skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not true. “The Earth revolves around the sun” is not a political statement. “Climate change is real, and is caused by humans”, however is equally true but for some (really bad) reasons, it is a political statement.

If we move from scientific facts to moral once: “Slavery is bad and should be illegal” is not a political statement. Meanwhile “Women have the rights to their own bodies” is (also for a very bad reason) a political statement.

If we would give climate-deniers and anti-abortion biggots the platform they deserve (i.e. none) their viewpoints would only be as fringe as the once of the flat earth conspiracy theory—i.e. not relevant because their obviously wrong, and therefor not political.
I don't share some of my political beliefs for the same reason I don't talk about my atheism to my grandmother right now, so soon after my grandfather died. While I think they're right, they're both hurtful and unproductive to express. IMO one both should have some views that would bother people (because reason leads one to them), but sometimes choose not to express them because one's opinion isn't the most important thing in the world for other people to hear. I wish the OP meant that 62% of people have a conscience. Instead, I think it means a lot of people are afraid other people will get mad and fire them if they're openly racist.

"Strong liberals" are apparently the only people who are proud enough about what they believe to be judged for it. Or maybe it's just impunity because it's illegal to fire people based on race, gender, and (often) sexual orientation, so they feel protected. Overt racists should lobby for similar protections, although I don't think they'll have a lot of luck.
My wife’s employer makes fairly drastic COL changes based on office location (bank with large corporate offices in 3-4 US cities and branches worldwide). From the lowest COL office to the highest, it can be 10s of thousands USD.

Edit - they don’t officially do WFH (outside COVID) so cant comment on that.
I seriously can't believe some companies have the nerve to pull off something like this
because no party has ever represented them, only pandered. the affiliation assumptions aren't as strong as people are led to believe, I would say nonexistent.
I think it's more that business executives, to a greater degree than people in the trenches, are faces of the company. Being a known supporter of a political candidate who is vilified among the people who buy from you or who you otherwise depend upon for support and cooperation can be a problem.
Even of those still employed, many are starting to like their "work from home" lifestyle, and are perfectly happy to keep bringing up safety concerns if it means they get to spend more months in their pyjamas....
Do you want to share an example? My prejudice is based on me listening to one too many people online (and often in person) share their "controversial" opinion with me.

I'm genuinely curious what the HN crowd is going to regard as "controversial opinions" that will get you in trouble.
Alternatively Google could just grow a spine and stop reinventing the same app year after year. The worst part is that they go all pikachu face when people react with wtf.
Can you expand a little bit on why you think the official numbers are inaccurate. Last time I checked excess mortality this year was either equal or more than the reported covid deaths.
I've been told that "taking a neutral position, when privileged, is unethical."

(I understand the postmodern thrust here, and I actually to some degree agree with it, but at the limit this completely obliterates any pretense of objectivity - even within science.)
Brain seems to categorise death as something that only befalls other people
Worthwhile for me means that it has a net positive impact on the world. Specifically, that people who play games I've worked on derive meaning from their interaction with it or simply find an escape for a few minutes at a time. I make entertainment for a living; ultimately, the creative goal is to make people happy.
> What are the 'out of the box functionalities' which Clojure is lacking?

None, because for anything Clojure doesn't have, you just lean on the JVM (or JS for Clojurescript). Sure, the syntax isn't as pretty and there are some abstraction mismatches, but in my experience, you create thin wrappers to hide this and move on.
That's an uncharitable interpretation.

Here's one of mine: Fetuses have human DNA, and different DNA from their mothers. Saying "The right of the mother over her own body" doesn't extend to a different individual that is temporarily present within her body.

Here's another: If you take the Bible seriously, you also have to take seriously what the Old Testament prophets said about God's concern for the poor, the widow, the orphan, and the alien.

I personally would feel comfortable sharing either of those with people on the right, but I would be rather more nervous sharing one of them with people on the left.
I can do all of that directly on my 735.
I don't think you understand the point of centrists.

Centrists agree that choices need to be made. Centrists think that some of those choices should go in one direction, some in the other, and most in a direction not presented by either side. Centrists believe in logic, discourse, and evidence to get to choices, over ideology. Centrists believe in looking for solutions which work for everyone when possible. Etc.

Everyone hates centrists, since if you disagree on charters OR abortion OR charters OR race OR police OR .... with someone on the left or on the right, they think you're a horrible person. You'll always disagree on at least one axis.
It would only be "baseless" if it hadn't happened before.

