skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the point that folks that repeat the line:

"It is a tacit endorsement of the political status quo.
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never seem to have an answer for.

Let's say I own a company and I'm not happy with the status quo, but I decide that the best way to enact change is via my agency as a private citizen instead of throwing my company brand and money after it. What gives someone the right to think that they can read my mind as to whether I'm ok with the status quo or not?

It drips with arrogance as it's just a cheap line to repeat instead of actual productive work.

Maybe I've decided that having me tackle it and not my company is more effective due to people seeing a company endorsement of a political message as a diluted bandwagon hopping exercise.
12 + 7 = 3?
> The contrast between 'black' and 'white' is still extreme relative to what people normally have around them.

It's actually the opposite. The truth is, our eyes are able to easily register extreme levels of contrast -- clearly taking in a bright sunlit day through the window next to a dark but still clearly visible interior.

Computer screens (and film and camera sensors) don't achieve anything close to the level of contrast our eyes can take in, which is why things like exposure and blowout require so much careful attention -- why you simply can't take a photo of a bright landscape in the window of a dark room without artificial-looking HDR.

If you stand in an office and look around, it's not like computer screens stand out as blazing white with inky black figures on them. To the contrary — they fit in rather harmoniously in terms of brightness. (And in dark rooms, we tend to reduce brightness in order to keep the harmony.) The idea that computer screens have extreme levels of contrast in comparison with the surroundings is simply not true — it's entirely the opposite.
I fail to see how this relates. Religion may be pervasive in cultural norms and social mores, but by no means are they as pervasive into everything we do as public policy are.

Yes, it may be hard, or it may be easy, to leave religion out of the workplace. Depending how religious you are, and how pervasive religious practices are in your culture. But it is in a totally different scale as leaving politics out of the workplace, or keeping politics out of the business.

As an example. If you make a strict separation of religion and the workplace, you just made a political decision. An employee who’s religion dictates they prey every morning, and you ask them to do so outside of the workplace, then you are doing politics.

The power dynamics involved in running a business and having workers means that you must make political decisions at some point. It is not like being an atheist because: a) a business is not a person, b) a religious decision usually does not affect people other then you self, and c) often being “apolitical” and not taking a stance, is simply taking a stance with the status quo. Not doing your morning prayer is not this nuanced.
I have a 2013 13” MBP that I have not being nice to (to put it mildly). It’s working great.

I have a 2013 15” MBP that I babied and kept in immaculate condition. It also worked great until some RAM failed a couple of weeks ago. It’s a brick now
It also repeats the standard "mining death spiral" fallacy. In practice, of course, difficulty adjusts downwards if price drop makes some miners stop, making it easier for the remainder.
They may have, but in war you don't always have all the resources you want to secure things and prevent failure.

Not unlike in a startup.
[] syntax in the last struct member is a "flexible array member" not a VLA. The former hasn't been deprecated in C11.
Honestly, in the Haskell world, no one really complains about broken APIs, it's actually pretty common for a library to change things in a breaking way. People tend to either use Nix or stack to deal with versioning or they just plan to refactor when they have to. I personally just started with Haskell, but I've switched a small tool from one streaming library to another and it was super easy even though each had a very different API.

Also, breaking API changes happen in every language, on every codebase, ask the time. At least with static types and a common linter I can refactor and be a hundred percent sure it works since it compiles, whereas in Python for example I can't be sure unless I add tests and stuff, even then...
I don’t know your situation. Even a perfect 1600 isn’t enough by itself to get you into top 5 schools.

https://blog.prepscholar.com/sat-scores-for-colleges

The highest average SAT score at the top schools is right around 1500.

I’m not saying a 1500 will get you into Harvard. It won’t. But it will get you into a very good school. University of Washington is a great school. It’s average SAT score is just 1340. 75th percentile is 1460.

1500 is literally top 2% of score distribution. For most circumstances that should get most people into a top 5% school. (Top 5%, not Top 5).
For a server to underreport 40% of their income they would need to be making a good bit more than that in cash. Especially when you consider that they are making some money hourly as well.

I find it highly unlikely that a server is making anywhere near 60% or so of their tips in cash these days.

Maybe there are a few locations with that high of a mix of cash, but not enough for that to be anywhere near normal.
For me the biggest disappointment is it won't import an existing aws stack into config files. The idea of declarative infrastructure seems amazing, but this implementation hasn't overwhelmed me.
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There’s a reason why companies like google jumped on the covid thing earlier than most. Imagine an SRE group that got hit by a covid cluster. Now imagine that group handles... oh I dunno YouTube. Or search.

Even for mild cases of covid, the recovery can look like the flu. That means 1-2 weeks off work. And reduced ability for weeks after that. Now half of your team gets it at once.

