skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn’t that long ago that even in tech, you couldn’t mention same-sex spouses without backlash. And that’s still the case today in other industries (particularly ones that don’t have a sizable internet culture influence like tech does).

So like to apply that specifically to a work context: that’s saying “no watercooler chat about what you and your spouses got up to over the weekend” because your spouse existing is a “political” concept. And by extension, that employee isn’t very much welcome.

You can extend that metaphor in other directions though: company PACs supporting anti-gay politicians, benefits that exclude LGBT employees, etc. Now that’s all “political” too.

(There are other areas too, I think - this particular identity-based angle on it is relevant to me personally so I can see these examples clearly. I feel confident there are others.)
But now you get cash instead, and you can exchange that cash for goods and services, such as a gym membership.
I'd be more inclined to agree but the Snap was hardly public - it disappeared long before school resumed - and her parents were heavily involved, appealing this decision to all levels of school admin before launching a suit. A teenager saying "fuck this $whatever" outside of school hours is hardly disruptive enough to justify this level of punishment. And that level of punishment over something so trivial makes it more difficult for other students to exercise their right to speech without government interference.
If you're still early on, then chances are the talent acquisition specialist hasn't really shared you're salary expectations with the rest of the company. Perhaps they said "this person's salary expectations are rather low" and it may have influenced their decision-making process so far. But in my experience, most companies are looking for the best person for the job, and salary is much less of an issue. In fact, someone coming in at too low a salary may make them suspicious about your skill level. It's too good a deal.

So maybe you can talk to the talent acquisition specialist directly, and let her know the situation. I'd say "Hey, I know I said I could come on board for $30/hour, but I just now looked at the economics of my situation and I really misquoted that, I'm going to have to increase that to closer to market rate, maybe $<number you really really want>."

Of course companies do take into account geolocation, so your market rate should probably be what others in your area of expertise are making (when working for a US company).

Lastly, I don't want to tell you to play hardball if $30/hour is the best offer you are getting. You really need to compare this with other opportunities. If you can get a $25/hour offer easily, then sure, go for that $52-$78. But if you're only able to get $15, then maybe $30 is a good waypoint to your eventual goals.

Cheers and good luck!
You forgot to include tax on your investment, which in California I hear might be around 30% at the top income bracket.
I've had Roku, Chromecasts, a couple different LG and Samsung smartTVs, and the best, far and away was the cheap TCL Roku TV. Why? Because everyone in the family could use it, and there were hundreds of streaming providers available. Chromecasts are easy, but require another device to work. The Roku TV? You could operate it from the buttons on the TV if you lost the remote (a regular occurrence with 7 people in the house)... and it was fine. So... what about the YouTube app? It was great on Roku.
There have been several examples. Here's one from recently:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/family-of-boy-suspen...

> Nine-year-old Ka Mauri Harrison was taking a test virtually when he saw his teacher rush to get his attention after she spotted the BB gun in his room, a New Orleans NBC affiliate WDSU reported.

> Ka Mauri's parents chose to start the school year off remotely, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

> The incident resulted in the fourth grader being expelled from his school. However, his punishment was reduced to a suspension this week.

> Harrison's family called the punishment a mistake, adding that it threatens their son's academic future.

> "This is an injustice. It's a systemic failure," Chelsea Cusimano, the family's attorney, told The Washington Post on Friday. "They're applying on-campus rules to these children, even though they're learning virtually in their own homes."

> The boy's father, Nyron Harrison said, "They are treating it as if he brought a weapon to school," according to The New Orleans Advocate. "They told me he would be facing expulsion."

> Jefferson Parish Schools, a Louisiana school district that includes Ka Mauri's school Woodmere Elementary, told The Hill that it does not comment on individual student records.

> "Regarding discipline, it is our policy that teachers and administrators may employ reasonable disciplinary and corrective measures to maintain order," the district added.

Here's one suspended for liking picture of gun:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4488386/Boy-suspend...

Another one:

https://nypost.com/2019/04/10/students-suspended-over-snapch...

In a country where arms are part of the constitutional rights, students liking picture on social media or having it in the background during a virtual zoom conference is natural. Getting suspended over it is absurd.

Here's another related one. Virginia Tech Women's soccer player Kiersten Hening alleges she got benched for not taking the knee before a soccer match. Now she is suing. Here is a lawyer's breakdown of the lawsuit:

https://youtu.be/kMDN-9HoTbw

https://youtu.be/iPZbygw5PN4
Yes. So Cellebrite should be writing the data to write-once storage prior to performing any analysis of the content.

