skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There actually is no override whatsoever. If you email them, they tell you how to break the plastic base without accidentally destroying the lid (since the bases are cheap to order replacements). Props to them for sticking to that mission statement.
Add pool to the top bar?
Deliberately not an actual name, but I'm guessing the actual one he referenced is along those lines (he specifically mentioned it being Nordic)
I see you don’t work with very many American fresh college graduates.
> Coinbase's corporate culture is more libertarian (where an argument on "don't focus on politics" may go across more reasonably)

How is it reasonable to enforce "no politics" when the company's culture is based on a niche political tendency?

The more reasonable interpretation is "no politics that looks different from our existing politics"
Ya exactly, China is part of Taiwan!

But seriously, this is a standard non-politicised term.
Given a choice customers would very likely prefer a toaster that costs ten dollars less and has a 1 in 10,000 chance of burning down their house instead of 1 in 1,00,000 even though saving 10 bucks and accepting a in in 10k chance of burning up your kids, cats, and stuff is an insane choice.

The free market is in short pretty garbage on its own.
I don't think he's considered by very many to be a neo-racist. Only in right wing circles and few of them would even know who he is anyway.
Completely agree. I’ve been working on a Common Lisp collection library, and I went out of my way to make the element comparison function a parameter at data structure init time. If someone disagrees with my very strict definition of equality, they are welcome to provide their own comparison function! It always bothered me very much that FSet (the most prominent collections library for CL) used a definition of equality that is based on the a specific generic function that couldn’t be replaced. The icing on the cake is that FSet’s equality generic function messes up with derived classes. Oops.
I agree, the Verge article mentions this explicitly that DHH and JF are routinely outspoken on progressive issues:

> Both founders are also active — and occasionally hyperactive — on Twitter, where they regularly advocate for mainstream liberal and progressive views on social issues.

What did they expect?
This “silent is complicit” angle is positively poisonous.
Too much of politics is about racism and similar identarian issues these days, at the expense of more fundamental topics.

For example, BLM should really have been about police brutality and police abuse in general. It's not just black people who get regularly shit on by the cops. But by making it all about race, the more general point is missed and no progress is made.

Another example, you get Biden paying lip service to trans rights, but nothing about introducing Medicare For All - which would actually make things better for everyone, including those with gender dysphoria who require access to healthcare professionals.

Of course, people who see all the country's problems through an identity politics lens don't like it when you point out things like this.
The idea is good, the implementation needs improvement.
Germany hasn't adopted the French approach, but awaits a Europe-wide initiative. Let's hope the lobbyists can't pull its teeth.
Are people doing office work for $7.25 in Houston?

I agree that prices vary widely, I'm not sure it makes sense to take expensive places as typical.
great find - i love the one on Cameras and Lenses too, great use of interactivity for pedagogy
Because of reliability and the potential damage, not injecting fuel is not such a big deal but a stucked valve can cause serious damage with all the pressure inside the cylinder. There are some cars now with no camshaft, but they are very high end experimental sport cars like Koenigsegg
You have "commie" in your handle. C'mon man.
You are correct. It can go really well and it could go poorly. In my personal experience it has gone well.

First, I AM NOT an expert or any type of PHD in the field. I happen to be fortunate enough to have autists in my family. For them autism can be a super power and a drag at the same time. Making the super power more prominent is what I hope for them.

I believe you need to start by asking these questions of yourself: 1) what is your understanding and view of autism; 2) what are the motivations for bringing it up; 3) what will the individual be able to do with the information?

An undiagnosed individual with autism is often looking for understanding or answers to why their world seems different from others. This difference is often what leads to isolation or other misdiagnoses like depression or anxiety. Providing them a key to understanding their brain is what changes their life.

Along these lines, you can start finding where you can show understanding and be helpful. This will easily lead to conversations and questions. Which in turn can lead to talking about Autism in the abstract and recognizing areas characteristic present themselves. Basically being a friend.

Lastly, this is not some type of intervention. This is helpful and caring recognizing the individuals needs which are unique to them and not covered by a broad label.
> that we could support?

One of the most effective anti-poverty programs the government could do is teach basic accounting and finance as core curriculum in the public schools.
Most of them weren't pitting as often as they should.
Ethereum EIP 1559 – That’s Why Ethereum Will Hit $10000
John Warnock once said at an Adobe company meeting "when an employee leaves a company it's like taking your hand out of a bucket of water -- it doesn't leave a hole."

This was in response to a similarly contentious issue -- moving from Mountain View to San Jose. People said they were going to quit. John Warnock said, in effect, "good riddance." And the company started growing very rapidly after that move.

