skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
most products are things you don't need. look at facebook, you don't need that shit, yet you use it, and you want it. i would say that 80% of SV startups make things you don't need. they just think you need it, and throw a bunch of money at it to satisfy some ego or lifelong dream. a lot of things in life are things you want but not need. so the money is in making things people want, not need.
What does your contract say with regards to unlimited vacation?

If you take it literally how could they fire you if on your first day you leave for PTO and never return. I wonder if this has ever been tested in court
> It's also nice that I can join a server, get my answer, then leave that server with no lingering email sign up for some one-off forum that I'll never visit again.

Wondering if https://sqwok.im would fit this use case? Each post has a built-in chat room, is public and doesn't require a login to view on mobile/desktop web.
You can 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. The company can then decide if the settlement amount is worth the PR hit.

You don't do this out of the goodness of your heart to inform other people how bad the company is, you do this purely to maximize the probability of receiving any sort of compensation from the company. Most people (?) would only consider this route if they genuinely feel that the company has egregiously wronged them, because it's a big, low-probability-of-success pain, and airing dirty laundry is easier and often more cathartic.

If you have already decided that informing other people is more important to you than a settlement (or have concluded that the effort is not worth your while), then fine, you've made a different decision, and perhaps the commons are better as a result. But if you decide to air the dirty laundry, you'll usually lose the ability to change your mind later.
Thanks! I've heard that quote a few times but till now never grasped the full meaning.

A link to the quote in the film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM#t=5m9s
Do people really come back from a 6 month paid parental leave and expect to get promoted? No shit the coworker who busted their ass the entire time will get picked over you. That isn't discrimination, just reality.
The security is better in that it's more secure against you.
The legislature is supposed to be the strongest. But it's so busy infighting that more and more power falls to the executive, so that things actually get done.
They aren't necessarily implying it's a sockpuppet, but that they currently represent Atlassian PR.
The advantage with companies with set amounts of PTO is that they end up either needing to roll those hours forward into the next year, pay them out - or look like a total ass and expire them (often a combination of two or all three). When you have a fixed amount of PTO there's more clear accountability about where unused hours go and, potentially, you can reclaim missed vacations in the form of an end of year payout that compensates you for the lack of a vacation.
I think the issue is that it was used as an excuse to deny vacation. It could also lead to everyone being put on teams of 2. Great, now no one can take a vacation by definition.
It seems like a sad story all around. All of the parts about how the PTO works seems pretty normal to me though. You definitely do not accrue any days in an Unlimited PTO system, that is the whole point of it. The company wants to clear themselves of the obligations that comes with accrued vacation days.

As an Engineering Manager myself though, I just cannot imagine not giving this guy as much PTO as he needed. I would have at the very least tried to work with him to help as much as I could such as maybe having him only work 2-3 days a week for a while. So just based on his version of events I tend to blame the managers and how they handled it. Even if I was getting pressure from my manager I would stand up for anyone that reported to me and their need to have time off in this situation.

I hope his wife is recovering and that he has landed a new job somewhere.
20 weeks of 52 week year? Even my liberal American brain can't seem make that work.

We have uPTO and never had a manager say no. But still only have taken 12 days this year. We are so brain washed here in the US.
A couple examples here, before, during, and after the attack:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/stun-guns-stinger-whips...

If you pop their names into a search engine you can see the DOJ indictments with more info.
Technically you're right.

But If I was a researcher, I would stay clear of using a term that could be understood as some kind of endorsement of toxic masculinity, heteronormativity or whatever.

Better to use the slightly less accurate term, overloading its original meaning with a new one, and avoid being the subject of a witch hunt.
Here is the problem with these policies. What happens when just 1 person or 2 people have key knowledge?

My company has/had (the people I know with it left) this problem. Things hinged on one person and a team of effectively 1 or even 2 can never go on vacation.

Now, obviously this should be considered a problem too but other problems can make the 2/3 part unworkable.
Any data to back up that feeling?
So sad to hear this. The ZX Spectrum was my introduction to both computers and programming and still has a special place in my heart. RIP Uncle Clive
This feels like a USA problem and not a company problem.

Here we have federal/government regulated PTO/sickleave/vacations. :)
A safe guess would be that Google only hides it from yourself.
Thanks! Nice paper, I didn't know they had access to the SW specifications
I’ve never sued an employer, but I have commenced legal action against my deep-pocketed landlord (they were a developer and didn’t feel like following the eviction & compensation laws for doing a rental apartment to condo conversion). I won, without even needing a lawyer.
The "study" is horrifying because the mice were severely overcrowded, and suffered some extreme psychological breakdowns as a result. Not because it can predict human behavior and socialization in any way. 2,200 mice stuffed in a 10'x14' pen? It's insanity. It's not even possible to make an analogy for humans, because humans are fundamentally social, across individuals and family units and more, in a way that mice are not.