In absence of write-once media, they are betting that the hashes they capture will be the same every time they image the device because they never modify the device.
But "worked for me" could mean that something worked, or that something didn't work but the good outcome happened anyway.
No, training data influences the values of weights and biases in a neural network. An over-fitted NN might encode the training data in its network, but in general, the training data can't be recalled in the same way that a human can recall, learn from, make judgments and adjust their future behavior and perceptions based on their experiences.
It's 1-1.1% in most places in CA, and can grow by a max of 2% per year. The parent who deceptively advertised a much lower mortgage payment than would make sense given the current value, is probably paying around $10k/yr.
It also moves the emissions away from where people live for the most part. Not as much a win with CO2, but gas cars spit out a lot of other nasty stuff too.
> The dollar depreciates and appreciates against commodities and other currencies all the time.

Bingo! But, I do not see anyone complaining about this "only benefiting the creditors".

> econ 101

To be fair, I find a reference to very weakly approximating models of reality, taught to ignorant and naïve students for the sake of starting them off somewhere, to be slightly disingenuous.

> Appreciation due to contracting supply.

Contracting supply is not the only reason for appreciation. If we take that fact into consideration then your causality arrow of 'low monetary velocity' -> 'supply shrinks' -> 'appreciation' is one of many possible paths. Therefore, deflation is not what causes appreciation, it is in of itself a description of that very appreciation. Again, appreciation RELATIVE to something. You seem to be ignoring this very important fact.

You also created circular thinking. In a prior comment you said the deflation causes monetary velocity to fall, and then you say monetary velocity causes appreciation. Appreciation is where the deflation comes from. So, which is it? Deflation pops into existence and causes monetary velocity to fall? Or a magical appreciation occurs from a slowing monetary velocity and causes deflation to occur?

> In a fractional reserve system

Yes, in a central banking system the 'monetary velocity' is artificially controlled. Almost completely. You can push money into parts of the economy to inflate things at a whims notice. Then everyone loves that the "values" of investment vehicles are bigger than they were yesterday.

So, you are effectively only arguing for the status quo. But the status quo is not working. Is this really your best argument?

> volatility, and there is price discovery

Ah, word games. Even if someone might provide definitional differences, there is no objective real-world difference between the two things.

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Here is what I argue for:

Not allowing natural (not managed) volatility (or 'monetary velocity') -- MOVEMENT -- is a fool's game. You cannot beat basic game theory that is dependent on the biology of humans. You just can't. There is no fancy economic jargon that can allow you to. There is no monetary policy that will enable you to. You can pitch and sell artificial manipulation of the economy (via economic theories or political ideologies) but you are only pitching bubbles.

Allowing natural periods of deflation in the economy allows for volatility, trade, flux, interest, investment, wins, ... and here is the most important word: losses.

Loss. It allows for someone to actually lose.

These hippie boomers have never had to lose anything in their lives. The artificial manipulation of the markets and the economy reflects this mindset and attitude.

There is more than one currency and that fact alone negates any possible argument against allowing deflation to occur naturally in the economy. If it occurs because of temporary "contracting supply" (of one currency) then so be it.
I take it you weren't moved by what he said to address this?

> By providing funds for certain things, we're getting too deep into nudging people's personal, individual choices.

Reimbursing gym membership is not a wellness benefit. It's a cheap way to attract a certain kind of employee, who will more eagerly fulfill the cult-like startup culture that companies like WeWork were trying to foster.

I live on a farm. I don't need a gym membership, my everyday life is my gym membership. What you're doing with such a "wellness benefit" is attracting young, up-starter city-dwelling kids who are willing to be punished by the typical startup working hours.

I feel very fortunate to work for a wonderful company that does not engage in any of these

> paternalistic

practices.
An indie business beat a VC startup
"Staying out of politics" is a bold move from a company that just launched a blogging platform.
In the future it would be great to see a retrospective on your experiences with the language and tooling. I would be particularly interested in how it goes if/when you begin to add more teammates and what strategies help make a FORTH program more maintainable. For instance, do you write tests? What's a good strategy for testing FORTH? I've written some toy programs but never a unit test :)
All he cares about is ROI
> A human being can drive a million miles without a serious accident

A million miles sounds like a lot, but it isn't. The average American drives 12,000 miles annually. Assuming a driving career of 52 years (from age 18 to 70), the average American will drive 624k miles. So the lifetime chances of getting into a serious accident are not exactly small.

(I don't know how to calculate the probability here, actually. Is 624k/1M the lifetime probability of getting into a serious accident?)
It fits its theme ... vinyl
Depends why you’re buying the property. If you need to clean it, for example get it out of a country or if you got it from questionable means, property is a great place to park it. Look at all the empty store fronts in NYC before the pandemic. Keep your rent artificially high so it maintains the value and your only cost is property taxes.
> I don't know what the best solution to this will look like

Changing the law to require that banks prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they entered into a contract with you. The burden should be on the bank/creditor to prove that they extended a line of credit to you. It shouldn't be up to you to prove that you didn't.