(This doesn't detract from the fact that I think DHH is a fool and often mean-spirited.)
The slap fight was more entertaining than any of the boxing matches.
Why not just have dedicated opt-in channels for political discussions at work? Thats how the Recurse Center does it and it seems to work well. If you don't want to engage, you don't have to, and political discussions outside of those channels are actively redirected by everyone with a nice reminder to keep those chats in the dedicated channel.
Maybe he just wanted to let the Powers That Be know who to move on to.

;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Game_of_Pool_%28The_Twilight...
Can't you just bisect twice. Once to find the PR and a second time within the PR's branch?
Dont know their products well but customers names should clearly be disclosed on a need-to-know basis - if ever. I believe they did the right move (just my opinion). I just agree. Harassement is a bigger subject we think it is. I think harassment is our population regulation mechanism. I think human-to-human violence is always based on harassement. It's our alpha male fight. It is wired in our brain. It is also suffering. With innovation, we may escape the need for population regulation and then suffering goes down (while suffering is everywhere in the animal kingdom, we make it go down, it's fundamental to life innit). I dont have understood it yet completely but trully, it goes well beyong the concept of a school bully. A list of funny names? Population regulation is at play again, beneath the surface.
I run a small politics forum. I was able to get down to one rule that seems to work.

No ad hominem or insults of any groups, people, or policies. People can talk about why they like things or why things will or wont work.

People continually try to work around them and sometimes there are comments that are borderline. Most people are very respectful and libs and conservatives can debate.

An example of trying to bypass is someone calling trump a Nazi. this is obviously meant as an insult. The person claimed it was a statement of fact. Trump has never identified as a nazi and therefore it isnt a statement of fact but is simply an opinion meant as an insult.

Once the insults were removed the group functioned well.
> They effectively become bricks.

In other words this was complete bullshit.

It’s true that older devices are less capable than newer ones, and you might not want to browse on an old device.

But they aren’t bricks.
Of course partners and kb are also key.

"I never pretended to know stuff that I didn't."

Exactly! My feelings is that they pride not on knowing things, but on knowing _how_ to know things.

I had an ex-Mck associate partner as a boss and turns out he's a great guy (though his brain seems to be overclocked and that made it extremely difficult to work with).
Yea I considered looking into Coinbase when they announced a similar policy - but I've got some equity keeping me at my current job. If that weren't the case I may jump ship.
That sounds great but it's second hand anecdata and says absolutely nothing about the ratio of cheaters:non-cheaters.
The idea that MLK would think 100% male working environments in tech is ok and also the embodiment of one of his most famous quotes seems slightly off to me...
Had to troubleshoot Windows software from a MAJOR shipping provider that popped up a “you must do this thing” on a fully up to date Win10 system today.

“The thing” would not work as an unprivileged user account and would only work as a right click run as administrator situation :-)
Meanwhile we have 25% capital gains tax in Germany.
> The idea that it's racist is that the names were only funny to English speakers, because they sounded like English words they consider funny

This makes no sense to me: aren't native English-speakers of many races? Aren't there non-English speakers of many races also? Moreover, this happens with any pair of languages. I'm not a native English speaker and there are some English names that sound extremely hilarious in my language. I see myself compiling such a list just for fun. I wouldn't expect English people to be offended by this silly thing, which is inevitable: when there are different languages, there are word collisions and some of them are funny.

> people's names - from the Basecamp client list.

Ouch, this is different, then! I did not pay attention to this detail. Now I understand why the list of names does not circulate (but still, I don't get what could be so bad about it).
This is actually a fascinating idea. How would you see telling the device your current tolerance for 'tasks'?
> they refused to take any action on it

Is this true? My understanding is they said this was unacceptable and apologized for not stopping their employees from disseminating this list earlier. I guess people wanted a stronger disciplinary response to people who contributed the list and they refused?
> The 6 months free money is hard for anyone entering a strong job market to pass up.

Surely some of the employees left for ideological reasons, but 6 months of salary just for changing jobs is a difficult incentive to ignore.

Anyone who was considering changing jobs would have a hard time saying no to 6 months of free pay. The publicity of this situation also makes them attractive targets for other companies looking to hire out of the situation.
> Vehicle insurance on an old vehicle: $300/mo

Wow. In Spain you would pay between €150 to 200 per year of insurance for the typical old cheap car. 400/year for a nice, semi luxury one. I knew some things were expensive in the States, but this particular one surprised me a lot.
I think eating a lot of red meat is one of the greatest moral problems in our society today from climate change, factory farming, and habitat destruction.

I don’t think I should be haranguing people at work about it.
I have heard that regarding judaism referenced at similarly high level frequently over the years. What is a reasonably accessible way one might learn more?
Notable examples:

- macOS uses BSD-style coreutils while most Linuxes use GNU coreutils. They have different args, output and behavior in many common cases.

- macOS ships with Bash v4. Bash v5 is a common default package on modern Linuxes.

