skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flipping it slightly, what intuition leads to anyone thinking that fumes from burning _anything_ is safe to breath in large quantities? We know that standing in a room filled with fumes from burning one thing — be it gasoline or wood — kills quickly. So why wouldn’t it make sense for a million cars running every day to also have a negative health impact?

There are plenty of events in history where stale air in a city along with significant pollution killed tens of thousands of people over a short period, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London.

But taking it to a philosophical level, what framework gives one the right to pollute? In my view, the opposite is true. Clearly, if a factory dumps toxic waste on your property, they are violating your property rights. I don’t believe anyone should have the right to pollute, based on the simple fact that any polluter violates another’s property. Our society of course isn’t quite there, but I believe we are sacrificing a rights by allowing pollution (even from ourselves), rather than the other way around (polluters having a right to pollute.)
We spend a lot of energy on our onboarding process (a good/smooth start is critical for new hires in our organization, as it's fast-paced). But I think the main reasons we excel at this are:

--> We ensure that new equipment is ordered for when they start

--> We keep the people a new hire has to deal with to a minimum (they meet with a manager, a single mentor, and HR only - after that, it's team members)

--> We make sure everything in documents (policies, procedures, etc.) are also covered by one of the aforementioned people, leaving room for questions

--> We show new hires the location and use of the coffee machine before anything related to their job ;-)
Problem is that IR blasters can't receive, so you cant copy the signal from the original remote. Finding the codes online can be very hit or miss, for example I never did find one for my AC during the four years I had a phone with an IR blaster.
Doesn't his comment about rewriting it answer all those questions though but keep the core of the principles of the software intact?
>A large reason FAANG does the interviews this way is because they can quantise it better and distribute not just the interviewing between interviewers, but also the training of new interviewers.

Almost! They do it this way because they are stupid individuals who are paid to hire individuals more intelligent than they are.

If anyone finds out they aren’t necessary then you and your job go away.

To wit: if your hiring process is transparent and commands no respect why would your daily operations be different? Lol! Oh no!
If you talk to a random sampling of New Yorkers, I suspect that you'd find much more social discontent in the lax enforcement of our idling and parking laws (and related things, like placard abuse) than in this.

(Besides: it's a strange thing to appeal to when one side is physically assaulting the other.)
Seems unlikely assuming the brother isn't lying about being promoted. To be honest, this just looks like a coincidence to me, Amazon is a large employer and assuming every warehouse worker gets this offer 1/365 firings of new employees will have this happen to them.

That said, I'm surprised Amazon doesn't have a policy about avoiding firing around bonuses like this because it seems like such bad PR if a newspaper picks a story like this up and runs with it.
Except after taking that risk, if the exec leaves within a period, they have to return that bonus. So for the exec as well, it’s both inducement and retention.
How is this any different from a reward for information leading to someone’s arrest?
Right, that's exactly what I'm talking about. You're defining it as "a long-running government that hasn't violated its citizens rights". By this definition, you could exclude the United States as one of its minorities wasn't able to vote until recently. You're begging the question.
bzzzt Wrong! No, you’re filtering for the tolerance of stupidity. When you hire idiots who are complacent to your stupidity then you are guaranteed a progressively more stupid environment.
> I doubt anybody involved in the firing had anything to gain here so I'd be interested in hearing their side of the story.

Not having to pay the $3000?

If the unemployment makes up for it, maybe they're banking on him being dumb or intimidated, or maybe they're just dumb themselves.
I outlined this above, but I think there is a very clear argument that pollution is a violation of your property rights. Would you be happy if someone ran 200 Diesel engines upwind of you, making the air around your home on your property unbreathable? I believe that should philosophically indicate that your rights are being violated when someone is polluting.
Casey's name should be in the title! I think a lot of HNers respect him.
The pattern looks a lot like changing existing code vs writing code from scratch. We have accumulated vast number of laws where making any change in the world is uphill battle. The advantage of places like China is that they we’re able to throw away existing code quickly.
Yeah because the Stasi were real stickers for the environment.
This was what I learned c++ on and I'm very nostalgic for those (mostly) care free days in college :)
What are your other ways?
Sadly, that didn't surprise me at all. Only keeping the positive feedback is a time honored tradition with some groups in corporations. It is amazing how useful it is to control your own feedback for people wanting to look good.
Next, do Swift’s. So unbelievably awful, and more error-prone because of it.
Plenty of people can get investment. There is only one Amazon. If things are so easy, go do it yourself.

Starting a company and growing it to the size of Amazon is extremely difficult. It doesn’t happen by luck or happenstance. It takes highly skilled management in addition to market timing.

Luck isn’t what makes people successful. Hard working people put themselves out there and increase the opportunities for lucky events, but without the hard work and effort the luck wouldn’t be able to happen.

