skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument hinges upon the fact that one company or person's opinion would hold enough sway to actually ruin your entire reputation.

Even if this individual or this company was exceptionally vocal about your betrayal, do you really think it would "prevent having visibility into your life as a possibility?"

The arguments for this are all over the spectrum, but I think _Most_ people fall into a moderate stance of, if you accept and offer and something substantial and unexpected changes your situation (an incredible competing offer, an unexpected opportunity, health or spousal related issues) then you should do what's best for you and not let loyalty to a business and a people that you don't even have an established relationship with yet have a negative impact on you.

As evidence by the Post here - Companies will make the same decisions when exceptional circumstances arrive.

I would also argue that anti-corporation/anti-business sentiment in the USA has never been more prevalent with r/antiwork in the spotlight, ridiculous inflation, a new outburst of unionization (e.g. starbucks) and CEO's under fire (Elon/Bezos) that a reputation for making tough decisions for yourself and not exhibiting loyalty where its not deserved might gain you more fame. Especially if some "SV Startup CEO" corroborated your story for you.
Attend more carefully to what I'm saying please. I said that discrimination is just discrimination. The term "reverse discrimination" is semantically nonsense. Selecting people based on skin color is always discrimination.

That said the situation as it stands is so tilted against minorities in favor of white dudes that this injustice rarely leaves a white guy in the red on net and fixing what pitifully little preference there is before making any dent in rampant discrimination will on average net out to a decrease in justice.

Consider even in microcosm a white man applies to 10 positions who loses one due to preference given to a minority while 7 identically skilled black man fills out 10 apps each and 5 take lesser jobs. It's hard to imagine that the victim here is the white dude. Speaking as a white man white victimhood doesn't really pass the sniff test.

You mention education so lets talk about Harvard. This blew my mind.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/study-harvard-finds-43-...

> Study on Harvard finds 43 percent of white students are legacy, athletes, related to donors or staff. The number drops dramatically for black, Latino and Asian American students with less than 16 percent each coming from those categories, the study said.

Almost all the minorities are people who belong their by merit. About half the white people do. Before reading this I was against racial preference in education.
No kidding, people seem to pretend supply and demand don't exist and they can just ignore market forces. This sort of populist first order thinking sounds good if you don't think about it very hard, but never actually works. They'll either waste money overpaying people (and go out of business or simply operate a charity if they have deep pockets) or underpaying and fail to attract competitive talent. Presumably it's all just for show anyway, whatever happens will be even less fair than if they just paid market wages for the work they wanted done
Finally Thailand can drop it’s anglicized name and be known by it’s true name of “Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit”

https://theculturetrip.com/asia/thailand/articles/bangkoks-f...
Absolutely. I got two exploding offers in my career and I declined them on the spot. Both companies later returned with better offers and longer timelines. There's really no reason to let a company push you around. Just walk away.
Similar story here. Even 400MiB Arch stick booted up just fine...
"People who drink coffee live longer."

Unhealthy people start drinking coffee in the hopes it's some kind of magic elixir that can erase their unhealthy choices.

Check again: "People who drink coffee don't live longer."

Unhealthy people try to find some other magical cure from a new observational study, maybe of eggs, this time.
Dang, you're right! Check out this video[1] around 1:35. (Mute it though, seriously.) There's software that pulls the same metadata that I did. Definitely need to do some digging now.

EDIT: It's probably a UTi120P given the apparent sensor resolution. Amazing find, nonetheless!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTefQL2qeV0
Except it's an AI making decisions and flagging people who may then be the recipient of adverse actions.
Do you think this isn't a prevalent idea in US society as well? It's just a reframing of the current DNC platform using exotic words like "caste".
Americans Believe Race Relations Are Getting Worse. We're Being Lied To
Linkians: A sims-like game that happens inside your url bar with emojis
> For example I often hear "The riches 1% pay 80% of the taxes" (or whatever the correct values are).

Top 1% earns 21% or income, pays ~40% of taxes (has ~34% of wealth): https://www.heritage.org/taxes/commentary/1-chart-how-much-t...
A couple of weeks ago I decided to entirely block Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and google news for a week. I has previously set screen time limits on Twitter, which I had become downright addicted to, but I found myself frequently overriding it.

After a week of quitting, I found myself really not wanting to go back. I decided to keep the apps removed from my phone and blocked on my main browser, with a special Firefox profile dedicated to social media. In that profile, I downloaded an extension that limits me to 3-5 minutes per day per site. Most of the time I don’t even use it. Having it as a separate profile lets me not worry as much about having the site blocking extension have access to all the sites I browse.

