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At best, the primary reasons companies do unlimited PTO is that it's just not worth it to invest in official rules and some sort of tracking system. Just say "take what you need" and move on.

But at worst, companies don't pay attention to the psychological impact.

If you're a manager or leader in this sort of environment, I suggest telling your teams something like "I consider 4-6 weeks of PTO to be a healthy amount. You should take somewhere around that. If you need to take more, I'd appreciate it if we talked about that. And if you still feel pressure to take less, let's talk about that too so I can help you feel more comfortable."

taking no PTO isn't mentally healthy. I've never felt like we got "more done" over the course of a year because no one took PTO. Eventually it was just burnt out employees grinding through the days.
See, for example, Kyle Harper’s Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275–425, Cambridge University Press, 2011. In spite of the title, it contains much detail on Roman slavery in previous eras, and is one of the most accessible (to an educated readership) presentations of the phenomenon.
I dont think ive ever worked on any project where they hadnt yet decided whether they wanted a command line app or a website or an android app before I started. That part is usually fixed in stone.

Sometimes lower level requirements are decided before higher level requirements.

I find that this often causes pretty bad requirements churn - when you actually get the customer to think about the UI or get them to look at one then inevitably the domain model gets adjusted in response. This is the essence of why BDD/example driven specification works.
How much did Daily Motion pay their creators?
I mean, it's more like a hormone than a vitamin, so yes, you're playing with your endocrine system.
The central banks are the ones tasked with implementing the CBDC, of course. I think it's fair to say they've "seriously considered it" given that they have analyzed it in depth as part of their own monetary policy research. It is not likely to happen as part of an initial introduction of CBDCs. Whether it ever gets implemented is up to policymakers.
Not necessarily a bad idea to have someone thinking about these topics, the role seems more nuanced than saving us from Skynet.

But where's the team protecting us from a future where we have no more shared experience or discussion of media anymore because everyone is watching their own personalized X-Men vs. White Walkers AI fanfic?
The truth is, in medicine, we often fall into a trap of treating a number rather than the patient, and Vitamin D abnormalities are a classic example of this.

It's well known that by our current reference ranges, the vast majority of humans will be Vitamin D "deficient" but it's unclear what "sufficiency" truly is (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmp1608005). Outside of known effects on bone health (e.g hyperparathyroidism), trials studying Vitamin D supplementation in a variety of disease states have not panned out.

All in all, I think this labeling is unlikely to cause significant harm given the unclear nature of Vitamin D deficiency, though I don't fully understand the need for this label in the first place as Vitamin D over-supplementation is unlikely as well.
I’ve loved using Hashicorp products for many years but I have (despite often being in a position to do so) failed miserably to engage in any kind of commercial relationship with them.

Their pricing has always been opaque. Despite trying my hardest, even multiple phone calls with their sales teams, I never got even a sniff of how much it would cost for enterprise deployments of Hashicorp products at any of my clients.

I’m a shareholder in HCP and lost money on them after the IPO, so maybe I’m a bit sore, but I’m dumping my holdings soon. I’ve got no confidence this company actually knows how to sell into the bulk of the addressable market that they outlined in their S1.

I think the growth they are currently generating will top out pretty soon when the shock of paying about the same for the management tools as the actual cloud services they are running hits home with their customers.
You can (and most likely should) still use a OSI-approved license if you want, such as AGPL/GPLv3, while providing the possibility of case-to-case commercial licenses.

gifski [0] for example is a successful open-source project doing that.

[0] https://gif.ski/license.html
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Something I have been struggling with as a remote software engineer is 1. getting reviews from coworkers and 2. being able to communicate asynchronously with coworkers, even those working on the same projects. I find some of my coworkers are quite good, but others much less so. Sometimes I've waited 48 hours to hear back on a DM, and in other cases 3-4 weeks before getting reviews on PRs. It feels like in a remote environment it's so much easier to ignore other people that you work with.
If I could easily walk to or even take a modest transit ride to the office I'd probably go in once or twice a week for the change in scenery. But the only company office it makes any sense for me to go into at this point is a two hour commute each way. I would need to have a specific reason to do that and no one I work with regularly is in that office. (I'm a 30 minute drive to another office but no one I know is there, it's in a boring office park, and it's closing.)
Up to 9 hours? More like 4-6 AFAIK
"No Copyright infringement intended"

The ultimate get out of jail free card.
Elixir does as well, with NaiveDatetime
In my experience GPT4/V is pretty bad at those specifically, not necessarily around abstraction in general.

The problem with a statement like is that it leaves the door open to accepting any kind of canned generality as "abstraction in general". Abstract reasoning is indeed a fuzzy/slippery concept and spatial reason may not capture it well but I'm pretty sure it captures it better a general impression of ChatGPT.

