skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think any business should be forced to put a BLM flag in their window just because all their neighbors are doing it.

BLM is a cause. It's OK to care about other causes too. Is it racist of my company to buck the norm and put up a flag or fliers supporting an environmental cause like recycling or composting instead?

You're right, though; politics cannot be completely avoided. I just hope my friends don't assume I'm racist because I'm not constantly publicly shepherding racial equality and civil rights. A person should be allowed to have other hobbies and interests. A person should not be required to be vocal and outspoken. Neither should businesses.

As an employee, I'd prefer if my company did its part in hiring diverse candidates and fair pay, but I don't want to work at a place where I feel compelled to join in political discussions and movements that aren't really part of my job description.
I worked at a company that Bain bought and improved in many ways. They don't gut and run every company into the ground. Probably just the ones where that's the best upside they can work out of it.
You will enjoy this classic.
It's a lovely image showing the dialup handshake . My first modem was a Hayes 1200 baud. Every modem after seemed to double. The protocols got better too. Bidirectional transfers, wow.

http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured...
One large use for Tether is transferring value either for abitrage or to buy assets on another exchange not available on your current exchange. Sending real USD via the banking system could take weeks whereas sending Tether will take minutes. Also if Tether is trading below $1, Tether (the company) could buy them back and burn them for profit, assuming of course that each token is backed by one real USD.
I've heard several second hand stories of people dumpster diving and after some investment of time and money winding up with at worst, serviceable instruments. Any experience with that? I went in for the first time in years last week for rack screws and was surprised to see they no longer had an associate checking orders on the way out. Guitar tech I wound up bothering said, and it makes sense, that putting someone at the door was more expensive than the shrink.
I think that range ebbs and flows over time, to be honest. I'm not American, but it seems like there was less polarization in the US the 1950s than there was in the early 1900s, for example.

I don't think it's unfair to not assume some "happy median" will always be there or a certain size, especially as circumstances change over time.
Right but the formal process isn’t the only way to affect change. It would be really weird if you were like “if you don’t like segregation you shouldn’t protest or have sit-ins, just contact your elected representatives.”
Unfortunately you're right. Whenever I speak w/ non-tech folks in a niche, they're part of a Facebook group.
What do you imagine is the situation at Apple? Are their products uncompetitive?
You make it sound simple, but it’s not.

If you operate a delivery company, and a factory farmer approaches you to deliver to grocery stores nationwide, you suspect it might be used to transport their specialty, veal. If you say: “I’m not doing politics!” and decide to transport their goods, you are being complacent in the torture of sentient baby mammals, and therefor just did some (highly questionable) politics. If you deny them, you also did (morally correct) politics.

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Note the above is only partially tongue-in-cheek, but I do it to make two points:

1. To you, your political viewpoints are obviously "morally correct". But the whole point is many people disagree with what you consider morally correct. I used my veal example because I feel it's something a lot of people on HN wouldn't have much of a problem with, but to me it clearly is torture to these animals, and the only reason society at large doesn't have more of a problem with it is because how the animals are treated is mostly hidden from view.

2. My broader point is that virtually every company could sell some product or service that could be used to further an end that equal number of people on both sides could think is morally horrid or morally righteous. It's dangerous to think that your view is the only right one.
I’ve gone through a number of F-91W bands as well (never replaced the watch itself). Then I went for an F-84W instead, and it has already held together longer than any F-91W band did. Has a slightly cleaner look, too.
I’ve been using refined GitHub for years and multiple times I thought GitHub added a new feature when was refined GitHub. Needless to say, I am really happy about this extension and came to rely on it.
Here in California, basically every government document have a Spanish counterpart and there's always Spanish speaking translators available. I can see how many Spanish speaking people can live in the US and never have to know an ounce of English.
CoffeeScript code bases are the scariest code bases on the planet, the nightmares. To me CoffeeScript inherited all the inconsistencies of JavaScript, then made the syntax inconsistent as well. It least it had optional chaining.
What do you do when the hour changes?
Not getting involved is not getting involved. You might take this as an indirect endorsement of content. But by that logic, a site with no moderation simultaneously liberal, conservative, and centrist because all are allowed. I guess you can say that it's political, but because it allows all content it's political nature is all-encompassing. Calling a completely apolitical stance political is sort of like calling Atheism a religion. It's arguably correct but it's really the absence of religion.

Also, I think your whiteboard with a swatstika analogy demonstrates the shortsightedness of this sort of "inaction is endorsement" line of thinking. What about a candidate who's family was personally affected by the Holocaust and is so mortified to see the swatstika that they are too uncomfortable to even do anything about it? What about a South Asian candidate for whom the symbol doesn't elicit a reaction because of it's prevalence in South Asian culture? Or what about a candidate who thinks, "the people at this company definitely aren't Nazis, clearly this was part of diagram or something."
Absolutely. We bicker about the topics that the powers that be wants us to bicker about. There are much larger issues that politicians don't want to touch for various reasons (paid not to, too hard, etc).

