skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm that's pretty interesting. Makes sense that they are trying to get in on the ad game, but I would expect them to rebrand to get the revenue on the search/mail ads and such since Yahoo has the infrastructure already for it.

I assume that if Verizon is being hands off Yahoo must be doing decently well. Otherwise I'd imagine they would be trying to move it in a new direction.
so you say the language he uses, talking about the left as if he is a part of it is a mere rhetorical trick? could be.

i'm more interested in how he sees himself than what he is.
I had never heard of Alex Jones before. It doesn't particularly bother me if a couple companies kick him off their platform.

But it was really disturbing that it was a coordinated move by all the major social platforms at once. Wow. It's shocking that they would cooperate with eachother on those decisions.

Secondarily, it undermines the idea that they can leave all kinds of bad stuff on their network (libel, etc.) and pretend like they aren't the publisher. They really want to have it both ways.
> When at work respect your colleagues,not because of their politics and beliefs but because 1) they're human 2) you would want to be respected if you were in their shoes 3) out of respect for your own self

You cannot escape politics no matter the environment. Your personal political views are a reflection of your core values, ethics and morals. I'd much rather have companies take a stand than try to appease everybody. If anything, it would let me know which businesses should get my money and which I should avoid (as well as which I'd work for and which I'd avoid).

> Imagine not being able to work in tech because how you vote,pray or who you associate with becomes inconvenient to the industry.

That is a slippery slope. Certain political viewpoints should be shunned and outcast from polite society...
Ive nearly been hit by cars twice as a law abiding pedestrian in the 6 months I have been in Seattle,so theres no way I am cycling here. And as a city on the West Coast, I am sure it is more bike friendly than most in the states. Fortunately, I work and live near downtown, so I can walk my daily commute.
I can see a possibility where manfredo's perspective is genuinely naive of context surrounding of his first three bullet points, and may not be acting in bad faith - and I can see a possibility where brainkim's real feelings aren't as hard-line as the shortened, perhaps understandably heated version.

To call these comments "inquisition level", and potentially ignorant of the catastrophic history of suppressing dissenting opinions, is a pretty wild attack based on what they said. Your hyperbole seems far more damaging and dismissive than their comments.
pointer — https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago-house-by-tadao-ando...
As far as I know Github is the _only_ static site provider that will do this for you.

I’m scratching my head trying to figure out the best way to do automated certificate renewal for othe providers. It’s not like you can run certbot on a static page.
Please, there’s a government literally ordering people to prop up alt-right viewpoints. Anecdotally, anytime I voice any criticism IRL and online of anything alt-right I’m immediately refuted forcefully and/or downvoted. My OP probably has more negatives than yours.
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There are tons of different brands but my favorites are below:

Charlotte’s Web — https://www.cwhemp.com/

BioCBD+ — https://www.biocbdplus.com/

Here’s a good blog post on the benefits of CBD — https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/article/supplements-article...
Pathetic. Their neo Nazi activity is my business because it’s infecting my community, it’s beating members of my community up and leaving them dying in the street. It’s making my community unsafe for people who have done nothing wrong. This capitulation of yours to dangerous, vicious belief systems is beneath contempt. We fight intolerance because it is never benign. It does not affect you but it affects others and you are willing to turn a blind eye and pretend everything is fine, because when YOU walk home, nobody is going to stomp your head into a curb.
> I still struggle with people as an adult, but I think I would be worse off had I spent that time in front of a screen.

I will say that one of the things that makes a tablet so great is the potential for group activities. I do a ton of whole-class activities with lots of interaction - and it is possible on a tablet because it is small enough to be easy to look past. This is an issue with desktops (esp. in a lab) and, to some degree, with laptops.

Just today we did an activity where all the kids 'drew' a visualization of a certain math problem and then we passed the tablets around and added on top off them and then I showed the results on the projector. There was laughter, story-telling, kids helping each other, moving around the classroom, you name it.

The fact that you can get up and walk around with a tablet is a point I hadn't mentioned. Thank you for the stimulus!
Record High Number of STD Infections in U.S., as Prevention Funding Declines
> Also, the Go community doesn't tend to do a lot of call chaining from a general stylistic standpoint.

There's also the small matter of multiple returns breaking the chain.
That's an interesting point, however I disagree it's tolerance of one group that makes someone intolerant of another group. In other words, I don't think being tolerant of black people means I must be intolerant of white people.

Karl Popper wrote about this idea called the paradox of tolerance [0] asking if you should be tolerant of intolerance.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
> a bunch of unaccountable social workers

Some judges have appointments for life, and those that aren't often aren't recalled. How is that accountable?

