skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't fundamentally disagree with you that yes, of course there is always some ultimate limit, nor that it's generally done in bad faith as an accounting scam to get around legal paid time balance sheet requirements. That said, I don't think you're right here:

>otherwise you'd take 100% paid time off, get a second job, and collect two paychecks in perpetuity

Even if 100% genuine, "unlimited PTO" in no way implies PTO for any reason. It's not incompatible to offer it while at the same time having eligibility requirements and other continued employment requirements. At the most simple it merely means there isn't any set limit. A 25 year veteran who gets cancer can be treated differently then someone who just skives off to go party. The latter can just as easily be fired not for exceeding some arbitrary PTO limit, but absence from work without a listed reason in the contract, defrauding the business (if they lie about it), etc.

In practice I don't think "depending on the fuzzy discretion and good will of management/HR/whomever" is a good practical deal for employees in general vs actual hard PTO which translates to money, since at scale the incentives for the business just are not normally aligned that well and even on the employee side those who abuse it will inevitably arise as well further throwing the thing into a negative spiral. It wouldn't stun me though if someone could find a few real examples of companies that had it because they wanted to offer really good sick people more time, there are lots of ideas that depend on human factors which work very badly on average but well in instances.
Grandparent post was in management, higher management wanted one of his reports disciplined for using the unlimited time off (in an amount that's not uncommon for anyone in management or with 5+ years at the company to have as vacation)
Cheers! And when you come to port for a round of 18 it's perfectly normal to just leave your phone in the car or on the cart. Easy to have a great one on one conversation away from everything while standing around on the putting green.

Makes sense why so many business and political deals are made on the golf course when you start thinking about the meta aspects of having no paper trail or being vulnerable to eavesdropping secretarial eyes & ears or some all-listening tech-panoptican.
That’s not what Steve Jobs would say.
I've definitely noticed an asymmetry, though. I engage and they don't. Yeah, I wasn't hugely interested in some of their stories, but I understand they are important to them, so I made the effort. Don't see the effort returned as often as I make it, that's all.

And it's not everyone, it's a subset of people.
for all of those reasons you're better off with a forum. plus the lack of expectation for instant replies will discourage those users from spamming all threads
It is like unlimited benefits. As soon as you put limits on it, some people start to look at "using them up."
The results are fantastic, but I can't see how the excerpts relate to the search term.

For example, a search term for 'Scotichronicon' returns some fascinating results, but the search term itself doesn't appear in the title or excerpts of most of the results.

This makes it harder to judge how relevant they are.
Those "experiments" have long since been recognized as broken and invalid. The mice were severely overcrowded, because Calhoun didn't actually understand the animals' need for spread out, large territories, and was more concerned with churning out dozens of ridiculous mouse-panopticons.

Mice have biological processes that are sometimes analogous to humans, making them useful for some forms of experimentation. Their social behavior is anything but human-like.
Resources are allocated based on expected value. US users are more valuable to advertisers, so naturally they get more attention.
Firfox containers are not the same thing as separate Chrome accounts.
Very similarly mine was Santaka, another Belarusian clone of a 48K. Had that horrid Cyrillic font instead of lowercase Latin.

It was built by a former military supplier plant so its heritage stuck out in unexpected details (like 8x 2Kb ceramic package gold plated ROMs). I've upgraded it over the years with memory expansion, printer port, "real" keyboard, sound chip and disk controller. It grew into quite a hairball!

https://twitter.com/varjag/status/1146500643328331776/photo/...
How about pricing tiers: 1, 2, 3, 4
If you like that kind of stuff, here's the 256 bytes (!) C64 intro "A mind is born" and its technical explanation... It's using that same zero-page trick:

https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born

I have no words... These coders are amazing!
I meant that becomes the perception of it. Platforms censor misinformation, and then that becomes evidence to those that want to believe in theories of how the truth is censored.

If the ultimate objective is compliance, censorship is at best incompetent and short-sighted.
Yeah - I think that's the core, outlier events are extremely bad.

I think there are real things that could be done short of a total ban, but the issue in the US it's a constitutional right so it's hard to restrict in any sensible way and it's politically impossible to amend.

As it is, the policy question is accepting the tradeoff of the right to bear arms vs. rare, but extremely awful death of school children. I'm not really taking a strong position, I think that's just the reality of it.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PeSzc9JTBxhaYRp9b/policy-deb...

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demand...
No, which is an interesting take. No major political party is trying to abolish the 2nd amendment. None. Reasonable limits on firearms and access to firearms is not going to take away your right to self defense. It could keep more guns out of the hands of felons by requiring federal background checks on private sales. Buy that's crazy, right? I should be able to sell my Super Redhawk to the drunk across the street without anyone knowing about it! Sure, I've seen him hit his wife but he was angry and drunk. He's normally a cool guy.

