skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, you really managed to paint a completely distorted and scary picture of daily life in America. Well done.

Hopefully I don't get gunned down by a cop thinking I have a gun when I leave my house tonight, although I probably will.
Companies like "unlimited" PTO because it doesn't put a liability on their books (e.g. 6 weeks of PTO x N number of employees amounts to a large liability).

What companies doesn't like though is when you put restrictions on it.

What I've seen as a middle ground is to have unlimited PTO but if you take more than 3 consecutive weeks off, it must convert to a leave of absence.
Authorized absence (without pay)
And whenever you sign into any Google app or service, delete all Google cookies afterwards, to prevent the automatic shared sign-in into Google Search.

Fuck that scummy pattern really.
most popular ".xyz" domains (ranked by # of DNS queries) all appear to be spam, https://domain.glass/whois/xyz
That's how it's worked forever, basically; Windows 10 was the minimum requirement for DX12 and Vista with DX11 before that, with 6-7 year time gaps. The APIs also evolved slowly and incrementally with features between those years, but I don't think all of them were available in every operating system. DirectStorage for instance (allowing P2P DMA between your GPU and SSD) is only going to be available in Windows 11 apparently. So when/if they release DirectX13, yes, it will surely be Windows 11 only.

Speaking from personal PC gaming experience though, I don't expect this to be some major blocker, based on my experience with DirectX12 uptake in games today 5-6 years after it was introduced (it's not high outside of AAA titles, and all of them have fallbacks/alt renderers.) Not to mention the fact Windows 11 will only work on very recent hardware, so you might as well just target the "old" APIs for a good while and have a vastly larger userbase. I don't plan on upgrading for a bit and I don't think I'll miss much, game-wise, in the mean time.
>There are probably many patterns that are only known to people who do this kind of thing full time

I agree with you. I think, at some point, the only way to go about doing this without inducing insanity is to get someone on the federal side to tell you what tools they have at their disposal so that you know exactly what you're fighting against. Otherwise, you'd drive yourself crazy with tinted windows, license plate switchers, randomized purchases, Faraday cages, and more.
Running a forum sucks. Why would you do that when your community is better served by other tools?
Presumably in a war where the US government fought its citizens there would be world powers that would support the citizens, whether they wanted to help the citizens or simply weaken the US government.
A lot of systems block anything by default that isn't standard. For example, if you happen to own a domain to serve as your email that doesn't end in .com, .edu, .gov, then many systems will instantly invalidate you saying you don't have a valid email when in reality you do. A lot of companies or programmers don't seem to realize that its 2021 where we have hundreds of domain extensions to choose from.
I have a fair amount of experience with Sinclair products both from ownership and repair perspective.

We should speak the truth of the dead and not lie to ourselves.
I Stopped a Credit Card Thief from Ripping Off 3,537 People (2020)
Well, we need state secrets and we only really hear of their invocation when its in the news. Theres a podcast[0] I used to listen to with some frequency about the cases the lawyers working in Canada's intelligence services have to handle and how they balance the need for a democratic society with the rule of law, an needing to keep some things secret. I came away with the feeling that it's not all bad. We hear about some misuses, but I don't think it's mostly corruption.

[0] https://www.intrepidpodcast.com/podcast
Nobody gets paid to leave things alone and maybe that's a big problem with the world.
Is this specific to Atlassian? It sounds like most US employment horror stories. Shit employment rights, lack of PTO, shitty managers, etc.

Obviously it's bad, but this just sounds like US corporate culture to me. 99% sure you wouldn't see the same horror stories from an EU Atlassian office purely because worker rights are better, you legally have more paid time off and the "unlimited vacation" bait doesn't exist.
I think is is more about detecting highly connected groups and finding what they have in common.

For example, if there is a group where each member connects to most other members and nazism is the common denominator, then it is identified az a nazi group. If you connect to a large part of the group, then you are a potential nazi. If you know someone in that group and most of your other contacts are unrelated, you are probably not a nazi.

It is not that someone is marked as a supernazi and turns everyone he touches into a nazi.
I think smaller companies might value this sort of thing, but once a company gets large enough to have a big HR department where recruiting reports to HR, people like this get automatically filtered out before anyone with more principles might see them.
Is there really unlimited anything? There's always some hidden or not so hidden fair use rule.
Did VC and Taliban have tanks, planes, or warships?
At least there is some level of accountability and transparency potential for elected officials. I don't see how we would be better off by having a small number of private individuals making these decisions for us.
Most people would have just called animal control
Somehow since it wasn't mentioned in the article and me being European, I didn't even think about money as a relevant factor in the whole debacle, only about the time involved and needed to be with the family. I cannot imagine being in the same situation, and besides the horrible bad situation, having to worry about going bankrupt.
Yeah but if someone was buying a service from you in MSFT and you didn't need to cash it all out to pay expenses and salaries, would you? Or would you keep some of the stock saying "ehhh fuck it. Let's see what happens?"

