skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think it can be understated how much saying 'no politics' is a political statement.

I disagree, and I think you're grossly overstating it.

I can see how you could characterize their stance as "supporting the status quo". But, there are varying degrees of "support", and this is pretty much the lowest degree of "support" imaginable.

Put another way, you're painting this as "with us or against us" when in reality there's a spectrum of support. Coinbase is standing just SLIGHTLY off center in one direction.

> And supporting the status quo in this political climate is a strange hill to plant your flag on.

Why do you think it's strange? The vast majority of employees prefer a work environment that is stripped of political conversation. And, such an environment is more conducive to focus and productivity.
For godsakes the Republican party freed the slaves and voted for the civil rights act. It's the democrat party that should have to denounce it's history... except they let people like Ralph Northam continue to govern despite being photographed in a KKK hood. And before you start say "Oh the great switch" the part that's never explained by that bs theory is how one day people who had been fighting for civil right woke up and decided to undo everything they had fought for for the last 100 years. You're being taught to hate people that aren't hateful because then it makes it easier to justify the means of seizing power.
I agree with that today in 2020, but that’s not what I learned growing up in northern Virginia in the 1990s. I thought nothing of driving in Lee Highway, and didn’t know that all these monuments are created in the 1930s.

And that doesn’t even mean Trump’s assertion is even incorrect. Maybe the protesters had the same misconceptions about history as many people who grew up in a fairly liberal place in the 1990s. That actually supports Trump’s point that people who oppose taking down the statutes aren’t necessarily raving white supremacists.
LOL I'm a "js developer" and the system I work on requires like 10 docker containers. Not sure where this idea comes from that JS developers don't need power.
If by "status quo" you mean "Donald Trump is President", does your view change if Biden wins? Will the status quo be ok, and will it therefore be ok to ban political activity in the workplace?

The problem with the view that activism is ok if the current administration is objectionable is that the "status quo" changes from cycle to cycle.

Presidential politics is only a very small part of political activity in the US (though it is the most visible). What if your frame of reference is state and local politics? Is political activism in the workplace ok if you don't like the local school board?
The pieces they've divested haven't been valuable as part of IBM. They've fit their new owners businesses better. Thus they've been more valuable with their new owners, which is why IBM sold them.
Our company, our rules, if u don't like it here's some cash - buh bye
Lenovo's margins are still razor-thin. The thing that bothers me most about IBM keeping POWER and Z is that I can't afford either, because the margins are eye-watering.
I thought this article was going to be about HTTP 2 Server Push which allows the server to deliver pages ahead of time before you click them and thus allows for the instant transition between preloaded pages.

It's strange to me that people do not appreciate that technology or discuss it more. I think it's just something that hasn't caught on.
Wait wait wait, and this is paid and hosted too? Bleh, nooooo thanks. I'm not sending private and secret key material to a bunch of ex-Uber employees (gross on that point alone), but nevermind to ones who looked at the existing market, didn't understand the tool-scape, and essentially decided to roll their own crypto...
ed is still my daily driver when I need to edit stuff quickly, and here are a couple of reasons I'm keeping it in my toolbox:

* Couple of KBs, you can't beat that. You can put it almost everywhere.

* Runs with whatever terminal you have to use. Unknown or broken termcap, no problem. Even works inside Emacs eshell.

* Still unbeatable with terrible connections. Try that with vi/vim, and you'll cry, even without colors.

* Gives you "focused editing" without having to look at the whole file. Just like Ken Thompson said. For example, to read .bashrc ignoring comments, just use "g/^[^#]/n".

* The only editor you can easily script, the same way as you type in it. That is why we have "script" command.

* Very easy to print commands (as the author showed) and give students as "howto" to edit something. Easy to follow and no ambiguities.
In a market-consolidating world this argument rapidly loses persuasive power.
At almost every large, successful company there is a huge disconnect between what hiring is screening for and what corporate blog posts might suggest, to the point of engineers themselves being unaware of how the experience is for most applicants (after all, they are self-selected…) Usually this boils down to "you don't seem to have enough experience" or "you don't know anyone on the team who can vouch for you to get through the initial resume screen". A real shame, since it leaves a number of qualified applicants in a poor position, but presumably Stripe has enough people applying that they can afford passing up people.
My point was UK elections aren’t anonymous.

Ballot papers (votes) and their corresponding number lists (matching voter to ballot paper) are kept for 12 months before destruction, and together allow who voted for who to be known - however - it seems no-one is allowed to inspect this except for the purposes of prosecuting an electoral fraud, so votes are to all intents and purposes private.

