skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My only experience of unlimited PTO was at a startup that was very successful and full of people who worked very long hours and took almost no vacations. If you took a vacation everyone was very supportive, in the sense that: We are really glad you are doing this, we know how hard it must be for you to take a vacation.

In my second year when I let people know that I was going to a second five day vacation (ie two one week vacations in a year) I could see opinions of me drop considerably. I was not a team player.

If I ever were to work at a place with unlimited PTO, I would simply ask, what is the average PTO people take in a year. If they can't say, don't believe it. It's just a ploy to not have to account for vacation days or pay vacation days when there is turnover.
There wouldn't have been a BBC without Uncle Clive.
Agreed.

Employers want to keep things as quiet as possible and will settle and stay out of court even if your chances are very slim because a one time payout is cheaper than gathering evidence, assembling lawyers, sapping admin time, etc. Unless you go big and then they will take you to court and most likely you’ll lose because you don’t have lawyers on retainer nor the bank.

Then, even if you win, now you’re persona non grata for most HR departments because typically only particular personalities will take on a company and the chances of you being unpredictable are calculated to have gone up. So make sure it’s a retirement payout as your chances for employment went down.

So, unless it’s something egregious and utterly wrong, take your losses and walk away with a quiet settlement.
For one, I think it is irresponsible to leave math graduates so woefully unprepared to enter the workforce. There are not enough PhD slots for everyone to attend graduate school, nor should they. Math students can be very effective in the workforce with some practical programming experience under their belt.

There are pedagogical reasons too. Programming has been an endless soure of applications and motivation to learn and explore math, especially computer graphics and FP. Many math students are naturally curious and explore on their own anyway, but of course a good instructor can accelerate the learning process.
1. Many of them were armed
2. That was because the Trump administration refused to send in the national guard for several hours after the terrorist attack on January 6th.

If the government does not stand up to terrorists attacking the US Capitol, then yes, they can take the building quite easily.
Yes, that's the one. Thanks. I couldn't find any reference to it but apparently there is now some movement regarding this that his surgery dates happened to overlap with great regularity with his court dates.

I'm not sure anything will come of that because I find the idea of a doctor cooperating with such a scheme rather farfetched, but in the case of Weinstein it probably shouldn't be ruled out a-priori.
All SpaceX Launches From KSC in 4 Minutes 20 Seconds -1 [video]
The value of ruins is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruins_photography a.k.a Ruin Porn
Might be right. I would be surprised, though. I do remember that it was a "brand new" buzzword.

Not worth fighting over. Time is flying, and even the early 2000s was a couple of decades ago.
Please stop posting flamewar comments to HN, regardless of how wrong other people are or you feel they are. You did that repeatedly in this thread and that's not cool.

Even if you don't feel you owe the people you're disagreeing with better, you owe this community better if you're posting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't see any mentions of who's actually blocking it, just some guys work and a VPN provider.

There isn't any indication the blocking is worse than most other TLDs.
Why do you think unlimited vacation was the cause of that?

Companies with set amounts of PTO can also deny your vacation request.
Windows 11 is half-baked.

But it isn't just half-baked because it was rushed out while ignoring all the feedback (although it absolutely was). It is also half-baked because Microsoft's management has no particular strategy or plan for what they want Windows to be.

So Windows 11 just feels like an "and kitchen sink" where someone picked up an iPad, noted down a bunch of random features without rhyme or reason and then told the people below them to shove them into Windows for some reason.

Then you step back and realize that very "101" features on Windows are still incomplete like the migration to Settings, Windows Search being objectively worse than the Power Toys Run (let alone Google Desktop Search RIP or FileLocator Pro), and UI elements that haven't been updated since Windows 2K.

As cliché as this sounds, Microsoft needs someone with a vision for Windows at the helm, someone they trust enough to go hands off and let them materialize that vision. Regardless of what that vision is, at least then Windows would be a something, rather than a whole host of competing ideas and contradictions i.e. a mess.

PS - Ironically the "Windows 11 PC Health Check" app symbolizes Windows 11's problems: Released in a half-complete state, pulled, then re-released as a "Preview" also in a half-complete state. The app to check if you're ready for Windows 11 is a "preview" less than 30 days before the FULL retail release of Windows 11... It is almost too perfect.
Having worked at companies that do both, I prefer the explicitly accrued/yearly allotment. There's less of "I'm back in elementary school and need to raise my hand and ask permission to use the bathroom" and more "This is my time, as long as I'm responsible I can use it essentially whenever". And that's with the previous unlimited time company actually being fair with it, I can't imagine how difficult it would be to use with a company that discouraged it.
Parent is a lead/manager of some sort, and they were directed to verbally discipline a person who "reports" to them (IOW, works under parent commenter's org).
I think my brain just broke watching that

Very cool!
>we don't have violent criminal gangs, almost at all.

