skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree this seems to largely be a manager issue, though I would go as far to say it's more prevalent in the company culture.

That said, I also agree this isn't exactly fair on Amazon's part as they were informed, up front, that this was an ongoing issue. The picture this paints isn't then one of "they did their best and were generous"; instead, it's one of "they got what they wanted out of him." Note that by company policy, all employees are given a max base pay of about $160k (including Mr. Bezos himself, which they love to point out during negotiations); the remainder of the $300k would have likely been through stock options, which the author points out were left behind during termination. Thus they were technically paying him almost half plus whatever signing bonus was negotiated.
But that goes completely against the point that those jobs are supposedly only a bridge to a better one, when for most people (like you said) that simply can't be true
Yep. It sucks in many, many ways, but it also is full of info on negotiation, interview processes at many companies, and salary/offer sharing.

I had no idea how much more money I could be making until I signed up there. Deleted the app as soon as I signed an offer sheet.
Sorry, I am old and have more than 10 years of management experience.

You can try to formalize human life with your rules for the next 100k years and it will still not work. There are things that are beyond words and beyond your and my ability to "define".

I am afraid a lot of us have lost any of their inherent common sense, because there was no policy for it.

This is not idealism. This is someone dying. And you are talking about policies. Come on!
Related:

VS Code in the Browser for Everyone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682477 - Sept 2021 (16 comments)
Cloudflare is already providing free egress to object storage hosted elsewhere (like B2). Now they can handle the storage too and charge you for it.

It's a net gain, with a storage price higher than B2 or Wasabi, and also moves your data to their platform for more ecosystem lock-in.
lol, that sadly doesn't count then.
There are like 3 companies left in the entire country that can build fighter aircraft and bombers, after the mergers of the 1990s and 2000s. If you want to found a bomber startup, you must consider the fact that you will have only one customer: the United States government. And that you have to invest massive amounts of upfront capital to start rolling aircraft off an assembly line.

I don't know what the solution is. At this point, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman are quasi government owned entities, officially operating as private sector corporations. The government would never let them fail. The potential loss of technology and institutional knowledge from any one of these companies going bankrupt would be a legitimate threat to US national security.
Devil’s advocate for keeping the military huge for legitimate reasons:

America has been very sheltered from the realities of large scale violence. I think we assume everyone will opt for civil discourse, diplomacy, and trade to resolve disputes naturally now that the world is wealthier and allegedly more enlightened. We think that large scale violence is off the table due to greater knowledge and having more to lose.

We don’t know how important the hegemonic overwhelming military superiority of the US is a major disincentive for anything different. That disincentive diminishing could be disastrous.

It’s an old argument, but I think there’s truth to it.

That doesn’t mean it couldn’t be cheaper. Military seems very wasteful/not efficient.

Also doesn’t mean that hegemony doesn’t have its own dangers.
That's a straw man argument - no one is suggesting the US has no enemies that are a threat.
And now compare the orography of France and Germany, please.

Do not head down here to Spain, because you'll get a mountainous nightmare.
People already use Chrome on mobile for the most part, and it has no adblockers whatsoever.

A depressing number of users use the web via the Chrome search bar on their phone, and even if they use a browser they go even to familiar sites by googing them.
... except those on top reaping the profits. As it always been the case.
Hypersonic HAWC Missile Flies, but Details Are Kept Hidden - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28686349 - Sept 2021 (45 comments)
> effectively impossible for any non-element client to support at release time

While I understand where you're coming from, it's just not the case in this instance:

Cinny, a one-man project, landed support for Spaces several weeks ago. FluffyChat, which wrote its own complete Matrix SDK in-house, supports Spaces. Nheko, which also rolled its own stack of client libraries, supports Spaces.

If your client of choice does not support Spaces, it very likely will soon.

> Any room that gets added to a server that supports spaces is no longer accessible to anyone whose homeserver isn't running the non-spec-compliant protocol from an unreleased version of synapse, because the default room version is 9 and synapse's latest release doesn't know wtf that means

I believe you're unfortunately mistaken on a few points here. We really did put a lot of care and consideration into how we rolled this out, and I'm sorry that we've somehow failed you. In particular:

1. "the non-spec-compliant protocol": Spaces followed the normal, public process for spec change proposals documented at https://spec.matrix.org/unstable/proposals/. The related MSCs have merged, and thus Spaces have been accepted as part of the Matrix Spec. They've not yet been incorporated into a versioned release of the Spec, but the MSCs are there, enumerated, and ready for implementation.

2. "an unreleased version of synapse": Actually, the past eight releases of Synapse have supported Spaces by default.