Perhaps the top downvote was for pedantry (?), but there is a difference between anonymous and private. The British system could issue ballots without recording to which specific person - that would be anonymous. You’d lose the ability to ask a particular voter if their counted ballot was the one they marked (substitution fraud), but I don’t think this ever actually happens.
[In response to the original headline that 5% of employees took the severance:] Good. The company will be stronger for it and the employees will be happier with the generous severance and a new job at a company that suits them better.
There are lots of reasons, good and bad, to avoid politics. But to claim that doing so is inherently political... isn't saying anything. To the extent it's true, it's trivially so. And to the extent it's non-trivial, it's completely false.
This is so sad. They have gone from one of the best HW / Systems engineering companies in history to a lost giant managed by people with finance degrees and no love for the engineering that built them. At this rate, they will end up like GE and RCA.

This is a great loss.
I am fine with Polish + Kazakh! The 2-of-2 would be required to censor any transaction. Thank you for enhancing my proposal.
I don't think they make their own hardware. They design it and then farm out manufacture.
Have the people you've met specifically told you this is their stance? I'm worried you may be misunderstanding. I and almost all apolitical people I know fall in the first camp; I don't think the status quo is fine, but I also don't think that engaging in politics all the time improves it.
Another interesting take: Machine architectures expose an API, and it may become impossible for anyone but a chip manufacturer to distribute a compiler.
Which is not at all surprising if you're familiar with Patrick's other writing.
Everybody contributes to a companies culture and that drives the people at the top too.
This one from the 50’s has a few thousands citations:

“Solution of a Large-Scale Traveling-Salesman Problem“

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.606...

Currently Google scholar shows ‘salesman’ with an order of magnitude more references than ‘salesperson’

My only point is that if we are going to fork the reference, we should use something that is easier to say. (I honestly don’t care if we fork the reference :) ).
> I think the CEO’s refusal to take a stance on whether Black Lives Matter is a stance in itself. It’s hard not to assume that he doesn’t agree with the organization or the statement, even if that’s not the case. And while the movement is in some way political, in most ways the organization and the phrase simply stands for the idea that, well, Black Lives Matter. It’s simply a marginalized group seeking equal treatment, and there really shouldn’t be anything political about being treated as an equal.

If BLM was just that, most people, even on the political right, would have no problems with it. The trouble is, BLM the organization is run by Marxists, is openly racist in itself (black exclusivity), and their aims are much more than racial equality.

Their leaders have made statements regarding dismantling capitalism, have attended rallies with Nicolas Maduro, and have had their funding organized by ex-convict Susan Rosenberg, who was part of the terrorist May 19th Communist Organization.

I'm a fan of racial equality, and by that I mean completely eliminating racism quotas, making hiring based purely on merit and not melanin. I will have nothing to do with the organization BLM.
I don’t know if they still do this, but I recall Zappos having a constant offer on the table to pay you to quit.

I bet they didn’t have 5% turnover over some time-deaf email from the CEO.

My guess: those 5% got sick of tone-dead all hands meetings/memos and saw their chance to bail out.

I wonder what other companies during the Covid recession has 5% voluntary turnover?
I'm also interested to see how it works out.

Another possibility that occurs to me is that some employees are very conscientious, but have value systems that are looked down upon in mainstream Silicon Valley culture.

I could imagine such employees being more willing to stay with Coinbase when that potential source of strife is removed.
The one time I was on COBRA, under 3 years ago, I paid close to $700/month, and I was the only person included in my coverage. Health insurance premiums have very likely gone up since then, and family sizes above 1 (such as even I have now) would cost meaningfully more than that. Smaller companies than that employer might also have higher total premium cost per employee, if they aim for good coverage.
I think in Italy they had 100% for 10-19 bracket.
Indeed! Faster than almost any laptop for a much better price.

Wendell from the Level1techs has said that, for most developers the R5 3600 is all you need.

Personally I've been eyeing the 3900X, which is probably overkill, but is such a great bargain that it would be hard to pass up.
It’s precisely the type of messaging that happened after 9/11 too.

“You’re either with us or against us.”

Leave it to the woke crowd to take a page out of the Karl Rove handbook.
WebRTC in Pandemic Times [video]
Cybersecurity and compliance platform Onapsis nets $55m in its Series D round
"Any real solution will have to be legislated. "
So true. Congress can amend the particular section of the code to explicitly exclude APIs from being copyrightable ... if they want to.
Very interesting, more than 90% prefer to keep Coinbase's core values. If they were able to keep the best employees it's worth it.
You committed wrong-think so you must be silenced.
The C standard library's API would belong to AT&T. Same with Unix syscalls. Glibc would be infringing.
Good pentester costs typically $2000 per day. Given the amount of work they did, the return feels like a slap in the face. Certainly it won't encourage highly skilled people to hunt for security holes.
That sentence struck me as well, mostly because people continue to make tons of money in networking, "PCs" and semiconductors. It's not that they didn't "fit the integrated value proposition", it's that IBM has terrible leadership.

No bets needed for what band of clowns will lead the hip, "value proposition" part of the company of course.
> Why is it like this?

