skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it depends -- it's fairly simple math equation. The more paternalistic benefits you have, the more they cost, and the more people take advantage of more than one of them the more you risk hitting the value requivalent to the 3-5% promotion you have given that employee over 2 years.

Just my opinion, but if you were happy to take a 90k job because you live somewhere with a low cost of living for relatively less strenuous engineering work (let's be honest, Basecamp isn't pushing the boundaries of what can be done on the technical side, more on the product side), you're probably fine with waving off the extra 10k or whatever by thinking to yourself they'll pay for schooling if you ever do that (you probably won't).

Also, important to note that their 10% thing is performance linked ("profit sharing") -- so it pays for itself. If sales at the company grow 10% so they increase your pay 10% (and that isn't even necessarily what it is, they didn't clarify what the 10% is), the incentives are aligned and the company makes an outsize gain compared to each individual employee. It's a win-win-win, but most of the wins are on the side of the company, as usual. Compounding effects are much stronger than 10% yearly gain -- and what's even crazier is that you have to keep moving the company forward to keep getting the 10% -- essentially if you keep doing that, it's exponential improvement for the company, and each new person that comes in has to get on the hamster wheel. It's brilliant (which is why it's so common).
Reading through the reddit thread you can find some nuggets of what Riot's work culture seems to be like. If part of this is true, I wouldn't be thrilled being on Riot's legal team covering them.
And they'll produce more cars than there are atoms in the universe before the end of this century.
As tempting as it is, "I think a lot of people think like me" isn't really evidence.
Real argument is no one will loan to students, most of them aren't credit worthy.
I am all for vaccines for really dangerous diseases, but we also need to get ill to keep our immune system active and healthy. For example, there are links between being in too clean an environment as a baby and then developing leukaemia. There is similar evidence for other autoimmune diseases.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180521131746.h...
The point is clear you said

> We need long term data on technologies before we immunize hundreds of millions of people with it.

But we have already done this, hundreds of millions of people have received the mRNA vaccines.
Lets start with two assumptions. In 10 years, majority of cars sold will be electric. Majority of cars sold will have self driving capability. Tesla is a leader in both. Much of the traditional knowledge companies have about ICE engines do not help them build a better electric car. That knowledge is worthless for the future.
Stock price represents future value.
Living in an area like that, and having to rent a car for longer trips in a PITA. Car rental is not exactly easy in areas like that. If there is a rental agency nearby, it probably is open 9-5. So you have to pick up the car a day in advance, and leave your EV there if they let you, or have another person along to drive it back. It's just not practical.
>But this isn’t what I’m saying: I’m saying that plainly anodyne workplace chitchat that anecdotally confirms that I am a gay man is coded as political speech by many people.

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Basecamp is not at all saying people should not reveal, let alone actively hide, their sexual orientation, gender identity, or anything like that.

I think anyone else at the company who considered such a thing political and tried to tell that person or the chat that what they're doing is political would be the only individual who's violating the "no politics at work" policy (perhaps in addition to other policies, too).

I understand your concern in general, here, but I don't see any reason why "gays are gonna get told to stop mentioning their husbands like we used to" is a thing that would start happening as a result of this policy change at Basecamp. I very strongly share your opinion that a conservative person who would do such a thing is deeply in the wrong, but I don't really think I see how it would apply to this particular situation.

I don't think "banning political discussion" at all carries the implications you're concerned about at most companies, and I think if it did happen at such a company it would be the thing that's violating the policy.
Lambda School Agrees To Stop Beating Its Wife

CA Gov Site Denies Making Deceptive Headline

Journalists Covering CA Gov's Headline Deception Deny Using Clickbait

HN Commentariat Denies Having Insubstantial Discussion About Title Clickbait
This isn't quite right. Adderall is a 3:1 mixture of dextroamphetamine and levoamphetamine. These are different enantiomers (configurations) of the amphetamine molecule. The two molecules have subtly different effects in the body, but as far as I know, neither is added to "make it uncomfortable if you take too much".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26925044 (174 comments)
Giving loans is a good thing. With them, as the comment above yours points out, people finance education, cars, and homes that they can afford to pay off later due to having a higher salary than before.

Predatory loans are bad and governments do try to crack down on those. Going from "it's easy to get credit in the US" to "the US lets corporations steal from regular people" is a bit much.
Yes, because you could do more than the value of the lease in damage to the property, and then be so insolvent that there is no way to recover any of the money from you.

