skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of reasons come to mind:

1. Your employer should be making more money off your work than they pay you. This means that they are worse off if they employ you less often. The reduced output will hurt them more than the reduced salary will help.

2. The business keeps going when you are gone. If you are a tech worker, part of your value is the ongoing development and maintenance of systems, or more generally your handling of some issues. This work has to be transferred while you are gone, which is disruptive. It’s like the switching cost of hiring and training, which your employer would prefer to avoid. Other commenters bring up consulting, where this can be clearly defined as not your job.

3. Although it’s a valuable benefit that could help attract talent, it could also select for less committed candidates. Asking for this in a negotiation suggests you don’t really want to be there.
>Are you saying you want to take that freedom away from private businesses?

>You did not answer the question - Do you want to take that freedom away from American businesses?

Yes, I absolutely am. I am proposing that we legally enshrine political ideology as a protected class, as has been the common custom in the US until very recently. Freedom of speech is the most fundamental human right, and it needs to be protected in all venues, both public and private. Infringing on corporate personhood is a small price to pay for a free and open society.

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The recent trend of trying to silence political opponents represents an existential threat to our democracy. I'm really baffled how others in this thread are not able to see why that is. Nowhere in this discussion have I claimed to be persecuted, or have I even established what my political leanings are.
“Failed state” is a technical term that does not mean what you are using it to mean. Please don’t hijack the term as it is useful to describe entities like Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, etc.
Do note that “potential” was added by me when I edited title because the original didn’t fit. I tried to come up with something appropriate but you shouldn’t comment off my title.
I think you're thinking of league of legends, unless they also have a controlling stake in Activision. I believe their stake a Activision is very much a minority position.
Woops. Sounds like an big mistake. Fuzzing or even protest would have caught that.
Not really.

Right after the (somewhat-carefully-worded) memo was punished, the author showed his hand by appearing as a guest on the YouTube show of Stefan Molyneux who, even then, was well-known for his white nationalism and "men's rights" activism.
> everyone should be up in arms about it

I feel the same way! I can’t understand why there aren’t bipartisan calls for Trump to knock it off. Is it that most people aren’t fully comprehending what’s going on, or are those of us upset about this being dramatic?
I'm a musician, so I spend a lot of time in restaurants. ;-) I was chatting with the chef / owner of a fairly successful restaurant, and he told me: "Every chef dreams of making their living selling food, but quickly learns that their income comes from the bar."
The British East India was also founded around the same time. Their cultural impact was at the time certainly as vast as Facebook's, the company literally passed laws in India.

The salt monopoly and taxes was at the centre of one of the most important events in Indian history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March
But then theres me and my wife, we bought the cheapest house in the neighborhood, we bought and paid off cheap cars, we designed our finances so we could easily life off my wife's teacher salary. Sure I take dev money and we buy more with it, but our total cost of living fits right around $2900 with half of that going to my mortgage.

We've added nice perks to the house: deck, redid the bathroom & kitchen etc... but those are for us and making us happy. We didn't do it to keep up with the jones
The article is pretty clear about the dynamic you bring up. The first subhed is, “A Different Business Philosophy.”

At the same time, there is a valid critique from this small business veteran. She points out that startup founders tend to hire people from their startup world, even for specialized positions where much more experienced talent is readily available from within the food world. She also indicates they do not listen to input from others in the industry.
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Well, you have the existence of this article as a counterpoint. :)
> Spend less then you earn, save, don't buy the latest shit.

This logic breaks down when you get an unexpected medical bill, or the car you rely to get to your job breaks down and you get fired, etc.

The latest iPhones and Androids are quite affordable compared to healthcare and rent in this country.
In many European countries this is doable and employers are required to accommodate a shorter schedule in some cases.
Isn’t unemployment less than earnings just about everywhere? I think the typical approach to unemployment isn’t really to make it like you never lost your job, but to provide just enough to get by temporarily.
Logistics people don’t manage retail or grok overhead.

The part about Amazon that was questionable was the massive capital investments in infrastructure to facilitate 2 day delivery. LL Bean, Sears, HSN, etc all demonstrated that mail order was a thing. Prodigy (aka Sears) demonstrated Amazon like e-commerce in 1990.

Even so, they had to do things like FBA to make money. Walmart is a less sexy but much more efficient business.
The Epic Games store and Fortnite is precisely the counterexample to anyone saying there's a single store on Android devices.

Whatever sweetheart deal Epic worked out with Google in the end doesn't discredit that they successfully sold hundreds of thousands of copies outside of the the Google Play store.

