skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is good news for risc-v! The fact that it can be implemented so easily by hobbyists furthers the cause of trusted hardware. Sure, it won't be implementable by hobbyists at the speeds necessary for modern desktop computing, but a trusted security core (something like a yubikey) could be implemented on completely from-scratch hardware, but then still use existing trusted/vetted software (openssl), just a cross-compile away.
something like "be a fan boy of..."

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Stan
I am not an aerospace engineer, but the figure '20 uses' stood out to me as odd: if it's 20 uses, why not just build it to be easily serviceable indefinitely? With no pilot you massively simplify the set of engineering and materials problems, and if it's going to be reusable that many times you're still going to have to perform maintenance, refuel, re-arm, etc. What is so different between '20 uses' and 'decades'?
>Note to downvoters: This is an objective answer to an objective question. It is not an opinion on the US's use of imperial units.

It's an answer to a question that no one asked. The question was:

>How is Fahrenheit more difficult to calculate with than Celsius, and what does it have to do with space probes?

From the link you provided:

>Specifically, software that calculated the total impulse produced by thruster firings produced results in pound-force seconds. The trajectory calculation software then used these results – expected to be in newton seconds – to update the predicted position of the spacecraft.

It has nothing to do with Farenheit or Celsius. The error was with the representation of force, not temperature.
The degree Celsius is an SI unit derived from the kelvin.

https://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure/table3.html
Any CA could be a honeypot. I would say LE is less likely because so much of what they do is in the open.
> It should be noted that many views espoused by what Americans call 'liberals' or 'left-leaning' people are in fact the mainstream in the EU (such as issues about abortion, gun control, death penalty, healthcare, and so on) and commonly accepted by almost all parties except what we'd call 'far-right' ones.

That's a massive oversimplification:

* 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.

* 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!
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I searched Wayfair for nightstands once. They're seven months deep into a campaign to close that sale by any means necessary. I'm half expecting to find a salesperson inside my home someday.
I’ve stopped peaking over my shoulders ever since I’ve gotten a car with a bunch of sensors and cameras.

When I ride in newer cars, I'm always surprised at how poor the outward visibility is. Front pillars have gotten enormous in order to house airbags, and the rear pillars seem to always be absurdly think with tiny, useless corner windows (for crush/rollover strength?). It's no wonder that you're more dependent on technology.
Same as conservative. Someone telling me what is ok and not ok to believe. I did not show up to work to get a brain-wash. I joined a company,not a cult.
> The structural change needed in our industry is for labor (or, to use a term we're apparently more comfortable with, "talent") to reassert itself, and for tech giants to reconcile themselves to the fact that they're accountable not just to their shareholders but to their employees.

My read on this was that the conflicts is as much between different groups within the "labor" than between management and labor. And within the article it seems that other employees are the ones really pushing for this to be shut down, while managements response is "they haven't actually broken any rules."
If my coworker doesn’t believe I have a right to not die from a chronic illness, thinks I shouldn’t have the right to get married, or thinks less of someone because of the color of their skin, then I don’t respect them as a coworker or a human being.
Respecting personal privacy and honoring individual's trust is hardly a liberal policy plank. For better or worse, the platform is predicated on the state generally knowing better than the individual on social policy.
I can maybe think of a few. In the 90s, the Democratic line was against giving most favored trading status to China, and the republicans wanted free trade with China. Paradoxically, Clinton let that through, IIRC. The reasoning was basically the US will be dwarfed by China’s size sooner or later - the best position for the US to maneuver to was as the strongest partner of them. I’d argue that’s changed more for reasons exogenous to the US political system and not representative of the total.
For fuck's sake. Don't people like work at work anymore?
This thread is way out of control. Created by an anonymous account. And with a lot of comments written in bad faith.

Can someone remove this so we can move on and continue with rational discussions? Please? :)
I think the Democratic Socialists of San Francisco deserve no respect; and their policy advocacy will only lead to higher rents, more homelessness and more despair.

But I'm not going to take their ability to use the internet away. In High school I really hated NetNanny - I'm not sure why so many people are so determined to become NetNanny.
It's called corporate social responsibility. Companies advocate for their bottom line and their employees at the same time.

As a gay dude that grew up in Ohio -- and had people yell "fag" when I got my diploma at graduation -- I'm beyond happy that the next generation of LGBTQ engineers won't grow up with the same level of hate I experienced.

