skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguably, this is the model of CGI, which is about a decade older. Every time you hit a page on a CGI-powered service, it starts up a new process that runs your script. So you just edit a shell/Perl/PHP/Python/etc. file in place (or edit it locally, and FTP/SCP/etc. it to the remote host) and immediately on the next page load you see the impact of your change.

It was kind of the original "serverless" - you'd often host it on a shared (multitenant) server with other users, with someone operating the web server for you and providing you with storage space. And it was a great development experience for small sites, especially for people new to web programming, and I miss it a lot.

For performance reasons people built "FastCGI" where you have a long-running process that handles multiple requests, and for software engineering scaling reasons people moved away from the model of one file on disk per URL (and URLs mostly mapping to file paths on disk), and then eventually we got the setup we have now.
Great cyberpunk aesthetic!

http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/sinclair-ql/3347
But the "joke" only works if parent had presented the solution as something that shouldn't be difficult or that was the expectation. If the expectation is that changing this thing is difficult, and parent gave solutions that are indeed difficult, how does pointing out that it is actually difficult add up to humor?
>You inform the company (through your lawyer) that their options are a settlement with you in exchange for keeping quiet, or public airing of dirty laundry

That sounds like blackmail/extortion. I'm not a lawyer, but the first amendment should protect you pretty well from merely making truthful accusations, but once you threaten money in exchange for not making them it could be construed as a very serious crime.
I also had female managers who took 3-4 months of maternity leave. It wasn't a big deal.

It wasn't a big deal because it's the law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_and_Medical_Leave_Act_o...
I've never touched a gun, but as far as a know hunting weapons are not optimal for self defense.

When you hunt a deer you try to hit from far away and if you miss, well, you'll find another.

When someone is trying to harm you (even with a knife), you want to shoot multiple times and as fast as possible. If you shoot once and miss, by the time you manually reload, the attacker can get to you. If you do hit, but with a small caliber, that doesn't have stopping power. You might seriously injure the attacker, but he'll also injure/kill you.
My exact impression too. The article set off some alarm bells in me - it feels tad too lightweight on actual evidence of misconduct, and too rich repetitively making the same emotional points. Could be explained entirely by the author writing it in justifiable anger. Or it could be because they're trying to blow a few situations out of proportion.

I've seen plenty of posts like this landing on HN over the years, and it's not always a given the accused party is in the wrong. While my first instinct is obviously to believe the author, I'm withholding judgement until more details are clear.

EDIT:

I keep in mind an old HN drama about AirBnB, I'll try to look up details and edit them in - but what I remember to this day is, there was an angry post vilifying AirBnB, the commenters believed it fully and became very angry. As I recall, pg himself jumped in to defend AirBnB, only to be booed out. I also recall being convinced the company is strongly in the wrong. Then it turned out the situation was entirely opposite, AirBnB was in the right. I felt really stupid for jumping the gun, not waiting for full story to come out.

(And then, of course, AirBnB turned out to be a socially destructive company, so I don't like them anyway - but for different, and better thought out reasons.)

EDIT2: The AirBnB story I refer to happened in 2011, when a blogger described an extremely bad experience with AirBnB, causing one hell of a shitstorm in general startup sphere (with plenty of big names and news outlets getting involved). There was way too much written about this on HN for me to find what was the resolution now - skimming quickly I'm no longer sure which side was proven to be guilty of what. But I do recall the feeling of first being so sure in outrage, and then ashamed after discovering the story is way more complicated than what it seemed at first.
> All these things might be inconvenient, and amusing for some of your friends. But you'll survive it.

The entire point of such self-hosting is to achieve a similar level of convenience provided by the megacorps' products without them being able to profit off of your usage of them. People who will consider 'not tracking location' and 'only talking to people face to face' aren't the ones considering self-hosting their location data (unless their only reason for doing so was the megacorps' profit model).
> a way to feel masculine, or to feel potent

This smacks of the modern left's derision for self defense tools. It's a nicer way of saying someone has a gun to compensate for their genital insecurities. Guns are largely a tool to the people purchasing them. They are also mechanical objects which give pleasure to people who appreciate craftsmanship.

I generally agree with your post, but I think it would be better without that biased(intentional or not) take.

For what it's worth, marginalized groups have often armed themselves when they feel the state is unwilling or unable to protect them.
Your non-proffesional bulk purchases of wood and/or logging equipment, as well as subsequent reduction of general consumer goods consumption has registered you as a 'potential kaczynski shack owner'.
I can't dislike you jumping to conclusions, so I'll just leave this sarcastic comment.
I think the option you're thinking of refers to whether or not to allow Apple access to your data for training purposes, not the normal use of the feature.
That's the most probable scenario and I wouldn't be surprised that in the end they'll lower the requirements for 11 even more. Back then, the marketing tactic of "hurry up, limited-time offer only" was in the use for this free Windows 10 upgrade but people were still able to get the upgrade after the deadline; then, some used the obscure way of getting the upgrade by special offer for people with accessibility issues.