This argument also intentionally ignores the existence of the Amazon app store on Android.
I think there are certain critical professions like teacher or cop where individuals need to be held to a comparatively stringent standard in the views they express, but I largely agree with "a critical culture seeks to correct rather than punish," and don't see why the average schmuck should get fired for something he posted online. One of the best bulwarks against cancellation is strong labor protections, but I can't imagine the likes of the Cato Institute challenging at-will employment any time soon.
Electronic microscope of a Gillette Fusion blade pre and post stropping

https://nanofabrication.tumblr.com/post/145006851641/ever-wo...

No idea if it means they are sharper or last longer though.
This is well known. The income inequality is high as is, but the number of below middle class to poor is also increased. Unfortunately there is no political will to help the situation. We are more than happy to provide trillions to wasteful spending but severely against spending on people. Decades of such behavior will of course hurt the country. The sad part is we stopped caring about fixing our house in prosperous times as well.
Dave Ramsey would say ANYONE can come up with $1000 for an emergency fund...
Perhaps this would work for some people, but the majority of people don't have the luxury of living life without responsibilities. If everyone took long breaks, companies would be stuck in a cycle of handovers and making sure that certain people aren't given anything important before their long break. If you want that kind of lifestyle it may be a good idea to look into part time consulting.
Did you edit in the quote from the EO after? It specifically says "any transaction that is related to WeChat". The TikTok/ByteDance order doesn't include a "related to" qualifier like that, the same section in it just says:

any transaction by any person, or with respect to any property, [...] with ByteDance Ltd.

It's still not clear what exactly that will mean, but the intention definitely seems to be to restrict it to WeChat and not hit everything from Tencent.
Unlike with mature tech platforms, successful entry into the market is not exceedingly difficult. A new company can offer everlasting razors. Then cleaning cartridges and other refills will become the new razors.
Teach people to think for themselves and ignore the media and social media?
Every website effectively has an API to comment (or do any other action that's available through the site). You can just use HTTP requests.
How bad of a hit would your business continuity take? Not to get dramatic, but, is it worth risking the lives of your employees over? Personally I won't step foot within PRC borders given my staunch pro-Taiwan sovereignty stance. It's a vicious state that has in the past indicated it will go to any lengths to protect its stature.
our population is only able to balloon to the current numbers because we are basically hacking nature with our technology.

before modern tech people death was rampant.

I don't see how a suicidal population control could have developed, evolutionary.
Might be time to start a VPN service with exit points in China!
Why do they have to be ass cars?
> public opinion influencing

Has the USA not been doing that all over the world since forever?

Hell, they usually just change governments directly, without even bothering with public opinion.
Less effort and they can charge twice for the same product, genius!
i'm in automotive, and we've looked into this a few times for commercial fleet telemetry. It's just impossible to beat the pricing of cheap mobile phones when they have the volumes.
Even in the middle class people live unsustainable lifestyles above their means. We need to bring back a culture of living below means and self-reliance.
Dumbstruck that we wouldn’t allow an adversarial country collect data on all of our citizens locations? And potentially more?
Does it? Example of what you mean?

Note it appears a majority of Facebooks top ten posts are from right wing sources. [1] This is not me suggesting a bias on the part of FB, but it‘s a clear data point against the now common talking point that “the right” are persecuted victims, not fairly represented on the Internet.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/FacebooksTop10
It could be. But any member of the lockpicking organization would not be allowed by their rules to attend.
This is sad, we in the US are losing the little high ground we had and no longer lead by example to bring the world closer together by encouraging free markets and free people. I'm against this protectionist nationalism, it only leads to future conflict.
Yea except James damore didn't do anything wrong.

Sounds like this guy actually went after certain people.

James damore just asked a question.
Homomorphic computing is not mentioned...?
I can assure you that what you’re imagining Facebook to be has nothing to do with how Facebook is on the inside. There are way more of these debates and internal discussions, which reflects that Facebook’s employees have pretty diverse point of views.
what about the engineer who jumped to his death after a bad review?
Interesting to contrast the tone of this article with this one where the landlord is also giving advice to a tenant: https://sf.eater.com/2020/7/15/21325582/bernal-star-moonstar...
yup they are all over popular websites with fake accounts, YT, FB etc
The Dutch West Indies Corporation ate entire countries for breakfast, and wasn't hiding it either. While tech companies can certainly play a role in communication when overthrowing governments, they aren't usually rolling in to other countries and taking over whatever they want.
Maybe it's your responsibility to not get scammed, but if you get scammed the fact remains that there was scamming going on, regardless of whether or not you were to blame.
Political ideology is a choice, and as such, not protected by the civil rights act of 1964.