The arc of moral justice is only bent when force is applied.
If an employee is harassing or demeaning their coworker based on their beliefs, that's enough grounds to fire an employee. Is there any evidence that promoting "pride" and "lgbt tolerance" makes employees treat each other well in cases where they otherwise wouldn't have?
Mice—and to a lesser extent, Chromebooks—need to be sitting on a large, hard, flat surface. iPad minis have no such requirement. A kid can use it sitting in a chair, lying on their back, or any other position they feel like.
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How is an 20% cap worse than no cap? Obviously if this scam works it would also work with less regulation.
Interesting how ShareLaTeX, Overleaf, Authorea etc. did not adopt LyX even though they are trying to reach a broader audience. Anyone know the reason?
What if I don't trust facebook with my brainstate? (Or google or literally any other company.)
You're right, in terms of some social policies. We've gone from it being a left leaning thing to not support assaulting out LGBT people to tacit mainstream support of the idea of having equal rights.

In terms of economics and power, the rich have gotten richer, the republicans have gotten ruthlessly more fundamentalist. Reagan raised taxes. Nixon proposed universal healthcare. Obamacare/Romneycare was originally a Heritage foundation "we wish" policy document. Trump has added a trillion dollars to the deficit for a tax cut, without a peep from the "deficit hawk"s.
Indeed it has nothing to do with temperature scales, which is why I made sure to quote the original sentence from kragen which was also not specifically about temperature scales but general "archaic systems of measurement".
I love the elegance, simplicity, and precision of Japanese design. Their appreciation of past designs and incorporation into modern design is also quite special and distinct. The past doesn’t get lost, but instead gets iterated upon.
I can't speak for the OP, but I think "punch a Nazi" is totally unacceptable.

A related example: Antifa.

When a group expressing an extreme ideology begins to use violence against those who oppose it, is it acceptable to use violence in retaliation?

Historically, the answer is "after a while, yes". But it's a slippery slope towards becoming that which you oppose.
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Gay/LGBTQ rights and tolerance in the workplace is way different than donating to Trump.

I understand if you don't think a company should support a political party, but LGBTQ/gay tolerance meetings don't fall into that category.

If you put this into the context of some other progressive social movement such as giving women equal opportunity to men, it makes more sense. A company would not be out of line giving seminars about gender equality in the workplace even though some people may disagree. It's not a partisan issue. It's about acceptance and tolerance.
A straw man would probably not be a very effective employee anyway.
> Yes, I've discussed politics with many of my coworkers. Few of them have any hesitation discussing liberal standpoints.

If the linked commenter were to say nobody would express their conservative views to them, that wouldn't surprise me.

However, it seems like you'd be a bit more sympathetic (than the linked commenter). I've found a number of colleagues from red states who supported/support Trump (often for reasons posted in Altman's article about crossing the aisle - single issue voters etc).

Lots of conservatives on Wall Street, too (many leave for big tech cos after a few years).

Finally, I see a bunch of tech-libertarians, which is sort of a hybrid of some conservative financial ideas and some progressive social ideas.
There is the unreachable ideal of political neutrality, then there are the achievable murky states of "neutral enough" that we can strive to achieve in daily life.

A workplace should be, first and foremost, a place where work is done. The march of history has proven that allowing people who are mistaken in their beliefs to contribute positively has achieved great things. Consider, for example, Fritz Haber - many of his beliefs and principles are clearly bad ideas, and his overall contribution is overwhelmingly positive. This is a particularly good example of a general principle that exists up and down the industrial underpinnings of modern western civilisation.

Politics entering the workplace, and monocultures in particular, represent a threat the the mechanisms that allow corporations to drive good outcomes. Nobody should want that, especially considering that even apparent fact sometimes turns out to be wrong.
for one, American right wing conservatism is strongly anti-union and anything that diminishes the employers agility to conduct business as they see fit, so the idea of a bunch of well paid conservatives banding together to collectively argue against their employers is very ironic.
I actually postulate it was due to their ability to parse queries in an effective way, combined with the speed (and sure, probably design) of results [1]. From what I recall at the time, and even to this day, Google does a better job of determine exact match vs question (and finding subject matter) based results.

[1] https://austingwalters.com/is-search-solved/
You are deeply and profoundly irrational. Feeling without thinking.
> iPad's are consumer devices and will not prepare our kids to be producers.