People learn from experience and the experiences of others.
You've just summed up why being a moderate is such a miserable experience for most of us. These days, being a moderate isn't being in the middle on everything. Instead, being a moderate means that someone can't infer my position on gun control based on my position on universal health care. Because I'm not enough of an ideologue to have a consistently predictable menu of choices based on the tribe I find more affinity with, I'm always the bad guy for different reasons depending on the tribe I'm around.
We run two office buildings on the same road: we went to the main one to collect all the IT equipment,pack it up and put it in the other,smaller office. We used to run fully in house. Yes,some people do want to go back to the office but the main reasons are: we were all stuck at home for months,so people do want to regain some sort of normality. Some have difficulties at home,so going to the office is better. Me personally? I run a 10 people team that will be half that size in a few days. I live in a 1 bed flat,so writing unit tests and dealing with dodgy suppliers,while Peppa Pig is blasting in the background can be challenging. However,I don't want to spend 3h on commuting daily.Screw that. The desk cost was about £3K a year,so I'm sure there will be some negotiation space to get something arranged for WFH.
The POV's perfectly valid, because it's a set of values, which can't really be invalid per se.

But if I had the chance to pick my own values, I wouldn't want to have ones that were antimemetic.
The point is that choices should be made about singular policy items.

Random example: I should be able to argue for second amendment rights with out buying into isolationist trade policies. The way things are right now the two come bundled together and legislative votes are based on partisanship, not policy.
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Well ironically, the great grandparent also lacks nuance. I think your comment is the one the brings it forward, and is more valuable than the great grandparent for that reason.

> You could also be apolitical because you find all available options to be unacceptable

Is this apolitical, or is it having a politics that is not well represented? It seems more like the latter to me.
Intuitively I don't like the idea of Google controlling everything but based on the reason you gave it sounds like this would be a good idea right? Customers get a better experience in the end.
> yet more focus on sprawl and car based transit.

Would it? With commutes dead, a good chunk of weekday traffic is gone.
Reasons 2 and 3 are big part of why launches of expensive.

There's a feedback loop in space launches: they're expensive, therefore you launch less, so you need to add redundancies and spend more time ensuring the payload will work, which raises the development cost and increases mass, which makes launches less frequent and more expensive.

Conversely, reducing the cost of access to space means you can send more stuff that's less robust, which shortens development time and makes it less expensive, and of course makes technological progress faster.

Which translates to: suddenly space telescopes may be more affordable, and more of them will be launched.
The lowest bidder owns the console space. It's not a good business, it's a bit of cash flow.
If there is one business I would not want to be in right now it is commercial real estate. I'll be letting go of 2/3rds of our office space at the end of this year and I may even get rid of all of it depending on how things develop.

With some luck this will have a nice downward effect on house prices in and around Amsterdam, where plenty of companies have converted houses to offices.
No, they're just seeing the veiled beliefs behind the "omg poor centrist me" charade.
My company was at the end of their lease for several office buildings. They’ve since closed all but our largest offices. We have some jobs that can’t be done remotely (security and certification requirements precludes outsourcing.) The remaining offices are running skeleton crews with the heaviest precautions we can do while remaining operational.
I am not sure if that's relevant given that google shopping has been around for almost two decades now.
> “if you’re not with me you’re against me”

...but in many situations, that's accurate.

Someone who was 'neutral' in the civil rights era on the topic of Jim Crow would be implicitly supporting Jim Crow. Their neutrality implies tolerance of the injustice that was the state of things at the time.
Doesn't work well when time zone difference is too large, though.
I think there was always a viable business in WeWork. Just not with all the excesses and crazy valuations. But prior to the current pandemic it certainly meet a need. Granted they were not the only ones offering the same service. But even that in itself would suggest that with the proper management it would be successful operation.
Pretending to know something unknown is somehow 'bad' with no evidence is the definition of prejudice.
There are three automatic posts about jobs by https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
the first working day of the month (next is in 10 days, on August 3rd). Try to find the correct one to get info and to post.
IMHO that’s usually just a platitude - got an example?
> Are you against this in principle, for all possible presidential candidates regardless of how bad their views and policies are

Not the GP, but of course yes. If someone is good enough for your political and legal system to advance his candidature at the elections and be voted by citizens, then who has the right to damage me for my legitimate political choice?
Some unpopular facts:

- Average US white IQ 99, average US black IQ 85-90, average US asian IQ 105.

- Death rate from anorexia, 0.02%. Death rate from obesity, 8%.

- Gays/lesbians as percentage of US population: 4-5%. Transgenders, 0.6%.

All of those are correct. Watch this get modded down.
GoodJob author here. The reason is that I don't have any production experience with Sidekiq.

My target right now is someone, like myself, who would typically spin up a new project with delayed_job or que, and provide a better alternative with GoodJob.

