skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, if I ever start a company, mandatory vacation will be a thing. If you don't use up your 4 weeks of vacation before Thanksgiving, don't come to work for the rest of the year. Don't worry, there will still be work when you get back.

Another thing I like are company holidays. When nobody is working, there is no email / code reviews / Slack to miss. That's a real vacation!
Do white supremists float?

Not sure why you claim witches aren't real. I know plenty of witches. While they may not be green skinned and fly on broomsticks that melt in water, there are plenty of people that call themselves witches nevermind whatever characture you have in mind.
A misdemeanor can still get up to 6 to 12 months in jail depending on if it is a gross misdemeanor or an aggravated misdemeanor, so I’m not sure I buy the theory that the downgrade from felony in 2014 is why these shoplifters are not prosecuted.
He did mention that's it's frustrating that officers put in charge of IT work have no IT experience.

That's not true for many other specialties in the military, where the officers will have extensive experience in the area they are leading.

Doesn't solve anything by itself, but it would help.
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Haha great! You'll be glad you got into it. You can do a lot with a little effort. This project began as a 100-line tampermonkey script.

There are a surprising number of things you can work on that nobody else is doing, or that could be improved with your unique point of view. Of course you need to spend some time building your skills, but the tools are improving which makes it easier to build useful things. It can be hard to get your ideas heard while working for someone else, and having a side project can let you explore your creative side. My take on "fighting the powers" is we are all susceptible to bias, greed, etc, and we can put our faith in open systems that allow us to see when these human factors have run amuck.
> The decision not to recommend the vaccine to all healthy children was based on concern over an extremely rare side effect of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines which causes heart inflammation, and can lead to palpitations and chest pain.

Happened to a 27-year-old man in Richmond, B.C., Canada just a month ago.

https://www.richmond-news.com/coronavirus-covid-19-local-new...

> "“I had to get hooked up to an IV and they had to give me oxygen.”

> Li was eventually told he was one of the rare cases where male adolescents and young adults are diagnosed with pericarditis or myocarditis after their second vaccine.
Sorry, I don't agree. I don't think cannabis is just a drug for having fun. I'm open to scientific studies that show that car accidents increase but your experience is yours and mine is mine.

The people who have a problem with it aren't going to be able to stop legalization.

You shouldn't do it, I agree.
That’s how it works online. You may be trusted by people you know in person, but here you’re just another random stranger, and we don’t know where you live anyway. Don’t take it personally.

Creating trusted data is a social process that many forums aren’t designed to facilitate.
I love her attitude, and I think mine's similar. Main difference being that I usually enjoy the learning experience; don't find it frustrating. I kinda love that beginner feeling and knowing there's lots to explore. Even if I end up disliking what I'm trying, I usually manage to find things I learned from it; so it's still good!

Edit: To anyone wondering about the comments, I initially assumed the author was a guy! My deepest apologies to the author! I thought the commenter "Lucas ..." was the Author's name... I'm so dum; sorry!
High five!

The question is, how are we going to get the corporations to pair a honest salary? Because I don't think they are going to do so by themselves. Just think of how much they are willing to spend on lobbying against a minimum wage of $15/h.
Oh, I thought "Science" was supposed to have a single voice? Sure these UK scientists must be anti-vaxxers for making a rational risk benefit decision.

> concern over an extremely rare side effect of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines which causes heart inflammation, and can lead to palpitations and chest pain.

"Extremely" rare? That's hard to know, most side effects from the vaccines are clearly under-reported (most people who have pain, fever, etc... never call their doctor to let them know) and you can see that from the difference in reportings between industrialized countries. We are talking about huge differences (if I remember correctly up to 5x times between countries on the same vaccine brand).
Not really? Cookie names/values are usually inscrutable to anyone who hasn't worked on the site in question, and the idea that a non-developer would need to selectively delete individual cookies to work around a bug in a site is just silly (those users are much better served by simply clearing all of that site's cookies and logging in again).

(And when the need truly does arise, there's a perfectly-good tool for that which is no harder to find than the sub-menu being deprecated.)
Looks cool, too bad it’s from a company that’s untouchable.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/whistleblower-ubiquiti-b...
What is the mac nature?
> The code that runs Google itself is not publicly reviewed. There are no commit messages, no attribution and no version history. How can a Googler "think like an owner" when they're being told to follow inflexible rules even when they're so clearly against the company's best interest?

