skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your math is off - with a 99% confidence interval, on a population of 4,700 employees of Blizzard a sampling of 60 people with a 64.27% approval rate gives us a confidence interval of +-16%~. At 95% confidence, the interval shrinks to 12%~
20% down on $348k is $70k

At $1,500/mo savings rate, it would take 46 months (3.83 years) to save up for your down payment (before closing costs/lending fees, but I'm not sure if those are rolled into your mortgage)

This would leave you with a rough monthly payment (mortgage + interest + takes + insurance + HOA fees) of $1.8k-$2k (assuming 30 year mortgage at 4% interest rate)

$100k gross is roughly $76k net (before any 401k/IRA contributions)

$1.8k/mo for your mortgage * 12 months = $21.6k before any cable/water/electric/lawn/pool bills/repairs

$4.5k/mo net income remaining after your house for food, cars, insurance, etc.

You said $1.5k/mo savings which means $3k/mo for food, cars, insurance, travel, 401k contributions, repairs, going out, etc.

I guess it is do-able. $3k/mo for 2 people does not sound terrible in the slightest.
I think the key word there is "require". It's always great to try to help people, but in the end which road they walk down is up to them. My take on it is "Never expect other people to change, but also don't expect them not to change either".
If school starts at 7:30, then that kid isn't waking up fresh at 7, they have to be woken up significantly earlier. I shudder to think of the other examples in the comments which have to already be in school at 7.
> However, there is a severe disconnect between the median Amazon employee's experience, and public perception.

Not to get into whether Amazon employees have it good or bad, but using the software engineers to explain the median Amazon employee's experience seems a bit odd. Given that Amazon is widely reported to have well over half a million employees now, and I doubt the software engineers are anywhere near the majority, using them as an example to support the claim that the median employee is not what the public expects doesn't make a lot of sense.
I've been using LineageOS on a Nexus 6P for a good while now. No Google Services/Play Store was especially challenging to adapt to. But overall the experience has been pleasant, rewarding and surprisingly trouble-free. As for missed calls, isn't that what voicemail is for?
Inflation and the obsession with powers of 10. Back when I was starting out in 1990 a $100K job would have to be a $200K job today. Yes, housing has inflated as well but what I'm trying to say is that our perception of using $100K as some kind of benchmark hasn't.
Believe it or not, but I'm generally a pretty pleasant person. But when somebody adopts an formal impersonal tone like NVC, they make it clear that they don't see me as their friend and that I shouldn't consider them my friend either.

As you said, NVC is good for 'forcing people to do something they don’t want.'
Ah, I thought it was "queue" as in "put in line to do next"
I think it's probably a bit more nuanced than that...

Much like how tons of companies seem to jump on the LGBT logo type stuff, I suspect this kind of pro-LGBT sentiment is driven by people within the company who genuinely mean it and then it's up to the company to:
(a) embrace their suggestions in the name of boosting employee morale and involvement
(b) say no to sidestep potential political implications and potentially unsettle workplace morale

The company fundamentally does not give a flying f*ck about the issue at hand, but it manages to work its way up along a chain of individuals who either do believe in the motives or are unwilling to be the one to say no until it actually gets put out officially. If there ever was a "there's big money in this stuff" thought, I seriously doubt it was a significant motivator as the person thinking that cynically would doubtless be aware of international considerations too.

I'm not trying to defend companies here at all, to be clear. I struggle to believe any company that isn't taking extremely proactive steps at the risk of their bottom line don't actually care about anything on an ethical level.
The author Marshall Rosenburg has also expressed the same feelings about the name and 'compassionate communication' is another way they refer to nvc
One thing that makes it impossible to switch to DDG for me is how bad the automatic correction is for simple typos and such. Google is incredibly good at offering to correct your search to what you meant if you completely botch the typing, eg. mashing “havlrt news” is fine to get here.

DDG often can’t even correct single letter typos where the character is adjacent. On a phone there is usually no autocorrect or word suggestion in the search box as it doubles as the URL bar, so this means you have to manually fix typos to get the right results.
It’s a tool like a hammer. You can use it to do good or bad things. Like any form of communication. At least NVC is better at empowering people to get their needs met, compared to the alternatives.
Ha ha, yeah. It's painfully obvious in retrospect. We had it for a couple of years before I even thought of the legitimacy of it... and even then I didnt realize it until after linking it here.
Nonviolent communication comes up on HN every few months and it's always the same praises and criticisms. I've been on the receiving end of NVC quite a few times in my career, and every single time it comes off as patronizing bullshit. I'd rather people yell at me than couch everything in, "I feel X" or "Would you be willing to Y". When important things must be done well, do you think this sort of language is used? Of course not. In those situations, everyone is assumed to be an adult who is strong enough to take direct criticism.