Also, considering that early day cryptocurrency enthusiasts were also bullish on the technology that adjusts the chance that they'd keep some. I'm not sure why this is such a debate. The original comment just said "hey, they might have kept some of that crypto that people would pay them in. If they did, then they probably don't have to worry themselves with money." That's a speculative comment but also has a decent likelihood of being true.
I just had to provide records of my past travel history for immigration purposes and I couldn't find any of my i-94 records. I could sort through emails to find past flight tickets but the data from my Google location tracking history proved to be much more reliable and easy to parse. I was able to get all my flight dates from past 5 years easily with it.

I also like to look for places I've been in the past and Google maps can tell me the dates I've been to a specific place in the past.

So it does provide quite a lot of value at least for me. I completely understand the sentiment that seems to be a majority on hacker news how that's quite a bad idea, how I'm giving away my privacy for convenience and yada yada. But I made the personal decision that Yes it's worth exposing this data to Google and possibly law enforcement that require Google to disclose this information for the convenience I get in return.
Hah good point! My wife will often watch on her phone or iPad while sitting in from of a large screen that is off. When I ask her why, she says it's just easier to use the device and then if she has to get up she can just take it with her without switching devices.
jatis yes, but not segregation, classification yes, not hierarchy on steroids until the british came in
That title made me expect an "incredible journey" post. I'm very glad that it wasn't.
Hang on, I’m in danger of understanding something.

If you get 5 weeks PTO and never take any then leave after 2 years, I assume it gets paid out?

If your contract is for unlimited PTO and you never take any and leave after 2 years, what do you get?

Edit: Thanks. Yikes. Unlimited PTO actually seems worse than a specified allowance from where I sit.
For a lot of us Brits Sir Clive's machines were our first glimpse of the future. If that doesn’t sound like you, then just stand aside while we mourn our hero.
This is absolutely wonderful. I am LOVING the results I'm getting back from it: the sort of content-rich sites that have become nigh unreachable using traditional search engines. Thank you for building this!
I imagine the friend may believe that being confident in one's ability to use guns safely and effectively is also a hedge against danger, independent of the utility of that specific gun. That specific gun may make training and becoming confident with guns possible. Playing it conservatively with storage and handling as a someone new to firearms seems like the reasonable path.
> its the edge cases that make your spam folder.

Well, from their perspective. Not from any reasonable perspective; I have a few obviously-spam emails in my gmail spam folder right now, but I've had plenty of problems with gmail refusing to deliver completely legitimate email to me.
Not 100% on how they do everything but remember that this is mostly a tool for porting JS games, soundness isn't a top priority really, rather running real-world game code is and that code doesn't always do too much funky stuff.

As such I'd guess that they have an initial pass that just looks for bad patterns (eval,etc) and totally ignores optimizing those, next up you look for other things (like writes to named properties, if nobody ever writes to a .log property it's probably fairly safe since the main task is AOT compiling code). There's probably a switch-es to enable a safer mode for various things where a fast-path is the default but fallbacks would work,etc.
Busting up Amazon, Walmart, and big tech will uplift the working class. Company towns do not.
I agree, however in my case the motivation was to build something I myself want to use. It's been a long road to build it but I have found a small handful of organic users (almost entirely from Show HN post I did last Dec), who've said they really like it and continue to show up. However the dev process has been so long that I've frequently become disillusioned. I guess what I'm saying is that just the tech lift to build something can be immense, and yes there is then the gamble that you won't be able to find product-market fit. But sometimes you will never know unless you try.
Too much friction for some tasks. Forums and their features/flaws are better than Discord for some things.
I've definitely heard it used, but only in the urban planning & public consultation context
YoutubeVanced allowed this. You could disable the video stream and just stream the music.
Right, and I think OP (or at least myself) agrees with the points you've made, which is why they seem to be trying strike a balance between gaining the advantages of Location History, but keeping that data to themselves and outside the Google umbrella, and thus want to understand how to do it.

I view it similarly as others looking at methods to self-host their photo backup with timeline indexing and searching, etc.
As someone who started coding just before the zx80 arrived I fully appreciate the difference he made! I was reading ETI (if you don’t know what the stands for you are too young :) that had adverts for the MK14 which was the predecessor to the zx series ) when it all kicked off and I was in awe! A true innovator.
> ...i don't want to kill somebody regardless of their intentions...

This is where each person's specific ethics are really important. I would really hate to ever kill anyone. Full stop. But I would definitely prefer to kill a criminal that was attempting to murder me or someone else.

