skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Our company is fully remote. One of the clause on the contract of each employee is no moonlighting. They are not allowed to work on anything else professionally. They can work on personal software project if they notify me in advance. This is because in a fully remote companies there are not office hours and it's very hard to define what's work and what's not.

> I'm a single founder software engineer growing a team and having to deal with management for the first time. I'm unsure of most of my decisions. If you have some advice that you can give me in a kind fashion without making me feel even more inadequate that I already do it might help me become a better manager.

My feedback: drop the terrible policy. It's not legal in California for a reason.
I've been using iOS 15 for a month or more, and I've had no glaring issues aside from Exposure Notification using excessive battery usage.
Gotcha - wow I guess I have really not been using Apple Maps (or any maps application) for some time then if I didn't notice that...

Thanks
I've been using mdBook: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook for a personal knowledge base in an ebook format and it's been a joy. Not Ruby, it's written in Rust instead.

It's very easy to customize either via plugins with Rust or by overriding template files. While the linked article is cool, it seems like a lot of effort to maintain such a set up. Then again, if you're a Ruby expert I could see this being worth it.
> the human rights abuse that is the online mug shots industry

The way we treat people with a mug shot is horrendous. But mug shots per se serve a vital purpose: they are a public record of persons the state is holding. That makes “disappearing” them later on harder.
Giving the government a way to cheat will definitely create some good results. But that doesn't mean having the way to cheat is a good thing.

I noted a clear distinction for the case you listed. A traditional joint civil suit against Madoff would have done the exact same thing with a similar amount of process. It's true that access to our legal system is way too expensive in general, but creating a backdoor for the government and hoping they will use it to help private citizens is not the way to fix that.
We've banned this account for religious flamewar. Not cool, and not what this site is for.

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Google Lens has had the feature for more than a year now and it's incredibly useful. I wonder how the accuracy of Apple's version will compare.
Exactly. MS rehosted win16 apps on top of a new kernel, ported the UI, and encouraged developers to migrate code to win32. Apple had pieces of a similar transition with the transition to PPC but failed to execute, maybe because they were betting on different attempts to rewrite everything from scratch.
No-code web scrapers – the ultimate list
> It means the only reason you have a computer today is because the Islamic civilization passed the torch of knowledge to the West.

Overstatement of the day.
>That's the point I am trying to get across - there is no such right to violate privacy.

Who says you have a right to privacy on a device you do not own, provided to you by another organization for a specific use case (school-related learning) and which comes with terms and conditions of use (which, more than likely, includes a monitoring clause)?

Hate to break it to you, but schools and organizations have rights too. One of those being "if you are using our property, we have the right to monitor it. Because it's our property.".
What's the best foss option out there now? Graphene? Lineage? I hate that they're both Android based...

I specifically dumped android phones because I was sick of Google and Apple still seemed to be the better option.

Edit: Guess I upset the Apple and Google shills ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Why should any exist yet, when natural gas has been so cheap? Tighten the screws enough to eliminate fossil fuel dispatchable sources and you'll start to see it (or something else that can solve the same problem better).
Oh, I was on mobile and could not see the comments section. It's interesting for sure. But what I want in particular is to learn why a book is ranked highly compared to other books. And I want to be sure that ranking is tailored to me, at a very, very high accuracy.
https://nullprogram.com/
No. They've put a pin in it, but publically haven't discussed when it may ship (or what changes could be made).

All we know right now is that it isn't in iOS 15.
What cities are you talking about, I'm guessing not in America?

Fare enforcement is one of the few pro arguments for the broken window theory. I've never been on any subway system in the US that didn't have attendants near the gates and they have no qualms stopping trains while the transit police come. Homeless people get on the train and ride all day but they put in their couple dollars at the beginning of the trip.
To be clear, what I meant is that projects with open stewardship (which I believe the Chromium Project is? unclear from the project website) don't tend to want employees of companies, in their capacity as employees-of-companies to be directors/core maintainers for the project. Which is different from being regular developers on those projects.

Open-stewardship projects tend to be happy to accept contributions from companies; and they tend to be happy to accept the stewardship of individuals who happen to work at companies; but they don't want to be beholden to the interests of those companies in their direction, so projects with community/foundation stewardship don't usually allow companies to pay their employees for their time spent sitting on that foundation's board. (I.e. they let companies pay employees to write code, but they won't allow companies to pay employees to do the work of deciding whether that code belongs upstream.)

Instead, the software foundations that manage FOSS projects usually legally restrict corporations or their representatives from participating in their capacity as representatives of corporations in directorship/steering committees/etc. for the foundation. Instead, they expect/require each person with decision-making authority in the foundation to have their own individual voice—to not be just a sock-puppet of a company, saying whatever the company wants you to say. When you vote for things in the foundation, you have to be able to vote for the interests of the project itself, even if those interests are against the interests of the company you work for—without that endangering your job.

