skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See, you saw "anti-gay marriage, skepticism on transgender orthodoxy" and instantly took it to "an attack on people's rights and lives". Almost no one is saying gay and trans people should not have rights, or lives. They are saying things such as: "I don't believe it is ethical to give emotional children hormonal blockers and encourage eventual gender reassignment" or "I think made-up pronouns are stupid" or "I believe gay people should not be able to marry but get legally equivalent civil-unions".

Should people not be able to feel comfortable discussing such opinions outside of work or project spaces? I'd also like to point out that being against gay marriage is extremely common among devotes of the Abrahamic religions, which is a category that appears in the "protected list".

Opinions such as those have already been used to try to oust (not sure how it turned out) a member of at least one open source project (Opalgate, no CoC needed ironically) speaking entirely unrelated to the project. He was not directly maligning anyone from the project itself, in fact an outsider had to come in to stir drama (and that outsider happened to be the author of the Contributor Covenant. Hmm...).

What people do on their own time that does not personally affect you is their own business. Remember that principle is how gay rights came to be accepted in the first place. And no I don't need a link to the Paradox of Tolerance.

> I seriously doubt you'd find anyone's role in a project at risk because of their thoughts on climate change.

I would not be so sure. As before, often any skepticism of prevailing climate change wisdom is instantly escalated to "science denial". Not a good label to have in a tech project, and besides you'd be advocating for "crippling temperature rises, mass natural disasters, entire cities wiped away by see-level rises, destroying the planet basically". That sounds kinda life changing, if you believe it.

> Not particularly long nor hard, no; I run into them regularly.

Would be really interested to see some examples of this. Not just random twitter twattery, but people actually involved in OSS projects, literally advocating genocide.

> Even leaving aside whether there's any problem here at all, since when have the choices been "perfect solution or no solution"?

Well you said it yourself, there's no problem, thus no need for a solution. The Contributor Covenant is a solution in search of a problem. Are there any examples of the Linux kernel project being bogged down by external social politics (not that this CoC would fix that, much the opposite), or excessive trolling? Far as I can tell the problem was Linus's own abrasive attitude.

And let me tell you, he's hardly alone with that attribute. There's plenty of people out there who are difficult to work with because they are full of themselves and have little tolerance for dissent. At least Linus was upfront about this, rather then preferring to feign politeness then stab you in the back via bureaucratic bullshit, kinda like this CoC encourages.
It's a rather large page with tons of JS, but whose only apparent purpose is to embed YouTube video 8SUkrR7ZfTA which a sibling comment here has already linked.
Advice like this helps people from wasting the best years of their life.
These might sound simple but it’s what I would ask (and have asked) people that I aspire to be like.

1) What people, books, events, experiences, etc have most influenced you?
2) What’s your daily schedule like, from waking to sleeping?
3) What are some things that may help me get from where I am to where you are?
4) What are the foundational skills necessary to achieve at your level, and how to you practice them?
5) Do you ever regret your career choice or path? Or what are some of the worst parts of your career?

Hope these help at least a little!
> Investor accreditation laws are USA specific. There is no such concept in other countries in most situations. They are such a bad law they congress finally reformed them with the JOBS act and now allow investment of startups companies by anyone.

Almost all countries that have public markets have a similar form of regulation.

> ICOs in the USA only take accredited US investors now. That has been standard practice for a year now.

Right, which makes them not significantly politically different from regular securities.

> Finally, I would not agree that the political system has perfect solutions to everything and therefore cryptocurrencies are irrelevant. The financial crisis alone is proof that things can go terribly wrong.

I'm not here to defend the law, I'm saying the decisions weren't made because crypto currency markets simply weren't possible then, the decisions were made because no one wants this, really. If you want to change the financial system you need to do it from the regulation side, this is not a "build it and they will come" situation. These aren't new ideas, people just forgot we already decided we don't want them. Maybe that's changed, but it's not clear why or how.
In the next sentence he mentions how it was rediscovered in the 70s.
> Why are tech billionaires buying up these companies? Just to push their political agenda? To support their political ambitions? To run for office? They obvious aren't doing it to make money.