3. "the default room version is 9": The default room version is still 6, which is universally supported across the publicly visible federation as seen from matrix.org. Room version 9 is only used when a client explicitly requests the creation of a "restricted" room (a room which is private, but joinable by members of a given space).

4. "synapse's latest release doesn't know wtf that means": The past two releases of Synapse understand version 9 rooms, and only the latest release instructs clients that they should use version 9 when creating restricted rooms. We monitored the upgrade rates of servers publicly visible to matrix.org to ensure that the majority the population was on a version of Synapse which supported Room Version 9 before we cut a Synapse release which informed clients that they were allowed to create v9 rooms.

But v9 rooms are a red herring: Spaces can contain rooms of any version, and clients still default to creating v6 rooms except when explicitly asked to create a "restricted" room. It's simply not the case that a room getting "added to a server that supports spaces" means it's "no longer accessible" to anyone. Adding a room to a Space does not change the room's version, or any state within it. Rooms are only upgraded to v9 through direct, intentional action on the part of the room's owner to switch the room to a "restricted" access model. At which point, yes, your homeserver needs to understand that, which current Synapse releases do.
Do people want it or are they hooked by it? Rage and fear with a dash of FOMO are the best ways to keep people consuming your products, to their detriment...
> New revenue streams: app-store fees, data-mining, new advertisement channels.

Please no! Granting corporations control over your home physical environment is a dystopian scenario. Home hardware should be simple and reliable. The market has killed Juicero, and I hope that any company, that tries to pull this off, follows their way.
try https://search.censys.io
Microsoft Allows Epic Games on Its App Store Without Fee
You're correct - no rational actor would attack the US.
Now, if only I could trust that there would always only be rational actors I could sleep well at night.
Cool! Thanks for being a happy customer! And sure - (copying from a different response below) you can see all of the data that we track by looking at the diagnostics window in the app: https://help.rescuetime.com/article/50-how-can-i-reset-my-re...

In short we track the name of the application you're using, and the window title OR the URL of the website you're on (if you're in a recognized browser). We query the OS to detect what's in focus and whether or not the computer has gone idle to track time spent on a particular thing. We also use crowdsourced data collected over the years to understand what categories applications and websites are (meeting tools, communication tools, design/coding/business tools, etc.)
All of our data is never used individually, only analyzed in aggregate in an anonymized way. We're compliant with GDPR rules.
Here's our privacy policy for more information: https://www.rescuetime.com/privacy
>People will need to accept each other and practice more tolerance and love.

The thing is - tolerance and love are wonderful values but they're things that need to be worked on, constantly.

Humans are, honestly, wired for small-ish tribes.

We're not meant to be over-exposed to information, much less endless groups of people and constant "other-ness" the way we are today. And i mean this not just in a "christians discriminate against a homosexual sense" but also the inverse, where progressives can't imagine someone thinking differently from them having a moral reasoning for doing so.

The internet has over-connected us and the machines of capital trying to capture eye-balls and clicks, or hell - just motivated people on social media trying to get likes and upvotes, is going to drive people to be assholes, to persecute, to "cancel", to try to ruin and take down someone. and every time that's done another group will try to do it "back".

Our connectedness - at the scale and the way we are connecting - is ripping us apart.

and there's no putting the toothpaste back in the tube.

we won't be moving on from cancel culture. We will be building ontop of it things that are even worse.
To be fair, podman has it's own "Docker Desktop" part, podman machine. But of course on Linux this doesn't make any sense.
"USA, you can't have an Iran yet, you still have Syria on your plate."
> SpaceX has proven how ripe for disruption NASA

The story there might be murky, too. NASA bankrolls a lot of SpaceX R&D. US military then approaches SpaceX for extremely generous launch contracts, despite the fact NASA already paid for the R&D. There are some allegations that this double-dipping is used by SpaceX to commit price dumping on commercial launches
This rule also applies to people who treat others badly.
To your point, corporations would be happy to have the government take over those functions. But, these are solvable problems. For example, there is no doubt that HR knew that long-term and short term disabilities were options. Google has a death benefit for the spouse and kids, under 21. Top tech companies that have money to burn could probably figure out how to keep you on insurance, as a benefit, during leave.

However, whether or not it's an employers' responsibility, is a culture and values thing - especially if the social safety nets are lacking.
Podman can replace docker desktop. It doesn't have the same GUI but it does have the capability to run containers via familiar CLI commands on a variety of OSes, connecting to (and in some cases provisioning through podman machine) a VM when required

I also think that it's more than safe to say that K8s is dropping Docker when they've deprecated it as a container runtime
This is whataboutism. "The US does bad thing x, therefore you can't complain about China doing bad thing y." Not valid.

