skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is all of that is optional. You can - and I have - write C to be executed on bare hardware with no initialisation code, and depending on your choice of libc you can still use it (though some functionality may not be available).
Concentrate on the company's future.

A big and expensive wrongful termination lawsuit is not what you need right now.

Sending a message that you can fire a guy weeks before cliff is not what you need right now.

In your position, I would offer the guy two options:

A. Lifting of his cliff for the time he actually worked (if he worked 10 months, then 10/12 of his yearly schedule) — in stock options that the guy needs to exercise by bringing money; or

B. Three months of severance pay — in real money (or some other perk if three months are a legal obligation in your jurisdiction).
Tried UO For a bit, but preferred Legend of Mir 2. It was similar, if anyone remembers...
The man who got his party to government off the back of promising to abolish tuition fees, then immediately tripled tuition fees landing an entire generation with massive debt has questionable character. Who’d’ve thunk it?
Your principles need to be better. You had your time to assess the person and put them on performance management. Some people arent cut out for certain jobs, but the person did their time and showed up and worked and earned their vest. Going above and beyond wasnt part of the agreement. Taking time off and not informing the team is weird - do they not need to request it off? And plain wrong work in the past wasnt picked up on until now... both of these things sound like management issues. Even if they are relatively senior.

Its totally reasonable to want someone who you think is better going forward, but to be as callous as to play politics on something you have used as a motivator is manipulative, contemptible, and a further sign of weak leadership.
Small REST APIs are usually not very small because they hit the database to perform useful operations, must be tested etc. Furthermore a framework enforced common structure shortens the onboarding time for any developer regardless of the seniority.
But even if you would like it this way, this is not what the law says. Only a professional can produce maps of property.
> Oh and all these measurements you see tossed around are done with air coolers and stock voltages. Of course more power doesn't help if you're limited by thermals. Specifically, you're limited by hotspots you can't see because they're between the on-die temperature sensors.

This completely misunderstands heat transfer. If the hotspot temp is 75 deg even with overclocking you're not limited by thermals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc-zwQMV8-s

>4K gsync monitors are typically limited to 120Hz. If my GPU is capable of running a title at 1200fps, it will idle 90% of the time and consume only ~60W regardless of the 600W power limit. So tuning this is pointless. I'd still get 1/10th the rendering latency compared to a GPU that's only capable of 120fps. Same logic applies to power limiting your GPU which will increase latency and kill frame pacing in exchange for a tiny reduction in electricity bills.

This completely misunderstands power consumption and the nonlinear relationship between power and clockspeed. Performing the same work in the same time in short bursts of high clocks and high voltage uses more power than constant low clocks and voltage.
Modafinil is a dopamine reuptake inhibitor though, it's just an atypical one. I can't take especially high therapeutic doses of either it or Vyvanse without getting similar physical anxiety.

I assume the reason it's not highly controlled in the US is that it's atypical enough to not be addictive (not that I've ever found Vyvanse to be addictive), but it is controlled in Japan and Russia and it's definitely possible to abuse it. People need their sleep even if it can keep it away for a day.
I'm on a post paid contract but i haven't had a phone subsidy in a long time. If you want a "free" iphone/android you can lease the phone (effectively it's a personal loan paid back over 2 years).
I kind of feel that people talk past each other on this issue. If you use a bad framework, no framework is vastly better.

If you use a really good framework, no framework is vastly worse.

From one day to the next there will probably be one or two frameworks which dominate your work. If it's really good you'll have an overall positive impression of them and vice versa.
I know a large number of Northern Europeans and I speak to them all via whatsapp. Unusual!
> just because

Much the same reason you need an automatically reloading glue-gun in the first place!
Share your experience with EV charger installation
Looks like bond wires, probably for some FETs that are glued down to the board. I guess part of the motor controller
As someone in the UK, this is mildly amusing.
I always try to be pro-labor but i had such a situation in my own company. A person I tried to make work for months, the situation just got worse the OP describes (it wasn't performance issues but more attitude/social/soft-skills related). I hesitated before firing them, fearing effects on team morale. After firing them morale improved immensely.

The best thing you could have done is fire them 6 months ago. The second best is firing them today. Don't hesitate.
You might be interested in Project Gemini [0]. Their FAQ says Gemini is like "the web, stripped right back to its essence".

0: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
Well, my point here is that even if there are little patches against a framework, we're talking something like 5% of the repo's code is framework-y stuff. If you've got your own framework, then... what even is the limit? 50%? 90%?

I wonder if some of the disagreements in this thread are just like, people in favor of frameworks used Rails/Django, people against them used Spring/Struts.