1. It is hard to guess what someone else will understand.

2. There is a trade-off between using words everyone knows, being concise, and getting enough richness of meaning across.

One of the world's top professionals in technical communication has a book where he uses diagrams and only the ten hundred most common English words to explain subjects[1]. However, this sort of thing can people feeling condescended-to[2].

3. Different forms of communication have different goals.

The goal of that page is not to help every software engineer understand what New Relic is without them using it.

The goal of that page is to sell software. There are multiple audiences for that, which means making communication tradeoffs

4. Sometimes people fail at doing things well. That includes copy-editing.

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> What do I have to do to become the type of developer that doesn't cry when I have to investigate a new product solution?

I empathize with the feeling of overwhelm.
Twitch staff call the company out on sexual assault, racism, more
I think we disagree on this one. Yes, there would be a much larger problem, but that doesn't mean you should make it easier for them to have more power.

Let's take right now in the US for instance. I don't trust the US government, but I'm not so scared that I'm regularly fearing for my life. I guess it's possible I could wake up in Guantanamo tomorrow but that seems unlikely. That said, I am not interested in giving them any more power over me, and in fact interested in them having less.

So as much as I would love for a real "fix" to the US government, which you describe as replacing it, that seems slightly extreme and unlikely at the moment. So the most realistic course of action is fighting them on their unnecessary grabs for power and surveillance over the populace while I still feel safe to do so.

Just because there are bigger problems doesn't mean you should ignore the smaller problems, especially when those are much easier to address.
A problem arises when the appetite for 'bad ideas' aren't merely trivial things like whether Rust is better than C++ but rather consist of ideas over which of ones neighbors should be discriminated against, persecuted, imprisoned, or killed.

Providing a platform where people who subscribe to these kind of ideas can self-organize, and connect to demagogues who would lead, them is not a virtuous defense of freedom of expression; it is a real threat to the liberties and lives of the people these ideas target.

Submerging people in sealed bubble of misinformation that only reinforces their prejudices--as Facebook does through a combination of advertising, recommendations, and control over user timelines--does lead to radicalization and that radicalization can be weaponized in ways that are fatal to others.

Just as the right to swing your fists ends at someone else's nose, the right of 'bad ideas' to be amplified by platforms ought to end before people who believe in those 'bad ideas' are turned into political weapons by demagogues and would-be autocrats.
No, it's possible to support changes to the status quo while simultaneously maintaining an apolitical workplace. I most certainly support changes to the status quo, and I would simultaneously take the same stance as Coinbase with regards to politics in the workplace. I've never seen a workplace embrace political activism without creating a hostile workplace environment for a significant segment of workers.

This is kind of the same kind of fallacy as people who try to say that atheism is a religion. No, it's the absence of religion. In the same vein, an apolitical workplace isn't support for the status quo. It's the absence of any political, either for or against the status quo.
There are promising alternatives to energy intensive proof-of-work crypto algorithms. Specifically proof-of-stake (Ethereum, etc)[0], and ledger-backed services[1].

[0] https://blockgeeks.com/guides/ethereum-casper/
[1] https://pfrazee.github.io/blog/secure-ledgers-dont-require-p...
They're the same as native Linux desktop apps. For the most part they're using GTK3 with libhandy, but it's also possible to run Qt apps, or any other toolkit really.
Worth noting Lee wrote for WashPo. As did Krebs.

I suspect this has less to do with reporters than editors.
Since there seems to be a lot of confusion as to what is being spun off and what is being kept...

Think of IBM as:

- Hardware

- Software/Cloud

- Services

Within "Services" you have everything from business/management consultants to application development teams to people who support IT infrastructure for clients as part of outsourcing arrangements.

It's that last group, Infrastructure Support, that is being spun off.
If I see a bunch of short stints, let's say 3 or 4 tenures in a row that didn't make it past 1 year, I would definitely ask for some details during an interview.

I have some on my own resume and I don't mind explaining that here the company was acquired, here we ran out of money, here I had to move to be with family, etc etc.

It's just normal due diligence for a hiring manager.
~20% more performance for about ~50% more price, based on what the 3000 series is selling for. Maybe the 3000 series is a better deal.

The price increases really make Zen 3 less compelling.
So do you normally spend a lot of your time online standing up straw men and knocking them down? Or is today a special case?

My point, since apparently I need to clarify it, is that Coinbase claiming to have an "apolitical" workplace while a) operating in a business that's driven by libertarian and anarchist philosophy and b) spending time and money lobbying politicians in Washington in support of said values is, at best demonstrative of a total lack of self-awareness, and at worst represents rank hypocrisy.

I tend to suspect it's the latter.
SDR (Software-Defined Radio)is cool. RTL-SDR use a $25 USB TV tuner dongle to do all kinds of cool things like catching weather satellite downloads, listening to local emergency services, and software-controlled RF scanners.

