skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. It read more like "Turing is overrated, you should credit these people instead."
The unlimited PTO thing? Is it true that Atlassian calls it unlimited but there is no way to even get a European standard 5 weeks a year?
I'll accept that what the author posted is the truth. Atlassian did not give him what he wanted or needed. And now this battle is public, he will never get anything else from them. The proverbial glove has been thrown down and they will fight you on all fronts.

To everyone else, If this happens to you, I implore you to get legal counsel ASAP, and keep it quiet. Find out all your options and strike a quiet deal with your employer. That is the best you'll ever get.

Almost any large company has much deeper pockets than you do and their reputation is more valuable that their ethics. You'll rarely win in the court of public opinion and you'll probably never get hired anywhere again. I say this even if you were 100% in the right.
I mean, *gestures at the US*.

There are no federal or state laws mandating paid vacations or holidays. That's entirely at the discretion of the company.

There is no federal paid sick leave mandate. Some states have them.

We have a federal right to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for qualified medical and family situations under a law called FMLA, the Family and Medical Leave Act. Even that has limitations - small businesses, highly compensated employees, and new employees are carved out.

When you are hired, all of these are defined by the companies policies or what you can negotiate. If you have paid vacation time that accrues it'll be paid out if you quit; most companies don't like that, so they give you "unlimited time" on the approval of management. But because we have no statutory protection, your unlimited time could legally be "zero hours".
Can't you just force vacation time payout annually to avoid large liabilities? I've worked in places like that and it's usually received pretty well - there isn't any expectation of accruing half a year of vacation over several years of employment anymore - at least not in younger (under forty) folks.
I've been waiting for almost three weeks for their internal recruiters to schedule an on-site. Each time I follow up they are "working on it." I've given up especially given their general reputation
Ask HN: Founders what is your management style?
Today, on the mentoring course, three management styles of founders were analyzed and bright signs for their identification:

- Authoritarian style. The founder alone makes decisions and is dismissive of employees.

- Democratic style. The founder coordinates the goals with the employees. Decisions are made jointly with the team. Informal communication with the team is the norm.

- Liberal style. The founder avoids making decisions. The team is informed about something or only if they themselves ask.

I looked at myself through this prism and realized that my style is not authoritarian for sure, since I trust the tasks and solutions to the team members. Otherwise, why hire people for a team who you don't trust and don't let you do your job? I do not dismiss the team. The liberal style is more likely not to a greater extent, since I do not avoid making decisions, but I felt that I was communicating with the team in a metered manner. I think this is a point of growth - now I will pay more attention to it and become better.

As a result, I defined myself more in a democratic management style.

How do co-founders with different management styles work together? Are they getting along or is it hard? Or do they not work at all? What is your management style?
Are you okay with people taking off one week every month? How about two weeks every month? Is it really unlimited?
90% of Atheists Have Been Vaccinated
Not that long:

> While precise numbers are hard to come by (because not all cases are reported), a recent study reports that the "Bush administration has invoked the state secrets privilege in 23 cases since 2001." By way of comparison, "between 1953 and 1976, the government invoked the privilege in only four cases." - John Dean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dean
Why not require your employees to take the time off? You could even schedule it for them at the start of the year "Bob, you're off the first two weeks of May and last two in October" and make it easy for them to reschedule to times that suit them, but not to carry over unlimited amounts of it.
You can't reduce the culture war to gun ownership. The Dems are doing just about everything they can to alienate traditionalists in the U.S., including gun owners. It's not even the most important wedge issue anymore. Rather, gun owners are concerned about defending themselves in a country organized by Democratic party policy. They'll need the guns when the police are defunded, or when the social workers come for their children.
to minimize the control group into irrelevance
This took me 15 seconds to find, here's a 2-year old and a 4-year old shot yesterday because of a gun lying around at home.

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/marietta-man-arrested-after...
Why would they delete a forum and force people to go to a discord if they aren’t willing to serve?
Winforms will never die. If I was looking to make an investment into a skillset that will still be really useful in thirty years, I would go deep on WinForms.
You must not live in a place with many NRA stickers. Look closely, they also have that fancy thin blue line sticker too.
Except you might not have drinking water, food or human touch… X-P
1. I wouldn't call that necessarily insane, depending on the specifics of the work contract.
2. I think the objection to using the word "unlimited" is correct. The only way I can imagine a truly unlimited PTO policy working is if there were concrete performance metrics that I was expected to meet to retain my job. And if I manage to get a year's worth done on January 2nd, I can take off the rest of the year.
On the ZX80 it was done in such a way that just processing your keyboard input caused the video to blank.
> I find it very hard to find whether my specific issue has already been discussed

That's exactly the issue I have. I even find it hard to find discussions I participated in. The scenario is that you discuss something (technical) and it almost works, but not quite with the improvements you're interested in being planned. You wait 3 months and go back to see if anything has changed and you have 3 months of a single, infinite scrolling page to sort through to see if the topic has come up again.