> anonymous 'committee' that can refuse to set bail altogether.

Where are you getting the information that the committee is anonymous or unaccountable? The articles on this change that I've read didn't specify that.
It's definitely a form of advertising. US companies often publish vast amounts of public R&D, and universities routinely do it. The US military sometimes behaves that way for the exact same reason.

When you can advertise that you're cutting edge, it helps attract the best minds. That's dramatically more valuable than worrying about eg China or Russia stealing the idea to Gremlins. Those ideas and technologies get out regardless, you can't protect them very long. Competitors and adversaries are going to catch up with a given piece of technology, even if they have to figure out how you did it the hard way. By recruiting the best minds to work on problems, you can ensure that you remain a lap ahead of the competitors that will steal or copy from you regardless. If something is very sensitive, then perhaps you can buy a bit more time by keeping it strictly secret, it's still going to get out. If your tech is good enough, powerful countries will do anything to get at it.
To add to some good points, people from various minority groups may be particularly keen on getting formal institutional buy-in (e.g. mandatory diversity meetings) because they have not been well-served by informally letting stuff play out in the past.

There is a line somewhere here, but it's not unreasonable for affected parties to pursue bureaucratic solutions.
That snippet looks like it'd be very helpful, I'm going to make a note to check out that library. Thanks!
That might be the case under some systems of thinking.

In this case, though, it doesn't have to make sense to you, or anyone else, anymore than dynamiting a building based on plans that you made but found unacceptably altered has to make sense to anyone but a fictional jury. It just has to fit the preferences and power-reach of anyone who has authority over a given individual in the company, assuming that individual cares about their employment status.
>Ireland only recently legalized abortion, which has been legal in the United States since 1972. The legal status of abortion in the United States is in some ways far more liberal than in many European countries, and in other ways less.

Abortion was supported by the majority of the Irish for a while. That it became legal recently is only mildly correlated with the social acceptability of the view itself, and prior to legalization many women would simply fly to England or wherever to do what they had to do.

>American courts have routinely protected levels of civil liberties that are beyond those recognized anywhere in the EU.

>Unlike some EU countries, the United States neither has a state-established religion, nor regulates or prohibits the public exercise of religion.

>The United States has stricter corporate regulations and higher corporate taxes than many EU countries. The right-wing Heritage Foundation's "Index of Economic Freedom" ranks the United States 18th, below Switzerland, Ireland, Estonia, the UK, Iceland, Denmark, Luxembourg, Sweden, and the Netherlands. According to actual American conservatives, countries following the famed "Nordic Model" are in fact, even more capitalist than the United States!

I'm not sure how that relates to my point. I never said Europe is consistently more left-leaning than America on every political issue, which would be a very silly point indeed that'd require twisting the definition of 'left-leaning' to the point of meaninglessness. I'm saying that many views considered left-leaning or liberal in America are the norm in Europe, and I'm raising the question of whether that makes Europe and its ~500M inhabitants a monoculture equivalent to that of tech companies.
That’s more of a cultural change than political on gay rights.
I have done construction since I was 8.

First off laws, you be surprise what kind of laws there are in your state/city. Where I live you must have a 3 foot drop on your roof. The only allowed material for building houses is wood and bricks. You wouldn't be able to build steel or cement house where I live.

Second location location location, you be surprise how many house get flooded because they are built in a bad spot or because while they were building the house they accidentally rerouted water paths. The other thing is you find some exotic or endanger animal on the premise and have to stop all the construction. Do your research, walk around the land and property, and go during different weather what might be a warm spot in the sun might be a swamp in a lite rainfall.

Third define massive because my definition of a massive house is everyone with there own bedroom and one extra room besides the kitchen and living room.

Fourth hooking up to water, electricity, and internet. Just because someone down the street has all these things doesn't mean they going to run them to your house. I have family friends that has neighbors that they can wave to each other through kitchen windows yet they can not get the same ISP hook up they have and have to use satellite internet. They also cannot get city water like them for some odd ball reason only thing they get is electricity.

Fifth you be surprise what unknowns cost in construction. There is a reason why neighborhoods have the same cookie cut houses covering a neighborhood. When you buy $100k worth of material it comes with a no return policy. If something funky happens you have to absorb those cost no matter what. You hire someone to build a house and $10k worth of material got stolen! You going to have to toss in another $10k to cover that stolen material.Also you might be surprise how difficult a bank loan is to get for new constructions.