> Choice doesn't matter to these mega corps

Choice doesn't matter and it's an OK policy to annoy user periodically with options, suggestions, offers, up until it gives up and agrees for something it didn't want in first place but wants to get rid of the annoying notifications or whatever form this harassment takes. The permanent "No, thank you, I'm not interested" doesn't exist in corporate world too - there's only place for "Fine but we will ask you again and again", sadly.
Another recent ex-Atlassian here (I left 4 months ago after working there for 5 years), and I'll +1 this. Was a really solid company. I took multiple 3+ week vacations over my 5 years, and one 3 month vacation. In addition it felt like the company actually cared about me. I had the best work life balance of any company I've worked for at Atlassian.

Some other things about this article stood out to me though. The author brings up: "Interesting fact 1: Atlassian is the only company that has words "shit" and "fuck" in their core values." without the context here. These values are "Don't fuck the customer" and "Open company, no bullshit". It seems strange the author is calling out the language of values I actually feel were pretty decent. If anything this is just a reflection of word choices of Australian vs American cultures. It feels like the author is just trying to pull every gotchya out there due to a bad experience with a manager.
The use of that software as a defeat device surely was a surprise to everyone when it came out years later...
Excellent examples that will undoubtedly be shushed away.
I did this with QEMU, the performance is pretty fantastic under Linux.
>They fight against any reasonable change that isn't purely for show

Like what?
https://www.longtermtrends.net/market-cap-to-gdp-the-buffett...
They could get some economy out of these once high flyers that still have a user base by getting rid of most of their payroll and having management work across the various properties. It’s a graveyard but I’d assume they are structured such that they can reduce costs dramatically and suck these properties dry for a bit of profit.
Sure, easy for a bystander to make this assessment.
Unfettered annotation/commenting/etc is great ... in theory

But all of those bits of stuff need to be stored somewhere

If the underlying sites hosting what's being marked-up won't do it, then the third-party (like Genius) has to stick around
Whilst my first programs was on the acorn atom, Zx80 and zx81

the zx spectrum hold a special place in my memory because the manual was fantasic - I learnt almost everything from it.

and then progressed on to typing the monterous (using the aweful rubber keys) blocks of programs from magazines - THEN I learnt how to debug and rewrite the games that I'd just typed in from the magazines, because they never worked first time.

but it felt like I was living in the future

Thanks Clive - RIP
That's not the only weak link in that strategy. On the top of my head, patterns come to mind. The date/times you do - whatever questionable activity - you're doing, the way of doing it(say, your unique words, posting style, etc) all create a unique fingerprint of you. All they have to do is match it with your logged in(Google,MS,etc) data habits.

I guess the best way to be anonymous is to be schizophrenic.
It's obvious what the implication is, yes. It's also not the charitable interpretation that the HN guidelines suggest. Especially when using one's five-month-old account to talk smack to people one has never met, let alone know where they work.
A lot of people lean on grandparents or spouses for kids. But to be honest, we all worked from home so it wasn't a big deal. It was common to see kids or babies in Zoom calls.
A 5GB data plan is very limited when compared to an unlimited one.
It’s lashing out. Sour grapes. Procrastination. The perception of doing something to address a problem but the problem is: the action isn’t the correct one, these words are not directed at the right people.

This should have been a letter from his lawyer to his ex-employer, probably HR.
It would be a matter of numbers anyway about which they optimize for. A/B testing is already in place and doesn't care about where it comes from, just which one does better.
If you've never signed an NDA that prevents you from speaking about the parties involved in another NDA you haven't lived!
A wonderful book that covers the history of the 2nd amendment along with its modern interpretations is The Second Amendment Primer: https://www.amazon.com/Second-Amendment-Primer-Authorities-C.... It has useful and interesting information regardless of where you stand.
The best scenario for PTO is when they say "You have X weeks of garante PTO per year. If you need more time off for whatever reason that is between you and your manager."
I wonder if Scandinavia could be due to 1/100 of a crown being even more ridiculously small than a penny. Wikipedia tells me that only Denmark still has sub-krone coins, and that's 50 ore.

When I was in the (US) military, none of the vendors like the base exchange or on-base bars or restaurants overseas used coins smaller than a nickel (5 cents). It just wasn't worth shipping pennies overseas. The one exception was the post office. This was ~2005, so people still used cash.
I understand that your post is probably supposed to be very provocative but I hope you realize that it's simply stereotypes your referring too.