> Framework authors are fallible too and general-purpose software is really hard to get right.

Yeah, I think that's solved by the "market". There was a big explosion of Python frameworks in the aughts: TurboGears, CherryPy, Pyramid/Pylons, Zope, web.py, etc. etc. Lots of stuff. The ecosystem now is Django/FastAPI (Flask/Tornado legacy apps are either stuck or moving to FastAPI IME). Django got it right.

But more broadly, what are the odds a bespoke framework will do it right? Will you think up a new way to organize controllers, or to abstract auth, or to manage database sessions, etc. etc. etc. That sounds like a nightmare to me; just let me focus on the business logic please, haha.
Yeah but that sucks though. Imagine being a large company with a multi-million dollar annual spend that could be entirely free if only Postgres had been a bit more mature back when you started.

So many of the decisions you make when needing to move quickly at the start of your growth curve, are the ones that slowly kill you after market saturation.

Being able to swap out a db would be nice.
If I worked at a place where a coworker has clearly been underperforming, but getting stocks on their way out, then that would demotivate me.

> The vesting is compensation for work done and time spent in the role.

We don't know all the facts, and definitely not both sides, but it sounds like it could be overcompensating for work done. OP said this employee "has been an issue for quite a while".

Especially since I have worked for startups that gave me the "we've set the bonus/salary bump/stock budget for this year, so who do you think should get less if you get more?". This guy! This guy should get less! (is what I'd want to say in this situation)

Employers, especially startups, commonly present comp as a zero sum game. Even if this company doesn't, don't expect all employees to believe you if you say it's not the case here. Because they've been lied to before when it comes to money.

And frankly company leadership has an eventual profitability requirement, and even if they say it's not zero sum, it's not totally independent either.

Having spoken to corp lawyers a lot I also recognize this as a legal liability. It sets a precedent, and opens you up to discrimination suits for future firings.
This seems similar to an Elixir/Phoenix use case where you have a GenServer per user. At first glance, it seems like that approach would be functionally equivalent.
I explained my approach in other comments. Look up the bullshit asymmetry principal for why I don't owe you the answers to your accusatory style questions and your "what's interesting" observations. Neither do I owe the author anything more than pointing out a history of heavy bias. You, like the author, are indeed ignorable. No one owes you a conversation and your cross-examining style is against HN rules.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The point of a union is that management don't care what the employees want/need.
FFmpeg is a part of Chromium and Chrome. That's it for "company of any significance would ever use it" statement.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/third_party/ffmpe...

Also: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1258531455220609025
Is opening and filming lost luggage a morally defensible act?
I question the morality of an activity that I personal find immoral and repulsive. Losing luggage can be quite dramatic and psychologically damaging depending on the contents. The thought of having that content paraded on YouTube would for anyone make for sleepless nights.
And Mac.
That rather depends on how many hours a day you use your cpu at max performance, which is likely closer to 1 hour to the average person.
It depends how the decision is made.

If:
a) other employees did not think the fired person performed poorly
b) the decision of firing without compensation just before the vesting period is made by the founder only

then this will be a nightmare for the founder.

If however the contrary is true, ie that most people think the performance of the person being fired was poor, and if the founder discusses compensation options with others who will also be vesting at some point, then it signals that the founder actually cares about and trusts their employees enough to associate them meaningfully to the decision process. It also shows not just a wish but an active effort to ensure fairness for all, both the person being fired, and the others staying on who would be that bit more diluted in the cap table if somebody who shouldn't have vested is allowed to.

Good on you, dear founder, to be seeking advice and to be trying to do the right thing. You don't have to be alone thinking about that decision or making it, and you don't have to be alone living with it afterwards. Allowing your employees to be stakeholders in this is really key.
Founders, be careful about personally guaranteeing leases
The co-founder in this story supposedly personally guaranteed her startup's lease. The startup failed and now she's being sued personally for $1.7 million.

https://therealdeal.com/2022/10/12/soho-landlord-sues-audrey-gelman-the-wing-for-1-7m-in-rent/
Ah yes, I remember seeing Starline and thinking, yup I can understand why google built that and how incredible it's going to be when that makes it into our homes and offices.

Edit: Btw this talk is super fascinating
As jmpeax said, incredibly frustrating video. Here is a better video giving you an idea of the acceleration against a Porsche 911:

https://youtu.be/YYjYqWdHZ8w?t=78
>disillusion them that the world is not a meritocracy, truth and honor count for nothing, hard work may or may not pay off, etc?