If you would rather be murdered by a criminal rather than kill them, that is a respectable position to hold. Although I do tend to doubt the conviction of most people who claim this position.
Plus individual screen dpi scaling from whenever that was. And the usb handling from win10. Oh and the audio device switcher is so much better in w10 than w7.

Actually people seem to focus a lot on UX but in terms of the core features (handling my hardware and managing processes) windows has improved a lot. I also fondly remember win2k but I think it would be absolutely awful to use now.
> So put it in a spam folder.

1) Neither the SMS protocol nor any phone I've ever seen has any mechanism to file messages in "folders".

2) Processing SMS messages and delivering them to subscribers has a cost. Doing so for high-volume junk messages would place a significant burden on carriers.

3) Most carriers used to charge subscribers for receiving SMS messages. Some still do! Charging subscribers to receive spam SMS messages would be, quite rightly, called out as inappropriate.
I had a .ninja domain for a while, and I had to contact a certain DNS provide to add support for that TLD. They were very responsive, but I still had to ask.
That's probably because it's vanishingly rare for people to be physically arrested for securities fraud.
Somewhat amazingly, my mother-in-law was Sir Clive's financial controller at Sinclair Radionics. His financial rigour was somewhat less developed than his entrepreneurial skills, apparently.
>and it took me sending each domain name individually until I found the one that was failing the entire message.

A true hacker would have used binary search ;)
Amen. Glad to think I'm not the only one thinking this way. Seeing this comment, blockchain startups make a lot more sense :)
>> As usual, you can't make a criminal case if you don't use the tools we give prosecutors to make cases. Where are the home searches? The wiretaps?

Those tools (and criminal proceedings) are usually reserved for persons of color. For everyone else, we have white glove treatment. The best hope we have to prosecute the Sacklers properly is if one of them converts to Islam, then you'll see the gears of justice turn.
"Unlimited PTO" is the worst thing in the world. It was super confusing to my wife who thought I should just take vacation as much as possible. And, it is just an accounting trick to avoid paying out accumulated PTO when you leave. Seeing "unlimited PTO" as a perk will make me skip applying for a job.

This guy has sacrificed a lot to do this. It's probably not going to go well for him, and the impact to Atlassian will be minimal. He probably will be dragged into court and this will make his life so much worse. I bet he signed something saying he would need to have this fight under arbitration, and is now in violation of his contract. Atlassian holds all the cards here, sadly.

Probably the only happy outcome for him is if some politician (perhaps a anti-tech anti-monopolist politician) could take up his case. I was subject to something similar when my youngest daughter got sick eventually leading to my termination, and the company holds all the cards and the laws don't prevent them from screwing their employees. I do think we should have laws that protect employees and that could happen through legal changes.
The word "caste" comes from the Portuguese word "castus" which means clean and pure. No such word exists in any Hindu scripture and certainly Varna does not mean clean and pure. The Varna system was designated occupational duties based on character alone, yes there was conflict but it was only till the British adopted the word and used it to divide and rule people did it become a major problem.
You missed C# and C++.
> if we assumed order first, I suspect we'd look harder for it and find it faster than assuming chaos so early every time.

But that's exactly what the field of biology (and every other science) has been trying to do for 2000 years. We keep coming up with flawed analogies for systems that are inherently chaotic. Chaos can follow from simple rules, which is the entire basis for Chaos Theory.

That doesn't mean that there aren't rules, it means that the amount of predictions we can make about the system are limited and that the system may arbitrarily behave 'erratically' or non-deterministically, which biological systems often do! (i.e. the scales that biologists and microbiologists are primarily looking at).

The fact that there is a resulting, large-scale purpose emerging from it is an 'accident' of nature, in as much as that behaviour is not intentional, it is not created with a will or intent for those specific effects, but pure causality and the evolutionary fact that systems without those characteristics either could not propagate in the environment, or could not support other systems like itself to propagate.
Consultants who have the ability to be selective about their clients and projects have the best chance of creating a satisfying work experience. It took me a while but when I got to the point where I could say "no, thank you!", it significantly improved my life.
It is still available by right-clicking on the start button. This will almost certainly go away in 11, because MS hates us.
I’ve been doing UI for 20+ years and most of what I’ve worked on is determined by marketing & engineering. I understand & totally sympathize with not liking the results, but in my experience the designers rarely choose what (ui) problems need to get solved. Also I have never worked in an org that shipped “the design”, it’s inevitably compromised by high level management’s personal feelings or lack of engineering attention to detail (I don’t blame eng’s for this, anytime the project schedule gets tight, they immediately cut resources to UI/UX). Anyway, I agree most updated UI’s fail to deliver improvements to end users and let me tell you how shitty it feels to take the blame for stuff you didn’t like either.
I really doubt legislation would come into effect. Instead, the people organizing the effort will be hunted down, prosecuted, and turned into examples of what happens when you try to fuck with people in high level government positions.
We've run into this issue with replies to texts that the user sent first.