Which usually means that employees of such companies must do their foundation maintainership "off the books" of the company they work for, e.g. at non-work hours using non-work equipment. Just as if they were trying to avoid IP cross-pollution.

Source: worked at a company with an "open core" product, where the core was an Apache Software Foundation project, and most of the ASF project's maintainers happened to be employees of the company. Those people could push a PR to the ASF upstream for consideration from their work account, as a representative of the company; but they then had to don their personal-gmail-account, separate-profile, no-corporate-affiliation hat to handle the PR and discuss it with the other maintainers.
Amazing and super useful: If I start reading today, and I read a book a day, it'll only take 112 years to finish, assuming that no additional books will be recommended in the next century.
(Timescale DevRel here)

We've recently been working through a detailed benchmark of TimescaleDB and Clickhouse. The DELETE/UPDATE question has been an intriguing story to follow - and I honestly hadn't considered the GDPR angle.

ATM, Clickhouse is still OLAP focused and their MergeTree implementation does not allow direct DELETE (or UPDATE) of any data. All DELETE/UPDATE requests are applied asynchronously by (essentially) re-writing/merging the table data (it's referred to as a "mutation") without whatever data was referenced in the DELETE/UPDATE. [1]

[1]: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/statements/alte...
Urban Resilience
Yes, Bochs.
And that's why it needed an explicit "/s": without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it's impossible to create a parody of extreme views such that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied[0].

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Actually, people do. But it's not terribly fine-grained. SharePoint offers version control of MS Office documents and is used in many businesses as an improvement over shared drives and files named: Foo_Report_v3_FINAL_20210928_FINAL_DRAFT_FINAL.xlsx

I don't think you get branching with SharePoint, though.
Ah sure (mix with oil for 2 stroke right?) - it was just the US 'gas' terminology that threw me off. Somewhat used to hearing it for cars, but in this context my first thought was of pressurised cannisters of butane, propane, whatever strapped to the back of someone operating a leaf blower!
I remember an instance on HN maybe 9 years ago or so where the treasurer of a third-party on the US was detained at the airport and questioned about the amount of cash he was carrying. Probably seems reasonable, as I would imagine most people carrying massive quantities of cash aren't up to any good. But no one was able to tell him if he was actually required to answer the questions in order to be allowed to travel and retain ownership of the cash. He kept getting passed around until eventually someone told him that yes, he was required to answer the question. Which I believe is incorrect - I expect they got sued afterward.

edit: I believe this was the incident: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-sues-dhs-over-unlaw...

edit 2: It was $4700. Wouldn't raise eyebrows in a bank withdrawal. Not what I had in mind when I said "massive".
well, possibly, but as they are probably the ancestors of many North Indian, Iranian, and Afghanistani peoples that gene didn't stay dominant for their line. (Though I guess it shows up in that region now and again).

And they certainly weren't the 'Aryan ideal' as pictured in racist propaganda.
"Parents who want to pay for your college are abusive? I think you use that word extremely liberally."

Parenting is not all about money. Some parents have a very specific and tyrannical idea of how their kids 'should' turn out, and will not hesitate to spend money, beatings or literal blackmail to achieve it.

Think of a wealthy father that beats his daughter because her behaviour is 'improper', or forces daughter/son into marriage. Or of Eton College which is stupidly elite and expensive, yet famous for beatings. This stuff is common enough that I've witnessed some of it, and it's not pretty.

I am not claiming the proposal on offer here would be of any help, just trying to clarify the issue
Dennis Hassert , former speaker of the house, was convicted of exactly this for withdrawing cash to pay off the blackmailer who threatened to go public with Hassert history of child sex abuse when he was a wrestling coach.
Digital Cash Incentives and the Future of Humanity
Our organisms evolved for scarcity, not abundance. This is a source of immense suffering and waste in modern society. Luckily our species also evolved via incentives (our second greatest invention after the Internet). Digital cash incentives hold the promise of providing a countervailing force to the temptations and distractions of modern life.
Just a reminder that if you carry cryptocurrency on a hardware wallet or a brainwallet (memorizing some phrase that can recover your private key), the feds can't sieze those funds no matter how much they want to.
totally agree. If you want to value the christian values are might be cancelled by the big companies because you are not woke enough.

