skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh damn I did that too as soon as I saw it, which it sounds like was a little bit hasty. I'll go back and check it out now that I know that is not a requirement.
Wonder how effectively this could be paired with pumped water storage. Excess solar energy could get used to pump water that could get used to provide power at night/store energy for cloudy days. You'd also get a double bang for the buck for the space being used if the water is covered with panels, and solar panel coverage of the reservoires would presumably help minimize evaporative losses
> You don't get to not be a representative of your company just because you are off the clock. If people know that you work for X company then anything you say or do may be seen through the lens of "An X company employee"

But that’s exactly the point that the letter’s authors are making about Musk himself, and his tweets. Either the same rule applies equally to both Musk and his employees, or there’s an unfair double standard which should be remedied.
I learned for myself that God is real, and it matters for our daily lives. It helps to know that this life (what we see) is not the end, nor the beginning.
Honesty and the Golden Rule (treating others the way oneself would want to be treated, with wisdom) go a long way. For greater satisfaction, a focus on learning to serve others makes a huge difference (see, for example, http://justserve.org for volunteer opportunities in your locale, if available there). Knowing what you need to know, and having purpose in life makes all the difference at being able to balance things. Incredibly helpful to me on a daily basis -- peace, hope, and all the good feelings, ongoing, even amid very hard (growing & learning, I believe) experiences. More at my web site, in profile, and questions welcome. (Nothing for sale.)

ps: the things you say, caring about your family, learning skills and supporting self and/or others with honest labor, sound noble and good, and you can pat yourself on the back for it. Finding balance and peace can simply add to that. I.e., keep all the good that you have and see what can be added to it.
This feels like a showcase of the author's technical prowess with some graphic software, more than anything else.
"Guaranteed minimum 3% CoL raise per year" does not mean "you only get a 3% raise per year." It is a minimum of one kind of raise, and this doesn't mean that there are no other forms of raises, or that the CoL raise wouldn't be more at times.

(reading solely from this wording, I don't work at Kickstarter and so don't know the details of the contract other than what's published above.)
> Worst thing? His influencing is central to his success.

Musk has been more unhinged in his online activities than ever in the past six months or so, coinciding with a 45% slide in TSLA share price. Hypothesizing that his social media addiction is central to his 'success' would be pretty easy to test by simply comparing TSLA's performance to another auto manufacturer, e.g. Ford or GM. Doing that, TSLA is not showing any advantage - all three have suffered about the same amount of share price decrease.

So just looking at the numbers, it's clear Musk could just focus entirely on productive work, skip the 'influencing' and wanton reputational damage to the businesses he manages, and it wouldn't make a bit of difference. TSLA and the others would arguably be in the same place if the average person had no idea who Elon Musk was.
Perhaps too harsh? If you have a more eloquent way or a different angle, I would love to hear it. (Seriously. Comments like these can come off catty or sarcastic in text only, but I'm genuinely asking. Haha.)
No. Elon Musks tweets are not workplace conditions anymore than your choice of owning a cat or dog is workplace conditions.

You can dislike something and also not think it's illegal.
I think the issue at hand is that long distance transmission of electricity has transmission loss, and is expensive from an infrastructure standpoint. The broader point is that remote solar generation presents some challenges.
Some of the older examples though are not region locking just for region locking reasons - it is just different standards that are not compatible. Intentional locking (without another technical justification) seems like a totally different ballgame.
This is pretty much the case in every country though. Tbf my dad has made a business of acquiring distressed restaurants and improving their profitability. In most cases, the suckers are first-time restaurant owners who viewed it as a side hustle rather than a full time job.

In most cases, it costs about 4x as much to open a restaurant than to acquire a distressed one. Anecdotally, a restaurant that was built with a cost of about a million bucks (local currency) in a 500 sq ft place (expensive city), was acquired by him for about 50k, and is now back to clocking about 1.5 million in revenue.
Amazon's scale encounters limits that most companies don't ever have to consider. There's a parallel from 20ish years ago: Amazon eschewed software performance engineering with the mantra "if it can be solved with a credit card [i.e. you can buy more hardware] don't worry about it now". That worked up to the day they called the company that made their database server and asked to upgrade and were told "you already have the most powerful machine we've ever built".
Isn't a very toxic corporate culture the perfect reason for them to be getting a union?
Part of being an Adult TM is separating emotions from work.

Admittedly, I was able to work on some very cool shit at Amazon - however the job made me hate my life.

Ergo - adult logical cycles were spent, decided to get a new job after leetcoding for a bit.

