skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Fringe benefits should always be expected to be transient (meals, commute transportation), and it isn’t wise to include them in total comp calculations (as they’re easier to do away with than your comp).

Yet places like Google would argue for them as part of their TC. The companies that tend to offer these benefits don't usually get rid of them until they're going out of business...
Arguably 2016 would have been the ideal time to switch because that's when the delays started. But the second best time is now, as they say.
I mean, at this point you seem to be upset that I'm judging someone for their statements and actions? What else is there to judge people by?
Going "someplace exotic" may be great for some people, but if you have responsibilities such as being the caregiver for an aging parent, being forced to be away from home for a couple of days or weeks can be a big problem.
Heres an alternative way of thinking about it - why are you around someone you dislike? Businesses are not families, but if you cannot get along with your cowokers you cannot be that cooperative with them.

Fundamentally I at least do not want to work with someone who is even still on the level of asking questions like "is racism bad?" or "do women deserve rights?". But a lot of people do do that. If I was hiring... I wouldn't want to hire people thinking like that. Its going to negatively impact what would almost certainly be a diverse group of people trying to cooperatively work together.

It only feels problematic because we each recognize both how biased against the worker the power dynamic in modern western society is and that the job is not merely "the thing you do during the day with your buds" but "the means by which you put food in your mouth and have a bed". If its only about the former breaking relations over political leanings makes perfect sense, for the latter its ruining someones life over "frivolous politics".

I'd rather be in the world where groups dissociate over ideological incompatibilities but where nobody is homeless or hungry for it than the one where ones need for food and shelter is an excuse to let toxic people make life worse for those around them.
> Controlled Digital Lending is a respectful and balanced way to bring our print collections to digital learners. A physical book, once digital, is available to only one reader at a time.

I never understood this "lending" practice. Can somebody explain? Sounds like obscurantism to me. So, if there is only one digitally scanned copy of an old book, only one person on planet Earth can borrow it? Because I remember a few times when I clicked on some document in IA and it said I couldn't read it "because it was borrowed".
There are some now by AMD, of course, with the new 4900HS chips. Linus was fawning all over the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 with the 4900HS. Then, we'll see Apple's ARM entries. I don't know that these are mortal wounds but they are certainly the thin edge.

4900HS is 25% faster than the i9-9880HK (Intel's fastest contender) and uses much less power.
Maybe for some people. I find myself drinking more than usual.
Can't blame them.

I heard about another big Corona outbreak in a German factory. I think that eroded the trust in employers even more.
Dude, who cares?
> So, "silence is complicity"? That's pretty accusatory and offputting.

Yeah people don't like facing their complicity with the horror of the world, especially since it's not at all obvious how to fix it. It can feel like (and can actually be) pointless self-flagellation.

But it's not incorrect.
What is a 'worker'?
What I do for joy on Twitter, when a mind-reader has (yet again) ascribed strange opinions or motives to me, is sincerely forgive them for their behavior.

Try it out. Stops a troll cold.
Technology Theatre (Centre for International Governance Innovation)
GoodJob author here.

The core reason I wrote it was to see how lean/simple I could write a database-backed ActiveJob adapter today. And hope

In practice any adapter should _just work_, but also all the other adapters pre-date ActiveJob (Rails 4.2) and Concurrent::Ruby (adopted in Rails 5.0 I think). The assumption is that building GoodJob on top of what already exists in Rails today, it can be performant (enough) and simple (easy to understand, maintain, keep compatible with new versions of Rails, etc). That's not a big claim, but maybe it's compelling.
The problem is America isn’t making an effort to not silence other people and give them a platform to talk about their concerns. It’s becoming a crowd of endless screaming with almost zero listening, and people actively trying to silence those who don’t yell alongside them.
I think a big part of this is that the definition of "say" has changed dramatically in the past decade.

Today, people interpret that to mean, in part at least, "broadcast on the Internet where I have no control over the audience and where it will be recorded digitally and available indefinitely".

10-20 years ago "saying" just meant verbalizing something around a handful of people you could see. You'd know who you were talking to, and if you said something dumb, human memory and time would soften its edges eventually.