Looking at successful people and pointing out some advantage they have is just a coping mechanism. Assuming you don’t have some disability, no one is stopping you from succeeding except yourself.
Does this mean you’re also in favor of abolishing long-established programs like the SEC Whistleblower Program [0]?

[0]: https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower
I kind of agree. I think that while it's getting a little bit bloated that xfce4 still pushes the right buttons for a gui for me. Simple, lots of good shortcuts by default, nice simple launcher, and you can tweak til your heart's content (but I don't really anymore). I love xfce4 combined with the whiskers launcher, it does what I need.
I really relate to the author's story and I don't see it as them claiming to be superior to their coworkers.

I read it instead as a story about silicon valley companies tend to focus a lot on image over substance. They crate these overwrought hype machines made to market to investors and customers, but then use the same techniques to sell to their employees as well.

Every silicon valley startup has a story about how they're saving the world with their product, when in reality it's just another business that's trying to extract value out of some market.

As an employee I appreciate when a company doesn't demand that I drink thier cooperate kool-aid just to work there. A company that understands that I am there to do a job and exchange my time and knowledge for money. Maybe I've just gotten as cynical as the author over time, but as someone who has been in this industry for 20 years, I don't want to spend extra time at work doing non-work things. I want to get something useful done and go home. I bring value in my skills and experience, and if you work with a company that can't recognize that and wants to put all employees through the same junior exercise of corporate orientation then as the author said, that's a red flag.
Verilog Is Weird
The alternative (requiring no minimum distance between a police action and a protected recording) seems worse to me.

8' is a quantified line.

An unstated number of feet is more open to interpretation. Were you "interfering" with an arrest at 4'? 10'? 50'? That's a very fuzzy line in a court system that's typically deferential to law enforcement.

So, to me, it seems like an improvement on the certainty of rights. If you are 8' away, during a dangerous situation, or other caveat lesser distances as specified in the law, you have followed all legal guidelines and are not interfering with police action.

Ultimately, we'll see what the Supreme Court has to say. But to me, this sounds like a middle ground, rather than a sky-is-falling option.
How do they handle pager duty?
The Q&A is more for people that don't know about the concept of structured concurrency. Basically, people who have questions on TFA.
Might I introduce you to the existing system of whistleblowers being rewarded, and pleas in the justice system?
Well obviously, we're talking about the GUI aspect of it, not the underlying OS. Win95 ran on what was essentially DOS so of course it was unstable compared to a modern (at the time) properly jailed off userland/kernel OS like NT
To be clear: SEC "whistleblowers" are rats in the colloquial sense: they come from inside the companies themselves, and report malfeasance to the SEC in exchange for a cut of the penalties.

Similar, what we're talking about is an actual crime in NYC. It's illegal, full stop, to idle a commercial vehicle for more than 3 minutes. You might not want that to be the law, but that's a very difference stance vs. "it's not an actual crime."
I feel like this is yet another example of the insane entitlement of New Yorkers. Keep in mind this a city that has a rampant violent crime problem, incredible garbage, wealth inequality, and theft problems and NYT uses some of the worlds most valuable advertising space to push a story about idling vehicles?

This is why there is such a disconnect between people who live in the rest of the USA and those who live in a few select cities on the coasts. For those who live in the bubble and wonder “Why don’t people identify with my political views” this is a great example.
The tree mirror problem is funny. You don't even need to recurse. Just define a wrapper for the node object that gets left when right is accessed and right when left is accessed. Voila!

Right and left are arbitrary anyway.
I'm not against the law. If someone is polluting your air then you have a right to call the police and report it - but you should be doing that because you care about the air, and not because you're getting a cut of the ticket.
> As for legitimate reasons to leave it idle, I have no idea.

Air conditioning/heating
If it's running equipment (refrigerator, loading deck, food truck, overnight accommodation, cold weather, etc).

If they really want to make a difference, they should enforce this against individuals too, not just companies. Lots of people leave cars idling when waiting in the heat/cold/rain. That adds up too.
Shows every open-source dependency you use in your system that accept donations
What do you think about reporting people who don't shovel/clear the part of sidewalks?
They aren't paying the $3000, Amazon is. If that incentive isn't paid I doubt anyone involved here would receive it, even in part instead.

If such an incentive did exist I suspect we will hear a great deal more of these stories and won't have to rely on a second hand account retold anonymously.
This is one of the goals I have for https://active-mdx.soederpop.com https://github.com/soederpop/active-mdx. With this you can turn a collection of markdown into a graphql database and more.

let me know if you need help!
I just looked up BGP on DDG. The first ten hits explained it without even clicking on them.

