skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discord never really advertised themselves as a good tool for support operations of large companies did they? They have mostly always focused on a more community focused side of gaming. Like one of their recent bigger features is that you can add a University you attend and verify your account via your uni email. You then get access to a hub that displays all the different Discord servers people have marked as being associated with the school.

So now I can easily find a ton of clubs Discord servers and join them. These clubs would not be suited for a forum at all and they make more sense in a more "live" kind of setting. I see people in these club discords doing voice chats and streaming games to each other all the time.

It seems like this is more the target for Discord, but a lot of people have repurposed it for their own things like using it for their companies chats and support. It's no surprise that you need to use a ton of bots to make this better supported as Discord so far hasn't really focused much on that side of things.

Discord very-much seems like a younger generation kind of tool and a lot of older people come to it and try and make it fit other purposes.

Reading another comment about someone whose company used this for their internal communication is just crazy. While yes it is a good platform they should have known it was a poor choice with having their historical chat history locked into the platform.
> If your contract is for unlimited PTO and you never take any and leave after 2 years, what do you get?

In all the "unlimited PTO" jobs I've had, nothing.
Clearly the elections end up influencing who sits on the bench.
Seems you misunderstood their comment. They took time off but never logged it in the system. HR asked them to log the days they took off, they said sure but I also get to log my overtime and get paid for those then.
You also need to handle the synchronous IPC case, where a thread wakes up another thread and goes to sleep until some event happens (e.g. the other thread finishes running). You still need to intelligently choose what thread to wake up in that case, and ideally you don't have to wait for another core to make that decision.
The odds of a fire in my kitchen, someone dinging my car, and even a tree falling on my home in a storm are all much higher than the odds of me needing to fire a bullet at another human being. In fact something similar to all three of those things have happened to me already at one point or another. On the other hand I've never needed or even heard of anyone who has needed to use a gun. What's wrong with a baseball bat for self defense? I have one in my closet and never had to draw it, but due to its lower lethality if I had to I would have zero qualms about taking a full swing and I think anyone on the receiving end would realize the same pretty quickly.
Same here, I owe him my whole career. One day I came to my house at nine years old and saw that metal with ruber thing and lots of colours that my father bought. Wonder and awe, as you said. One of the best times of my life was understanding and coding an assembler routine to achieve 64 columns. RIP Sir Clive Sinclair. So sad news.
You get nothing because you've accrued nothing.
I’ll die before getting the injection
Still mobile only. The PS4 Spiderman game is Console only even if it’s a PS4 exclusive.
>The solution here is for governments to ban this kind of bulk data requests without warrant and not for you to fight a losing battle against your own police force.

That and a faraday bag.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28523946
Nothing. That's why they don't have to keep it on their books.
Consumer hardware today is simply what was cutting-edge and crazy expensive 5 years ago.
White men? These discussions about guns in America are always full of people completely ignorant of the fact that black and Hispanic men account for the majority of shootings. It's really a black and Hispanic men problem as both shooter and victim.

Minorities aren't safe. But it's themselves that they're not safe from, not white men. People almost exclusively shoot members of their own race. White people are safe because other white people aren't very violent.
What if users don't want to be informed, or make their own modifications? What if they just want a click a button and not receive junk mail, albeit also not receiving the occasional non-junk email because it had an unusual address.

I'd guess there are far more users like that, which is precisely why there are no major email providers offering the kind of service you talk about.

As always comes up in these conversations, while you have a right to speak, users have a right not to listen, and to use tools to help accomplish that.
It depends on if your company capped how much you could accrue. However much you accrued should be paid out.

Nothing.
A 5-4 decision in 2008 that was along predictable lines. Let's not pretend it's a long-settled or non-controversial interpretation.
Sounds like he had unlimited PTO and had hardly used any of it to me.
Google has not yet learned.
Actually that’s not strictly true. Test methodology was “see if it worked and ship”. Many many of the computers were returned and replaced immediately. And a lot of the new ones you got were the broken ones which were sent back and the chips replaced. I’ve seen a new one which still didn’t work which had been reworked at least once and sold as new again.

My father had a nice business for a few years doing adhoc repairs and then started his own PC import business in the end with the cash he earned fixing people’s stuff. That was a world of difference.

Agree with your comments about affordability. As you say about Eastern Europe, even the clones were more expensive I understand.
I was an executive manager at 2 different startups that originally had "unlimited" PTO. In both of cases it felt wrong to me: The reality is that PTO is never unlimited. Like, if it was unlimited, someone could come to me and ask for 40 days of PTO and I'd have to tell them yeah. Or what about taking every Friday off?