I'm not saying I agree with this. Landlords are ridiculously abusive, as a renter you will frequently be asked to pay a $300+ nonrefundable "application fee" before they will show you the lease document. They then can put whatever terms they want into the lease, understanding that many renters would not be able to afford another application fee.
Lots of people drive from Canada to Florida in the spring. Go to Clearwater Beach in March and count the number of Ontario license plates you see.
> "would be nice for our team to have different kinds of people"

so if you have a business case for recruiting different kinds of people (who currently don't get recruited), then that's not a political agenda. If you can point to evidence that the recruitment team is missing out on great candidates because of some systemic mis-identification.

But if you are suggesting that it would make the world a more equal place to hire those different people, even though they currently would not be hired, then that's not a great business case, and thus, becomes a political agenda.
Author here, your feedback is highly appreciated.

Providing better documentation for the RESTful JSON endpoints of this project is our next top priority.

Seems like it would be important to have a minimal example (e.g. curl + psql in a shell session) as well.
write a systemd service ?
Here is some snippets from the letter sent to UMN

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-linux-foundations-demands-...
Most European banks have API's. It's almost mandatory by European law [1]. As an example, see ING's API: https://developer.ing.com/openbanking/home

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/payment-services-psd-2-directi...
Not really sure they allowed to send you _any_ of that information in Denmark/EU.
> Ok, now here is where I object. Musk hasnt done anything incredible/remarkable, YOU have done it, the STOCK INVESTORS have done it, the tesla car BUYERS have done it.

and none of that would have happened if Musky hadn't decided to not only invest in this little startup called Tesla... but KEEP at it... he could have at anytime cut his losses, and ditched Tesla, he had more than enough on his plate with SpaceX; fame, glory, money, whatever...

And yet he kept at it, year after year, for the past decade and a half, and NOW... after all this time and effort, here we are...

I find it hilarious when people go out of their way to slice out Musk from any Tesla/SpaceX news item; it's OK, you can both admit his accomplishments AND still consider him a dick...
Seems that Microsoft is sunsetting IE11 [1], I wonder if that would nudge the world towards less IE.

[1] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/mi...
Interesting concept the biggest problem would probably be data density. Like how many papers would you need to to get about dvd size. Other than than the problems in getting a reader dvds is one of the best current long time solution.
> Oh you mean affirmative action for non-Asian minorities is unfair to Asian ones?

Yes, it objectively is. No matter how you will try to paint it using colourful phrases and invocation of "justice" - this is discrimination.
The purpose of the sanitizer is not to prevent contagion by contact, it's for you to make sure that your hands are clean before touching your face (mouth, nose, eyes). That's how you get infected, the virus get onto your hands for whatever reason and you touch your face. So technically it's true it's not transmitted by contact directly but it does indirectly.
Sleepminting NFTs
Why are you connecting "banning political discussions at work" to "being conservative"? Either here, or in general.

Any conservative who expressed any views like that at a company where political discussion was banned would certainly be violating the political discussion policy, at the least, and potentially also violating harassment policies.
Just looking at the screen does not unlock the device as you still need to swipe up to close the lockscreen. Before that, it does exactly as you describe, shows a glance on the lockscreen.
Perhaps it's a good thing? https://www.bitchute.com/video/juDojCOYqIee/
I like how the author says "we don't need these and these things because latest versions of X don't require it anymore" — well what about people who don't use the latest versions of X?
> Discussing people’s membership in groups like cis or Native American or whatever else IS an unwanted political act.

Unwanted by whom?
If by "straight" you mean only fuel stops I do ~750 miles or more at least twice a year.
For what I know the main argument against td is that tables are for data, not for layout.
Flutter is new thing for me. I am completely off the track with progress of Flutter Web. that's why the question.

> How would compare maturity with more popular frameworks that have been around for more than twice as long?

I have to have some benchmark to evaluate isn't it ? I am not saying that Flutter Web has to be better than Angular/React/Vue so that I can adopt it. I am just asking how close it comes to these frameworks in terms of functionality.
I've never thought to do something like this as a way to detect whether or not js is being used.

<html lang="en" class="no-js">

...

<script type="module">
document.documentElement.classList.remove('no-js');
document.documentElement.classList.add('js');
</script>

It's so simple but so effective. Will be copying that.
Now I understand why so much of the modern technology was invented in rural India.
Something I do not see being mentioned in this NYTimes or TheRegister article. If I am not mistaken he was the one who had the idea for "VisualHostKey"in SSH. I remember a column/article about "advanced" SSH usage from him in early 2000's.
How does it work with Ingress?
Also available in English: a witty saying proves nothing.
> They say that children who grow up on farms have stronger immune systems because they are exposed to the natural environment more. Weirdly, they also have low incidence of food allergies.

I have many siblings (more than 9). All of us grew up on an active farm except the youngest one. None have had any food allergies except from my youngest brother.

> I also wonder about doctor's who work in the emergency room. How are they not constantly sick with some kind of common cold / flu / bronchitis?

