skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couple of important points I haven't seen mentioned yet.

1 - You should already have an option exercise form that you can fill out to actually exercise these options / notify the company you want to do so. It is important that you fill this out and have it in writing, email/certified mail/whatever, that you sent this in with a request to exercise because of 2.

2 - Depending on your employment agreement and your role, you should find out exactly what your Post-Termination Exercise Window is. This is the time period in which you have, after a certain condition, the ability to exercise your options. If you do not exercise them within this period, in most cases, the options will revert back to the company and you will not have the ability to exercise them in the future. This can often be as short as 30-90 days. While I would try to assume positive intent, you need to make sure they are not trying to wind the clock down against you.

3 - You should also be aware of the cost to exercise the options and the number of options that you have vested at the time you leave. In your grant, there will typically be several components, most importantly the strike price, the number of options and the vesting schedule (typically 4 years with a 1 year cliff). While there is much to work through with your lawyer, in general, Strike Price ($1.00) * # Options Vested (5,000/10,000) = Cost to Exercise ($5,000)

4 - Keep in mind that once exercised, if the shares turn out worthless, you can't get the funds back. The shares can end up worthless for any number of reasons including Investor Preferences, Debt Overhang, or a sale price that is too low. Overall, do your own risk/reward calculation here to make sure its worth the price of admission.

5 - I'd echo the points here in that they may never have had an employee exercise their options previously. Believe it or not, most employees do not exercise when they leave a company, and you may have been the first to do so here.

6 - Finally, document all of this thoroughly. If for whatever reason they are attempting to run out the clock on your Post-Termination Exercise Window, ensuring that you have documented you WANT to exercise them and the company didn't execute on your desire is critical in eventually getting the options.

(IANAL and you should find counsel to work through the specifics with you, this is not legal advice and there are unintended tax consequences that may occur if you don't consult a tax professional - Options are complicated!)
Oh please, US would push back against UK's .280 British small arms cartridge[0] for NATO harmonization, despite there was already ample testing shown that the more powerful 7.62mm cartridge was nigh-uncontrollable in automatic fire. Only for the Vietnam war to demonstrate the deficiencies of 7.62NATO, and then US and NATO adopted 5.56mm, proving the initial UK testing right.

If the US can make all its members adopt a small-arms cartridge despite it not being particularly ideal, the separation between the US and NATO is merely a facade.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62%C3%9751mm_NATO#T65_series...
What happens when it's not the government doing it? What happens when Facebook's algorithms decide to cut you off from your friends? Or when Google decides to cut you off from your emails and cloud storage? When payment processors decide to kick your business off their network?
Freezing assets without due process is definitely the problem. Even before the digital age, most money was kept in the bank.
Nice. How about cooperative gameplay? I get the combat appeal, but cooperation ala Minecraft can be truly appealing.
I liked this essay regarding the nature of talent. http://rittersp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Chambliss-Mun... Like much social science, one should be careful to not assume that any results would generalise to more cases, but I still think some of the ideas are interesting:

- When people talk about talent, it is some relatively immutable quality people have inside themselves that creates excellence. When people talk about observing (eg spotting or wasting) talent, they are really talking about observing excellence or high competency. Talent of the first kind is mostly not a thing (but eg some people may be predisposed to certain kinds of athleticism).

- Being excellent at one thing needn’t come with excellence or deviance at anything else. I think many people on HN will quite easily understand that typical celebrity recommendations (even if unsponsored) have no particular reason to be credible, but another aspect of this is the idea of the weird or eccentric genius which we sometimes see applied to programming (and I think less applied to eg being a lawyer or doctor).
Gotta say, Microsoft is an amazing acquirer (in recent years).

Unrelatedly, it got me thinking... What if Microsoft bought Yahoo and Docker?
I suppose in part it is a matter of perspective:

- Learning a framework is still usage of the framework and so even beginner questions lag "usage" statistics

- Learning a framework is prior to "[Production] usage" of the framework and so beginner questions lead "[Production] usage" statistics and job descriptions

I think I lean a lot more towards the first take, especially in our industry: in general we aren't paid to learn new technology stacks, our companies don't budget for such training costs, and generally don't like it done on company time. Sure we make a big thing about "we are an industry for passion" and often force software developers to moonlight and learn things on their own time/dime "as a hobby", but I wouldn't like to think there are enough moonlighters and "hobbyists" to make something "popular" on Stack Overflow with just beginner questions.
As soon as some rights are violated, you don't have them any more. The language of "granting" could be changed to "respecting" and it would be an improvement indeed. But rights are only natural and inherent to the extent that people are free to exercise them in absence of interference.
I also live in Ottawa, in fact in the downtown core. This was absolutely a protest. I didn't support the message they were pushing, but it was a protest. The horns were a nuisance (people ending up in the hospital unable to sleep) but they were a problem solved a little before the halfway mark. It's unfair to give the impression this was still a problem.
and dependent on facebook i hear scam, prropaganda or outright terrorism
Well, considering the "real world" too inconvenient and seeking ways to make it less so is what humanity has been doing for millennia, right? Most people use a washing machine rather than washing their clothes in the river, because indeed, the latter is too resource intensive, difficult and ugly if you have an alternative.

