skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently not just FireHydrant either. Someone posted on YC about 8 months ago Chris Evans from Incident.io calling them out for copying their Slack and Changelog formats literally word for word.

https://twitter.com/evnsio/status/1442908782405701634

Standing on the shoulders of giants huh
Yes, he would have fired them. Would he have banned them from twitter? That's the question when judging hypocrisy here.
Videogame companies would often license their consoles for sale in countries in which they either couldn't or didn't want to sell directly. For example the Sega Master system in Brazil and the NES and SNES in South Korea.

So this was an attempt by the company who was the legal distributor of Atari 2600 in Turkey to prevent 2500 games from elsewhere to work on their system. That sounds like a region lock to me even if it was easy to circumvent.
I think they are preparing for the wave of christofacism being lead by the current GOP leadership that seems to be growing inside of the USA.
It is pretty hypocritical though for Mr. Free Speech to fire people who have concerns rather than address those concerns in a civil dialogue. Musk likes to whinge about “censorship” amounting to banning a Twitter account but seems perfectly okay firing someone and removing their livelihood for speaking critically of him.

Also retaliation is very much still illegal, not that it matters.
I agree with you, but debts are one of the things investigated for clearances.
It doesn't work that way when one of them owns the company. If Musk were CEO then maybe they would have a point. But Musk isn't CEO. In fact I don't think he's an employee of SpaceX at all. He is the majority owner of the company. The most important of the investors. And legally speaking the company has a duty to him, not the other way around. CEO's can and do get fired for making companies look bad. Happens all the time. You can't fire an owner.

Now we can discuss how we think it ought to work all day long. But that is how it does work today. It's not an even relationship and never has been. The guy signing the checks gets to decide if he wants to employee you. If people decide that he's a dick and don't want to work for him then he will find it hard to hire good talent.
Financial Times

Economist

NY Times (I disagree that it has gone downhill)

The New Yorker
USAF can go carbon-neutral by sourcing synthetic fuel. Zero-emission, never.
What happens if I hit File->Save, then while the file picker helper process is spawning I get an urgent instant message and tab away, and when I alt-tab back focus returns to GNOME and I close the tab because I forgot I didn't finish saving? Does the file picker go away? If I type a filename in the picker afterward and hit Save, does it save the file even though I closed the tab?
Where do you think those earnings go in the long run? In a competitive market margins get driven down, and profitability feeds into lower cost of goods.

E.g. cloud providers must provide cheaper and cheaper service to stay competitive with other cloud providers. This in turn drives down costs for all technology in society.

Sure a union could try to take that profit and feed it into wages instead, but that's worse for society in the end.

When profit margins maintain at excessive levels it's typically an indication that there's either a first mover advantage, or the company is a pseudo-monopoly.

I'd argue there are some big cases where that applies today
The citymapper hamburger icon definitely has a humorous element too!

I'm not sure I agree with the quote though. It so happens that the websites I linked all had an element of playfulness, but I don't think that's required.

Here's a site I worked on. Check out the hover animation for the four tiles underneath "Our Innovative and Customer-Driven Businesses": https://web.archive.org/web/20190610202159if_/http://2018ar....

IMO, there's nothing playful or "humorous" about this animation. I would describe it instead as "elegant"—it gives the site an extra level of sophistication.

Another (very small) example might be the "Apply Now" button on https://www.airforce.com/
Using the Sun as a Gravitational Lens Would Let Us See Exoplanets
I like to say that Apple providing a much better experience than the competition has less to do with Apple being amazing and more with the competition being shockingly bad.
Switzerland is the natural location for a backup country. Maybe hosting just costs too much there?
What you advocate for, not organizing, is what got us to the indentured servitude and slavery current state (US centric of course). Those who can’t recognize that are beyond hope (as they ignore the economic data clearly demonstrating the benefits), and to cater to them or entertain their desire to maintain the status quo helps no one but themselves.

Edit: This forum has some sort of empathy deficiency in aggregate.
Vale.sh: open-source linter for prose
For increased satisfaction they should throw confetti or show fireworks like the YouTube upvote button does.

(Please don’t do this in OS controls and productivity apps. ;))
I mean, it is elitist. Is that inaccurate? What I don't get is why that is supposed to be bad. It's just a fact.
There was a time--not too long ago actually--when the standards were waxed paper, parchment paper, and glass. Paper being biodegradable, glass being highly inert, and neither causing as much ecological devastation or endocrine disruption as plastic.

So technically speaking, it's a solved problem. But from a market perspective, for the people who eat the glyphosate-dusted insulin resistance that's wrapped inside the plastic, i'm willing to bet the pseudoestrogens are the least of their worries.
I am very happy with https://newsasfacts.com/. It helps me to catch up on global events in usually under a minute.
Musk has many achievements, that's why it's so frustrating to see him act this way.