Maybe in the future I'll do some more research on understanding why someone might switch from a Sidekiq/Redis to not-Redis.
Google isn’t trying new things they are re-releasing the same apps with less functionality while simultaneously killing off user bases. This isn’t some esoteric engineer criticism - it’s mainstream at this point.
Being apolitical means you don't care about policy.
Yes, i'm the same. And if you're like me, i suppose sometime, in high pressure situation, you can easily work 10 hours straight. Doing this at the office is impossible, doing this home is easy (if it stay exceptional). I'm more productive home than i was at the office, and this is really surprising for me ( i assumed i was just a slacker).
Your prejudice may happen to be correct, but it's still prejudice.
It is worth pondering what these "political views" are.

A huge number of white people (and a distressing number of nonwhites) believe in racist pseudoscience, and are justifiably afraid of expressing that view in polite company. If one of my employees said "whites are on average more intelligent than blacks," either in the office or on Facebook, I would fire them, even if it's probably true that most whites feel this way. If I had an employee that held such views, then darn right they should be afraid to talk about it.

The Cato poll indicates that the biggest difference in "self-censorship" occurs among conservatives. I suspect this is because most conservatives know that supporting Donald Trump is morally indefensible, and don't want to talk about why exactly they are still voting for the most corrupt president in American history.
True, but if you were remote only, you could live in a low cost place and afford a bigger space.
What I've tried for this project (in chronological order):

* Gotham. Pros: very clean. Cons: lots of boilerplate code.

* Actix-web: Pros: very little happy-path boilerplate code. Fastest framework right now. Cons: error handling is just awful - I struggled to get `?` to work. Glacial compilation times.

* Rocket (0.5 direct Git dependency). Pros: route handlers almost entirely consist of logic I care about, even for errors. Feels very deliberately "rusty." Cons: no HTTP2. No websockets. It has been accused of being "too magic."

Each resulted in a ~20% reduction in LOC. I tend toward getting shit done, so I'm over the moon with Rocket.
I want to quickly plug TWIV here. It is an incredible podcast. I have listened to it for several years, along with its sister podcasts, and have found it incredible useful as a professional scientists and also just for the wonderful stories. The science they discuss is always good.

During COVID they have really stepped up to provide clear and well grounded information to their listeners about the pandemic. Every friday they have been releasing an episode where a doctor on the front lines of the NY pandemic has given a medical update on symptoms and treatments. Invaluable information!
No, but with Shopify, Woo Commerce, and Big Commerce - maybe.
Reminds me Watchbird.
Your coworker is totally on the money with this analysis.

More so, I think folks like me that had a 5 minute walking commute are losing out a ton of benefits by not being near the office anymore.

I'm lucky the weather's been cooperating but if I had to have the A/C on for days I would easily be spending $60-100/mo just for HVAC, forget the extra water, electricity and other utility costs for the extra usage at home.

We got a $500 WFH stipend but it definitely won't cover 12-16 months of this.

Overall though, I realize I'm in the minority and most people are winning back their time and money.
No, but I find "businesses should be allowed fire people they disagree with" a more tolerable position than "businesses should be allowed fire people I disagree with".

My conclusion above is independent of my own political views. Supposing I were a fervent Trump supporter, I should hope in that case that the Biden-firers are mostly non-partisan supporters of right-to-work laws rather than haters of my guy. Not saying I'd expect that to be true, just that I'd prefer it.
It's not really all that grey currently. The contrast has in fact gone way up.
i've been pretty much 100% remote the last 5 years or so. I definitely rely on coworking spaces to get out of the house and around other humans. It's especially bad when kids are in school and wife is working ( she's a teacher ). Being without human contact all day every day really weighs on me over time.
Softbank and Vision Fund aren't exactly looking for Nvidia shares though. They are looking for cold hard cash to plug the massive hole in the failing investments.
> “Slavery is bad and should be illegal” is not a political statement.

This is a political statement. I'm not sure how the world "political" drifted away from the meaning of law, rulers, and representation to whatever it means now. Any statement about what the law should be is political. Any statement about how best to change or preserve laws, specifically or generally, is political.

edit: Whether global warming is anthropogenic or not is not political. What we should do about it (or not do about it if we don't think it's real or we don't think it's important) is political.
Does this encourage or even require putting your credit card on file with Google? If so, that's actually very valuable for increasing sales of everything else Google sells to consumers.

Think of a conversion funnel[1]. At each step of a process toward making a purchase, you lose a certain percentage of users. Adding a payment method (typing in your credit card number, address, etc.) is tedious and requires you to have the card handy, so you lose a lot of people at this stage.

If more people are already past the hurdle of having a payment method on file, they can sell more apps/media on the Play store, more devices on the Google Store, more Drive storage upgrades, etc.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_funnel
I can't seem to figure out how to reference another cell. I Also can't seem to get it to use the "=SUM(1,2)" example in the documentation page for formula.