Efficiency and resiliency are in opposite tension.
Always felt YT sold itself early because they needed someone with deep pockets to defend themselves from the lawsuits over copyright infringement. Insiders, am I wrong?
How long does the US need to stop thinking that they are still fighting WW2..? it seems the only way they can interpret politics is in the context of Allies vs the Axis powers..
Yes, it's barbaric. At the moment, likely half of Americans have no health insurance.
What do you do with the NFC tag in those watches?
It's much easier to do that for hotels than for groceries since comparison is harder. It will be quite widely known and sightly abused if your grocery chain starts doing that. The shops will always have the reference price in public after all.

The pricing difference that actually matters (moving old stock) is already mostly done without personalised data. Sales are a standard.
my own experience using CloudFormation to provision complex infrastructure

If we're talking anecdotes, my experience is vastly different. Difficult to assess what's going to be a replacement (other than browsing the doc), replacements that cause a chain of other replacements, leaf replacement that fails due to some syntax in a SSM doc that wasn't checked at the very beginning, wasting 45 min, so everything gets rolled back, but you used Retain policies, so those ASG groups are now not managed, and still live, so you need to delete them manually.

Building complex means breaking down stacks in multiple pieces, and you can only use URLs. Which can only point to S3. Which means you have to pre-upload your sources there. For which you have to build the tooling, because aws provides nothing. So not only you have to build your infrastructure: you need to build the infrastructure to build and develop your infrastructure.

You want to know why a nested stack is going to replace that ASG you though it was safe? Well, you can always dive into the nested stack changeset... aaand nothing there. You can't. Maybe in the parent stack JSON.

Complexity without loops? Good luck. Or lots of copy pastes, I guess. And the Conditions are just rudimentary and clunky.

The Resources/Events UI is just meh with no sensible sizing for the otherwise huge columns (big names, big ARNs). Impossible to get the sorting of new events coming in right. Every refresh reshuffles the rows.

And cfn L1 Support is hit-or-miss: 50% of the times it's simply not useful, because of the complexity of the infrastructure. We just get the problem echoed back to us. I'm lucky we have Enterprise, and can escalate. There would be issues we wouldn't have solved in weeks otherwise.

I very much like the fact that we have a state management tool. But calling it great is an overstatement.
“Existential threat” could also mean “something that threatens life as we know it.” Sea level rising above the entire country of Bangladesh certainly qualifies in my books.

Aside: Arguing the exact technical meaning of a term thrown around is kind of a bad faith argument. Maybe we don’t put the same meaning to the same term, which is entirely likely given that HN is an international community.
Because not everyone is scummy, and it's obvious that they would be in the wrong? I also imagine something attention grabbing like a western politician will get more care taken than some random educational company in India.
GP went too far with that claim but I think their broader point is valid - BOH work is at least comparably hard and demanding to FOH work but often pays 1/4 to 1/2 as much. Same goes for lots of other “unskilled” non-tipped jobs.
I have the same question. The only answer I can think of, is people that want to get out of Bitcoin but aren’t able to sell for real USD because of AML / tax purposes.

Even if the tether is only worth $0.70 it’s still a better deal for some people who can’t exit their BTC position legally.

It still doesn’t really explain who is holding almost $20 billion of Tether though.
I'm sure its not foolproof but it clearly raises suspicion. How many people are born on the same date with the same name?
Didn’t the getpolarized spam used to come from a different account?
My wife works in home building in the bay area. I can assure you that home builders want to build homes. The inability to construct new homes in the bay area is almost entirely due to objections from local commissioners and planning councils.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55013725
There was a documentary about 20 years ago where a Canadian journalist traveled around in North Korea wearing one of these. His handler teased him for having a "bourgeois" high tech watch but found out that he paid more for his Rolex knockoff than the $15 Casio.
The Spiteful Investor (Or There Are Always Idiots at the Cutting Edge)
The comments here are mostly about framework clannism. Every framework has it's pros, cons, compromises, and quirks.

I picked Angular because it was so advanced. I wanted the challenge, got to work on awesome teams, and learned so much. I'm a better developer today because of it.

Thanks, Angular!
Yes, but that does not change anything. “I don't care what you are doing and will sell you the same services as to anyone else (I am only interested in your money)” is still a political decision with almost the same effect as “I support what you are doing and will contribute to your cause”.
Sell the two companies, or at least one.

Edit: looks like you might enjoy reading "How will you measure your life?". Tweet summary here [0] - I made it this morning [1].