Ask people in the 1990s if they would self-censor themselves when appearing on TV and they'd probably say yes at the same rate that people say they self-censor when "talking" today, in large part because computers are such a large medium of communication now.
I recall folks on the left mocking those who wanted the economy to partially reopen as “valuing a haircut more than human lives”. They mocked with derision the very real depression that I, and many other people here on HN, had as a function of being stuck inside 24/7 while watching businesses and jobs implode while COVID cases explode.
I've thought about playing this game, one of the largest retailers in the country just pays you based on the cost of living in your zip code. I could move in with my in laws in Honolulu for a few months and use that zip code, get hired, and then move back to my low cost of living area.
Biodiversity: River plants counter both flooding and drought
Someone I heard recently phrased it very well:

“I don’t want to spend 2 hours driving a day to do 4 hours of work.”
People in this thread claim to be concerned about others not feeling comfortable expressing their political views. And yet, a sibling to my comment which was simply expressing a political view is flagged/dead. https://i.imgur.com/9UtP4mU.png. Will people speak out for this view, even if they disagree with it?
Providing a monetary incentive to discourage behavior which is risky or leads to negative societal outcomes--i.e. performing non-essential work in a crowded workplace in the face of an uncontrolled pandemic--seems pretty reasonable, honestly.
I worked at a company that did this: big in person retreats, once or twice a quarter. I've now been working remotely due to covid about as long as I worked at that company before I was laid off. I still feel much closer and more in sync with my current coworkers than I did to my coworkers at the remote company.
Sure, if you can do more go for it. I just can't: my brain is tired, my eyes hurt, I cannot produce any productive output/outcome.
When I say Paris and NYC fashion week won't be kill I mean: the more artistic and high aspirational side of fashion will always be driven by humans (IMO) and humans will want to work with other humans. Not a fashion designer but I suspect it is hard for you to design clothes for a digital human to wear. I mean, if you're a game designer maybe you're moved by that. But not sure a fashion designer would.
Which might have been the best possible outcome from the global point of view.
WeWork should make studio space for YouTubers that has ambient noise dampening and good facilities for lighting and rigging.
the Left power structure has convinced 50% of America that Trump is on the verge of installing the Fourth Reich and opening the concentration camps.

the Right powerstructure has convinced 50% of Americans that Biden will be the re-animated corpse of Stalin, and that he will sieze all private property and throw us all in gulags.

the net effect of this hyperpartisan polarization driven by fake news filter bubbles is that none of us can have a plain old reasonable discussion with each other, and agree to disagree about certain fundamentals, while finding a practical compromise going foward. being forced into being an extremist foot soldier of either Party or risk being destroyed by the partisans of the other Party is the worst lose-lose outcome of Prisoner's Dilemma.

i think the Deep State wants us divided and at each other's throats so that we don't team up and topple them.
Ah. I wasn't aware of this. The website is built on docusaurus. I will check if there is workaround.

Thanks for letting me know and sorry u were not able to access the site.
Moneyness: Pennies as State Failure
PlaceIt.net does this for lots of things. Love it.
Very cool, thanks for answer and the paper link!
There's a urologist in Austin, Texas named Richard Chopp.
> Could anyone have honestly foreseen the pandemic and its ensuing upheavals?

Absolutely. Previous WHO classification has a "Phase 4: Sustained community-level outbreaks -> Medium to high probability of pandemic" designation, which has a roughly once-a-decade frequency historically. Compared to multi-quarter, multi-year scale of real estate planning, 10 years is not infinite long term. Of course it is so in comparison to quarterly earnings, share prices, average tenure of a fund manager, a CEO and so forth, so it doesn't get priced in or gets bundled with other catastrophes.
Blanket statements like these are impolitic at best, and utterly wrong at worst.
At their worst, sure. At their best, it's someone who aspires to remain "centered" in their analysis, without letting it lead to arrogance over others.
Can you download the font to the server and avoid Google on each page load? Or is it a copyright issue?
I just had a 56k flashback.
Sharing the anti-abortion position with a leftist I would expect to result in either a very tense conversation or me getting yelled at.

Sharing the "concern for the disadvantaged" with a rightist I would expect to not result in a verbal confrontation, unless they were extreme right.
In Germany, the consensus is that indoor 15+ minutes is risky. So outdoor farmers market, beach, takeaway are all fine. But for supermarkets, everyone has to wear a mask to keep the air safe to breathe. Smear infection appears highly unlikely. So grocery shopping can be both risky or safe, depending on whether it's inside or outside and whether people wear masks or not.

Accordingly, most infections occur at private parties, in indoor restaurants, and in crowded factories, like meat processing plants.
> having a politics that is not well represented

I think being apolitical is more about having an objective view and judging opinions based on merit rather than the political spectrum they originated from. Could also mean you're either are against all political views, or have none, but this last one seems less likely to happen in practice. People tend to have an opinion, more or less informed or objective as it may be.
I'm drinking less, but you do make a good point. I think the other vices I've picked up are still better than the amount of time I spent commuting and doing nothing productive.
Note I specifically said that the platforms climate change deniers and anti-abortion bigots is no platform. I did not advocate for imprisoning these people. That would be wrong. People have the rights to their opinion, even though their opinion is wrong.

That said, wrong opinions—which I am willing to state exist—do not deserve to be elevated, they do deserve scrutiny if stated.