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/about-rtl-sdr/
https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/
I'm 100% behind Purism and the Librem 5 project (placed my pre-order three years ago), but the "Hold My Order" seems pretty ridiculous. I don't think they should have made that an option at all. I think this is actually my first criticism of Purism/Librem.

They should have just wrote something like:

When the software you donated for is ready, rest assured your Librem will receive the update. Librem 5 is the only phone that gets better with age... (some marketing they've used in the past)
https://puri.sm/posts/easy-librem-5-app-development-screen-r...
For some context, the company behind this is planning to launch a satellite in Earth orbit where anyone can develop, test and upload software on: https://exodusorbitals.com/
I think the playbook is just a bad analogy because it misses that point of what an interface is. It's the means of connecting two dissimilar mechanisms. A translation layer.

I'd have argued it's more like copyrighting doorknob placement (opposite hinge, at hand height) and operation (twisting) on doors vs. patenting a novel mechanism inside the doorknob.

A football playbook is more like the blueprints of the inside of the doorknob. Of course it's patentable if playbooks are patentable (I presume they are if considered works of choreography as in a dance).
We're talking in hypothetical's. If we are sending trash into space (as the comment above me suggested) then why not send it to the Sun and incinerate it. Of course there is no way to make this economical, even with a space elevator it would probably be too costly.
The FTC should crack down on companies’ use of exclusionary contracts
I've had quite the opposite experience with noise-cancelling. My tinnitus has actually improved.

As a child, I noticed a high-pitched sound during a particularly windy night in Wisconsin. Over the next few days it got louder and louder to the point it was quite frightening. Obviously, I had tinnitus, but unfortunately lacked the words to describe it to my parents (or they just wanted me to go to sleep haha).

Eventually I figured out that it was a cycle. The more I focused on the sound, the louder it got. As I worked to focus on on other things, it gradually subsided over a few days.

Now, as an adult, it is with me all the time. It gets much louder some days. This can be caused by a bad night of sleep. Or random things I can't figure out. Doctors have variously mentioned salt, tomatoes, trying antihistamines, etc.

But one thing I know makes it worse is noise - especially higher frequencies. As a result, I really dislike many of the newer (pre-covid) restaurants with the hard surfaces and tinny speakers playing harsh music all the time.

My kids got me iPod Pro's for Christmas and it has been wonderful. We went to NYC and by wearing them, I was able to enjoy loud restaurants, deal with the subway, etc.

I also notice that by wearing them for even a few hours, my tinnitus is often significantly improved. My theory is that it improved by decreasing the amount of stimulation.

For those who experienced the opposite, I wonder the quiet they experience allows them to hear the tinnitus clearly for the first time? Then they begin to focus on it which increases it's apparent volume as I did when I was young.
Actually, the iron they were able to refine wasn't terrifically pure because of the source they had for it, sand. The folding wouldn't have done anything to make pure iron into a better blade.

What all that folding did do, however, is ensure that all the impurities in the metal were evenly distributed throughout the blade, thus allowing lower quality metal to be used to make high quality blades.
The epidemiologists and some in healthcare industry are saying that.

The reason is not that some people are not willing to get test. The reason is also capacity, aldo policies on who is allowed to get test etc. Your case is literally someone who should be tested and was not, hence "not enough testing".

Here, I can get comertial test if I am willing to pay. No one will send me home. And if I was in contact with covid infected person, I get test for free (it is mandatory). And if I live in household with sick person, I have mandatory quarantine.

Sounds like where you live is no contract tracing and thus not enough testing.
Mercedes-Benz teases ‘highest-efficiency electric car’ with 750 miles range
It's not a strawman at all, as the original statement is clearly setting up the flip side of that argument - that left-leaning justices are less likely to do so.
The loosening lens is a bit of strawman argument. I would hope someone at the level has experience with the business side of things... Pichai and Nadella weren't tapped to run their business straight after shipping a release.

Also, Howard joined in May (which is an important one...because this press release is about Cloud not about HR/patents.)
I am curious if anyone uses ed as their editor of choice these days, assuming an actual screen and such of course. If so, why? Muscle memory?

Has anyone come up with an ed with the advantages of a modern screen, so it shows the full file on the side but you can still run ed commands on it?

Edit: I should have expected getting "vi" as an answer, although I can't fault all the commenters below :P I was thinking of something a little less different, like literally just a command prompt on the bottom and a pane above centered on the line you just operated on.
It's not that good of a value. The 3800x sells for between $320 and $350 right now. The new chip costs $100 more. That is at least a 30% price increase and the new chip is not 30% faster than the old one.
Seems 5% attrition is a very small price to pay to weed out the bad apples.

Looking at this through another prism, fully 95% of the company decided that being apolitical at work is reasonable.

What happened to the rule against politics and religion in polite society?