I mean, imagine if you could hold any company liable for fraud if you received a phishing email that appeared to be from them.
Here, people started driving much more aggressively the first day of shelter in place and never stopped.
I wouldn't just say 250 vs 350 is a wash on trips . While the Y isn't better then ICE for road trips its way better then the VW for EV road trips
Regardless of my personal feelings about Bezos and Musk, the fact of the matter is that SpaceX is at least an order of magnitude to being able to actually land on the moon than Blue Origin.

BO hasn't even launched to orbit yet, why are we considering their bid?
Isn't that also usually the case? There's generally a vesting period.
Though their UI really needs some work in my opinion for it to be worth it. I subscribed specifically to listen to their exclusive podcasts, but bounced off and cancelled a month later due to it being a honestly not great experience.

It's possible that my expectations don't match the wider worlds though: my girlfriend loves Spotify and uses it for podcasts as well as music.

For me, music requires album-focused UI, and I honestly prefer having Podcasts broken out into it's own app or interface. Mixing the two just didn't feel right.
This should be interesting. On one hand gun control vehemence continues to mount, and at the same time, and very under the radar of most media outlets, gun communities and interest have exploded in the last few years, largely through veteran led lifestyle social media channels.

There are more Americans passionate about firearms and who see them as central to their identity than ever before. And they are more socially connected.

When it's not just a revolver in a bedside table, but the AR-15, the custom glock, the pants, the overlanding vehicle, and the body armor that you and your camping buddies turned obstacle course team all have, we're talking about a decentralized militia that is very social, very consumer friendly, and very focused on their natural rights.

It's not rednecks with shotguns anymore, it's guys with skinny jeans who watch the world cup.
That is a totally normal amount of food and drink for an active adult male to consume in a 20 minute meal. That said I do wonder if they should adjust the prescribed diet for people with different calorie requirements.
Sure - the USA Government wants to sign a deal to buy your software. But a group of people start a divisive email thread on how the USA Gov is a racist, white supremacist, sexist, imperialist government and the company should boycott them.

Or that Israel wants to sign a deal but a thread is started that we should boycott and divest from the the Zionist murderers of Palestine.

Or the Republican Party wants to sign a deal - where do we start?! Oh boy. Best keep that contract under wraps!

Or a police department wants to sign a deal but a thread launches that is certain that police are racist and doing a deal with them is harmful to PoC, etc. They must be defunded.

Or China wants to sign a deal but <fill in the blank>

Or Planned Parenthood wants to sign a deal but they murder babies.

Or the lol Catholic Church signs a deal lol....

Outside of business deals - “the company must take a position with BLM or else it is supports racism”.

Or “the leadership needs more X”

Or whatever. There’s no end to this and there’s no ends to the examples.

HERE IS WHY THIS IS GOOD POLICY: At some point, there is a good chance a reactionary party will take office. It will be charismatic and leverage done overreach on the left. It will feel empowering for a large group of people to be heard and the media, as they always do eventually, will fall in line with the reactionaries. This will not be good. And suddenly open discussion on “what’s right to do politically” will be awful. We need to stop that from happening. But the longer a small group of far left bullies dictates “née norms” the more good people will stay silent until the day that charismatic leader comes into view. Trump was not that leader and still got 70m votes. Someone that is an actual reactionary and not just a buffoon will come up and will seem like a good idea to a lot of people. And if the norm is that popular political opinion should be infused into everything then good luck.
I honestly think people are reading too much into this. They straight out say that discussions were turning toxic. That presumably impacted the ability of teams to be productive in the jobs they were paid to do. That's the why.
Perfect is the enemy of good, as always.

Say I claim that Donald Trump is the love-child of Barack Obama and George Bush, born through the help of alien technology, and has only lived for a few years prior to becoming president. We should rise up and bring back our lovely innocent miracle-child, because aliens know best.

Now say this gets picked up seriously, by people in the millions. Riots start because of it. Maybe a capital building gets invaded.

Why in the world wouldn't we try to stop it from getting worse?

(this is not in any way meant to claim that I think "modern AI" is a solution here. or that I have a solution. but I do think looking for techniques is a reasonable thing to do)
These are great points. Thanks!
If all they need is a stern talking to, then what they did isn't criminal harrassment.
You can (publicly) tell people to stop getting into politics debates all the time without banning all mentions of things that touch politics.
If you can't talk about the way your life is impacted by systemic racism or the way your healthcare is threatened due to your gender identity then you are being told you can't be yourself or talk about parts of your life at work. This is going to land much heavier on certain populations and therefore is giving preference to the people who benefit from the current economic and political structure.
It’s mega growth for companies that move atoms instead of electrons.
"is... somewhat weird."

