skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found that it makes much more sense to call it "untracked" PTO instead of "unlimited". Obviously there is a limit. But untracked implies that as long as things get done in a timely manner, no one will hassle you.

So far I've only worked at one place with untracked PTO, and it was great. Took more vacation there than anywhere else I had worked, and management was really good about not only pushing you to take PTO but taking it themselves in big blocks to show that such behavior was OK.
I have no knowledge of the ROI involved here, but would love to understand this: Twilio is 0.75c to send a text.

Is it possible for a spammer to generate >$75 per 10,000 people spammed? I've no idea were the SMS spams I've got link to (not about to find out) but they are so obviously spam.

We use SMS for communicating with users and would be happy to more a lot more per text to escape the 'positive ROI for spammers' territory.

I'd be happy to do that for important emails too!
This has already happened. A catholic newspaper bought commercial location and app data and used it to out a gay priest who was forced to resign. They broke the joke "privacy protections" by knowing his home, office, and a conference he went to.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/catholic-priest-...
Maybe a better suited choice for errors than an insulting message: when I provided a query in my native language it regurgitated the error "needs to be a word" instead of more acceptable "not a supported language".

When you claim that a word in some other culture is not "a word", just because it's not recognized by your machine, that's demeaning to say the least.
I personally think from a privacy standpoint I actually like that the chat messages I post on Discord aren't logged and archived on some random websites. Maybe this is because I don't use Discord like a forum, but I use it more like it is a live discussion. Just like if that discussion happened in person you can't really go back on it unless it was recorded somewhere. In the case of Discord you can go back on conversations, just not via a search engine.

I think any important and useful information should be stored via other methods. And I actually have seen this done as well. I've seen common answers to questions that will get added to some kind of FAQ style page online and that will be linked to when someone asks that common question.

Discord is pretty focused still on the gaming/community side of things and I think it does this part pretty well. I have seen it used to supplement many things. Many game servers have a Discord associated with them. Twitch streamers have their own Discord communities. Each game typically has at least one main Discord for it. Discord now supports discovering discord servers for clubs at your University. But in all of these cases I am mentioning being able to search this from a Google Search is not important. In fact in some ways I think it's preferred from a privacy standpoint to not have random chat messages I send be archived on random sites.

I think the problem is that people are trying to use Discord for purposes it wasn't really designed for. So it's funny when these people then complain about it.
You mean this?

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Are there specific Graph databases you would recommend? I have played with Neo4j about 5 years ago. Has there been anything revolutionary in this field since then?
You should look up the numbers of yearly defensive gun uses in the United States. The CDC reports 60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses each year
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Yeah and pedestrians still cross red light I the night fairly regularly.
I live in other OSes most of the time, so thank you for this.
One reason their homicide rate is less than half ours is that their clearance rate for murders is >90% vs around 60% in better parts of the US. This was a result of the British police adopting a standard and very effective methodology for investigating murders in the 70’s and 80’s.

There is a lot of criminological evidence that the deterrent effect of policing is proportional to the predictability of the crime being solved, rather than the harshness of the punishment.

If we want less murders, we need to put more effort into catching murderers. That is where the cause and effect relationship lies. It is also something that the British know how to do, and which we could learn from.
In america, are you allowed to shoot a police officer who is violating your rights?
So basically, it sounds like you want people to shut up, take what the bosses give, and you want the entire industry to blacklist people for speaking out against abuse.
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When I would commute from Orange County so Santa Clara the flight was often ~40 minutes. Combine with takeoff and landing it didn't make a lot of sense to pull out an addition device but it was easy enough to watch a short TV show on my phone.
Maybe, but there's no other asynchronous, federated, widely deployed, open-standards competitor. Not by a million km.
iirc the Hermes has AOT'd bytecode but not real native execution, from what I read they couldn't get the performance up enough to offset the size cost vs their bytecode and for many regular React-native apps absolute performance isn't as important as not being waaay too bloated.
95 was a paradigm shift, 98 had batteries included for the internet, but 98se and 2000 server are the best OSes MS ever put out.
I'll ask (french speaking) friends who owns a big 3D studio but... Native french speaker here and I never ever heard it used except to mean "a little cart" (totally unrelated to software / video editing).

> It’s pretty widely used in software

Definitely not.

> video editing

I take your word on it

> and those jobs with version to deliver at fixed and seemingly arbitrary dates

Definitely not.
I (ab)use gfycat.

#!/bin/sh
curl -s -X POST "https://api.gfycat.com/v1/gfycats" -H "Content-Type: application/json" | exec jq .gfyname -r

It generates a name like HardDisastrousJaguar. Thus far, all other code name formats seem to suck -- e.g. they're 12 words, they don't start with adjectives and end with nouns, etc.