This was a tired and false talking point five years ago; why is it still being regurgitated as if it were true?
Sadly both conservatives and liberals are blind to their own hypocrisy. This kind of shit goes on at both ends of the spectrum unfortunately.
Say I'm sceptical about this but willing to be convinced. Are there good resources about the apps etc I should be looking at, or descriptions of how to use the iPad effectively for education that I could check out? The Apple page you linked to has some amazing looking things but is basically marketing blurb, as you point out.
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www.google.com|6

So... I guess that means I don't really need google for search?
try &pws=0 on google.
I can't think of good sides to the bail system. What positives do you see.
I associate unions with homogenized labor, stratus of equivalent positions, but we’re all too unique 10x butterflies for that. I mean, what part of your career arc would have been better served in a unionized environment?
Sure, not all views command respect, but would you actually fire an employee if a co-worker showed you records of a campaign distribution to Trump? Or if they showed you a post criticizing a Saudi cleric's views of women's rights or LGBT rights?

This memo isn't about what Facebook allows on it's platforms it's about policing the views of it's employees.
Not the OP, but twofold: Being told that certain hobbies/beliefs I had were explicitly disallowed to be discussed, whereas comparable statements on the other side were perfectly OK, and having the situation escalated on me aggressively when I asked to understand the apparent hypocrisy. (These were not radical things, by the way, take an example as 'laser tag'; I'm leaving out detail as I'll mention in my second point)

Secondly, following from the first, the fact that I have to post something even as innocuous as this this anonymously out of fear of retribution of it was linked with my professional identity.
A couple of thoughts:

* As much as I enjoy forwarding and debating my own political ideas in settings where I think there's an opportunity, I've never considered work a primary venue for this, and the premise that political diversity should be a priority for a business is one that doesn't seem to have any kind of supporting argument. Companies exist to organize an economic activity. Other activity is incidental. Ideally your employment status is not affected by outside expressions. Beyond that, I'm not sure what you expect to accomplish internally. Especially if the gestalt is different.

* If Mr. Amerige is a fan of Rand, perhaps he should consider that those who own FB would, under Rand's philosophy, apparently be quite entitled to do whatever the hell they feel like with the company, obligate employees to take whatever position they like or leave.

* I've spent time arguing center-to-somewhat-conservative views on liberal websites like Metafilter. I've spent time forwarding nuanced religious or rationalist points in congregations of believing Mormons. I lean center left among family and friends who often lean pretty right. I know exactly what it's like to have to make a case in front of an audience that's not at all sympathetic to your point of view. Yep, sometimes it's super frustrating. I'm not seeing any discussion of particular consequences at Facebook, though, so it's impossible to tell if Amerige and any who agree with him are facing anything more difficult than the near inescapable social accountability for expressing a view where the stakes are a loss of some respect and gaining a bit of baseline hostility/distrust. And my experience is that even if it's an uphill battle, if you're patient and your position is genuinely well thought-out, it's often possible to make some measure of persuasion to people who you're giving both a reason to like you and a reason to think about what you're saying.
I can't speak for Facebook, but I've seen political drama on GitHub before. Certain people would go around and open issues on repos that had contributors deemed -ist or -obe and call for their removal. Opal comes to mind

https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941
When I lived in the Netherlands it always seemed like anyone over 30 had a war story of how they used to cycle in such harsh conditions.

I used to cycle 18km to get to work and if I would tell a Dutch person it was always "Oh that's nothing, I used to cycle twice that distance in the snow uphill when I was younger!"

Generally the rain was fine, it was the wind that can make you feel like someone is pushing against your bike that really got to me.
From a quick skim through their FAQ it wasn't clear that they are even encrypting the data on their servers, and I didn't notice any claim about users controlling access to their private information.
Usually means an obsessed superfan but have evolved to mean someone with unwavering support of a person or entity. Came from the Eminem song "Stan" about a crazy fan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_(song)

>The name of the eponymous character has given rise to a slang term online which refers to overzealous, maniacal, overly obsessed fans of a celebrity or personality; the term has been included in the Oxford English Dictionary.
I think they were just referring to the angle-bracket syntax.
Maybe the whole topic is a long-con to incept traditional liberal values back in conservatives, repairing the damage from both ignorance parties having trashed the word.
Yes, they would be severed in such a case. I am a retired neurosurgical anesthesiologist.
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I lost my mother when she was 61. When she got admitted to the hospital she put her age as 62. I think she miscalculated her age as her birthday was going to happen in a few months. She died of cancer too. Few years before that my father passed away due to complications from diabetes. She used to ask me such hard questions - "your dad was walking and talking all along and he is gone now. where do you think the soul goes after a person passes away". I understood the grief she was going through. of course I had no answer to her question. In in the day of scientific enlightenment we still have no proper answers. All the religions give such contradictory answers.
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Is anybody really surprised that FB's internal culture could be toxic?