If you’ve struggled with this sort of thing, maybe give this approach a try. If I’m being honest, I was probably on Twitter for an hour and a half a day previously. Now it’s just minutes.
Facebook/YouTube/iTunes doesn't give your band a $200,000 advance and fund a tour schedule across the USA eastern seaboard.
I ain't no angel but I have made some startup investments
Here we go again.

> I haven't seen anyone here claim that "relationships" on social media are not important.

Because you didn't see it then I didn't see it? I'm sure you don't read every single comment every day. This has been said to me twice now. I've seen plenty of other people get in the same arguments.

> What many do say is that the daily addictive "interactions" through social media, like FB, don't mean much in terms of strengthening or weakening a relationship.

I'm telling you it does mean much in terms of strengthening or weakening my relationships.

> I don't have an FB or Whatsapp or Google account even though they dominate my country.

You know people that are willing to do that. I know people who aren't or can't.
That’s a really good point. It highlights the hegemony of self-interest in contemporary culture. Collectivism has become frail, immobile, even dubious. We are demographics. We demonize one another. We struggle for causes that affect us and ours, and despise people for joining popular social movements. Fatigue turns out to be the limiting factor for compassion, and boy are we tired.

I don’t expect I would become a billionaire (…anymore). I imagine that I would be a benevolent one, but fear the gravity pull of such wealth would collapse any good intentions. Capital demands such rigor. I would think that if some some policy or popular uprising made wealth distribution flatter, the billionaires of the world could exhale. The burden to care becomes much lighter when borne by many hands.
Glassdoor salaries but based on real W-2s
Renting a studio, musicians, engineers, etc.
There are very real use cases where integer types with specific fixed widths are necessary, on account of very real constraints. A serial interface for instance, which is a very common peripheral outside of PCs, often sends information out over the wire 8 bits at a time. 'Systems programming languages' need to specify how arithmetic using these fixed-width integers should work.
You are not the only one. I find rust code unreadable too even though I can understand it. I wish the type signatures and function definitions were on separate lines a la Haskell. That would have drastically improved the legibility.
Completely agree. There are also people who would give everything and anything to be ideologically consistent - worse off on every metric, but right with themselves and the way they see the world. It can be very difficult to relate to them due to that very experiential chasm.
My problem with Twitter is 1) it’s a huge time sink that trickles out dopamine, and 2) I rarely feel better about anything after sinking time into it.
I gave my mom a primer on Kubernetes and she loves casually dropping buzzwords when she meets another "tech person' :)
I am a fan of the analog renaissance! They sound great and are fun to play. It's not just classic reissues (and improved versions) or clones either - there's a huge range of analog from cheap pocket synths to monster synths to hybrid to modular.

One particularly great development is more affordable analog from the IK Multimedia UNO to the Korg Minilogue to the Sequential Take 5 to Behringer's Deepmind and Neutron (not to mention their clone army if it ever reaches production.)
exceptional talent from wealthy countries*

For entry-level American SWE pay, you could get the valedictorian from fairly high quality schools across the developing world and work them like dogs and they wouldn't complain.

I think this makes sense given the following:

1) you think you can handle the distributed/async workforce

2) you are OK with having mediocre US talent (made up for by exceptional foreign talent)

3) you think they can make up for not being exposed to modern SWEngineering culture by just being better in {IQ, Work Ethic, etc.}
Websites are like a special kind of book that everyone everywhere can read at the same time, if they want to.
Is it wild to imagine an ethically-run company has salary bands based on levels and makes offers within those bands based on maintaining internal equity?

I don’t naively believe all or most companies do this. But I have been a hiring manager at two that do.
They probably are using that approach already.
might also be a generational thing. A lot of older folks in my experience tend to be more plain and just say "I write software for a living" rather than doing the whole I am head of X in the Y division and I'm a code artisan".
Without diving into completely obscure programming languages, you can look at Scala, F#(doesn't scale super great ime), or I guess golang.

That said, they all don't give you what rust gives you and have their own troubles.

The truth is, either you care about life times and ownership, or you really don't care much about speed and correctness. Not saying that targeted at you as a person, but the royal "you". Even in c/c++ I have to think about that stuff, there's just no tools for it .

Fwiw you can import crates to have a gc in rust. To me it defeats the purpose. Wishing you the best on your search
You don't get on the payroll before day 1.
When I read this, I was trying to map "record labels" and "music" onto "big 5 publishers" and "books."

The Big 5 are not quite there yet, but you can almost feel it gestating in the minds of those executives: "publish your book yourself, and if it's a hit, then we'll reprint it and do your next one."