>The problem is ... entered the workforce after 2008 ... you have no clear path to achieve a few important milestones that the previous generation had: property ownership, family (and passing your quality of life to your kids), savings and retirement.

It goes back even further than that. It's been going on since companies decided to offshore manufacturing in the 70s. Rural America's small towns used to flourish and was absolutely devastated economically. Families used to get by on a single income, now it takes two full time parents to work just to make ends meet. The middle class and the lower class has been constantly choked out except for a select few occupations for the last 50 years.
Honestly your best bet would be to scroll a bit through /r/watches and the sidebar there.

If you have no interest in mechanical movements, then, Timex weekender is oft-recommended. https://www.timex.com/browse/collections/weekender/shop-all-... (if you're in the bay area, I'll sell you mine for 10$ )

The Timex Expedition is a more field-watchy variation: https://www.timex.com/browse/collections/expedition/

Casio makes some quartz (battery-powered) "diver" style watches: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083VMFR4C/

If you want to get into mechanical, that's a rapidly expanding "budget watch" space. Budget for mechanical for a good amount of time bottomed out at around 250$ for a seiko or orient, but now a lot of Chinese homage watches are pulling into the 100$ space, and of course there's always vostok.
Effect systems can actually make this less bad due to functions which are generic over effects. The function color problem is fundamentally because there usually isn't a way to be generic over different colored functions in a performant and ergonomic way.
Apparently you were never acquainted with the Citizens United SCOTUS decision.
I bought a gshock and traded it for food in a training area in the philippines. Now I have a Bertucci.
>I believe a significant number of people would answer “yes” to your final question, or at least complain that your leadership shows authoritarian tendencies, much like Victor Orban, Donald Trump, Rodrigo Duterte, etc.

Someone showing authoritarian tendencies does not mean the country is under authoritarian rule. I don't like Bolsonaro but he is very far from having any real power in the country. And I would say the same of Trump. I don't know anything about the others.

>On your first paragraph it seems to me a reasonable argument that if all the chemical companies in Germany

Why would they do that? Hitler was popular because he actually fixed a lot of problems in Germany at the time. Either way, my argument is still that businesses shouldn't support or not support any particular politician. They should just move on with their business impartially, even if "democracy" is being threatened or if their product is being used for evil. It's not your job to judge how people use your technology.
Unless it’s payment for a debt, in which case cash must be accepted.
AWS EKS GitOps
Atomic and transactional way of managing changes in your EKS cluster using Infrastructure as code(Terraform, GitOps)
> You'd probably have to roll your own tests that involve pulling the physical power plug on your servers, though.

I have some interesting failure mode/war stories from when I was setting up my home backup system.

I've got some external USB hard drives plugged into my media server. I figured it'd me smart to have a pair of archive disks that spend most of their life powered down and unwritable, to give me some chance of recovering from a cryptolocker type malware attack. So I have two big drives plugged into a pair wifi controllable power points, and some cron jobs that wake each them up late Sunday night (well, very early Monday morning) on alternate weeks, then rsyncs my Time Machine backups (stored on an always-on RAID1 pair) to the archive drive-of-the-week.

Of course the early POC cron jobs didn't do a sufficiently good job of checking error/return codes and rsync task completion, so occasionally my setup would indeed "involve pulling the physical power plug" on my hard drives... (I wasn't _too_ careful, since this would always happen on the alternating second backup of my Time Machine backup. While I got some file corruption in my archive drives, it couldn't have caused data loss unless both the original data _and_ the Time Machine backup also corrupted at the same time.)
I would consume like Thanksgiving turkey any recommended reading on asking difficult questions in job interviews without immediately getting dismissed as “not a culture fit”.

Had that happen once. Friend in one department made a referral for me to join another, I ask pointed and direct questions in the interview-which was otherwise light hearted and engaging, the response was filibustering, platitudinous non-answers about “shared sacrifices” and “we all jump in” and “take the flank” and “no man left behind” (please do NOT get me started on the amount of militarized battle-speak that has rooted itself into corporate America like a tick). So I tactfully and delicately but firmly try to bring the conversation back on track.

Friend tells me a few days later “they disqualified you as not being a good culture fit. What did you say??”

“I asked what the on-call schedule was like”
If China had control over Reddit, mass-deleting criticism of China would be the stupidest move possible. Everyone would notice, there would be a lot of anger, Reddit would lose a lot of its userbase, and animosity toward China would grow.