The people who aren't skilled enough to get new jobs or improve themselves (also holds true in any industry) will always be some degree of fucked. I admit, some unions are good, but engaging in a system that grants most benefit to people not willing to improve or make the bar of performance set by the industry isn't good for anyone involved. That said, never work for a place that makes you hate your life. And yes... having the ability to make that choice is a privilege.
Another vote for FT ( Financial Times). Pricey, but reporting is good and covers a vast arrays of topics and geos ( i can read about FC Barcelona's financial troubles, the fall of the latest Bulgarian cabinet and why that's going to end bad, an investigative report about fraud in Wirecard, etc. and it will be in decent depth), is factually correct and gets updated when it isn't.
I've learned to design UX that "gets out of the way." I have written some pretty cool UI elements that I've ended up, not using.

Here's an example; It's a cool "popup prize-wheel spinner" for iOS, and I have tried using it a few times, but we always decide that it's too intrusive: https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner

I generally end up taking "The Road Most Traveled By": https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/the-road-most-travel...
Regulatory capture is a big part of it, the current head of the FDA has very close ties to the pharmaceutical industry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Califf#Relationships_wi...
Definitely wouldn't want to be part of a union. I represent myself, thanks.

Smaller and wide set of unions in an industry can be effective, but industry wide unions are effectively a monopoly on labor supply and bad for society. Look no further than the MTA in NYC.

Terrible cost overruns and bad governance of the subway system, for what? So employees can clock extra hours and get egregiously overpaid? No thanks.

Competitive markets produce societally best outcomes, as is proven time and time again throughout history. Competition applies to labor too, by the way
There are two points I was getting at with my heuristic.

I primarily wanted to highlight that the people quipping about "there's no far left in the US" or "the far left in the US is the mainstream left in Europe" are far left hence why they don't see much to the left of them in the US. Left-right, tall-short, skinny-fat, if you find yourself on a spectrum and one side of you is sparsely populated you are the extreme by definition.

Second, these people are generally ignorant of how far right some of the "other half" of Europe leans on social issues. Sure, they have lots of government services and safety nets, healthcare included. But they don't lean as far left on many social subjects as the US does. Identity politics, sexual orientation and abortions are three good examples of topics on which the left half of the bell curve of opinions on these subjects has more of it's meat to the right than the US equivalent. (Arguably a lot of this is a function of the US's history of reactionary politics but that's outside of the scope of this discussion, the positions today are what they are.) So even in a context that includes "nations who literally tried communism and kept the stuff they liked when they were done" the opinions of the "far" left in the US is decently out there.
Only if you can also make energy storage super small and portable for those times when the sun isn’t shining.

Seems easier to invest in micro reactors.
As the sibling points out, canals seem like a good place to shade water with solar, though probably not floating.
The danged things are so tiny...
Unfortunately, the minimum in employment agreements is frequently also the maximum.
You don’t have a right to not be banned from Twitter. Musk has been saying he thinks the way Twitter bans people is unhealthy for democracy.

Point me to the place he’s said you have a capital-R Right to not be banned from Twitter.
Don't feed the trolls, just flag them and move on.
Because in a real desert, you have air?
> I trust the EU more than my own government.

You're not the only one. This was also my own number one (but not sole) reason for voting against Brexit, and that's a really sad thing to have to say.
As long as people have a way to potentially get rich with little to no 'real work', they won't stop.
They mentioned a country with more welfare than the US and then you mentioned a handful of countries you must not know anything about in order to list them together with the others... shrug As racist as Polish and Hungarian politicians are, they still do more from their people than any Americans do and would be called "socialists" by FOX news if they knew anything about them. And the Baltics, I mean, come on, what are you even talking about.
Supervisees will always be somewhere on a continuum from "low experience/confidence, need lots of care and guidance" to "10x takes care of everything". As a supervisor I find that recognizing and acknowledging (directly) to the high performers that:

- I'm aware of their skills, accomplishments & impact, and

- I see my job as shielding them from bullshit and giving them enough slack to organize their own time & workflows wherever possible, and

- I will champion their ideas if they fit the plan, or offer context/feedback they may lack so they don't feel I'm dismissing them out of hand.
Works well.

As you note, keeping your ego out of the game can be a challenge! It's especially hard if/when the person is younger or less experienced than you but has better ideas. I regular have to give folks programming projects I'd rather be focusing on than doing manager work!