I would not be surprised. At one point, I interviewed with an adtech company where the people I interviewed with bragged about how only the founder-CEO knew the key part of the code and nothing got deployed without him.

Presumably, there is an inner cabal who has some access to something.

I doubt the search code started with version control. Then, when it became key to success, it was viewed as a risk.

I have zero inside knowledge, but I had theorized as much over the years. It is very likely my guesses are wrong.
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It's hard to turn off a reflex to something you normally consider an offensive gesture. That kind of unconscious thought works faster than the "…oh, yeah, nevermind" thought.

See also: how many times I've unconsciously started pumping my own gas when I drive through Oregon even though I "know" not to.
I hope someone is maintaining a list of these companies that do stunts like this in reaction to politics. Because I don’t want to be a customer of theirs ever, whether I agree or disagree with what they support. It shows they value being part of the political culture war over providing a good service to any customer.
Again I'm sorry but how often does that happen and how long does it take to verify your licenses? It just seems like a small price to pay for using someone else's work.
Probably my 10th account in the past year or so; the others got flagged for bringing up points that this article brings up. Maybe not in such a nice way, but still.

The rampant suppression of "wrongthink" on HN is just utterly fucking baffling. I don't know what to say beyond that, but I've lost respect for any kind of serious discussion on HN.

Go open up the Donald Trump Is Now President thread and see the emotional outpouring on this platform. I sincerely wish most non-tech subjects should be forbidden - especially those that incite emotional outrage (take that shit to reddit).
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Except that tiny minority includes nearly all developers, the people that make things to put ads on.

To extend your analogy, it's not Anheuser-Busch pissing off the brewers. It's Anheuser-Bush pissing off all the hops farmers.

Google's in the same position Microsoft was in the 00s. They don't make most of the stuff people actually want to use. You piss off the people making the stuff, eventually they start making stuff elsewhere.
No. This gentleman is not, and was not, a white supremacist:
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-ove...

He didn't lose his job because of 4chan, but because of ostensibly well-intentioned midwits who believe "4chan succeeded in transforming a symbol" and "fake things can be real". Truly, this type of rationalization is the Bell Curve meme in action.

He was fired because of the reaction -- engineered by 4chan -- of over-intellectualizing social justice nabobs who attend rallies and protests. You guys were literally told the punchline of the joke and still walked right into it.
I was really confused for a little while, because everything was in Korean. It seems that if you enable JS for `notegarden.web.app`, then the content in English.

Maybe consider looking at the Accept-Language header for a default in this case
Just stop trying to encroach on my privacy. I don’t care whether it is done by a government or an international company with a capitalization of over two and half trillion dollars.
I'm skeptical that anyone wants to de-standardize spelling. Maybe its like the abortion debate. There isn't a pro-abortion side except in the minds of the "pro-life" people. Descriptivists by definition study/report how language is used rather than agitate for any changes so
if such people do exist they would be a different kind of prescriptivist.
> I don't really buy that anybody working inside RSA was absolutely convinced that Dual EC was a backdoor. I sort of don't buy that anyone was really even seriously paying attention.

I guess the second part is a fair point, but for anyone who was paying attention - who read the spec and knew enough about cryptography to understand it - there was no question; Dual EC was clearly, obviously a backdoor[0].

0: With perhaps the remote possibility of being "not a backdoor" (AKA, a backdoor that NSA (provably?) didn't have keys to) so they could later say "see, you thought Dual EC was a backdoor but it wasn't; clearly people shouldn't believe you when you say we put a backdoor in $LESS_OBVIOUSLY_BACKDOORED_THING".
High adaptability means career survival? You don’t say.

Front end development has matured around the reactive pattern so of course switching between react and vue is no real challenge. But the maturity of a domain is the commoditization of the domain. So I will surely be looking out for what’s next.
There’s zero incentive for anyone to do so. Best case scenario they get a pat on the back. Worst case scenario they get killed or permanently injured/disabled. There’s no reason to put your life on the line for a corporation that will put nothing on the line for you.
1. should be trivial to avoid, by opening dev tools in a new window

but 2. I have no idea, except the browser vendors would add a "stealth dev mode"
You measure the "lead" of a chain by the amount of work it proves, not by the number of blocks or speed of blocks. If you based the lead solely on block number then an attacker's chain could manipulate the difficulty adjustment to make the attack easier.