In the other article by Ted Gioia (the talk with Rick Beato), Ted said, back in the old days, half the people in the record business were Mafia, and Rick said "literally Mafia." I don't think ethical standards in the music industry have risen materially since then.
There are plenty of high-level remote leaders, even at large conservative companies, who don’t meet in person more than once a quarter. Especially after the last couple of years.
I'm sure OP is exaggerating a bit but it's no different than the American affirmative action system where if you are black/native then you can get a 1300 SAT and get into an T20 school but if you are Asian then you need a 1600 and a laundry list of achievements.
I think it’s pretty paternalistic to think that you’re a better judge of what is good or bad for someone than that person themselves. There are plenty of people who are anti union because they’ve rationally concluded they would be worse off.
Can't really say I dodged a bullet because I'm not employed either way but I was about to get an offer from them a month ago when I decided it just didn't seem like a place I wanted to work at. Not regretting the decision at all
Signal and WhatsApp aren't 100% trust worthy though. Why not pick something you can host yourself?
I will be watching your career with great interest.
I play online and multiple tables. 600 hands takes ~90 minutes at 6ish tables. Each table is ~75hands/h.

I can play up to 12 at the same time, but my play suffers and I don't feel like I'm able to focus and get better.
Zero-Day Exploitation of Atlassian Confluence
Who wants to build a competitor?
I like Go a lot. At my previous employer a lot of the systems we wrote for log processing were written in Golang. And I thought it was really nice; I can compile my code really quickly and code in general will run pretty fast. I've only used in the space of big data file processing though.

My only real issue with Go is that I feel the language part itself is simplistic and doesn't have the kind of type/trait/typeclass/similarthing like Rust or Haskell has. In Haskell I especially like doing DSLs using monads, e.g. I did a integer-problem-to-SAT-problem DSL and another DSL for NetHack playing AI. In Go making these DSLs is more pain. Although I think that would be true for Rust as well, just not as much.
> The industry keeps getting bigger.

I would like to believe that your professional growth outpaces the growth of the industry. For example, if in year 1 you knew 10 other engineers, hopefully by year 10 you met many more - to the point that the ratio is higher than the growth of the industry in that same time period.

> I have never run into anyone I ever worked with in any other company.

That's not the question. The question is: "did anyone at your new company take a minute to search your social media accounts to find out if they have any shared connections?" Hint: if you got the job, it doesn't matter. But what about all the other times when you didn't get the job? You would have no way of finding out. On that note:

"71% of Hiring Decision-Makers Agree Social Media is Effective for Screening Applicants" [0]

> why doesn't this great candidate (you wanted to hire them) decide to back out. What is wrong with this manager/team

Nope, if a candidate accepts and backs out a week before their start date (as explained by the OP), that's 100% on them.

> if you are successful impacting their career they can personally sue and take everything you own.

Just because it's a corporate best practice to respond to official employment references in such a way to minimize the risk of lawsuits, it in no way means that 1) confidential backchannel references are done the same way, and 2) that speaking the truth violates defamation laws. For that to be true, you would have to 1) tell a lie, 2) know that it was a lie, and 3) for that lie to cause damages. I have never done such a thing and will never do - but I have spoken the truth while giving backchannel references. Two very different things.

https://www.prweb.com/releases/71_of_hiring_decision_makers_...
Even regardless of their motives, this statement is begging the question. The only way it is relevant is if that percentage (it's actually ~40%, if we're talking federal income taxes) is enough for them to be paying. So the argument is that they already are paying enough because they're paying enough. It's circular and therefor meaningless.
I think the worst thing you can do is continue to be victimized, without raising a fuss.

It is very convenient for <the people victimizing you/people made uncomfortable by you pointing this out> if you do just that, though.
Lots of people don’t understand supply and demand or work to eliminate it regardless of consequences.
My Castaway This Week: the world’s longest-running interview show
I am not a good poker player pre coffee and apparently not good at basic math either.
This is pretty dystopian.
> Racism isn't real anymore, except for being a manufactured socio-political construct to create (D) voters

How sheltered are you that you believe this?

EDIT: Because calling you sheltered for your ignorance of racism isn't enough:

You're claiming that people who think they're experiencing racism are simply primed to view negative interactions as racism, raising their sensitivity and lowering their specificity of racist experiences (i.e. that they can't tell the difference between assholes or reasonable setbacks in life and racism).

You're using this perception of minorities' racist experiences to prime yourself to dismiss every racist experience. Do you see how this is problematic?
While everyone has been salivating over Musk and his market manipulation tactics, Toyota has been actually been building way better electric/hybrid cars and batteries when compared to Tesla, for a few years now.
CRDT is not the only game in town, the alternative OT has been used and still being use for more than 30 years now by the industry[1].