Time's over. US
I would assume no. People decompile binaries all the time and would likely catch it. It also could introduce dependencies and bugs that would require QA work and dev work.
Anybody running AltStore on this and can confirm whether it works right?
ime these jobs largely are not demeaning in of themselves, they end up that way because of the conditions and management that optimizes by taking advantage of a workforce that they consider expendable and cost-cutting usually comes at the expense of dignity. getting an expletive-filled call from your boss threatening to fire you if you don't come in during previously scheduled time off [because they just fired the person who was supposed to take that shift] is the kind of experience that quickly turns an okay job into a miserable one.
Despite being 12% of the population they commit 50% of the murders, so why would you expect that there would be an equal percentage of black and white people in prison?
Please let me know how to build an obfuscation layer on top of kernel-based WireGuard without sacrificing performance.
Cross-platform is giving it too much credit. They aren't releasing native FaceTime on any non-Apple platforms, and you get a limited set of features in the browser based client that runs on Windows/ChromeOS/Android.

It is better than nothing though. Mostly feels like a late response to Zoom eating Apple's lunch though.
Does it add startup time after the first run (where it downloads and caches the dependency)?
Batteries are not supposed to solve the large scale storage problem. They're best at solving the small scale storage problem. Recently they solved the problem of small scale storage on wheels.

> If battery technology improves to the extent that it becomes viable for large scale storage, then wind and solar can become our main source of energy.

Batteries are not the only way of storing electricity.
One side effect, intentional or not, that came from Google naming their browser "Chrome" was that Gecko development become more difficult. It became too hard to get search engines (you know the one) to understand that you weren't looking for Google blog posts and press releases, but instead developer documentation for Mozilla internals, which you could have pretty reliably found previously by including "chrome" as a useful search term.
I know they (the blowers) exist - I meant I wish they (the specific people operating beneath my window) would use them.
Because I didn't look.
Maybe he is in your circles, he is in mine. Bush won reelection after doing all of those things, though, and even liberal media outlets began to rehabilitate him recently - see the whole Bush painting atrocity. Putin isn't universally liked in Russia either.
The fact that police can use subjective, undocumentable, unprovable (and undisprovable!) allegations as evidence is pretty damn bonkers. Especially given that the burden of proof is meant to be on the accuser.
Ah gotcha, yeah, the notion of the 'Aryans' as the ancestors of Europe was a common misconception of early European archaeology even when it didn't have the racist propaganda connections.
Religious flamewar will get you banned here. No more of this, please.

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Edit: you've unfortunately been posting a lot of unsubstantive comments to HN. Could you please not do that? We're trying for something a bit different here.
"higly regulated" isn't really accurate. Banks have a reporting requirement but there aren't really any restrictions on individuals or their ability to make such transactions.

The actual restrictions are (as you mentioned) on transactions under 10k that need to avoid any possible appearance of structuring to avoid the 10k deposit reporting
It is clear that Munger and Buffett have a vastly different value system than you -- one where rumination makes them happy.

They could easily be living in giant mansions in Monaco, feasting on gourmet food cooked by personal private chefs every day, on superyachts in the Seychelles, or any other lavish-wealth scenario you'd care to name.

But they don't. They work in a modest office in Omaha, and eat McDonald's and drink Coke for lunch.

Why would they do that, when they have so many other options? Because they like it. Their value system is different than yours. They enjoy their relatively modest middle class lifestyles, believe it or not.

If they didn't, if they weren't happy, they could make a few phone calls and be on a private jet to the other side of the planet within an hour. But they don't do that, because they value that less than what they're doing now. They're happy ruminating on minute differences in CPI figures while eating an Egg McMuffin for breakfast.
> Nuclear is just proven to fail ... the way forward is wind and solar

Nuclear is the only proven clean technology for base load generation. The only hiccup is political (i.e., people decided they don't like nuclear), and while it's a big political problem, the whole climate crisis is an enormous political problem. Yes, there's the waste to be disposed of, but we already have to manage some waste and once you have to safely manage a little nuclear waste it's a marginal increase in cost to manage a whole lot of nuclear waste.

Further, innovations in nuclear are making it cheaper, safer, and faster to build. Moreover, as another commenter pointed out, if we were willing to ease some of our restrictions on nuclear such that our nuclear plants didn't need to be a thousand times safer than our coal plants (but merely, say, twice as safe), then nuclear could be even less expensive and facilities built more rapidly.

Yes, wind and solar will play a major role in the future, but we incur tremendous risk by ignoring nuclear.
Economies of scale, largely.
Please do not perpetuate religious flamewar on HN. It's not what this site is for.