It's ridiculous pseudo-science that's taken at face-value as presented by Calhoun only because it makes an empty clickbait article sound deep.
Teaching shell is not about writing a .sh script though.

It's about getting used to the terminal. I think this is one of the biggest shortcoming of people who are just learning to code/bootcamps. If one stays in an IDE at all times they won't learn the system.

I consider appropriate knowledge of shell as the ability to replace the native system UI usage with terminal. And that's not a high bar.
Your employment contract could stipulate that any programming done outside official work is owned by the company. A “work for hire” of sorts. Whether these “copyright assignment” clauses are legal depends on your jurisdiction.
Not mobile-only, iphone-only. This is a good example of how ios is a seperate market and Apple has the monopoly.
> [...] studying the connections people have to determine the threat profile - not just the individuals posting habits.

Well that's just TERRIFYING. My account can get flagged... Not because of what I say, but because of who I know?

Talk about a way to unperson someone. Make it so that even associating with them causes the social graph to collapse.
Yeah agreed - the emails they show also have bad grammar and misspellings too along with the general writing.

It's basically understood that unlimited PTO means untracked and within some reasonable amount - if you were at an At Will company in the US they don't owe you much. Obviously you can't just take 3 years off of 'unlimited PTO' so it's hard to claim you truly believe it's limitless imo.

Expecting a promo when you're not working and expecting to be able to just take infinite vacation (even when dealing with tragedy) is just not realistic. There are other options (medical leave, extended leave, etc.) - some companies will go out of their way to be kind, but I wouldn't have that as my expectation.

This kind of rant doesn't look great either - my take away is this person was probably just difficult in general, there may have been other reasons they were not promoted.
Blaming the Afghanistan War on the "Deep State" is a very odd choice to me. Does the Deep State ratify authorizations for the use of military force and approve military spending budgets?
I was trying to check Disk Partitions on Windows 10, so typed this into the search.

It gave me a website with some freeware tool. I had to search around again until I found the actual system tool. I don't know what a regular user would have done.

I'm not really a Windows user.
Sounds like the SaaS was able to help you decide their service isn't a good fit for you.

If your usage and budget is on a hobbyist level but you're expecting business level support, you won't be happy with the service and they helpfully ruled their service out of your choices.

I'm sure if you keep looking you'll be able to find something that will give you the warm fuzzies at your desired price.
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Clear your watch history and only watch things that are positive or educational. My youtube recommendations are purely music albums and different educational channels.
It can simultaneously be true that the company's intentions were not pure, and that OP is being overly sensitive to the naming of pricing tiers.
hey, sorry for telling it like it is.
You speak as if you would have any experience in that field to end up saying you never got any experience but someone told you the grass is greener elsewhere. Have you tried to actively network? I went to a few startup meetups in Germany, Taiwan, and Japan and always found such people, but usually they were involved in their own projects rather than looking for parters.
Oh gods - I've never worked at a place with unlimited PTO and that sounds miserable. I'm a highly visible employee who fields a lot of questions from junior and intermediate folks - taking a three week block off always means the other very senior dev needs to shoulder the load (but we're on good terms and happy to see each other balance work and life)... more senior folks would be less able to take vacation due to how much more visible their absence would be.
On the one hand, I can see how using this to combat organized misinformation could be a good thing. Combating organized vaccine misinformation is the obvious current example. On the other hand, it's a bit dystopian to have a platform used as a public square that cracks down on organizers they don't like.
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I forgot to mention: the company that fired me did offer a severance package, though if I'd accepted it, I would have needed to agree to never talk about the circumstances of my leaving the company.

It was worth every penny I didn't get by telling them I wouldn't sign the severance agreement.
That’s a fair question. I can’t claim to have anything that would merit being called a “metric”. The number of papers and projects using Julia increases every year, but that in itself doesn’t quite support my claim. What I mean is that there are regularly new large-scale computational projects adopting Julia, and they are the types of projects that, in most cases, I’m pretty sure would have used Fortran seven years ago.
You are both right. I just realized this and would be embarrassed if I wasn’t laughing so hard. I gave an original drawing to our designer with the correct values and we didn’t inspect their final image. We’ll get this fixed, thanks for pointing this out and sorry for the confusion :)
My future company is going to offer unlimited wages..