You can wish you were a victim of persecution for your political choice, but it is still your choice, and as such, people can also choose to not employ or serve you for your decision.
I actually watched that interview and he just said the same thing he said in the memo. Damore went on a lot of alternative media platforms such as Joe Rogan.

In any case your underlying argument is really bizarre.
What I find fascinating is less the balancing and structural editing, but that these old lisps _strongly_ embraced the absence of source files. The environment was being edited, and not some text documents.
You should earn an idea bounty.
Almost every CCP-owned channel on Facebook has bought fake subscribers, it's so visible they don't even try to hide it. As an example, CGTN French has 20M subscribers, more than any local French newspapers despite being virtually unknown in the country. If you go by subscribers count, it would be the most popular news platform of the country...
Some people here are wondering about the implications of this. What this means IMO is that all Chinese investments in SV need to be liquidated at fire sale prices in the next 45 days. Regardless of how people here feel about China this is a huge escalation. The US is inflicting huge losses on Chinese companies for no clear violation of US laws on their part. The pandoras box is now open.

Do countries get to do this to each other whenever they feel like it now ? Can China force Tesla to sell its Chinese operations because Teslas data gathering poses a national security risk ? China has some pretty serious means available to it for escalation. China can ban Boeing from China forcing the US taxpayer to incur serious losses in keeping the company afloat.

The whole thing is pretty stupid overall. Most people don't realize that during the 2008 crisis it was Chinas 500 billion dollar stimulus that kick started demand and pulled the world out of a depression. China and the US are interdependent and hold up the global system upon which global growth depends. If China slows down as a result of all this that reduces global growth. Pushing China to the wall can make them take extreme steps like undercut the entire dollar based financial order leading to mass instability. The US might come out victorious anyway but its not worth the risks. Not to mention a war which if it breaks out could lead to WW3.

Previous attempts to contain China were much more tactful with things like the TPP and the Iran deal. Right now the world is hurtling towards the abyss and most people here don't even realise it.

A meta point I'd like to add is that currently 10 % of the earths population in the "Westosphere" controls 60 % of the worlds wealth. This is untenable in the long term and all this flailing about will not stop a reversion to a more balanced world. Its better that this happen gracefully than in a violent fashion.
Here's a diff between the two orders, if anyone else is curious about the specific changes. I used the TikTok/ByteDance order as the "original", so removals and additions are relative to changing that one into the WeChat/Tencent one: https://gist.github.com/Deimos/8fcb95ec4017cf1a28e32f6057a91...
According to “sneak”, that is completely OK because a communist state must take precedence over any democratic state.
I know many people comment on any topic second hand, but I read what he wrote and I’m quite familiar with the meaning.

It’s the same as when people protest building housing: “oh it will not align with the character of our neighborhood”. I know what they are really talking about, and I know full well what he was talking about — he was making the same argument, in the same terms, as plenty have before him. I assume he read those arguments before, himself.
This is such poor sensationalized fear-based reporting.

There are extremely well enumerated principles in immunology. There's always exceptions in any sort of molecular biology and this article makes them sound like they are the rule or the standard.

Covid is extremely tame compared to other pathogenic viruses.

You want a scary virus, look at ebola which destroys epithelial cells and has 90% fatality rate , look at HIV which integrates into your genome.

The article implies that Covid is special in some regard in how it attacks the body. It's a standard virus. Every virus on the planet has people that are susceptible to it and it kills them. Every virus on the planet can cause you damage via immune system over response. That's how influenza kills and its way better at it.

The entire human physiology and biology in general is crazy with exceptions to every rule and millions of years of evolution makes it hard for us to understand why.

All of biology is crazy and unintuitive from the tree of life down to proteomics. But to say it so unpredictable is just false.
If only it was piping onto a pie.
I know a Google dev that did this. In other words he asked if he could switch to 3 days a week at 60% pay. They said "yes".
Do you have a specific question? It’s tragic obviously and impacted many of us.
Ah, you see, it’s different when they do it.
Dumbstruck to find that there is a leader with a spine in this country? That's quite something.
You seemed to have missed the parts where requiring approval from the DOD and SoS to lay new fiber were forborne, along with hundreds of other Title II laws. Its kind if incredible you missed that as the term "forbearance" appears 300 times in the Open Internet Order of 2015.

Also strange you bothered to mention the Communications Act of 1960. It would be far more relevant for you to have read the Telecommunications Act of 1996, as that made some significant changes to the law since 1960.