The result was that, lazy/low-performing people would take the most PTO while high performing more dedicated people would sometimes NOT take 1 day in a year (I had to remind/push them to take PTO at the end of the year for their own sainity!!).

Personally, I prefer companies that tell me "25 days of PTO" or 20 or 30 or whatever. That way you everyone including the managers know that every employee WILL be out of the office that time, and it becomes a RIGHT of the employee instead of a charity of the manager.

Ultimately, in these two startups changed from "unlimited" to something between 2 and 4 weeks of PTO per person.
That's true, the F-150 is significantly more capable.
The vast majority of Americans do have a feeling of society without perpetual danger and violence. Gun violence is only a real concern in a handful of cities like Detroit and Baltimore. Now we should do more to improve safety in those cities, and our society has let those places down. But for everyone else those cities might as well be in another country. In my city most years the murder rate is literally zero.

If you read the distorted stories in the news media you'll get a completely unrealistic impression of how most Americans actually live.
>> what are you expecting to turn up? Documents/recordings that say "yep we totally knew that oxycotin was addictive and we're moving profits out with the goal of hiding them from creditors"?

Just like with tons of other cases, the actual thing people trip on are entirely ancillary -- tax evasion, wire fraud, embarrassing emails, obstruction of justice. I'll bet there are a dozen obstruction of justice charges that can be levied if you search thru emails.

Again, they are getting white-glove treatment, so we havent bothered to look for the stuff that will force a more reasonable settlement for the millions of innocent victims.
What's admirable about it? This is just a fiction that you Americans tell yourselves about the next revolution.

Name one, just one way, that ease of gun ownership has protected Americans from their government in a way that citizens of other western democracies have suffered?

There is no scenario in which any citizen with a gun in any country defeats their government. Your gun will keep you safe about as well as your password protected Word document keeps you safe from the NSA snooping.
Yeah, basically this. A big enough niche to have enough users to survive as a language, and to be worth recommending to colleagues.
Quoted from the linked site:

> Convenience functions have been added, and the search engine can now perform simple calculations and unit conversions. Try 1 pint in cubic centimeters, or 50+sqrt(pi). This functionality is still under development, be patient if it doesn't work.

Why would you make any ever so small effort to implement calculations? I don't get it.

If your search engine enabled me to find more useful search results to my queries than google or yacy or whatever, I wouldn't care one tiny bit about being able to do calculations with it.

Why not focus on the search functionality?
At the core of YouTube's censorship is the idea that people aren't intelligent or wise enough to know what kinds of videos they should watch. They don't know what's good for them.

Whatever you may think of that idea, surely the idea that YouTube, which reduces down to a bunch of people sitting behind desks, should get to decide what others watch is questionable. That is, they think a small group of people are wiser and more intelligent than everyone and should get to curate and censor content for the majority at will.
Allow to fix your list :

XP - decent

Vista - horrorshow

7 - alright (compared to vista)

8 - Not too bad

8.1 - alright

10 - dumpster fire

11 - another dumpster fire
I have done this for a company who was knowingly making materially false information to investors. The company merely asked glassdoor to remove it, and they did. It's probably not worth the liability to glassdoor to have reviews that actually show material deficiencies in a company, like lying about benefits.

I've also done this on yelp when I was working as a contractor when I should have been an employee. The company informed yelp I was an employee, so my review was removed (yelp only has a policy employees cannot leave reviews, they had no such policy for independent contractors at the time I left the review). This was doubly insulting because I tried to inform yelp the entire reason I left a review was because I _should_ have been an employee and not a contractor, and yelp informed me I was actually an employee so I could not use their platform!

I also disagree about it being a career ender to publicly reveal serious dishonesty in your employer. The company I work for now usually laughs when I talk about all the shit I've been through and spoken of ( I worked for two very dishonest companies, out of the dozen or so I've been with). If you work for honest people, then they have a vested interest in the dishonest being exposed (its good for their business).
React Native != React.

Also do you consider that VSCode has higher performance requirements than XBox dashboard, or Office plugins?
Yes, to be clear, I hugely respect people like Fowler and others who come forth from vulnerable positions to shed light into problems. IMHO, the cleaning house at Uber was largely thanks to her.

FWIW, I'm involved with hiring and have on occasion been asked by candidates about company culture (and in one case, specifically about the Fowler case). I try to be as candid and transparent as possible with these sorts of topics, because that just seems like the natural thing to do.
Depends on your role / age / situation.

When I was younger and working more junior roles and moving from role to role every year or 2 (generally headhunted) there was a use it or loose it mentality. You wouldn’t take the day off the moment you had a sniffle / didn’t feel 100%.

However once your older, have kids and are at the role for more then a few years, that sick leave is often “banked” for when the kids come down with whatever is going around the schoolyard this week
> Once you max out on accrual, you are giving the company money, which is stupid so it's important to consistently take PTO.