Brilliant marketing move though, calling it "nonviolent communication", implying that any other form of communication is violent. The only better example of this tactic I've seen is "pro-life" (implying that those who don't want to ban abortion are anti-life).

If you use this conversation style, you will get a bimodal response. Conversations with some people will be a little smoother, but conversations with others will be much worse. To those people, you will come off as assuming that they are weak and can't take criticism. Or worse, you'll come off as a mealy-mouthed phoney.

I cannot emphasize enough just how condescending I find this style of speaking. I think the only way a conversationalist could annoy me more would be to clap between every word.
>I believe the casters have said Blitzchung showed up on the live interview stream (it was remote) wearing the gas mask unexpectedly.

Nah that's wrong. Have you watched the live feed video?

Here's a translation of what was said by the casters.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/dfs7a...

So many mistruths being spread and believed as facts, it's sad really.
And that's why it will die or get nationalized like a water utility. A "friends" platform is inherently less scaleable than an "everyone" platform.
Depending on the event, showing up without doing an RSVP can be worse than not coming. I think generally it depends on whether the RSVP is being relied on for something, for example an accurate headcount for a restaurant reservation.

For a regular meetup, it's not nearly as important to RSVP. Maybe even overly formal. I go to a weekly thing that's organized through Meetup, and I still RSVP every time, though, for a few reasons. One is it puts it on my calendar automatically. Two is it helps newbies feel comfortable that somebody is going and they won't be the only one there if they show up.
We need to impose an 80% repatriation tax on any profits earned in China in order to offset the damages done to our domestic freedom of speech.

China should not be able to control society outside of its own walls, yet they have blatantly influenced the behavior of our biggest mass media companies for years.

To be fair, they've done an outstanding job of it. They fund a huge number of film productions. They've bought out our cinema chains and gaming companies. All the while we never once see China portrayed as an enemy.

Games are not permitted to promote LGBT acceptance. Films sometimes bend backwards to include China as a strong and moral ally. These aren't just one-sided impacts of the Great Firewall - China is directly altering the media we create domestically. They're changing the world narrative to enhance their reputation and take power from their enemies. They'll happily fund films that are critical of American history (and even if that's justified, it's terribly one-sided).

And now what was once simply a chilling effect on what types of media could be created has now manifested as proactive enforcement of China's will. How long will it be before China can force westerners it disagrees with out of their jobs? We never imagined something like Blizzard's treatment of Blitzchung would be possible, yet now we're beginning to see how deep China's political tentacles reach.

We have to stop this.

Tax companies doing business in China.

Disincentivize this blatant attack on of our freedom of speech. Don't let China change our cultural zeitgeist.

Tax any and all domestic profits coming from China. Heavily.
Wow, this looks very thorough. A shame it didn't take off. Thank you for linking!
I'd recommend the complete opposite - don't wear headphones for the first few weeks. The micro interactions that you get in the work place can make or break your relationships with your new colleagues.
Banning cars on SF’s Market Street, once a radical idea, approved unanimously
Send me a email, I'll share my idea with you in full.

I had the same issues and I think it's all ( yes, all ) solved ;) - our way of thinking is very similar with the related problems!

Ps. Please add your quote, so I know/remember what your problems were.
The HQ does not need to be in Silicon Valley to adopt the ethos.
I wonder if the deno project will integrate against this.
Uhhh, ya think? It's "school" not "free childcare" -- entitled parents ahoy!

Maybe people should consider the cost of having children BEFORE actually having them. Jesus Christ.
I think it needs a special AI accelerator chip which is first coming in the Pixel 4 phones.
"too overt and the message gets quickly lost when security kicks you out"

True, but also be prepared to be searched. If security can't legally search people, given the size of the event, they will very likely have police to patrol and do random checks "in case of terrorism", so hide your HK shirts, signs etc. because they would almost surely be confiscated for "inciting violence".
If Blizzard fears any negative demonstration, they'll probably use every means for painting those supporting HK protests as violent disruptors and have police arresting them.
Reporting on union organizing is not the same thing as issuing death threats. You're working really hard to blur the clear line between these two things, why?
No, they aren't. Hong Kong is about free speech insofar as the protestors are fighting for their freedom of speech from the Chinese (and Chinese proxy) government.

You do not, should not, and will never have a "right" to "free speech" in media that are privately owned and managed by others. You have a right to not have a government censor your speech. The federal government cannot compell you to remove an editorial from your blog criticizing the government. They may not compell your isp to bar traffic to that blog. Insofar as the ISP is a government mandated oligopoly, it's reasonable to argue that they may not block access to your ip. Must a blogging website provide you hosting? No. You never had such a "right" and you never will. You can argue that they have a duty to provide you equitable and fair service, but we rarely use duties in western political philosophy (an example would be Australia compelling citizens to vote).