There are plenty of billionaires with unpopular politics. Only a few are in the news. That is by choice.
How is none of these threads about Assange extradition on the front page? I realize they can hit the top by the time I post my comment, but so far they are all buried pretty far down on best, new and newest. Have people gotten bored with this? Did the news hit in the dead time slot for the Silicon Valley?
It’s pretty slow. The movement in isn’t too slow (though it’d be better faster), but I find the little bounce at the end to be slow and disconcerting (that’s not the way a physical spring would go). I’d be inclined to almost double the speed, halve the bounce and speed it up even more.

More interesting is something exposed in the dev tools. I managed to die.
Neither fan or hater of crypto space based technology; said as much prior, but appears you’re not reading my replies.

Further, you clearly did read the OP comment, which said the “whole crypto space” — so no, I don’t believe me responding to that as the scope is off-topic, changing the scope, etc.; I didn’t even include cryptography, which is obviously part of the space, worth $10 of trillion and used 7.26 Billion or making up 91.54% of the world's population; every phone uses cryptography.

Next, lol, money is obviously real, claim it’s not is funny at best, not even worth responding too; obviously not worth the 10s of trillions the public equity market is worth, but again, no example you’ve supplied came close to even 10 billion; reminder that trillion divided by billion is 1000, even at 100 billion, that still 10x larger; even at 10 billion, that would be like comparing industry making $1 a year to one that makes $100.

No idea what the whole 89% of the stock market point means; either literally, or as it relates to the topic.

Cheers.
> Paul Graham's essay on design

http://www.paulgraham.com/design.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/desres.html
The website exactly the way you have it seems pretty great to me. You could add a non intrusive ad for revenue (I personally dislike ads, but what can you do) and then market it to the best of your ability. I think you've already made something really cool here.
This all seems pretty incredible and kind of like a no-brainer. What are some of the challenges in a project like this? Are there any limitations to scale?

Lastly, do you know off-hand if these bold claims (see below) are exaggerated or oversimplified in any way?

> Covering just 10 percent of the world’s hydropower reservoirs with floatovoltaics could generate as much electricity as all the world’s operating fossil fuel power plants combined

> We found that countries in the Americas and Africa could benefit most: even low coverage of reservoirs by floatovoltaics should generate all the solar energy needed to decarbonize their electricity sector. Brazil and Canada could be hotspots, each requiring only about 5% coverage of their plentiful reservoirs to satisfy their massive solar-energy needs. Last year, Brazil implemented regulatory changes to help the industry to develop (see ‘Brazil’s photovoltaic boom’).

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01525-1#ref-CR13 (linked in the article)
>Supply and demand also applies to the labour market

Right, but for wages (ie. prices) to go up, you need to decrease supply or increase demand. Increasing the prices you pay doesn't do that.
> If you want to organise an open letter, put it up somewhere public, tell everyone involved, and wait for people to sign it? Or not, it's their choice.

> Perhaps people who support activism should just start their own companies

Got it. Employees should sort of organise an open letter and tell everyone involved but also not organise an open letter or tell anyone because how employees spend their waking hours and what they should think is up to management.

Also, sending an email circular asking people to sign a petition is intimidation, but telling people that activism is an "unacceptable" loss of focus whilst announcing firings is all about protecting people from intolerance of other viewpoints.

I mean, employers can and do fire people all the time for embarrassing the company, though doing it for criticising the CEO and insufficiently strong protections from harassment tends to be dodgy ground. But the idea that they're doing so to promote tolerance is the most Orwellian bullshit take imaginable. Popper's paradox of tolerance is about what level of safeguard is necessary to prevent free speech democracies from collapsing, not making it clear that people aren't allowed to criticise their boss and especially not on company time.
Well, at the very least they might join a competitor and take with them the knowledge they had at SpaceX.
Within the bounds of legality while also taking into account of "we'd rather just pay the fine" and get the unwanted employee out.

In the UK recently the CEO of a ferry firm sacked all its workers in contravention of the law (they were required to give a 90 day consultation before any job losses, required to offer them other roles in the organisation). The CEO was summoned to parliament to explain what happen and said that "we didn't think the employees would go along with it, so we just fired them".

The government and employment tribunals are looking into collecting evidence in order to convict the CEO (criminal vs the usual civil penalty).
>"Let's be clear; the title was "Always Punch Nazis", not "Always Punch Conservatives". If you're mixing the two up, that's more on you than the author."

I've definitely noticed an overlap between the kinds of folks who want society to embrace and normalize violence against "Nazis" and the kinds of folks who go around accusing opponents of Nazism with little to no restraint.

