skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The situation seems more like the LHC experiments are looking for ANY potential discrepancies with the standard model and then theorists will happily write up some reason for why it has to be that way.

Until recently they were mostly looking for specific deviations predicted by extensions. They only recently announced that they're now going for a broader search.
I must be naive, because I cannot think of any political topic I would be discussing at work. How is this intolerance of right-wing ideology being expressed? What views specifically are being not-tolerated?

Without these specifics, it's hard to understand the problem.
Only Nixon could go to China. Sometimes in America you see the strangest political bedfellows.
For starters:

* anti-vaccination
* anti-gmo

I have a few others, but it saddens me to admit I don't have enough faith that HN is free speech forum.
Facebook doesn't have a monopoly over expression, so it still quite possible to express one's opinion in a myriad of ways.

Like this here.

Freedom of expression doesn't equal a right to distribution.
LineScript is a language providing a streamlined version of HTML
Well, the author of the FB memo apparently is starting from Ayn Rand, so there's no need to imply what doesn't deserve respect.

Google Ayn Rand and William Edward Hickman if you don't understand why.

EDIT: Ooo, downvotes on a thread about people being silenced. This comment may be slightly on the aggressive side, but it has enough content that it's well within the guidelines for the site, so my assumption is that Rand devotees can't be bothered to engage on any other level than hitting a down arrow, which I suppose, to be fair, is entirely consistent with the philosophy unless they'd get some personal utility out of articulating whatever they might be able to come up with.
I agree about the irony. I think it's pretty sad that in the last 12 months, the two major tech/labor stories have been about conservative employees pushing back against supposedly-liberal corporations. But, whatever. A wakeup call is a wakeup call. I think these FB people can succeed, and should succeed.
They may have additional projects, but I believe you’re talking about https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl .
I wish there was a button on Google ads where I could just tell them, “Thanks - I already bought a car... no need to show me more car ads for a while”
It has absolutely nothing to do with everyday temperature scales, none of which have any of the advantages that metric units for distance/mass/etc. have. You might as well be deriding the US for using a different shoe size scale than Europe.
Your Nazi sympathies are showing.
Do users really fill comment field? Why? Does it have embedded accounting module or people knowingly collect and share their payments? If it is accounting, then why free text and not categories?

I use local similar app and all transactions go with no comment, from everyone, since there is no point to make such comments (and they’re private).
FB is monopoly at this point. Very few people there are irreplaceable. If this was was a startup you might have more leverage. Mr. Amerige probably doesn't have much here. Mr. Amerige is probably making good money. If he gets fired good luck trying to get another job. Companies hate controversy.

Trump won because of Facebook. I don't know why these guys are complaining.
Google was clearly better at the beginning. I remember those days, and how Yahoo! put a bunch of other search engines at the bottom of its own results (Altavista, Excite, Lycos, etc). So it was easy to compare. When Google showed up, it was pretty obvious the game was over.

The main reason? "And" searches. Brilliant.
It'd how I handle financial interactions. Buying and selling aluminum fits in that category.
Worked across very liberal and very conservative places in tech. Neither is pleasant.

In my opinion, the American self-image and self-worth largely characterized by subscription to a political ideology is the problem.

What bothers me is not dress codes,free meals,open offices,etc... But the very idea that a company would display or promote politics in the work place.

Why are companies promoting "pride",donating to trump,telling workers to attend 'lgbt tolerance' meetings,etc... Wth!!!!

If you are my coworker,I respect you as a colleague and a human being. Your private life and beliefs are not mine to police or encourage in anyway. Left,right,etc... Who cares? You're at work!

Look at it this way,if your company is pro something,it can be anti- that same thing as soon as it becomes profitable to do so. Imagine not being able to work in tech because how you vote,pray or who you associate with becomes inconvenient to the industry.

This is my question for you: Are you willing to surrender your right to believe what you want,associate with whom you want and support the political causes that matter to you in exchange for your political views and ideology becoming the norm you can't deviate from?

What is the alternative? Do politics with your friends, family and community,associate with whom you want and believe what you want. When at work respect your colleagues,not because of their politics and beliefs but because
1) they're human
2) you would want to be respected if you were in their shoes
3) out of respect for your own self

This isn't about left vs right or kkk vs blm. It's about corporations vs individuals,who decides what views,beliefs and associations are acceptable. Should society be run by the people or by the ruling class and their corporate machine?
I worked for Facebook for almost 6 years and I wouldn't say it's culture is any more liberal than the rest of the SF bay area.

