skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you abandon a ship at sea = derelict and anyone can grab it.
How does this work with water borne survey drones and bouys etc.?
It makes sense that these are operating known objects, how are property rights respected with these objects?

How does it work with space stations, satellites etc? The current problem with large numbers of satellite parts, tanks, collision crap - are they free for people to de-orbit for the good of man? Currently few objects have enough salvage value to make deorbiting removal worthwhile? Can the launcher be assessed a salvage fee to cover the cost?
I know new stuff usually has de-orbit mechanisms in place, but there are many old bits of satellite debris making some orbits dangerous?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

some countries take the 'fuck you - get off with it approach'
Exists: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/price99/mmceepjonb...

There are others too, I just searched for "round prices up browser extension"
Google Wave may not have picked up, but Google Docs certainly did. In the broader topic of online discussion, I feel like we'd be remiss if shared Google Docs didn't get a mention. (I assume MS O365 has a similar set of features, but I haven't used it extensively, so I'm avoiding using a generic term here, at the risk of sounding like a commercial.)

Usually, a heavy email thread will start with a multi-paragraph essay, and try to get to some sort of consensus from the participants. Where google docs lets users comment on a specific phrase or word, and have a discussion thread based on that highlight, Google Docs makes it possible to have a conversation about a specific part of the document. By allowing for shared editing, Docs allows someone who came later to rewrite words or phrases (if that user is allowed to).

If I'm working on any sort of a doc - engineering design doc, marketing copy, whatever - with multiple people, both email and slack fall short compared to a Google Doc. It's got a specific use case, so it's not remotely a replacement for slack or email, but there's a lot of good, focused communication happening in those comment margins.
>terrorist attack on January 6th

Are you seriously comparing what happened on January 6th to 9/11? How about the Oklahoma City bombing? Lockerbie bombing? Get some perspective dude.
Two (import + require, which, as import didn't exist, was necessary). Most current tooling is built to handle both (Deno draws a line under it by disallowing the older one)
It happens but even the six stores a month in American Rifleman aren't statistically significant, when compared to the number of "bad person kills less bad/good person" numbers or "accidental shooting death" numbers.

> in 2020, there have been unintentional shootings by over 220 children. This has resulted in 92 deaths and 135 injuries

Math is hard...
His first duty is to his family, so he should have done anything within the bounds of morality to get as much time/money/aid for his wife. That's why I say take the path of privacy to get a settlement.

Also, this isn't an issue of a company doing something illegal or immoral. We are not talking slave labor or dumping toxic chemicals. This is an argument over compensation levels and therefore I don't think he owes the world his story for the cost of making himself a pariah.
It's better to not extrapolate it on entire company (a dozen of offices, thousands of employees worldwide, different policies per continent or country).
For once it's the auti-bitcoiners with the relentless knee-jerking. Nervous much.
When my company switched to a use it or lose it system (with some extra days thrown in), they let everyone who had accrued vacation keep it in a separate category. I don't know if I'll ever use it but it's nice to know I have an extra bank of 3 weeks vacation if I ever want it.
I’m glad you weren’t there while any of the shootings were happening, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t happen.
I didn't even get the 'report' part. Thanks all.
and UI elements that haven't been updated since Windows 2K.

Also known as "the good part"... Everything else about Windows UI since then has only gotten less usable and more hostile.
Yeah sure, that was some great intel from computers in the sky during our last drone strike in Kabul that killed a humanitarian NGO and his family. [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/us/politics/pentagon-dron...
I am a member in a tabletop gaming club, and no one wants to be responsible if some new European internet law is broken.
So our forum was closed an we have our private community on discord.
a long time problem I've had as a founder, is that I have never encountered a prospective co-founder who could do marketing, who is willing to just work for equity. everyone needs to pay their bills, and equity is not enough. the only exception is ultra rich people who are in it for fun, and are already rich because of a previous startup or a family with deep pockets. and those people you won't find unless you are already very well connected, which only happens if a) you can spend all your time networking instead of building a product b) you have a family that is ultra well connected / rich. in europe, I could never find someone who would work for just equity. so I moved to the US. then, I came to the conclusion that it's the same situation in the US, and location actually doesn't matter even though I was told it's all different in the US.
Where can I find documentation on versioning? My first use case would be to versión different embeddings and use it more like a storage backend than to search for KNN. Would it be possible to not create the NN graph and just use it for versioned storage? We currently use opendistro and it nicely allows doing pre and post filtering based on other document fields (other than the embedding). Therefore I think this could never be a full replacement without figuring out how to combine the rest of the document structure
Right, PTO is compensation.