Edit: I'm struggling to articulate this, but I also sense a rhetorical sleight-of-hand along the lines of "By definition, we only go after Nazis. If you claim that Nazi we went after was actually a conservative, that says more about you than it does about us and it makes us question your sympathies."
tl;dr: you want to be a customer of Amazon, not an employee.
Do a comparison website which takes articles about the same topics and shows their main points. it could be useful for spotting obvious biases
Internet Explorer gravestone goes viral in South Korea
Airbus A380 has this in first class.
If your ability to stay alive depending on you keeping your job you wouldn't go around signing public letters.

Did he attempt to supress the letter?

Freedom of speech != freedom from action
Please see my answer to this sibling comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31780214
Forcing you to talk to someone to unsub is a gross dark pattern, but fwiw, I used the live chat and it wasn’t that bad.
This might be something I need to rethink—the entire card is a link, not just the tiny button. I don't expect most users to hover for long enough to see the wiggle; it's meant to say: "alright, you've been thinking about this for a while now, come on and click already."
> https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/3d-button

The springy release animation on that one would drive me crazy.
Polish Store Chain Rolls Out Hotdog Making Robots
Matrix Notes
Most widget sets/libraries implement the principle that it should be possible to cancel an action that you have started but not completed.
For their checkboxes, this would be pressing on the box but dragging the finger/pointer away from the checkbox and release elsewhere.

With this "checkbox" 1) filling the entire screen, 2) activating on long press instead of displaying pressed state and activating on release, this is not possible.

Also, a checkbox does not close the window/screen you are in. It may enable display/ungraying other widgets, but a checkbox itself does not navigate away: that is done by a secondary widget. Also, you could always uncheck a checkbox.
Therefore, you could argue that this widget isn't actually a "checkbox" at all but just a widget that displays an image of one. It could just as well show a thumbs up or the text "Well done" to mean the same thing.
I wish there were some laws to identify this class of substances in kitchen gear.

It is very very hard to identify whether teflon and its derivatives are used in cookware, toasters, and the like. Some say PFOA free, but use similar substances.

If you have a pet bird or birds - they will die if one of these overheats. I also see this as a canary in the coal mine indicator of what happens to humans, possibly at normal temperatures.
I have a ton of respect for the clickhouse team. We ran a massive cluster storing trillions of events across thousands of servers for years to serve a real-time reporting/ api use case and the tech is blazing fast and never once let us down.
If you can pass Amazon algorithms interview you can get hired in any other fang.

Literally all the others are on average better options than Amazon for your mental health (even if not by as much as you think)
We do it in the medical and legal field under the guise of “experience” and “career development”. Is it different because it’s blue collar hourly work and not used as a foundation for a lucrative career.

I think it should stop in all places but we seem to disregard shitty work arrangements for the few prestigious and financially lucrative careers and cry wolf for those hourly souls.

Why is that?
If the employees feel they can get to Mars without Musk, they're free to do so.
He is in fact CEO, according to CNBC:

> SpaceX has fired at least five employees who were involved with circulating a letter around the company that was critical of CEO Elon Musk…[1]

Further, if this link is to be believed, he is no longer a majority owner of SpaceX:

> According to filings that SpaceX has made with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Musk currently owns 43.61% of SpaceX's outstanding stock as of August 2021.[2]

1. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/06/17/spacex-fires-employees-a...

2. https://wccftech.com/elon-musk-now-owns-less-than-half-of-sp...
Afaik they remained breakeven/profitable during the last crypto winter following the 2017 bubble with BTC in the 3k-5k range, I don't see why they can't do the same now
US prison slaves produce $11B worth of goods and services
If you own apple devices try Apple News+

Here are the included publications: https://www.apple.com/apple-news/publications/
No. I didn't say that and I don't think I implied that either.

Benefitting from technology and having direct access to the means are not one and the same.

I get to benefit from the interstate highway system but that doesn't mean I can just go and add lanes or off and on ramps wherever I want.

Raising the bar to access doesn't mean people don't get the economic benefit of a connected world. It means speaking your mind in an online forum is hardware than downloading the twitter app and tapping a few buttons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members-only_unionism is allowed, but most unions impose the same rules about non-members to prevent competition.
It seems unlikely to me that this analysis applies to amzn's retail division.
First, let's be clear that the "ape mother" answer implies a distinction between humans and other apes, which is not true. We are all born of ape mothers, because humans are apes. Another issue is that "human" can refer to the Homo sapiens species, or it can also refer to any species in the genus Homo, depending on context and preference.

With that out of the way, the biggest problem here is that "species" don't actually exist. There are several different definitions, and they each have arbitrarity and/or striking exceptions. Species are just an intellectual tool humans invented to help us organize our understanding of how different living things are related to each other, but evolution is gradual and messy and doesn't care much for clear separations.

