skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially if compliance becomes a _criminal_ issue. But then again Britain probably thinks this will spur a domestic market for smaller tech, and maybe that’s correct? Though it does sound like the main thing it incentivizes will be some rent seeking age verification companies or very dubious utility to consumers.
You are paid to work and solve problems not create problems and harass colleagues.

If you feel it is worth it to risk your career on a letter do not spend one second of company time on it and do not use a single bit of company technology.

Honestly sick of these Prima Donna employees who think they can LARP as activists on company time and equipment.

If it is that important to "speak truth to power" do it on your own time.
A left-leaning person would not support Ron DeSantis for president.
What's one "defi" project that is both doing fine and providing consumers any type of actual value?
Not sure about the stealth layoff take. It's too unfocused, you'll lose people you want to keep and keep people you want to lose. Severance isn't that expensive and gives a lot more control.

Agree with your second point though. There's even people absuing remote work to work multiple jobs simultaneously.
As an occasional project manager, I have to disagree.
Project meetings notes are often needed to hold people accountable to what they said.

I've had a more than a few slippery developers constantly saying different things about deadlines and complexity during meetings. It was those experiences that force me to take notes very very seriously.

My tip to make it non-confrontational is at the end of the meeting give all developers a chance to review the notes and make updates if they felt I misstated something.
The community has grown a lot. A ton of junk is posted (a ton, browse new for a while) but the real deal here is that sometimes enough people upvote the junk to frontpage it. I don't know why but I think sometimes some people just want certain things to be true.
> How can someone have the time and energy to run THREE major companies??

Or maybe ... he doesn't?

You know, if it's too good to be true, it probably is.
Same here. For this reason, my preferred trackballs have been the L-Trac[0] and more recently the Gameball[1].

The former of those two is built like a tank but lacks buttons (though some models have jacks that allow you to add your own buttons), while the latter is more ergonomic and has more buttons. The Gameball’s capacitive scrolling is nice too.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/CST2545-5W-Ambidextrous-Performance-E...
[1]: https://www.gamingtrackball.com/
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CR has lost credibility with their anti-GMO stance and echoing EWG’s organic-is-better nonsense.
I loathe all auto-closing so much, it's such a cheap way out of issue triage. The ostrich method of project management. It's a good red flag though, I know not to waste my time on the project. Who knows what major issues have been auto-ignored.

It can be especially inane if the issues are also locked automatically, you're already ignoring the issue why the f can't you let people discuss workarounds or request reopen.
I'm beyond grateful the Qt is not engineered by KDE.

I am now running a hybrid setup with KDE + i3. It works really well because I get to have all my network settings, display settings, etc on the fly, I can use konqueror, and i still get i3 nicely.
Everything I read about the letter was addressing Musk's behavior and was not related to the formation of a union. Again, my point is merely whether or not law was violated in their firings.
Maybe you’ve tried it, but Xfce as DE plus i3 is for me the dream team.
I'm now using gopass as well, and it's great! Especially with https://github.com/gopasspw/gopassbridge, I get browser auto complete. And https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.msfjarvis.... on Android with its password fill integration. It's the best of all worlds and entirely free.

I even have my wife set up with the android app just in case something happens to me or she needs common passwords. She doesn't use it for her passwords yet, but baby steps.
Good luck. I hope it works for you.
This is a conversation about US courts and religions as they're practiced in the US.

To the best of my knowledge, apostasy in Islam in the US is no particularly worse than apostasy in Mormonism on the scale of denomination.
No, that's a very indirect impact to any one individual's working conditions.

FWIW, I think firing the organizers is an overreaction and that it would be in SpaceX's best interest to muzzle Elon, but it's hard to conjure up a legal argument that they can't do it. And you'll notice that the company's statement said nothing about the content of the letter, only that it's inappropriate to organize it with company resources and on company time.
They did top the lists, but they've dropped off as owners deal with the reality of owning them.

An electric car, competently built, will wow most folks. Remember that the satisfaction numbers are comparing apples to oranges, given the limited competition Tesla has at the moment.
Completely realizing you aren't actually making the "devil's advocate response," but I think the response to that is "We went for a millennia without electricity, too."

Just because we went without something, doesn't mean we should accept life without it at this point.
I read over the ticket[0] and from what I could see it was mostly bickering about the format of the patch or something. I didn’t really see any “ba humbug, command line is all you need” kinds of posts from some graybeard.

So in short it looks more like an organizational problem than a technical or even political problem.

[0] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233
> I've not seen anyone using a tiling window manage with 32" and larger 4k displays. It's just an awful experience.