Much better to just gently push toward the preferred path whenever a decision comes up. Which is possibly what they actually do with their smallish influence on Reddit. That way things would likely be better for China than they would have been without the interference, rather than likely being worse.
How is that responsive to my point? The folks who created the slogan built a political organization around it, and that organization has a specific political platform. Put differently, it’s not like the slogan was some pre-existing neutral concept that happens to be used by these organizations. There is a direct relation between the slogan and these organizations.

Demanding that people repeat and affirm the slogan, therefore, seems risks demanding they endorse the organizations.
I don’t think it was about anything, I know exactly what it was about. Thanks though.
to be frank I think that your perspective does not consider the unintended consequences of the alternative.

"you determine your own level of involvement" -fight club
I've been doing some small-scale arbitrage trading in Uniswap and other Defi exchanges. As part of that I hold a fair bit of Tether, USDC and other stable coins.

The reason being is that I want to keep my capital pegged to the dollar, but need something that's native to the Ethereum blockchain. If there's a trading opportunity, I need the ability to swap Tether for [X] token in a single blockchain transaction. There's no time to route actual dollar deposits from a real bank.

Considering that there's something like $13 billion locked in all the various defi protocols, that's a lot of potential demand for stable coins.
Please put links on the footer in the header too. Infinite scroll makes for unclickable footer links. :)
Perhaps the CIA's hope was to brainwash American pilots, not deprogram them. From what I understand, cult deprogramming is often a weird mirror of cult programming, using many of the same methods, with deprogramming organizations sometimes becoming cult-like themselves. That one could be confused or disguised as the other doesn't surprise me.
The Benevolence of the Powerful
> Once you've finished with the stopwatch, the next mode-button press leads to the time-adjustment mode rather than immediately back to the current time display.

This is incorrect. If you’ve interacted with a mode, the mode button always takes you back to the current time display.
Michael J Fox: ‘Every step now is a frigging math problem, so I take it slow’
Well, sure.

But the greater frustration here seems to be lack of interest in multi user graphical computing.

Without the basic nature of X being a priority, the whole system is less. X was done the way Unix was.

People thought through general purpose multi user networked computing. Sometimes just multi user, serial tty style.

The gift of C was that same level of thought behind multi hser graphical computing. Again, sometimes networked, in the same fashion as above.

Current efforts are not multi user graphical computing as a focus.

It is said it can be.

Many who understand how to use X think it should be. Unix is a powerful OS, with some of that potential being sidelined to optimize for specific cases.

Long term, that may be a net loss.

We may also find it gets reinvented again too.
What are the advantages compared to say, Rclone which is open-source and supports a wide variety of storage backends[1] and E2E encryption[2] as well?

[1]: https://rclone.org/overview/, [2]: https://rclone.org/crypt/
That's heavily covered in this article.
"From the outside looking in, American politics has long since ceased being about policy and idea's, it is now a contest of identity where it doesn't matter what someone stands for so long as they are on the team I support."

It sure looks that way if you watch american news. Reality is pretty different. Most people leave politics at home, and most companies try to be politically neutral - or at least try to be an "agent for good" while avoiding controversy.
Unless you lost it or damaged it (drop, water, excessive scratches, etc, etc.) or it fell too much out of style. I suspect most 50 dollar watches don't last anywhere near 30 years in real life usage.
This sounds like one of the oft-overlooked knock-on effects of globalization and long supply chains. Lots of tariff quackery and a whole lot of risk and uncertainty for sourcing. It all ends up funneling money away from local businesses and governments. Even if it helps consumers by making goods a smidgen cheaper, what good is it if money ultimately leaves the local economy?

Multiply your experience by a million and stretch it out over decades, and this is middle America getting sucked dry.
Okay, to clarify, the bailey is "corporations and people that make up the organization are explicitly political".
Ask HN: Hire engineers by their acceptance percentage on LeetCode
The other reason I totally agree with this is because there is always the unwritten rule that what a company can support politically is pretty much always in service to its bottom line. I mean, just look at Google, whose employees are known for being especially politically active. Except, that is, when it comes to the negative societal effect of large monopolies (there was a recent HN discussion about this). People at Google know what pays their (very large) salaries.
> And no tethers, to anyone’s knowledge, have ever been redeemed—except for when Tether burned 500 million tethers in October 2018, following the seizure of $850 million from its payment processor Crypto Capital.

They can be redeemed on https://tether.to but the minimum is 100K$ if I recall correctly.
It only implements the first part, not the more difficult one of composing different kind of effects.