Of course, this doesn't mean that a technology that provides convenience can't come with hidden costs, and the cashless society indeed comes with risks. That's where the interesting debate is IMO, but the fact that people value convenience is quite reasonable and not new.
A Gentleperson’s Handshake
> This is a service I wouldn't use.

As a toy project, you probably wouldn't even know about it.

And if you did, sometimes sending some users off disappointed on such a matter is a small price to pay for being able to quickly get on with other things. Supporting people who block even session cookies is like supporting people who use IE or an ancient Android browser - ideally you'd like to support everyone but getting 100% there is too much work that it would consume too much effort that would be more useful elsewhere.

If the issue is blocking session level cookies, then there are many many more services that such users have trouble with. There are other methods (adding session tokens in all URLs and form submissions instead of, or as a fallback for, the cookie value) but that is work to do and maintain, and adds its own issues to the mix.

> Developer convenience over user experience,

I'm not sure it is a hit to user experience, at least not a significant one for the vast majority. The login is a bit more faf than normal as you need to wait for, read, and action an email, but once logged in all is normal and there is the benefit of not needing to manage another user account's credentials.

SMTP isn't something I feel should be trusted as the key for an SSO system for important credentials, but again: we are talking toy/experimental/personal/PoC projects here.

> is great, until you realise your users are crazy.

Well, yes. To be honest, fending off a few crazies would be a benefit most project large or small ;-)
Would like to learn more details about your tech stack if you are willing to share. Especially about the internet connection speed.
Yes, donating money can be illegal depending on what it is being donated to. Here[1]'s a list of financial transactions that would be tracked in Canada.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Transactions_and_Rep...
Sure. There's nothing wrong with a non-technical focus.
Related: On your next trip to the surgical hardware store, don't forget to pick up some superglue for broken bones.

https://www.coe.utah.edu/2012/06/05/superglue-for-broken-bon...
C++ is definitely unopinionated. Its evolution follows the path dictated by necessity, not opinion.
That's what makes it so telling that the article contains no information whatsoever about what due diligence was or wasn't done and, with the exception of the unnamed cardinal, no suggestion that the accounts were used for any wrongdoing.

As for Nadezhda Tokayeva, who I think is who you are talking about, how much money do you think she should have? For 40 years she was married to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the most powerful man in Kazakhstan. Her maximum balance was 1.5 million CHF, barely enough to buy a house in San Francisco. That amounts to a savings rate of 40,000 CHF per year during that time, or 80,000 CHF per year during the 21 years after he first became Prime Minister. That hardly screams "looting the country"; even the president of the US gets paid several times that much officially, without even taking into account speaking engagements and the like.

Kazakhstan is indeed very corrupt, but what do you want banks to do about it? Refuse to service any Kazakh customers? Only service Kazakh customers who operate private businesses rather than working for the government—on the dubious theory that private Kazakh businesses are not corrupt?

This just sounds way too much like "you don't look like the kind of person who deserves that much money" to me.
It is called war and it isn't the police doing it then, it is the military.
Sour beers exist, but yeast is definitely still the microorganism responsible for the alcohol content. I'm guessing the article itself wasn't written by the researchers, though.
Checks and balances, and legal certainty in either direction.
Both things are happening. Credit scores have improved during the pandemic. Less missed payments, less spending (maybe because people are home more), plus more government assistance.

While credit cards and credit lines are doing better, mortgages have increased, causing debt to income to be very high.
Also required for gmail these days. But once you've set up SPF/DMARC/DKIM everything tends to work smoothly without too many deliverability problems. There might be a few blacklists to negotiate when moving to a new ip, but it's generally pretty straightforward these days. I remember a few years ago bashing my head against a brick wall trying to solve problems delivering to hotmail and icloud, but that was before I set up DKIM and DMARC which I think might have been the issue.
https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/ddd is amazing! This is exactly the kind of thing I've been hoping to see teams using Datasette for.

I love that this is a public repo - I'm definitely going to be pointing people to it as an example of the kind of thing you can build.

Thanks for sharing that!
> ...using Outlook is an impediment to projects whose mailing lists are based on inline posting...

I never understood why, after all these years, this is still horribly broken. Yes, I understand commercial development tends to follow a monetary reasoning, but this has been broken for forever (~25 years?).
To be fair to him the opinion polling does suggest that 54% of those polled were not in favor of the truckers: https://globalnews.ca/news/8610727/ipsos-poll-trucker-convoy...