Telecom spam filtering seems to be a ridiculously primitive and wide net. I can't imagine a valid use case for dropping a text sent to a number when that number just sent you a text a few seconds before.

I don't understand why SMS spam has such a big issue with false positives compared to email spam when emails are practically free to send but SMS is much more costly.

(Yes, I know there are a lot of false positives on email too ... but we run into false positive SMS spam issues a lot even though it feels like it should be a much simpler problem to solve).
They don't work that fast. It is more likely he found out they were on the way to arrest him and announced that as a way to get ahead of the news.
nothing, that's part of the motivation for companies to offer it.
Very few sane people will consider taking up arms against the government until it becomes a necessity.
When I'm watching the kids or doing chores I am often watching some "background noise" TV at the same time. If I'm not at home, the phone is the obvious choice. If I am at home, I'm often moving from room to room and it's a lot easier to just take the phone with me than constantly switch devices. And when I'm laying in bed at night feeling lazy, I just watch on my phone instead of moving out to the couch in the living room (sometimes, and sometimes I say in the living room and enjoy my big TV).
I thought the issue with backpage was that they were actively editing / editorializing prostitution ads to increase traffic. Even if they were helping the government they crossed the line from being a neutral carrier to actively aiding prostitution.
This is the kind of mindset that, in a country with a lot of guns, could lead people to start taking up arms against a government that most of the population doesn't want to overthrow, a population that largely thinks here-and-now topics like abortion or the everyday effects of racism or the public health effects of COVID are more important than ideological claims about how the country is now more "against the populace" than it supposedly was 50, 100, etc, years ago.

This is not a good thing. Are you really suggesting you might use a gun to force your fellow citizens to care about the same aspects of government that you do, instead of the ones they're currently focused on? When convincing your fellow voters and elected officials fail, you believe you have a right to resort to violence?
mmc.exe and you can snap-in diskmgmt, and it will save that in the menu for next time.

Since diskmgmt is mmc with that snap in already snapped in.
> 1-2 week vacation [which to be fair, is already fairly privileged]

Sucks not to be German. 6 weeks a year that gets used is pretty humane.
There is always an NDA you can talk about - but that NDA could consist solely of the contents "All agreements signed while employed with so-and-so are confidential" - which restricts even your ability to discuss the parties of other NDAs.
Then people will probably spend time trying to get the Wine/Proton implementation of that version of DirectX running on Windows 10.

Windows 11 is going over like a lead balloon in the enthusiast gaming community, so the will is there.
Based on what the author has written, I'm just not feeling particularly strongly here. He has a bunch of unsubstantiated claims, plus some screenshots from Blind (which I don't consider representative or reliable).

If I take what is written at face value, and assume it's true, I think it's pretty bad, but unfortunately not that remarkable or unusual. Unless he's holding back some damning evidence of actual law-breaking, I don't really see how Atlassian will be all that hurt by this.

I already wouldn't want to work for Atlassian because I think Jira and Confluence are the some of the worst products I have to use, and working on those would probably drive me to drink. Reading an unsubstantiated, biased account of their employment practices (practices which may not be "practices" but more an unfortunate one-off edge case) doesn't really move the needle much for me.
The elders of the tribe know you always have to skip one version of Windows every two. They publish a good version followed by a bad one.
EDIT: I should clarify I meant an Atari game system.

I was just talking about my own experience, but since you ask (and I’m certain this will bore but you did ask):

I got into tech due to having access to that computer, at that time, in an environment that otherwise wouldn’t have been amenable to learning about it at all.

In my case - our family Spectrum was later replaced by a SNES and after that a PS1. After the 48k, I didn’t have access to a PC at home for another decade, and wouldn’t have seen the point of saving enough to get it if not for having the Spectrum.

If I had gotten an Atari to begin with I wouldn’t have had those experiences. I guess something else inspired you along the way - for me it was this.
I don't know about fear, though it's certainly a concern. I have had police and social workers come to my home, and to my child's school, because I let her walk to the park alone. The park was less than 100 meters from my home.

In my own childhood--an objectively more dangerous time--I explored an area of over 100 square kilometers, unsupervised and with no means of phoning home, yet suffered no problems more serious than a skinned knee.
GP is the opposite. He figures out how to use all his allocated time when he didn't bother to before.
They can't promise that because companies like Netflix constantly blacklist their IPs. They can make a general statement like "view geolocked content", but being specific and then not delivering will lead to a lot of resentment from new users.

Well it's either that or make every user an endpoint to go around the IP blacklist like that one provider did, but I can't remember which one.