Three of the six largest parties are currently campaigning for a general speed limit[1].

And regarding beer it's obviously personal taste - I'm german and prefer a polish beer brands to most german brands and theres a danish one I'm particularly fond of too.

[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/btw21/tempolimit-151.html
Related thing from the past.. Gmail once had a bug(?) where if you sent any email containing a URL with the domain starting "0x", it would go straight to spam. I imagine it was a rule hard coded to block the use of hexadecimal long IP URLs, but it also picked regular domains starting 0x. It was fixed a few years ago.
> The second is a news article, referencing the Israeli study. It is not "a study". It is not new information.

These second link references a few studies including this one from the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037e2.htm?s_cid=mm...

> Again, this claim is an outlier.

When there are several independent studies showing the same thing, they are no longer outliers.

> Also, the two studies that vex you so -- both the Israeli and the Mayo clinic study -- occurred within six months of their vaccination programs.

Here is another study published in nejm about the affects of boosters in Israel in August: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2114255

> Essentially, you're projecting doom

Ok let me be clear here. I am not intending to project doom, what I am trying to project is that there is real data which shows boosters are beneficial.

Of course the vaccines even without boosters are clearly extremely effective. Even as breakthrough cases increase because of waning immunity, the prognosis for someone fully vaccinated is very different compared to someone who is unvaccinated.

The main thing I disagree with you with, and would use your argument against you, is that there clearly is real data showing waning effectiveness and the benefit of boosters. The main argument for not recommending them is that the vaccines would be better off for people that have not been vaccinated in the first place. Well no shit, but if that population is refusing to take them then the point is moot.
I'm sorry that your wife is fighting cancer. It's terrible and i wish you overcome it together.

But other than that i don't get the article. You are a software engineer in US. You are part of the elite, you have top salary, you will probably never have to worry about job security and money. You can make decent savings. You have powers to build your own business. Something a few billions other people don't have. Yet you are crying like a baby that you maybe got a bit screwed. Take it as a lesson for your next interviews and employments with other big and rich technology companies. It's not like you spent your whole life there.
What are their complaints with "the way things are going in the US?"
"structural racism" is the neutral scientific term.
It was also the first for me. It was expensive for my family to have but my school buddy had it and naturally we spent all our free time in their house typing programs from the large book. Fun times. RIP.
My wife had a heart attack not long after giving birth to my second child. My parental leave was planned for a few weeks later. When I got the call, I closed my laptop walked out of a meeting and went to the hospital. I didn't come back to Atlassian until my life was sorted out many months later.

They handled everything for me to make it easier.

I'll add that they pay 100% of my health plan and the birth of my kids cost less than the 3 whole foods bag I bought on the way home.
They knew Oxycontin was addictive and claimed that it wasn't. They knew the deadly impact their drug was having on large groups of people, and yet did nothing to mitigate the impact.

These are very serious crimes. Indeed, even if they were not, harming society in this way should be criminalized.

I say this despite being pro-legalization. The issue isn't the drug itself, it's the lying, the undermining use of institutions like your family doctor, the FDA, to push this drug as if it were harmless, and to sit back and watch it take its toll, rolling in dough. It hurts.
If the guy in this story had a google free phone he presumably wouldn't have been caught in the net. I don't think cell tower location tracking is accurate enough that the cops would have used it in this case. For privacy, don't use google (or apple). For anonymity, leave your phone at home.
It's the same as the solution to monopolies in any industry. Government regulation and intervention.
> I also had female managers who took 3-4 months of maternity leave.

Is that supposed to sound like a lot? Not all commenters are from the US! Here in the UK, AIUI, it fairly recently shifted from 12mo maternity (paternity I think was employers' discretion entirely?) leave to 12mo split between parents as they see fit, and not necessarily concurrently or at birth, etc.
And they would not want to do that on a Librem phone. Librem phone is for the tiny subset of people who want a computer with a free BIOS as well as a fully-free Linux distro like PureOS.
Covid case numbers react app
I ask potential candidates what the best project they ever worked on was. I explain that I'm going to use it as a way of gauging technical aptitude so please answer appropriately. Once they get started, I ask questions that make sense based on what the candidate says. In most cases you can glean enough of what a candidate can do by the depth and breadth of their answers. You can get a sense of how passionate they are, how detail oriented. You can ask about the problems they encountered, how they handled them, what they would do differently. What kind of notes did you take? What kind of documentation did you leave, etc.
The US Supreme Court held "The Amendment's prefatory clause announces a purpose, but does not limit or expand the scope of the second part, the operative clause. The operative clause's text and history demonstrate that it connotes an individual right to keep and bear arms."[1]

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZO.html
try linux mint .. or as already stated Ubuntu .. both are fantastic daily drivers IMO.
What a weird perspective this is. There is a man whose wife is dying. He needs support from his employer because that's what's paying the bills for the food, shelter, and medical bills that pile up while he's taking care of her. He's put in all his time and effort into helping the company succeed, now he's asking for some leeway when shit hit the fan for him.