I strongly believe that local-first software is the future, the sooner it becomes widespread the better because then we are not at the mercy of software company monopoly.

[1]Real Differences between OT and CRDT in Correctness and Complexity for Consistency Maintenance in Co-Editors:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3392825
Yea messed it up, I blame pre coffee. I'm a bad poker player pre coffee too!
Awesome story.
Please note. If you pop up a window while I’m reading to invite me to subscribe I will immediately close the window and ignore you forever.

A simple link to subscribe will let me do it without interrupting me.

We get to build the internet we want to experience. Don’t create a shitty experience for your readers.
Well I used to read a list of options horizontally, then click one and read a list of options vertically. Now, with the ribbon, I must observe a grid of different sized and shaped objects. That's harder to parse, in my opinion.
"No mom, I don`t know how to fix a printer."
TL/DR: we pay lower than market rate salaries in all regions where salaries are high.

I do think that as productivity and tools improve around remote and async work salaries in remote friendly jobs will equalize.
Or Italy. Especially Italy.
The median annual wage for software developers in the US is $120k and the 90th percentile is $168k.

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm
It's not like all the offers that were rescinded were made before the crash. This is not exucable with the market crash, it's simply poor form and bad planning. They simply should've not made those offers.

Her offer was rescinded and she's devastated about it. She received her offer in the past couple of weeks, well after the stock lost a lot of its value and they announced a hiring "slow down":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31408364
Open Hexagon is an open source game that started as a clone of Super Hexagon and has since then surpassed it. It also gives the ability for users to make their own level packs with a very robust lua scripting system. The custom levels can be insanely creative, sometimes creating entirely new games within the game, though most are only hosted on the Steam workshop which requires the user to purchase it there. The GitHub repository also lacks music files for the base game. The game itself is otherwise completely open source and free to play if you compile it yourself.
https://github.com/vittorioromeo/SSVOpenHexagon

Space Station 13 (and the remake, SS14) is an incredibly unique and feature rich multiplayer role playing game that takes place on a rickety space station in a wacky retro-futuristic setting. It's hard to recommend this game as the learning curve is more like a cliff, but it is far and away the best game that exists for creating unique (and often very funny) stories in. It has a long and complicated open source history that has fragmented it into several unique popular forks, but the most popular one that's fully open source nowadays is tgstation.
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation

On that topic I've been playing an SS13-inspired browser based game lately. It's fully open source and takes inspiration from Melvor Idle, but is a much shorter and nicely compacted experience.
https://github.com/TBartl/space-station-13-idle
https://spacestationidle.com/
> The conversations will happen elsewhere

That's entirely intentional. You really don't want internal evidence of something that's going to be construed 10 years down the line as cancel-worthy, or worse, something that politicians/regulators are going to take out of context to attack you with.
Emacs is open source and you can modify it, so even if it would spy on you, you can in theory remove the offending code yourself or wait for someone else to do it and publish the patch. Good luck doing that with Office 365.
Submitted title was "Office 365 implementing AI to detect employees colluding, leaving and more". That broke the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The proper place to include that sort of interpretation is by adding it in a comment in the thread. Then your interpretation is on a level playing field with everyone else's (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). Also, a comment gives you room to actually substantiate your interpretation.

On the other hand, a thread like this probably wouldn't have gotten attention without the sensational title in the first place, so this kind of submission is a borderline case and at worst a venial sin. (We still change the title once it does make the frontpage though.)
Some of those people are willing to move to the US and get paid more than entry level American SWE pay.
That transition is not only impossible but absurd.

Hell will freeze over before CNN will air bad coverage about, say, a Democratic Presidential nominee in October of an election year. But what do you think leads a "news" source to switch to commentary?! There's no distinction.
Reinforces that during interviews candidates should be determining what the company uses for internal communications and choose accordingly.

Anyone using Teams is already a red flag.
>> It's antithetical to our founding values

> If we're excluding slavery as a de facto caste system

I agree that caste and slavery have overlap, but banning slavery was about making our country more in line with its founding values. America is an evolving project, not a single point in time.

We still have a long way to go, and are regressing in many ways of late, but still more in line with those values than we were at the founding.
That's a false equivalency. You seem like you've never worked with honest people.
HN exists as basically a job board with submissions in between to being people in. But considering how non invasive these ads are I really don't see the issue. I get it, services have to be paid for somehow and I'd rather see some text ads then have my information sold
Yep, hence the rehashing of Star Wars, Marvel, DC, Robocop, The Matrix, basically any franchise that will inspire us to buy merch for our kids who are now the age to consume this content, get them in the cycle.
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