For this population, they see their own views as normal and the center. While from the outside conservatives think it's far left of center, the "dozens" of employees who don't feel this way are the outliers. There are "dozens" of employees who feel FB's culture isn't liberal enough. With an employee base of tens of thousands you are going to have disagreements in philosophy, but Facebook does nothing to hide the company culture in it's hiring practice. There is no bait and switch going on. Other voices are heard, but if you have a minority viewpoint you shouldn't expect the world to pivot around what you think is right.
I don’t agree that all criticism of misogynistic divorce laws, violence against “immodest” women, and application of the death penalty for homosexuality or apostasy is driven by “deeply-rooted white supremacy.”

I would fire anyone who held such a belief, as I would not trust them around female, gay, or ex-Muslim co-workers.
Jevons paradox only applies when the cost of energy is the dominating factor. If I replace my fridge with a newer more efficient fridge, I'm not going to buy more fridges: I don't have the space!
The comments in this thread are shocking, Inquisition level stuff. I can't believe I spend time here.

Remember when HN was tech stuff? Now it's:

manfredo 16 minutes ago

The following views were listed on the memo:

* Support of President Trump (e.g. This and Palmer Lucky's campaign contributions)

* "All lives matter"

* Criticism of Islam's human rights record.

* Calling the company's art politically radical .

Which, if any, of these views don't deserve respect?

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brainkim 9 minutes ago |

The first three are deeply problematic and rooted in deep-seated white supremacist beliefs and were it up to me
I would fire anyone who held those views.
Sorry, that’s just how I have to feel these given everything that’s been going on these days.

Who are these people? Is this just satire? Am I just getting old, and no one cares about freedom to disagree, debate, etc? Do people not have historical context about suppressing dissenting opinions, even if you hate them?

Am I crazy, and the world has just moved on to be horrible?
I generally agree, but I want to point out that there is a huge range of impact protection depending on the general shape (e.g. 'aero' vs 'skater' style), construction (hard shell downhill MTB helmet vs typical road helmet) and fit. I can't count the number of times I've seen a cyclist with a terribly ill-fitting, poorly positioned helmet. I've seen many completely exposed foreheads, thanks to too much rearward tilt, and mostly exposed skull bases thanks to the impractical aero/race-inspired design that's dominated the road market for decades.
It's hard to type with gloves on.
It actually is a sign of something terribly wrong with the company's culture. If a notoriously liberal company determined that complaints about "racially offensive" posts in this group were false, then one can reasonably believe that the complaints were indeed false. That means that other employees were simply lodging false complaints to interfere with this group's right to exist.

Think about that for a second. Other employees were so outraged by a tiny handful of their colleagues banding together to express mildly conservative views that they lied to the company about the content in this group in an attempt to eradicate them from existence. That is the opposite of tolerance, and it is reveals a toxic underbelly at a disturbingly powerful company. Everyone, regardless of political affiliation, should be concerned by that.
Yes, I've discussed politics with many of my coworkers. Few of them have any hesitation discussing liberal standpoints. I can only assume that conservatives are staying silent.

I can't claim to speak for conservatives, but I can totally understand why they would stay silent given the atmosphere. See the reply to my other comment, where a HN poster straight up says they would fire any employees that support Trump: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17864280
Which area of the city do you live in? I’ve seen numerous improvements to major commuter corridors over the years. Some examples:

- Valencia street being narrowed and bike lanes on both sides, improved protection is being worked on.

- protected lanes continue to be improved on Market, but it’s still not great.

- the wiggle through the lower haight is nearly a bike boulevard

- Ceasar Chavez, still not very safe, but traffic has been slowed down and bike lanes added on both sides.

- folsom street now has protected or very wide bike lanes to third street, and Howard now has wide bike lanes starting at 6th.

I mean yeah, it’s not amazing, but it is safer and is continuing to be improved. It will be a long time before we’re like Holland.
Name me a couple of these views which haven't changed, and qualified you as left-leaning as a teenager but alt-right today.
If you tell them to stop calling you they are legally required to stop or you can sue them for statutot damages
There are no reliability or uptime guarantees though. I wouldn't write a serious Web framework in it (though people have certainly tried)
51% of the voting power (probably) isn't available on the public markets. It's dual structured with Zuckerberg having special shares that make him king.
Nixon.
the Government should force them to give it away... along with a few billions... in a monopoly lawsuit.
If the app code goes over HTTP, it makes zero difference if you send data or not in your app. Not exactly the same scenario, but very close to my point is a situation a while back where JavaScript was injected into non-SSL web traffic that was used to DDoS Github[0].

Seriously, use HTTPS for everything. Not to be rude at all (seriously!), but it’s pretty obvious by this thread and the other you linked to that you don’t have the knowledge/experience on this topic, so do your users a favor and trust when I say you need to be using HTTPS.

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/27/github_under_fire_f...
Your... bed has hydraulics?
Specifically singling out islam is very, very strongly correlated with it, so yes.
Right? I'm always super confused when people profess to know a super liberal Facebook. I've yet to hear/see an actual super liberal defend Facebook as such. It's just whatever conveniently fits the narrative at hand.