- While the basic user permissions are the same, the OS security model is entirely different. There's no direct equivalent to namespaces in macOS and no direct equivalent to SIP in Linux.
I should have written: all of them are world-class developers, otherwise they would not be having a job there.
Mostly what i've seen is making the SBC take a symmetrical head. Saw some INSANE CFE pro stock heads at the machinist last year, he was building them in a large bore, short stroke deal setup for bonneville to run like 11krpm.
Timely topic, the current Communications of the ACM has a more detailed article on this topic: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3449054
'suffering' for a business is just code for being on a path towards the workers suffering the consequences of no profit. That might mean not paying shareholders dividends and the company's share price losing value, but not all companies are public or pay dividends. If the money runs out, suddenly the business can't pay rent or pay the workers and thus goes bankrupt. No, the business's feelings aren't being hurt and it's not being physically assaulted.
Can you think of any situation where bundling would be acceptable?

Should e.g. a restaurant have to provide an open market for silverware providers?
From what I understood this wasn't a "we want to talk about Trump and BLM all day" situation but a "owners/leaders refuse to reckon with a toxic aspect of our internal culture".

At some point the two mixed, the "pyramid of hate" is definitely out of the SJW playbook and probably went a bit too far for some people's taste. But shame on the leaders who for years have written books and blogs about how awesome their culture is to have 1/3rd of your workforce (so far) leave because of that aforementioned culture.
I'd encourage you to introspect on this. "Ethnic and religious minorities shouldn't have to assimilate the values of the majority group" is a common position, and one I strongly agree with. But you also seem to be saying that, across a pretty wide range of contentious social issues, everyone needs to assimilate your beliefs and you can't work with anyone who hasn't. Do you see the tension here?
Well, yesterday /lists got 655 hits while the front page got 1.7M. Draw your own conclusions :)
The EU regulated the Intercharge fees of credit/debit cards, but not the total fees that a Payment Service Provider can charge a merchant. Those can still be 3-4% or so.
You’re describing the effects of imperialism on the working class of the imperialist countries, a point we communists make all the time.

It absolutely is a left/right thing, it’s just that the imperialist countries have largely managed to exclude politics left of centre.
From what you describe you live on a dead end road or cul-de-sac that needs more pathways.

This poor connectivity is part of why states and localities have banned cul-de-sacs and started enforcing road end connection ordinances. Here in Seattle there are many dead end roads that have a staircase down to the next road (usually a 2 story drop) to tie our hilly city's sidewalks together.
Ya, it almost seems like once the criticism of the list took on a somewhat political component (people saying it was racist), that the critics were silenced with the no politics rule.
The problem with no religion and no politics is that it’s impossible to draw a line on what is politics or religion.

Let’s say you hire a gay employee, there very existence is political. Are they wrong for mentioning that they are gay (no), but to some at the company that may be trying to advance their gay political agenda.

Idk what the solution is, but just blanket “No religion/no politics” is just a way to say you like everything the way it is and don’t want to feel uncomfortable
Divides.

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Divides.html
Severance (or "buy-out"), is typically (in my experience) a one time lump sum event.
Learning BASIC using one of those gigantic "make your own game" books on our C64. Man I loved that computer. If I remember correctly it was a C64C, so probably around '86 or '87.
Only if the copyright is sold along with the NFT. Think of the NFT as an entire being bought/sold, not anything describing the transaction or the legal framework itself. The NFT "seller" might not even hold the copyright.

So does buying a 1992 Honda Civic from a guy give you the right to make more 1992 Honda Civics (not quite 1:1 with copyright, but you get the idea) -- no. Could Honda sell you a 1992 Honda Civic and also the right to make more 1992 Honda Civics? Sure.
How about your phone.
I'd say the MDN of linux is man-pages, which is browsable online at https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/index.html
I tried turning everything off, still had content thumbnails and details I didn't want and lacked the home screen stuff I did (it has been great previously). Waited for the next two revisions to see if it was fixed, no better so I moved on. Sounds like it's good for you: I literally wanted only local network content, nothing from the net, is that how you have it?

Might consider going back but we don't look at family pics that often and vlc works well enough.
Gun control. Abortion. Climate change. Drugs. The death penalty.

Racism isn't the only controversial political topic out there.
There’s no reason to assume it isn’t true. Journalists don’t write known falsehoods. Their livelihoods and reputations are based on the accuracy of their reporting.
I think if you were to talk to hkers or taiwanese you would know that the term "mainland" is pretty well understood
In which case the equity you've built up in a house can help serve as a cushion, either by obtaining a home equity loan or if circumstances don't allow that because you don't have a paycheck you can cash out the equity by selling the home. Absent on economic downturn, even if you sell within the first 1-2 years you should be able to roughly break even and then downsize to a cheaper apartment.

