skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are both pretty openly xenophobic, no?

I mean if xenophobic is defined as preferring your own race compared to others then I guess pretty much the entire world is xenophobic except white liberals in western countries.

China or Japan doesn't (in recent decades at least) put nearly the same amount of effort into destabilizing other countries that they have no cultural affinity with compared to countries like the US.

To me, I would consider these actions more "racist" or "xenophobic" than restricting immigration to prevent excessive racial/cultural diversity. To me this is the rise and fall of nation states 101. More diversity in race and cultures leads to more conflict. You can't have a race riots between two races that don't live in the same nation.

To take this a bit away from race, just look at the middle east. Countries like iraq are doomed constant civil war because of the racial/cultural lines which are commonly expressed through religion sects. I think it would be pretty fair to say that without diversity, iraq as a nation would be much more stable and prosperous.

If it's xenophobic to understand race exists and the human condition is one that accepts race at a foundational level, then I guess we are all born Xenophobic. I personally don't believe in living by original sins.
> Once the niche elixir of powerlifting bros ... about one gram per pound of bodyweight is the bro’s rule of thumb

> The company is currently focused on drawing in women, in large part because they are the primary drivers of lifestyle fitness.

Am I the only one who sees the term "bro" as disparaging? If not, why disparage men who lift by calling them "bros" but women who keep fit "women"? If the article called women "babes" or some "bro" equivalent, people would take the writer to task.
I use FreeBSD on mine. iwm(4) handles wifi generally ok but not as well as Windows. You can set either intel or nvidia graphics in the BIOS, both work on FreeBSD with the same about tradeoffs as Linux using open source intel drivers (graphics/drm-next-kmod port on FreeBSD) or the FreeBSD nvidia blob driver.
the conservative claim to being "silenced" is a reflection of privilege. for instance, the icon here is Peter Thiel, a billionaire who complains about being victimized because people tell him he's in the wrong.

you will and should face ostracism and other consequences for saying, believing, and doing things that people find abhorrent or evil. free speech means you're free to believe those things, and everybody else is free to call you evil, and coordinate accordingly.

conservatism in the United States has enabled the murder of countless children, both through the NRA's fanaticism re assault weapons, and through the weird effective impunity police have re criminal prosecution, even after killing children. conservatism in the US has enabled the destruction of the environment. the Trump campaign and presidency have seen a rapid escalation of hate crimes, and after Charlottesville the president explicitly defended the white supremacists in attendance.

there is so much blood on the hands of the conservative movement. so much racism. so much sexism. so much fear-mongering and rabble-rousing. how could you possibly expect to do that kind of thing without facing CRITICISM? how could you possibly be the victims here?
I think a better term would be "Dapp starter"
I wonder if there will be an ICO
So pro-choice activists are bigots if they're in deeply conservative parts of the US?

If it's implausible for someone to imagine expressing their beliefs without being labelled a bigot then it's just as much a statement about the environment they're in as it is about the beliefs in question.
https://www.gideononline.com/about/gideon/ is like that for infectious diseases.
> For instance, you won't find many if any papers in china on the effects of diversity within society and the workplace. Unlike here, they don't seem to be urgently researching in this area.

Maybe, and just maybe, their research in those areas is not something anybody would be willing to publish.
Moral disengagement
The killer app for dynamic typing is when you want to develop the program concurrently with executing it. I don't know that it's technically impossible for a statically-typed language to support that usage mode, but I've never seen it done.
You seem to think you have some sort of constitutional right to NOT be downvoted..
I’ve used True Nutrition for years. It’s great for bulk protein.

With that said, I’m okay with the MM flavors if I need something quick on the go. I think I’ve just grown accustomed to eating and drinking things for ‘nutrition’ that I can get down almost anything at this point.
Is it a difference in ethics or a difference in competence?
I can understand the business reasons behind it, but it would be much better if these checks were implemented directly in mainstream compilers for the benefit of everyone.
Yes, and that's part of the strategy that Envoys (and presumably, real life counterparts) use in resisting torture. But with virtual torture, the victim can experience thousands of AI-driven sessions with a clock rate that's thousands of times faster than normal. So years of torture in hours.
Humans don't explain themselves particularly well, yet they thrive.
It’s more the incredible amount of time spent drawing it out and ultimately often arriving at the wrong answer due to drawings becoming so overly complex.

Despite her spending tremendous care at trying to neatly diagram exactly as she was taught, the methods apparently do not scale well past 3 significant digits.

It becomes an exercise in frustration which can take up to 10 minutes trying to solve a multiplication problem which she knows how to do properly in the blink of an eye.