[0]: https://twitter.com/booktweets6/status/1330600066176880641

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25180473
NRA isn't a charity. Do they do it for political organizations, or just charities?
Rocky IV absolutely did have a theme of technology in it, but I would agree that it doesn't align cleanly with a simple "Soviet superiority" narrative. The usage of technology - with a robot wishing Pauli happy birthday, the Vince DeCola synthesizer score(which is excellent) backgrounding every scene, and Ivan Drago portrayed as a Terminator-esque technological superman through contrasting training montages, rather characterized Rocky and his peers as ordinary people trying to keep up and adapt during a time of complex change, with the narrative effect of humbling Rocky so that he can remain an underdog against the odds.

But since I mentioned Terminator, it bears more discussion here too. Terminator plays on the apocalyptic fears of that era with an technological antagonist who is literally from the future, and greatly predates the Matrix in that respect: as "dangers of technology" stories go, it's one of the most influential of our time. But even before Terminator there was a cultural moment in the USA that precipitated this fear. It happened, as a lot of things, between the late 60's and early 70's, through a culmination of events: The civil rights and gay liberation movements, the moon landings, the birth of UNIX and modern telecommunications, the shift away from the post-war economy towards the neoliberal regime, the Vietnam war, and yet more.

One of the reasons why the 70's feel less clearly articulated in outlook is because the reactions to all these events were still forming. The conservative and anti-technological backlash to this era's progressive breakthroughs found a voice through a mix of vigilante narratives like Death Wish and Dirty Harry, and slasher horror like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and then as time went on, in post-apocalyptic fiction as well, like the Turner Diaries(explicitly white supremacist and championing a death-cult outlook).

A common thread in this is that the Soviets are just one more shape of the Other, often never even appearing onscreen, but playing a role in the pantheon of threats to society regardless. And so by the time you get to Rocky IV the narratives are simply blended together: Ivan Drago might as well be fighting on behalf of Skynet, and Apollo Creed's place in the series is often a stand-in for race relations, in this case using his death as a punctuation - it is white America that must fight for survival.

The Matrix, then, is in its own way a development and turning point to these tropes. While Neo does act as a "white savior", the critique of technology is through its efforts embodied in Agent Smith to give up his crusade and push him back into the system - into normative white society.

In general, it's more the exception than the rule for any of these stories to be technology-centric, rather using it as one of several themes.
It's all about the quality of life.
> Yes, I am not sure I want to discuss politics with anyone from a shop either, but the way that shop is managed is a political position.

Or just it isnt, I have managed shops and I for sure was not thinking about Hayek or Marx, I paid my employees according to the law, paid my taxes and followed the rules. Not every action has to be a sociological treatise no matter what the enlightened crowd may think.

> Also it is more relevant to tech startups because technology has that thing where it can greatly influence the world after it exists. There's more political decisions to make and positions to take when you do that.

Nails have been more important for civilization than 99% of SV start-ups. You are giving your tribe too much credit. And I thought this pandemic taught us a lesson, it only goes to show how dumb I am.
People with strong eyeglasses (more than 3 or 4 diopters positive or negative) may find wide-gamut monitors hard to use for text. The problem is that chromatic aberration is wavelength-dependent; the larger the difference in wavelength between two photons, the greater the angle between the paths they take when they pass through the lens. (Except at its optical center, the surfaces of the lens aren't parallel, so there's a prism effect, which increases toward the edge of the lens.)

These wide-gamut monitors have both a deeper red source (longer wavelength) and a deeper green (shorter). So the red and green peaks are quite a bit farther apart -- possibly as much as 80% -- than they are with a standard CCFL or WLED backlight. Combine that with high-index plastic lenses, which have higher dispersion (a measure of chromatic aberration) the higher their refractive index, and you can get a real problem.

Since my correction is about -6.75 diopters, and I have wide-gamut monitors, I had a pair of glasses made with CR-39, a relatively low-index plastic with low dispersion, almost as low as that of glass. CR-39 is generally not used for such strong lenses because they would need to be thick at the edges, but this problem can be minimized by making the lens round in shape and not too large.
I don't understand this criticism. The article isn't about a specific palette, but rather rules of thumb for building your own. The hues they use in the examples are pretty bland, but the advice isn't "use these colors", it's "here's how to create a palette using colors of your choice".
No they probably don’t. That’s one side of the argument.
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.

On your first paragraph it seems to me a reasonable argument that if all the chemical companies in Germany dragged their feet, obfuscated, and ideally just outright refused to supply the government with poisonous gases, once it became clear they were being used on people, less people would have died.
> Coinbase, whose mission is to create “an open financial system for the world.” That’s inherently political, ... he’s basically asking his employees to support the political stance that he is advancing.

No one is joining Coinbase if they're opposed to Coinbase's financial system objectives. It's not a secret.

