skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's your choice, but I think the ratio is maybe 4 to 1 the opposite way, with most people somewhere in between, leaning a bit towards the Coinbase side.

I think most of us want to see people treated very fairly, but that it's not any one group's job to distort their situation so much as to hire people on the basis of race or gender or to worry about it that-that much.

The first time you hire A over B due to a very obvious ideological reason, and you come face to face with the plight of the bloke you didn't hire ... it becomes more visceral.

I think we can be pretty good citizens, and maybe even say a few words of empathetic to BIPOC etc (which I think Coinbase should have done) - but without going full woke.

I think that's what most people probably prefer.

I don't think there are really that many truly racist places in tech (most wouldn't want that of course), but I think most people also don't actually want to work in a 'fully woke' environment if they really had the choice. Definitely some. But a minority.
I would get my license if it was not required to provide my home address which will be published on the Internet with my name and call sign.
If you legally changed your name then it isn't an political act.

> I’m genuinely asking, because I’m under the impression that even asking people to respect your pronouns can be too political

That is just your assumption here. Why are you assuming that? It is almost as if you assume "apolitical" means "conservative". That isn't true, even if the left tries to tell you that all "apolitical" people are really closet conservatives that isn't really the case.
> On a side note, I am on of the 20000 Icelanders that got full double moderna inocculation and I suffered through the absolute worst nights of my life after the second dose.

I'm sorry you had that experience. I have a friend who had a similar experience (4 agonizing days) after his second Moderna dose and swore the he will not get a third one. Based on that I have to believe it was truly awful.

One the other hand I have several other friends who were quite fine afer Moderna. I wish we had the means to distinguish between the two groups, so nobody else has to endure what you did.
Celebrating him sure. Calling him anything that captures the nation's identity is a little rich... given the US's history of squashing many people's accomplishments due to their race/gender/religion.
CAP at least has an excellent cadet program for ages 12-19. Highly recommend it.
You can already do that by offloading the app but you will need to download it again the next time you open the app.
It's related in the sense of both having an appeal to DOS nostalgia.
I am not saying that there is blame or not, it isn't so much blame as recognizing that there are different circumstances between Alberta and Norway that influenced the direction they went.

The big example is the National Energy Program which (aside from its economic impact on the province) basically tainted politics in Alberta and probably contributed to their hesitancy to contribute to a fund which could potentially be raided by the Federal government in the future.
Ben Eater's breadboard computer design, and an assembler for it, written in Rust. First program in Rust. It's nice.
How does that make this ok?
This is a caricature of the “mission-focused” mindset. I’ll preface this message by saying that I am brown, raised in relative poverty in the third world, and left of center on most issues. I’ll also say that I have materially contributed a substantial portion of my income helping educate poor brown kids, which most of my preachy white colleagues haven’t and won’t.

The discourse at work in SV tech is not about, “hey, let’s not hang homosexuals”, which I am sure 99.99% of employees and employers fully agree with. It’s typically more in the vein of, “hey, why did we hire person Z, who the media has proven to be a bigot”.

As an explicit example:
Antonio Garcia Martinez’s firing was, IMO, bizarre and unwarranted and a manifestation of this attitude (coming from a company that is okay with using Uyghur labor).

I actually do not want my colleagues to have a very narrow view of what’s right and wrong — or a very black and white view of the world. And surely, I don’t want to expend cycles at work having such conversations.
Sure, in that case if it’s medically indicated and not elective, that’s a different situation.
This is correct. KDE's user feedback collection is:

* Opt-in.

* Has several different levels of sharing and pretty clear about what is being shared.

* Even at the most relaxed level, it's fully anonymized.

The only criticism I've heard about it a long time ago was that even if you turn it off, it still will collect the data, locally on your machine. Which was a technical matter at the time and may have already changed.

KDE people are among the most privacy respecting bunch. Grandparent is spreading FUD (or has been misinformed as result of FUD). In a world that people are comfortable with Facebook and Google I find it funny that people would have privacy complaints about KDE.

Disclaimer: Used to be a minor kde contributor.
That's a terrible shame, G&T was the last reprieve from the mediocre school environment created by children whose parents don't own any books. If they did any reading they wouldn't vote for Deblasio, though..
I’m assuming that because there are laws in several places in the country about whether or not trans people can use certain bathrooms, so I’m assuming it’s a political thing.
I have one now but I suspect the lightning shall … resist arrest.
I haven't voted on it, but it looks like astroturf/spam to me.
> Technically the same thing but legally different and therefore has a different liability profile.

AFAIK, any different liability profile between an EUA and approved product is moot in the case of COVID vaccines, because they are out of both normal liability regimes and standard vaccine liability regimes and covered by the PREP Act pandemic countermeasures regime which does not make a distinction.
I can assure you that most people would not bat an eye they were asked to use a different pronoun. The problem starts when they are 1) forced to do so b) suddenly have to "disclose" their own pronouns, and you end up on a zoom call with he/hims she/hers and one they/them.