There’s lots of graphite going on the page, but I’m highly skeptical of any learning. Certainly any love of math quickly goes out the window during the process.
The speculative weasel word here is "might". What are the relative human costs and how were they defined and estimated? To say "might" tells us nothing but implies, to some readers, the correctness of the speculation. That is misleading. (Lede headline writers, take note.)
Would you say that if you use Zipcar and don’t own your own vehicle, you live a carless lifestyle?

And are you saying that people in the crypto world have blockchain as such an implicit given that they don’t need to describe it, but a distributed nature of its operation is something that explicitly needs to be stated every time? That seems really silly. “As a public ledger” is better than serverless in that case. Or “smart contracts”. But serverless really is a misnomer buzzword in that case.
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I wonder what opportunities, interesting insights, or otherwise has this community given to you. Thanks for the answers!
I am 44 and visit the Bay Area from time to time. I have the same feeling on various levels.

Anything older than two years has disappeared into a vortex. I mean I remember when the peninsula was the center of the tech industry - I mean Facebook came out of Palo Alto in 2004, it wasn't that long ago. Now the peninsula is the home of Oracle, Intel, Cisco, and other dinosaurs founded between the 1960s and 1980s, and now Facebook is considered a dinosaur next to upstarts like Snapchat.

People travel from Market Street to their startup office. Everyone has a Macbook. Everything is done on Slack. Food is delivered to the communal tables at 1 PM via one of the dozens of online services that exist that make startup life simpler. If your laptop is HP, if you actually send e-mails from time to time, if you still use IRC and Freenode (or heaven forbid, EFnet) - dinosaur.

I've been on the Internet since the 1980s. One reason for lacking techno-utopianism is I see what has happened. I see how Verizon/AT&T the monopolies seized control of what I guess they always controlled on some level. I see how they destroyed Usenet. I see the NSA monitoring what Americans are doing 24/7/365, and storing it forever in a Utah data center they are still building. I see intelligent conversations between academics fade away for alt-right 4chan "raids". There was always some dull-headed and anarchic forces on the net but now they have taken over. I see the collaboration and massive amount of free man-hours given to build the net being seized and expropriated by large corporations. I see people burned out with 80/90 hour week startup death marches, then get burned on options for Zynga/Skype option clawbacks, then have their marriages and families and lives fall apart - 40/50 something unemployable burnouts with broken families. While the VCs and bigcorp majority stockholders make out like bandits.

It is one reason experienced people are shunted aside - it is easier to sucker some kid in their 20s to throw a decade away slaving for peanuts for super angels, VCs and their LPs. All the while having the founders talking about the importance of company culture, as if you're in some cult - which on some level - you are.
We've taken that baity bit out of the title above.
Currently, the Tesla is aimed almost directly away from Earth. After all, it was launched from Earth!

On the other side of the orbit, that becomes almost directly at Earth.

Go round and round a few million times, and Earth might actually be at a point in the orbit where it can exert a significant gravitational pull on the passing Tesla.
Sure it is, if there's a 30%/70% split of viewpoints then the 30% viewpoint is a mainstream viewpoint as well, not some weird niche - it's also considered normal and conventional (though less popular than the 70% one), shared by a significant part of the people, known / acknowledged by almost everyone including the opponents.
Or a forth, subjects become aware of data collection and purposefully skew the data because lets face it, cats are jerks.
OK, we'll s/web/decentralized/ above.
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Thiel's real problem is that he doesn't have "conservative" views as much as he has totalitarian and abusive views. He feels might makes right, and that wealth makes might. He's in a group that feel they should be free from restrictions of normal people, and that corporate oligarchy is fine as long as they're on top. He's openly elitist, and THAT is something SV doesn't look nicely upon.
Forgive me, but I don't think that your comparison holds any water. I don't think anyone would begin a salary negotiation by comparing their co-workers to a group that committed the most horrific genocide in human history.

It's simply a cheap tactic that is used in an attempt to de-legitimize opposing viewpoints and end conversations.
“Got” and “will get” are not the same title.

The NYC subway has not “got wireless in the tunnels”.

FTA:

> Transit Wireless obviously is eyeing the tunnels as one of the most important infrastructure challenges going forward... Currently, the company is offering a pilot demonstration of tunnel service on the shuttle between Times Square and Grand Central Station, which launched in December.
There are tons of physical processes that aren't explainable.
Most current petrochemical plants have inner workings that are only half known, at best.
What are we doing about it? Modeling the failure, and engineering a solution that no longer fails in that situation.
Unit testing our way to robustness!
Tweepy API documentation might have some info on the topic too.
I believe it is a bug. Not hard to see. Fb uses a number to send 2fa, but also messages sent to the same number is posted on status page.

Probably routing conflict was not caught by presubmit tests. I can imagine one system can bind to outgoing and incoming separately.
And so did the people running the NYC subway who hired this contractor...

