skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Checked-out employees are a real problem. Checked-out executives are an even worse problem, though, because they set the tone for their departments and their disconnectedness will be noticed by the people working underneath them in the org chart. Eventually, the motivated people leave and the only people who remain are those who are also checked out (and enjoying the free pass from their checked-out boss) or the disgruntled who loathe the situation but would rather complain about it than leave. Not a fun place to be!

However, the opening example in this article seems different:

> A friend of mine recently turned down a job promotion that included a raise of $100,000 a year. He has some financial flexibility to turn down the offer, since he’s already a mid-level executive at a Fortune 1000 company and makes about $300,000 annually. He said he determined “it just wasn’t worth it” since the promotion called for more travel and more time away from family.

That’s reasonable. You don’t have to travel and be away from your family to make good contributions to a company. You don’t have to chase every single raise.

The bigger problem would be this example exec’s commitment to their side company. An executive who hangs on to their paycheck, benefits, and prestigious position while using their time to build their own company on the side is not good for a company. There is no way this person is maintaining a mid-level executive job at a big company, dedicating time to their family, and also building their own company on the side.
Sometimes bad reviews get scrubbed on Glassdoor
Frequently the cause is too many bullet points.
If anyone is reading this comment and needs help, hotlines are absolutely not just a complete joke.

Hotlines do tend to be staffed by volunteers, and there are bound to be circumstances that are not handled as well as they could’ve been. But the opposite is also true.

But if you need help, call.

To the parent comment, some anecdotal opinions are best left unshared. This is one of them.
No, they've promised some as of yet undefined ability to move to consumer google accounts. Because of the limits that gsuite accounts have had for consumer products over time, this is something people have been asking for and google hasn't delivered in quite some time, so until they announce details, I'm expecting many strings attached to the migration process if it's something they've been pressured into doing quickly.
Doesn't make much sense. Don't you mean shortage of workers(actually, shortage of workers willing to work bad jobs)?

I don't see how a reduced job supply would lead to higher salaries.
I suppose that doesn't matter. 2 + 2 = 4 whether there are any observers/consciousness or not - right?
So lets say Centurylink decide to start advertising blocks they don't own, people like Cogent and Tata drop their links, people with multiple ISPs drop their links (shifting traffic to other tier 1 ISPs), and those with centurylink only change their ISP because they can no longer get to facebook.
Vaccine status complicates the scene on dating apps
They said they’re using VMs over Docker for better security control
Well, Carmack took the question at least a little seriously. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25494648

tl;dr: Quite probably. It's certainly fast enough, but it's an awkward beast without byte-addressed memory. (Also, there's the minor problem that there's no video hardware.)
Site has too many popups to be readable.
At first I thought this was some web 2.0 (or 3.0 or whatever) version of those old prank call soundboards.
I choose to believe this is an _incredible_ joke about missing nuance.
Aren't they following a similar model to modern colleges? Build the prestige and then coast? There have been recent threads detailing extension/open admission online colleges potentially diluting colleges' brands. With a few dozen companies per batch, it seems like you would get more attention and the air of exclusivity. Now there are hundreds per batch with companies that are essentially rehashes of other YC companies from 10 years back.

For every novel idea company, there seem to be a dozen variations of market analytics (no, your Customer Data tracking platform is not unique) or niche infrastructure management (solving complexity created for the sake of complexity vs simply avoiding... Where have we ended up) companies. They're obviously looking for the decacorn type companies but so many seem to be best case scenario of acquireihires. If you ignore flashy tech and buzzwords, it has never been easier to build the software. What keeps getting harder is getting material visibility in the marketplace due to the huge influx of niche participants and small avenue of promotional channels.
> The main reason why I switched from Fastmail to Proton

Unless I'm misreading the post, you migrated from Protonmail to Fastmail?
A dynamic tutorial about a compiler in one JavaScript file (2016)
I use and love Posteo but OP wants to keep using their domain. And Posteo doesn't do custom domains.
all tech can either help or hurt people. It's up to users to decide which it is.
Can’t blame Mozilla for trying to find a revenue stream so that they don’t go bust.

I personally don’t think this elevates Firefox to spyware / adware status. It also seems easy to disable.