The problem is not that some people want to stop being marginalised, the problem is that the aim is to marginalise a normal person.
The DOSSHELL included in MS-DOS itself also used some custom graphics, but that was totally optional. The interface was still based around the usual hardware text mode.
If someone wants to work at a place because of ideology, then the might be worse than worthless, they might have negative worth.

That said, I'll bet there's far more agreement among all of us than not on these issues, it's just that they get all blown up.

Outside of Twitter wars and the most radical voices in a company, I strongly believe we would just all get along pretty darn well actually.
Honestly this thread is my favourite.

My blog isn’t Jam. It’s a ghost on T2.micro. This hit the FP and it didn’t like it.

Can’t help but think if it was Jam it wouldn’t of gone down. Then again I like the editor for ghost.

Either way, I’m not protective over Jamstack, this whole situation is ironic and funny.
AIUI Coinbase is offering around $400k comp to senior-level engineers now, similar to FAANG.
SemVer is best IMO. Though I can see why it's hard to define exactly what constitutes a breaking--therefore major version--change when talking about user visible products or services.
Surely all this does is makes offshore tax havens all the more attractive? Sure, some of them have signed up (i.e. Panama), but if they are not ditching the territorial taxation system, it changes absolutely nothing for them, and even if it would, Panama absolutely does not care about enforcing the exising law regarding taxation.

Sure, the companies will have to pay a bit more to their lawyers, but the way I see it, is that all it does is making offshores even more attractive.
> The problem starts when they are 1) forced to do

So is the apolitical thing that a co worker can choose not to call a trans person by their new name and pronouns and the trans person can’t demand it?
The same reason you might specify “American South” if it is a crew from Alabama.
Facebook is valuable to me if the people I want to hear from post content there, not because of its UX.
Accusing someone of antisemitism is pretty bad, so I’d really appreciate sources or quotes. As far as I understand, she wasn’t a fan of the literal interpretation of the Bible, but she loved the esoteric Jewish Kabbalah.
Yeah you have a point. I have certainly seen plenty of that in American companies. It’s hard to tell how much of that you might have to put up with during the interviews and honeymoon phase.
I can't flag or vouch comments, but the flag seems to be removed now.
We are witnessing, in this country, the death of meritocracy by a thousand cuts.

Ideally, every student should get a personalized education. In practice, it’s not feasible due to limited resources. So it makes sense to segment kids in 2-3 groups (regular, gifted, special needs) and teach them accordingly. Tests are not perfect but they are a decent objective and non-discriminating criteria to achieve that segmentation.

This program certainly wasn’t perfect, but that’s not the reason it was scrapped. Or else it would have been improved through an iterative process. The reason it was scrapped is leftist progressive dogma. The idea that equity is more important than equality. Jordan Peterson is certainly the best voice on why this equity or equality of outcome is an awful idea.

I am an arab that gew up in a western country and went thru a gifted program at a high school where most students were first generation immigrants. And it’s only today that, looking back, I realize we had a “lot” of Asians in our class, I never saw it like that before, they were just my schoolmates, and they were in the same gifted class as me because they were… gifted.
Silver is not stable and becomes reactive.
it's not really a permanent solution as intrusive thought and memories begin to show up during downtime.

Sometimes breaking the cycle is enough to stop things. Other times it's enough to give the reprieve needed to for other methods to take hold. And, yes, sometimes it's just a temporary thing and removing it brings back the bad stuff. Videogames can do any of the 3 above roles though.
There's no technical solution to this, short of writing your own browser. Web browsers are big, and there will only ever be a few organisations capable of building one. Like Boeing and Airbus. Those organisations are rich targets for all kinds of shonks, spivs and chancers, who are more motivated than you are. Resistance is as futile as wearing a parcahute on a 737 Max.

There is a time tested and effective political solution: separation of powers. If Abine Blur blocks Mozilla from doing this stuff, and the Firefox plugin auditors keep an eye on what rorts Abine is pulling, then we dumb punters are in with a chance. Abine and Mozilla could gang up, but that puts them in a prisoner's dilemma—either one could win free advertising, then customers, by dobbing the other in to 60 Minutes. Some people are capable of resolving the prisoner's dilemma superrationally, but they don't become shonks, spivs, or chancers, so this is a fairly reliable solution. I think the priority for a privacy respecting internet should be to get Mozilla, Abine, and Duck Duck Go to start acting as if the others exist, and users of any are likely to use them all.