Am I doing something wrong?

Edit: Okay, I can use formulas in the demo spreadsheet on the Formula documentation page, but not the demo linked from the main page. I'm not sure how to reference other cells though.
I mean, looking at a map used to be an IRL activity.
129 comments and nobody pointed out that cato institute is a right wing "think tank".

And that the way the survey is phrased clearly hints that conservatives are being silenced while "Strong liberals stand out as the only political group who feel they can express themselves"

Ironically, a survey on the political spectrum depicts such spectrum as "liberal vs conservative". Excellent display of Overton window at work.

I wonder if "hacker" news is going to downvote me to hell for saying this.
What I am severely disappointed about is Microsoft restricting Teredo to their Xbox services.

Previously it was quite easy to get IPv6 connectivity at home when your provider only offered IPv4. In fact you'd get IPv6 connectivity by default. But at some point 1 or 2 years ago that just stopped working altogether, and my recent attempts to get IPv6 over Teredo back failed: you can establish tunnel, but it does not transmit packages to IPv6 hosts.

Now I am at the hands of my ISP.
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These are violent hate-facts, you nazi. /s
Couldn't you bring people together once a quarter or bi-yearly? Book a nice villa someplace exotic for a couple of weeks, get all the planning and coordination out of the way, give everyone the last few days off with families invited.
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On the flip side, a lot of the more abhorrent things to come out of the current President's mouth are things that were clearly not politically-correct, that a lot of America has been holding back, that are now back in the open.

I'm not sure what the solution is. On one hand, it was there all along, and political-correctness did not help it. On the other hand, racists everywhere have been empowered once again, and all manner of groups have to face stereotypes they've fought so hard over the years. I don't think the U.S. will really get its house in order until it becomes an issue of survival, and of geopolitical importance.
> The technology for fast pregnancy-test style tests for COVID-19 exists right now, and they could cost as little as $1 per test.

Antibody tests or antigen tests? I'm aware of that style of tests for the former but not the latter. You need the latter to do what you describe.
I actually don't think there are any at the lowest level, it's mostly a matter of ARM being able to reduce power consumption by aggressively throttling down the clock rates and various advanced sleep modes. In principle you should be able to do this with any CPU, given a roughly equal transistor count power consumption should be close.

Obviously ARM is much further along in the practical implementation of these features.
As I understand it, actor performance quality wasn't the main driver of The Mandalorian's live CGI sets. It was lighting and reflections. When your main character's head is essentially a chrome ball, green screens really aren't going to cut it. They needed believable reflections and lighting and the live set gave them that.
> A digital sale should be just that, a perpetual license that can be transferred, inherited, etc.

Even if that was the case (which it isn't) then the IA would still lose this case.
> Most of the really interesting RISC-V chips include proprietary enhancements.

100% of ARM chips on the market include proprietary enhancements. I don't think that has any bearing on the adoption of the core ISA, unless you can point to cases where a decision was made to avoid RISC-V over licensing an ISA extension.
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I'm on board with you on not wanting 100% remote anymore. I used to want to work 100% remote but this pandemic has shown me that working in any sort of team remotely is hard to get right (most companies don't). I've come to the conclusion that 3-4 days/wk max is viable and can be healthy.

The problem is there's so much information and communication that happens implicitly through our day-to-day actions that when you're remote, you have to make that information explicit. It's tiring as hell.

For example, meetings. In person, you can look at a room and understand some basic relationships-who is talking to whom, who is laughing, who is avoiding, etc. This gives you valuable information on the shape of the team and how to navigate and work best with each other. Turn that into a zoom meeting, however, and that information either has to be explicitly pointed out or it is lost. This kind of thing eats up valuable cycles for information that could have been communicated in a literal glance.
'“Women have the rights to their own bodies” is (also for a very bad reason) a political statement.'

You think the morality of abortion is so clear-cut that it should not be a political issue? Lots of women are anti-abortion.

I see later that you refer to "anti-abortion biggots" (sic). You appear close-minded.
Isn't centrism more a matter of compromise than neutrality?
The person you're responding to was flagged, so I'll respond to you to continue.

I don't like diversity initiatives. I've literally worked at companies where the CEO announced we were NOT to hire any more white men. I am not ok with anyone putting a restriction on you because of your gender identity or skin color. Increasingly, woke people are ok with this as long as the restriction is placed on white men. I believe this is because many woke groups mistakenly see things as zero sum games where bringing people down will literally lift others up. I would not be willing to speak out about this since it would label me a bigot and a racist, even though my wife and kids aren't white.
I've started going to the beach on nice afternoons and/or drinking beer on the job. Not looking forward to the office.
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