skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" I feel like I should have a blog. Specifically, a tech blog. Everything points towards it! I like coding, I like reading, I particularly like reading blog posts. So then, why don't I have one?! "

Well, do you like writing? Does the main thing that should point toward it point toward it? At the end this person says

"I think the gist of it is... blogging is clearly made for people who enjoy writing and/or sharing. And I think it's okay if I'm not particularly fond of any of those two things. I shouldn't succumb to the peer pressure of thinking that everybody but me has a blog. So, if I were to have a blog, the motivation should be noble and straightforward: "I like to write and share my experiences". "

Well there you go, perfectly reasonable conclusion. Not sure if all the middle stuff was necessary, to be honest.
It does help if they know the tools. The main struggle we had wasn't that they weren't smart, most of them were fantastic domain experts who just didn't have that inquisitive tech spark that sets different breeds of IT people apart. There is nothing wrong with being a domain expert who isn't that keen on cutting edge tools, but back then giving them smalltalk was a mistake. VB and powerbuilder were theoretically inferior, but far more productive for guys like that.
One thing to realize is that a manager has a lot of things to consider for their job in totality. Hiring, planning, documenting, budgeting, retention, lateral and upward management, team stability, etc. I'm not suggesting to be apologetic to them, but at most places, a manager has to put up a bit of a fight to get a significant raise for a subordinate. Even more so if it's out of salary band. Even more so if it's out of cycle. Most managers know their budget of political capital, and know the abstract cost on getting someone a raise out of thin air, and many feel it's squandering.

If a manager is just plainly average at their job, then they'll probably prioritize what is very clearly and evidently an issue/task for them to do, which is usually what their boss is asking them to do, for better or for worse.

So it's not that a manager is being deeply unethical and withholding promotion potential because they're evil, they just may not see it as a priority among everything else they have to do, especially if the subordinate in question appears happy and fulfilled.

I agree with some others here. To really ensure you're being paid fairly as an employee, you do have to normalize making it a discussion with your boss. If it's a priority for you, it'll more likely be a priority for them, assuming they look at you in favorable light.
I hear you, but I'm not sure that insider trading laws actually accomplish their objective. There are so many ways to cheat on this, I bet it's rampant. It's like anti-doping rules in bike racing.

Now, if it were legalized, professional investors would be monitoring the trading activity of insiders. down to the microsecond. Any adverse trades by insiders would provoke an immediate reaction, and so the gains by such trades would be minimized.

Furthermore, such moves would be public information. Would you invest in a company where the insiders were making adverse trades? I wouldn't.

As for Congressmen, if I was trying to unseat one, you bet I'd make a campaign issue out of them if they're using the seat for personal gain.
I am also not an american copyright lawyer, is that "dissecting the details, ignoring the grand scale" how american IP laws for video games work?

Concerning #57 and #59 the chapter is about what PUBG is, not about what is copied or copyrighted. You are wrong when you say they claim "using clothing is copyrighted" they do not make that claim at all. That chapter in the document describes in detail the artistic choices Krafton made in their expression of a battle royal last man standing free for all deathmatch arena ego shooter that is PUBG.

In the next chapter (#78+) they argue that Garena is copying the overall look, feel, and audiovisual style, gameplay, maps, and many detailed design choices. They don't even pick up on that specific detail of clothing again.

While i completely agree with you that they did not in fact come up with the artistic choice of clothing in mixed civilian and military gear, they directly lifted it from DayZ, which took it from the generic post-apocalyptic setting, the point of these details is to show that Garena is infringing by creating an almost identical expression of the idea, instead of creating a distinct expression of their own.

It seems to me that the whole thing is not about sueing them over details like the level3 helmet looking almost identical to the one from the PUBG box art and marketing material. Yes Krafton claims the rendering of that helmet is a copyrightable piece of visual art in #57, but they do not claim that this piece of art was copied in #94, they claim that Garena used the same three types of helmets (motorad, military, spetsnaz) as their level 1,2,3 gear as part of their overall attempt to copy the whole game down to the details.

The document seems less like a list of small infringements and more like list of examples of one big infringement. The core claim is that Garena is intentionally making an identical game. (again, not a lawyer)
I doubt about skipping interviews at Google. I've been at Google for about 8 years, but never met any Googler that joined after skipping interviews (except for acquihires or people who join after a company merge/acquisitions).
Firefox had this nearly 20 years ago, and morphed into keyword search.
Do you actually have kids? Your comment makes it seem like you've got very strong opinions and no actual experience to back it up.
Amazon is not so far ahead in comp that the type of dev being talked about has to go with them for a given TC. Until the last few months Amazon was barely competitive in FAANG, it's a very recent development that they've started shoveling money into offers.