In my experience unless you you have more money then you know what to do with a custom house won't benefit you more then a prefab or buying used. Just like new people to software they only see the surface think I can do this then learn what kind of hell it is. You will either be the 99% that regret it or the 1% that loves it. It is going to cost you more then you think, and take longer then you think. You will have to jump over a lot of hurdles and learn things you never knew existed.
What's DDG's moat? Its search index is bing so they don't have significant own tech. Is it just the brand?
It's not black & white. There isn't just "acceptable behavior" and then "behavior so bad you should be fired on the spot for a first offense". There is a large grey area in between of behavior that might be inappropriate, depending on context, or that might be problematic but easy to correct by saying "here's why that's bad, don't do it again".

To think of it another way - you'll get fired for sexual harassment, but companies still give mandatory training about what exactly sexual harassment is and how to avoid it. Why should this be any different?
It's my business because, should they have it their way, I wouldn't be alive.

Asking people to be tolerant of ideologies that pose an existential threat is contradictory at best.
I have tested these out in class and they've been pretty good - the 'gorilla arms' thing that's out there doesn't apply to children it seems.
If a religious man believes women should not be allowed to work, why would he join a company that hires women in the first place?

If he does, anyway, does it matter what he believes if he treats his coworkers (male and female) with respect anyway? If the belief doesn't manifest itself in negative actions, I don't really care what's going on in his head.
don't all endangered species matter though?
This is super helpful. would you mind posting your prodigy configuration? It seems like an excellent tool to run tasks like `yarn develop`

If you have any special config for indium, I would love to see that too.
> work with lawmakers and the state’s top Supreme Court justice [...] Under last-minute changes, judges would have greater power to decide [...] Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, who helped craft the legislation

It's an improvement, sure, but no surprise consulting a branch or two of government to draft it would end up with more power to a branch. What are the objective criteria for the "risk analysis" that divides the accused into the three risk levels? And how often do extenuating circumstances really occur that require judicial override sans approval from an additional independent council?
Clearly you’re more knowledgeable about this than me. I was actually surprised when he told me he was taking such a huge cut. I expected the pay to be significantly lower based on what I’ve seen for engineering salaries, but 2-3x is drastic. He is a staff lawyer for a large company, though, so maybe that’s a factor?

Anyway, good luck on your transition!
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Can Analogies Reveal the Laws of Physics?
"tolerant of intolerance"... Interesting concept. Who defines the intolerance?
You don't get. That isn't why you should respect them!!
Their beliefs are not grounds to or not to respect them. Their beliefs are part of their private life. You are able to change what rights and liberties are allowed to you because you can participate in society and politics without getting fired from your jon and exiled for your unpopular beliefs.
Maybe I don't understand, but I feel like you just pitched Hacker News on Hacker News.

If this is a joke, I don't get it. If this isn't a joke, I honestly don't know what to say.
Is Firefox better? If so, how?
What if biases are easier to detect (and correct) in the cash bail system? If true, would it then be more moral to to stick with the cash bail system?

I could argue that a judge's biases are harder to detect and correct because in doing so you literally have to accuse another human person of being biased, which is something nobody wants to do.

To argue that an algorithm is biased requires that one analyze all the data fed into the algorithm and gain some insight into the algorithm. Most of the time the original data is unavailable, incomplete, or proprietary and the models used to predict risk are also considered proprietary, which limits an outsider's ability to detect and correct biases.
1. Get people to show up for trial

2. Get dangerous people -- perhaps with little to lose if they are already facing serious charges -- off the street faster

Of course these benefits need to be balanced against the costs imposed on the defendent (who has not been convicted yet).
The price of peace has historically included kicking the shit out of Nazis and forcing them underground. Remember that thing they did that one time?
Feminists are still trying to change society and still have a narrative of being about "equal rights" as a concept. They have equality under the law by any reasonable definition. Reproductive health access and family leave laws are the best example I can think of, and even that's a stretch. Do you have better examples?
Text generation is fragile, error prone, does not play well with other type-based tooling, is difficult to upgrade, adds unnecessary busywork to the programmer's day.

When Java's limited, half-crippled version of generics showed up, sourcecode generation died. Pretty much overnight. Why doesn't anyone do it? Because it's a terrible experience compared to having types.
How you define and express both is political. How you require people to act around these issues is political.

Does the state require you to hire a quota of LGBT workers?

Does the state punish bad behaviour towards LGBT workers?

How do you handle people who hold beliefs that conflict with LGBT life styles?

Should you mandate the use of language around these topics?

Is there speech that can cause harm people and should it be protected as free speech?

Are these not all political issues.
NSF proposes $25M in grants to set up quantum foundries
The reason Facebook is so politicised and stuff like this comes up is because it hosts user-generated content, and has explicitly chosen to decide what it deems allowable beyond actual law. That makes it nearly impossible to keep the politics out of it.