...since it has no body, no world, no space; it "lives" in the realm of text.

There's a bizarre anthropomorphism on this thread, both reflexively compare this software system to a blind human and the implicit call to be considerate of this thing's supposed disability.
It's not exactly a scam, but it is a psychological trick of sorts. Unlimited sounds nice, but, of course, any employee would be fired if they started taking unlimited vacation.

One thing that's rarely mentioned is that for employees who accrue fixed vacation time, the monetary value of this time tends to be legally required in most US states to be paid out upon the employee's termination. I'd guess that with unlimited vacation time, $0 is paid out.
And so you go to these prisons to get this 'murder pasta'?
I can tell you that I was diagnosed with low vitamin D, and was prescribed high doses to bring up my levels.

This resulted in multiple bouts of kidney stones, which I can wholeheartedly not recommend.

I don't take vitamin D supplements anymore.
Guilty as charged.

I almost commented about how I bugged HR to let me return to office when it became available (having some months earlier signed a permanent work-from-home contract). I like walking to work and having the work-life separation. Not to mention my office is tricked out with sweet posters, mostly of the transit and active transportation propaganda variety.

The million dollar 360 views are a nice bonus though.

Of course I still work from home on days where it is really inconvenient not to, but I tend to not enjoy that nearly as much now.
When did blind humans gain vision out of curiosity?
I’ll admit that I do miss when everyone else wasn’t remote. Once Covid handed everyone remote on a silver platter it diminished some of the perks.

Everything used to be completely empty during normal work hours. This is was one of my big life lessons that it’s better to not advertise things that are truly great in order to help prevent the utility of it from being crowded away.

Case in point are “day in the life” TikTok’s about an awesome lifestyle. These egotistically blatant brags end up bringing attention that threatens it.
It's not a scam if you can get away with taking a shitload of time, but otherwise 100%. The only person I ever knew who seemed to get good value out of unlimited PTO was my boss at the last job, but junior employees I talked to didn't feel comfortable enough to take a Friday off when they were moving house.
Zero-k is based on Spring Engine, that started as a community project to be a 3D engine for TA. So you are very correct.
you're totally right, I mixed up my facts. they are 10-15 mpg higher than the highest MPG ice car currently produced for the US market which is the Mitsubishi mirage.
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I loved it. Took about twice the local standard off in a year, plus odd days when I was sufficiently burned out that spending the day at the computer would get nothing done. Some other people took basically no time off out of fear of judgement. Their loss.
How many producers and how many consumers is that 650 nanoseconds?

I have pinned threads to even numbered cores with pthread_setaffinity_np and that seems to have evened out the MPMC ringbuffer - 2 producers 2 consumers to under 400 nanoseconds, usually under 1000 nanoseconds. I think hyperthreading causes problems.

EDIT: Would you like to chat about this? I would like to! My email is in my profile.
Interest rates being near zero
How about just making it illegal to use phone numbers for digital authentication? 95% of the problem solved right there.

The current setup feels akin to the longstanding problem of companies using social security and driving license numbers for authentication. Only the industry speedran the creation of this new problem, so they should be expected to get rid of it just as quick.
A friend of a friend has an issue with potassium. The amount she has to take would literally kill someone.
I’m just universally skeptical of arguments that someone can’t genuinely care about X because they don’t have the stance I think that would imply on Y. People are complicated and our self-consistency is imperfect at best.
Microsoft campus (a few years ago) had little "phone rooms" where people could go to get private or quiet zoom calls done. This was great. They also had larger rooms with a desk to get some focus time. Unfortunately, people would camp out in these rooms all day, and they became filled. It became a territorial thing as my manager did not have a private office so he would "claim" one of the smaller rooms and would grumble loudly if someone else took it.
AI doesn't think, it is just a fancy madlibs engine.
All these companies saw Snowflake's success and thought, "we want to use some kind of usage based pricing scheme to capture the value that we provide". Implicit in this thought process is that the price should scale in an unbounded way - if you're providing X value for a company with 10M revenue, you should be providing roughtly 1000X value to a company with 10B revenue.

And it may be true that you are providing 1000X the value! But that doesn't mean that you are going to be able to get away with charging 1000X the price when the cost of hiring a team to fully replace your product with something built in house is only 10X or 100X.

Snowflake doesn't have this problem because very few companies could recreate Snowflake, period, much less recreate it for less than their Snowflake spend. But all these "hosted open source product" offerings should have realized by now that they need a ceiling on their pricing structure and/or they need to stop open sourcing their code.
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Eh, the definition of scam is very fluid.

For example all you can eat restaurants. Put a limit on how long someone can sit at a table and slow walk the food and you effectively have a limit on how much can be served.