They'll pick it up all on their own.
It's not the people that would buy bonds at 1000%, it's the central bank that would buy bonds at whatever interest rate they deem appropriate. They would create all the required money out of thin air. It's not an infinite amount, but obviously at some point the compounding effect of printing new money to finance old debt is going to erode trust.
In Paris, there are 3 big second-hand books: Gibert, Boulinier and Book Off.
All of them suffered quite a lot these last years.
If someone was a bad performer, they team knows it's because of
bad performance, but reasons given will be "cost cutting",
"personal matters", or "they've moved to a better project."

If I fire someone for bad performance I will absolutely tell the team that's why i fired them. I may not tell people outside the team (I don't want to bad mouth my former employee) but the team deserves the truth.
You’re going back to the office. Your boss isn’t
> If you have a shell open and echo "test", then history | grep echo, it will return something like: 891 echo "test".

>

> However, if you issue 16 more unique commands, history | grep echo will no longer be able to find your 891 echo "test" entry.

On zsh, history only returns the last 16 commands, which is the default. But if you type `history 0`, it will return all commands since the zeroth index.

So if I want to search my entire history for instances of a command like this example, I don't modify anything, but just type `history 0 | grep echo` and that does what the author seems to be expecting.
What you say is fair, but do you believe that trust is reciprocal when talking about corporations?

How often are companies the ones trying to get the best deal for themselves? How often would the people of that fictional culture do business with such a corporate entity?

A corporation by its very nature can not have the same values as a human.
This community is filled with American techbro libertarians, what can you really expect?
They say that part of the solution is that their system provides runtime encryption, so third parties, whatever and whoever they might be, can't see the data. But where's physically the key used to encrypt? If it still has to be on the cloud, which I think would be the case, then the problem isn't solved.
What is that amount of data used for?

Is it along the lines of “we want to collect all the data we can in case we want to use or analyze it at some point”, or are there real use cases?
Pros: User engagement in comments, fun memes, sometimes inspiring stuff, almost every game has an Instagram/Twitter etc.
Cons: You get other stuff in the feed, ads, and can miss the important stuff (the actual patch notes which I hope this app solves).
> 1. No it doesn't

Thanks for clearing it up...
Question like those is why researchers goes to animal observations. Easier to make conclusions without introducing too much cultural assumptions.

In the jungle people find a dead young female baboon. She is apparently dead from starvation, so we hastily conclude it was natural causes. The researcher however who observed the flock gives a different explanation. The young female was healthy just a few weeks ago, but after joining the flock she got continuously bitten and scratched by other females whenever she went to eat or tried to sleep. After weeks of constant stress, lack of sleep and food she died.

In contrast we might find a dead young male baboon clearly beaten to death. They joined the same flock recently and after a large fight over dominance the young male acquired injuries and died. Which of the two cases displayed more capacity for violence, brutality or aggressiveness? Is a brawl better or worse than cold calculated murder?

> why did we come to have a culture that fears men

Very good question. One likely answer is that we have a culture that reward men who commit violence in the right context. Why do men get rewarded for violence? There are many contradicting theories and books on that subject. Are humans inherently violent or peaceful? Is society holding back the savage beast or is cooperation the human default behavior? A lot of questions, a lot of research, a lot of theories.

If you want to dig down into those question there are good books and other sources on it. The stanford Human Behavioral Biology lecture serie on youtube is a good start (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C...). The same researcher has also a book called Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, which focus a fair bit on aggression and violence. There is War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage, which also has a counter-argument book which name is currently evading me.
using fzf is also a good option: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
I don't accept the distinction between frameworks and libraries. Once past the most trivial stages, any codebase uses frameworks, often multiple of them. But they aren't all published or named as such. Often you create them yourself. I have myself written lots of things that work like a framework. Inversion of control is a powerful pattern.

There really is no clear cut difference between a library and a framework. All depends on the mental model what you call what.
This is the original article and ought to be the one used here, it's also linked in the one above:

https://gizmodo.com/clegg-meta-executives-identified-in-only...

There's also a lot more information on the context of the allegations.
Why C++?
It looks like Gemini focuses on text files? I guess what I'm interested in is consuming services via text. Mostly imagine if everything was an API and then we had a single interface for that which was purely text based e.g /google search hackernews
Additionally we might need to reevaluate how damaging eating meat really is. It certainly has a larger impact, but cows for example convert grass into human digestible energy. Sure, the cows use a lot of land that could perhaps be used to grow crops. But usually they are held in places where growing crops isn't too easy. Most farmland does not support crops for human consumption (although you could eat wheat with less protein as well, you just cannot use it for baking anything). But this farmland can grow grass or feed for animals...