> Can't I approximate that with 1) the lead that my current chain has over the next competing chain

An attacker could keep their chain secret until the attack is sprung. You cannot know how far ahead or behind you are relative to a secret chain. What you know is the amount of work an attacker would have to do, by summing the work proved by all the blocks above and including yours. Once that value gets high enough, you can be pretty confident that nobody is going to rewrite your transaction. The probability that you would have to calculate is the probability that an attacker who has that much compute exists.
No they're not. That feature exists on chrome://settings/content/all, which the article states they're keeping (as it's preferred over the separate menu being removed).
I’ve been suffering from chronic fatigue which is different but I wonder if there are similarities.

To adjust I have dropped many responsibilities at work, halved my hours to 19 and practice pacing I.e scheduled rest, consistent level of activity day to day.

This has helped a lot.

While not everyone can go part time I wonder if scheduled breaks of even 5 minutes each hour (with no exercise, screen time or chat) would be beneficial to most people.

The other side I feel is companies keep inventing initiatives, kpis, okrs, goals and pushing that down the chain. Dumping more and more onto people and companies evolve from “cool” to “overly bureaucratic” over time.

The most stress is when you need to do X to get the job done but !X to meet some other master, maybe a beloved process. (Looking at you, scrum!)

It’s more stressful if when you try to negotiate out of this you are met with dogma. I tend to leave such work but I’ve seen it enough that it’s a pattern common between companies.

Apparently many companies think they have mastered creative process and people management and everyone else is wrong ;-).
Would be interesting if someone who knows can explain. I'm interpreting it as there is a core/trusted team working on search that uses version control and does code reviews, but these are not visible to everyone else in the company.
Given the constant battle against SEO, with 140k employees it makes sense that they would try to delay such knowledge from leaking. Odd that it sounds like the code itself is visible though.
> One button is better than two, for people who don’t know how to use two.

It's like the three seashells. They don't know how to use them.
"Burnout is caused by working hard at something for a long time and not having it pay off."

I agree but would add "lack of hope" to that. I have no hope that my job/career will get better.
> of course he'd see phantom CRTs lurking behind every shadow

When it comes to teaching children Not My Idea, definitely seems to be more to the concern than just shadows:

The fallacy of ‘whiteness’ https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/08/08/opinion/fallacy-white...

> According to recent reports, public and private elementary schools across the United States have used, as part of racial equity education, an illustrated children’s book called “Not My Idea,” in which a devil with a pointy tail offers the young reader a “contract binding you to whiteness.” The contract promises “stolen land,” “stolen riches,” and “special favors”; in exchange, whiteness gets “your soul” and power over “the lives of your friends, neighbors, loved ones, and all fellow humans of COLOR.”
It seems weird to put a paywall in front of a website that makes money from affiliate links.

While they’ll get revenue from the subscriptions, every reader that doesn’t subscribe and stops reading their articles is now lost affiliate revenue.

Is affiliate revenue that low that this trade off is worth it?
So cool! How did I miss this?! I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now. Github has been coming out some really great features but sometimes you have no idea they are even available.
Are you using CloudSync's encryption feature? That's meant more for using Dropbox (or whatever) as the mirror and giving it encrypted files which your NAS nodes will transparently decrypt, like Synology's version of Boxcryptor.

To back up data from Dropbox, I'd create an encrypted Shared Folder on the NAS, turn off CloudSync encryption, and sync into the folder with the sync direction set to pull-only. That gives you a mirror with local file system-level encryption (using ecryptfs; buyer beware) and keeps Dropbox as your source of truth.

There may be a different way to do it with DSM 7, but I've only tried this on 6.
Obsession with the latest frameworks and the proclivity to refer to someone as an "X developer" for some X ∈ {popular frameworks} is a sign of ignorance/immaturity, both for developers and hiring managers.

Those with a solid understanding of the underlying principles (both computer science theory and, in the case of front-end development, the core web standards) are the best positioned to make the most impactful contributions.

Focus on mastering stuff that doesn't change, or changes slowly. Otherwise what you learn will be irrelevant five years from now.
Have a similar story: was working in a very toxic team and wanted to get out of it. They had openings in other teams but for new hires. I've applied anyway on one of those to either get in one or at least talk to somebody (my supervisor and his supervisors didn't want to talk to me at all). We'll I almost got fired. Jumped ship on first opportunity after that and never looked back.
Wired has some videos on Youtube interviewing a former spy chief. In it she said one of the things that can give you away as a spy is the way you count with you fingers.
I was agreeing with your comment until I looked at the OP's reply, apparently the robber literally requested a single dollar. Super weird.
I disagree. C is also an abstraction of reality over assembly, assembly is an abstraction over machine code, which abstracts microcode, which abstracts over logic gates, and there are both deeper and adjacent abstractions as well. Underlying it all are different mathematical abstractions from karnaugh maps to quantum physics.