Moreover, IP theft is not remotely comparable to diplomacy or sanctions. The latter are normal ways of doing politics and negotiations. The former is theft, and is immoral under most moral systems (hopefully including the mainstream Chinese one itself). Category error.

> It is pure politics and have little or no base in actual reality of the hardware made by the companies mentioned in the articles or Chinese behaviour towards Western businesses.

Just less than a week ago, there was a frontpage HN post about how Xiaomi phones came with censorship code on them that enforced the CCP's policies[1]. That's the "reality of the hardware made by the companies mentioned in the articles".

Moreover, the "Chinese behaviour towards Western businesses" is characterized by persistent IP theft. Remember Operation Aurora[2], where big names like Raytheon and Google, who has some of the best security in the world, got pwned? Or the aerospace companies that their intelligence agents tried to solicit secrets from[3]? Or the guy who helped the PLA to steal C-17-related material from Boeing[4]? Or when ARM China just "stole" ARM's IP just a month ago[5]? Or when Chinese firms cloned the designs of maglev trains when their European+Japanese developers tried to sell them in China[6]? Or you could look at this wikipedia page with more instances, including theft of nuclear technology[8].

This isn't new, either - they tried to clone a Boeing 707 all the way back in 1980[7], four decades ago.

Moreover, you can't actually claim that this is US politics, because other countries are also reporting this happening to them[6][9][10], and because the US isn't going around and accusing every single country that stands to rival them economically (e.g. India) of IP theft.

> I'm surprised HN seems to believe

Meanwhile, you make baseless claims like "In reality the US have forced the hand of other countries through diplomacy, sanctions, war, etc. to a far higher degree than China" that are backed up by nothing whatsoever, and then drop emotionally-manipulative statements like the above, in lieu of providing a good supporting argument or avoiding using whataboutisms.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/lithuania-say...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora

[3] https://www.industryweek.com/the-economy/article/21118569/ho...

[4] https://www.osi.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/2350807...

[5] https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/the-semiconductor-heist-...

[6] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704814204575507...

[7] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/05/09/c...

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_espionage_in_the_Unite...

[9] https://www.ft.com/content/0d48a5dc-9362-11ea-899a-f62a20d54...

[10] https://www.aninews.in/news/world/europe/canada-alberta-prov...
It depends on what you mean by “replace” Docker Desktop, but Podman can run a VM on macOS and has replaced Docker Desktop for me. There’s no fancy (useless) UI nor Windows support yet though.
If many companies are paying $100K/yr, is it really in the public interest to prevent a hard-driving company from paying $300K/yr to employees who want to sign up for that bargain?

If you don’t want that bargain, don’t take it, but I don’t see the public interest in blocking others who do want it from taking it.
This is a neat idea!

I recommend submitting a GH issue.

Previously, when I filed a bug the maintainer had committed a fix within literally a few minutes. Of course, one can't count on such things, but it's at least a strong indicator of project-developer care and interest level.
Five cops sue Tesla over “severe injuries” caused by car on Autopilot
Which company imploded because of empathy?
Cool result. That figure 2 is begging for a scatter plot of SNR and tide level to see how well correlated they are.
> Subtext is both a PL and a DB

to me this is really the desirable core idea
> Even with all the profiling the ads still suck.

It seems silly to me as well. But when it comes down to it, they serve the ads that pay the most, right? So perhaps all the fancy machine learning and all the other garbage is just a way to say to their customers, "Hey, advertise with us, look at all this fancy stuff!"

and then someone comes along and says, "hey, we'll pay more than any other relevant ad..." and POOF. All of it doesn't matter anymore. At the end of the day, it's about getting the dimes in the right pockets.
Blockchain and ad tech… is anyone exploring this?
Who else will follow me around the internet with ads for products I've already purchased and will never ever purchase again?
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оh.

(Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and "extra small capitals" from phonetic alphabet extensions -- if you were wondering).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetic_symbols_in_Unicode#Ph...
> That’s the cynical approach, but most companies don’t actually want to lose valuable employees.

While an abstract rational actor like a company might come to this conclusion, day to day line managers often do not come to the same conclusions. A low performing employee affected by personal issues is dead weight on said line manager's budget and headcount, and therefore their metrics and their own performance and promotion. The trickle-down performance model often doesn't incentivize long-term-focused management practices.
I agree absolutely on the importance of an emergency fund from a tactical, this is how society is perspective.

But I don't think it should be necessary and I don't concede that that's the right way for things to work.
I've kickstarted a docs centralization initiative at my current work, precisely because of all the issues you described.
We have it in version control. There's a top level repo folder called: documentation and inside there are dedicated subfolders for things like onboarding, testing, domain specific tips/knowledge, etc.