A colleague of mine told me his wife would eat anything that had expired best before date etc while she was in training, just to build her defenses.

I cannot vouch for this theory but maybe someone else can tell if it is a common tactic.

(I think it sounds weird.)
> If you do this, you will have a terrible experience! EVs charge ultra fast when the battery is low. You are supposed to drive them down to say 10%, then charge up to around 50% repeatedly. This takes.. 10 minutes. You drive for 200 miles or so, stop for 10 minutes, repeat.

I'm not sure why you're basing this off the assumption current EV's have 500 miles of range... (10->50% of 500 miles would be those 200 miles you're driving)

With actual EV's being more like 250-300, 10->50% is only 100-120 miles. Which leads me to...

> It's pretty reasonable to take a 10 minute break every 2.5 hours.

That's more like a 10 minute break every 90 minutes, and not very reasonable for trips taking 5-10 hours.
Homebrew and MacPorts don't add the quarantine flag to the software they're installing. If you're getting Gatekeeper alerts for software installed this way, then something else must be going on.
Political correctness isn't about taste or decency, it's about control through pseudo-offense, imaginary "victims," and "microaggressions." This is manipulative browbeating by implicitly threatening people's standing in society by telling them what to think, what words are "correct" now, and what topics they can't talk about anymore, even as jokes. Oh and now, let's retroactively rehash the past, tell people how horrible they were in the present, and punish them too. Keep looking for people to punish, excoriate, banish, and crucify until there's no one left. After all, no crime is too small to not earn the instant death penalty.

George Carlin (RIP), Bill Maher, Jerry Seinfeld... sadly, I think they lost the war because there weren't and aren't enough comedians with enormous lower-middle orbs (female orbs run a little higher) to stand up or manspread against the tides of Karens, booers (that's not "boogers," although that would work too), shouters, and the rest of the heckler safety-pin brigade mob.
> Credit cards in the USA are backed by very strong consumer protection laws. That is why you can mindlessly give one to wait staff at a restaurant who will disappear with it for an extended amount of time, while in any other country that would be unimaginable.

But how is this specific to "credit" cards? Don't debit cards get the same protection? The point here is that in the US one needs to have "credit history" in order to do things like rent an apartment, which is not a thing in the EU.

As to security, the EU has largely gotten around the problem by implementing modern payment systems. In Poland no waiter will "disappear" with your card, they will bring a mobile terminal to the table, so that you can use your (contactless) card.

In fact, living in Poland currently, I can't remember the last time I used a physical card anywhere. For the last two years or so I've only been carrying my phone with me, no wallet at all.
> You can't criticize the design as being too complicated...

I hadn't finished reading the ETW rant; but I don't see anything wrong with it. All he seems to be saying is that for communicating with OS, ioctl-like all-in-one APIs are bad while epoll like APIs are better. Not really a controversial statement.

> After a couple of those I don't trust him

Who said anything about trust? I have made enough mistakes and learnt enough lessons, and it's nice to see other well-respected programmers (like Casey and Mike) come to the same conclusions like mine. To paraphrase your post: "You shouldn't repeat those mistakes but you're welcome to".

EDIT: Actually, after finishing reading the blog post, wow! I thought Linux's perf_event API was shit, but this ETW crap takes the cake. Well done, Microsoft; you had one job.
Let's see what happens after the Berlin factory opens up; this will reduce both delivery time and costs (tax/tariff etc), and make it cheaper and easier to ge the Tesla. Also, the car built in Berlin would be better suited to European moods, regarding quality etc...
why such extreme take?
That sounds quite intriguing. Hadn't heard of it, thanks.
Another thing is that autonomous truck can drive 24h. In most countries there are regulation how often drivers have to take a break, e.g. in Poland after 4.5h of driving truck driver need 45min break, after 9h there is mandatory minimum 11h break.
The Kelley, General Topology pure math book acknowledges NSF and Office of Naval Research support in years 1950-1952. Same financial supporters for Luenberger, Optimization by Vector Space Methods -- fun with the Hahn-Banach theorem.

Good to hear that the NSF has supported some computing hardware -- my guess was that that was done mostly by the US Department of Energy. E.g., as I recall LINPACK was developed at Oak Ridge.

At one time I was teaching computer science at Georgetown U., and some colleagues wanted to work in speech recognition, asked for NSF support, and were told that the NSF did not support "software development" or some such.

Most of numerical analysis I saw was good definition, theorem, proof math. But recently I saw that the Formula 1 auto racing teams have been using CFD (computational fluid dynamics) for detailed design of the shape, wings, downforce, etc. of their cars. That's a lot of progress in fluid flow since I was working with the Navier-Stokes equations. So, apparently numerical methods for fluid flow have made a LOT of progress. As I recall, at times there was some such work at Courant Institute. I hope the NSF supported some of that progress.

