are changing.
Careful now - why does a cosmetic surgeon in London s exclusive Harley Street earn £1,000,000 while a doctor restoring sight and correcting cleft palate and fistula in Africa earns 5% as much? Do you think their work is worth less?
And it’s only because they’re so big that Apple hasn’t kicked them off the App Store.
The only adverts I actually unskip (using SponsorBlock normally) are those by InternetHistorian.
Is it somehow gonna make the DE not open source?
I have no problem defending billionaires who I think are good people, such as Bill Gates.
This is perfect! I laughed harder the further I progressed. Not even sure if I experienced everything. The attention to detail in this is superb!
How to set up Docker for Varnish HTTP/2 request smuggling
Maybe, maybe not, but I think the idea is that it's hard to say with certainty. Apple is large and complex enough that any number of factors could have lead to that share price increase. My personal opinion is that probably yeah he had a good chunk to do with it. But it's hard to say that with certainty, it's certainly worth discussing and not taking for granted.
It's been 10 years since Jobs died and I'm yet to see anyone even speculate any other name that would've been better than Cook.

Your comment is typical from someone who thinks themselves to be smarter than the whole board. Or the investors that never challenged Tim's management, Or all of Apple's upper management who would love to find a way to take his spot and wouldn't care about exploiting some of Tim's weaknesses to dethrone the king...
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> Blender has managed to overcome this perception by changing its UI and engaging with artists

The UI might be designed well but at least from my experience it is still buggy and freezes [0] regularly. I fully agree that the core functionality absolutely needs to be rock solid.

[0] I was attempting to model a basic room with some wall details. During a few hours that I have spent on it in Blender, I have encountered several unexpected gimbal locks which consumed all CPU resources and from which it was impossible to recover.

I am using Linux and Wayland and Sway. Yes, some might argue that this is a relatively new and less common setup and that I should give Blender some slack here. But still, it was a very off-putting experience. I can fully understand that some users might never want to use Blender again after having to deal with such basic issues.
Were the shares previously nosediving before he took over?
While this level of pay definitely needs to be scrutinized, and I personally am not sure that Mr. Cook is worth quite that, it is actually possible that people could be worth that much.

At the very upper margins of highly effective systems, there are some incredibly amazing people: talented, intelligent, workaholic, literally decades of accumulated experience across sectors, relationships, and enough status to be able to lead such an organization.

Cook is up at 5 doing emails, and has been probably for the last 40 years.

Some of these guys are basically 'High Tech Monks' - they have not much concept of an identity outside the bubble of their careers - that's how much they've dedicated.

Assuming that Apple 'creates value for the world' - and on the whole this is probably true, the CEO of a company is going to have considerable influence, and just a few points one way or the other and it becomes clear.

While there are a large number of people in the world who could eventually be moulded into a guy like Cook ... there are very, very few people with 'all the right stuff' so that they could feasibly do his job really well.

That said, Apple's revenue comes from immense market power, there are other entities who do incredible work on that level but work in systems without the power to extract wealth and so are paid less.

One interesting example would be the White House and their staff. By any regular market standards they are vastly underpaid for the level of work they do, but because it's civic work, then their comp structure is designed from a different philosophy.

On the whole I think he's probably overcomped, but the average CEO in America actually doesn't make that much given the dedication and risk. The pay seems high because it's tilted towards the huge paying people at the helm of bigger companies.
Since he immedially sold all the stock, I assume he has a use for the money. Otherwise keeping the stock would be better.
People seem to be really keen to forget that the CEO is an employee too. Should the shareholders profit exclusively when in effect the CEO is their representative?

The argument isn't that he should be paid less, the real argument is that the general day to day employees should be paid more. The money doesn't come out of the CEOs pocket in a publicly traded org.
Someone working 80 hour weeks at a prestige job for the chance of a seven figure income is different from someone working 80 hour weeks just to put food on the table and support their family.
In my State the lottery funds undergraduate tuition (when I had it it was 100% tuition but now it’s less with another program funding the leftover) and a 4 year old prekindergarten program across the state.
yeah, it seems like if you're ever visiting an old relative, the better option seems to still be to get tested right before, vaccinated or not.
I actually think the take-home pay would be below minimum wage here. 15-30 isn't take-home. In most companies, you'd be down to 7.5-15 after basic overhead (taxes, insurance, etc.). Add material costs, time to spend running web site, doing interviews, rounding up clients, billing, vendor management, etc. and it's hard to see how this makes ends meet.
I could be wrong, but I remember reading that a vaccine is more effective than natural immunity
Yeah, well, boards of directors don't take "chances" like that on 2.5 trillion dollar companies, and when they do, the shareholders start machinating replacements, like Scott Galloway attempted when Jack Dorsey started getting a lot of eye-raising ideas.
It might be something to do with the centuries of colonialism where the natural resources, labour and human lives of entire countries was stolen for the economic benefit of the United Kingdom.
Maybe one for HIV/AIDS? That disease is an eventual death sentence.
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So what's your option if somebody squats your first and only house/apartment you own? Rent another place? Do you still need to pay property taxes in the property you can no longer use?