The search engine deals that make money for Mozilla again steer users to one search engine or the other and their massive ads infrastructure. Suggestions in address bar is just doing it without the intermediary search engine. If you don’t like you can disable. I will label a program adware/spyware if a feature is extremely mischievous and/or tough to disable — this one is neither.
Check multiple sources. It’s almost standard HR practice to generate fake positive reviews on Glassdoor and petition to have negative reviews removed.
Show HN: Pdm-Django, Django command shortcuts for pdm
“The central message, repeated again and again, that a new generation of nuclear will be clean, safe, smart and cheap, is fiction. The reality is nuclear is neither clean, safe or smart; but a very complex technology with the potential to cause significant harm. Nuclear isn’t cheap, but extremely costly. Perhaps most importantly nuclear is just not part of any feasible strategy that could counter climate change. To make a relevant contribution to global power generation, up to more than ten thousand new reactors would be required, depending on reactor design.”
iTerm2 Triggers: make your logs stand out
Battery swap is sweet but mobile charging stations coming on demand using a phone app and charging your car as it is parked on the street - that's a new and interesting idea for me. You could call one overnight and have your car ready next day, even in a place without fixed charging stations.
As another example, Amazon teams communicate product launch requirements via a future press releases including a FAQ (per description in the book "Working Backwards"). Its a communication intended for the masses with a built-in disambiguation addendum.

Our natural languages uses incremental inquiry to disambiguate context as opposed to using strong protocol. In "Working Backwards", it's the communicator's job to solicit questions from co-workers via pain-staking detailed reviews in meetings ("Bezos scrutinizes every single sentence"). I think of it like constructing a representative survey of ambiguity, and then putting answers in the FAQ that help increase clarity. The more detailed and representative your survey, the more helpful your questions/answers will be to communicate nuance.

With regard to disambiguating through protocol, Organizations evolve jargon to increment protocol, which probably increases semantic alignment somewhat as group size scales. If you read about the history of language, the Rebus principle created protocols of formal alphabets; protocols like grammar gave us formal writing rules. Protocols like TCPIP let our computers talk. Protocol creates more rigid commitments for communication, but also increases potential semantic alignment. As a thought experiment, if we learned to dynamically and deliberately develop jargons en masse, it might create the channels to disambiguate context and communicate nuance at scale.
StoreJ (formerly Tardigrade) https://www.storj.io/how-it-works

From https://www.storj.io/node

Average Payout Per Month...

Egress Bandwidth $20/TB

Repair Egress Bandwidth $10/TB

Disk Space $1.50/TB

Audit Bandwidth $10/TB

I have never tried to use it and have no affiliation
> Don’t know how you’d get away with single return except by horrifically nesting conditionals

That pattern is addressed by chained not nested conditionals, which can then be wrapped in a match, i.e.:

if !validation1 { err1 }
else if !validation1 { err2 }
.
.
.
else {
...work...;
success_result
}

the error checking part can be reduced to an iteration with appropriate definitions of a structure for the data to be validated, etc., like:

match validators.find_map(|v| v(data)) {
Some(err) => err,
None => { ...work...; success_result }
}

EDIT:

I missed the intermediate work steps in your post when I initially wrote the response. That can be done a number of ways, e.g., breaking things up into to chained steps (each of which might use the above pattern) that mix validation and work and return a Result type with either the data for the next step to consume or an error.
Using a binary calculator is like using a scrabble solver for wordle. Of course it ruins the fun.
The game shouldn't show you the binary values from your number though, just the correct/incorrect state, so you need to apply the mental maths.
The animosity in the tweets turned me off quite a bit. It's not like founders are being shoved into YC cohorts. It won't be the right fit for everyone, and founders probably know if the program is worth the cost in effort and equity. If YC isn't a good match for you... just don't apply!
"Hold to preview" doesn’t work on iOS Safari (it opens Safari’s context menu for images).
Oh, I read that 6502 and thought it was about Commodore 64. Was cofused that they would replace it with a router thing :)
RHEL's cockpit project is fantastic.
the product managers botched it, it's a shame it could have been so much better than this.
> This differs from the Playwright team's approach of shipping patched browser binaries.

Can you expand on that?
So if I got this right. Performance, privacy and security
The problem is that the investors/platforms make it seem that the odds of winning are more favorable. HN is an example of this: we mostly hear the success stories.
To the best of my ability to reason about this, logic does. Whether it's dependent on my ability to reason about it, is beyond my ability to reason about.
> Despite having over 10 years of experience, some of my colleagues feel the need to explain basic concepts that I already know. I'm assigned the easiest tasks. No one comes to me for help, although I'm the most knowledgable. No one takes my opinions into consideration.

I'm a white straight guy with 18 years of experience (although Slavic), but exactly the same things happen all the time in office. Not saying his story might be different, but often people attribute struggles to race/gender/nationality, while it's actually just competition or just how things are.
Yup, this is me: https://github.com/jaysoffian/eap_proxy

AT&T has transitioned to issuing a combined ONT/Router, where this will no longer be possible, but apparently the newer gear doesn't have any of the performance issues of the Pace 5268AC.

BTW, I was annoyed that AT&T installed the ONT on the southern wall of my home where it was baking in full sun everyday, so I relocated it myself into my network closet. You can just unplug the ONT and extend the existing fiber with an optical coupler and an SC-APC to SC-APC single-mode patch cable.
Ignoring the merits of that specific rule of thumb, it seems unwise to take advice from a VC on how much equity you should give to VCs.
As someone who went through exactly this, it fucks you up pretty thoroughly.