If something isn’t clear on HN, try searching for it. If you don’t find it immediately, then you can ask without losing face.
I'm confused here, what does a reflective vest have to do with anything?
"Just fork it" is dismissive and misses the point. The criticism remains valid even if the maintainers refuse to act on it for whatever reason. Even if I were to invest the time to fork the project, the criticism would _still_ remain valid as long as upstream didn't take steps to fix the problem.
- Most books by Roger Zelazny. The guy code write with a few words, he could paint an amazing picture. Chronicles of Amber, Lord of Light, Isle of the Dead, etc...
- And a trashy Candyman , https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2020/05/10/book-review..., not the one everyone is used to, this was so mind boggling to a 13 year old....
How do Committees Invent? (1968) [pdf]
Yes, I rest my fingers on the home row. Usually what happens is I press one of the number keys and the tip of my finger extends past the top the key I am aiming for.

I am also a heavy vim user with caps mapped to ctrl, so perhaps you're not as odd as you think :-)
If murdering innocent civilians by leveling cities is propaganda for you then perhaps you are the one who is immoral?
The same argument holds for every technological advance. "Why build the world wide web when only the rich can afford home computers" and "why develop electric cars when only the rich can afford them". We live in a capitalistic society and therefore almost every advance will be available to the wealthy before it's available to the rest of us. That's not a good thing but it's also not a reason to stop improving ourselves. I would rather give the one percent another advantage than sit here smug in my knowledge that hey, millions of children might suffer needlessly from type 1 diabetes or cystic fibrosis but at least Donald Trump the fourth has to pay somebody to take his exams for him instead of using his artificial eidetic memory.
In NY illegal idling is an actual crime (at least in a lot of people’s eyes). It’s a violation of the commons by outsiders who are transient, so aren’t affected by the pollution they’re causing.

I am greatly in favor of allowing people to be rewarded for preserving the commons, whether that’s by helping police figure out who committed a felony, or by gathering evidence of ongoing traffic violations.
You have to live in a red state to build anything at all. I want to move to one to quit wasting lifespan trying to work my parcel. Sure I disagree with many of the social values, but those are abstract problems. I'm male, so I will never need an abortion. But I do need permits, so I want out of CA.
Perhaps it's hard to prove any particular tooth didn't need a crown, but easy in aggregate,
Yeah, because the owners of those business totally do not pass on the fines to the employees. That never happens, ever.
Tragically yes, my organisation has one.

Fortunately he uses local SVN in spite of the training we've provided him to use Azure DevOps.

You better believe he's not the exception. Worse yet he's not older and/or capable, or competent. He was hired as a shadow developer team of one to get and achieve certain outcomes that the developer team couldn't achieve in their desired timeframes.

I'm trying to move him to using modern tooling (if you were to call CI/CD and Git 'modern') but it's agonising. Fortunately I'm building a case to make his apps production so his services will fall under my responsibility of monitoring as the lead SRE. I'm documenting as I go and if he doesn't improve, I'll be responsible for documenting his demise.
How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by Leil Lowndes

This book helped me handle introductions, small talk, and getting to know people better at a deeper level with so much less anxiety than I ever had before.

The biggest lesson I learned was to try and give the “spotlight” of who’s talking and what the subject is back to others frequently. It’s a simple concept, but the book is helpful in clarifying why it’s important and how to do it.
"I feel like there's far too much focus spent on chastising the sinners and not nearly enough effect spent creating vehicles where the common sense action is not to need to idle."

Actually it seems like many sinners are perfectly happy to blame only the delivery drivers, instead of applying this to other vehicles (their own) as well.
You are not wrong about general sentiment.

But these are not people who self organize. Even pro war self organized demonstrations are not tolerated.
This article is about a road diet in terms of restriping an existing road with fewer lanes, but the same amount of asphalt (and, given the additional markings, probably a similar amount of paint). I don't see what that has to do with the infrastructure being not needed.
Never underestimate the incentive of sucking up to management.
It doesn't necessarily have to make sense, humans are involved. Could just be a crappy manager abusing their position to feel powerful.
Unless they have an incentive to "save the company money".

I feel like these comments are really giving a lot more benefit of doubt than Amazon deserves based on their previous actions.
> Honestly? Onboarding is hard. How are you supposed to do it? Everyone who has to go through it isn’t going to fix it, because they’re new and have their actual job to get to.

Give them time for onboarding (ie. don't expect them to do their "actual job" immediately) and empower new hires to fix things as they go along.
Neither of the simple solutions given will work in all situations. Cars still get super cold if the temperature is say 0 to -5 Celsius (32 or ~22.5 Fahrenheit).