On the contrary, we have plenty of violent crime clans (mostly gypsy), they just don't use firearms but have no issue threatening you and your family or beating you into submission with melee weapons or bare hands/feet if you stand in the way of their (mostly) illegal activities while the local police, even when they're not on their payroll, are toothless thanks to the poorly defined laws and they can't, or simply can't be bothered to take much action against them unless they commit some extremely violent acts that get lots of media coverage for which higher levels of government are called for accountability.

My $0.02
Do your employees take more time off than they would otherwise get with accrued PTO? If yes, then I doubt it's the outstanding liability issue you are worried about, because you could just set aside revenue for that specific purpose, switch to accrued PTO and come out ahead. If your employees take less time off than they otherwise would with accrued vacation, then it sounds like a shit deal for your employees.
Everyone should own a toothbrush.
>> they sell privacy<<
Lol theyll sell YOURs more like.
Word Processors on the Commodore Vic-20
Don't know why you were immediately down-voted, litigation is the wrong approach to use, since the litigation process is already captured by our national security cabal. I think many of us here writing walls of text plan to run for office, but do not have access to the kind of capital that it would take to actually have a chance
The analogies used to understand living systems always track technology.

In the 1800’s when ‘fields’ were the new thing, folks assumed cells (or, more generally, tissue) has invisible vital forces that dictated morphongenesis etc.

With the development of steam, internal combustion, etc, living systems were viewed in terms of energy and chemical reactions.

Then, electronics... with digital, everything — from DNA on down — was viewed as, essentially, a computer program.

Now, as we’re getting more comfortable with chaos and complex inscrutable systems (such as neural nets and the like), we view the mess of proteins less like a lock-key and more like a dynamic complex system.

Not being critical... but, it’s worth noting the source of these analogies.
The Art of Documentation
Infrastructure is quantum state. AWS APIs lie to you. Status pages lie to you. If I had a nickel every time the solution to a failing HTTP call was "just send it again"...

Use whatever tool you like: SQL, Rust, carrier-pigeon - but it wont be a panacea to solving cloud infrastructure.
I... have been using win11 on a few machines (gaming and a work/coding computer included) and... it's just a reskin with some long overdue features. The way MS does updates now means no more huge monolithic releases and also means the update is smooth and mostly problem free.

It even updates the windows sandbox (which has needed an update for YEARS) which might be worth it by itself.
Non competes generally must pay base salary to be enforceable.
According to the privacy label, this app fits my definition of spyware (by force uploading activity data without my opt in or consent) so there's no chance I will be installing it.

Bummer they don't have a website.
That happened on Monday. Today is Thursday. Also, it wasn’t a “murder” (I’ll take a killing, but the victim did not die.)

EDIT: I can’t help be curious about what’s in the mind of someone who is so blatantly dishonest. Right at the top it says “Published 2 days ago”, and in the second paragraph it says “Monday”. Is the idea that you assume no one will actually take a look at the link?
I wonder if ReactOS will hit 1.0 by the time that Windows 10 goes out of support in 2024.

It would be interesting to see older systems retasked to a free clone OS, potentially running most/all of the same software.

https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-in-2020/
Hardly.

> Trying to litigate a matter of national intelligence through the courts is the wrong approach to use. The government has nearly unlimited powers in matters of national security, which includes the collection of intelligence. The right approach for those who believe to have standing is to write to your congressman or senator, especially if they sit on the House or the Senate Intelligence committees.

This isn't the way the government is supposed to work. We cannot count on the legislature to pass constitutional laws in all circumstances, that's why we have these landmark court cases that overturn bad laws. To say that the real solution is to just hope and pray that the legislature comes to their senses and reforms the laws themselves completely circumvents the role of our courts. If that was realistic, why do we have courts at all?
Actually it is easy to build Hackintoshes, even with AMD.
Catalina is running stable with Apple ID and all the bells and whistles. In the past when Apple ignored updating Mac Pro Trashcan for several years, we have build a monstrous PC with Hackintosh to run FinalCut.
Search for Open Core Catalina.
> It's also why many companies hate carrying vacation days over - they don't want someone to save up three months of vacation that they earned at a low wage from getting promoted, and then receiving it in cash when they quit at a higher wage.

This can be a nasty carrying cost for companies.

I worked at a place that went from the standard accrual of vacation to "a minimum of 20 days/year, no carry-over."

To keep employees from engaging in open rebellion, they had to offer two tiers: either 1) you agreed to the new plan and gave your accrued time back, or 2) you keep your accrued time to date, received no more, and could join the new plan only when your vacation time balance hit zero.

The new employees, including me, quickly picked option one. The long-timers all picked option two, sat on their time, and cashed out when they went to other jobs.
While the study did control for factors like socioeconomic status, race, and job, I think it's inherently difficult to control for the idea that somebody is much more likely to carry a gun when they perceive their risk of being attacked as higher. For example, if they frequently interact with dangerous people in their personal lives.