EDIT: what makes this particularly ridiculous is the timeframe you mentioned: 48 hours. I mean it would be a totally different thing if we were talking about squatting places abandoned for years. Yes you can make an argument about private property etc, but it's a different planet: if somebody squats my only house in which in paying a mortgage, that can easily put me in financial jeopardy. What should I do? Stop paying my mortgage? Squat another house myself?
> wanted to put it to good use

Define "good." It's literally teaching the kid miracles can happen. There are millions better ways to give the kid the money, like setting up a start-up with him, without actually cheating on him (if the conjecture is true, that is).
USA has a navy, just send small destroyer for protection...

US navy started against pirates in 1820...
> How many Tim Cook's do you have lying around

Probably thousands? Just put a job ad for "Apple CEO" out there, set pay at a generous 10 million/year and I'm pretty sure you won't have issues finding qualified candidates.

I really don't think Apple's valuation would change much if Tim Cook is replaced, so I don't see what justifies such a large bonus.
Society had already decided how to use that money when it's members were buying Apple products.
Unbelievable. I hope that you don't talk in the same manner in public - it will not end well for you.
NFTs are one of the most manipulated markets ever.
Just take a look at the massive upvote fraud that is happening on r/NFT

https://upvotetracker.com/blog/beware-of-NFTs-promoted-on-r-...
Is that moral failing related to jealously about how others choose to spend money that isn't theirs?
It is not just hardware problems. Hardware problems I can be understanding about because there are millions of devices out there and I can't reasonably expect all of them to be supported.

No, there are plenty of software problems too. In a recent media PC build I couldn't get sound to work if a browser was launched from Kodi, even after several hours of faffing about with pulse. It wasn't hardware, the sound worked fine in Kodi.

I frequently find myself in scenarios where I want to install software that is not in the repo (every distro has this problem). If there is no PPA or AppImage I will either have to hack up some other distro's package to make an appfolder version or build it from source myself in a VM. That's pretty annoying for something that's trivial in other OSs.

OBS can't seem to remember the various video capture sources between reboots. To be fair to Linux there might be a viable way for it to do so[0], but it isn't using it.

And a ton of other little things I've forgotten because they're so common to my experience of using Linux I don't bother to remember them.

Elsewhere in this thread you can read that other people have the same death-by-a-thousand-cuts thing going on, it's very common.

[0] I imagine using udev supplied device names or something instead of just what's under /dev/video.
“No matter how you look at it”? I question this because I personally am fairly persuaded that, if the CEO is not the only employee at the company, but the CEO is stated to earn “shareholder value under his watch” and then a portion being 0.1%, but another employee, say a manager or a director who also likely “created shareholder value” but earned 0.0000000001% or some other ridiculous fraction I would indeed question what makes the CEO different from the other employees such that they deserve so much more than the other employees that contributed to the shareholder value generation.
I'm from former USSR and I can hardly stand this commie foolishness. Go to some socialist country like Cuba, Venezuela that have eliminated the inequality (like the USSR did before), then talk about 'moral failings of the society'.
The world can end up better off in certain cases of one person controlling huge amounts of resources rather than collectively deciding what to do with them.

But if you think that's always going to be the case, why bother having democracies then? We can return to the tradition of noblesse oblige and let kings and lords take all the products of everyone else's labor and just hope that they'll feel sufficiently obligated to be kind and charitable to the rest of us. There are plenty of people who believe this, so you won't be alone, and I'm sure others will argue we're better off now that the men being rewarded by being allowed to own everything got there by being good at product design and regulatory capture rather than past centuries when they were good at raising armies and taking land from other people.
Password generator app in elementaryOS uses GLib.Random (PRNG)
If we were to live in a world where we are measured by our productivity, we would ALL be treated like the replaceable cogs from the Chinese factory.
Or people with way to much ETH/BTC from the starting days. You would not buy a NFT for so much if it was your half portfolio.
Lol, you think the money is any less locked in Apple’s coffers?

At least there is a chance it goes somewhere good now.
can't wait until i see kubernetes running on risc-v in a job description
From what I could decipher, sarcasm.
That’s not really relevant. The relevant reality is that he has a contract that awards him X if he achieves Y. He achieved Y so he gets X. Whether it’s justified is a matter for the shareholders and the board.
Digital doesn't automatically mean that it's not geographically bound. If the servers that store it, banks that manage the accounts, state that issues the currency, and businesses that accept the currency are all geographically bound, digital currency is geographically bound. Crypto is less geographically bound by nature, because it's a distributed ledger. And the more successful crypto ledgers are globally distributed and this not really geographically bound.
Gotta prime the pump
I can imagine investing in megaproejcts or foundations that nobody else seems to be investing in for the good of humanity or a cause, such as space travel.

Otherwise, 750 million dollars is probably more than what anybody needs.

It reminded me of SpaceX almost dying in the early days because even Elon Musk is not made out of unlimited money.
it is not about being 160K more productive. It is about supply and demand (of talent). Try finding even 5 Tim Cooks, not 160K. He is hired by Apple’s shareholders, what would happen to share price if he leaves?
Not really, apps that distribute content like that have are allowed to take payment outside the app, I’m pretty sure it applies to anyone. No doubt the exception was introduced because of Amazon and Netflix, but i think it applies to anyone.