If someone was actively opposed to Coinbase's primary business objectives, how would they even be a productive employee of Coinbase in the first place?

It's a false equivalency to try to equate the company's core business with completely unrelated political topics.
DNS-based adblock is mostly, but not totally, effective.
what it conveys to me is that those who are silent and downvote without engaging in any kind of meaningful exchange are valued more highly than other members of the community who take the time and effort to create content and perspectives with the goal of sharing and wanting to learn more.
The only problem with this watch is the godawful screen light. The next model up is a negligible bump up in price and although almost completely identical otherwise, the entire face lights up bright green.

It might not be good enough for the most purist of terrorist-chic aficionados but it looks almost identical and in terms of functionality it's definitely worth the step up.
It depends on the severity of "your cause". I don't think you will get many complaints if your cause is lower taxes or increase minimum wage. If your cause is to to take away rights of a coworker, you can't really stay neutral. I wouldn't accept my employer being neutral on gay marriage for example if I was a gay person.

As the culture war has become a bigger part of politics, like the grandfather comment suggest, more of these issues fall into that second bucket in which it is tough to accept neutrality.
They're meant to give your hand some more of that action-adventure jazz.
that was supposed to be a shrug-- but it apparently puts it all on one line:)
I work with many PhDs so I’m familiar with the problems. But I don’t know enough to have a solution.

It may just be “pay them a living wage!”. Pay them $75,000 and call it a day. The waived tuition cost is BS. They aren’t undergrads living on campus and taking a half dozen classes. It doesn’t cost $50,000 / year to have a PhD student do lots of work for the school. Quite the opposite! The school makes a lot of money of their labor!!

At least for STEM PhDs at research universities.
>If 2050 is this dystopia where everything is ordered online, all food is dropped off by drones, it's going to be very bleak.

No it won't. That will free up space so that your social interaction isn't the hardware store, but instead some place meant for entertainment. Hell, we might even build some public spaces. If you enjoy mumbling some words to a cashier you life might be a drag, but the arcade pub that replaces that market is gonna be rad.
Causation is often treated as a binary outcome in the popular press, more recent attempts at adding nuance to that via statistics aren't much better. Hard to come up with solutions or alternatives but speaking personally I felt humbled at my own paltry understanding when reading this[1] reference.

[1] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-...
> Print tether, buy bitcoin, sell bitcoin for real money.

But to buy bitcoin for tether, you first need someone to sell bitcoin for tether. And this guy then has tether. What is he going to do with the tether?

> Day traders use tether to slip in and out of positions in a volatile market. Unregulated exchanges use tethers in place of real dollars.

But day traders close their positions at the end of the day (or at least regularly) so they will not hold tether.
That’s a widely speculative conspiracy. Do you have any evidence?
The reason why politics used to be separated from business is that political processes must follow certain rules:

* If you wish to run a political campaign, you need to be very transparent about your sources of funding.

* If you wish to make certain idea into a law (that would force others to follow it), it must be approved by several layers of elected representatives, before it becomes mandatory.

* If someone believes that someone else does not comply with the law, they bring it to the court. Where the independent judiciary branch uses the due process to independently evaluate the situation and decide who wins the case.

These safeguards are put in place to counter abuse. They make sure that the laws (and their interpretation) serves the best interests of the general population.

Modern workplace politics completely bypasses these principles. If your activism fits a few select topics, you get to conduct it on your company's expense. You get to force people to follow the rules you set without any semblance of voting. You get to punish people you don't like without any due process. You can respond to any criticism of yourself with an accusation of one of the new deadly sins, and this immediately destroys your opponent politically and financially.
With Oregon legalizing magic mushrooms my interest in psychedelics has been piqued again. very keen to read more about all of this.
>It is worth noting that the media trying to portray Trump's EO as fight against anti-racism is the same media that profits from creating divisive content in the first place.

I cannot agree with this more. Most of the bickering isn't bickering about a particular issue, it's bickering about a gross misrepresentation of an issue. Misrepresented for those sweet, sweet ad dollars.
Likely no more than 15 years ago, unless you just broke embargo on the Tardis project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youtube
If you go the pure capitalistic approach (I am only interested in money) it seems like a bad moral play for society in general.

Why can't a corporation have a moral imperative that says "I will not participate in acts of cruelty"?

Corporations have a lot of power in our society and it seems having a moral guideline here would be beneficial to society as whole. Yes I know this can but both toward liberal and conservative ideals but overall I think it's a better position to have.
How often are you (A) needing to know the time and/or (B) misplacing your time pieces?
I pay as well. They need to get these damn ads off my Xbox (same account as PC) which they have not implemented. Worth it though.