I always assumed prestige had a lot to do with it, too.
I find the following to be of consistent enough quality to subscribe. Mostly ones that might not already be listed:

Electronics: https://www.youtube.com/user/greatscottlab

Fun and practical making
https://www.youtube.com/user/iliketomakestuffcom

Music theory/guitar: Signals Music Studio https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRDDHLvQb8HjE2r7_ZuNtWA

Hacking/reverse software engineering: Live Overflow https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClcE-kVhqyiHCcjYwcpfj9w

Cooking: https://www.youtube.com/user/BrothersGreenEats

https://www.youtube.com/user/FrenchGuyCooking

Physics simulations:
https://www.youtube.com/user/EugeneKhutoryansky

Science:
https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium

Civil/structural engineering: https://www.youtube.com/user/gradyhillhouse

More than you ever wanted to know about woodworking. Also some engineering:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel

Engineering:
https://www.youtube.com/user/engineerguyvideo

Cinematography
https://www.youtube.com/user/everyframeapainting
AB testing is not an evil act by itself. It's an effective technique to understand the user needs. But what you do with the gathered data could make you evil.

No business will want to be out of sync with its users. And no business will want to be in charity mode any more than it should. But doing this without hampering the credibility is the key.
> After all, The Onion is a publication that relies on syndication through Facebook and Twitter

https://www.theonion.com/rss

That didn't take long to find. Why use that as an example?
The technology is part of the institutions, which are both derivative of the politics, which is where these systems are really designed. I'm not saying the banking system is perfect, but the ideas coming out of crypto aren't new from an economic perspective, and frankly aren't really even interesting.
The real question is how many comments will end up here talking about how they want the choice to eat whatever they want, not realizing that trans fats are nothing more than a preservative and don't affect taste.
> Rests aren't explicitly displayed.

How would that work? If I see 3 notes with a length of 1/4 each in a 4/4 bar, how do I know where the rest goes?
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Taking the name of family members -- either given or surname, was super common before the 20th century. I've done some ancestral research and come across towns in the late 1700s that were full of people with the same five first names, which is maddening if you're trying to determine which of them is your ancestor.

The great thing about being a hacker, I think, is that you're allowed to choose your own identity. At my last conference, I got to hang out with Ingy döt Net, and he's a fine person and his name's fine too. Sure it's not "normal", but honestly why would that matter? The proof is always in the code.
Do most people leave when they make a lot of money? Or do they stay and continue working?
I studied piano in college and during one lesson I was struggling to read some Chopin piece that had double sharps. I asked my professor why classical music notation hadn't been "improved" over the years, because some parts of it seemed so convoluted to me. I felt that the goal was to get to "the music", which was actually the sound of the piece, and the methods to reach that didn't matter.

He told me that this was how Chopin had communicated his music, and this the only true medium that he (and many other composers) had to get their works and musical ideas to present day.

I still feel like classical notation can be a undue burden in many cases, but it also feels like studying an older dialect of a language so that you can attempt to most accurately translate the meaning
10 Yrs Gone: 8 Graphs Showing Unexpected Ways Financial Crisis Changed the World
I never realized that the chemical signals could travel so quickly through a plant, and previously thought this process took hours instead of a few minutes. While we as humans feel almost instantaneous pain, there's a short delay before the spike in calcium ions are then propagated to the rest of the plant's structure. Will be interesting to see how the related knowledge we can learn from simpler eukaryotes could eventually be expanded to include all sorts of more complex ones.
No, because that would be an insult to Linus. Newton had a bunch of clever insights but he was also convinced that the christian bible was an elaborate cryptic code which could be deciphered to predict the future. Total nut job.
"Fish" is a bad category, or to be more precise from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish#Taxonomy

> Fish are a paraphyletic group: that is, any clade containing all fish also contains the tetrapods, which are not fish. For this reason, groups such as the "Class Pisces" seen in older reference works are no longer used in formal classifications.