So you could always go to another company competing with them for talent with a given offer and (assuming you performed well enough to justify it) you'd have no problem getting something similar. If there was a gap in comp after that you'd be talking single digit percentages, nothing near 3x.

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For most people in my circles Amazon is no longer a realistic choice for anything than using as a competing offer at a place like Google (which is known to lowball you without a competing offer).

And it's not even a philosophical or moral issue: Amazon just has a terrible reputation now due to URA/Focus shenanigans, on-call nightmare stories, etc... why go with the "worst-in-class" employer?

If you're good enough to get Amazon to give you some band busting offer, some other FAANG company likely will too and you just go with them. Amazon doesn't even have exciting work or prestige compared to the others anyways, so it's not like you're giving up some intangible benefit...
OP mentions DigitalOcean as a compute provider. Is there much info on which compute providers will ban you for, say, P2P or BitTorrent activity? Presumably this is against the ToS for most providers.
I’m on my 3rd team at a bigco at the moment. Putting a lot of emphasis on enabling team transfers is the thing that has kept me there.

There’s some politics to it, ie one org is losing a lot of people to another, so we aren’t supposed to actively recruit, but if they ask and are going to leave otherwise /shrug
Yes. Just find any search box in firefox, right click on it and select "Add a keyword for this search."

This feature has been implemented since I started using firefox, circa 2004.
After reading this post I googled to see what Wordle is.

I immediately recognized Wordle as a clone of 'Lingo' [0], a popular TV game show that started somewhere in the 80's, and is still broadcasted today. It's very popular here in the Netherlands.

> But I can't help but feel that the guy is about to let someone else benefit from his creation and am not sure how to feel about that

I'm not sure how the creators of Lingo must feel about this Josh Wardle getting credit for 'creating' a game that they have been broadcasting for over 40 years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(Dutch_game_show)
"I am from Brazil and to be honest the government push for this is kinda silly. "
Wow. On the ground. Please tell us much more.
To be fair we are living in a crazy unprecedented strong bull market. It will be interesting to see how this holds.
I tried that and immediately got 2 more emails from different teams. To this day, they continue. I swear that nobody at Amazon talks to each other.
Those are some super clear screenshots 0_0
SF Bay Area, title updated
Apparently seemless recombination was successfully attempted (search word seemless here https://yurideigin.medium.com/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throug...)

Whole post is quite interesting despite author alluding from time to time to lab leak being likely.

What I got from it is that lab leak is entirely possible but there are at least few indications that it would require mixture of ineptitude and pointless cunningness.

And that natural origin is superbly likely because coronavirus are just amazing melting pot where same exact mutations popup in multiple unrelated species.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity
Took place this week in Miami, session videos to follow.

Speakers: https://hereticon.open.store/speakers & https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1480565456742371331

https://twitter.com/search?q=hereticon
I don't know about Standard Oil, but I absolutely do know about Microsoft. In the late 90's and early 00's there was no realistic alternative to Microsoft Windows. So no, they are decidedly not the same. Not sure why you can't see the difference.
If the company is comfortable with hiring internally (some aren't) then it's common. If people have good managers, the managers will give their direct reports a heads up when they see a position that they think the employee will like more and suggest they apply internally. You probably don't hear about it often because a selfless manager is the unicorn of the business world.
What's impressive is that they were a small company that did something everyone thought was crazy, then all the big companies copied them.
“News agencies may actually intentionally scare people [92] and suppress alternative information.”

A further study should review how news networks utilize background music/sounds.

I was shocked to hear an ongoing ominous theme in some CNN broadcast last year. I haven’t had cable in sometime, but it seemed very off.
This point is so often overlooked (and from the personal experience - it applies to me too)
Talk about lockdowns...
yep, fragmented packets and double confirmations, but if you're using it to order pills and read some US news, it doesn't really matter.
After delays in 2020 and 2021, the conference took place this week.
Ready or Not for PSD2: The Risks of Open Banking (2009) [pdf]
This aims to explicitly solve the problem of "okay, but most maintainers just skim the code at best and spend time on packaging", plus it aims to parallelize it.

And while some packages have been distroized (eg. a lot of old perl packages, a lot of python packages, some java/node packages) I have no idea if any rust package is distro packaged separately. (Since rust is static linked there's no real reason to package source code. Maybe as source package. But crates.io is already immutable.)
It is great and it is his choice.

But I also don't judge the copycats. Video games get copied all the time. In the beginning, we will get blatant clones which share the same ui and name.