Maybe, in the end, big tech bastards are just another kind of bastard. That would be nice. In 200 years of democratic reform, the people have invented some sophisticated and effective ways of stuffing the bastards back underneath whatever rock they most recently slithered out from.
The resolution on these things is fantastic - and the colours seem vibrant and clear. I love mine.
Why does a workplace get to determine what is and isn’t medically elective for a woman to take birth control? Isn’t that political too?
Fuchsia is expanding to additional smart devices and other form factors
Not if race is a social construct.
I don't really get that undercurrent to the decision making processes here.

Yes, NYC's specialized public schools have become heavily disproportionately filled by its Asian and Asian-American population.

The competitive forces and consolidation does a disservice to them and the rest of the admitted population as well.

When a 4.2 GPA overachieving student can't get selected to good universities or other opportunities because of all the 4.5 GPA students at the same school, that undermines the point of the system. And that system also has the side effect of exacerbating segregation?

And you want to defend it by making it about other Americans focusing specifically on disrupting Asian achievement? I understand your sentiment is and has been shared and represents a collective assumption with some groups in NYC, but its a huge stretch! The other perspective is that it just doesn't accomplish externalities well. Mix the schools up, let cultural overachievers be dispersed instead of consolidated, the mindshare will help the overall local population better.

I agree that public schools should be about education, so focus on fixing where the education occurs. Try to get better teachers and materials to other parts of the city! Yes, if your child is trying to go through school before any of this better infrastructure is set up, I can see how defensive one would be about it, I can see why the low hanging fruit of "they dont want us/my race to win" is the goto argument, but all I can say is.. welcome to the rest of the country? Shitty public schools is the most American thing ever!
I tried to find it in the docs, but how the fuck does this work? Like, I'm most curious about how they work around javascript's dynamic typing. Do they look at the actual input and then compute the types of values from there based on it? Or?
Which site is this? Keen to resolve if one of my domains.

Tbh Wordpress nor Jamstack solve bad html.
Yeah, so in those parts you will use the bathrooms you are allowed to use. I'm not sure what is unclear here?
Would you be relocating, or staying in Europe? If you stay in Europe, time zones will come into play, so be prepared to take some late shifts and very heavy afternoon meetings. We are remote-friendly and I have many Euro colleagues however because our corporate is here, they do get the short end of the stick for scheduling.

Would you be taking the company's benefits? Another thing I've heard a lot of culture shock regarding is health care premiums from EU people who've relocated here.
You make at least three times as much as people in Europe, while the cost of living isn't three times higher. You can save this money in case something bad happens. If you're a minimum wage worker that's a different story. But we're talking about software engineers here. A standing desk and wrist exercises solve most of your possible work-related injuries.
I agree with all of your points, but also point out that a small vocal minority can really ruin the culture at a company and be quite divisive. That is true even if most of us would get along and most of us just want to focus on work. So you have to do something about the social justice crusaders. In some sense, this type of widespread culture wars within companies is only possible because we have so many monopolies and therefore you can destroy a lot of value and still have the business not only remain viable, but grow.

So it very much depends on whether we solve the problem of monopolies. Make progress on that front, and firms wont be able to support these types of employees because they'll be driven out of business by competitors in which employees are not attacking each other but really are just focusing on work.
(I'm not in the US, and agree that that's a disgraceful list.) Inefficient compared to what? What is your proposed alternative?

> When and how will the taxes help you and me?

Well.. for example, you use roads I assume.
90 days would probably be enough for a bone to set. But given that the wiring was threaded between the teeth, the sutures would be subject to the digestive enzymes of the mouth, which are significantly more aggressive than anything outside of the digestive system.
Not really "global", but mostly "western", I'd say.

What are the upsides of homogenization? Efficiency and predictability when all goes well.

What are the downsides of homogenization? Lack of innovation and fragility when everything stops going all that well.
Why? It's a perfectly fine comment on the topic of taxes.
> This is bollocks.

"pandemic of the vaccinated" or ADE, you tell me which.

[1] https://rightsfreedoms.wordpress.com/2021/09/08/pandemic-of-...
Perhaps it's a matter of what area you live in. Since I've grown a gray beard, I've found almost everyone, including younger people, treat me with a level of deference and respect that they didn't before.
Repotting a GIANT 7ft tall cactus on my deck. I've got some gloves and am gonna wrap it in newspaper so I don't get stabbed.
That’s what I don’t understand, because my understanding is that being conservative or progressive when it comes to trans people is no middle ground. Choosing to go with a trans persons new name and pronouns when they are early or mid transition is a political choice. There are laws passed explicitly around their bathrooms for example.
Silver, gold and copper are all known to kill germs, which would be a feature in medical uses. If we want to more or less wildly speculate (which the article is essentially doing), then let's guess that chelation was prescribed post surgery to remove the metal residue and this is the explanation for a lack of residue.