I always make sure I end the year with a zero PTO balance (no rollover) and I make sure that I encourage my employees to do the same.
It's exceedingly common in the UK. Although admittedly we tend to be halfway between the US and the rest of Europe on most things.
This person is giving advice from the PoV of an individual comfortable with playing zero sum or even negative sum games as long as they are able to continue winning.

Don't be like this, don't corrode the commons for personal gain. By not speaking out you are endorsing a harmful asymmetry, make no mistake about your personal responsibility for perpetuating hostile norms.
Agreed, being able to compile to webassembly would be really nice.
Right, but that is still a technical decision on their side. They presumably don't sit down and have a meeting about what world view they should present. Well I hope they don't.
There are no inalienable rights. It's a marketing slogan.
Ten Years of Fukushima Disinformation
When you aren't actually accruing hours, "business needs" are a euphemism for "your manager's whims."
I imagine it would depend on the state. In California, I believe they can get away with putting "0" as the number of vacation days you are entitled to, so any of the "unlimited" days you take off are really at the whim of your employer.

Where I am in Canada (and I imagine many states) there are legal minimum requirements so I officially get "3 weeks" vacation, but take a couple weeks on top of that using the "unlimited" policy. So "unused" vacation would be paid out according to the official 3 weeks policy in my case. I could see something similar being possible in Europe, but I think in practice europeans already take more paid time off than most North American's with unlimited vacation.
Unlimited Resources from Space – Asteroid Mining (Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell)
They won't let it happen. For now they decided to just ignore the project and not give it any publicity, but the moment it gains popularity, they will definitely react. Until now they attacked it indirectly through their kernel developer saying ReactOS stole his code - in spite of the fact they took all necessary measures not to and underwent an audit. This is the same old strategy Microsoft supported during the SCO trial.
Employers have deep pockets. They'll win over your legal counsel by dragging it out for years, making you bankrupt.

At least by exposing it publicly, the company is now forced to address the issue in front of... well everyone. And, other people can see if they've been screwed over as well. After decades and decades of employees trying to resolve matters internally and quietly, and just getting retribution, does anyone actually think being quiet is still the way to go?

I mean, that's how #metoo got started, by going public and getting people together to push back on corporate BS. Same applies here, and for all corporate issues.
Yeah, except it turns out that the surveillance agencies are spying on congress and lying during testimony. Not exactly a good sign if we’re going to count on congress to reign in the NSA.
Yeah, things like Oracle drivers might be nice.
Something I love about France is how good they've been, by and large, about not falling into the compromise trap.

In the U.S., people wanted the best of both worlds and ended up with the suburbs, the worst of both worlds, an absolute pain to drive anywhere and their lawns as some kind of cruel facsimile of nature.

In France, many towns simply do not have sprawling suburbs and subdivisions, but transition abruptly from pastoral countryside to bustling town. From Bayeux to Besançon you can easily live in the countryside and still walk only a couple miles into a sizable town.
Those numbers are meaningless if we don't have the benchmark specification. And Apple really love to throw numbers like this with no context (but hey, it work, so why stop).
It’s about normalizing vacation, and having a minimum means you’ll take as much time off as anyone else on the team.

Unlimited PTO means take as much as you want, but you have to have excellent social awareness to not damage your standing.
Exactly. I haven't seen it as much now I'm in the U.S., but when I worked in Australia, it was very common for your 2 weeks of paid sick leave to be seen as "vacation". Most people who had sick leave left come December, were suddenly sick for a few days before the end of the year.
> Windows Search being objectively worse than the Power Toys Run

Oh no, that's the one feature I was looking forward to, and only because I was hoping it would be better than Power Toys Run.
I would upgrade to Windows 11, but my 5 year old desktop doesn't support it apparently.
You might be interested in this browser extension I found then, it rounds up prices ending in 99: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/price99/mmceepjonb...
My Dad had a QL at home and even had a small business selling software for it back in the day. It was a bit of a daunting machine for me as a child (I got more mileage out of the BBC Micro), but I have fond memories of playing around with it, and loading games off of microdrives.
The lower cost of sexual release in porn leading to less motivation to pursue relationships with the opposite sex, an activity which in our current state of reproductive preferences, moral values and technology is strongly correlated with instances of human reproduction.
The trick is to negotiate unlimited compensation along with unlimited PTO.

Oh wait
"In Soviet Russia, government always spy on communications. In Capitalist America, communications always spy for government."

Ah, hell, I can't make these Yakov Smirnoff jokes work any more. I guess that's when you know things are getting pretty bad.
> like 2/3 of your team must be available at any time (regardless of the team size),

You don’t think this is a reasonable rule??
Found this out the other day: you can have local only accounts for Windows, although it's pretty hidden nowadays.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/can-i-sign-in-to...