I'm using i3 / sway on both, my Workstation's 40" 21:9 (5120x2160) and my private 32" 16:9 4K displays, and see no reason why a bigger display, or one with a higher DPI, would make using a tiling window manager working worse, on the contrary, for me, it's all the more important to have good management if I got more "screen estate" to handle.

IME using tiling WMs on bigger/HiDPI screens is a fantastic experience.
Very good insights. Still I am surprised by one point: why do you use the verb "afford" for probiotics? Kefir from milk is home-made and 1.5 buck per liter at most.
I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. Maybe it does and we just don't hear about it. Free speech does not exist within the confines of employment, and there's a big difference between speaking truth to power and inciting mutiny or rebellion. Musk has absolute control of SpaceX, and if employees do not agree with his policies, views, or anything else they need to vote with their feet and quit. Same for any other employer as most of the F100 are becoming increasingly political. Work for a company that aligns with your values if that is important to you.
Surprising, but good.
I don't think we are in disagreement here. My main point is that many feel "pressure" from their employer. Knowing and keeping your options open and ready to act on them, even at other universities, empower all workers.
Mercury rejected our LLC when we applied there yesterday so not sure where to go now (and no idea why we were rejected). Is there any reason not to go with Bluevine?
You really think that basic web analytics is "spying on you"? So a company that records how many people purchase a given product is "spying" on them? Business owners are not allowed to do basic accounting to gauge product performance? Because that's all 99% of people use these analytics for.

No one cares about you enough to "spy" on you.
> How can someone have the time and energy to run THREE major companies??

Delegation.
That's pretty much a catchall term for groups on this list. But every organization on that list is paid by the Public Policy team, whose goal is to influence the law in a favorable direction for Google. That both includes funding politicians (like governors) and people who will write favorable statements for Google online (like Mike Masnick).
Woah woah woah.

>That being said, employees of a company don’t have free speech rights. And hypocrisy is not illegal.

Care to rephrase that hombre?

Everyone has free speech rights. No exceptions. If you're pissy enough to fire someone over a disagreement like that, that's one thing, and highly unprofessional to boot as long as they are still doing their job.

I don't have to agree with you as an employee. And I have the right to voice my disagreement. They should thank him though. They get their Unemployment a shot at a less toxic workplace, and hopefully they've been networking enough to catalyze resistance vs. an evident cult of personality.
There is a difference between a social media platform user experience and an employee you pay to work.

In the first case you are hoping they will use their free time on your platform.

In the second place you are exchanging money to get them to do what you want them to do instead of what they would otherwise be doing.

If I pay a plumber to fix the toilet and he starts bothering me about ANYTHING BUT FIXING THE TOILET... he's gone.
I used to have a dim opinion of unions because of some media and some political views. Now I would describe it as much more nuanced.

In working with some public sector unions though, arguing for management, I've actually seen very different focuses in play: namely efficiency. The unions with whom I work are definitely about fair labor practices, and pre-decisional input, and that is just common sense though. In working with them I was very impressed with what I saw. They never talked politics, only members, and issues confronting them regarding efficiency which was in their agreement with management.

Now, on the other hand, had a neighbor that was high up in leadership of a national union. He never talked with me about efficiency, or his members, just continual rants around a specific political party, and how he was attending political events from his political party.
Yes but you can’t deny that giving everyone a level playing field is a net positive. There will be problems with that like hate speech, trolling, harassment etc but that can be addressed with safety measures and moderation, which social networks employ although they don’t stomp out everything and anonymous accounts are still a problem.
> Difficulties due to search? Well I have difficulties due to search too, when I find an article that briefly tries to appear open access to entice me and then suddenly plasters a client-side paywall on me. That's why I am doing it.

You're only looking at this only from your own selfish perspective, which misses a lot of important stuff.

> I think we're long past using "theft" as an analogy for access to content. If I take a car from you I am depriving you of your car, and I would be able to profit from it if I were to sell it on the black market—that's what makes it theft.

No, that's just a tired bit of bullshit self-justification. When you bypass a paywall, you're depriving the operator of the revenue they were expecting to support their operations. It's like sneaking into a movie theater without paying--if too many people do that, the movie theater will shut down and there won't be any movies playing to sneak into. And even if it doesn't reach that critical mass, you're freeloading off of other paying customers.

> Honestly, what rings hollow to me is so much moralising around wanting people to feel guilty for being able to circumvent the unnecessarily weak paywalls

A lock being weak doesn't mean it's OK to bypass it. Most locks are basically just messages saying you're not allowed to access. I could probably pick the lock to your house or apartment (and I'm not any good at lock picking, those locks usually suck). It sounds like you think it'd be fine if I did that and watched your TV or read your books when you're not home--after all, I wouldn't be depriving you of anything, right?
Pretty damning that the FDA only issued a report on this after a court ordered them to. I can't really help but believe that this is willful negligence - if some of these have already been banned for use in children's toys, why would it be fine in a plastic bag the child holds food in? I ate a sandwich every day from a plastic bag for ~12 years...
>> He does not have the universal right to fire people who talk about working conditions.