Give it some time and we will see clones which add their own twist. The game will evolve.
Avoiding those restrictions (including Apple signing apps) are usually the reason listed to start other stores. Why benefit would those other stores offer to anyone?
I didn't mean to suggest that you were confusing anything with MERS. I just brought MERS up to show that not only had we found an animal infected with SARS-1 within about a year of its emergence in humans, but we'd also found such an animal for MERS, on a similar timescale. This means that SARS-CoV-2 is the 1/3 for which we haven't, not impossible just by chance but slightly more surprising than just 1/2.

And yeah, you'd mentioned WIV-1 above, and I'd assumed that's what you meant from the 2013 date. I noted this in point (2) of my grandparent comment. I just don't understand why you think that's more significant than finding the near-identical virus in civets. The SARS-1 civets might not have first transmitted SARS-1 to humans, but the WIV-1 bats definitely didn't--they're very different viruses, and while WIV-1 might indeed be able to infect humans it's definitely not what caused the actual outbreak. So why pick 2013 and not 2003?
Stealth Startup | Full Stack Developer | San Francisco, CA | Remote

Passing this along on behalf of a former client. He is hiring a mid-to-senior full stack engineer for his startup in the real estate space. Founder is a proven tech entrepreneur with a very successful exit to Microsoft and has raised about $2mm seed for current startup. Development team consists four developers and this role is intended to support the team across frontend and backend. The role is fully remote though preference is given to those in US timezones. Here are the tech specifics:

- Comfortable with a TypeScript & React JS.

- Optional experience working with NextJS, Vercel, and MySQL / PostgreSQL.

- Serverless architecture

- Ability to think both in terms of high-level technical architecture, as well as dive into low-level business logic.

- Excellent communication skills and attention to detail.

- We move fast and launch fast; you will need to be open to learning new tools and skillsets.

- Highly proficient in English both written and spoken.

Compensation is competitive by US coastal standards and includes an equity vesting schedule. As I mentioned earlier, founder is a former client and money was never an issue. I would take this role if I had time.

If you are interested or know someone who might be, please check my profile for contact info. Thanks and happy new year!
Seems a bit overcomplicated. I am using self-configured Postfix, PostfixAdmin, Dovecot (with xaps daemon for apple push), SpamAssassin, Rainloop (webmail). Everything works on a tiny DigitalOcean VM serving tens of domains, hundereds of mailboxes and millions of emails on daily basis for already more than 10 years.

Using any "package" with require unnecessary management, updates, etc. Surely there are fancy bells and whistles, but do we really need it?
So basically a HN political thread, but irl?
Huh, do you have a reference to the guideline that says that?
I wouldn't blame anyone personally, but it is what it is. If eventually, this is what's happening often, then the workplace feels unjust to me. It doesn't matter if the cause is some manager, HR, CEO, etc.,.
(Sometimes I imagine it can even be the cultural impact of somebody that already left the company...)
Indeed, although it doesn't change the fact that C kind of needs to bring UNIX for the ride despite its portability sales pitch.
Initial grant was 100% of one year's salary you mean right? So +25% of yearly salary before appreciation?

Otherwise you're saying something like a 250k base, 1MM RSUs before stock appreciation... which is a very lopsided looking offer
+1 for Umami. Easy to setup and lightweight UI. With the provided Docker Compose, it's up and running in less than 5 min.
It's actually pretty well defined, the issue is that the winners rarely see a reason to hold themselves accountable.

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/war-crimes.shtml

The US agreed to this definition, it's pretty broad. Perhaps too broad, but I mean, look at the examples...
> there could be other popular game matching sites/software now.

I like this one:

https://online-go.com
One theory that I have heard a few times is that the abolition of slavery (not just in the U.S. but in several western countries) led to the industrial revolution. The timing may not be coincidental, the concept is that if you can enslave people that is cheaper than designing and developing technology to solve problems, like making cloth or other goods. The driver for the industrial revolution was cost of labor is the thinking.

If that is the case, then the next revolution could be sparked by perhaps some new version of abolition, maybe a universal minimum standard of living or something like that? I think the lack of imagination may not be on the technical front, that will logically follow and be spurned on by a societal policy shift perhaps.
At a company where I once worked, there was a development team that started working on an orchestration system for a cloud platform called OpSource[1]. It was sort of a CloudFormation-like system but driven by XML (they were Java developers). The team consulted with some of us who worked on infrastructure. Most of my fellow team mates rejected the project, but I enjoyed attending the meetings and ended up embedded in the development team and delivered most of the code that did the orchestration. The project was successful and I went back to my own team for a while, but they pulled me back in to work on another project. I ended up working with them most of the remaining time I was an employee at that company, even though I wasn't connected to them on the org chart.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpSource
100k-200k on top of let's say 100k? So they would be making 250k per year? How common is this?
Why does that affect how it's reasonable to discuss here?