(Search in the page "Switch from a Microsoft account to a local account")
I see a lot of communities on Discord will use bots that recognize keywords from commonly repeated questions. The bot then spits out the answer typically associated with that question. It seems to be somewhat helpful that way.

I've also seen similar done but with a bit of manual intervention. Some kind of support/mod person will see a repeated question and use a command to trigger a canned answer to that commonly asked question.

Or say they want log files, they would trigger a canned message from a bot explaining how a user can get that info.

In some sense it almost works like a support chat on a webpage. The support agents have canned responses and can link out to support articles.
I've been in a similar situation as that described by the author, and went shopping for lawyers.

The four lawyers who would even talk to me basically said this:

Even if you have documentation, there's nothing stopping a company from producing an "HR file" that shows they tried to correct an employee's course, and the employee failed to meet expectations.

There are laws in some states where, if you ask, a company is required to send you all documentation they have about your employment. So I did, and was shocked at how out of sync their records were with reality.

What their records showed was a belligerent, reluctant, and untalented employee, one who was given many many warnings.

Which is not what my actual experience. I was routinely praised by my manager for exceeding expectations, had great relationships with everyone I worked with, could prove that my contributions made the company 3x more than they paid me, etc, etc.

But when struck with pancreatitis, they let me go. While I was in the hospital. Their reason: I didn't request the time off. As if that's a thing you do when you nearly die and are saved by emergency surgery.

TL;DR - it's easy to say "lawyer up", but in reality, much harder to fight than you think, even when you lawyer up.

The good news is I work for a company that doesn't just encourage people to use unlimited PTO, they will frequently pay for vacations for people who go above and beyond. Like, 5 star resort, airfare included for 10 days for up to 4 people.

When my dad was diagnosed with cancer, they said "do what you need to do", as I was his only caregiver. Feeling a bit cautious given past experiences I went on FMLA so that, should things go bad, at least I'd taken the correct legal steps. After being away for two months, when I got back they said "we have unlimited PTO, so we let you use 5 days of FMLA just so it's official, but paid the rest. Welcome back." So, in a way, the first company described did me a favor, since I wouldn't be at my current company had they not fired me.
It's how "unlimited PTO" actually works. It's unlimited at both ends of the spectrum because the US has no laws that mandate that employees ever get time off.
Goodness. Susan Fowler - you read her reflection on working at Uber (she left, found a different position). Hard not to be 100% in her corner. At least for me!

This though - what? Are all software engineers like this guy? He's been there pretty recently 2019.

The whole thing with having a family / kids and atlassian is now facing a class action?

When I was young I slept in a HAMMOCK while working at the office. I now have a family. And yes, it is harder to get promoted, simply because I have less interest in working 90 hour work weeks! The guy took parental leave during his career growth (and was only there a bit before). I mean, your job is kept for you, but you are also looking to get promoted while not there?

Unlimited PTO is garbage. It means in consultation with your bosses and subject to their continued happiness and needs of company you can take time off. Reality is you get unequal usage - it's actually not FAIR, the nice person is to scared, the abuser abuses it until they run the risk of getting fired. Just do normal PTO plans folks so folks KNOW they have a right to their 4-6 weeks! I think unlimited PTO is the worst thing. This is not an atlassian thing though.

Hard to believe there is not more to this story just given the style of this guys writing.

My own piece of advice? Quit and get a better job. These companies don't deserve you. Why waste time on them? Every time I've done that (once) it was the best decision I made (ever). And if you think all managers are crap, become a consultant.
Sinclair was a contender for the BBC project, but couldn't make it happen.

We might not have had ARM if Acorn hadn't won the contract.
> You'll rarely win in the court of public opinion and you'll probably never get hired anywhere again

I thoroughly disagree with both these points.
>> I also had female managers who took 3-4 months of maternity leave.

That's super poor, wtf. What do you even do after these first 4 months then? Give the baby to a babysitter? I know US law about this is weak, but wow.
This is a little harsh. I think it's very situational and depends mostly on whether you feel better about blowing the whistle and helping others or getting some beneficial concession from the company whether monetary or not. In this case, the aforementioned author's wife has cancer and seems to feel some kind of moral obligation to disclose this to others.
> Although there's an increasing assumption that you have a smartphone to accomplish various tasks

Indeed, because... basically everyone carries one.

So, in order to counter that, more people need to not carry one. Not just object to using smartphones, but, "Look, I literally don't own one, I know you want me to install thus and such app to complete some survey before entering the building, but I can't. What's the alternative?"
I had the same feelings about Linux. Turned out Ubuntu runs just fine on the certified hardware from Lenovo, and personally I trust Ubuntu as much in terms of security updates as I trust MS.
Because it's where my eyes naturally/most restfully fall? I don't sit to, or facing, the left of my monitor.