We usually saw nutritional values compared to rice or potatoes. This is extremely reductionist and doesn't tell the whole story. I think it is really bad science, shouldn't even qualify for pop science. We should listen to farmers here. Their methane output is not relevant as well, what started as a joke about cow farts ended in silly propaganda.

I believe for animal welfare we should curb the worst excesses; the cows should have a decent life and people need to eat meat more consciously. Would mean the meat would be more expensive than it is today of course. It would become more exclusive.

This is a problem of logistics of large supermarket chains. These dictate the prices for farmers in the name of the customer. Instead of complaining to farmers, you need to complain to supermarkets if you want to change anything. They demand low prices in the name of their customers. They want as few suppliers as possible, so they tend to prefer contracts with giant agricultural corporations that try to squeeze out animals as much as possible. This will kill any smaller farms in the long run.

Eating meat does have an imprint on nature on the scale we do it today. But compared to oil and gas this is almost negligible. We also do not have a problem with food production, that there are people going hungry has completely other reasons, mostly logistical ones.
It's true of course, that missions change all the time. Also people that try to get something off the ground don't only push one thing but often try several things in parallel. Sometimes they don't want to disclose that in an early stage even.

Still I think it's valueable to have user profiles centered around skills rather than track records. It might not be possible to estimate ones seniority otherwise, but by relying on track records to assess if someone is a valueable contact we make personal success way more path dependent than it should be.

To me the same goes for missions / projects. I find it questionable if something really has higher potential of successful execution just because it's done by people that had success before. I know that's what draws attention to certain projects that often gets them funding and early traction. But recently it still turns out to be a bad idea to begin with after a few rounds of funding, while other projects suffer from lacking exactly that focus.

I'm sharing open thaughts here mainly to be honest. Will take a closer look at AngelList for that too. Thought it was more of a funding thing to be honest.
No,

Dystopia = everyone must buy an iphone as solution to the problem instead of just using an app that's not restricted to iphones
starboard is an active open-source alternative.

https://starboard.gg/gz

https://github.com/gzuidhof/starboard-notebook
MetaMask Ethereum wallet adds bank transfers
Just like with Silverlight. .net 1.0, wcf, .net remoting, app domains…

MS told me it was for always and forever!

Cries
Agree with above points. It sounds like it should have been dealt with a long time ago. Being this close to vesting is the cost of inaction. The equity issue feels like a sunk cost at this point.

Would initiate a conversation around performance to set expectations that performance needs to improve or their position is at risk.

Be the hero of the story: treat the employee fairly and raise performance expectations. Hopefully, the equity is a small price to pay.
I had a C64 but always loved the look of TRS-80 Model 3 and 4s. I ended up buying a Model 3 off of eBay a few years ago. The screen wasn't working correctly. It arrived in one piece, thankfully, and I almost got it to work but now it doesn't show any green at all. It now sits on my shelf with the cover off. I keep looking for a video board on eBay but haven't come across one yet.

I may just get an adapter board so I can use a VGA cable and an external monitor but it feels like cheating. There is a guy who shoehorned in a 10" monitor with little or no destruction to the TRS 80 and used the adapter board which I would consider doing but I haven't found a 10" monitor.

I'm not sure I'd really use it. Around the same time I got the TRS 80 I came across a C64 and bought it. I played around with it for a few weeks but it sits on the top shelf in a box. Too many other things to do with modern computers AND I don't have the room or desk space to keep it sitting out at the ready.
I don't really understand what they are saying?

Why does efficiency work against having more energy or more stuff?

I'm sure there were a thousand efficiency improvements needed to make the aluminium foil that is mentioned, we didn't just plug a lump of bauxite into the mains and scream "more power!" like a mad scientist in a horror film.
Yes but it gives the remaining people a mark on what is acceptable or not acceptable. If you fired someone for bad performance they now know that bad performance will not be tolerated (or at least not forever). If you fired them for being unprofessional or for bad behaviour the rest now know that there is a consequence for such behaviour.
> A third of those leaders said employees are more motivated when they know they’re being monitored in person by upper management; a quarter said workers would take shorter breaks if they were in the office. Another 25 percent said that since they’d already paid for office space they might as well use it.

disgusting.
No real benefit, but we do also offer other apps. And I know there's an ethical component here, where we might poach customers from the FOSS project's own managed hosting. That's not why I built Cloudplane, quite the opposite; the intention is to support FOSS sustainability by reinvesting parts of our revenue into the ecosystem.
I've had both: a bad colleague who went dancing while we were struggling at 23 PM in the data center for a government project, and a really shitty PM whose incompetence ruined a lot of people personally. Both can have adverse effects on people, although a bad boss in an otherwise sane environment would probably strengthen the group for being perceived as an external "enemy".