(For the readers: that's a 40 cal revolver that suuuuuucks to shoot and the drunk across the street is a real person, with a bunch of guns, who would like to buy it from me)
"Recent activity in scientific computation is moving to Julia"

I'm not saying you are wrong, but I wonder what metric you are using.
Security and freedom always have to be traded off against each other. The U.S. likes to portray itself as a country that errs on the side of freedom, but that self-image seems to be more and more at odds with reality. Alas.
No I fully agree, which is why I made a mention of security through obscurity.

However, I will make the case that something of this magnitude should be available to the public.
> You expect your employer to pay you for not working 40% of the year?! Insanity.

Insanity is saying "You have unlimited PTO", when actually it's a very normal 20 days / year or whatever. Unlimited !=20 days. Just say you have 20 days leave and then it's clear to everyone involved.
I'd advise anyone in this situation to go with option 3) - find new employment and get the company to immediately pay out all that vacation time in cash possibly by booking your last three months with the company as solid vacation time. Once that's cleared up feel free to rejoin the company on option 2).

Earned vacation time is earned - companies trying to reclaim it are acting dishonestly and need to be avoided at all costs.
A lot of negative sentiment for unlimited PTO here. I had unlimited PTO at one of my previous jobs (Intercom), and my boss was very clear about how much felt like too much, but still encouraged me to take plenty. I took 30 days off one year and nobody batted an eye. It's an overly cynical viewpoint to say that all unlimited PTO policies are bad/meant to fuck over employees, because some management chains really _do_ want people to lead fulfilling lives.
I think government should be permitted to say "National Security," but it should come along with a presumption that the evidence would have been adverse to the government's case just like spoliation, and the case should proceed, not a blanket get out of jail free card.
Given the prevalence of armed conflict in human history, I have trouble agreeing that OP's statement, even if did in jest, isn't supported by history.

It takes a whole lot of dumbness and recklessness to enter wars.
To your meta point, I actually like that layout quite a lot. If you're going to put it in a column, why put it in the middle?
If you get to the point where a jury is evaluating anything you have already lost.
I'm not impressed by this hit piece. Maybe it's because I'm already jaded that "unlimited PTO" never really means that at companies, especially if it's only manager approved PTO. Offering medical leave where you keep your benefits seems reasonable to me (if not preferred? I don't see how this would qualify for PTO. Taking medical leave is something I see regularly, even at companies with "unlimited" PTO). Not being promoted while you're not working seems reasonable to me. This person is clearly very angry, to the point where they're trying to find any way to hit at Atlassian, like "there's favoritism," which is true of 99% of companies. I think the try-to-hit-from-every-angle result of the anger works against them in their main point that they were mislead into thinking they could use PTO to care for a loved one.
You mean there wouldn’t have been a BBC if he had tried harder? :)
I can appreciate if this is too much money for you, but I recently bought a 2014 macmini i7 16GB and 512SSD on ebay for $440 shipped to my door. I needed something that could handle bigsur for some app development, and that was the best $/effort solution I found. Add another ~60 for a usb switch and cables, and I can easily switch between my primary and mac.

In general, there's a pretty good second hand market for macminis, and if you shop around you can probably get something usable for under $350 shipped.
For us North Americans not very familiar with Sir Clive's machine, there's a pretty good summary of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jr7Q1yJOUM

Apparently it, or a follow-up model, WAS available in the US, branded by Timex of all companies.
Oh dear. My parents smuggled (!) a ZX Spectrum in 1985 into Hungary and they knew they will do it and while they were on their tour to Western Germany I was at a summer daytime camp at the nearby community center where we learned BASIC on them. And , of course , played games , mostly Horace And The Spiders :) I was ten.

Fast forward two decades and I was contributing to Drupal core (first core commit 17 years ago was https://i.imgur.com/ZGemjVc.png although Dries forgot to credit me, boo :) ) and another five years later I was working on a Top 100 website.

Thanks Sir Sinclair.
Some synths offer a USB Midi host functionality like the 1010music Blackbox, the Deluge and most of the Raspberry Pi based synths like the Monome Norns.
they were armed? do you have a source for that?

The gun charges were dropped.
And the US gangs aren't so violent compared to the Brazilian gangs in the favelas or the Mexican drug cartel gangs; what does this have to do with it?
Golang: Code of Conduct Updates
http://web.archive.org/web/20210916192204/https://www.reuter...

https://archive.is/lJoWA
> Find out all your options and strike a quiet deal with your employer. That is the best you'll ever get.