I don't really get it. Do you think the government should never award any contracts to anyone? How do you think that will work?
To understand what is going on here please read Rand's article "Anatomy of Comprise" in her anthology "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" and her article "The Establishing of an Establishment" in her anthology "Philosophy: Who Needs It."

Rand wrote; "It is precisely those ends ([sacrifice]-collectivism-statism) that ought to be rejected. But if neither party chooses to do it, the logic of events created by their common basic principles will keep dragging them both further and further to the left. If and when the "conservatives" are kicked out of the game altogether, the same conflict will continue between the "liberals" and the avowed socialists; when the socialists win, the conflict will continue between the socialists and the communists; when the communists win, the ultimate goal of [sacrifice] will be achieved; universal immolation."

In short we are witnessing the end of the Rep party as they are kicked off the social/political stage because they stand for nothing except watered-down ideas/goals of the Dems/Left. Who needs them?

Trump was never a Rep and used the Rep party for a self-aggrandizement, and big FU "Ill show you" to the NY Dems who rebuffed Trump in the '90s when he wanted leadership positions for all the money he was donating.

What Thiel, et. al. don't understand is that they are objecting to the left/liberal Establishment propagated by Academia and based on collectivism/sacrifice as political and moral ideals shared by both parties. The only way to end this process is for Thiel or the Reps to stand up for individualism and selfishness or their protests will be a footnote in history.
What if a drunk drives the car into a pedestrian? Not much content there, either.
But this is probably true. Trump is very very different from a mainstream Republican. In 2016, mainstream Republicans were all calling him an insane criminal. Today, psychologists are endorsing the "insane" part, his long record of legal problems arguably endorses the "criminal" part, and the Mueller investigation looks extremely likely to endorse the "criminal" part as well.

Trump's father was arrested at a KKK rally. Trump brought fringe white supremacists into the White House, and the only serious mainstream politician he brought into the White House was named after multiple Civil War generals who all fought for the Confederacy. After Charlottesville, Trump defended the white supremacists who marched.

I think you could argue that failing to stand up to Trump only makes you an apologist for a Nazi apologist. Beyond that, though, your co-worker is basically just objectively correct. Many mainstream Republicans have voiced the same opinion, although many of them recanted once he took office. (And many of them continued voicing this opinion regardless.)
Beautiful piece of work. This bit jumped out at me:

"First problem: I don’t have a 16-bit code segment! Second: I don’t have a way to generate 16-bit code with GCC."

I had that exact same problem writing a loader for a now defunct OS and for years I kept a copy of Borland C++ handy so that I could compile a 16 bit trimmed down version of the filesystem that would load the rest of the OS before jumping into 32 bit mode. The tricky bit was that the loader had to interact with the BIOS in 16 bit mode and I could not find a way to cleanly jump back to 16 bit mode from 32 bit mode once I got there, so multiple transitions of that 16 to 32 bit boundary were out.

So instead I cut out everything from the filesystem code that had to do with writing and updating things just to read a couple of files, place them in memory, flip to 32 bit and then jump to the equivalent of 'init'.

The x86 compilers of old had a whole pile of 'models' that you could write for, all with different sizes of code and data segment limits.

DJ Delorie's excellent GCC to DOS port (DJGPP) was another very important tool in that whole process.

Also beautiful how web.archive.org provided one of the key bits of information, I suspect that in the longer term it will be as important as WikiPedia.
For JS developers looking for a Backend-as-a-Service, Hoodie(http://hood.ie/) deserves a mention: <Hoodie is an Offline First, noBackend architecture. Its Dreamcode API gives you user signup and administration, data storage, loading, synchronisation and shares, emails and payments and can be extended with plugins. Hoodie is written in JavaScript and Node.JS and relies on CouchDB.>
Yeah I assume since it's not at all taxpayer funded, it looks something like:

1. They build a network on their own dime in the tunnels

2. They pay MTA "rent" for the privilege

3. They have an exclusive contract so other carriers pay them to use their infrastructure. AT&T, Verizon, etc. essentially operate as MVNOs in the tunnels.
Probably the best advice I've gotten on here is from reading 'patio11 and 'tptacek posts on how to bill for consulting work. I don't have a particular comment as they've written it many times over, but it's really changed the game for me.
I love Scaleway's offerings but their lack of diversity in DC locations leaves a lot to be desired.
Are there user statistics? Would love to see them.
I don't think they're directly comparable, necessarily. But people are talking in this thread as though finding a 'political view' disgusting and not worthy of public discussion is somehow inherently wrong, and I don't think that's the case. Giving airtime or lending legitimacy to holocaust deniers, ethnostate-supporting white nationalists, anti-science FUD types, etc. is detrimental to society as a whole as well as specifically dangerous to specific groups of people. So, for me the line is a little further over than it is for you.

