skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only the very senior management are employees.

In that case, maybe the senior management should stop referring to the other people as "employees" then.

And, if being an employee is such a bad deal, why would senior management choose to be employees rather than "independent contractors".

> But there are lots of long-serving staff who are basically employees.

There's no such thing as "basically employees" (or indeed "staff" who aren't employees) they're either "actually independent contractors" or "employees intentionally & exploitatively miscategorized as independent contractors").

> You earn more as a contractor.

That's certainly what the management want people to think, for sure. But if being an employee isn't even a possibility it's conveniently pretty hard to know if that's actually the case.

> You simply couldn't run a business if you had to have a consistent set of people over time.

Perhaps that means it's actually a "hobby" or a "charity" rather than a business then?

And, regardless, that just means you hire people as employees on fixed term contracts, not that you get to miscategorize them & get the law changed to make it "legal".

None of this is about a better deal for the people doing the work--it's entirely possible for a fully loaded employee cost to be 2x salary so if the company can get the workers to accept 1.5x salary & shift risk to them, well, that's just a great deal for the company, isn't it.

Especially in an industry with an unending supply of creative people willing to be ground up in the process of doing what they love.

Perhaps we should take a lesson from what happened to the dinosaurs that worked as "independent contractors" for oil industry...
> New Yorkers may seem assertive/rude/cold at first but you will soon love the fact you always know where you stand.

Unfortunately, I have observed that New Yorkers are now performatively complaining and being rude. They believe they have to be a little negative, so they find something wrong with the current situation, no matter how tenuous. They're supposed to be grouchy so they act like your presence is a burden even if they're actually really happy you're there.

There's nothing wrong with it, it's just a different style. But it's no more or less phoney than anywhere else.

Source: lived for 20 years in New York, and 20 years in CA.
Sometimes but it often happens when a comment section gets brigaded as well.

Negative feedback is not always given in good faith.
The extension has no read access (Chrome tells you its permissions). It really doesn't track. We'll open source it to show. We hoped it would be more convenient but other extensions are so sketchy that generally people hate all of them.

We want to be open and listened to the community and dropped the requirement of the extension entirely.
Let me know what you think of the search experience :)
In the past I have used dislikes to tell if chain sawing tutorials are good or if the operator is insane. It works well for things like that.
Possibly. But if you're a big company, then not thinking about the impact of your product on the disabled is wilful ignorance, even if it doesn't make you that much more money.
In Ponzi scheme there is profits given out or at least reinvested... Start-ups just burning money and finding greater fool really isn't such scheme.
Technical interviews are about culling the incoming applicants on the assumption that passing many good hires is preferable to letting one bad hire through. So, IME, no matter how well intentioned an interviewer may be, they aren't ultimately looking for a reason to pass you - they are looking for any way to differentiate between candidates.

Lip service is certainly paid to 'everyone has to look things up', and doing a quick search won't necessarily count against you, but, IME, the hesitation and doubt that caused you to look things up will. With so little material with which to evaluate a candidate, absolutely everything that doesn't impress them is going to count against you.
> There's only been a handful of videos out of hundreds that received more downvotes than expected because the video was posted on a place out of my control and folks didn't like that.

Yes. People downvote based on their expectation. So you can have content that you would probably find bad that has a lot of upvotes because it has a niche that likes it, and my sense is that the excursions in dislike ratio are more often driven by distribution channel or brigading than the intrinsic value of the content.

> Almost always if a video naturally gets downvoted it's because you either released something bad or unrelated to what your channel normally expects.

Doesn't this directly contradict your experience as a creator? But if it was true, wouldn't it be a good thing that creators no longer feel as much pressure to conform to fan expectations, eg in pursuit of bigger opportunities/audiences?
Yes, you are coming from a very objectivist/libertarian perspective that I reject.

It's not a straw-man description of Pareto efficiency, it's a toy example designed to answer a very explicit question by the GP. What I described was a Pareto efficient distribution, and not the most welfare enhancing one.

What if neither person can make bread and the other just happened to inherit it all from their parents? Who is burdening who?

And that's before we get into the real-world ethics of whether we can honestly claim that contemporary wealth distributions are really derived from consensual interaction. Why should the descendents of nobility be entitled to wealth deriving from what are effectively violent takings?

I don't know - the whole deontological libertarian project in this sense seems like it has gaping holes.
I was poking fun at myself. I'm probably the only one who thinks it's funny.
My point was that your slippery slope argument was a bit bonkers because YouTube already has a mechanism to impose varying rules on channels based on size.
Notoriously, Tesla has raised the price of the Model 3 by 23% this year: https://insideevs.com/news/545712/us-tesla-model3y-prices-up...