As a lifelong bassist, I find that approaching work "teams" as a musical group, rather than a sports team, to be a more apt metaphor. It's not necessarily about winning per se, it's more about everyone playing their part in making the music come to life. Generally a bassist's job is to "serve the song" and make everyone else sound good. Sometimes that means sitting out for the first half of the song, or playing one long note per bar so the attention stays on the voice, lead instrument, or production. Many people don't really know what the bass is or does until it drops out of the music. Then it sounds small and empty and everyone stops dancing.
To me it seems that way. With the bond market being so low, it seemed as though there was a lot of cash looking for some sort of outlet. All that was necessary was misleading hype and marketing.
The employer is able continuously improve and iterate on their productivity systems, but the employee, broadly speaking, only has one opportunity to negotiate their compensation at the outset of the engagement.

This is problematic for employers like Amazon that ruthlessly optimize their workforce, and, is why structures like unions emerge to allow employees to push back.
This is a perfect HN Poe's law. Well done.
This is definitely an interesting thought. My thinking is that "the fun stuff" tends to help make the language more functional, so removing it you are left with a more imperative language resembling a C clone with traits and type inference. Then if you want easier C interop you must remove traits and either remove modules as well or provide a standard method of mangling module names into function names. At that point I think you may as well use an existing "better C" language like Odin, Zig, Jai, C3, etc.
FetchApply – Bash Ansible Alternative, Transparent Server Configuration
I don't really have anything against channers. I'm just saying it's a problem that one small group disproportionately complains about but does little to fix. I think that is pretty indicative of /g/ discourse which revolves around baiting other users into flamewars.
No - but how many habits are you trying to form at one time?
I definitely see where you're coming from regarding allowing adults to make their own mistakes, but that's the point of regulation. This isn't an entirely free market.
Or maybe they unthinkingly and blindly accept anything negative they hear, regurgitating it with confidence that they could not possibly be mistaken because it confirms their biases and validates their life choices.
> Their corporate culture is very toxic and I don't see them sticking around long term.

I think they changed CEO recently, no? It seems like the ex-CEO, one of the founder, wasn't "a good cultural fit" after all. They had a round of layoffs a few years ago where some activist employees were weeded out, seems like it didn't work.
They're not trying to sabotage anything. They're asking for SpaceX to disassociate itself from statements made by Musk, an individual, which harm the company.
I don't think Vale aims to bring someone that already knows English into mainstream-author territory of writing, but rather help with basic/medium errors that everyday writers do. Or even help people who maybe don't write that often.
This is upvoted higher, so I would have expected comments to be moved here. I think if you're consolidating posts and comments, upvotes should go with. It doesn't age well when viewing /best. Sort of a confusing experience
I don't think this is a good comparison. First of all, many (most?) of the people who got canceled didn't do anything offensive or objectionable. Off the top of my head.:

* The guy who got fired for cracking his knuckles in a way that looked vaguely like an "OK sign" which is offensive to some extreme left-wing people

* The data scientist who got fired for citing research on the efficacy of nonviolent protest

* The journalist who was pressured to leave his workplace for interviewing a black man whose views didn't match a certain narrative about what black people believe

* The professor who was suspended for saying a Chinese word that sounds vaguely like an English slur

Moreover, cancellation is "pressuring someone's employer to fire them". This is different than an employer taking offense to an employee's speech and firing them as a consequence.

If Musk has said something like "employers shouldn't fire employees on the basis of their speech" (and he may have done, I really don't know), then he's probably being hypocritical, but not on the basis of cancel culture.
Amazon has flipped the script, replacing inefficient and overly sympathetic human management with software-based micro-managers. This leaves the rank and file as meat-based robots to follow narrowly scripted programming.

They've also automated a lot of the physical work; you should watch a video of how their warehouses operate. But as of yet many physical tasks cannot be easily automated -- but they can be cheaply acquired if you are willing and able to treat human labor as machines. Until recently at least.

As to the second question though, I have a completely different thought. I think it's just that given a choice, most people will choose more money rather than more free time, up to a point. I think most people in urban office jobs could find a way to work less, earn less, and spend less; I certainly could. But it just runs counter to human nature.
Also a large chunk of the employees who didn't want to unionize (25-35% of their peak headcount) left the company over some of the tactics employed in the contested fight over unionizing the company.
Don't see what technology has to do with it. All sorts of weird financial instruments are created, grow enormous, and then either are banned, or scare people enough that everyone stops using them.
Interestingly, tracks that were turned over from ProRail to HTM (for RandstadRail operations) were never renumbered. This means that Zoetermeer station has 2 tracks numbered 3 and 4, and Laan v. NOI station has 4 tracks numbered 3-6.
While in Theresa May's cabinet, Priti Patel had secret off-the-books meetings with foreign officials while "on holiday", and then misled/lied about it.[1]

A vastly more treasonous activity than what Assange did. May made it clear Patel could resign or be fired from the cabinet.

But then the Tories are so incredibly corrupt and incompetent[2], BoJo and co are treating the ministerial code with destain at this point.