It's so pedantic to then point to these random rules, which are specifically designed to screw the employee over, and then say 'welp, those are the rules, too bad'. It also goes against the company mantra, of putting your health before the company (as he states in the article).

The guy in the article even stated:

> - No, it's not even a question, because you won't be using it as a vacation, right? Technically you won't be on PTO, so take a medical leave.

> It sounds very touching, but I didn't recognize the trick here. They wanted me to use my medical leave, because they didn't want to pay for the PTO I earned.

The point here is that the company didn't want to pay the guy for his hard-earned PTO. They pulled out all the stops to avoid paying him. They instead wanted to give him unpaid medical time off. Then they said they couldn't approve PTO because they didn't have enough office coverage, yet his boss took a month off.

So why can't he use his PTO? That's his money, his wife is dying, and his mental and physical health is at an all time low. Let him use his damn PTO.
Using Linux is quite easier these days than ever before.
About the usability: One command can update your system as well as all the apps installed. No hassle of shutting down your pc after an update. Limitless comfigurations to make the system your own.
I would suggest using a community based distro, ones like Debian, Linux Mint, Fedora, Arch (Slightly hard), KDE Neon, etc.
There's a very large community and also well written documentation to support you if you get stuck. Also, help is available most of the time in the terminal itself, no need to go anywhere.
There's also the feeling of freedom and that an OS doesn't track you and staying out of the way to give you the most fluid experience acocording to whatever suites you.
Even as a Commodore person who's never really owned a Sinclair computer, it can't be underestimated what an impact Sir Clive had on early home computing.

He truly showed that affordable computing is possible and in my mind also inspired the large home computer "cottage industry" in the UK.

Kudos and may you long be remembered.
Pretty much all retail does this, and the general population generally like it. JCPenney tried going to "everyday low prices" once and it failed miserably. Now, they employ a system of discounts, discounts on discounts, rewards, credits, etc that essentially means you have no idea how much anything in their store will cost you. But, their customer's tend to like it that way.
self-hosted is a blessing and a curse. Many people like and benefit from it, but also many will not use since they would need a host and setting things up. With Discord you just click a couple buttons
I think not knowing is a better framework from which to work with to work out a neutral way to address misdeeds. We should not take sides and should be impartial when making these decisions (goose/gander).
They have the power to disable your OS remotely for any reason. I think it's safe to say that ship has sailed.
So let's say I earn 4 weeks per year. Don't take any vacation year 1 starting Jan 1. Still not taking vacation year 2. On July 1, I have 6 weeks in total. At this point, assuming a 1.5x accrual cap, I stop accumulating until I take some time off, at which point I start accruing again up to the same 6 week limit. (So no new vacation time is earned until you get below the 6 week cap. There's really no relation to the calendar year.)

I believe some places pay out unused while still employed but I've never seen this.
There was a sense of wonder and awe around those machines that is no where to be found these days, even though we have so much power computational power.

Indeed. After I saw this sad news and your comment, I was reminded of an earlier HN comment¹ I had written about the joy I experienced as a young child learning to program on a ZX81 and my regret that my children’s generation are not growing up with the same opportunities. I’m not sure there is any analogous device I could give my kids when they reach the same age any more. Any device they do eventually get when they’re older seems more likely to have preinstalled social media apps and regular security updates than a preinstalled programming environment and a line in the manual reassuring you that nothing you type will break your computer. Something certainly has been lost.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21119236
> homogeneity of thought

I'm surprised Reddit's weird racially segregated subs don't get more attention.
Server-side rendering and deferred static generation in Gatsby 4
I seem to remember that Youtube also has "keep playing audio when you turn the screen off" as a premium feature for their subscription?
Well, there was no Bill of Rights in the Soviet Union... or China... or Saudi Arabia. And that Bill of Rights provides a legal basis for opposition to an American government that clearly envies Chinese and Saudi state control systems.

Now my point is simply that technology has not allowed repressed people in Saudi Arabia or China to defeat or evade state surveillance technology, has it? Now, I have no doubt the US government would love to have that kind of power - and the only thing stopping it from reaching out and taking that power is the legal system.

Of course, blatant violation of the legal system by the state is possible. So is violent armed resistance and civil war. But, I think a government that tried to toss the Bill of Rights would be a government with no legitimacy. See Declaration of Independence.