Fair enough, author and you and others obviously like it - but follow that line of thought and why do we have sidebars? Why aren't they middle bars? Put the actual content to the side.
the most surprising thing about this story to me is that the domain shitlassian.com was available.
> Or that unlimited PTO is a scam because his manager had to approve time off requests (completely standard practice - unlimited PTO or not

If a company advertises unlimited PTO but then the company(or it's representatives) block my ability to take PTO, then yes it is a scam.

Why doesn't Atlassian keep track of requests/denial rates and then intervene since they're so benevolent and worried about the potential future employees well-being?
Try setting up multiple WebAuthn w/Facebook, and then disabling the phone based back door.
Am I the only one who feels the entire work relationship and promotion process at Atlassian is a Kafkaesque nightmare? You have to earn X number of various statistics so that you can then be considered for promotion and they even go to the trouble if creating all these employment tiers.

Are all big tech companies like this? It sounds like a miserable experience. "Blimey, I'm 10 code points short to be promoted from a level 3 widget engineer to a class F level 1 junior vice president manager. Maybe I can convert 50 of my code points that I've earned into management points. Also, the employee rulebook also says that I can roll a D20 and add any untaken holidays and if it's above 30 I'll get into the shortlist for next year."

Who comes up with all this ridiculous gamified hierarchy? Maybe I'm just naive as I never worked in these BigCos...
Sometimes standing up for what is right is more important.

Considering this company directly interfered with his ability to care for his wife, it makes sense for him to write this.

It’s worth remembering humans are not entirely rational. The most rational thing would be for him to of simply quit when they weren’t treating him right.

I’ve done that a few times. And it’s worked very well for me.
>Can you blame the guy?

IDK if you're trying to get a message out, doing things like that is extremely self-sabotaging to the message.
> strike a quiet deal with your employer.

I guess the question is, is it the worst your employer will ever get? Sometimes, if you want to win, the opponent just has to lose more. It might not be a good strategy for improving your own life, but it might be a good strategy for doing as much damage as possible to the organization that has wronged you.

Personally, I generally feel that life is too short. But I think the more belligerent approach is probably better for society in general. If everybody went full Michael Kohlhaas when wronged, the world would be a much better place, and people that do so should be commended.
IMO payment is not needed, but I'd be happier in a world with 20 weeks of vacation per year.
> How can such a company despite rebranding itself change the shoddy culture that it had

This is the nature of VPN companies. You must do your research. Sadly most consumers don't do their research and blindly trust that the VPN provider has their best interests at heart.

Should that mean we trust a provider that has zero scandalous pasts? Hardly. Treat every VPN provider as if they peddled malware in the past I say.
Right, it seems relatively simple to calculate someone's salary to also include additional 5 weeks of pay per year so that if you have to pay it out it was already budgeted. Alternatively, you could do it in such a way that every two weeks you get paid for 11 days worth of work and all time off is unpaid. Essentially you are getting 26 paid vacation days and you can use them or keep the extra money. It seems like a win-win. Known costs that are over time and extra money for employees or extra time off for employees.
Apple's best iPhone 13 features are the trade-in offers, not the specs
> Ironically, Google Voice also has the same behavior with abc.xyz.

This is my new mini-favorite thing. It feels a bit like a redux of "Shirt without stripes" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22925087)...
Why do you believe the (US) government be permitted to say "National Security" to excuse severe, widespread and continuous breaches of constitutional rights?
Ha, I thought this was just my Spectrum with dust / biscuit crumbs in it
Nice, yt-dlp is able to download that video.
I don't really understand the appeal of ETL as a service. I can't see what value they can provide over implementing it yourself. And I can see that it would become a royal pain if you want to do something they don't support.
> Build a good product, price it appropriately and people will come.

Unfortunately, much as I would like that to be the case, that's just not true. People won't come simply because you build it, in fact that's a common refrain heard in the startup world. People, however, will pay for subscriptions if they materially help them. And subscriptions are often the best for developers because software development is not static, there are always bugs to fix and features to add.
These People Who Work from Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs [2:03 audio]
The variable refresh rate is what enables the huge battery life improvement. The iPhone 12 has to update its screen 60 times per second, even though movies are shot at 24 frames per second. That means it's showing you the same frame 2 or 3 times, but initiating an entire redraw operation to do so.

The new screen can just leave the image up for 1/24th of a second and then draw the next frame.
They fear Trump voters that will vote however he tells them to, but I do not think they fear them because they are armed.
I learned to program on the 48k when I was about 8. Couldn’t figure out how to save my code to tape so I just left the machine switched on for weeks whilst I wrote games and then let them go when I had to turn the power off. I learned more sat alone with that machine than anywhere else in my life. Rest in peace Sir Clive Sinclair.