skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the nature of the dismissal. In the UK, if you are fired for gross misconduct then you forfeit everything. I think in the US that being fired 'for cause' is similar to this, but perhaps not as strong as the allegation of gross misconduct.

Is gross misconduct present in this article? I can't say. But the author does not paint a positive image for themselves.

I don't really sympathise with the author, either. He's just boasting about money on the table that he could afford to say no to. He's an asshole, I don't care for him. Perhaps Gitlab fired him because he was a jerk. Who knows, who cares.
The 90 day stock options exercise window should be made illegal. It should be 10 years or indefinite. Employees, like the author here, earned their stock options. It's wrong that they get stolen back just because its an "industry norm" established by greedy assholes in the 1980s.

The author of this post played an important role in GitLab's early development. They deserve to have their $1 million payday now that it is public, regardless of how they felt in the months after being fired.

They were robbed by GitLab's unethical stock options terms.

Employees also get screwed when they, under time pressure, exercise stock options which then go on to be worthless. And when they simply can't afford to exercise options. It's a huge flaw in the current startup system.

It would be great if YC used its muscle to actually fix this problem. Startup employees are getting screwed by this every day, in many cases by YC companies.
Robbing a bank is immoral, selling information about how a piece of software works, in my humble opinion, is not. Or if it is, then it's not even close to the level of "wrong" that is robbing a bank.
Much more often on average for nuclear plants. Avg capacity factor is 83% according to https://www.world-nuclear.org/getmedia/3418bf4a-5891-4ba1-b6...
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>it gives the appearance of consciously creating a narrative that fits specific needs

If this was the goal, why would they report the truth audibly while lying to you visually?

That is the point you are missing as it evidence that the chyron was clumsy rather than nefarious. You don't report two conflicting narrative if your objective is to get viewers to believe only one of the narratives. If the goal was to mislead, they did an awful job at it by telling the truth in the actual reporting. The people who want to mislead are the ones who took the chyron out of context of the report it was summarizing.
> they're just incompetent / slow on this process

> I feel for company leaders in this kind of shitty journalism

You're not making sense. Plus Apple has a history of being incompetent and slow on this.
> The Germans have switched from nuclear to coal.

No, they did not. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/p...
> I don't know yet whether Postmark will be any better, but I like the product so far and they seem to be a lot more customer-focused. Fingers crossed!

Postmark is definitely better in my experience with multiple customers. They actually check the delivery to different big mailproviders like gmail.

The support I had there was also quick and helpful.

It is definitely pricier, but should spare a couple of headaches if email is vital to your business.
School wins legal battle to electric shock children to ‘correct behaviour’
Is there a good article detailing how this works? Despite all the "dark side of tech" drama I still see Google as basically OK as a company. Some missteps, yes, but from my perspective, all I really know is they make a lot of great stuff that I use constantly because it's great. It's not obvious to me how they're involved in all of this.
Frankly, this isn't a Bezos failing but a government failing.

We shouldn't be beholden to our employers to have good working conditions and we shouldn't be mad at uber wealthy companies for using the taxcode to avoid paying taxes.

There are 100s of individuals and companies doing exactly what Bezos has done. We solve nothing by blaming companies for working withing the confines of law and being shitty.

Blame legislators that have allowed for such a system to exist. Vote in primaries and public for politicians that are looking at making things better for the individual.
Let this be a reminder that the market could not care less about things such as ethics or keeping your employees happy and productive. Or the environment, or following laws, or anything else. It only cares about current and future numbers. You, as an employee, are a number - and a not very important one.

If anything, the stock price tends to go up when a company announces layoffs(sometimes even if what prompted that was financial distress).

The Borg Collective could go IPO on "Assimilation Enterprises Inc" and it would likely have an outstanding valuation.

When making financial decisions, it's one thing to vote with your wallet. It's another thing to not want to 'invest' in a company because they wronged you in some way. It was a business transaction to them, it should be a business transaction to you.

I get that the author had all reasons to think the company would go under (high churn for one, competition, etc), which would make his options worthless if that were the case.

Ultimately though, he got offered a bunch of options for a small price. There are drawbacks to exercising them, as he pointed out. But the way he was personally treated should not have factored in his decision.

I hope he bought bitcoins in 2017, at least.
Why are some Instacart workers calling for an app boycott?
Hi, I started a company, Promoted.ai (YC W21) that solves this. My background is from Facebook ads eng and Pinterest ads eng. Large advertisers are already aware of this, and so is Facebook and Google. At Facebook, I led a research team to help big accounts to drive more incremental conversions. At Facebook at least, there is a lot of energy to try and generate the most true performance lift and measure it as correctly as possible.