Be in a car with that temperature for an hour+. It’ll be awful for most people.
>"His rants on BGP are quite legendary"

I'm assuming the context of these is lectures? Are they online anywhere? If not could you share what specifically about the protocol they feel so strongly about?
The people who rule also live in this city. Why is there nothing being done about the crime, garbage and injustice?
Oh, it’s ownership alright, it’s just the human usually doesn’t realize who owns him.
Atheism is a rejection, non-acceptance, or indifference to theism, which boiled down to its essence is just a non-acceptance of deities being the creator or essence of reality. One can be atheist and hold hard-line rationalist views about the nature of reality, but one can also have spiritual beliefs and be atheist.

Agnostics believe that in some way, metaphysical intelligences are involved in the creation or fabric of the universe, but the very nature and depth of this involvement is in varying degrees indecipherable, unknown, and not-yet-known. Agnosticism doesn't require either the acceptance or rejection of theism.

Put together it technically means the person doesn't believe in a theistic god but holds agnostic views about broader metaphysical concepts.

More colloquially I've noticed a lot of people use the atheist agnostic / agnostic label interchangeably to indicate they haven't made their mind up one way or the other, but it's possible to be either atheist agnostic or theist agnostic.
Thanks. I have been dealing with ton of headache from my projects since modifying PDFs can be very problematic. Rather than stitching up multiple libraries, I would rather suggest one platform to handle everything.

Will definitely keep this in mind until it meet my requirements. Is there a mailing list I can sign up for?
If you still don't know how useful fzf is, you should start with integrating fzf and ctrl+r (reverse search).
Think your kid is ready to start learning how to code? Try this drawing exercise
In China, authority overcomes any friction and drives a project forward. In the US there is no authority and there is no common purpose or enemy. So thousands of self interested parties abuse the system in a very time consuming way.

If a major war was to break out, that would provide powerful common purpose and mountains would be moved in weeks, as history has shown. Same would apply in the case of a major environmental catastrophe.

Encapsulating innovation inside a corporation is the one way in the US to create a common purpose and shield a group from bureaucratic capture.
Agreed. The disparity between EQ and IQ reflected in that questionnaire is truly breathtaking.
To be clearer: I meant to start reading the entire Bible at Matthew- not reading JUST Matthew.
ahahahah that quote killed me
Thanks for the extra info. Sounds like we've some capsaicin tolerance in common as well judging by your username. If we're in a simulation, they've definitely gotten lazy.
It's surprising the government pays them at all. I would bot be shocked if they decide to lower the reward after seeing the amounts some people made.
Nope, I’d rather HN was not cluttered up with introductory material.

Use DDG if the HN thread doesn’t immediately give you a hint.
To make a sensationalist story a little more educational and useful for our HN discussions:

Aside from the not-feel-good story, my god if there's a case for wanting to get all the stats when you attribute a cause to a problem, this illustrates it. (before you jump to the conclusion that Amazon does this out of spite or purposefully, which of course it might -- and unless you happen to get your kicks from overreacting to stories on the internet/Reddit)

With tens of thousands of workers recently hired, and probably a good number fired, I'm sure you will find a distribution of people who were fired 2, 3, 4, etc. any number of days before some noteworthy date in their pay schedule. This of course happens to be a case where it was dramatically close. Get enough people in a set and you will find all sorts of pleasant and unpleasant coincidences.

I'm guessing there could be 10x the number of people outraged if you made the criterion: fired 1 week before bonus. How about people who died a day before their birthday, or even minutes before? Cut a sample a certain way and you're sure to find the oddest case. How about the person who lucked out and got the bonus and quit the next day?

Now, as I said, maybe Amazon did it deliberately out of spite, to save $3000. Who knows. But I'm just saying it's not inconsistent with random HR behavior, and if you want to make a claim of deliberate malice with any responsibility you'd better study the matter more carefully than citing one example. I'm not jumping on the Reddit antiwork bandwagon just because of this stat.

Aside from that, what does this story incentivize Amazon to do? Pretty much fire someone earlier so that they won't be accused of stuff like this.
It’s not like every article in the New York Times has to be about violent crime, garbage, inequality and theft. They publish very many articles all the time! And society has very many problems, big and small!

I guess you and the rest of the upset heartland commoners can subscribe to “New York Crime, Garbage, Inequality, and Theft Weekly” if other content bugs you so badly.
> The alternative (requiring no minimum distance between a police action and a protected recording) seems worse to me.

Others have pointed out that the lack of a minimum distance is in fact an excellent thing: we don't get to choose how close we are to a crime when it happens. I could be on a bus sitting next to a victim of police brutality while it happens; should I have to stand up and shove my way through people until I am "far enough" away to legally record it? How does that serve the interests of justice?

Barring evidence that filming is itself a form of interference in police activity, it's not clear why we should have a separate standard for it. Interfering with a police investigation is, after all, already illegal.

(I also don't think the sky is falling. But I do think this inverts a currently very reasonable burden of proof, i.e. that the police must show that you are actually interfering with their work, and not merely recording it.)