But obviously it's going to have to be manager approved.
And obviously the manager has a budget.
And obviously I don't care if the manager screws you because he starts to dislike you.
Or because somebody in HR/higher up doesn't like you.

But none of that is my concern - I'm great; I give unlimited wages to workers! Never mind there's no contract with a firm guaranteed figure.

Think of the earning potential!

UNLIMITED!!!*

*Terms and conditions apply but the terms and conditions re too long and take away from the headline so just check them out on our website at <404>
I suspect that the same companies/teams that make it hard to take time under an "unlimited" plan would probably make it equally hard to take the 4 weeks of vacation you'd accrued under a traditional plan.
Good call! Too late for me now so, especially since the majority of my Steam library is running just fine under Linux. Maybe for some online stuff, Teams for potential home schooling and so. The fact that local accounts are hidden sucks in itself so. I will keep Windows on my private laptop so, just in case. Not that I am going to upgrade to Win 11 so.
I wish the Telco's did MORE filtering given the huge amount of SMS spam I get since Twilio has turned this channel into a positive ROI for spammers.

(1st biggest spam channel being email, which surprise/surprise - Twilio also dominates via SendGrid)
Thanks for all the tips in the comments, i just started working on the pricing. Finally gonna make sum bucks, eh!
Upvoting because I think it's important to talk about this, not because I agree.

Appreciate everyone else's responses around this being a dark pattern where "pad publicity" gets paid off.

Is there a role for more anonymity on the internet?
I really like this about my current employer. I take at least 4 weeks off a year in addition to medical/sick leave for things like dr's appointments and just not feeling well. They don't even track it as far as I can tell. Couldn't tell you my exact number I've taken this year or last year, but I take a full week every quarter and my managers have never quibbled about it or anything.

I don't think I'd work somewhere that was so nit picky about PTO and looked down on fellow workers for taking it. That way quickly leads to burnout and long term lower productivity.
what experience are you talking about? I have the actual experience of trying to bring in marketing/sales co-founders. also, read my comment. networking requires spending your time going to parties. if you are building a product, you have no time for networking.
Honestly, I would have just stayed with Windows 7, if not for Windows Terminal [1]. The Unicode support and ANSI escape code support is a big improvement. However I was not eager to upgrade, as people reported over and over all the privacy and telemetry issues. I have turned off all Windows Updates, and ideally I wont be upgrading Windows for a long, long time.

1. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
This is true. And when you turn it off from control center, it says 'disconnecting bluetooth devices until tomorrow', so it's clear that disabling it means "stop all BT connections except for my Watch".
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Oh I think we read different articles. This is about deception that company used to sell themselves as better places to work than they actually are.

Knowingly missrepresenting the working condition is exactly that: immoral.

INAL but is see no way this would damage his legal leverage... actually the opposite.
Micro Men is so good. I met the director once at an event and asked him if it would ever be released on DVD or equivalent and it sounded like that was unlikely, so it's great to see it available on YouTube.
Believe what you want. I no longer work at Atlassian, and I had my own frustrations with the company. There are definitely some internal struggles, and specific teams under a lot of pressure, and if you get caught in one of those situations it sucks. The specific team this person was on is under a lot of pressure, and this person is not the only person who quit over it.

But the person who wrote this article did not give an accurate portrayal of the entire situation.
Who would have thought that relying on another entity for literally every single thing you do has consequences when the sole entity you rely on decides to dip out or has issues!

It's crazy silly how short-sighted people are.
You can talk to a lawyer or a HR professional and not make it a battle with your employer (or even known by them). You'll just get perspective and learn if your position is valid or not. Better to know the law and your options before you negotiate. Had the writer know what was legally owed to him, he may have taken a more productive path.
The truth is that tech companies don't give a shit about working with law enforcement and actively try to avoid ever dealing with them at all.

The ONLY time a tech company works with police is when they are obligated to, by law. It's actually quite a shame, I think it's actively harming our society. Laws without enforcement are worthless.
> I suspect some scammer was running a game on you. They tend to go "over the top," as "dumbass filters." If someone responds credulously to an outrageous claim, then they are a "good mark." The fact they ghosted you, tells me it was a scam. I have encountered many, many scammers, since leaving my last job. It's a pretty tough field, these days.