Look at the product and the mission.
You're missing the very basic point: bail hearings are before you're on trial. Which is the problem: even if you did not commit the crime for which you're charged, you end up in jail because you literally cannot afford not to. Then you lose your job, because you know, you were in jail.

There are innumerable cases where innocent people have been arrested (think protests that are protected by the first amendment, or simple mistakes, or malice) where the charges are dropped or dismissed. You could already have lost your job due to being wrongfully imprisoned, or if you could afford the bond you're out the bond (it does. not. get. refunded. It's pure profit for bail bond companies).

There are also cases where bail has been used to get people who are innocent to take plea agreements, which inflates police/prosecutor success rates while simultaneously allowing the actual criminal to go free. The basic statement is "take this community service plea or we'll set your bail too high for you to afford". Again, numerous documented cases of this exist.

Finally, a person who skips bail when they aren't having to pay money, are reasonably likely to skip bail anyway, and for the rich the money doesn't matter. Robbert Durst skipped bail on a $300k amount because 300k literally didn't matter to him, even ignoring the low amount that was asked - again, bias in bail system frequently results in significantly higher bail amounts for people of colour.
I love discussing politics with co-workers that don't agree with me. You have to be careful to respect the person and not make it personal but it's really fun to explore complex ideas.

I think we just need to learn how to disagree in a friendly and constructive way. But also learn when to drop something and just get on with work.
Why is disrespecting or demeaning a coworker for any reason allowed? If I disrespect you because your haircut is unfashionable,would that be ok? If the meeting was about supporting neo-nazis ,would that not be saying the conmpany tolerates neo-nazis and does not welcome those who hate neo-nazism? Yet, you should respect your neo-nazi coworker,even if you were not told so.
Equating 'misogynistic divorce laws, violence against “immodest” women, and application of the death penalty for homosexuality' with an entire religion of 1.6 billion people is the issue, not criticism of a specific country's human rights record. You should not come to work and rail against a major world religion...
The fact that "western feminism" doesn't appear to believe that women have achieved equal rights seems to me like maybe there's some more discussion to be had and changes to be made?
> Sorry, I'm not very smart or something, I don't get why it's hilarious, can you explain?

You learn this theory (you find the area under a curve by adding up the boxes under a a curve) in your first semmester of calculus and is the basis for the integration which is a huge focus for the next two symmesters of calculus. (And that's only what I have taken.)

The trapizoidal rule that she "comes up with" (something you learn in Calculus 2) is acctually not even the most accurate way to estimate the area under a curve. Simpsons rule is more accurate.

It's hilarious because any engineer would instantly know to use these rules since you learn them freshman year of undergrad. This medical student redefined very commonly know theroms around those who use calculus more.

DISCLAIMER: I am only a Junior CS student who did well in Calculus. Anyone more experienced, please feel free to correct me.
I'm European. Yes, we think abortion, gun control, no death penalty and public healthcare are normal things. But European companies, or European work colleagues, don't think that (conservative) Americans are unhireable, or that they should be fired just because they're Americans and hold American political views.
Faster due process has a much bigger impact than tracking people down (which is both expensive and dangerous).

There will also likely be an increase in "no bond" holds until the court date.

This is a step in the right direction, but the entire incarceration machine needs an overhaul/downsize.
Nothing has changed with regard to reasonable people reasonably disagreeing over reasonable differences. The Overton Window has changed for sure, but that's what it does. I struggle to think of any perspective that has moved out of the Overton Window over the past 10 years that I regret losing. If anything the Overton Window has moved backwards in recent years to better accommodate the Alex Joneses of the world, but I don't see how that's a good thing.
I don't disagree with your experience in NY, but it isn't a very good counterexample to my experiences in Silicon Valley. For what it's worth, I grew up in and routinely visit the Seattle area and I don't think it has the same atmosphere as the San Francisco and Silicon Valley area. I have met plenty of conservatives in Seattle (well, mostly in the outer metro areas of Bellevue, Kirkland, etc.).
you understand that DDG is a wrapper around bing right?
It you look at the picture in the article, UAV wings appear to be foldable, so many of them can be stored in smaller space.
There is a poem by Niemoller that seems relevant[1]. The point of the poem is that if you don't speak up against actions taken against groups, you may not have support when action is taken against you.

What is going on appears to be people standing up and saying "enough". Which is good. If they are hauled away and fired, well, then not so good.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Bail does not effect your ability to track people - what tracking do you think it adds? Or do you mean the bit where bail ensure that all the arrested poor people are kept in jail?