Another one of BoJo's ethic's advisors has just resigned in disgust at him, and this one had an iron stomach to make it this far. [3]

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41923007
[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61796958
[3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61837871
why hackers should read scifi?
Have you worked at a company where you were treated unfairly, were lied to, etc? How'd that work out for you?
No, internal channels can accomplish these things as well. Or political initiatives and lawsuits. Saying that the only choices are a larger open letter type airing, or else an exploitation of minorities, that's a false dichotomy and the tired exaggeration.
implying bananas aren't snacks
Speaking in very generic terms, "progressive discipline" is the idea that you start with smaller punishments, give employees time to correct, and then move on to more severe ones if they do not fix whatever the issue is. With documentation each step of the way.

These sorts of policies don't generally mean that, for extreme circumstances, larger punishments can't be used, just that you can't start with a harsh punishment for a mild issue.
* Excess mortality in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin[1]

* Great Chinese Famine[2]

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Sovi....

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
The role that remarketing played in poisoning the well can't be forgotten either. Targeted ads were sneaky (and, arguably people preferred them to untargeted), while remarketing ads made you feel seen. It was almost waving in the user's face how much data you have on them. "You like to watch Netflix's Castlevania!"
I imagine some aspects of a "lower-energy" world would be OK for most people, such as simply less selection of stuff to buy, similar really to how things have been for the past year or two.

Other parts not so much. I'd guess very few people in the US had air conditioning in the 1950s. It might be OK to go without AC in northern countries and states but most of the world is going to want AC as soon as they can afford it.

Other high-energy lifestyle are easy air travel and wide selection of food year-round. I don't think people are going to willingly return to 1950s levels of air travel affordability or food availability.
Why are verified SAT solvers interesting?
update: I have been in touch with RI. Should be a month or so and we will get a certificate.
Newsflash: A union can negotiate whatever contract they want. The Kickstarter union isn't associated with something like the UAW that pushes for things like making firing bad performers impossible.

If you read the highlights, they're just asking for documentation on termination and disciplining. Not at all unreasonable.
All this talk about "inclusivity" that woke-inc preach is the mother of all red herrings.

It's labor laws that keep things inclusive and accessible for all. What the left has been doing with great success is taking over HR departments and enacting new corporate rules that A) go well beyond the law B) are exclusively left-wing de jour and C) extremely authoritarian.

I know, their claims are the exact opposite, which is why they've been so successful at sweeping into HR departments but the writing is on the wall: letting far left activists take control of HR will mean one thing with absolute certainty: Morale will plummet and profitability will go right after it.
I wouldn't just say "current" - Canadian governments have been pretty subservient (for obvious reasons) to the US since WWII, at least.
>>The purpose of minimum wage is a floor>>
There's the purpose and then there's the outcome. I have always found it useful to also keep in mind the perspective on minimum wage that recognizes that from a practical perspective, it makes it illegal for workers that create a certain level of economic value to work. Of course that's not the perspective that a proponent of minimum wage would use to pitch it because that certainly is not the purpose. But it's hard to argue that this other perspective is not to some extent, the outcome in terms of economic mechanics.
I really liked the creativity of the idea, but I agree with you. I had to skim through the article since it's just marketing and repeats the same thing over and over again. Even the video at the end was just a rehash of everything you had just read and seen. (I don't blame them for writing it this way, though, as it likely improves SEO.)
I'm just a lowly dev, not a manager, but the way I see it, a team of devs (including management) has one goal: to create and maintain a product that meets the users' expectations and needs as closely as possible, so they will be happy and pay you for your work. Facilitating that means allowing every team member to shine in their strengths, and supporting them in their weaknesses so they can grow. Collaboration is important, but remember it's not your job to tell them how to do their job, it's your job to support them in planning and executing their job in the most optimal and effective way possible. Sometimes that may mean suggesting better ideas, but that's not a requirement nor a guarantee.

In other words: if they're great at design, planning, and implementation, let them do that, while you focus on communicating their ideas to the upper class -- I mean, upper management -- and helping them with time management when they get overwhelmed. (Which is definitely something I can relate to far too well.)

I don't know if you play D&D, but a good analogy is that managers should act as clerics, fighting when necessary but mostly there to support the team so they can specialize and fight together with less risk of failure.
False hidden equivance where you asssert that getting fired from SpaceX is the same as being banned from ever taking employment again.
> I can yank open a bunch of Magnavox Odysseys and swap pins around in the console and in the cartridge but that doesn't mean the Oddyssey suddenly becomes region locked.

Are you an official Magnavox licensed distributor?
In case anyone is interested: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233