I would not be surprised to learn that, say, people who get restraining orders against their exes are more likely to be murdered by their exes than people who don't. Does that mean that getting a restraining order is dangerous? Or does it mean that people in dangerous situations tend to get restraining orders?
It very well could be just the people in my life.

Btw, it's only that I noticed it the last few months. I think it's been going on far longer and more indicative of my relationships. Sadly.
You can cap the accrual. I'm not a lawyer, but I assume it's legal because many big companies have such a policy, in California and elsewhere in US.
I don't know about insanity, in Europe it is very clear what the contract and law says, and it is very simple. People usually have the holidays around the same time of the year. Then again the salaries are much, much lower than (some parts) of the US. You could see it as a tradeoff.

However it varies from country to country but in my understanding the difference to US is drastic.
Employers can always chose to force annual vacation payout - or have reduced hour rollover (i.e. halved if rolled over). I absolutely despise any sort of vacation reduction (or full disappearing on expiration) but having the hours paid out is a pretty equitable situation. If I want to take a vacation in January and am forced to take it using unpaid hours (I'll always talk to managers about carrying over hours for some fixed vacation if they're willing and usually get positive feedback) then I'll at least end up neutral at the end of the year (or employment) when those accrued hours get paid out.
Perhaps they’re assuming a cinematic frame rate of 24fps for streaming video and matching the refresh rate to that versus whatever refresh rate an iPhone 12 Pro has - guessing 60hz?

Still seems a big increase but maybe the combination of the variable refresh display, larger battery and refined 5nm node (TSMC 5NP) all add up to something substantial?

I was wondering if this was also factoring 5G in given last year’s 5G modems were noted as particularly power hungry. I’m guessing Apple is testing on WiFi though.
Recent ex-Atlassian employee here. No part of this article matches with my experience. It's one of the better companies I've worked for. I usually took 3-4 weeks of PTO a year, it wasn't a big deal. We didn't even have to register our time off in a payroll system or anything like that. Yeah you couldn't take 6 months off and expect to keep your job, but I felt like 3-5 weeks of PTO was the norm there. I also had female managers who took 3-4 months of maternity leave. It wasn't a big deal. This article complains about being at a job for 2 years without a promotion. That's the mark of an entitled person. P4 is still a great position with solid pay.
Regarding fake accounts, at the beginning of 2021 I saw this story a number of places - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-disables-1-3-billion.... That in 2020 fb shutdown 1.3 billion (with a b, fake accounts). I can no longer find a good number for the total size of fb's membership. I think around this time I saw it reported as 4 billion. Does anyone have such a number? If the four billion number were accurate, then when this story ran fb was admitting that something like 20-25% of the platform up until then was fake.
One of the pennies that's been dropping for me recently is that extreme duress can provoke a mindset/belief that the capacity is not available to fulfill a particular global set of role(s), position(s), task(s), etc (in this case spanning worker/workplace-politician/father/husband/carer/human being). This "over-duress" seems to manifest as a sort of fundamental loss of core equilibrium that leaves an existential vacuum in its wake (maybe a bit like the mental spoon counter going negative), and if pushed far enough (circumstances hit the sour spot just right), I've noticed this can involuntarily be expressed to others in a somewhat irrational/illogical, clingy, needy, and unfortunately sometimes cringy way.

While I don't think this particular case is as extreme as the end-state suggested by the trajectory described above, I find it interesting that the OP of the domain has the execution to put a domain and webpage together, and has published info that describes a situation that, in theory, is still redeemable... although now that this been published I do definitely think that it's a given that there's not very much this person can do to recover their professional relationship and retain their job with everyone keeping a straight face when they theoretically next come in to work. (Cue guaranteed awkward conversation the moment they get in...)

I definitely get "just leave already, or hire a lawyer" vibes from this, but it's clear this person is at 101% emotional saturation and don't have the attention span for that, sadly. It is an excellent philosophical question as to whether this means this person's overall mental competence should be taken into question - if I'm ruthlessly honest, that's the instinctive response I have to this sort of thing, yet it's also entirely inappropriate in just about every realistic and non-realistic context I can think of. Yet it's what my brain reaches for every time. Uncanny valley is stupid sometimes.

So I guess the caveat emptor for businesses here is, sometimes people will find themselves between rocks and hard places and try to get out of them by taking you up on claims that would reasonably be immediately disregarded as fashionable puffery ("unlimited PTO" is very obviously impossible).
They are not so violent compared with US gangs.
RIP Sir.