The threading support in discord will be interesting to see. I wonder if people will seek out historical threads and add to them or if you'll end up with an eternal September type situation where everyone gets fed up from answering the same questions over and over and starts screaming RTFM.
> Furthermore, i find US fascination with their theoretical ability to fight their government with small arms adorable and misguided.

Didn't a couple of unarmed protestors take the capitol building on January 6th?
FWIW, I've had unlimited PTO since the start of my career and I've definitely averaged somewhere between 5-6 weeks every year.

I think it's still a huge perk comparative to other options in America; companies that don't give unlimited typically just give 2 weeks, and you have to work your way up from there via the career ladder.
I agree. There is a lot of fear mongering coming out of Microsoft now, like their "we can't promise security upgrades" for people who ISO install on unsupported hardware.
I find it sad that the above comment was heavily downvoted given that he's is correct.
TIL, however I don’t think that’s important in the context of the effectiveness of armed civilians being able to have much influence.

If anything, rumours to the effect that Republican senators/representatives are only still publicly supporting Trump because they fear armed Trump supporters, could (iff true) be a relevant example.
From a 2018 account with 400 karma?
I'm noticing a trend here:

1. NSO Group aka the "use our tool to hack activists/political opponents"-as-a-service company, is founded by *former members of Israeli intelligence and their Unit 8200*.

2. Kape Technologies, whose software is labeled as malware by companies such as Malwarebytes and Symantec, founded by *former members of Israeli intelligence Unit 8200*

3. Black Cube, the spy-for-hire company that the likes of Harvey Weinstein hired to collect dirt on those suing him: founded by *former members of Israeli intelligence Unit 8200*

Needless to say, it's looking like using HolaVPN, an Israeli P2P VPN (founded by, you guessed it, *former members of Israeli intelligence*), is a colossally bad idea.

I'm fully aware that Unit 8200 alumni are very prolific when it comes to founding tech startups in Israel in general, but that doesn't change how brazen their industry is when it comes to selling sophisticated spyware to very bad people/governments.
Tracking space debris is a growing business
That’s priced in. It’s just fair that there is a mandatory amount for everyone and that’s the baseline.
Democracy has and always will exist in balance with secrecy.

In fact, the polarization we often decry is largely because of transparency. It's harder to nail someone to a cross on partisan radio if it's "the committee decided this" instead of "x voted y."
The question is intentionally open-ended - though some filesystems are going to be inherently "wrong" to mention (eg the old MSDOS FAT) because they don't support large enough files, etc

All those file formats you mention have to live somewhere - and that's something I've yet to see anyone write/speak much (if at all?) about
Lots of binary tree questions are just a variation of depth search.
I'm sure I've actually coded some variation of depth first traversal at least a hundred times during my work as professional programmer in past ten years.
So those questions are not really as impractical as some might think. Being able to write simple binary tree traversal correctly is absolutely minimum I would expect from an interviewee.
Yet again people airing their dirty laundry in public to get Twitter outrage points. We get it, corporations are bad. Do we even need a reminder? The past few decades have been filled will regular folks getting constantly screwed by Big Tech, Fortune 500s, and Wall Street. Nothing here is new.

But my guy, lawyer up. Stuff like this could probably hurt more than help if you do end up going to court.
idea: browser extension that automatically rounds up any number ending in ".99" and includes a visual indicator/toggle that lets you flip back to the original.
> Unlimited just means there isn't a pre-defined limit, not that every amount has to be approved.

Do you work for my ISP's marketing department?
My wife gets emails all the time meant for a particular woman in a different state with the same name as her. For some reason, this other woman consistently uses my wife’s email address. We know where and when her kids go to ballet classes, how much she pays, when she gets Botox, and how much she pays, invoices from her therapist, etc. How does she never notice that none of these emails are going to her and correct the email address she has given out?

I have the same issue with a guy in another state. I know everything he rents from Redbox and everything he buys from harbor freight.
Sort of. As a former Sinclair user his products taught me patience and tolerance.

I jumped ship the moment I could afford a BBC.
isnt the big advantage to infrastructure as code the fact that you can version control it? and isnt it notoriously difficult to version control SQL? maybe I am missing something
Let me pile on here: unlimited PTO is a joke

I once quite a job because they did not want me to take off for a week during Thanksgiving because of a deadline ... in January. Never took a vacation before that. Never again will I settle for unlimited PTO.