Private citizens may or may not publish your material on their media at their discretion. You have zero right to any of their bandwidth, resources, or otherwise, again, in general. Furthermore you shouldn't, because that would in fact be tantamount to governmenr infringement of the freedom of speech of those private citizens.
Karl Popper explained in detail why it’s perfectly rational to praise tolerance and still be intolerant of intolerance.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

“if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.”
Almost all eras have extreme, overdone, or ridiculous works done in it. We tend to forget such over time and remember the good ones, or at least the most controversial or novel ones.

Some of the depictions of hell around the early renaissance can make one cringe just as much as some "modern" art. The flying wanker from the Roman Pompey ruins is also a hoot.

The lack of perspective in medieval art is still a curious puzzle, because the pre-Christian Romans had be using fairly decent forms of perspective. The knowledge existed. It's as if the early Christians intended the result to look abstract and symbolic to remove it from mortal-hood.
That happened to me with a beta version of APFS. I never got my data back.
What’s peculiar about this is that parental restrictions itself on iOS has always been flawed, Apple knew about it, and it’s still an issue to this day. The sole purpose of parental restrictions on iPhone was to block adult websites... and that worked as well as you can imagine: https://www.jonbottarini.com/2017/03/09/bypassing-apples-ios...
Fortran 77 doesn't have a stale compiler; modern Fortran compilers support Fortran back to the beginning of time. Almost all of the weirdnesses are limited to the front-end, so it's not that difficult to support.
School bussing in the United States has an incredibly complex legal history related to desegration and civil rights. Moving to a fee for use system is probably legally impossible(or at least very difficult) in most of the United States.

There are also reasonably strong public sector unions representing school bus drivers, who in many areas have gotten various job requirements codified that make outsourcing difficult.

Even with all that, my school district runs the bus system fairly efficiently-around a $2.25/trip with all overhead included.
Argh! The website is DOWN!
They were picking her up to protect her. I’ve been in Central America and had these types of things happen, never foolish enough to hitchhike. Many times people on buses have explained these types of things to me. Where I need it watch out for my stuff, how to not get ripped off, and which places I should avoid. One example I can remember[1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/2...
So leaving has a price, it's still not theft.
I imagine the bigger concern is that it's pretty easy to social engineer your way into most online accounts with an email and the info from a drivers license.
So the following is a true story:

In a district in the bay area, one of the elementary schools was given a certain special designation that allowed them to accept kids from the district by lottery. The condition of entering the lottery was as follows:

1. A parent must take a 2 hour tour of the school, tour times were between 9 am and 3 pm.

2. A parent must sign an agreement to volunteer at the school at least 3 days a year.

Number 2 was unenforceable, and many flouted it, but poorer (mostly non-white) families who actually managed to schedule the tour generally backed out upon hearing that requirement.

Diversity plummeted, the school went from 60% white to 90% white in 5 years (though the district as a whole became less white).

This lasted over a decade, and only recently was the system overturned by popular vote. Every incoming class since then has been significantly more diverse.

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The point is that those who can afford to live in the bay area and not work every weekday are the well to do. As a software engineer I can usually just tell my boss "I've got an important personal matter" and get the day off. People I know who work as janitors or barista's often get told "well, if you don't show up you're fired" for the same request.
This sounds like an awesome method of communication! Thanks for explaining.
I find it funny that voicing an opinion, depending on the citizenship of the person voicing it, constitutes election interference.
At least you admit NVC is about empowering the NVC user, not something done for the benefit of the NVC receiver.
Anyone with a verified account gets away with incitement and harassment on a scale that lesser accounts would be sanctioned for. In the one case I saw where a verified account was sanctioned, their friends (actually I suspect its a paid Tweet ring) rallied their hundreds of thousands of supporters. Given that journalists rely heavily on Twitter (its true source of power), they can amplify this outrage.

Twitter is held hostage by its power users.
That's a little disingenuous, you can't just use a raspberry pi by itself. You need an SD card, keyboard, mouse (probably), display (maybe could use a TV for this if you have one). It seems like it'd be at least $100. That's still not a ton, but for a family working a bunch of minimum wage or gig jobs it's not nothing.

edit: not to mention internet, router, wifi dongle or ethernet cord, etc.
Not by restricting the posts of world leaders. Twitter is a private company offering a free service that comes without guarantees, even for world leaders.
My experience is very different.

Started on plain PHP/MySQL, moved to Python/Django, started on Vue, moved to React and Node for one job, did some Angular at another job, learnt some devops at all of them.