It doesn't matter the topic: if I think, say, global warming critics elsewhere have been jerks, I still don't improve things if I talk in roaring hyperbole and dismissiveness in statements about it here. I won't get listened to, and I won't improve the quality of discourse.

From the first two site guidelines for comments:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Continuing on to:

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
> What happened to us, as a society, that creates the expectation that a thing should be monetized?

The point is if he doesn't monetize it, someone else who works around the legalize and is less ethical about it will. It is going to very likely get monetized one way or the other, the only question is if the creator (for whom is is obviously a labor of love) is gonna monetize or someone else looking to make a buck.
What has Apple done to bring the customer to App A versus App B? Please answer the question - if you have an answer, rather than deflecting.

>They are putting your app in their app store. They could remove your app from the app store and 0 customers would come to your app.

They're getting paid for that, so they're doing their job.
Well, you've reasoned yourself into a hole.
They crossed whatever line you're not willing to cross a long time ago.
They neither respect you nor fear you.
You will not earn either by being a doormat.
Good luck!
I always find articles like this very interesting, because what they're talking about is manipulating the worldviews, sentiments, desires, minds of people, and therefore behaviors, which is the ultimate goal. This is very intimate, and military people discuss it matter-of-factly.

Not to demonize it. It is a fascinating topic, and one of those "genie out of the bottle" type things. The tools exist, someone is going to use them, therefore everyone has to use them.

Human minds are evolved things, we have always been subject to manipulation. But now, our minds are swimming in a dense ocean of information, awash in it, noise and wisdom alike flowing through us unimpeded, and most people don't even realize this because they don't articulate it in this way. There are no borders, there are good actors, bad actors, irresponsible self serving actors, mixes of all types masquerading as each other, and probably more I didn't think of and mixes of all of it.

In the new world, you have to think about your thinking, you have to understand metamemetics, or you're swaying in the wind generated by someone else for their own ends at all times. How many of my deeply held beliefs are there because someone wants them there? How many of my behaviors are the result of someone else's planning? How many of these beliefs and behaviors are bad for me? How might I become an actor in this realm on my own mind and reclaim my agency?
I was quite satisfied with the position I was in at the last two companies I left.

All the things you mention matter to me, but I added 50% to my salary on my first jump, then another 110% on my second. All in just over a year.

Money is still my primary driver. It will be until I am fully financially independent. Not just able to live on a FIRE budget of $30k a year, but able to chase my own fairly expensive interests.

You're right, I'm not going to leave for another $10k, but another $100k, sure, and right now that's not that difficult to achieve.
> … turning the US into a nation of renters.

The data doesn’t seem to support this, at least not yet. The owner occupancy of units has been increasing since 2016 and increased after 2020.

The increase in housing prices has been extraordinary, but seems in large part due to people who actually intend to live in that housing.

See:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EOWNOCCUSQ176N

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N
Job "hygiene" and "motivation." The motivation just ain't there for lots of folks.

On "hygiene" — quoting from Clayton Chirstensen's "How Will You Measure Your Life?":

“Hygiene factors are things like status, compensation, job security, work conditions, company policies, and supervisory practices,” he writes. Critically, it turns out that compensation is also a hygiene factor (as opposed to a motivational factor): “You need to get it right. But all you can aspire to is that employees will not be mad at each other and the company because of compensation.”

“If you instantly improve the hygiene factors of your job, you’re not going to suddenly love it. At best, you just won’t hate it anymore. *The opposite of job dissatisfaction isn’t job satisfaction, but rather an absence of job dissatisfaction.*”

On motivation:

"Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth … The theory of motivation suggests you need to ask yourself a different set of questions than most of us are used to asking. Is this work meaningful to me? Is this job going to give me a chance to develop? Am I going to learn new things? Will I have an opportunity for recognition and achievement? Am I going to be given responsibility? These are the things that will truly motivate you. Once you get this right, the more measurable aspects of your job will fade in importance."

Many are perhaps realizing they may have decent "hygiene" in their work life, but "motivation" adjacent factors have been dragging, and continue to drag.
I’m not aware of any US cities that mandate surface parking. It is normally a denoted in a number of spaces per some estimate of what would be needed. The spaces can be configured however.

Developers choose surface lots when the cost of land is less than the cost of a garage.
I've launched multiple successful things that have gone viral where I didn't earn a cent. It was simply not the objective.

More importantly I don't want to taint my things by selling out. It would destroy the soul of the project.
And just the other day, I was informed on the Webb telescope thread that there was no need to build a twin, as one was plenty for the limited discoveries one could make with a scope that could see farther than any scope before, one teeny tiny spec of the universe at a time.