Also...Oculus' Head of Computer Vision was busted in an underage prostitution ring after all the Palmer non-sense. Yay.
Well, yeah, that's because it's a piece of paper, not a calculator. More seriously, you have to be very careful "spooky action at a distance" in programming language design. For example, you might say something like "Well, if the compiler can prove that every constant involved is provable in rational arithmetic, do that, otherwise use floating point arithmetic", which seems like a perfectly sensible thing to do, until you realize that it means that very small changes to the code will have drastic effects on the correctness of your program (if suddenly the compiler is no longer able to prove rational arithmetic is the same answer). We do have that sort of thing happen with performance in Julia (and in many other languages too, of course) - if the compiler can prove it can do something faster, it'll try to, but we try, very, very hard to give everything predictable, sequential execution semantics (i.e. you should be able to take code, run it step by step and generally get the same answer as if you had executed it all at once). One particular example of this is comprehensions. In early versions of julia, the type of `[f(x) for x in a]` would depend on what the compiler was able to prove about `f` (and some other things), e.g. if the compiler knew that `f` always returned an `Int`, you'd get a `Vector{Int}`, otherwise a `Vector{Any}` (or whatever the compiler could prove). This turned out to be hugely annoying to people because the semantics of the computation changed (slightly, only an eltype which you generally don't look at), depending on what the compiler was or was not able to prove about your program. These days, we have runtime semantics for non-empty comprehensions and only use static information to improve performance (which as I said before, we do anyway, so users are used to it). That's not to say that you couldn't do a language that changes semantics based on whole program analysis (you could probably do it in Haskell for example), but you'd lose part of the gradual transition from REPL to full program, which is very important to a system like Julia.
I grew up with the understanding that just because someone thought differently to me didn't mean they were wrong, and that it's OK for people to agree to disagree on some things while still remaining friends. This view has definitely gone out of vogue in the past 10 years.
It's Arrested Development reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKie-vgUGdI

I am glad it's voted down. If I have Reddit for that kind of comments already.
At a company like Facebook, I could imagine how politics enter into work discussions about trending story ranking or news site bias warnings, for example.
Why the Future of Data Storage Is Still Magnetic Tape
(what does 'stanned' mean? I can't figure out if it's a typo.)
I think they should be training 5 different bots for the 1-5 positions because their priorities and roles are quite different. It seemed like all 5 bots had the same, "kill enemy, hit building" strategy, which is locally optimal, but globally harmful (sort of a tragedy of the commons scenario).
What if they weren't conservative?
In the near future, climate change will make wet-bulb temperatures higher than 35 C / 95 F possible. At that point, you are no longer able to sweat to cool your body. This can kill you in fairly short order.
Out of the money options are really risky if there is a pullback. ITM options 30-45 DTE can you make tons of money.
But you never actually cited any law. Is this in a Restatement? Contract law is typically state level.
I know people here discussed some of the complexities with building with concrete. My great grandfather mixed/poured his own mortar bricks and then proceeded to build his house with soley bricks. Another option to consider (although this was constructed about 75 years ago)

https://goo.gl/maps/F3zrHVWk1sm
That sounds like legalized theft. Why pay any non recurring bills ever?
yes, and the reason is that you are getting paid a lot to create a “product” that will surely be a net negative when all is said and done (if not, then the point doesnt stand obv) so its getting rich at the expense of greater good, which is disqualifying. your choice of work, and how you carry it out, is perhaps the most political thing you do
what was unpleasant about the very liberal workplace?
I disagree. Not all actions deserve respect. If facebook has some official views, and then an employee goes and publicly states 'I, an employee of facebook, think X', where X is counter to those official views, then they should absolutely be disciplined and/or fired. However, internally, there is no reason not to let people express whatever ideas they choose.
Oh dear ... we seem to have found an accidental logical inconsistency in the universe. Prepare for reboot in 3 .. 2 ..

More seriously, I can and do disagree strenuously with friends, family, coworkers over many things.

I value opposing viewpoints, as it helps me think through my own views. Without those opposing viewpoints, we get echo chambers. These echo chambers decide to not respect viewpoints not in agreement with their own.

It is inevitable that Godwin's law is somehow invoked these days, almost by reflex. In the US, we have the right to speak freely without interference from the government with very specific limited exceptions. So we cannot make the most odious speech illegal. We can protest such speech, but we need to do this within the bounds of the law.

Regardless of my views, I find myself censoring what I say aloud, or write in posts like this. As the narratives do shift, and one day, I may find my views which were one day mainstream, are now deep into fringe territory.

This is not good. Anyone thinking that shutting someone down hard by means other than a better argument, needs to be prepared for when their views are on the outside.

Put another way, this is a very slippery slope. We really don't want to continue down this path.

I applaud the FB group, hopefully they can make a difference.
Absolutely. I completely disagree with the whole "bring your whole self to work". No! Bring your professional self to work.