A huge advantage of this approach is that the docs are close to the source and in the most logical place for the relevant stakeholders to benefit from them. This has worked quite well!
Things you may not know about React's useState
What were the other things?
If you're on a budget MVNO, sure. There are higher quality providers in the space, but you will pay significantly more for them.

The provider I have is data only at $120/mo for up to 1TB of 4G data. I'm not certain, but it seems like they'll move my SIM through different accounts on their backend to ensure that I always have full speed transfer within that limit... as when I'm getting close to a transfer threshold, my speeds will slow down, my modem will reboot at some time during that day, and then afterwards I'm back to full speeds.

So far, never had an issue.
I think there is some selection bias in this. And I say this as someone who has recently quit working at Amazon (after many years there).

People who get fired are far more likely to leave reviews on blind. And the whole performance improvement plan process that proceeds being fired takes place between the employee and the SDM.

It may be the case that their org leadership told the SDM to cut their lowest ranked person to make the org's "Unregretted Rate of Attrition" quota for the year. From the employees point of view, this was purely some kind of malicious move by a terrible SDM. In reality, it's an SDM who wants to keep their job in a sociopathic system that enforces minimum rates of firing people to "keep the bar high".

Salaries are rising for engineers across the industry, in part because of the 'great resignation' going on. Make no mistake: Amazon would not raise salaries because of angry reviews on Blind. They would only raise wages if they saw too many people choosing to quit or not accept job offers in favour of other companies. Probably entirely based on a formula that used those numbers as inputs.
Im just wondering if the full loop will ever be complete and deployment patterns start shifting to single file compiled executables.
Republicans are currently pushing for restoration of funds to purchase of Iron Dome for missile defense in the US. Evidently the Democrats who drew up part of the budget requests left that out. My representative sent a note to all on their list about what a bad idea it was to defund purchase of Iron Dome for the US. I realize we helped them develop parts of the system. I also understand that it may not be ideal for the types of risks we would face from missiles. Anyway. This article looks like partisan fluff pushing for more defense spending. I totally believe we need to modernize and upgrade things regularly so that we are prepared for future threats but, like others have pointed out, the idea that one of those nations will launch a few ICBMs at the US seems farfetched. Maybe in 10 years when their capabilities clearly surpass our own and our defenses are down because all the youngsters decided to smoke legal dope instead of serving their country building cool stuff.
> What do you count as disinformation

I won't get into the argument of "Well then who is the arbiter of truth?" because honestly, I don't have an answer. It can't be the government for obvious reasons, but it also can't be private corporations, and certainly can't be the general public. That leaves...nobody. Maybe a non-profit organization, but even those could easily be corrupted.

> and why is it a problem?

Nearly 700,000 US deaths from COVID so far, a number that continues to rise due to anti-vax disinformation convincing people to not vaccinate.

Disinformation is literally killing people by contributing to the continued spread of a pandemic. It's absolutely insane to me that you would genuinely ask why disinformation is a problem.

Just because I don't have a solution to a problem doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist.

> If you disagree with something you can ignore it and move on, or engage with it and respond with your own counter-argument.

If this was an effective approach, Tucker Carlson would have been off the air ages ago, QAnon would have been dismissed as a crackpot by everybody, and disinformation wouldn't be a problem.
Measuring of stack requirements is typically implemented by the way of walking the call graph and adding up functions' stack sizes (for usual function these are well known at compile time). There are “only” a couple problematic cases where this algorithm fails: recursion, `alloca` and the likes, and indirect calls.

For all of these problems there are more complex analyses that can be done to determine e.g. maximum recursion depth or possible functions that an indirect call could resolve to. And failing all of these there is usually a way for an engineer to override or provide this information.
That sort of reasoning (MAD) works great against Russia during the cold war.
It is less robust once you factor in rogue and non-rational adversaries. I'm no saying you're wrong, but the risk from these actors isn't truly mitigated even by having overwhelming conventional and non-conventional weapons, second-strike capabilities (or anything really_.
I think sauna's also increase irisin.
Definitely not trying or wanting to be abrasive - but any chance you could provide evidence or data displaying the accuracy of this point of view?
I'm not sure how Quebec's system works, but BC's vaccine cards are based on the SMART Health Card [0] standard. The validation app they've put out is open source [1].

I haven't looked at the validation app's code, but I assume the main reason the have their own app instead of pointing businesses to one of the existing SMART Health Card validators is so they can bundle the public keys used for verifying the QR data wasn't tampered with allowing the app to work offline. The SMART Health Card system does provide a way to download the public keys (I've checked and BC does publish them as expected), but it's probably easier to guarantee offline functionality here.

[0] https://smarthealth.cards/index.html
[1] https://github.com/bcgov/BCVAX-iOS, https://github.com/bcgov/BCVAX-Android