The whole issue is made more complex by Trump's endorsement of (and by, I guess) the modern Nazi movement in America. When you embrace partisan politics and associate yourself with that kind of group, even otherwise 'good' things will be viewed with skepticism.

(For the record, I am one of those people who is uncomfortable voicing my political opinions at work; I'd never do it in the workplace, and have received harassment - mild, but very targeted - because of comments I've made here on HN and elsewhere on the internet. So I know what it's like to keep quiet for fear of cultural reprisal :)
On the contrary, VOIP is good enough that I use it to make both international and domestic calls all the time, with Viber, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger, using both 3G/4G and WiFi.

For international calling, VOIP actually tends to be better than POTS. It's 50/50 for domestic, I usually just ring but my friends use VOIP.
And just shows the provincialism in a supposed "world capital" that is NYC. New York shouldn't be compared to San Francisco, it should be compared to London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, etc.

NYC subway is complete trash, it's one of the most depressing aspects of living in New York. Any impressiveness that comes from it is not from the system itself but rather the density of the surface above it. You feel like you just got from one side of the city to another quickly, but that was in spite of the crappy subway system; it was because so much is crammed within 2 miles above you!
I'm keen for any feedback people may have.
Conservatives control the executive and legislative branches of government, and are therefore extremely well represented nationally. Meanwhile you’re comparing this to closeted gay people decades ago.

Maybe it’s not politics that gets you into trouble, it just seems that some people will never be dominant enough for their tastes.
This is the exact type of commentary the article is talking. This conservative strawman you’ve built is far from average. In this absurd, inflammatory commentary replace the conservative boogeyman with a Muslim boogeyman or a gay boogeyman and realize you’re using the exact same type of rhetoric as the people you despise
I realise it's not affiliated with the MIT but I've been reading it for years and it's a respectable publication, normally immune to bullshit.
This is your fourth use of heart, all of which wrong. The heart has nothing to do with it; it pumps blood. The Hebrews were so primitive they had no word for mind so they used heart instead. If western culture were founded on Egyptian religion instead you'd say liver.
The Green Party is not a far left party, though it's the biggest American Party that is unambiguously left (since the Democratic Party has a sizable, and still dominant though that is becoming less secure, center-right faction), so it's where slightly-pragmatic far left figures end up.

There are far left parties, but they do even worse than the Green's two state lower house seats and no more significant seats anywhere in the country, electing exactly no one to any even modestly significant office.
He wanted a safe space.
Your attitude justifies Goldbloom's law.
I used to commute on above ground trains, where you do get cell signal, and although there were business types talking on their phone, they usually weren't that loud.

On their commute most people are wearing earphones which will drown out external noise so they don't shout in their phones.
The gluten-free fad has been a double edged sword for actual gluten-intolerant and celiac people.

On one hand, there are a lot more gluten-free products on supermarket shelves, all of which are legally required to be certified gluten-free. So big win there.

On the other hand, restaurants and chefs aren't taking requests for gluten-free food seriously, because there's a good chance it's just a fad dieter.
Yes, however other countries don't have as strict net neutrality laws as the US once did.

For example in Australia back when a 40GB monthly quota was the highest you could reasonably get data within most of Australia (actually a group of ISPs) was free and the quota only applied to international/outside bandwidth.
I doubt it would make any difference for this one and given it was so rare in humans probably zero studies like it give any substantive evidence about it. A healthy immune system is going to help keep cancer and various other parasites at bay though.
>What you think is the threshold where political opinion can become personal? When your family is deported?

Hilariously enough, Clinton and Obama deported far and away more people.
I feel like the more I learn, the more convinced I become that computing is because we build stupidly impenetrable abstractions that keep us from shooting our feet. Yet I can't shake the feeling that we are leaving so much room for optimization on the table.
Most cities around the United States require that the contract be renewed after a certain period of time ( usually 2 to 5 years) to prevent things like massive contracts like this from occurring because of gigantic break up clauses that will eventually cost the city and to also promote competition so that the city knows that they're getting the best price.
I'm interested in hearing more about this. Is it common for religion to be discussed in the workplace in Texas?
I'm actually trying to expand Kumavis's "Universal Dapp" which seems to only sort of work here if anyone would like to help:

https://github.com/rareartlabs/udapp
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For one thing, many people are talking about their personal experiences, from many angles.

Comments like "blood on the hands of $movement", by contrast, are battle fodder. Irrespective of your politics, that's the sort of thing that
provokes worse from others and leads to all-out war, which we're trying to avoid on this site. So if you'd please not post like that here, we'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
uh, the MTA doesn't put things like "install countdown timer signage" up for democratic referendum.
It is weird. Even moderately busy underground public spaces can get LTE modems for cheap.

My guess is that one or more of the carriers refuse to use multi-antenna solutions or are holding out for exclusivity.