So the answer to "who was the father of the first human mother's children" depends on which definition of "species" and which definition of "human" you want to use. If you go with the common idea of "two things are different species if they can't have fertile offspring together" (and ignore all the asexual reproduction and fertile hybrid exceptions), and "human" meaning just Homo sapiens, then... well, you're screwed, really. Because by that definition, the only possible father of the first human's children would have to be one of their siblings, as they definitionally couldn't reproduce with any other existing creatures.

I'm not ruling out that such inbreeding happened; however... as I said, to use that definition, you need to ignore fertile hybrids, which is a problem because we know Homo sapiens interbred with other Homo species -- we have the DNA in ourselves to prove it. We are all fertile hybrids in that regard. Meaning the actual father would probably have been a pre-sapiens human species. So perhaps you'd prefer to use the morphological definition instead: "humans are the creatures who look most like modern humans". Obviously, that gets messy and arbitrary, too, because different humans look different, and finding a "different enough" threshold is more preference than anything else. But ignoring that problem, the answer becomes the same: "the father of the first modern-looking human was a species that didn't look modern".

Same goes for the genetic definition of species as well; the first human whose DNA was "different enough" for us to call it a modern human had children with someone whose DNA was "different enough" to call it "not a modern human".

In the end, the answer is approximately the same: the father of the first modern human would have been a different hominid species.
Tesla wouldn't have been capitalized in the first place without Musk (and, by extension) without Musk's twitter.

If anything, Musk should focus entirely on the influencing and stop making decisions about product (see [1]) -- that is what he is good at!

[1] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15347233/musk-attributes-...
It's very different.

Employees can join a different company. Companies can't magically become a different company. If they have a single union they are forced to work with, that union has monopoly power on labor supply.

Good for union employees, bad for the rest of society
Was that Amazon or AWS?

I've heard that the cultures are different between the two. I would expect AWS to value holding onto their most experienced engineers.
I also like "the guardian", it is also less US centered, and has some great coverage of movies and technology ethics). The only catch is that the android subscription is not valid on the computer or any other device than android.
It's really great that unlike Jam3, your site and the first example still work perfectly fine without javascript enabled! It's amazing how many people will spend a lot of time on little details and animations while neglecting to make sure the site degrades gracefully and is still useful without a bunch of remotely hosted JS.
> I've definitely noticed an overlap between the kinds of folks who want society to embrace and normalize violence against "Nazis" and the kinds of folks who go around accusing opponents of Nazism with little to no restraint.

Indeed, there was a very high profile example of just that a few months ago. It even made headline news, you've probably heard about it.
Big consulting firms are exactly the place you should avoid, especially if you're a developer with plenty of better options.

If you like working in the office / overworking just get into a fang and get more money.
If you want a quiet environment go for smaller companies and get the same money as your big consultancy.

Nobody cares where you worked unless it's a fang, anyway
seems tenuous and hard to objectify. You could also use the same argument to say that raining $5 bills from your company offices has net positive value, eg.

1. dump a sack of $5 bills from your office

2. people associate your company with giving them free stuff, thereby giving you positive influence

3. ???

4. profit
Yeah, this article in particular seems geared towards a handful of peripherals. Anecdotal but everything I've wanted to just work, has just worked and worked better than any windows machine or linux machine even comes close to.
I can't believe I was so bamboozled. Worst blunder in open source history, perhaps?

Jokes aside, it was still a good video!
> People keep posting things like this and I legitimately do not understand how anyone can think that this is an actual option.

When the alternative appears to be the collapse of civilization and the possible extinction of humanity, how can it NOT be an option?
People need to read some history.

The early 20th century industrialists talked about all the same stuff. People are fickle and managing them at scale is hard. There's more to it than just "give them a good deal". There are plenty of people who are getting a "good deal" who become complacent or disgruntled.
I don't agree with the boss so i think i'll air it out and publically attack him. What could go wrong?

Brilliant Decision!

Guess what folks, real world lesson time. You aren't on your cozy college campus anymore. You may wish it was different, but what you say about your company and it's decision makers has consequences.
Umm, thanks?
And 3AC led bunch of crypto seed rounds. They then offered them 8-10% APR to hold their treasuries. Now, I believe they've been ghosted.
The labor analysis in TFA did not appear to consider technical staff.
> Who are the "biggest proponents of global warming theory" in your estimation? Celebrities? Activists? Climate scientists?

The Davos and WEF gang? COPD

https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverwilliams1/2021/11/05/118-...
> monarchical

It's a free country. Workers are free to quit, form their own collective and run it as they see fit. It's perfectly legal.