So the trick is to map a specific continuous release back to a name like HardDisastrousJaguar. Any ol' database would do the trick. And the best database is the code release itself; you can throw the above code into your continuous release process to generate a unique name during the release.

But, like you, I would love it if there was a way to map 160 bits to a name like HardDisastrousJaguar without relying on external services. Unfortunately, us nerds seem to get caught up on correctness ("There might be collisions! We need 12 words for 160 bits!") while losing sight of the fact that it's supposed to be for humans to read. HardDisastrousJaguar is memorable; <12 random english words> is better than 160 random bits, but it's a long way from HardDisastrousJaguar.
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Though VPNs are specially handy in high censorship countries where ISPs monitor and block TLS SNI, in some instances someone might trust a private company in a foreign nation more than their own ISP and country, or simply might want to access content blocked by their ISP. Honestly upcoming eSNI/ECH RFCs will fix most of these issues.
I think it quite likely Angola's reporting is broken. Coming up with accurate numbers even for a developed country is challenging.

>Furthermore, i find US fascination with their theoretical ability to fight their government with small arms adorable and misguided.

Afghanistan, a fractious nation mostly comprised of illiterate peasants, has been able to fight off not one but two superpowers using mostly small arms.
For having dealt with various religious communities, mostly Catholic, you'd be surprised how little people care about what the pope / their priest thinks, especially on anything outside the sphere of religious matters. There is also a strong distinction between science and spirituality. It is pretty obvious that there is more at play than simply religious (community, culture etc...)

Just look at education levels for the various religious/non-religious groups: Christians and Jewish people are the most educated groups (more than all non-affiliated even) worldwide. Look at individual countries and these levels are completely switched around. See: https://www.pewforum.org/interactives/educational-attainment...
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> but the ability of guns to appear at any instant keeps the entire country on edge, all the time.

This is a fantasy. I’ve never been in a situation I’m the US where I thought a gun could appear at any time, and I don’t even live in a particularly great neighborhood.
clive sinclair died, the black bar is in tribute to passing of a tech icon

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28554565
The point is NOT that given the current system as the leaders of the west set it up that it is irrational.
You correctly identify some trees, and miss the entire forest.

The point is that the western leaders SET IT UP THIS WAY.

Effectively, they externalized the costs of losing the massive geopolitical/economic strategic advantage onto future generations, who will have to deal with the fallout of an authoritarian regime in a very strong geopolitical position.

And these "leaders" effectively sold out for a very transient advantage.

What could have been done differently? 1) Implement laws preventing transfer of IP to China, to counter their laws requiring it. 2) prevent critical components of defense systems from being made there, both to avoid technology transfer and to maintain onshore manufacturing skills 3)Implement quotas and tariffs that reflect the actual costs of the strategic loss. 4) Encourage investment in other low-wage countries that do not pose the same geopolitical risk. This is just the beginning, and none of it was done.

Once those restraints were removed, of course it becomes in the interest of every manager to offshore to the newly opened areas.

>> The same investors that buy stocks at 34x annual earnings, necessitating more than three decades to make back their investment?

Nonsense, decades is not the typical investment expectation. If they are investing at 34X PE, they expect bigger returns sooner. Amazon is a great example, whee you could invest at effectively infinite PE ratios and double your money within years, or get 10X within 7 years. Recent price $3475. It passed $340 in Q1 of 2015, and at that time the P/E was effectively infinite with negative earnings per share. [1] Your example more even proves the point of short term focus. By your example, if investors lost money really means that they're investing for the long term - preposterous.

[1]https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/pe-rat...
This is also illegal in Mexico: Your contract must say the number of vacation days you have, particularly because at the end of every year you get a "vacation bonus" (prima vacacional) that is proportional to your total yearly vacation days (25% or 50% pay of each day). If you don't use it, they still have to pay you. Of course if someone put that they give ∞ vacation days, the amount to pay yearly to each employee will be quit a bit haha.
> To even get to this point you would have to assume that the US would devolve into a civil war, in which you can also safely assume that many in the US military would be defectors (leaving a lot of empty tanks and airplanes, if not turned to the "other" side).