Scala has a library for the difficult part, but I don't think it was very successful: https://github.com/atnos-org/eff
I agree, but this all started with "I liked that I could go to Guitar Center and try the headphones in person" followed by "In the future you will just do that with VR"

All I was pointing out is that VR would most likely not provide the sort of feedback the OP was talking about.
Yes, but the question is about whether or not companies should take stances on these things, and the inevitable moral complexity throws up obstacles given that companies are comprised of individuals with differing opinions.

Discussion of that complexity and those obstacles is not helped by simplistic condemnation of those who don't share your (general "your") point of view either on the political topic itself or the more abstract argument of corporate stance generally.
The last group that tried to hold them to account had their computers hacked.[1]

It doesn't seem possible to hold the most powerful accountable to me.

[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_...)
Arguably made famous by James Bond, a Nato strap is an alternative to a metal bracelet or rubber strap for a watch. Basically, a sort of fabric similar to the material your seat belt is made of, is used to strap the watch to your wrist. Lots of exciting colorways.

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

Here's my Vostok Amphibia on a NATO https://photos.app.goo.gl/vqpq31QVcBKpRbTP8
To my mind that is what I am advocating for, a law must apply universally to be just.
It compiles a large subset of OCaml into (more or less) idiomatic Erlang. So technically it can compile a subset of OCaml dependencies, but I don't think it's integrated with the opam/dune package/build systems. It's still early days.
"There are two powers in the world, the United States and the CIA."
Terraform died for me, not because it didn't work well to setup one set of resources, but because when I went back to update things much later and a backwards breaking new version of TF totally broke my state file and the 3rd party resources I was using, had not caught up to the new version of TF yet. Short of starting all over again, I was dead in the water.

As much as I really liked how quickly I was originally able to get my infra up and running with TF, if I'm ever in the need to have similar functionality again, I'll find something else to use.
Not enough to make even moderately latency-sensitive gaming worthwhile, though. I don't see that getting better unless there's widespread building of data centers all over the place to keep the services right in your neighborhood.
Human Friendly Data Science Interviews
Wait what? Harvey Weinstein was convicted of rape. How is that politics?
I mean, it might be useful for comparing headphones while using headphones within a similar range, not much else. The car systems, home speakers, surround speakers etc. Not so much. So most of the company's inventory based on my browse through the site.
Nazi Germany's leadership and the German people are two different entities.

Western allies also treated German POWs relatively well. The eastern front was a different scenario though, surrender for German and Soviet soldiers and civilians was very unpleasant.
Yes, but he had failed before he even started trying to get people to say GNU/Linux instead of Linux.

That’s my point - when people say Linux they generally mean GNU/Linux not Android.

Equally, people are generally not talking about only the kernel, when they say Linux. Usually when someone is talking about only the kernel they say ‘the Linux kernel’.

GNU/Linux usually only gets used by the FSF or during discussions of this kind.

“Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.” [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
Depends on the gear and the manufacturer. Typically Japanese or Euro brands are cheaper when purchased in the EU, while the American brands are not much different. Also depends on where the Euro is compared to the dollar on the particular day.

Some examples of brands I can find cheaper in Europe vs US:
- Jomox
- MFB
- Roland
- Behringer(In some cases by 50%(!) For instance the Behringer X32 mixer is a pretty popular 32 channel mixer used throughout the world at Thomannmusic.com its currently
$1,495/€1,262.93 vs $2498.99 at GuitarCenter.com)

https://www.thomannmusic.com/behringer_x_32.htm

https://www.guitarcenter.com/Behringer/Digital-Mixer-X32-133...

YMMV but I can assure you there is arbitrage/huge discounts to be had out there.
The stateful receive (2) just means that an Erlang process should be modelled as a state machine with some variety of automaton. Each receive blocks on a finite ordered sequence of (possibly overlapping) pattern-matching expressions. The priority sequence means it behaves more like a PEG than an NDA or DFA.

Writing down the PEG message grammar for the process becomes quite easy. Pattern matching is well-defined. The number of states may be large, but can often be factored nicely by data types and ranges (e.g. tagged tuples). However, PEG semantics make it difficult to analyze composition of receive statements in the general case.

It's easy to solve the Halting Problem in Erlang - just add a timeout to your receive and accept some false positives :)
Maybe you've missed this ever-recurring discussion in the near-decade but it's how HN works. Some of dang's recent ones:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22910444

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22213180
> Well, these huge chains have bean counters that do exactly these kind of calculations, and in general, no.

That's why I mentioned selling the same information to 5 companies. I get each of them separately maybe paying a few bucks. I'm assuming that a few of them resell the information to the same market making that information less useful and giving me more value.

But at $70+ a month for the very repetitive shopping lists from a single location? My guess is they don't plan for people actually using the offers efficiently. If they did, the rewards would plummet.
> though it won't execute any system executables and doesn't do piping like you'd like from a shell

I think that's what xonsh was made for? :)