But yes, tiresome to see people trying to claim that they know the mind of the people.

We`ll see next elections: I bet Conservatives will do well and the Liberals will decline and the NDP will be wiped out. Jagmeet Singh has managed to extract the worst possible position from this.
I agree with all that. Thanks for your knowledge. I am not a storage or driver engineer so I apologize for imprecise comments. Let's take a peak at section 5.2x.x (depends on spec version)

"Note: If the controller is able to guarantee that data present in a write cache is written to non-volatile media on loss of power, then that write cache is considered non-volatile and this feature does not apply to that write cache"

You would likely be more in a position to raise the issue with OEMs but I believe they will claim they have power loss protection with heavy asterisks attached and that is why they ack your fcntl FLUSH while not actually flushing out of the [actually volatile] DRAM.

I don't know why a guarantee is not actually a guarantee and why there may actually be gradations of PLP. Sounds fishy but that is one possible explanation for what you are seeing. Do you know? Anyway if you want the real PLP guarantee you have to get a drive where the documentation specifies backup capacitors and preferably oscilloscope traces. Ultrastar drives have such info, for example.
Nit: owning property is a constitutional right. Compelling someone else to provide it for you with the force of law is not.
Next to all the other good points, Steam has managed not to f up in all these years. If you go deep, their launcher has an insane number of features - trading, backgrounds and picture frames, drops, profile levels and a lot more - but their basic MVP user experience was never cluttered by it. You can right now log into your account from years ago and start playing with very few clicks; if you don't care about all that stuff, it doesn't bother you. The also never really enraged a majority of their users (like digg, for example) and they were the first to adopt a reasonable return policy (it was partly forced, but it's still not standard).

They simply started out well and managed not to loose their lead.
The Haskell is strong with this one!
The simple answer is to reject the cashless society.

Agreed.

Recently, I came across a coffee shop and a bakery that proudly displayed "We are cashless. No cash accepted." signs.

Not accepting cash is a method of discrimination. It keeps people without bank accounts out of your establishment. The overwhelming number of people without bank accounts are minorities and immigrants. That's why in some cities it is illegal for a retail business to refuse cash.

Maybe those businesses saved 0.006¢ on the transaction by not accepting cash. But they lost thousands because a fat guy isn't going to buy cookies there in the future.
Why should they? I work for Red Hat, help and contribute to podman but they like to remain as 'independent' as possible. We collaborate but the preference is that Podman is an upstream/community project first.
> guess it's just natural for canadians to have this weird smug inferiority complex towards the US

It's one of the less charming facets of Canadian culture.
Inability to pay taxes is not tax evasion, of either of the recognized types in the US (evasion of assessment, i.e., concealment of facts that would indicate tax is due, or evasion of payment, i.e., concealment of or movement out of reach of taxing authorities of funds with which taxes that are due could be paid.)
We can fix that, and it is being addressed.

Cash is a great answer to a whole lot of basic commerce, small scale, freedom style, between adults just adulting.

The problem IS businesses refusing cash. The public really does not benefit and we have not shown we are able to avoid abusing electronics.

One day maybe. Right now? Not a chance.

Cash remains necessary and the costs are not crazy enough to warrant all the abuses and risks other payment forms bring to the table.

I do not connect payments to my phone for example. Everyone I know who did has a story to tell about how doing that cost them.
> Covid has obviously dramatically affected global vaccination priorities.

That might not have mattered in polio’s case if we wiped out polio before 2020.

Which was feasible. Making folks think vaccine campaigns are a CIA plot has obvious impact on reaching that goal.

The CIA is forbidden from impersonating American journalists because of the potential harm. They should be forbidden from doing fake healthcare campaigns for similar reasons.
The id is unique to the post, not the person who makes the post. It is no more personal than an entry in a FAT or a pointer to a variable somewhere else in a system. Each entry on HN has one. This post's id is 30435822.
Very nice tool.

A little help message would be nice, you could even use the content of your comment below. I might be thick but I didn't know how to use it until I read your comment.
The null checking operator is completely unnecessary, what a shame.
I've run a lot of self hosted email and still do. For 25 years or so, for many SMEs and personally. The "Thou shalt not run thine own MX" meme is bollocks or at least needs some qualification.

If you let S&M loose from your main domain with spam then you will quickly vanish. If you have an IP that belongs to a consumer ISP then you will need to do some initial "polishing", which will probably start at Spamhaus. In my experience, if you keep Spamhaus on side then most email systems will give you a fair look. Get the basics right - (E)HELO => DNS (A and PTR) and SPF with -all on the end. Ideally your SPF should be "mx -all" which means you send and receive email on one small set of gateway systems, with no includes which implies marketing mail. That's why you should spam errrr market from another domain or a sub domain. Use Mail Pig or whatever to do your dirty work - that's what they do.