Early in my career I never took a vacation, so I maxed out. I realized that I'd be losing money by being maxed out, so I worked out a deal with my boss to take every Friday off from May to September that year. Four day work weeks all summer was pretty nice!
How so? All you see is that a random DO droplet is pinging your service. You'd need a legal request to get any further info about the droplet. And in that situation, it's equivalent to any other VPN service that will comply with legal requests.
What if annotating things is just not that worthwhile a business?
> yeesh INSERT/UPDATE/DELETEs would scare the heck out of me

Out of curiosity, why would they?
Nobody has to use YouTube. There are many other video hosting/watching platforms. None of them are especially popular because they get filled with a lot of junk, because they attract the people who can't host their content on YouTube.

In a way, this dynamic is an effective, natural check on moderation. If moderation primarily removes stuff that most people think is junk, then alternatives competing on reduced moderation will be junk. If moderation removes valuable stuff that lots of people want, then other platforms that host it instead will receive more traffic and legitimacy.

It's kind of like the Reddit vs. Voat thing. Reddit isn't great, but Voat ended up a cesspool, because Reddit's biggest exoduses were driven by hate groups.
If you watch for it, you'll notice that pattern is common with discrimination claims. It's self destructive too because it prevents self analysis and improvement if you believe you didn't get a promotion or whatever because of discrimination. Then the cycle repeats.
It's not exactly breaking down religion by skin color. There's nothing preventing white people from joining the African Methodist Episcopal Church, for example. But they'd be a minority, and the church's beliefs and traditions are oriented around the social situation of most of its constituents.

Similarly, as this poll shows, there is a significant difference in the behavior of white and black Evangelicals. It's not as formalized as the AME, but people still self-segregate by race, and that affects what they believe and how they interact.
Where to begin. I don’t trust my ISP not to interfere with my packets. In the UK, things like google and imgur get proxied through a centralised filtering engine, ISPs hijack your dns, throttle your traffic based on your activity, blacklist sites using DNS. Who knows what they’ll record for the government and the retroactive laws they may pass?
When the Supreme Court "ended the culture war" about abortion with Roe did it result in the right wing giving up and deciding to get other things done? Or did it get turned into a core issue for recruiting generations of Republicans to overturn it?
I think the point about not being able to copy text, is about the publishers and authors, not the specific javascript code which implements the policy and will of the aforementioned.
You're probably overestimating how fast a home invasion can proceed. Unless the intruders are completely silent and/or have perfect information about the home layout and people's locations in it, it will take them quite a few minutes to round up everyone.
https://archive.is/uL5Sb
I really want one of these to take a git sha1 and make a unique code name for continuous releases ... but I haven't wanted to take the time to make sure no particular word combos wouldn't be offensive. And 160 bits is quite a large domain, but I think occasional rare duplicates would be ok.

Has anyone already solved this?
There's a very different record of homegrown dictators vs. foreign occupying powers in this regard.
Yea vscode is really great!
Could someone knowledgeable give a rundown of the exact stack/frameworks/etc they are using?
> If you get 5 weeks PTO and never take any then leave after 2 years, I assume it gets paid out?

Even in this case, it depends where you live and sometimes what your contract says. California requires it, but most states don't.
GNU Make sounds like a good fit for your background.
How does he know AOC didn't feel the same at the Met Gala?
Even if children don't die of Covid at the same rate as adults, they are still carriers after all.
Olaf Carlson-Wee’s Polychain Capital etc. Invest $230M in Avalanche
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Search]
"ConnectedSearchUseWebOverMeteredConnections"=dword:00000000
"AllowCortana"=dword:00000000
"DisableWebSearch"=dword:00000001
"ConnectedSearchUseWeb"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search]
"CortanaConsent"=dword:00000000
"BingSearchEnabled"=dword:00000000
"AllowSearchToUseLocation"=dword:00000000
The Graph DB scene is quite interesting, might be worth considering.
RIP Sir Clive and thanks for the ZX81!
NT 3.1 (that is, the _first_ release of Windows NT in 1993) supported Unicode, at least as far as the UI elements were concerned (that it was UTF-16, well, ...)
How about insurance that their algorithms won't just terminate your account without warning or recourse? It's the biggest risk of data loss at this point!
> If the majority of the country votes to suspend democracy, would you stick around?

I mean, the South tried exactly that sort of approach over slavery, which their secession declarations deemed fundamental.
Guilded has forum type channels.
> 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.