What would be the purpose of this “scam”?
I learned to program in 1982 when my mom bought me a Timex Sinclair 1000 (2K RAM!) and had to type in all the games from source listings in books and magazines. At some point later, I bought a 16K memory expansion pack which was awesome until you jiggled the computer a little bit and it would reset all memory.

The very first bug I had to figure out was when I was typing in an expression like "A <> B", and not realizing that "<>" was a single character on the keyboard, and not "<" followed by ">".
You are assuming he actually has a case. None of the accusations make sense if you read into it for more than a second.

Atlassian discriminates against parents – by not promoting someone right after they get back from a long parental leave.

Atlassian discriminates in hiring – because a candidate the author liked didn't get picked one time.

Atlassian discriminates on PTO – because the author was denied vacation time right after he got back from medical leave.

If you go to a lawyer they will ask for one solid, verifiable claim, not a dozen vague accusations or angry childish rants.
Playing the zero sum game, yes.

Upvoting because I think it's important to talk about this, not because I agree.

Appreciate everyone else's responses around this being a dark pattern where "pad publicity" gets paid off.

Is there a role for more anonymity on the internet?
Ah, sorry, I misread that. GP has fair points though, whole situation in the UK is crazy, infects everything, it's an arms race
I have unlimited PTO and have for quite a while and love it.

We are encouraged to take off at least 5 days a quarter / 20 days a year in addition to our holidays (which are flexible given culture, personal preference, etc). We don't count sick days or appointment time towards that. We can take off more, and frequently do, we just have to tell someone we're doing it.

We frequently are put on "nicely forced" vacations if our manager notices we have not taken off in a while. You'll usually get a message from your manager like "hey, schedule some time off in the next month, it's been a bit since you've been off".

This doesn't include parental leave as well, which is pretty solid compared to other places I've been.
Growing up we first had a Sinclair Cambridge calculator, then a ZX81 (complete with a 16K RAM expansion pack!), then a Spectrum that we upgraded to a Spectrum+ by sending off for the upgrade kit. We even had a Sinclair thermal printer...

So many happy memories of weekends spent entering game code from the back of magazines and then venturing into writing our own. Genuinely don't think I'd be in the software industry today if it hadn't been for his creations.
The check against bad laws is voting public. The check against misuse of a dragnet law by the executive is the legislative branch and not the court - that’s what the OP seems to be saying. Courts can’t keep state secrets by design.
I think perhaps the usefulness here is less finding what you're looking for, but rather finding something interesting.
Can’t you achieve the same results then by pretending that one long stream is just a bunch of independent chunks and download them separately in bursts? No need to trickle it the entire time.
Not if your team size is two, for example.
For truly egregious conduct, one can avail themselves of the state attorney-general. They have resources and tools that every company must respect. At least in Washington State, there are also mandated exceptions to all company's non-disclosure agreements for this purpose (I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice).

GP's statement has a lot of merit. Going on the attack against a well-resourced opponent should only be considered after long and deliberate consultation with legal counsel. Even if you don't involve an attorney, your opponent may/will. Attorneys are expensive and proceedings may take far longer than someone who believes themselves to be in the right may expect.

The system is imperfect, but it abstracts conflict to a higher and more-deliberate plane than bludgeoning one another with sticks or urging a mob to pick up torches.
It should be ok for absences to be visible. And if they are more than just visible, you have a bus factor problem, and past a certain company size that's not something you should have.
My NAS runs in my house. While I do have a VPN to connect when away, I don't particularly care for my ISP seeing all my traffic or being tracked by the entire web. I use Mullvad to try to achieve some semblance of privacy.
I hate USA so much it's unreal.
Dumpsterfire is flaring up again.
(Native U.S. English speaker here)
As far as I cant tell, the subtext for that heading/sub-heading pairing would suggest that users currently considering upgrading to Windows 10 are currently doing the equivalent of hitting their heads against a wall, which once again I don't think quite fits the narrative of the article.

In my opinion, it's just a poorly chosen subheading.
They release pretty frequent updates (monthly), with features added in most of them. It honestly doesn't really make sense to package it with the distro. Home Assistant 1 year ago was missing a lot of nice features in the present version. Plus fixes for integrations that stopped working reliably due to API changes (Ecobee comes to mind), etc.

The best/easiest way to run it is to use Docker. They have a script that will set it up for you. After that, the container can basically self update and self manage. Any addons that you want to use are installed as separate docker containers that talk to the main home assistant container. It's super seamless and easy.

In my case, I just setup a barebones Debian VM and ran their setup script. It took care of all the Docker stuff and got it up and running.