The only times I see renting as a better economic option is when the monthly mortgage + property & utility costs are significantly more expensive than renting, AND there's an excellent chance of needing to relocate within the next 3-5 years before much equity is built up.

At earlier stages in a career, somewhat frequent relocations are common. But for a large part of the population who, especially as they age into their 30's+, want to stabilize such things in the interest of staying close to family, or make their own family, a greater level of geographic stability is very desirable and can be achieved without much if any career sacrifice if the location is strategically chosen, and buying a house at that stage almost always makes economic sense in the long term.

Of course there are some people who will always want to periodically uproot themselves every few years to new locales, and there's nothing wrong with that either, but I guess my point is that these differences in lifestyle choices significantly change where the economic balance falls.
He said on Twitter that he hand-wrote the animation code.
Ah, the good old ad hominem.

FYI, I am Gen X.
I just work myself to my limits but I do it for a reason, if that reason isn't there why not just be comfy instead?
I had heard it was a bad headache, so I also tried weening myself off it with ever smaller scoops of grounds. Still, when I finally quit, it was a much stronger headache than I was anticipating. It really was one of the worst headaches I've had, and it lasted ~two days.

That said, my SO will never let me have caffeine again. My SO says that I am so much nicer to be around and that I sleep much better too.

I don't anticipate going back on the java, my life is much better. But everyone is different!
Yeah, I had to stop following DHH on Twitter for that very reason. Every few months he picks up some new pet issue, and then will not shut up about it. Then he finds another issue, and moves onto that one.

Of course they were going to have employees that approached politics in a similar way, and of course that would leak into the workspace. They've built their brand on the personalities of Jason and David, which has obviously informed all of their hiring decisions.
The problem is that some people's mere existence is political. If you're trans, gay, black or muslim (for example) someone arguing against who you are is not a theoretical debate.

If a coworker was saying or acting in an anti-semitic way (possibly not even consciously), I would absolutely feel unsafe as a Jew in a company that told me "that's just their beliefs, you don't have to agree with their politics". I would call that out on the company slack & if they continue doing so would expect them to get fired.
October CMS as you know it is dead
A few years ago I worked with someone who would constantly complain about a certain politician. Honestly the unending onslaught of negativity was the problem for me. They could have been complaining about a toaster over’s inability to bake both sides of a sandwich and I still would have gotten sick of it if they kept saying it. I’m at work to make money, not to be subjected to endless banter about anything at all.
If a company ensures that everybody needs to act professionally all the time then even talk about politic will be done in professional matter. But as soon as you allow unprofessional behavior or talk regarding any topic (deals, customers, code comments, etc) you will have trouble with politic.
I mean that's a false choice, plenty will be keeping work conversations professional elsewhere while also having 6 months salary.

I don't know if a full third of a company leaving at once can really be explained away as people they didn't really want on the team.
Yeah, anybody who quits over a no politics policy is probably someone you don't want in the first place.
I sometimes do infrastructure consulting.

One of the first questions I ask is if they have at least one fully independent, full/incremental off-site backup that can't be corrupted from the main infrastructure, and if they have ever checked if they actually work and are restorable.

I'm continuously surprised how often the answer turns out to be no after dinner digging, even in larger companies with otherwise well-run IT.

No, the automatic 7 day RDS snapshots or turning on S3 versioning is not a sufficient backup. Neither is mirroring to a S3 Glacier bucket in the same org, or rsyncing to a a backup server in the same datacenter.

Backups are annoying and unglamorous. Nobody wants to do them, or do the tedious work of validating them or setting up something like an automated restore test.

Until the day you lose your data.
Nearly every comment here has provided valuable words to consider. Thank you all.
you mean.... twitter? ;-)
No policy in the world can make up for bad management.
“Once again, they want all the benefits of the App Store but don’t think they should have to pay anything for that.”

This is the biggest problem - Apple's narrative, that other companies' clients are theirs.
This is just the state rate. The current federal rate is 20%, and is about to rise to 43%. So, the full tax rate on capital gains in WA is 27% and going to be 50%.
I tried unpinning the Plex stuff, didn't work for, didn't put local content on home either. Maybe errors at my end; had used and liked it for a couple of years before that.
You're thinking in absolutes. We would both agree that a billion dollars a month is too high.

And I don't see how what you've said is related to what I said, which was a critique of the idea that this move is artificially depressing wages when allegedly it's an attempt to stop poaching of key talent at artificially high non market rates.
It's fine to laugh at things. But circulating a list with customer's real names that you think is funny is very unprofessional. I'm sure my coworkers and I have had a laugh now and then about a name that is strange to us. But we wouldn't post it up somewhere and keep making fun on a long term basis. That's a different level.
> what is politics or religion.

How is that so? They have pretty clear definition.