Every time I have ask during interviews with unlimited PTO companies about how much PTO an average employee takes, they never have an answer.
Yes, there is a need to return to the origins of copyright, to allow creators to profit from their work. If not profitable, a renewal fee every ~~5 years after an initial 25 year copyright, would allow works that do not earn enough to justify the renewal fee = public domain. If the work earned a lot, the creator would be incented to renew a few time, say for 5 renewals.
I do not like the current bought and paid for renewal fee, AKA Disney law = 105 years - and counting...
The people I know with "Unlimited" PTO all take more than my 5 weeks of limited PTO.

Lie or not, it's still better.
I hate to break it to you all, but there are computers in the sky now, too.
> wanted me to take a report to task

What does this mean?
I worked at a company that had unlimted PTO when suddenly one day they revoked the policy because they said some people were abusing it. The new policy was still very generous (6 weeks PTO per year) so no one complained. Fast forward a year later and we were hearing things from executives and managers like, "you know you don't have to use all you're PTO, right?". I'd ask, oh, it will rollover to next year? The reply: "No, it won't. But that's really the wrong way to think about it."

So it turns out people were taking much more time off now than when PTO was unlimited. They started denying request and making up trivial rules, like 2/3 of your team must be available at any time (regardless of the team size), oh, and those rules weren't in the official policy. Good luck trying to get specifics in writing.

Eventually they changed back to an unlimited policy but secretly told managers they should start denying requests after x number of days have been used. I think it was five weeks, which again is still generous but it bothers me because the intent is to hide that number in hopes that people will use less. I also get no tracking for how many days I've already taken unless I go through my requests and count the approved ones myself.

The unlimited policy is definitely a scam at many companies. Most of my team has been denied requests for reasons that don't exist in the written policy, like, "you recently had PTO already." Honestly I'd rather have a policy that only allowed 3 or 4 weeks with a minimum mandatory that each employee is required to take at least two weeks off per year.
If you're selling your software with a subscription price, I will immediately click off your site. I'm not exaggerating that the moment you start trying to edge in on rent collection for marginal utility, my eyes glaze over and I stop caring about your product. You could be selling a magic wand that fixes my life and fulfills my every desire, but I'd have no idea because there's a $2/month subscription cost attached.

The reason why is principle. Build a good product, price it appropriately and people will come. I payed an exorbitant amount for a Bitwig license, but that was because they provided a product that made me happy and was a fair deal. No dark UX practices, no contract or perpetual payment obligation, just a transaction of money and software. I regret it less than my Netflix subscription, honestly.
Personally, I'd go for some non-printable characters. But, maybe I'm just nostalgic for when starting a directory name with ALT+255 rendered the directory inaccessible to Windows 9x...
Whenever I read news about the kernel surfacing more traditionally OS level features to user space, I'm reminded of Stephen Kell's "Unix, Plan 9 and the Lurking Smalltalk"[1].

There are a lot of parallels between the Smalltalk VMs (where nearly everything about the system is editable and accessible to the user) and where Linux is heading in certain respects, except going there by a very round-about way and relying on very limited binary formats and C instead of high level languages and live objects.

[1]: https://www.humprog.org/~stephen//research/papers/kell19unix...
You're correct about unlimited PTO, it's absolutely a mixed bag.

I worked at Atlassian, and my experience was that people were actively encouraged to take between 20-30 days off per year, and that getting vacation was usually a mere formality - telling your manager "hey I'm planning to take the week of so and so off, any issue with that?" I never had vacation or sick time checked, never had any denied, and I very much took advantage of the benefit.

Still, the manager does have to approve it, so I have heard stories about teams that are understaffed declining vacation when they don't have enough people to be on call etc. I don't know how that would work out differently if you did have accrual vacation though... somebody does have to be on-call. It's tough.
The US Govt under Espionage and Computer Crime law (Germany ex officio), possibly breach of int treaties (FCN treaties, Germany) and ECHR for individual violations (individuals)...
> you'd just tell your manager that you weren't coming in and then not show up and your tasks wouldn't get done?

Yes, exactly. That's how it works in my organization. You don't schedule tasks when you're going to be out of the office. If they're time critical, someone else will pick them up (and drop less time critical tasks of their own). If they're not time critical, they just wait for your return.

I recognize that I'm lucky to be in this situation, but it's certainly possible if you have a reasonable bus-factor.
OK, I think we are probably pretty close in agreement. I still don't think censorship is the appropriate word here but also want to be clear that is what I am disagreeing about, not any of the larger issues.
I could imagine an alternative universe where big companies would pay fair taxes to UK and then those taxes would have paid more research into protein folding.

I don't have an issue with a honest ad, what I have an issue is on team of people focusing on manipulating others to watch more videos, or stay more on a page, or write a giant comment so they can place more ads(or similar with shitty video games). Money from this evil operations are dirty. You could have won this money in a better way in a better world, we should strive for that better world and at least we can do is give the credit properly.
ETL's are a hell hole.