This is totally speculation on my part, but it could be important to have a armed civilian resistance to create a "permission structure" for military defection. My understanding is that military strongly inculcates loyalty and obedience to the organization. Those seem like they'd be hard feelings to overcome, especially in isolation when the defection would be solitary and likely pointless. I'd think that in a lot of cases people would just muddle along for lack of options. Having a group to join and take your equipment to seems like it would make the decision much easier.
never understood this. why does school/work has to start at the same time every day of the year? This is the 21st censtury, we can handle schedules.
Usually means a nerd hall of famer passed away.
So the last "good" Windows was what then, 3.1? Modern lock screens are essentially just glorified login prompts and we had that in 3.11 I believe.
So Caracazo means Caracas hit...itself?
>I worked at a startup where the CEO reverted the unlimited PTO because one asshole engineer took 2 months off paid leave and then came back and quit immediately.

The CEO made a dumb bet and lost. You can't be mad when you offer unlimited PTO and people use it.
I never said that there are no constraints, only that constraints that argue for arresting population growth have turned out to be unnecessary because of various technological and social improvements over time.

The average person can't choose to raise children at an older age: either he procreates at the replacement rate, or near-term, the population will nosedive and will necessitate technology improvements to make up for the shortfall. Most economists agree on the necessity of having a good rate of population growth for a nation to be prosperous. Countries like Russia and Hungary, which are rapidly depopulating because of a lack of childbearing and immigration, are flailing to arrest the demographic decline.

Europe experienced technology growth and a mini-boom when the plague wiped out huge portions of its population. But it has never fully recovered, with large areas still depopulating, and has experienced a mostly poor rate of growth because of the plague. Demographic disasters are as challenging as climate disasters, if not more, and have affected humanity in huge ways.
>The US is not that bad compared to other New World countries.

Yeah, I'd add that France doesn't have a long, porous border with the developing world. Nor nearly as much heterogeneity in its population.
How is it surveillance when two consenting adults share their location with each other using a self hosted service?
Yep, that’s the one. Is it some kind of web beacon?
> In my experience USA lot less corrupt than most other countries. Lobbying overall is a net good thing for a democratic society.

You rightly mention lobbying and corruption together. But somehow you miss that they are on the same continuum. From my EU perspective lobbying in the US is corruption, as the lobbying comes with money and paid-for political promotion.

The situation around guns itself is a clear example: as I understand it, a majority of US people is in favor of more limitations to gun rights (banning automatic weapons, screening psychiatric patients and criminals) but politicians are only expanding gun rights (open carry etc).

If democracy would work as intended then "common sense" limitations would have been introduced long ago.

Note that I am not talking about corruption in the criminal sense: US politics and supreme court have fully legalized and embraced it, conflating it with lobbying.
The fitlet 2 is really nice, I have one and it's been rock solid.
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There is plenty of other UI things to be touched.
No, it's a negotiation at that point. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm fairly certain that the difference lies in whether or not you make a demand. If you simply say "I'm going public with this info on X date" and leave it at that, it's not extortion. If the other party decides they want to pay you to not do that, it's on them and you can negotiate from there because they made the offer. If you say "I'm going public with this info on X date unless you pay me" it's extortion.
> the A14 already had AV1

Uh, I'm gonna need to see a reputable citation for that claim.
... wow, Bloomberg ...
I wonder if the video had prominent "Don't try this at home" warnings?
Some examples of religion broken down by skin color:

- Most Southern Baptists once rejected racial integration and accepted white supremacy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Baptist_Convention#Fo...

- Nation of Islam, "open to people of color but not whites" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam

- Racist restrictions on Black people in the LDS Church until 1978 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people_and_Mormon_priest...

In this case, "white evangelical" refers to something more like this description from the magazine "The Christian Century" (representing US mainline Protestantism) at https://www.christiancentury.org/article/critical-essay/amer... :

> Over the course of the 20th century, the evangelical coalition entwined theology, whiteness, and conservative politics. The histories we tell about that movement demand attention to all three aspects. By using theological markers to define evangelicalism, we miss the ways cultural and political forces have shaped the movement. To identify as evangelical in the early 21st century signals commitments to gun rights, the abolition of legal abortion, and low taxes. It’s next to impossible to understand these commitments through the prism of theology alone. But when we understand evangelical as an identity forged in the contexts of Jim Crow segregation, a struggle against second-wave feminism, and fears of a tyrannical federal government, the origin of these commitments becomes clearer.

That well-written piece gives other examples of how "The racial segregation of American Protestantism facilitated deeper commingling of racist beliefs with evangelical religion", if you want to gain some clues.