To hit their volume targets, either they'll need to cut prices again in the near future, or the price of all other cars in the market need to rise in lockstep.
Oculus Quest and DragonRuby
That doesn't logically follow. It's not cost prohibitive to equip a small fraction of ubers with the equipment to transport the fraction of customers who need it. Indeed, some fraction of uber drivers are going to have handicap accessible vehicles simply because they or members of their household need those features anyway. Having such features is a competitive advantage - you can take passengers no one else can and thus secure their business. It only becomes prohibitive when you need an enormous surplus of equipment well in excess of demand - then this expense doesn't lead to serving more customers, it's just a burden that needs to be borne by existing customers.

Existing legislation doesn't require all vehicles, or even all commercial vehicles to be handicap accessible. Hell they don't even require that vehicles be made such that they can be converted to handicap accessible. Current legislation requires that accommodations are available, not that they are ubiquitous. We put wheelchair ramps on buildings because without them there is no way for a wheelchair bound person to get in, but it's fine if there are stairs as well.
> ”You would quickly find that the market is too small to be worthwhile.”

How many markets will be too small to be worthwhile after prices increase? I would wager it would be more than the contrary
Isn't that what Reddit is doing to quite some success?
AFAIK the challenge is that Evergrande and its bond holders don't make public statements about the repayments, so it's unclear whether they've been made or not.

However in this case it seems that a bondholder has explicitly stated that they have not been paid by the deadline https://twitter.com/dhthakur745/status/1458499174026997760?s...

Which means that, if true, Evergrande have now defaulted.
> The dislike button on YouTube videos is one of the few remaining signals that what you are seeing is propaganda.

It is a dangerously noisy signal and this change is long overdue. Every COVID-related video on the front page of YouTube is spammed to high heaven with dislikes and "PLANDEMIC"s and "let's go Brandon!"s from right-wing antivaxxers. It's gotten to the point where YouTube is the premier distributor of antivax propaganda—only YouTube puts it one click away from the top of the fold even when not logged in—and it's a major threat to public health.
> When their app store faces anti-trust

They have already faced the courts over the App Store. They won.

> how do you generate growth?

Through new devices eg. Watch, AirPods, AR/VR Headset. And most importantly through Services eg. AppleTV+, News+, Music+

You should look at Apples balance sheet. Far more diversified than most people realise.
Somewhat related, it does not seem too expensive (~$100 per chip, minimum *50) to get an ASIC done (purely from a fab perspective and ignoring the large elephant in the room of coming up with a design in the first place), e.g. see https://www.zerotoasiccourse.com/ (no affiliation).

As for the design, one way is to re-use existing IP and join it together, e.g. see https://efabless.com/ etc.
Another reason this is a terrible idea:

Video creators have always been able to disable the upvote/downvote ratios and comments.

Every single time I have encountered a video where the counts have been disabled by the creator, it’s because the video has something objectively wrong with it. It’s inaccurate, misleading, poor quality, offensive, or some has some other generally negative attribute.

This happens less so with comments being disabled. Videos with high up to down vote ratios but with disabled comments are usually because the creator is being attacked by trolls. These videos are usually pretty interesting to watch.

So yeah this is an incredibly short sighted change and is removing an important quality signal to viewers.
I didn't think you were implying anything about younger developers, I was noting the rather significant difference between "I've matured as a programmer" and "maturity was baked into the language I use and its idioms, tools, ecosystem, etc".
> My personal opinion is that the US government is mostly incompetent

This is not some natural state of a affairs and more a matter of intentional policy[1] by one (and sometimes both) major parties. Consider the recent attempts to fuck up the USPS.

If you rewind ~60 years you find the US government sending people to the moon on extremely short timelines and building the foundations of the internet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
Sure, I'll engage with OP. All he needs to do is reveal his identity on the website. After all, a majority of his points are based on his own personal experience so I certainly hope that his own personal experience isn't made up.
If I build a company with the assumption that the rules of the locale it operates never change, I'm certain that I'm the fool in the conversation.

What you describe is a known risk that anyone with a lick of sense should be accounting for, before they invest.
Cool thx
Powderize a bunch of mushrooms and mix well so they are consistent. Then take a specific amount and adjust for potency. You then have a consistent dose for the entire batch.
I think that seeing a overwhelmingly positive like to dislike ratio might hide signals that what you're viewing is propaganda.

"If so many people like this, it probably has value."
"There is always a few dislike from haters, safe to discard them."
Are you imagining a parallel reddit thread with 30 votes between members of government and YouTube? Why would that be public?
It works entirely fine if you set Firefox to lie about the user agent. It's probably one of those cases where someone just didn't want to have to take the 'risk' they had a browser issue with a browser they don't directly support.
Hello, author here! I'm happy to answer any questions.