All I see here is "cower and whimper like a kicked dog, roll over on your back and present your belly".
The other issue not addressed here is the security aspect too. Via haveibeenpwned so many of the sites I have had data breached on are from forums. It seems so many different forum softwares that exist also have so many security vulnerabilities. And then forum owners often won't upgrade their website as often as they should to ensure it is more secure as they will have a lot of plugins that likely will break.
Makes sense, but then they just blacklist entire TLD, it's a bit weird.
We enforced a fairly strict “you should really take this minimum amount off per year” while we had our unlimited vacation policy. We never went so far as to punish anyone for not taking it, but we set the minimum expectations upfront, and that seemed to work well.
I believe in California (and maybe one or two other states), you can't do use it or lose it. Though AFAIK, you can still cap accrual at some maximum. (i.e. once you've given someone a day of vacation you have to pay it out if they leave and haven't taken it.)

Personally I don't have a problem with "unlimited PTO" but (big but) there really does need to be a culture of people taking a reasonable amount which I would define as a month or so.
I have witnessed this exact thing at several startups. It is demoralizing. Especially when they have >1% equity and you're lucky as a dev if you have >.1%
Oh wow, it turns out the QL hardware was reused in the ICL One Per Desk. We had one at home growing up (for some reason?!). Kind of funny to read that it's greatest success was in networking hundreds of bingo halls together across the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Per_Desk
Sinclair was an expert at that. He guided many an industrial product designer to fortune by showing them exactly what not to do.
> Its only a matter of time before the wrong people get their hands on all the data that big tech has been unscrupulously mining for years now. An authoritarian's wet dream.

This is typically my go to for any discussion regarding privacy apathy. Citing things like the NSA's "Total Information Awareness" and "Nobody But Us" attitudes also does well to tie into this.
As a general rule of thumb:

Be very wary of unlimited sick days. I've worked at companies with and without unlimited sick days, and in practice, I've found:

- companies with limited sick days are still willing to negotiate "going into debt" if something goes wrong

- companies with unlimited sick days can make it a constant fight to justify time off

I've definitely been at companies in the latter category that didn't make it a fight, but the risk is if they choose to make it a fight, you have no hard numbers to fall back on to say you're being treated fairly or unfairly.
I guarantee that academics have been fighting to get data from FB, and are behind the curve.

I’ve read papers which specifically highlighted this lacuna.
Maybe that means it spends less time buffering so smaller total power footprint?
Slack came along and made a lot of money and since then the slack-wannabee-guys are making slack clones in an attempt to attract investor interest. Meanwhile google demonetizes forums , and facebook steals and locks in their users. There are few for Don Quixotes who will be interested in making another forum platform
No it's not true at all. I recently left Atlassian after working there 4 years. 3-5 weeks felt like the average PTO my coworkers would take. It was an easy-going system.

I don't know if OP had a particularly bad manager as that happens in any large company, but no one I worked with ever brought up any issues.
I've worked at a place where use of PTO had to be authorized. If you were sick, you needed to get that approved a week before calling in. There was an exception if you had a doctor's note, but too many of those, note or not, you'd be fired.

Using federally-protected unpaid leave would get you fired under some other pretense when you returned to work.

At a different job, I was doing fine without accommodations until the new HR manage decided to get rid of flex time and require PTO to be taken in 8 hours blocks. Shortly after I applied for ADA accommodations, they took a few montsh to move me into a different department under a very specific role made for just for me. Then after a few months in that role, they cut the position.

Finding another job wasn't an option. I had recently been diagnosed with bipolar and couldn't afford losing my insurance.
Sir Clive was so far ahead of his time and brought color into so many lives. RIP.
I think you have a valid point - I guess you could argue that Big Tobacco, while still in existence and still a huge enterprise did have somewhat of a reckoning in the 1990s. With that in mind, Purdue Pharma did this after the legal boundaries had been tested and defined by prior caselaw.
I also don't believe cigarettes can kill you or make your life and the lives of those around horrible as fast as opiates can. There are many offramps for cigarettes. But, to your point, I don't know that that should make a difference.
Who wrote this? A gun?
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Sure they have hw decoders. But they are used in all cases, and get fed the same input. Either some software optimization how network is used or a different modem (potentially doing also more TCP offload stuff) seems more likely.
How is that insane? It's just a perk of the job.

And yes I agree with OP - 25 days of guaranteed PTO a year is pretty limited and nothing that special.
Imploring others to benefit themselves at the expense of everyone else is a strange pattern I see a lot on these forums.

It's clearly not in your (or any of our) interests to do this, as the obfuscation perpetuates these problems. So what is the motivation behind this kind of post?
I have some concerns with Qt. Not the functionality, but the implementation of some of it. My primary concern is that it doesn't respect the OS's anti-aliasing settings. It defaults to making fonts anti-aliased, even if you don't want them to be. Because of this, last year I stopped updating an app using Qt.