Banning abortions is a wrong opinion. Perhaps some people have some reason to hold this opinion, and perhaps not all of these people are bigots (although many are). However they are still wrong. And when these wrong options are stated, they do deserve to be scrutinized, and they don’t deserve to be elevated in the general discourse.
One week my sleep pattern flipped so I was working at night/sleeping after scrum. Back to normal now but starting to shift forward again.
>White collar workers could face the same globalisation pressure and wage deflation that’s happened to blue collar workers over the last 50 years or so.

I've been thinking about this a lot recently. Lots of white collar people seemingly have a very "meh" attitude towards manufacturing getting outsourced. What will the attitude be once these white collar jobs start leaving?
Do they still use Haskell?
I don't think the parent's point is that on any given issue both sides respond stupidly, I would guess they think two sides respond stupidly in different areas.
I think this was already posted, so I tried to find the existing post by re-submitting it, but it didn't seem to work. Moderators, feel free to merge with existing post.
Isn't the point though that a lot of the enthusiasm around RISC-V is that it's 'free' and that's no longer the case if you're using a proprietary extension. Plus you're looking at much greater possible fragmentation than can happen with ARM?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym#Notable_examples
Realistically, there will be two scenarios:

Company Type 1, where they don't care where you live

Company Type 2, where they explicitly care, and have some stupid table they look at.

I suspect it will lead to a lot of employees at T2 companies getting shafted. Not everyone is as Online as the HN crowd.
This is going to be another short decision making drive, decided by the CFOs because they have the 'cost' numbers in front of them, whereas issues like productivity are a little more intangible.

We work in 'open spaces' because the CFO can definitively say "$/employee!" - whereas the impact on staff is difficult to measure. The 'up front cost' is the driver.

This same 'cost logic' will apply to remote working, once Ops can see 'how cheap it is' they will love it but it may have nothing to do with true ROI.
The test described in the podcast give results back nearly instantly. They are just less sensitive than currently approved tests, but according to the podcast that doesn't matter too much for various reasons.
I suspended my inReach plan during the lockdown but was about to re-enable it for a motorcycle camping trip next weekend. Hope the website is back up in time!
Aren’t these node sizes mostly marketing BS that can’t be compared across manufacturers anyway? If Intel’s products can compete on performance or price or power consumption then who cares what they call it?
If you forget to do the check, you will get a falsy value. Hope you remember to do it every single time, and hope all your team members remember!

If a team member writes

function extractEmail(text) {
return x.match(/someregex/);
}

and you call extractEmail(x), you might get a null value.

If you assume you can't get a null value, you might try to do further processing:

let [name, host] = extractEmail(x).split('@')

and get a type error thrown. That is, if you're lucky.

In the more common situation, you will actually save that to a database and that database will happen to accept null values by default, and then all hell will break loose in another totally distant bit of the code that naively fetches a list of emails from the table, grouped by host name. And you will have to chase down the bit of code that inserted that null in.

This is approximately what development without types looks like. When this happens to you, I hope you remember the following bit of advice: It doesn't have to be this way :) Alternatively you can start doing paranoid validation everywhere. That works too, except the nice thing about a type system is that it can properly track whether you need to do that or not (see https://github.com/spion/branded-types for one TS technique on how to do that)
Special Atomic Demolition Munition – man-portable weapon
I can't wait to go back to the office since I'm not able to stay nearly as productive at home. I work with hardware, so not having all my equipment right next to me on my desk has been a bit of a roadblock. I'm expected to stay home at least through the end of the year, though, and I'm willing to do it for the safety of myself and my coworkers, but I really don't want it to last much longer than that.
> If the majority hide their political views then there is no way to engage with them and ever present your side on issues.

Was this ever true? Do the majority of companies encourage talk about religion or the majority of churches encourage talk about politics?

The people react to stimuli like {media, campaigns, bots} just like they do any other marketing: there is a game theory response to stimuli. If they get overwhelmed on one platform, they will change habits (eg. move to a different platform, discuss only in person where there are no bots, discuss these topics less). I suspect campaigns have been around long enough that more people (with the help of information widely distributed on the internet) have gained a different tolerance to the same old campaign tricks.
Fair enough. I read it as condemning apolitical folks for lack of engagement but I see your larger point.
I'm glad you said that, since my comment above was not meant to be a legal advice either and everyone needs to do their own due dilligence.

Having said that, in the past a CA company had asked me to sign a non-compete. Interestingly I was joining with a bunch of people and one person knew about how non-compete's are illegal in CA and forced them to change it. If it had not been for him I would have signed it with the non-compete in place.
But, it still would not have been enforceable. However, whether or not they would have gone to court and whether I would have been able to fight them is a whole different thing.

IMNAL, but I think the same is true for moonlighting. Companies can have you sign all kinds of shit, but whether or not it is legally enforceable is a whole different thing, and whether or not you can fight it is yet another..