Adding Go support was an interesting decision for us because Go tooling is already quite excellent, whereas Python and Shell don't have as strong of a story. We tried to be honest with what Pants's strengths and weaknesses are so that Pants can augment Go with some unique benefits like being able to run `./pants --changed-since=HEAD fmt` (integration with Git). I'm definitely curious to hear any feedback!
> unwanted consequence to the person with all the food and as such the first person would be better off giving food to the starving person.

Doesn't really play out that way in actual real life (people still starve every day and both you and i probably have the resources to stop at least one of those starvation deaths), so didn't think of including this altruism in my toy model
Is it? Apple is the go to solution for all media types (photography, film making, design, architecture). The alignment with Adobe products has existed longer than either was cool.
Its Bertram fucking Gilfoyle they want.
Presumably Weta has a contract with studios that means the company retains rights to "generic" assets they create.
I don't think Tether is in purely Evergrande bonds, but I do think Tether has a load of Chinese bonds/commercial paper, and if an Evergrande default causes a general reduction in the value of those, Tether will be in a very sticky position as they'll have a large hole in their reserves...
Well, it doesn't _have_ to, ask Zimbabweans. But there are real reasons they would not want to print forever.
Without selling cheaper cars, Tesla could also:

* Overcome their poor reputation for both interior & exterior quality. If the luxury car price starts coming with luxury car fit & finish they will widen their market

* Overcome people's concerns about electric car range, by expanding charging networks, increasing charging speeds, or making cars with greater range.
The author of https://faircoding.com/ is here? You must be in the wrong thread sir.
If we hamfist "politics" to mean nothing but culture war noise, then sure, economics and politics are separate. I always thought that people were smarter than that.
so we have the split preview today (edit in one window, preview in another). vscode supports combining the two using either webviews or custom editors. you can see an example of that here -> https://github.com/tejasvi/markless

we're planning on implementing a similar featureset
It's cute how many commenters are not aware of this. https://mobile.twitter.com/FRANK_SINATRA7/status/14584818380...
You are in a good position to wait for a sweet private party deal. I'm not sure if you will ever get KBB at a dealer but many private buyers will use it as a reference point so you should be able to get close to that asking as long as you have assessed its condition properly.
Show HN: I built a “Task Quick Add” desktop modal
Yeah I agree with this.

If you drill enough of the Coding questions, they all start to run into similar buckets, and the way you approach them improves too.
Buy a whiteboard off amazon, solve them legit out loud explaining what you're doing to yourself. You will get better.

The other stuff is great advice too, always try to have a summary (in your mind or on paper) of recent projects etc.

And of course.. Doing interviews helps to :D
Speaking of which, I can understand how interferometry gets you to, say, 1/1000th of a wavelength, but the wavelength is 1000nm. How do they go from 1nm to 1/10000th the width of a proton? What's the trick?

Is it an integral transform thing, like how spectrum analyzers can claim super low noise floors if you sort of gloss over the "noise is proportional to badwidth" part and look in a tiny bandwidth without normalizing?
Was genuinely curious. Thanks for the info. Of course Babel Street isn’t listed in the official CCPA Data Broker registry: https://oag.ca.gov/data-brokers

So by not allowing me to access and delete my data on Babel Street, it seems like they are in violation of the CCPA? What’s my recourse?

Anyone interested in privacy who can claim California residency should be interested too!
Except that groups have a proven track-record of assembling masses to brigade things they loudly hate. And since most people don't downvote, a determined group of downvoters can send a hyper-loud signal.

Personally, I think this is all flowing from a fundamental problem: there is no concept of "credibility" with upvotes and downvotes. As conservatives are fond of saying "facts don't care about your feelings", but all our social media use feelings to determine which "facts" get the loudest boost.

Any system that uses a raw number of votes (be they up or down) as a weighting score is basically encouraging botnets, brigades, etc. Like, every climate activist has a swarm of climate-change deniers following them around online and I consider their opinions worse than useless.
Yes it is refined and doped, my point is that he leaves out the sourcing of essential materials that you don't refine but must get that is already pure, it has to be purer than any random silicon its like saying just get any sand that people will assume comes from beaches for construction when its essential that they are not worn or have rounded edges, except this is so specialized that it must come from one mine in the world. The limit was well understood in Soviet Russia with their inability to source the raw materials of comparable purity to produce microchips, even if the design was the same, the USSR was not able to produce them without what is considered essential to chips of good quality. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00652...

Even today China cannot match the quality of American chips and relies on US raw materials from Spruce Pine for manufacturing chips. It isn't optional, its like saying you can make a 1:1 steak with nothing but beef bones or chicken. https://ashvegas.com/bbc-report-spruce-pines-high-quality-qu...

>This ultra-pure mineral is essential for building most of the world’s silicon chips – without which you wouldn’t be reading this article.
Why do you think prices will increase so much? There's a limit to how much people can pay for a service, even if they fundamentally need it. And I'd wager that in aggregate, people with disabilities are more financially limited than people without.
Pyramid scheme is system where income is derived from recruitment of new investors. Ponzi scheme is centralized system where profits of old ones is paid with money of new ones.