In contrast, something like a machine shop (random example) won't be politicised much if at all, because the work doesn't revolve around making political decisions.
> the very idea that a company would display or promote politics in the work place

If only we could seal off the workplace from the rest of the world and keep it unsullied by politics.

The trouble is that if your work is meaningful, it's making changes in the world. Making changes in the world is a political act.

Online platforms make billions of decisions every day and they need a point of view to guide their decisions. Having a point of view is necessarily and inevitably political.

Pretending your choices aren't political is itself a political act. It's inescapable.
Testing Cassandra 4.0: replay, fuzz, property, fault injection
I don't follow your proposal. Honestly, it sounds really scary and disturbing, but I'll let you explain it better first.
I might need to look up how they work because that's basically what my next question is: how do the chunks overlap and how does that affect the probability of a file being unrecoverable?

If I have a stupid simple scheme where I split a file into 100 pieces and replicate each piece 3 times, I have a 100C1 * p^3 chance of irrecoverability where p is the independent probability of pieces dropping out.

I guess I just want to know, given arbitrary p, what the probability of the file being gone is.
Companies give mandatory training for sexual harassment and diversity because it's either a legal requirement or a preemptive legal defense against lawsuits.
Duh corporations are intolerant of discrimination because discrimination is ILLEGAL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1957

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1991

Guess what, corporations are also intolerant of drug use and other activities that many Americans perform but are none-the-less ILLEGAL.
I'm not quite sure I understand. Calling "shenanigans" generally means disagreement but your second sentence is entirely consistent with what I wrote - the company had overscaled and needed to eliminate redundant positions, regardless of whether those that held them were high performers or low performers. If you are disbelieving my claim, what evidence could I provide to convince you that it's true?
No, he's probably afraid of someone playing Internet Detective against him for his audacious behavior of going against the currently-approved orthodoxy... and then doxxing him and his employer and starting a manufactured outrage campaign on Twitter until he gets fired.
If you think a bigot stops being a bigot during a meeting, I honestly don’t know what to tell you.
Believing in near-absolute protection of free speech is a lot easier when you're not the direct target of that "free speech." Not trying to assume your specific social location, but I know a lot of centrists who feel as you do, and they are white men. They might be repulsed by Nazi's who advocate ethnic cleansing, but I have to actually worry about what those people might do if they take power. I have a vested interest in making sure they cannot radicalize more people, and as such I am firmly for censoring them.
It's certainly not total evidence, and I rather imagine there are limits to the effect if it exists at all.

But 118 students isn't that small of a sample (if I'm picking a methodological criticism, it'd be that it's a sample of college students rather than the general population).

And the exercise seems reasonably likely to provide some of the reported effect, and those effects fit with other studies that hold reading/writing fiction improves people's ability to model others better and some degree of empathy.
"and retrieve them in mid-air" sounds pretty challenging.
The bang commands alone are DDG's killer feature for me, and it's why DDG is set as my homepage and default search engine (and probably still would be even if I did have to !g every non-site-specific query).
This has become a big problem. Look at WeWork. That company banned employees from expensing meals that happened to have non-fish meat. I can't think of something more personal than what people choose to eat.

They are imposing their beliefs about diet on employees. It's full blown coercion. Some companies are taking the activism a bit too far.
As someone living in hardware land, I have a lot of respect for all the effort that goes into those steps of the process and I’m glad you brought it up, but presumably they aren’t that important to the point of a hobby project like this.
Judges can be recalled, though it is rare. It recently happened to the California judge who presided over the Brock Turner case over accusations that his sentence was not harsh enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Turner#Repercussions...
Disagreement: Language and Metalanguage
Certainly kids are good at picking things up! In fact, they do pick up Chromebooks - but it is a painful experience for the early education groups I'm talking about (K-2) because they often don't read well enough yet. (I'm in public school.) And knowing letters really helps keyboarding.

Part of what I'm trying to contest is this elitism of laptop over tablet. My kids can do group activities with a tablet - carry it with them to the carpet, draw things, pass them back and forth, create things with gestures, film each other. The form factor is amazing. And, yeah, then they can learn laptops in third or fourth grade - isn't that feasible?

I'm definitely glad you played Treasure Mountain! when you were a kid. Thankyou for the comment!
> misogynistic divorce laws, violence against “immodest” women, and application of the death penalty for homosexuality or apostasy

It is a caricature. You have been reading the internet too much and spent too little time talking to actual Muslim people. However, if you find out that one of your employees is a member of the taliban, feel free to fire him.
I like your thought process... embrace, extend, extinguish.