However, every advertising platform will take your money if you give it to them, so buyer beware.

True incrementally is a challenging measurement issue and therefore even more challenging to predict for delivery via ML. It's real, though, just hard.

Buyer beware. When buying ads, think the stock market. If you hear stories about 20x ROI from random people, do what you when you hear 20x ROI on stock picks: nothing.
You can choose between a rich murderous dictator and an arrogant IT company that does not give you a proper credit. Either way you are screwed as a security researcher :(
While that's true, I'd be very surprised if git delta-compressed the commit objects themselves. Changing a commit to point at a different tree wouldn't impact the delta-compressed packings of any file blobs, it would just change the actual file the commit points to.

For example, suppose you started with a commit graph that looked like this:

C1 --- C2 --- C3
\ \ \
T1 T2 T3
\ \ \
F1 - - F2 - - F3

Where C1, C2 and C3 are commits; T1, T2 and T3 are the trees they reference; and F1, F2 and F3 are three versions of a file blob stored delta-compressed in your packfile. Then if you had a malicious version of C2 with the same hash you could replace C2 with a new commit C2' pointing at a new tree T2' with a new file object F2', and nothing would break. The resulting commit graph would look like this, and F1, F2 and F3 would all still be in your packfile delta-compressed and accessible, just with nothing referencing T2/F2:

C1 --- C2'--- C3
\ \ \
T1 T2' T3
\ \ \
F1 - - \ - - F3
\
F2'

Regardless, this is all moot to some extent. The attack most everyone talks about is that if you were in control of a central git repository (for example if you were hosting a mirror of an open source repository), you could give two different versions of that repository to different people without them being able to tell, even if they were checking PGP signatures or referencing specific git hashes. For example you could serve the non-malicious files to human developers, and when a user-agent that looks like a CI/CD pipeline such as Jenkins or the Ubuntu/Debian/RedHat packager's build machine or someething clones the repository to build a specific hash requested by the user, give it a malicious version of the source tree that builds a backdoor into the binaries it creates. In this sort of attack you never have to "change" a git object on someone's machine which is something the git protocol naturally isn't designed to do because it never happens naturally.
> ...particularly when we could instead change the system to produce things with minimal harm to the environment.

Hold on, you're shifting your posts here somewhat.

Minimal carbon emissions, or minimal harm to the environment? They're not the same thing, and minimizing one may or may not minimize the other in the process.
Ehhh but... $4,000 to exercise the shares? You have to be REALLY REALLY confident a startup is going to 100% no-soft-exit fail to not take that bet, given the vastly positive payout even an acquihire exit would give, given how cheap that strike price is.
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They don't even have to though. All they have to know is that it's a market.
I'm probably conflating the effects. Thanks for the correction.
_sigh_
Most startups aren't valued at $1.5 billion, which GitLab was at the time this article was written. Once a startup reaches that valuation, it's already been mostly de-risked.
YMMV. The pipewire developers say it isn't ready for that yet, but it works well for some.
I think the idea is to hide from other countries. So if you are a wealthy Chinese you have a much better time hiding your money in Delaware than in Paris for instance.
Considering no amount of lifestyle changes will put a dent in the carbon problem, I would expect a seriously concerned climate scientist to spend their energy advocating for the only thing that will make a difference: top down policy change (carbon pricing or clean energy mandates or similar).

That said, if I were a prominent polluter, I would want people to think that this is all a matter of lifestyle changes so I could keep on polluting while shaming you into some miserable vegan existence. :)
They are merely harmonizing with UK law:

People who repeatedly view terrorist content online will face up to 15 years in prison, the home secretary has told the Conservative Party conference. Amber Rudd set out her intention to change the law to increase the maximum penalty from 10 years. - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41479620
My company is doing "all-in" days—so, the days the people come to the office, everyone else is in too.

I still don't think this is great for the reason given by ketanmaheshwari above, but certainly an improvement.
I bought a company for 300k and scaled to 35M in sales
>The chyron combined with the reporting that night could have been inserted into a dystopian movie with little to no editing.

What was inaccurate about the reporting that accompanied that chyron? They specifically said it was peaceful during the day until nightfall and that is when violence started. That is perfectly inline with the scene behind the reporter. The only problem was the chyron.

>I'm gonna go ahead and call bullshit. When your job is literally not creating awful visuals, you can't use that defense. There was a clear message being projected, and that was that the violence was good, and you really shouldn't pay attention.