I guess you need to go back and re-read those documents.
Russia if you're listening.... :p
Why would it be a .net?
What if the app publishers stop taking payments and ads from the US, in that case there may not be no longer cash transactions, so will the restrictions apply?.
They're easy and cheap to buy from arduino stores (or similar). The only part of their shopping list that I don't have in my general "unfinished projects" bin is the pan/tilt gimbal. I've built one manually before but it was a bit crappy.
This. It was Cisco that originally helped build the GFW in China, this is like ironies to the power of ironies, exponential levels of irony.
Well China does have a valid reason to outlaw Google et. al, because they publicly siphon your data and are not shy about it. Also if you're gonna downvote, provide a reason and counter-point. This isn't reddit and the downvote button is not for "I don't like this".
> That’s one of the tenants (no pun) of capitalism

Not sure if it's just part of the joke, but the word is "tenet".
Are we witnessing the end of free markets? Or the growth of decentralization? These sorts of moves are making a very strong case for decentralized platforms.
I would argue that it is censoring. By being more lenient to right wing sources compared to other sources who carry out the same infraction you create a bias and are censoring in favour of those right wing sources.
This word "scam" gets thrown around so much these days that it's basically meaningless.

It's really unlikely that the failing startups described in TFA developed a food tech idea, pitched it to investors, rented space in a kitchen, etc just to scam people. It's far more likely that they were just clueless.
At least in my social circles, this has been one of the few things trump has done that both dems/conservatives agree with. Why would you be ok with CCP collecting info on US citizens and spreading misinformation to benefit a foreign regime?
What are your views on IP theft by some companies there. Should that be considered first strike by China.
>James damore just asked a question.

Relevant: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions

I'm sorry, but Damore claimed that women biologically lacked the ability to fill as leadership and programmer roles as men, which broke his employment agreement with Google to not perpetuate stereotypes, hence he was fired.

The window dressing and weak-worded arguments in his memo may have you thinking otherwise, but he was fired specifically for this reason, and even he confirmed as much to the press.

Edit:

For all the Damore apologists replying, here's the statement in question that he made:

>>I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.
And this is why as a European I think that we should take a long and hard look at our dependency of US technology. Its becoming more and more clear that US is not a stable actor.

I think it would be prudent for us to force alternatives to apple and google app stores (and other software) that are housed and owned in Europe. I have no confidence that US intelligence is not accessing our data and setting up profiles on Europeans that could be used for nefarious purposes.
That's a good idea. Just flagged your post (!) in order to get an Admin's attention. Hopefully it's do-able. :)
Is DJI on the pending list?
One thing I learned when I worked in internal IT security when dealing with auditors was that they will boil the ocean to find an issue, so never be perfect and leave a few relatively easy but not obvious to spot issues for them to write up that don't actually affect the security of your environment. If you don't leave them this bait, they will spend weeks to find a trivial issue (like using MD5 to check for config file changes vs password hashing) and turn it into a massive issue they won't budge on.

The other issue is that if you make it seem too easy to answer their questions or provide reports, they will only ask more questions or demand more reports so even if its just dumping a list of users into a CSV file for them to review, make it seem like way more effort than it actually is otherwise you might find you've been forced into a massive amount of busy work while they continue to boil the ocean.
Trump is trading the reputation of the United States for just a little advantage of his own election.
The outcome of this ban has important implications for potential bans in the future that affect apps at odds with administrations. End-to-end apps like Signal come to mind.
The problem is that "living below your means" continues to decrease over time. Once you take housing, healthcare and college into account, inflation-adjusted wages have decreased over time, and more and more jobs are moving to a precarious "gig economy" model with no benefits.
Doesn’t this mean that the US is getting closer and closer to a dictatorship?
Do you mean James Damore? According to LinkedIn he is working at a startup.
It’s kind of hilarious that Trump claims to be worried about the possibility that disinformation campaigns might be funded by these sources, while consistently ignoring the disinformation campaign that has been investigated and proven by his own intelligence forces and his own party’s committees setup to investigate it.
It doesn't look like it's doing anything except removing skin detritus, which is what I'd expect. Interesting pics, though.
Ah, good thing the internet stops at each state's borders.
I don’t think the US has ever lead by example. Europe has though.
Re-evaluate life choices if a 400k salary makes you commit suicide? He should have had enough money to do whatever for quite some time. Its tragic that he didn't but there are literally billions of people worse off all around the world and nobody talks about them.
I think we're going to use the MIT license. So, you'll be able to use it in almost any way you like...
Looks like Trump had been promoted to the external M&A consultant for SV tech companies.
Anecdotally, I've heard companies that tried this (something like 3 months unpaid after 5 years tenure) found that most of the employees who take this end up leaving soon after coming back.