Employers can find all kinds of way to do this with unlimited PTO.
My state has 15 physical opportunities and 1 for data work. The closest physical option is 4 hours away.
> the climate thing is pretty important but at this point manageable

For humanity as a whole: yes. For individuals who happen to live in the wrong spot: not so much.

> financial crises come and go; the one 15 years ago was interesting but not, as it turned out, a second great depression

Maybe societies are like people in that sense: that they adapt to certain kinds of illnesses and at some point they are no longer quite as susceptible as they were the first time? After all, capitalism itself was tested for the very first time then and it did survive and what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

> Ukraine was one of the major topics of the note i linked, though not explicitly mentioned

Ok.

> covid i'm not sure about. you would expect 6.98 million confirmed deaths (and several times that many total deaths) to have a cultural impact like aids or the holocaust, but if it has, i am not sure exactly what that impact is. i don't even see people wearing face masks on the bus when they have a cold, which is sort of the minimum i was hoping for

If there ever was a wake-up call that should have been it.

But it's like as if it never happened and as if it has definitively ended and nothing like it can ever happen again. Weirdest experience in my life to date.

Not hoping for a re-match.
I'm pretty sure that a "safety check" for social media companies circa 2008 would look like:

"Is this likely to harm society in anyway?"

"Uh, no. This is some messages and pictures on a website. Look how much money we're making. It's good for society"

<15 years of societal harm later>

"Yeah, we never thought this could be harnessed to spread misinformation, lies, unachievable standards of beauty and lifestyle, lead to surveillance and manipulation, or give rise to influencers and hussle culture..."

It's going to be exactly the same with AI. "Oh, it doesn't look like we created Skynet yet. No missiles in the air. Look at how much money we're making. It's good for society"

<15 years of societal harm later>
I'm not aware of how long this game had been in development, but with Starfield, Fallout etc, they're buggy at launch, but they at least have the content to justify release.

Sometimes the "release because it's Q4" approach is important simply because the game is such an irredeemable mess that delaying won't really help. I think simulation games are also likely to be more prone to this kind of thing because the content is more "centralized" (ie in Fallout you can have dozens of teams simultaneously working on unrelated side quests, but not really in a simulation game).

KSP2 being a glaring example of this kind of thing.
In office work is relatively new in humanity, even if no one alive today existed before such a time.

At one time your neighborhood was not zoned as a monoculture, but included a lot of places to congregate. People got their socializing not from people who were paid to sit in the same room together, but from people who came to a cafe or restaurant or pub to sit in the same room together.

If your commute is close to an office it’s also close to a communal space. Instead of doing chores at home during lunch, why not leave your home and your job and be with the people you live around? The people who share your neighborhood are more a feature of your life than the people who share your payroll, in so far as they exist in the same context as you for longer - if you let them.

I actually find it sad we’ve lost our communities and traded them for our workplace cliques. We huddle in our break rooms and exchange banalities and assume this is in fact a bond we are forming. We all then commute home to our real life and the two don’t cross over.

But life isn’t actually split into two realities, it’s all one thing. We just insulate our valued life over our work life, trying to make a balance between our sacrifice and our existence. This is a new phenomenon in human existence, and I don’t think it’s strictly necessary. And I suspect it’s not healthy.

But why does it feel so lonely to work from home? Because we don’t have the skills, mental framework, or neighborhood infrastructure any more to build social connection outside of the artificial community of the office.
According to the Steam page:

Processor: 2.0 GHz dual core CPU with SSE (Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent)
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 512 MB graphics card with OpenGL 3 support (GeForce 8800 or equivalent)
Storage: 6 GB available space

I would guess that you can run this game.
I haven’t worked somewhere with unlimited PTO. That said, at least in California, accrued PTO is considered compensation and must be paid out at your current rate if you’re terminated or leave your job. This is not true of “unlimited” plans as you’re not accruing anything.

I’ve always felt like the unlimited thing gained popularity partially because it’s a way for the company to avoid having a liability on the books. So not a “scam”, but not done out of total benevolence.
The "all the info is already online" argument is also an argument against LLMs in general. If you really believe that argument, you shouldn't care one way or another about LLM release. After all, the LLM doesn't tell you anything that's not on Google.

Either the LLM is useful, in which case it could be useful to a terrorist, or it's useless, in which case you won't mind if access is restricted.

Note: I'm not saying it will definitely be useful to a terrorist. I'm saying that companies have an obligation to show in advance that their open source LLM can't help a terrorist, before releasing it.
I’ve been using Python for going on 14 years now, and I had no idea utcnow() returned a naive date time. I happen to live and deploy to a (mostly) UTC time zone, so i expect a bunch of my code is subtly wrong.

One of my projects added all of the code in PyPI to GitHub, it would be interesting to see how prevalent the use of “utcnow()” is.
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Ask HN: How to plan the big move from Android to iOS?
What do you wish you knew before switching to an iphone?