I was gifted the 48K when I was 6 yrs old - it changed my life. I am here because Sir Sinclair built a machine whose setup instructions said:

Now that you have set up the computer, you will want to use it. The rest of this
booklet tells you how to do that; but in your impatience you will probably already
have started pressing the keys on the keyboard, and discovered that this removes
the copyright message. This is good; _you cannot harm the computer in this way._
Be bold. Experiment. If you get stuck, remember that you can always reset the
computer to the original picture with the copyright message by taking out the '9V
DC IN' plug and putting it back again. This should be the last resort because you
lose all the information in the computer.

"You cannot harm the computer in this way."

That single sentence started a life long journey. I doubt I would have been bold enough at that age to mess around with one of our most valuable possessions.
What's the excuse for the shootings that happened in other areas that the police didn't abandon? Perhaps it's because shootings happen regardless?

But you know, you're right, I'll take the news medias version of events, my eyes were lying to me, since what I witnessed doesn't jive with sensationalist news coverage.
Democracies need to ensure the vote doesn't become too much of a danger to the established social order, the privileges of the property owning classes etc.

One of the mechanisms for this is secrecy; others are selective information disclosure, propaganda, cultural and religious signaling etc. And then there's more direct application of economic or physical pressure.

If these weren't in place and effective, well... I am reminded of the famous maxim:

> If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.

I first heard this from Jello Biafra, but apparently it has been attributed to Emma Goldman, Mark Twain and is probably even older than that.
> See, it's as if the US military trains soldiers how to hide in the Appalachian, raid local villages, and steal food and ammunition from trucks,

You should hang out near Fort Bragg sometime. The Special Forces train exactly as you describe.

Also of note: most of them are very unhappy with the way things are going in the US. I disagree with them frequently, but they also have some good points.
Calm down author…. This just shows that people who search for insults will find them everywhere.
I used Usenet quite a bit in the 80s/90s, and ran a Usenet/NNTP server for a small ISP for a while. I miss a lot about it, but it wouldn't work well today. Its distribution model required vast amounts of storage and bandwidth even back then, before the days of spam and Internet marketing. And it was unregulated and unmoderated, which is a laughable idea now. There are just too many bad actors to even consider it.

I do think it's a useful model for private discussions, with plenty of supporting software. It wouldn't be bad for internal company use. But it doesn't have animated emojis and trophies, so no one would use it now.

Google Groups used to be handy for shadowing a bunch of Usenet groups, but that's gone now. I'm not sure how much Usenet exists these days.

In all seriousness, Reddit is the modern successor. I dislike a lot about Reddit; their UI/UX is a contender for the worst in the entire world; and they provide a forum for a lot of the most unpleasant people in the world (not quite 4chan bad, but pretty bad). But at the end of the day, Reddit is where most threaded public conversations moved to.
The judiciary and executive are not on an equal footing. The judiciary is the weakest branch of government, and the legislature the strongest.

These kinds of abuses must be addressed by Congress, not the courts.
Practically, number of browsers + 2 (Node and Deno, and Deno is stretching the definition of practical at this early stage).

Edit: + Electron + the JS runtime used for Windows ecosystem based on Chakra (not sure if that's still alive though?) + a few other similar ones in that vein for desktop or mobile OS'.

+ whatever is available for embedded & similar devices, (I guess there will be a few but I know little about that area).

+ various [highly] specialised business/academic/hobby/PoC/etc runtimes, but they're not realistically things that many people care about.
> A web app that melded the discord experience of live chat, but also had topics that could be discussed and kept around for both search engines and archives to look back.

I am building just that at https://sqwok.im & would be interested to show it to you.

On Sqwok, each post contains a built-in chat room, is open to the public, shareable by url, supports markdown etc, can be ephemeral or long lived, and are posted to the user's account similar to Twitter.
My experience was that Atlassian was very generous with PTO, but it's true there was no accrual. I was encouraged to take 20-30 days off per year, and I did, and I never got pushback. My experience was that nearly everyone took 4-5 weeks off per year, and those that did not were often encouraged to take more PTO.

There was an entitlement for 6 weeks paternity leave and 6 months maternity leave, which is very good for the US.

But there is no accrual. I know that some people there had a really hard time with the idea of "unlimited" and felt that they could't use their time off if they didn't know how much they "really" had. The truth was you really had as much as your manager said, but this sucked for managers because occasionally someone would abuse it and try to just work 3 days a week, so they tried to give guidance. The standard guidance was "we want you to take at least 20 days off, and you should be fine up to 30, if it's more than that we might start saying no."

The person who wrote this post did not, and still does not, understand that this guidance is not the same as accrued vacation.
While I applaud Mullvad intention and business model, I wonder how long they will be able to operate this way.

Their company is Swedish and therefore must respect Swedish and EU laws. It would be very easy to end up in a ProtonMail/VPN situation. I don't know if Sweden has laws that allow police/judge to order to log one's customer data, but I would be surprised if they don't or at least will have in the future, by their own legislation or EU's.