The counter-argument is that the causes relate to discrimination in the workforce. I.e., BLM needs to be supported because blacks are underrepresented in the American tech workforce. I disagree these need to be equivalent. It's possible for a company to promote hiring underrepresented minorities without allowing employees to advertise their political beliefs.

What happened to never talking about politics on the first date or at your job?
Have you seen https://altheamesh.com/?
The project to watch here is http://nemocas.org/, which is built on top of Julia, but julia itself is not a CAS.
if i can not get funds so i will monetize my app
but i want to try first to get funds and to hire more people and to work together
What other languages are "MIT-created"? I think of Lisp, Scheme, CLU, Logo, MDL, and Planner offhand, but those are all ancient. I'm sure there have been some in the last 30 years.
> Others on here have attempted examples, but they have all failed.

Where? I’m happy to prove the attack vector if necessary, would be trivial for me to do if the app is designed the way you described it (and no, not eligible for any Google bounty as this has nothing to do with same origin policy).
Right, once you do a job you never look at it the same. By hiring it out you never know the details. The same quality of work might look better to you if you didn't do it, but it may be more satisfying if you do.
Seems like this would be fine if software is created by contractors or third party vendors for these companies? If that’s the case, then the impact would be lesser.

The “abusive treatment of workers” clause, if applied thoroughly, should cover every single large electronic device/appliance manufacturing company in the world that gets things made in China (using China here as an example, not that worker abuse doesn’t happen elsewhere) — like Samsung, LG, HP, Lenovo, Sony, and many, many more.

Also, this license could have a larger impact if it’s adopted by many other prominent and popular pieces of open source software.
In 1955, when I was 5 years old, my family moved to Pasadena, CA. There was no air conditioning anywhere I can recall, definitely not at home or at school. I moved to Seattle about 30 years later. I returned to Southern California a few years ago and was surprised to find that most people here think they can't live without air-conditioning.
When I was an undergrad in 1997, I created a fuzzer (well, we didn't know to call it that back then) to insert one byte changes into Java classfiles, and then used that to test our bytecode verifier along with Sun and Microsoft's.

Suffice it to say, we found lots of bugs, the most famous one being what my grad advisor called the vacuum bug that could read a web client's environment variables (among other things): https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/un...
I downvoted you (and I assume others did too) because your assertion is only half true and that makes it pretty misleading. The other valid reply presented was about "homosexualism" (not sure what that means exactly) and in that context "feminism" means "rights," thus "equal rights."

So ya, I think 1800s is a pretty fair (albeit satirical) statement/question.
Critcism of Islam is almost always qualified with "and that's why we shouldn't let them into our country"
> Why are companies promoting "pride"...telling workers to attend 'lgbt tolerance' meetings,etc... Wth!!!!

You ask this question, then answer it in your very next line. People don't respect everyone. They are intolerant.
Not sure how the prostitution bust relates to politics? Pretty sure liberals and conservatives are equally pervs. The latter just tends to be more oppressed about it.
I don't understand why you'd want to tell everyone how your weapons work. It may be a cultural thing, as I am not American. What is the reasoning behind it?
Yes, and when you paint as much as they do they get good at it. I've seen a guy who's freehand looked better than what I can do with tape - and he was much faster.
A person who believed in socialized healthcare but did not support gay marriage could well have been considered left-leaning in the US a decade ago.
But the improved ability to track people probably helps sell it politically to the "tough on crime" crowd.
Views are free to be had, and command no respect whatsoever. I respect criticism of any human rights violation, the rest of the list doesn't pertain to me. I support the freedom of people to have those views, but also welcome the prudent choice of restricting the ability to utilize the most powerful medium of our time to spread hatred. Hate all you like, but you don't get the platform on the count of first amendment.

Disclosure: I spent a bunch of time in 2016 and 2017 reporting European hate groups and pages for violations of TOS. Video montages that recycled unrelated footage for misinformation about the immigrant crisis (for fear-mongering purposes) weren't enough to achieve a takedown, but gradually most
of them progressed far enough in their rhetoric, to objectively deserve removal (Look up European identity movements).

Downvoters: I'm also talking about private Fb groups where assaults on asylums were organized.
Atlanta near Midtown has dramatically improved for biking. We also have Bird scooters.
Enable "showdead" in your profile and you will see that anything that moves beyond the left is promptly flagged and, sometimes, the account gets banned for "starting flames".
Not @AmericanChopper, but I can easily do that:

1. Believing in the near-absolute protection of free speech, even that which I find repugnant.

2. Acknowledging that sex differences are less than 100% culturally determined.
The history of unions in the US is based around highly paid incumbents forming “good ole boy networks” when people [of color] started migrating from agricultural areas into big cities and accepting lower pay.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1913/06/the-neg...