The higher resolution a display is, the less and less you need anti-aliasing so it's unnecessary in the 4K and up era. Also while I am not on a 4K display, I find AA fonts blurry compared to nice crisp hinted non-AA fonts.
People who feel the need to carry a gun, are more likely to get into incidents that involve shootings? Huge surprise there...

Did the researchers ever stop to question the reason why someone might be compelled to carry a firearm in the first place?

What happens to these stats when high crime areas and suicides are removed?
>Legislate what, specifically? I always see calls for more legislation around social media, but I rarely see any actionable suggestions.

I have a radical proposal: reduce social media's value proposition by breaking them up. Then users' interest will naturally decrease.

>So video games get a pass, but social media must be attacked with everything we’ve got.

It applies not to any social media, but only to centralized giant monopolistic services. Federated social media like email are fine.
Someone who reports to the poster took three weeks off and the powers that be wanted the poster to have a "talk" with that person.
>>You'll rarely win in the court of public opinion

I think this is wrong... Likely you could win in public opinion. It will not matter much though because

>>you'll probably never get hired anywhere again.

This is likely true. Winning in Public Opinion will not amount to much when you are homeless and hungry

>>I implore you to get legal counsel ASAP, and keep it quiet. Find out all your options

Which will likely amount of little to nothing... Even if you sue likely the legal fees will eat up much of the award. As with most legal battles the only people that win is the lawyers.
It means to talk to them in a stern way about something they did wrong.

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/take%20to%20task
There's no difference in the binaries built by Xcode running directly on Apple-branded hardware and Xcode running in a macOS VM in a generic (or perhaps metal, if nested virtualization isn't available) ec2 instance.
There's a big difference between under-clocking phones with older batteries to prevent random shutoff, and what you're claiming.
Keep in mind managers often make or break your experience. The article could be about OP’s manager as much as it could be Atlassian.

Companies that don’t provide any training and structure with how managers handle engineers end up with employees having wildly different experiences. So, I would find Atlassian at fault here
The legislative branch [ie: the people writing the laws] are the "check" on... the people writing the unconstitutional laws?

The courts must have the authority to review these cases, anything else is completely incoherent.

> Not perfect, but allowing any member of the public to expose classified secrets via lawsuits would certainly be an attack vector for foreign adversaries.

If foreign adversaries are trying to overturn illegal domestic dragnet surveillance, maybe I should be paying my taxes to them.
I agree with both you and the above commenter. Perhaps it is optimal to keep quiet for yourself, but optimal for the group if none of us keep quiet. A tough problem.
This is the unfortunate truth of a lot of US labour laws and why I prefer it up here in Canada. I know with certainty that my coworkers (even university coops!) have access to good healthcare and have provincially mandated vacation time. I work hard in my position and carry a fair amount of responsibility that I've accrued over the years - but I don't want any of my coworkers, no matter how junior and no matter how short their stay at this company may be, to struggle to live a healthy life.
personally, I love terraform. I dont like statefiles though. Its annoying to have them in a vault system
I don’t think it’s that simple. If you’re willing to exploit unlimited PTO then it can be a better deal for the employee, you just have to get over your feelings about taking time off.
>>- Can I take some of my PTO, I should have plenty, to take care of my wife? - I said.

- 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.

How is the reply to this anything other than "it's none of your fucking business what I do on my PTO?"
The counterpoint is also valid: don't have policies which, if used, would be untenable to the company.

The best places I've worked have had PTO policies, no rollover (but flexibility for longer trips), and (critically) managers who would gripe at you at the end of the year if you didn't use your PTO.

Expectations were clear, everyone was on an equal playing field, and PTO was sized to something the company could afford everyone making use of.
A gaming YouTuber named Spike Viper had his community banned because he's working on building a competing service to Discord.

TheQuartering was banned yesterday after appearing on a stream with Alex Jones.
"Unlimited sick days"

What's the alternative to this? Does disease normally obey corporate policy in the U.S.?
At the risk of sounding paranoid but how do we know if they actually pause/delete it?
New Tolling Systems Are Poised to Hit Highways
USB to Midi cables usually still need a computer or a synth with USB host functionality.
You can not connect a USB Midi controller to a 5 pin din midi synth.
Sounds like complete BS: "A novel best-case scenario cost-benefit analysis showed very conservatively that there are five times the number of deaths attributable to each inoculation vs those attributable to COVID-19 in the most vulnerable 65+ demographic."
> so much more pleasant to use than windows

Is there anything in contention with windows in that regard? Maybe the mobile OSes?
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