Mid 30s and have been seeing a trauma therapist for almost four years now, and don’t suspect I’ll stop anytime soon.

There is a path to healing, but it’s a long and difficult one.

And as another sibling comment pointed out, C-PTSD is the generalized result. Not recommended.
Privacy and security is your concern. It is a big issue and I don’t think matter will solve this as more data can be shared between companies like Google and Amazon.
No, it's been working fine on all my Apple devices. I just hadn't configured the interface on my freenas server.

And my free time isn't billable.
It would probably be better to remove "Wow" from the title.
From my other comment:

> his claim that freeze drying was invented by the coffee industry in S. America because they had extra beans is easily proven false by 2 minutes of research

The show should be called "Associations" because that would be more accurate. He puts things together that have no connection beyond sharing one or two properties. I loved the show, don't get my wrong, but viewing it later in life showed me it wasn't what I thought it was
One can still have intentionally unroutable addresses in IPv6.
Some increadible creations in the original twitter thread! https://twitter.com/TheRealGDColon/status/148654144973899366...

Favorites:

https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheDerg/status/148679846766197555...

Bad Apple: https://twitter.com/Legonzaur/status/1487018326601748483
I read about a use for it in printing factories in Germany, using it to deduce the optimal number at to print different shapes on set sized paper.
I agree, but I don’t think is necessarily the “first” bullet point or question that gets attention. It’s the one the reader cares most (positively or negatively), or it’s easier to understand/answer.
I actually use rust-analyzer, but I’m not a hardcore Rust developer, and I wasn’t even aware there were two plugins. I picked the first result off of Google. The fact that the first result is a bad plugin seems like an issue with the Rust community.
Only if diversity is relevant to whatever value the business is providing or it's mission.

Healthy work issues are centered around whatever's going to help the company succeed. People want coworkers who produce and are positive. It affects everybody's livelihood.
They would force such a licence agreement on every OEM, small or large. There was a lot more dirty tricks involved to monopolize the market. Look up BeOS history, for example. The OEMs installed BeOS on a second partition, and they could not show it in the bootloader, because of these agreements.

Microsoft and Bill Gates built their position on pure evil.
I cannot thank the free market enough for lead free gas, lead free paint, airbags, seat belts, removal of chlorofluorocarbons, etc.
What a great example of his point.

You just picked a single item and acted as though it were the only consideration in the universe.

Did be anywhere say that this interesting phenomenon he observed was the worst thing in the world and made MS intolerable? Did he anywhere say that this was a uniquely MS problem?

This article was about dynamics of one-to-many communication with humans, not about why MS sucks.
Yes, classical mechanics suggests infinity, eg. the Newtonian method and infinitesimals, which is just as problematic as a Turing Machine's infinite tape or Maxwell's Demon. Really classical, platonic geometry requiring atoms with hard bounds is also inconceivable.

The uncertainty principle and stuff like Noether's theorem should nicely limit how to ask the right questions. Now I'm not sure if Noether's is a proof by contradiction that would answer the question directly, I rather doubt it.

It's a valid question for the sake of didactics at least, how much can be simplified and explained in classical terms without catastrophic loss of precision. Conversely, the slit-experiments for example are a probably the most prominent display of quantum effects in the experiential domain.
I do wonder, to what extent is this "increase in speed" the result of:

- Refactoring out buggy, convoluted, highly-backwards-compliant code for cleaner more practical code?
- Reimplementing code in a manner which simplifies previously complicated bottlenecks that were there in response to bug reports? (and whose simplification potentially risks reintroducing said bugs again)

In all honesty, I would expect that "reimplementing coreutils" as above would have resulted in a speedup even if it was written in c again.

Am I wrong? Is there something about rust that inherently leads to an increase in speed which one could not ever hope to obtain with clean, performant c code?
> There are ways.

Let's just agree that those "ways" aren't exactly usable enough for normal users then.

> No, it’s not. In that model, every app can download something from anywhere on the internet at the discretion of the developer, modify itself, and then execute newly downloaded code. Having that process happen out of band from at least a semi-trusted location is much better.

That's if you believe that the app store process works for that purpose (I don't)

> I don’t know anyone who has lost more than a trivial amount of money to an App Store scam. I know multiple people who have each lost $50k+ just to romance scams.

The vast majority of revenue made on the app store by far are from casino-type gaming apps which are using tricks to make users pay. Out of those casino-type game players, only a small minority is spending all their money on those addictions. These poor people are losing a lot.

That's not very popular in Apple's marketing but that's the real truth, the appstore as it is today has more in common with a casino than a respectable traditional software market. I run a personal budget app but I'm in the minority and more the kind of apps they use for PR purposes rather than where their actual revenue is coming from.