Apparently the letter was not about working conditions. It was about Elon tweeting.
After being on that platform for a long time, I recently deleted everything from there except for my current position and a little blurb. I know that a lot of people find value there, but after all these years, the only thing I really got was spam.

I was surprised to find that they intentionally make it hard to remove data. Want to delete a 'skill'? Click on it to edit, modal, ok, confirm... 3 clicks. Somehow I had hundreds of random skills. It was tedious at best.
I have zero background/knowledge about this topic, so forgive me if it's a stupid question; but the article is very confusing to me.

In the terminology section, it says

initramfs: a section in Android’s boot image that the Linux kernel will use as rootfs

And

SAR: System-as-root. That is, the device uses system as rootdir instead of rootfs

In Boot Methods section, it says something like

The kernel uses initramfs as rootdir ..

So far, it has

* initramfs as rootfs

* system as rootdir (or "rootfs as rootdir" if no SAR)

* initramfs as rootdir

I get that the whole point of this article is about "A as B" for some booting shenanigans, but this mapping relationship doesn't make sense to me. rootfs somehow appears in both ends.

Also, for method A and C, it says "uses initramfs as rootdir" but the table lists "rootfs" instead of initramfs?
Lex seems to me the new Charlie Rose. Like Rose, he seems to interject his own beliefs (tip: count the number of times the interviewer uses the word "I"), but does let the interviewee speak. I never particularly liked this interview style, but when you can get notable guests, does it really matter?
Show HN: FireJet – Export from Figma to Tailwind CSS – Hacker News
Hi HN! Philip and Stephen here, we are the co-founders of FireJet (https://www.firejet.io), which allows you to export from Figma to Tailwind CSS.

We first met at university, where we did several project together, often first designing in Figma and then developing the Frontend manually. It’s not that it was extremely hard to code out our app Frontends - however, it felt pretty dumb to be doing twice the amount of work, once while designing and then once again to implement the design in code.

We tried several other tools which were similar to FireJet, but the main problem we always ran into was that the other tools had alot of features like automatic semantic tagging, implementing Material UI components, and so on, but none of them got the one fundamental thing we needed it to do - which was convert it to code. Some competitors were converting certain figma frames into images, which as you can imagine is about as useful as replacing your website with an <img> tag

We made a quick prototype in a week, and people who needed the specific tailwind functionality loved it. Fast forward about 3 months, we have 700 downloads and a small (but growing!) group of dedicated users who keep coming back to us and helping us improve the product.

Even now, our landing page and our plugin UI are themselves developed using FireJet itself, and because we ourselves are a startup we are not too worried about coding best practices, but rather iterating and developing as fast as possible, which is why FireJet is useful for us.

So we are launching FireJet here in the spirit of building in public, and we hope that FireJet reduce your time to market for your startup / agency / company!

You can see a portfolio website I made using FireJet here:

Sample Website: https://philipwee.github.io/
Github Repository: https://github.com/PhilipWee/philipwee.github.io
Figma File: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1119632484827501100
I've always wondered about this, at Amazon and also at Uber/Lyft/DoorDash etc... They seem to burn through people quite fast. Won't they all just run out of people at some point, or will just increasing pay bring enough people back?
No. I would be saying them if they want to vote, move to a country which values them and give them the right to vote.

Just like millions of people ditched communist countries and moved to USA.
Yeah, that's probably the correct answer.
Given the whole “we need to build more houses” angle would help “reset” housing, won’t increasing interest rates and rising inflation discourage construction?
Of course the company says organizing shouldn't happen on company time/resources. Can't be having the workers thinking they could collectively act!
What wouldn’t count as working conditions under such a broad standard? Could I circulate an open letter demanding that I get a tech lead position instead of my rival because I don’t think people will enjoy working on their team? Could a salesperson circulate an open letter demanding that you should be punished because your bad engineering cost the company a big contract?
As the poster child of poor performance even on new iPhones, there is always Pokémon Go (produced with Niantic levels of competence)
Some states allow from prescriptions, but it's still Federally illegal - and of course the Federal government doesn't care about state law when making decisions about security classifications.
Ask HN: What are the policies for personal websites at FAANG/MANGA?
As per subject: what policies are in place for FAANG/MANGA employees about personal websites, blogging etc ?

What are you, as an employee, not allowed to do?

Do you think it's fair?

Do you think it's hurting/benefiting your public persona?