But, without a liberal moonlighting clause, and people working on side projects before taking them mainstream, I doubt that CA's startup scene would have been what it is today.
Some of the people who "don't feel safe" are literally immunucompromised and catching this virus has an elevated chance of killing / permanently disabling them. Unable to provide an unsafe working environment for your workers? They can quit and sue you for wrongful termination.
Don’t know about that, my team was demonstrably productive and the idea of taking the subway into the office just because isn’t appealing. Of course I’ll do what I have to do, but they let me stay remote for the time being because I can’t imagine productively working with a mask on all day.

In standup, it’s visible that like nobody actually went in. It’s a developing situation. Point being, really, that there’s a lot more going on than a set of people preferring to remain on unemployment (which isn’t all that much)
I don't know, I'm neither a Christian nor a theological expert, but I was thinking of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_Baptist_Universalist

...who are described as taking Calvinism to its logical conclusion.

It says "Bill Leonard estimated in 2011 that there were 1,000 or fewer PBU adherents in total, concentrated in 20 counties in Appalachia"
And by the same coin, thank God we didn't get a giant wall along the border, didn't kick out people from the United States who have lived here their entire rememberable lives, and didn't abolish social security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

The problem with expecting representative government to do "What the people want" is the people want a lot of things. Many of them incompatible. Some of them terrible ideas.
I'm sure it existed back then to some extent (and to a large extent in specific periods, such as McCarthyism), but all that predates social media, which makes it so much faster and easier to spread this information to everyone in your life.

In those days, you'd have to have someone want to bring it forth to the police or government for anyone to bother, and most people won't know about it until it hits the newspaper, if it does. But now it's the court of public opinion with instant judgement and you can be fired from your job, unfriended or blocked by half your friends, and everyone publicly disavowing any association with you before you even find out about it or have a chance to defend yourself. Which, from what I've seen, rarely makes a difference. The damage is already done and doesn't usually ever get undone.

Of course a bunch of people are going to keep their mouths shut on political views in this environment. They want to keep their career and friends.
Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23932321

Looks like I can't delete the original post, though.
The Debt Narrative Is Dead Wrong
Bring what up? That we are being pushed into suicidal stupidity by our allegiance to our political team? I rather think it is worth to bring it up, so that perhaps we all can do it a little less. Debating who exactly is the most to blame is counter productive to that goal.
I mean, I would fire you. Anyone who genuinely thinks Donald Trump is the best leader for this country after seeing 4 years of his leadership probably isn't wise enough to handle the work.
I would rephrase and ask why he claim his business would not exists without Clojure/ClojureScript :)
True, I still use it to designate the short-TSLA/anti-TSLA crowd which tirelessly uses this argument despite the evidence that it is false. As for the chances of Tesla going under being slim to none at this point, which I agree with and believe explains (partly) the stock's repricing, I think it's still a popular argument for the die-hard Tesla shorts à la Einhorn.
Americans are afraid a lot... Of the police among other things.
It depends on the type of store (high end vs low end)! It seems every 3rd business in Venice Ca is some sort of boutique clothing store. Pandemic withstanding, they have focused on prioritizing real in-person contact to drive revenue. At the lower end when clothing is commoditized, there's a smaller difference if you're buying at Ross, Walmart, or Amazon.
> I don't understand this, why?

As far as I can tell, this seems to be an introvert/extrovert thing (for the most part). Extroverts miss being around people they can engage in conversations with, while introverts love not having extroverts around trying to engage in conversations with them. I think both camps have valid needs and right now the extrovert's needs aren't being met to their satisfaction.
The only question I have is how well it scales.

The writeup above keeps talking about a “room” but the website features only person-to-person with the exception of the illustration of muting which shows the guitarist and hand-clapper as two ‘windows’. So two people cuts the 1080p (pretty low res) screen in half. What about 10 people, or 25?

The answer is not in your FAQ:

Q. How many Sidekicks can be connected on a team?

A. We built Sidekick to handle teams of all sizes.

You shouldn’t even have included that Q/A in the list, if you’re not going to answer it!

Microsoft, Zoom, others, all working to figure out how to show more team members at once, so presumably this isn’t trivial to do well. Nothing indicating how you solve it, what to expect with larger teams, and what’s the present design intent to set expectations.

So, real questions from a potential team, and team-of-teams (8-12 people per team, 20 teams):

What’s the maximum number of participants that display at once, and what happens beyond that number?

Regardless of design intent, what’s the actual maximum number?
Does anyone want to work for you?
The actual question asked was

>The political climate these days prevents me from saying things I believe because others might find them offensive

With the 62% includes anyone who "strongly agrees" or "somewhat agrees."

I would answer "somewhat agrees" to that question, not because I'm afraid to share my beliefs but that I don't want to discuss the topic or I'm not knowledgeable enough to have confidence discussing my beliefs.