I think we mostly agree, because you wrote

> There's no question that in general, categories of living creatures don't have to be monophyletic.

But I think that the main effort is to make all the categories monophyletic, and drop/replace the other one when possible. Some non monophyletic categories are very useful in practice and they are keep to make communication easier.

The problem is that if you try to make "fish" a monophyletic category you must put "dolphins" inside them, because the dolphins are distant descendants of some fish (as you and me and all mammals).

But Pterosaur and Dinosaur are sibling categories, neither of them descend of the other. Using much smaller categories, it is like comparing penguins and orcas (both are black and white, both swim, both have to breath air, both eat fish), but neither of them descend of the other.
If you're looking for a science-ish expression of postmodern insight, consider the line from statistician George Box: "All models are wrong, some models are useful."

This isn't particularly shocking to anybody familiar with the history of science. Newton's model was wrong but useful, for example. All software is wrong but useful models of the world. (Well, some of it is wrong and useless, but you know what I mean.)

Postmodern analysis comes from different fundamentals, and they do enjoy wordplay. They're also much more concerned with social models of reality, especially implicit ones, and how power affects and is affected by the models in use. Sturgeon's Law applies, of course, but no more so than anywhere else.
I still use it every day. I run a python script through Cron that parses a list of feeds and caches new items in a sqlite database. Then it pulls the most recent 100 items out of the database and generates a static html page in which I read them
I believe you're referring to this sentence?

> "The art form has resurfaced, though, and in 1973 bladesmith William F. Moran unveiled his “Damascus knives” at the Knifemakers’ Guild Show."

I read this as In 1973 Moran unveiled knives with the look of Damascus steel through a process he developed. The scare quotes reinforce the fact that it's not the same as the original Damascus steel.
> I live in Chi too and frequently lyft. They need to make it easier to report bad driving. That would solve the problem.

It needs to be possible for non-customers to report bad driving. Uber and Lyft passengers are not incentivized to report bad behavior by their drivers because that behavior often benefits them (stop wherever the passenger likes, shave a few minutes off by veering through traffic, block or drive in bus lanes because it's more convenient or faster).

That's my biggest complaint about these taxi (they're not "sharing" shit) services: there's no enforcement structure against them and no way for people who aren't customers to push back on terrible actors. Uber and Lyft have disclaimed all responsibility because "drivers are not our employees" and they use the myth of "sharing" to get around laws around many things, but especially around receiving complaints.
If one person came up with a complex algorithm and another person told me that this must be an issue that many companies face and there must be a service that specializes in this and the first thing they would do is to look for a third party provider. I would hire the second person unless we were the company specializing in address look up.

There is nothing worse than a developer who doesn’t know the difference between which problems are part of the business domain that they are suppose to be writing code for and problems that other people have already solved.

And for this particular use case, I happen to know about CASS certified software. SmartyPants is $1000/month for unlimited lookups. Why would I waste company resources on writing that myself? The yearly cost is less than a month’s fully allocated salary for a senior developer in a major metropolitan city.
Things I look for when hiring: an understanding and appreciation for SOLID principles. Major bonus points for hexagonal architecture.
Square has an office in Waterloo.
Yet another example of the modern "maximalist" copyright protection mindset.

My opinion is that, if a work is public domain, then any such format-shifting should also be public domain. I don't really see anything transformative in the Museum's usage of Van Gogh's work that would entitle them to protection.

I posit that within the next century, we will see the total death of the public domain. There are already those pushing for truly perpetual copyright out there, I ran into one such guy on (of all places) a C64 retro forum.
> They are (theoretically paid) to do physics!

Fits better than my impression, that they do not exist.
The Abyss of Chronic Pain
I just read this post via RSS in Feedbin. Still very much alive and kicking.

Also... that website proudly displays an RSS feed button on every page.
So trivial that I can't really see what's there to abstract. It's literally a one liner in Python.