No one has ever made a mistake at their job especially when they are doing it live on television in a stressful high pressure environment? This is classic Hanlon's razor. And as I said in the other comment, there was not a "clear message projected" because the audio and text messages conflicted with each other.
Google countersues Epic for allegedly breaching Play Store contract
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That's only the case if you're fired "for cause" which is a legally-meaningful term that's pretty rarely used unless you beat up the CEO on camera while snorting cocaine off a pile of embezzled $20s. If you're just let go normally (even if it's for being bad at your job), it's not usually "for cause" and you have 90 days to exercise your options (or longer if they're NSOs instead of ISOs).
Just to add to this, though I'm obviously in agreement with you, is that most engines (gas or electric) used in US cars barely distinguish between 23 MPH and 39 MPH. You could probably just push your foot down a tad bit harder on the gas pedal and make up the speed differential. That's fine; many previous limitations on speed were based around actual deficiencies in automotive development (heavy car bodies, lack of synchros when shifting, heavy clutches, etc) but now that consumer vehicles can so effortlessly go from "0-60 mph" (the common metric used to judge acceleration of cars), it's harder than ever to educate folks on the effects of their speed.
Right. There are dozens of different VPN providers and switching costs are pretty low.
Most employment in the US is 'at will'. You do not need a cause.
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To be mobile it would have to be a carrier other than T Mobile, their service coverage borders on abysmal IME in the western US.
Took one years ago and it didn't make sense back then, it still doesn't make sense. The utility and value provided is so marginal... But I don't know anything so. Market can be illogical for long time.
The second fact implies a moral judgement.

And of course we all have our moral models. But not all of us want to forcefully impose our model onto others. To do that is narrow-minded fundamentalism.
How about "not a video that uses a ton of energy and bandwidth" form links?
The main issue is certain US states, such as Delaware, allow you to set up anonymous shell companies. Anonymous shell companies are a bit like BitTorrent. Sure, there are legal uses, but there are a lot more illegal ones.

Planet Money did an episode in which they registered just such a company in Delaware: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/03/16/470722656/epis...
This is a like a preposterous version of the trolley problem ... "The trolley can continue down the nuclear track and maybe, perhaps, kill people far into the future or you can switch to the coal track and continue to kill thousands now and maybe destroy the planet"

And people are choosing to switch.
This is pretty stupid if you ask me, the top of the list is just stable countries with a strong tradition of rule of law.
If you have cheap options you can try to exercise them early (before the delta is big) and/or in small chunks over time so you don’t get hit with the AMT.
Reality check:

- US haven status undermines despotic regimes by denying them data on citizens hedging their bets with offshore accounts. This provides the US leverage, intelligence, foreign direct investment & tax revenue.

- Offshore dollar pools (eg. Eurodollars) are problem enough for the US Treasury & FED's monetary policy. Absent US haven status this problem would be far worse.

- The secrecy doesn't much apply to US citizen and less so once the Democrat's $600 bank account reporting requirement is passed into law.
> Or choose Android, with its poor privacy record, a result of being built by an ad company that's already scanning my phone and mining it for data?

GrapheneOS.org
You both missed an opportunity to say "Klingon".
I do wonder how much longer local, machine-based backups will continue to be supported. Could easily see a future model dropping the cable entirely, dropping local backup and modestly upping the free iCloud storage.
The bandwidth is so low it's a bit mind boggling. On a particular frequency you might well be broadcasting/interfering with a fair chunk of the united states and only managing 4.6 bits/sec. If it's 3 hops then divide that by 3. I just don't see any kind of metadata tracking of peers, requests, mesh status, etc being reasonable at that low bandwidth.

Sure, could a few people handle email like setups, sure. But even a small bump in popularity and it would be saturated and everything would break and nobody could use that frequency.

Once you adapt fully to that bandwidth I think you'd end up with things much like what we already have like winmail and js8call.
If I was in charge of intel ops for any country with a decent budget, first thing I would do is build or buy a VPN company.

You have a self-selected group of people with something to hide. What could be more ideal to gather kompromat?
Absolutely agreed. Why actually do something when we can deflect to the other side? The partisans will console themselves with the knowledge that they chose the better side while the world burns around them.
That's why, if you can, exercise options before they vest. I bought 3 years of my 4 year initial allocation at my current startup a month after the grant was issued (four months after I joined). I bought at $0.00 gain per share, meaning no tax hit. (Just file that 83(b) form.)

The tax if exercising at this point two years down the road might have hurt.
Very much struck me as a man suddenly confronting his own mortality and his place in the universe.
Jeff Bezos seems like such a shallow greedy douchebag. Hard to think of a person this world would be better off without.
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"“It's healthy that people are aware of the issues and open to a range of straightforward ways to improve them,” says Munafo. And given that these ideas are being widely discussed, even in mainstream media, tackling the initiative now may be crucial. “If we don't act on this, then the moment will pass, and people will get tired of being told that they need to do something.”"
A typical large nuclear plant will produce 3 cubic meters of solid waste in a year. That's a little bigger than a refrigerator.