I'll add another quote, to allay the "not all evangelicals" crowd:

> By the final decades of the 20th century, a commitment to right-wing political movements and white racial identity offered the most distinctive marks of evangelicalism. This characterization—like any characterization—leaves some people out. There were liberal evangelicals like Jim Wallis and Ron Sider. There were black evangelicals, particularly in the South, who refuse to cede the movement entirely to white believers. Perhaps most notably, American evangelicalism acquired a distinctly international following in the late 20th century, as millions of Christians from Latin America, East Asia, and Africa have poured into American churches.
I am fluent in 3 languages. I grew up in India where just about everyone ends up learning at least 3 languages. A month is too short to really pick up a language.

Sailing or outdoorsy stuff like hiking is not my cup of tea. I work out (cardio and weights) to keep myself fit. Not planning on making any changes to my daily routines during the month
Edit: my objection is incorrect. We’re in fact saying the same thing. I misread a previous post :/

Not if the broadcast is (eg) HLS[0], so I think the proper answer is: “it depends.”

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming?wprov=sfti...
I love this idea, and admire the work you put into it. I'm a fan of long reads and historical non-fiction, and Google's results are truly garbage.

I have a criticism that I think may pertain to the ranking methodology. I searched for "discovery of Australia". Among the top results were:

* A site claiming that the biblical flood was caused by Earth colliding with a comet (with several other pages from that site also making the top search results with other wild claims, e.g. that the Egyptians discovered Arizona);

* Another site claiming the first inhabitants of Australia were a lost tribe of Israel;

* A third site claiming that Australia was discovered and founded by members of a secret society of Rosicrucians who had infiltrated the Dutch East India Company and planned to build an Australian utopia...

These were all pages heavy with HTML4 tags and virtually devoid of Javascript, the kinds of pages you'd frequently see in the late 1990s from people who had built their own static websites in a text editor, or exported HTML from MS Word. At that time, there were millions of those sites with people paying for their own unique domain names, and so the proportion of them that were home to wild-eyed conspiracy theories was relatively small. What I think has happened is that kooks continued to keep these sites up - to the point where it's almost a visual trope now to see a red <h1> tag in Times New Roman and think, uh oh, I've stumbled on an "ancient aliens" site. Whereas scholars and journals offering higher quality information have moved to more modern platforms that rely more heavily on modern browsers - with or without their own domain names. So as a result what seemed to surface here were the fragments of the old web that remain live - possibly because people living in cabins in Montana forget to cancel their web hosting, or because the nature of old-school conspiracy theorists is to just keep packing their old sites with walls of text surrounded by <p> tags.

Arguably, this seems to rank the way Google's engine used to, since it couldn't run JS and they wanted to punish sites that used code to change markup at render time. At least, when I used to have to do onsite SEO work, it was always about simple tag hierarchies.

I wonder whether there isn't some better metric of validity and information quality than what markup is used. Some of the sites that surfaced further down could be considered interesting and valuable resources. I think not punishing simple wall-of-text content is a good thing. But to punish more complicated layouts may have the perverse effect of downranking higher-quality sources of information - i.e. people and organizations who can afford to build a decent website, or who care to migrate to a modern blogging platform.
I've worked at Atlassian for more than 4 years. I don't recognize this portrait at all. I and everyone around me have had plenty of time off when needed, with very little push back. Atlassian does way more than is required for our wellbeing, and is genuinely the best company I've worked for.

Lots of people around me have taken time of for sickness, to look after family, for parental leave, or just because they need a break - everything from a day to multiple months - and I've seen nothing other than support for them from others at every level.

This person clearly had a bad experience, and I'm sorry for them. But it's by no means typical at Atlassian.
> isn’t it obvious gun owners in the United States are much more likely to support any likely authoritarian government?

That's hilarious. Sure, there's the Republican party, but also a massive Libertarian sentiment here, and Libertarians love guns.
That’s probably a pretty fair assumption. That barrier helps to qualify potential buyers.
The VC were conveniently for the North used up in the Tet Offensive, after that it almost entirely the regular forces of the North. Who didn't need planes or warships for their second huge armored invasion after support US was withdrawn for the South.
What keeps a party's platform from changing? Would former republicans vote democrat if the republican party dropped its anti-immigration stance? Surely not, as there is still abortion, taxes, guns, etc.
> I personally have a larger frustration with there being too much time off as I actually enjoy the work I do

Can't you just not take the time off? If it's mandatory I'm sure you could still work while "off". Honestly I have an extremely hard time relating to this sentence.
> Why do they keep messing with the UI?

The UI that remains unchanged in a few years is perceived as old and obsolete, hence the purely marketing driven need to change it even when it works.
And then there are new courses and new support contracts. Governments are a significant part of MS customer base; every time MS changes something, it's new money pouring in. As someone once said, Windows is not an operating system, it's a business platform.