No, it's not.
If you sell more horses worldwide out of the “four legged category” it has no relevance as long as less and less people are buying horses for transportation.
In other words, “some political advocacies are good for our business and some are not. As a result, let’s ban all of them.”
I missed that, my mistake.
> You uninvited certain people entirely, and in doing so have taken a hell of a stance on that persons inherent worth.

I don't understand how banning discussions on politics in official company communication channels leads to that. On the contrary, doesn't such a policy create a safe space for the people you're talking about to work together with other people who have different views?
Other manufacturers don't deal with customers directly. There is at least as much, if not more, micromanagement of pricing and allocation in the traditional dealer world, it's just hidden from the public. And it's not unique to the auto world either, every vendor of items sold via large single contracts has an ability to pinch pennies that isn't available to small ticket retail items.
Case for Universal Creative Income
8-10 times, what do you mean? There are only two of each in this meal.
I definitely abridged the Charlie Lee story. Roughly speaking, he joined Coinbase prior to LTC being listed as a trading pair there. He then lobbied internally to list LTC. He then resuscitated LTC with the wash trading. He then quit. At this point, the "bull run" was well under way, and he just sat back, hyped the coins from the side-lines (including on the day of his sale) and then dumped all his bags on retail a few months later.
don't ever doubt the brain trusts.
Seems kind of like an ableist “perk” to me. I understand that it’s one of those things that’s not intended to be, but the net result is still the same.
>Of course it is possible that the ad you saw was targeted at US based candidates and there is a different salary range for candidates in your region.

Yes, this is likely the case. It would be absurd if they pay the same salary to someone outside the US.

One thing that I want to ask, there are some devs from southasia working at this company. Is it a good idea to contact them on linkedin and get some info about their hourly rate?
She is a known terrorist. End of discussion. If you support twitter banning trump then your better support this ban.
I feel, these days making a web app look reasonably good is the easy part. Plenty of templates, color schemes, etc paid or free to pick from.

The hard part is actually getting a good user experience. Which is just in part learning about and applying research done in this area, and on the other fighting off all the trash people want to shove into the app for engagement and growth.
or any company that has their hands in everything
What do you think of GraphQL? I think GQL + multiple backend relational databases can be a nice middle ground. It means that you can optimize each relational DB separately, and still benefit from querying the graph at a higher level. (If needed, some of the backends can even be graph databases.)

It’s worth noting that GQL comes from Facebook, where they spend quite a bit of time operating with graph data.
And those who didn’t essentially lost out on a bit of compensation.
Blacklist/whitelist, main vs master, is there a bias in promoting women, what are the rules for dating a colleague, is an anti-bias training needed are all topics that are divisive, though some of them are easy to solve (David has strong opinions for naming variables, remote working solves the dating problem and no peer reviews means that less talk needs to be done about promotions).
Then there's Alexander Shulgin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiHKAL
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Prop 22. At least in California there's no risk of losing margin to "employees" anymore. Maybe FSD is not required anymore for long-term viability of transportation network companies.
Hard for me to take it seriously when providing a gym stipend is “paternalistic” but not trusting your employees to discuss certain topics is supposed to be smart business.
I repeat the more focused point: you don't find it impressive that a car from a manufacturer that was barely on the map five years ago is now beating the Mercedes E Class (edit: C class, sorry) in its own price category?

I mean, by your logic if Tesla isn't impressive for what the Model 3 is doing then Daimler Chrysler must be a flaming disaster, right?
Unsolicited comments:

• Compliment people behind their back. It’ll come back to you.

Super pragmatic. A tad selfish (complementing people in the hope it comes back around), but I still like it.

• Your best response to an insult is “You’re probably right.” Often they are.

This has been my default for years. It also disarms cunty humans (even when drunk at a pub).

• Always cut away from yourself.

When you learn this lesson the hard way, it sticks forever.

• In all things — except love — start with the exit strategy. Prepare for the ending. Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.

"except love" U WOT M8? Begin with the end in mind. You'll enjoy the experience more knowing the good times can end at any point. You also want to have your life in order to handle a massive emotional trainwreck.
This seems much more inclusionary to all employees
aaand I just realized I’m only 3
If you think that this is common, or generally what sort of things that churches do with the money that is donated to them, then I think that you have a very distorted view of American society and should probably work to educate yourself before commenting on this further.
The clinical trial in question: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04756531

The related intravenous antiviral: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04535167
Guess you miss the memo. The whole thing is avoid the authority. Is there an authority behind that I do not certain. But lots of our brothers and sisters do and did.
I honestly don't know what types of discussions they are referring to. I obviously know some of what is included, but I certainly don't know what the limits are.