Now we can easily claim it could have been silver or copper, no real proof required.
This type of bookending is why Coinbase made this decision. What data do you have that indicates they are heartless?
These crew members are irrational: you gonna stay on a ship for years without pay while you wait for your year of back pay? Why?
This is such obnoxious virtue signalling. Do you issue statements decrying the 30 people murdered in a car explosion in Djibouti on a daily basis? Who decide which new social issue you're supposed to care about?

It's distracting, propagandist and politically charged bullshit. Just because I don't support BLM doesn't mean I don't have a problem with black people randomly being killed.

It's the exact same bullshit as shoving "support our troops or else you hate freedom" down people's throats.
This is the way. Define a problem and then find a solution. Don’t look at Jamstack and then hunt for problems!
What humans need is an A.I. assistance specifically designed to convert bureaucracy into human speak as well as take human speak and implement/talk-to the bureaucratic process to get things done.

i.e. if you need to do some menial paperwork (i.e. file with city that you are changing plumping, the a.i. handles it for you).

Basically an interface that is human friendly and can keep governments informed/processed/licensed as needed.
>Are programs to organize volunteers to help with radio communications a bad idea?

Of course not, but those volunteers have a very limited role to play in disaster response.

I think a lot of these guys fantasize about being the sole link in and out of a stricken community, coordinating helicopter airlifts and stuff. The reality is much more mundane.
Would that be git for-each-ref [1] or something different?

[1]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-for-each-ref
Yeah... that's some more over the top bullshit.
There is no law that makes people call other people by their given names too. Or law that makes people call priests "father". I don't understand how that can be so hard to fathom.

You should not legislate kindness.
Yeah playing The Witcher was not great for my depression.
They were too busy not dying of starvation to think about gravity.
There is not really an argument in their comment is there? It's pooling random facts together. You wouldn't be able to engage into a discourse because you can't start anywhere.

If your country is not designed to have taxes and do anything usefull with it you can't take it as an example how the "system wouldn't work if this one part would be different".
It's illegal to encrypt amateur radio transmissions. Other transmission modes may allow it depending on regulations for that particular use. For wifi, it's absolutely allowed.
I think it is well established by now that this .NET Foundation is ultimately answerable to Microsoft. Also, Claire - who started the "kerfuffle" - is a Microsoft employee.

Given how especially Scott always has a big opinion about how great OSS is and how much Microsoft loves OSS, and given how it was ultimate MS employees that were responsible for creating this current distrust, I think it would be very appropriate for them to voice their opinion about this.

And, who knows, maybe they are doing something behind closed doors. But I very much doubt they'll embarrass their employer by speaking up in public. They know who pays their salary and are much to good at corporate politics to do that.
Another stone in the water ...

Try "Night Ride and Sunrise". A "two-parter", with the first part "out of era" (in that Reich etc were decades in the future) minimalist texture, transitioning to the 'sunrise' part. The latter really feels like how the Fifth Symphony first movement might have ended if it hadn't been fused to a following scherzo.

Personal note... I woke up to this on a radio show thirty years ago, still remember that Sunday morning!
My take on this is that Ireland is now willing to come into compliance because post-Brexit, they now have a monopoly on "urban core that could sustain an HQ for multinationals in a natively-English-speaking country in the EU."

In other words, they relied on tax advantages as a differentiator for companies to choose Dublin over London for their EU HQ. But now, what would you choose if not Dublin? Obviously Paris and Berlin are candidates but if you're a straightforward multinational, or certainly a company that is actually based/headquartered in the US, you're going to experience a lot less of a shock in a natively-English-speaking country.

So it seems to be that Dublin wins now, tax advantage or no tax advantage. Which likely makes drawing the ire of other countries for being a "haven" less worth it.
Reading the comments to decide if you want to read the article is also a valid workflow. Although anyone doing that (me included) isn't entitled to complain about quotes not having enough context.
You’re thinking is incorrect. There are a LOT of governing regulations and oversight, not to mention unions and corporate policies.
Hydrogen’s moment is here at last?
You can afford pretty much anything you need as a trans person by working a year as a software engineer. Healthcare is bad in the USA? Do medical tourism, they have great doctors overseas.
If you tell people they're victims, they'll act like victims. Not acknowledging George Floyd "hurts" black employees? This is the kind of nonsense born of priviledge.

Anybody from the 3rd world reading this garbage feels sick. 20 year olds making 6 figures to build craigslist for crypto crying because their boss won't acknowledge an event.
Creating the new hydrogen economy is an undertaking
China used to be the first world power and economy a few hundred years ago. And they are slowly but surely reclaiming that title.
“Anyone who doesn't fully and unambiguously support…”

Please, stop right there. If you find yourself in this line of thinking, consider for a moment that you’re being a zealot.