VC start-up burning money to make things or subsidise customers in attempt to acquire them is neither.

I'm really starting to hate when these terms that have rather specific and well understood meanings are thrown at anything. If you want to call it something just say it is big scam. Scam really could be anything. Not specific thing.
You seem to be suggesting that removing the aggressive fundraising from the equation automatically means the revenue goes to $0, and the organization runs out of reserves in one or two years -- except that's not how anything works, and you know it.

Ultimately, what you're asserting is that "only" having two years of runway is somehow dangerous to the survival of the organization, and is a legitimate justification for using aggressive tactics. Yet, you would be hard pressed to find another organization whose reserves are double both revenue and expenses. So it's rather silly to assert that Wikimedia is in a precarious position.

If the organization is really concerned about not having enough cashflow or reserves, then maybe they should stop giving away 20% of their revenue. Charitable contributions are great, but that's not the proposition being made in the fundraising tactics, which all aim to convince us that Wikipedia is going to die any minute unless every user immediately donates. These are the same tactics that PACs use, and are based on classic social engineering methods with the sole intent of manipulating people into feeling concerned or even panicked. An organization like Wikimedia should not be engaging in these tactics, especially when they provably don't need to.
Hey there!

Here is something I worked on recently and that I'm proud of: a "Task Quick Add" modal.

The idea is that you are focused, working on something. Something else may come to your mind. A refactoring you will have to do later. Some unrelated task you will have to do. Or a problem you have to solve first!

With a keyboard shortcut, you are able to invoke a popup modal. You already have the focus on the input, so you can start typing what you need to do. Then you hit "Enter" and it goes to your list of things to do.

That is great if you need to stay focus and quickly capture a random thought. That's also useful if you need to address something first!

The shortcut is configurable. It's working on the Centered Desktop App that I'm working on. You can try it out (it's free): https://www.centered.app/

What do you think?
Tesla sales process features up to 95% less slimy car salespeople. I’d pay a premium to not have to deal with the local Ford/GM/etc dealership, who are all about scamming me into overpriced financing deals.

Traditional auto manufacturers need to bring the buying process to this century, but that would sour their existing sales pipeline. I believe this conondrum is called ”local optimum”
Psilocybin changed my life. It threw off the wet blanket of depression, which allowed my antidepressant to fully do its job. I can’t really explain it, but imagine if your depression was a jacket, and one day you just took it off.
The fed wasn’t buying junk bonds in 1999 to keep failing companies afloat. There wasn’t an overvaluation of everything from real estate to NFT’s. The decade before hadn’t seen QE used to help bail out the rich. There wasn’t stagflation happening. The worlds most powerful country wasn’t deeply divided on every major issue. China wasn’t sending fighter jets to Taiwan and their leader wasn’t giving speeches about retaking that land while the USA conducted war games admitting it couldn’t stop them.

The tech bubble of 1999 is looking pretty good by comparison.
Yeah exactly, conditionals around errors are fine. Nothing like being pedantic for no reason
Everyone's talking like they deserve the job and it's just the format that's causing anxiety, but in reality upwards of 90% of applicants don't measure up.
Aah, so it seems. I stand corrected.
One organization who states that they are a creditor has published a letter stating that they've not been paid

https://twitter.com/dhthakur745/status/1458499174026997760?s...
> I don’t understand why people think tesla will keep growing at this rate

They are young and blinded by the optimism which the cult leader...ehm the CEO feeds them.

If they studied history they'd know that even Microsoft, AKA the undefeated company in IT/SaaS (US Govt. defeated them but that's another story) had to surrender to the S-curve phenomenon.

Most of the really big scope vision that Microsoft outlined in the 80s and 90s actually became true in the 2000s.

The problem was that people were really in love with Microsoft's stock and everybody and their brother was betting that the vision would happen exactly as planned.

The best case scenario at that point was that the stock would stay flat . And flat it stayed, and those who bought at the peak of the bubble blamed Ballmer.

I can't imagine how would they react when the same happens to Tesla and the insults which would fly in Musk direction given that he has a history of not delivering , exxagerating and also his company is not exactly in IT/SaaS.

He is now in Ballmer's position, but Steve delivered on what was promised in the 80s and 90s , nevertheless he was insulted and belittled.

For Tesla to have a justified valuation of 1T you'd need it to be ubiquitous, literally not being able to turn your head without seeing a Tesla logo, as it happens with the legacy trillion dollar companies (the FAAMGs/MAAMGs/MAMAAs)
Totally agree with your statement.

Yes you are wasting money on a
company so that they are still selling something at the end of the day regardless of quality or sales . That is my point .