Depending on where in the world you are, then your IP will accrue some reputation - good or bad. Sorry can't help there but a VPN or a remote VPS might sort that out.

There's a bit more to it than the above but that gets you started. Anti spam systems are not psychotic and don't hate self hosted setups. Even the big jobbies have to still give the benefit of the doubt to a sender but they have a huge rule set of heuristics and a twinge here and a poke there might cause you to vanish. It's all about scores and scoring points. Avoid scoring points and you will be fine.

My MTA of choice these days is Exim with rspamd. rspamd has a great symbols to points system where a symbol might be RDNS_IS_BOLLOCKS and the score for that symbol might be +1.5. You can fiddle with scores in the web interface so you can override the defaults quickly and easily. You might decide that SENDER_DOMAIN_DOT_RU gets +10. I've made up my example symbols for this post but you can make up your own like these in the system quite easily.

Anyway. There are rules for running email systems and if you follow them, you will probably be fine.
Owning a car is a constitutional right as owning other stuff. It’s called property right.
What happens is we make laws to outlaw this behavior.
"ashes mixed into a concrete whiffle ball" ... ok, fine... informal undertakers have been dumping corpses with cement blocks attached for some time now. I'd say thats a proven technology and likely substantially cheaper.
it will take her hours to back up her phone via USB C cable since she can't do it on the phone directly, and then again hours more to set her phone up again as it was
Yes, precisely, and "West Germany" is now simply "Germany". I'm not sure what point you're making.

>It would be rendered redundant if replaced with a common EU security framework, but not by the collapse of Soviet bloc.

I've seen this repeated in a dozen different places, and I can't parse what it even means. Alliances come and go. That's just the normal course of history.
wow thats a lot of redundancy in a headline
If anything this reinforces the author's point about the dangers of lack of transparency of "digital jail". How do we know that statement is true? It's hard to hide who has been jailed (though "disappearances" come close), whereas we have no choice but to take the word of the entity which we have granted unchecked power that it has not abused that power.

There's also plenty of wiggle room in their statement - they said they froze the accounts of "influencers" and people they "suspect" committed illegal acts. If it turns out they did in fact freeze someone who just donated, they didn't technically lie if they can fit them into one of those vague groups.
Do you not even consider the possibility and usefulness of advancing technologies for the production of energy and resources more robustly AND efficiently so that all of humanity can live at a very high level of social and economic development? These notions aren't fantasy, and in many ways the technical capacity to realize them already exists. The push is what's largely missing still.

I'm not saying that this applies to your arguments, but what I notice among many people and groups claiming to be concerned with our impact on the environment is more of a fetishism towards doom and pushing forward a notion of personal sacrifice for billions of people, while actively making any excuse for decrying numerous suggestions for technologies and social advancements that could possibly let us make the world cleaner while also being able to live better on a much broader scale.

That kind of thinking teeters on the verge of pseudo-religious, ideological instead of being something reasoned and practical.
Damn... I need to try it on the machine with the good graphics card...
Eh, not the only thing. Podman is definitely well on it's way, but my team builds tooling that builds and orchestrates our development environments. When we switched from docker to podman we immediately noticed how slow our container based build stage had become. Podman lacked some caching layer that docker was automatically orchestrating as well as parallel builds (without build kit, and build kit isn't super simple to integrate). Once we integrated build kit it made our build times very similar, but this was only possible because we had tooling to orchestrate build kit on top of podman.
I agree on rights and mapping them into the digital space.

That is long overdue.

However, until we actually do move past this "wild west" digital time, rejecting it is reasonable and prudent behavior.
NPR has a subtle, but fairly clear centre left bias.

"There's no central editorial staff" - there's no need to have a central staff if you hire the same types of people.

Hear it from former senior NPR Exec. himself [1]

I'm not supporting this man's views at all, other than to point out he gives a fairly clear articulation into how 'bias' doesn't remotely need to have some kind of central authority and that it absolutely exists at NPR.

In fact, for someone who doesn't see the bias in something like NPR, learning to see the bias in an otherwise fairly respectable institution which does have fairly high standards and isn't so interest in flame-bait such as NPR - would be a worthy exercise.

'Culture' is probably the root of all bias in most places, not some 'central committee'. People who don't fit the mood are pushed said, those who have 'the correct opinions' are promoted. It's a perennial feature of human organisations you can see this in corporate culture as well.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0qyeFVf7bg&ab_channel=TheRu...
I'm looking forward to buying one of these as soon as there's good Linux support.
If Russia claims the full oblasts which contain Ukrainian troops, how can they avoid war?
In other words, talk. Like on HN. Respectable doesn't mean used.