Thank you in advance!
lol - (owner of 2 because I broke the first one moving) ;-)
I don't want to assume this isn't true. Don't get me wrong but I'm avg I think it's true.

When we were in Iran I met people who are open and modern and like everyone else I know.

But then you have plenty of people who wash there close in the river, are highly religios etc.
Of course, pre-Eternal September, you only got to access the Internet if you went to the right schools or worked for the right companies or government organizations. Which in certain ways was certainly better for the haves but also makes for some pretty heavy-duty gatekeeping.
> you'll probably end up paying in interest what you would have paid in principle

Is that a better outcome from a mortgage interest deduction perspective?
It might be that they have to hit a certain critical mass to become self-sustaining. Or they require a particular environment to thrive, which exists in the donor but not in the donee. It's such a new field, at least for prescriptive medicine, that it'll probably be a while before we get a good base of understand of what lives in our gut, what it does, and how to keep it healthy.
It should be noted that Eric Berg is a known quack and conspiracy theorist. I'd be careful taking what he says as fact.

He is not a medical doctor, he is a chiropractor.
“Most of America shares my values but they’re just too oppressed or exhausted to make their voice heard, I swear.”

— everyone
That just tells me that you never upload images, or that your image folder is not particularly large. If trackpad drivers were broken, that would still be a pretty big issue, even though you personally always use a mouse.
These salaries were not tenable at all. What about endowments or other longer-term sourced of funding? There must have been long-running mismanagement..
You can believe in free speech and paying for the consequences of what is being said. These two aren't mutually exclusive.
> What's the range? 15 miles?

For M30A2, 70km or ~43 miles.
Luckily for the Gnome team, Microsoft ripped out features from their desktop interface in Windows 11. So Gnome might look comparatively functional when Windows 10 is EOL.
Not sure free-speech-friendliness is really relevant here, since the most likely avenues of attack would be copyright or it being classified information.
For both those things the US isn't exactly the best candidate either.
Google doesn't need GA data. They know how many times people see sites in search results, how many people click them, and if people go back to make the same search again.

Besides, GA data is easily faked. I can give a site a low bounce rate or make it look like people spend a long time on a page. Google can't trust their own Analytics data because of this since it is client provided.

Sounds like a myth non-SEO people believe because, again, I've never even heard this before. And SEOs believe a lot of myths but this one is just too stupid
https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisf...

https://zutobi.com/us/driver-guides/global-happy-motorist-in...

They're still at the top.
They were fired for harassing their colleagues and wasting work time and resources.
I have been using one for a few months after getting tired of throwing away M570s once a year because the switches wear out.

(By throwing out, I mean tossing in the closet in the hope that one day I'll get around to soldering on new switches.)

Out of the box it was way, way too sensitive. I had to turn down the DPI, which took a few hours of finagling with the firmware. Some of the documentation was a little sparse, and I chased down a few rabbit holes which got frustrating.

Now that it's configured it's mostly usable, but I still struggle with precision compared to the M570. I find myself a few times a week clicking the wrong icon on a bar, or the wrong item in a list. Or my hand tenses up because I'm working extra hard to hone in on the right place on the screen. These are problems that I never had with the old Logitech, and in fact, I still have a working one on the desk that I jump to occasionally when I need real precision.

The M570 has 3 little nylon-looking bearings that the trackball sits on. The Ploopy instead has 3 large wheel shaped rotators. Every once in awhile the trackball will seemingly catch a hitch on the rotators when I'm trying to make precise movements and I'm unable to get where I need it to go unless I make coarse adjustments to move the rotators off the hitch, then back a different path to where I was before, finally to make the precision movements I needed. Not the end of the world, but another minor annoyance. This has happened less lately so it's possible there was a "breaking in period" with the rotators.

Overall it's a decent device and after a few months I am mostly happy with it. Durability is TBD.
Deciding not to pay you to say whatever you want has nothing to do with your ability to say it.
Miners usually underclock their cards to get higher efficiency out of them. Fans are very easily replaceable.
quoting: "A few examples of protected concerted activities are:

Two or more employees addressing their employer about improving their pay.
Two or more employees discussing work-related issues beyond pay, such as safety concerns, with each other.
An employee speaking to an employer on behalf of one or more co-workers about improving workplace conditions."

Would that letter fall under that? I think there is at least a somewhat credible claim it could (and also a credible opposing counterclaim that the form of speech was meant to be defamatory/disparaging, and not a protected activity), but I am not a lawyer.
The document I linked describes protections specifically beyond unions, such as two or more employees talking about working conditions.
Why on earth full of shit shows and shallow marketing driven media can a man genuinely doing something meaningful not be successful?
while on the topic of business focus, is Brex still in the restaurant business?

https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/Multibillion-dollar...