For NSF support of "applying mathematics to biological problems" very good to hear, but my guess would be that that came under NSF support of biology instead of applied math.

Here is more what I had in mind: Daily the many US research-teaching hospitals take in sick people and make them well. There is good research, but the actual patient care is clinical, that is, serving people, and professional, e.g., with apprenticeship training, code of ethics, and liability and for professional practice. In the US I don't see anything similar for applied math or computer science, with or without NSF support.

Generally US research universities have a huge fraction of their annual operating budgets from grants from the US Federal Government, especially NSF and NIH. Roughly professors apply for grants, and about 60% goes to overhead for the university and, thus, also supports the English department, the string quartet series, the drama company, the alumni magazine, etc. Since the research universities don't much like math applications outside of academics, that NSF/NIH support is not much for such math applications.

E.g., university math departments have lots of talks by professors presenting their solutions without known non-academic problems but nearly no talks from non-academic people with problems looking for solutions. So, such academic math departments with NSF grants are not using that NSF funding to help non-academic people with problems find solutions.

E.g., in grad school in an applied math department, I studied a lot in optimization and stochastic processes, but I was the only one there with any real non-academic problems that could use work in optimization or stochastic processes.

When I was a B-school prof, I was shocked to discover that B-schools were fine with some quite pure math research but wanted nothing to do with education or practice as in the law school, medical school, school of pharmacy, or agricultural college.
ain't they just society representatives?

anyway meant the same
Nothing stops you from putting the same label on multiple boxes in real life.
> No more paternalistic benefits. For years we've offered a fitness benefit, a wellness allowance, a farmer's market share, and continuing education allowances

I have had a gripe with this sort of 'benefits' in previous companies. For example, paying for membership at the local gym. Reply to criticism tended to be "Oh well, use it or lose it".

Glad Basecamp saw the light on this. Just pay employees well or set up a benefits self-service like some companies do: Employees have a benefits budget that they can choose to assign to a list of individual benefits or to pocket in cash.

Obviously political discussions on company channels are always a bad idea.
I expect this to become a thread of people sharing their preferences. I prefer something minimal, that I can almost remember and write by hand:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<meta name=viewport content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1">
<style>
body{
font:menu;font-size:1.125em;
margin:auto;max-width:40em;
padding:0 0.5em 90vh 0.5em;
}
</style>

I don't use html, head and body tags and I don't close tags that don't need to be closed like p. With this html is almost like markdown.

I use this bottom padding, because I like to scroll all the way up and it also is useful if you have low anchors for one to see on top what was supposed to be there.
> Was your expectation that the tip should link to research determining the optimal distance from the camera to achieve good eye contact?

Yep, that would "back" the statement with research, otherwise it is conjecture. As mentioned, this particular statement is easy to dismiss given the wide variety of FoV on webcams - but other statements are equally unfounded.

To clarify - I like the site, and im sure it is useful to many, but its very misleading to state that it is backed by research when it isnt.
Why are the non-container elements like 'meta' and 'link' not terminated with '/>'? Did I miss a memo?
God I wish stupid people like you didn't exist.
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> it never was entirely clear what Plan 9 was for. People keep calling it a research OS, but aside from the early 'research-ish' ideas, I don't think there was a lot of actual research. It was sort of more a "daily driver that won't go" (see point 1). There wasn't a whole lot of reevaluation of design decisions either (point 2). There were some really good ideas in it, right from its inception, but calling it a research OS is weird.

i always thought it was just a proof of concept for the filesystem they built which was a networkish extension of the original unix ideal (everything on the network is a file)? seems kinda researchy.

it was also good for blowing up some crt displays as the video drivers often tried to drive them with unsupported modes.

was cool that it fit on a few floppies though. i think it was a tech demo.
Haven't people been doing this in two lines already?

.center {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: center;
}
There's no evidence that it works. The studies used concentrations that were roughly 1000x a regular human dosage.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/ivermectin-is-the-new-hydro...
Computer Software by Alan Kay (1984) [pdf]
An awful lot of inventors and scientists, at least before 1900, were wealthy because they had the time to play around with things. Other inventors and scientists would get patronage from wealthy people. Or they'd get backing from business interests.

Today this patronage often comes in the form of grants by the wealthy to universities for research.
Tesla mission is take money from idiots like yourself and is nowhere near complete.
yes, you don’t use those in html5 (though they are required in things like jsx)
> Make banking a choice […]

How does “giving everyone an account in the national bank at birth” correspond to making a choice? How about, instead, you give people the option to open an account with the national bank? That sounds more like a choice.