A good developer will IMO select an abstraction that best matches their goals. If you’re writing a device driver then the abstraction might be assembly language. If you’re writing business logic it might be PL/pgSQL. But regardless of which abstraction you choose, you’re hiding something from someone.
>I'm belittling the fact that they are coming to this discussion with a position of 'Linux is bad because I don't like it for Reasons™ and if you disagree with that you're just another hater I don't have to explain myself to'.

Except they did explain[0] themselves. Granted their arguments were unpersuasive (at least to me), but claiming that they're not at least attempting to justify their assertions is flat wrong.

>[0] Sidenote: I've never seen the term "GP" before - clearly you're referencing u/AnIdiotOnTheNet in some fashion similar to "OP" but would be curious to know what exactly that means.

"AnIdiotOnTheNet" was spot on in their reply about this[1] to you. I guess using "grand" for previous up-levels of comments isn't as pervasive as I thought. Apologies for any confusion.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28407598

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28410014
you are ommiting one of the main points - facial recognition being used to check you at any given time. This is pretty dystopian wouldn't you say? all for a miniscule number of cases.
"plenty of blame and zero recognition"

Does the amount of blame and recognition vary with the amount of effort you put in? I've seen situations like this, and seen people feel burnt out when:

1. However hard they work, they do not get blamed less or recognized more, or even

2. They are blamed more than people who contribute approximately zero. Because those people doing nothing have no output, hence nothing to be blamed for.
It's an operation that still need their bills paid. It's created and run by the guy that created firefox and javascript, I'd rather trust him than a publicly traded advertising company that generates 80% of its revenue by harvesting user data and influencing search results.
It's also a big part of the hype cycle that is an actual industry with Patreon etc now.

The first rule you should remember when reading HN is the real world is not HN.
I'm not really arguing in favor of it... the point was we shouldn't just do something permanently because it reduces risk and it's possible. It's absolutely possible to adapt everyone into long term lockdowns, and I believe parts of Australia are in this right now, but we can clearly see that it is a bad idea.

> But I keep seeing mask use being presented as some great hardship, that can only be born briefly (if at all) and I just don't see it.

In my opinion, it's not being done consistently in a way that makes sense. It's at best a lazy rule to make everyone behave the same way. Not everyone is spreading the virus, so it follows not everyone should wear one, yet there are zero attempts at factoring this in to mandates. It's everyone regardless of health.

Again, at best it's a lazy implementation that enables authorities to do blanket power grabs instead of creative solutions that work not just for the vulnerable but also the majority of people who are already protected in some way.
Googlers don't want bid on ICE contract that would surveil undocumented workers
Or waved your finger to say no, or as a real French just shout through 'patron ya marée basse, r'mets voir les p'tites soeurs !'. Thumbs up would work too, maybe both thumbs up, once you're sure the guy understood you wanted two pint...

We may use the OK sign to signify 'au poil' (very fine) most often with pinched lips (mock Italian face).
The franchise owners are the ones who primarily get hurt from not being able to move product, not corporate. As long as being a franchise owner is still perceived as a viable way to make a living and the kickbacms they get from the arrangement outweigh their percentage of lost sales volume, what does corporate care?
I suspect it grew out of electrical engineering. Machines/parts could only return errors as integers, so you would expect people to open up the documents and read that error code 1021 meant that the unit had caught fire.

Software just kept the tradition of error codes, since that meant you could also sell that juicy documentation (localized into whatever language you wanted) to the user as well. I suspect it also a localization issue because OracleDB would never return the table/column in the error message, so as to be easier to translate.
For my own frontend stuff (ie when I get to choose), I've been using Clojurescript and re-frame for about 6 years now. Everything else, I've ignored. I'm much happier this way.

That's not to say that I haven't learned at least some of the newer developments at least in react-land, for interop purposes I know about hooks and such, but I've mostly been able to avoid it and certainly don't have to care about it most of the time.

As for work, I just picked up whatever the team I joined dictated each time I changed teams. It was fine.