The best (and sometimes worst) thing about this career is how flexible you need to be - just ensure you learn the fundamentals. For example if you're doing React/Vue/Node/etc then learn JS rather than learning just the framework syntax.
Has there ever been a situation where someone lost their IP address and was completely banished from Internet because of their free and legal speech, without committing a crime?
Exactly. Modern social media platofrms derive their power from their ability to control preception.
Being put into a prison without a bed and separating a mother from her child for a wrong turn seems like it's criminal, not civil. Civil would be being asked to show up to court, not being imprisoned.
NVC does not mean using a formal impersonal tone. NVC is about content and context. If people are using a formal tone with you it’s for a variety of reasons—maybe that’s the appropriate tone, maybe they are frazzled and meet a framework to express themselves, and maybe they’re simply bad at it.

I’m not sure why the “not a friend” part comes into it. Most people I talk to are not my friends. When people who aren’t friends treat me like a friend, it is creepy and alarming.
Most people with jobs —even low paying jobs have newish smartphones and tablets.

There likely are some parents who can’t afford those, but those parents are vanishingly small. Often times parents think that they “provide” the child and the school does the rest. Good parents, poor or otherwise know that it’s mostly on the parents to guide the kids.
Pacman 5.1
Most people don't live in the rural areas you're emphasizing. If you exclude cities, the US begins to look pretty homogeneous too.

One out of five people living in Switzerland weren't born in the country. There are three major languages, plus a fourth national language. By any reasonable measure, Switzerland is an extremely diverse country.

The amazing thing is that a country that's so linguistically balkanised is so stable and orderly.
Original source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYCUVBKjddE
As the American people got fatter, so did our lab animals
They can put up any sign they like, but that hasn't been true since passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Remember that 7am in one place is not the same as 7am in another place. Time zones, latitude, seasons combine to cause big differences in what a time "means".

For instance on the equator sunrise and sunset is very consistent and so people tend to wake up earlier so that they can maximise daylight. Closer to the poles, it makes
sense for school days (which tend to be shorter than work days) to start around the time that the sun rises in the winter so that they are in daylight all year. This is all relative what error your time zone has, as shown in this famous map:

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--pY-JErG4...
FYI, for folks who aren't familiar, Mark Kern's history also includes full throated support of GamerGate and being removed from a CEO role at Red 5 by the board of directors. (Allegedly for erratic and disruptive behavior.)

It's been a really, really wild ride seeing lefty twitter and righty twitter hold hands and agree that Blizzard did the wrong thing. (Though for different reasons.)
Holding a vote had nothing to do with democracy?

>They tried to abuse their position to force their personal point of view on a whole country

They're politicians. That's sort of their job. If you don't like what they do, vote them out.
Can’t speak for others, but Indianapolis is one
> IQ is a made-up measure that pretends to fit a multi-dimensional, non-physical 'thing' (intelligence) that we have a lot of trouble actually defining, onto a uni-dimensional scale with a modeled Gaussian distribution.

I think one of the points of intelligence research is that it seems to confirm intelligence (whatever it is) is largely a unified by a single dimension, even when that wasn't necessarily what was expected by the researchers.

> It's a fraud. Or at least, in this grossly extended use it became a fraud.

Hardly. IQ testing has been vigorously resisted for decades, and yet continues because of it's utility.

But if you're going to take that stance, let me ask you: are you willing to throw out the rest of the social sciences? Because that's the only logical result. IQ research is the gold standard of the social sciences. IQ is fraudulent, then so is the rest.

> Testing people for falling below a certain threshold on a test was an ok diagnostic for mental deficiency.

It is also useful at the higher end. Not all high IQ people are successfully working in complex jobs, but I expect all people who are successfully working in complex jobs are high IQ.
Where, on the internet, do I have a right to free speech?

The internet is pivotal to modern communications, yet it is effectively entirely private. If the citizens and their representatives felt strongly enough to create common carrier laws for telegraphs (see a sibling comment for more details), why should we feel differently about speech that travels over channels designed and built for communication across internet?

> governmenr infringement of the freedom of speech of those private citizens

Those "private citizens" are actually corporations making billions of dollars in profit to provide us, in part, with communication channels on their platforms.
Hmm. That’s neat. But usually someone has a bank card or other membership card with a support line on it. Is there some reason to not just call one to report the found wallet?

The times I’ve found a wallet, I’ve called one of those support lines. The support person was able to contact their customer to give them my phone number. The customer called/texted me, and we arranged for them to pickup the wallet. This has worked every time to get the wallet back to its owner within a couple hours of my finding it with minimal inconvenience to me.