The family uses iphones/ipads and my comic stubbornness is finally reaching the end of its utility and becoming annoying. I'm looking for checklists or tips on how to migrate with the least amount of pain and breakage. Not only from Pixel to iphone, but also from Google Fi (which is great) to one of the mega-carriers (all of which I've previously used and disliked).

My last iphone was a 7, so it's been awhile. My main concerns are will 2FA break? Can I keep using Google for photos and docs or does everything need to be on icloud? Is there anything as good as Firefox with UBO? What else do I not know and should be careful with?
But the finance people don't want THE game. They want A game that is ready to release that fits into their quarterly financial statements. Predictable cash flow has a lot of value. It's not just about knocking every opportunity out of the park.

Companies absolutely DO NOT want TWO games ready to release at the same time because the marketing attempts will cannibalize each other. So, when one game takes longer to develop than expected, and a release slot opens up, another game must fill that slot, even at the cost of quality, because releasing multiple games at the same time is untenable.

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels covers this in great detail: https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Sweat-Pixels-Triumphant-Turbule...
"8am" is a time that inherently has no timezone, and yet we need it. It's not that we don't need timezoneless time - we just need to stop using timezoneless time to represent times with a time zone and vice versa. Most time APIs were simply designed wrong on purpose for "simplicity".
I second this shameless plug and I'm about to be a 2 time spacelift purchaser. I did the same dance with Hashicorp a few years ago which led to a product shoot out and Spacelift won easily. That was before it also handled Kubernettes and Ansible.
100%. Unless it’s coupled with a minimum, it’s absolutely not “take as much as you want” in practice.
These fees seem to be particularly prevalent in the travel and entertainment industries. I stayed at a hotel in NYC relatively recently, and I booked and pre-paid through hotels.com. When I arrived, the hotel sprung me with a $50/night "resort fee", which was apparently required to stay at the hotel (though I am sure they would tell regulators that it's optional).

I also don't understand the US practice of not including relevant sales tax charges in the cost of a good. I know that many US states operate a sales tax (which seems like a bad idea as opposed to a VAT or similar system).

I don't mind having actually optional extras be charged separately, but if they aren't really optional (like a service fee), it should be part of the price.

I'd be very interested if someone has a link to the text of what is actually being proposed.
I am a terraform user but haven't courage to migrate as IAC is trickier than it looks. How much is OpenTofu compatible with terraform? Is there any page which tracks this or list down things which might break on migration.
Yes, because YouTube is changing their stance between when a large part of the data was uploaded and now. If they chose to compete fairly from the beginning instead of using their search ad revenue to kill off all the competitors we might have had something resembling a remotely free market instead of the unthinking, unfeeling monolith we have right now.
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I remember when one of Walmart's slogans was "prices are always falling." That was back in the time when they also promoted "Made in the USA".
I've read a couple of place that he had $$$MM raised, that usually doesn’t happen over a weekend.
It's not a conspiracy theory, it's exactly the reason the whole concept exists.
I don't remember response speed mattered until at least ten years after Google's start.

Certainly not when they won.

They were better. Basic PageRank was better than anything else. And once they figured out advertisement, they kept making it better to seal their dominance.
> Those "diverse desktop environments" almost always took from GNOME and contributed very little back.

Now that's an ahistorical conspiracy theory. Those diverse desktop environments contributed hugely to GTK, GNOME just didn't use their work or consider it helpful unless it directly related to their desktop... and of course none of that work will relate to their desktop. Nobody is going to fully "kiss the ring" unless they get something out of it, and even back in the GTK3 days it was plainly clear that GNOME didn't care about you if you didn't care about GNOME.

Now, GNOME's "coup" or "killing" of GTK is completely fine by Open Source standards. Even encouraged. I don't stand against the concepts of what they're doing, but they could have done a lot better than fighting third-parties tooth-and-nail. GNOME should be a proud project that leads the GNU movement, and instead it was reduced to a bunch of squabbling supremacists that made their userbase an adversary. I say all that as someone who quite likes modern GTK and writes apps in it.
In general, I've always felt the same way. It's "unlimited PTO" (wink, wink), but try taking a 3 week vacation and see how much flak you potentially get from HR or upper management.

That said, I've found it insanely beneficial after having kids and feel really fortunate that I'm able to utilize it.

Between Thanksgiving break (1 week), Christmas / winter break (2 weeks), ski week in February (1 week, I live in California and have no idea why we have this), spring break (1 week), various gaps in summer camp coverage (~2 weeks), we're looking at like a month and a half of time off per year right now. It's crazy.

(I wish it were all fun and relaxing. It isn't!)
When accruing vacation time, I can point out my accrued hours and say I need to take them before they expire (every year).

With unlimited PTO every time I ask for days off I feel like I am asking for a favor.