I do get that they try as hard as possible to change that image since regulators would destroy them but so far, my analysis stays the same.

In terms of privacy, there's a reason everybody asks you do download their apps, there's just much more data to gather compared to the web.
It would of never been lowered to 15% without Epic starting this whole thing
At my past job we have something like for newsletters and 250k/tasks per day was fine. The only design problem we have had is that if you keep past tasks on the queue table, when it grows it traches a lot cache due to index writes, so moving already finished jobs from the hot table had solved the issue.
I think it can both be true than a $500k SAFE is marginally worth it and also true that given YC’s existing ownership at 7%, centralizing more equity isn’t.

At the end of they day you’re only going to raise so much in your next round and half a million is a lot of space taken up by one investor (who is already motivated to help you if you only do 7%.) I have a couple batchmates who opted out of doing YC again because the equity was too high and that was pre-additional 375k SAFE.

On the other hand it is 500k less that you have to raise to close a round and 500k you have if you can’t raise or want to wait to raise.

So he doesn’t not have a point. It depends a lot on the company. But to his accusation that YC only cares about the top 10 companies, I think this additional money—which is optional!— disproportionately helps the not-top ten.
I know, right? This looks even funkiner than probably intended on my vertically-mounted monitor.
Well, Ryan decided to block me for a rather tame quote tweet, so I guess I'll repost it here:

"YC are some of the kindest, most egalitarian people in SV. They've treated me well even after my company they invested in closed down. They give people a shot who wouldn't otherwise have one. If I were an investor who just handed this guy money at 250x revenue, I'd be nervous."

Every time I see things like this, I look back at an email Trevor Blackwell sent me about a month after we closed down our company. YC was above 100 companies/batch at that point, and he wasn't one of the partners assigned to our company. He took time out to tell us he thought we were special and hoped we would try again at some point. That vote of confidence got me through one of the darkest periods of my life. Garry, Michael, Harj and Geoff have been equally kind. Maybe YC has changed since then, but I doubt it.
And how do you calculate outcome?

Should you be even trying to calculate outcome?

Profit isn’t a universal virtue, so that’s out. Beyond that I’m curious.
You could be right, but my likewise fuzzy recollection was that the contract that OEMs had with MS said that every PC that was sold had to have an OS on it. Because the implication was that a PC sold without an OS was likely to have a pirated version of windows installed by an end user. The contract didn't say that it had to have a Microsoft OS because they were a little leery of anti-trust accusations at the time. Very few OEMs used the FreeDOS loophole because they would go out of business if MS decided to pull the OEM contract.
Here in uk many are restaurant workers, street cleaners, etc. Manufacturing would greatly improve india quality of life.
Incrementalism is the root of all evil. This is a step in a long line of steps that end up restricting competition and push us farther into corporatism. I'm sick of it and I don't care if this is a small step or a large step.
Hey thanks for the feedback. I guess you could use this to generate images for your real Wordle solutions but I kind of envisaged it would be used more for fun/memes.

See: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZJqVFYrxle/ (the inspiration for making this tool.)

I'll take a look at what would be needed to copy the image blob directly to the clipboard.
In quieter corners DAOs are forging a new ecosystem for digital startups
The fact that there was (and is) such a market for these over-simplified ideas, though, has implications beyond Trump himself. I can think of a few (not mutually exclusive) possibilities:

* People have always wanted politics to be conveyed in this way, but previous politicians either didn't have the skills or the desire to pander to that style of messaging.

* People's capacity for processing nuance has been saturated by all the complexity of modern life, or by our decreasing attention spans (which is perhaps caused by a culture of instant gratification and companies mass-producing engines which turn dopamine into ad revenue).

* People still have capacity for nuance generally, but don't think it is worth investing that capacity on something like politics, either due to the feeling that current problems are too hard to solve, or that the system doesn't reflect their interests anyway.

* Political polarization and the game theory of plurality voting means that politics has devolved into two tribes that see everything as a zero-sum game, so applying nuance is seen as a dangerous weakness.

Personally I can't help thinking that the thesis of Future Shock[0] seems to match the reality around us quite well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock
Debian rebuild with Clang 10 and some patches
I believe it is more of a occupy wall street type movement where people are sick of being exploited by a system that is one sided.
You're going to hell.
[0] might be relevant to you, seen other papers that I found when I discovered this issue.
From what I gathered the reason for this is that metformin reduces blood cholesterol levels which are important for testosterone production.

[0]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11707532/
I actually like the comment page style although it could use some redesign like blocks around replies and posts.
This is why I sometimes long for the good ole days of 6502 assembly where there was no data type, just the particular instructions you used. Or maybe it's because I was blissfully ignorant of these things back then...
India is mainly known for second tier customer support than software.
Then when you ask them about it, they say it was a database error and your review was "lost"
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