Another ETL charges per unique primary key synced, ignoring the fact the systems with append-only databases could move the exact same _volume_ of objects as another system, but cost 100 or 1000x more because of an arbitrary uniqueness constraint.

Not to mention they also use a credit system which not only uses different tiers of pricing per credit, but ALSO credits have a sliding scale of value where syncing less rows has a higher marginal cost than syncing more..

You need a constraint solver to figure out pricing, it's madness.
Closer to Bloomberg Terminal than yesterday, further away than tomorrow
Yes, the five month old account with a whopping 67 karma is questioning another account's legitimacy. You'll be needing a knife for cutting through that irony.
If blocking people is the problem, could you not take unlimited PTO in sub-week increments? Plus maybe a couple actual vacations a year near the holidays when people are all blocking each other anyway.

Seems like the perfect intersection of policy and need, if you would like to work fewer hours a day or fewer days a week. (Which, ok, maybe isn’t for you.)
Spherical Gear [video]
Yes

Either

Both

Maybe on some other kind of media we don't have yet

Media is certainly important

As is file format

But that media has to have a file system of some kind

And files have to live in some kind of file system
MK14 here.
HN is a community-driven news aggregator, where the community decides what stuff they want to see on the front page. "I want this on the front page" is done using upvotes, while "I don't want this on the front page" is done using flags - which are weighted more heavily than upvotes.

Also, as others have said, the HN algorithm penalizes things with more comments than upvotes.

Finally, the mods (dang and...one other) tend to take a very light touch with respect to moderation.

You can decide that you don't like the community (personally, I think that HN started its Eternal September 5-ish years ago), but I don't think that this counts as "manipulated discourse".
And now tell us, how would the rest of us know how working for X it's like? Should we just rely on their HR marketing?

By keeping it quiet, the company would be simply getting away with their unjust practices and unprofessional management.

If it's clear that the company cannot see that they are doing something wrong... you'd be keeping it quiet to get exactly what from them?
"Just become a politician, gain political power, and change everything"

What about the rest of the owl?
Depending on local labour laws this can happen to you even without unlimited PTO. I have a coworker in BC who was denied the ability to exercise their vacation during a three month crunch period - and then the company refused to pay out the hours and disappeared them into the aether - this tends to be legal in a lot of places when labour laws confirm that vacation is at the convenience of the employer (which is totally reasonable) but fail to mandate either vacation carryover or vacation payout - a lot of jurisdictions can allow this sort of grey area and if your company leverages it... Quit Immediately.
> However, what really stood out to me was the design, or lack of it. The childish paint.exe job on the hero image doesn't help either. It really reads like a scrawled out screed of grievances, being aired without much forethought.

Can you blame the guy?

Im not some emotionless robot - I would be absolutely furious if I was peddled lies from my employer and be treated this way too.

This notion that we need to rise above things at all times is just silly. The man has a lot on his plate and has every right to scribble on two Atlassian peoples image.
Shenandoah in OpenJDK 17: Sub-millisecond GC pauses
Because you eat shit later when it blows up or makes your life more difficult.

Also, not having agency about how you spend your energy eats away at the soul. That's more subjective, but I'll do a way better job with way less effort if I am a primary decision maker of what work I'm doing instead of an intake machine.
Some old collectables are not safely operable against any target. Some simply aren't operable. Even if they're not worn out from use or disrepair, the chemistry of ammunition has changed over the years and it may not be safe to use with modern ammunition. For others, commercially made ammunition might not be available at all.

Yes, people have been killed by old antique guns. But most of them in this category them are rotting away in attics or forgotten in safes. They're certainly not what is predominantly being used in street crime.
It's likely based around driving a sunken cost fallacy where the price is good enough to justify buying outright but the value is just good enough to force you to use it.
The .99 pricing feels like an American phenomenon to me. Not that it's never used in other places, but it seems far more prevalent in the United States. For me it immediately makes the business seem a little bit slimy.

I rarely see it in Europe, and I think I've never seen it in Scandinavia.
> Except that, if you're at this stage, you have failed. The whole freaking point of having a military is to not let it happen. So the US military instead trains its soldiers to fly bombers and read satellite photos, because these are the skills that make you win wars before it runs you over.

Eh, not so much. I believe the term is "defense in depth." There's also the saying "don't put all your eggs in one basket."

If recent history has taught us anything, it's that a territory with a hostile armed population is extremely difficult for even the most advanced army in the world to hold. The US (or the Soviets) would have won in Afghanistan if all the Taliban was able to do was stage protest marches and write angry letters.

Also, you have to understand that there are many different scenarios to consider. For instance: someday, the enemy may be the US military itself.
The real question is what were you eating when you decided to make this account?