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Care to give us a sneak peak - say, what your typical power draw is like? :)

I'm particularly interested in this topic because I've been thinking about power a lot after the Texas blackouts (considering building a bike generator so I can have power in case of a disaster like that one).
There's also a lot of cultural propaganda that promotes the idea that the justice system is fair and unbiased. People instilled to think of themselves as the collective embodiment of perfection can't accept anything less than that. Hence if you've entered the meat grinder of the system you must have done something to deserve it because the system is designed to protect our Freedom™.
He, they also have guns
I think the pb is that it's so barebone that pretty much nothing works out of the box. One has to add a few more components, depending on which application needs to run (as an OS alone is, well, not an end in itself).
However, that's where it stings : adding "components", yet but which ones ? in which order ? how ?
Componentization was not a topic, so there's no tool, almost no doc, just tribal knowledge on the topic.
That makes it essentially useless for the vast majority of humanity.
Ah, right, trying to prevent the destruction of the only planet we live on is "no good reason"
I'm in America.

Cops generally don't care if a homeless person jumps a turnstile.

In my ideal world of course you'd still have tons of cameras and attendants for security. Expensive public transit is horribly regressive.
I ran one then opened the wikipedia page to verify it, I couldn't find the links.

List of common misconceptions -> Denzel Washington

Allegedly these pages are only 2 degrees apart by way of Hal B. Wallis, Orson Welles, and Humphrey Bogart. I couldn't find Denzel Washington on any of those pages (but all three of them appear on the list of common misconceptions page).
People can enjoy and/or get utility out of different things.
I can't get it to work. :(
Let me preface this with: George floyd was essentially subjected to an execution without trail and nothing about the officers use of force was justifiable.

That said I think it disgusting to pretend that George Floyd was subject to a "web of laws designed to incarcerate black people", unless that web of laws targeting only black people includes prosecuting things like armed robbery. If his priors had only included things like jaywalking or drug possession I might agree with you.

"In 2007, Floyd faced charges for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon; according to investigators, he had entered an apartment by impersonating a water department worker and barging in with five other men, then held a pistol to a woman's stomach."

If anyone wants to talk about disproportionate prosecution thats fine. I think more armed robbers should be in jail to protect innocent victims, and if that means catching more white or asian ones I'm all for it.

Sentencing disparities are disgraceful but I thought I remember reading that they largely disappeared if you adjusted for prior convictions and mitigating circumstances(armed robbery with an straw purchased gun vs. a bat for example). Also I think somewhat related were economic reasons(affording a better lawyer), and honestly though tackling poverty is probably a better way to prevent future criminals, we still need to do something about today's criminals and protect future victims.
Aye very similar at my last job -- got asked a month before that if I was happy, then got given a task with a slightly weird vibe about it that noone except the CTO (also my direct manager and the HR, was small company...) seemed to know I was doing. Same amount of time for me as well, 9 months. My output wasn't great either (I'd made an error taking the job, ignoring a series of red flags the CTO was waving in front of me in favour of getting experience with a specific tech stack, which was stupid, and I p much hated my life by that point). Place had done random firings before though (designer and a business support were in one day, gone the next), so not surprised, but hey ho.
Carbon offsets for airlines is a scam!
I disagree. The highly specialized monitoring equipment and dual high gains antennas and the plethora of other bits and pieces are NOT required to run a "a meeting" or a "netflix stream". A phone with a sim card usually suffice. All this frivolous spending points out that this is a hobby. Nothing wrong with having hobbies, of course, but the spending is not compatible with the definition of minimalism.

A minimalist online meeting is an IRC connection over 3G.
> [...] that browse this subreddit [...]

Freudian slip here, I guess.

I'd still report them through the normal channels. I wouldn't bet on any given Apple employee of the right team to happen to read a specific comment on HN.
I actually wrote a large chunk of the A/UX unix port (late 80s) - a decade before (mid 70s) I'd obtained an undergraduate degree in Comp Sci (in New Zealand) - undergraduate Comp Sci was very much a thing at the time
> extensive security practices

It’s crazy they’re allowed to say that based on the claims I’ve seen about how they handled passwords. It makes me wonder how many companies look professional on the surface, but are pure trash in the backend.
>Also, nuclear power was never subsidized in Germany:

Haha, that's a good joke.

>Direct and indirect German government subsidies alone, including research grants and tax credits, since the mid-1950s have added up to €287bn, FÖS has calculated. Another €9bn were spent on other costs for the state, such as police operations during anti-nuclear protests, or follow-up costs from nuclear operations in former Eastern Germany.

“Great part of these costs never had been included in the electricity price, which is why atomic energy wrongly was considered as a cheap power source,”

https://www.rechargenews.com/transition/no-higher-cost-energ...
I think as far as pop culture glorifying it, there's an element of people not really understanding what it means to be on the side of the outlaw. A lot of people think of themselves as on the side of outlaws in general without ever realizing that they have never once taken the side of anyone accused of being a criminal. So yeah, it's glorified in media, but I'm not sure it translates in practice.

I think your real life examples are great, though!