In Germany, your idea is the law. You get at least 5 weeks of vacation per year and you have to take at least 2 continous weeks off.
I live in Seattle, and I can assure you that the SPD is basically useless now. Whether or not it was "defunded", there were budget cuts and enough restrictions added that the PD essentially doesn't respond to calls unless someone is being actively and indisputably murdered.
How would that work, in terms of retrieval? Each guild is operated by a particular instance of the guilds server in a many-to-one fashion.
It's not fair for people that don't want that and would rather work more for more compensation.
fair points, which i was going to mention, but was feeling too wistful. (it does happen)
That rings a bell!
Seq has since addressed many of the concerns raised by that post, including input validation.
Have you considered sailing or learning a new language such as french (or doing both)?
> Have there been any documented cases of BLM indiscriminately attacking women or children? This seems weird to me.

Well, there was widespread rioting across more or less the entire nation. Also, while not direct violence by BLM agents, many metropolitan police forces have either introduced "reform" in direct support of BLM policy or have otherwise changed tactics to avoid getting bad press and riots in their own town. There is also the issue of officers getting fed up with these changes and leaving for more supportive locales.

In my city, I've had two different hood-rat road rage incidents this year, having only had one other incident 10+ years ago. In both cases drivers made high-speed dangerous maneuvers and then attempted to run me off the road and stick their firearms out the window. One yesterday morning, the other in February. In the former case, I provided a full description of the driver, vehicle, and plate number to 911 and they never even touched the case. I'm still waiting to hear back some 6 months later. I never bothered calling in the second incident.

Actions have consequences, and a less safe city is a result. Criminals, particularly Black criminals, are emboldened by these changes and the zeitgeist that will back them up no matter how much wrongdoing occurs. It's only natural for folks to look after themselves in the face of a faltering police force.
I actually prefer auto-sign in. I don’t want to do the whole 2-factor rigmarole in a dozen different apps. Perhaps they can make it an option though.
Ask HN: What's up with the black bar on top of the screen?
Haven't been to HN for more than a year so I can't say how often the UI changes but I noticed there's a black bar on top of the header. Why's that?
Taliban never had the backing of Russia, what is this bs you're spreading?
Yes and no. The 48k was a bit of a disaster to start with. Lots of failures, bugs galore, a full recall due to power supply shock hazard. Not to mention the horrible keyboard.

When you look at the microscopic view of owning one computer from him that worked it does somewhat rose tint the overall view of things which was not good.
"Democratizing genetic engineering won’t suddenly unleash bioterrorism upon the world."

How sure is he of that, and why? As a comparison, nuclear power has been of great utility for many countries, but I sure would not want to see it "democratized".
They are not local guys with guns. They were not local guys with guns years before last war. The region fighters started, long time ago, by being trained by army (American) and were sponsored by multiple governments over years.

They are trained, funded disciplined. They are also local guys and local guys join them often. But then become part of something bigger.
Facebook is threatening freedom of association
It is very much a work in progress, still struggling with some areas. I only really got into the territory of "sometimes actually useful" like this weekend. Wasn't planning on blowing up on HN just yet.
> But given that she's helping the public image of an unconstitutional and abusive conservatorship means that I don't WANT FB to do what she wants.

Imo if Facebook wants to be less toxic (no pun intended?) they would want to quell these as well. As long as we are algorithmically deciding what gets views id prefer the bias skew positive and not negative no matter how justified.
There are graphics like [this](https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/california-newsom-...) that make it easy to tell how statistics weigh in various constituencies. Does anyone here know of a similar graph, but for homicides by firearms? If the majority of firearm violence is indeed caused by specific hotspots across the country, then I would love to see a graphic that shows where they are and how they weigh in proportion to the rest.
i thought reactos contained portions of windows NT code?
3-4 months is a lot for the US. Most states have no legal minimum, at $COMPANY I would get 8 weeks (12 if I moved back to California).
Mine was smuggled into the country due to currency crises and import/export controls. I owe thanks to my mother for arranging that so that I could graduate from writing programs using paper and pencil to using an actual computer.

Thank you Psion's Horizons cassette for teaching me about computer architecture. Thank you Toni Baker for teaching me Z80 assembly so I could program x86 with no problem.

But, thank you Sir Clive, above all, for making such an affordable and approachable computer. What I learned on the ZX81 and the ZX Spectrum is still with me.
These guys threw some fun parties in Brooklyn back in the day. They had talks from some notable engineers, had some good swag and an open bar.

I applied but withdrew from the process when they told me that for the final round I'd have to present some interesting code I wrote to the engineering team. Everything significant/interesting I've done is proprietary. I didn't think I could whip something up in a few days.

They let go of their aspirations to annotate the internet a while back I think. The internet is just too dynamic. I guess they had a lot of pressure from VCs to rapidly grow use cases and their user base.

Anyway, RIP.