A lot of solid waste can be reprocessed, though doing so requires regulatory and logistical challenges to be solved that apparently only France has figured out.

Nuclear waste, comparatively, is not the problem. The risk of accidents, proliferation, and the generally higher cost of engineering are. Every energy technology produces waste, too. As others have mentioned, coal-fired plants produce literally thousands of times the radiation of a nuclear plant, blasting that right into the atmosphere in the form of radioactive fly ash, as well as huge amounts of CO2 and particulates. The production of solar panels is not waste free. Nothing is waste free.

The nuclear waste argument is a distraction. Nuclear power, of all the options, all things considered, leaves the smallest scar on the planet of all the options available to us. Solar panels, wind, hydro, they all require land use changes that are a big impact on the planet. Uranium mining is comparatively small in terms of its impact. So IMHO nuclear is the best option.
Would like to hear more about these 20x ROI stock picks.
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> My experience that a certain systems programming language of Unix origins featuring 1 namespace and an unhygienic token-based macro system also has few issues with function-name capture, even in code bases with seven digit LOCs.

The "certain systems programming language" with its unhygienic macros hides all the resulting horrible mess in reserved symbols that litter both the macro code itself and the code produced by the macros. This is perhaps tolerable so long as you're not maintaining any of those macros and you never need to look at the code after macro-substitution has occurred.
Yes, a one-day disruption is not uncommon when bad weather hits a hub, even occasionally extending into a second day. But 1) Southwest has been cancelling flights for four days, 2) Southwest specifically said that it doesn't do hub-and-spoke (they blamed the problem in part on that) and 3) the weather in Florida has not been abnormal in the past few days. The Miani area had half an inch of rain on Friday according to weather.gov. That's nothing.
I frequently encounter 1-off review sites that are owned by the #1 product on the list. Many are transparent about it, and some even do a good job listing their competitors and describing them in a fair light. I think they are mostly a response to Google's algorithms prioritizing reciently published blog style top-10 lists.

Here is the first result when I google "best free youtube downloader"

https://www.gihosoft.com/hot-topics/best-free-youtube-downlo...
Your writing style is really enjoyable, I binged the 3 posts and really enjoyed, especially the macros post
People worried about the morality aspect could sell the exploit, donate the money and report the issue to the manufacturer anyways.
You don't get points for using Nice Green power, you get points for not releasing more CO2 in the atmosphere. Right now, France's electricity is at 30g CO2 per kW.h (the figure includes the whole lifexyle), while Germany's is at over 400g.

Sure, we have to deal with the waste ourselves, but you're just dumping yours in everyone's air.
I feel like this should fall under advertising laws. Maybe it does and I'm not familiar with the area. Does the review site need to disclose the fact of ownership?
Sure but he was able to be one because they recently did raise funds and had a tiny bit leftover.
See my comment history for a firsthand account of Zerodium.
There have been several recent stories about the increase in coal usage this year.

https://amp.dw.com/en/germany-coal-tops-wind-as-primary-elec...

Coal is the primary source of electricity this year
If you've primarily worked on B2B/enterprise software where the company makes a lot of money with a smaller user base, try working in consumer software where the company makes a lot less money across a lot more users.

If you've primarily worked on consumer software, do a stint working on B2B software.

The way you work as an engineer changes a lot among these two customer types, and there are valuable lessons you can learn and apply from working on each one. The systems design and scaling challenges can also be quite different.

Your versatility as an engineer who can recognize a wider variety of problems and define different solutions also improves.

There a lot of B2B-like problems lurking inside of big consumer tech companies. And a lot of things that can go faster and provide massive technical improvements if you deploy B2C thinking and tech inside a B2B company.
> I'm also curious what the state-of-the-art is for these sorts of tests. Does anyone have insight into what e.g., appleton's test suite looks like?

I don't know, but if I were to make an educated guess, maybe rendering stuff to actual audio files is a common approach? That way when something goes wrong, they can inspect it in a standard waveform editor?
Anti-science is religion which is blindly following a myth.

Are you blinding following the myth that covid will go away if everyone gets a shot? Anyone who doesn't have one is holding this up?
> Makes my point that if things go well, Bezos doesn't deserve any credit. If things go badly, Bezos gets all the blame.

Bezos just paid for the entire thing. If it failed, he didn't pay enough. Therefore, I don't see how he deserves any credit, but I do see how he could be blamed.