[x for x in my_list if x % 2 == 0] + [x for x in my_list if x % 2 != 0]
why ex? i.e. why you stopped? (i am learning about options trading right now)
I think you are being extraordinarily flippant in your descriptions of cryptocurrency. They are fascinating and have captured the popular imagination, at least in terms of awareness of bitcoin and how frequently it’s mentioned.

You have clearly made up your mind and I won’t attempt to change it. But for anyone reading, an asset, created out of nowhere, that has no control from any authority and cannot have any control, is worth $100 billion in a decade. This is an amazing feat, and is indeed very interesting.
I would beg to differ, the live music scene has a strong interest in standardization. Most of my sound reinforcement friends will wax poetic on the virtues of proper 1/4" coaxial cabling and a lot of these folks would probably shit bricks at the thought of having to replace their hardware.

Funny you mention Pioneer, I always found their use of RJ45 for comms to be kinda funny/ingenious. (Note that using RJ45 for other purposes seems to be a pretty common thing in the embedded world, from my own observations.) If you're talking CDJs they're usually hooked straight into a DJ-style mixer before the signal touches anything else; I thought balanced/unbalanced was a consideration more for microphones and guitar amps?
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And once again, being direct is orthogonal to being polite.
I'm kinda surprised you had to come here to ask: Toronto is the only other option.

That being said a lot of tech folks in Toronto are leaving (or want to leave) because even though it's a growing and exciting space right now they still pay below market and that gets double worse by the exchange rate.

"anyone recommend companies and locations with a more optimistic/SF-ish culture"

I'm going to interpret this to mean you'd like to join a company where you can be more of a jack of all trades, take multiple hats, pick up stuff and learn on the fly. This is dead as far as I know. For tiny startups that are very very early you can fake it till you make it but beyond that you're gonna be expected to really know what you are doing. You still need to do all that stuff but you also need to be a pro in the primary domains of your role.
I'm a knife owner not a maker.
I've always said that RSS is Dave Winer&#39;s gift to the world.
Tried to call them recently while on my commute and using a headset and was rudly told that I wasn't allowed to use hands free to call them.

This was to change the address on my Medicare card as it's all Human Services now.

Straight to the back of the cue if you get disconnected or can't answer every identifying question off the top of your head.
Don't affect taste? What do you mean by that?

"7 Foods That Won’t Be the Same If Trans Fats Are Banned

1. Doughnuts: Without trans fats, they may become more oily. Many desserts, like cookies, cakes and doughnuts rely on trans fats to give them a lighter texture. “Only partially hydrogenated oils continue to stay a part of the matrix and don’t exude out of the food,” says Kantha Shelke, a food scientist at Corvus Blue LLC and spokesperson for the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)."

http://healthland.time.com/2013/11/07/7-foods-that-wont-be-t...
Were any of the allegations true?
... and the name you came up with to match all that criteria?
I'm a SIGGRAPH rando who implemented a clone of RenderMan in 1992 or so on Sun Workstations. (It wasn't that great of an implementation (Pat Hanrahan helped me with one bit), but because of the Sun's networking capability - it could parallelize as well as anything else at the time).

I don't every recall seeing Lasseter doing anything inappropriate.

To your point: The company was going through a hard time, and randos would have been the PERFECT feedback to him. The company would have died without their support.

But, who could be there to tell him to take it down a notch[0], when he acted like a professional all day long?

Net-net: I disagree with what you just said.

[0] I generally know who was working on that project at that time, but I don't think it advances this conversation...
As a start, we could stop exalting and rewarding powerful sociopaths.

And slowly, I think, we are. E.g., the MeToo movement has forced some powerful sociopaths to face at least a small amount of accountability. Rich people at least occasionally go to jail if their crimes are egregious enough.

But it could be faster.
If we arrange all possible combinations of letters into strings, then we can have all the books which burned in Alexandria. But if you had to walk along an isle in the library of the superset of all possible books, you would die before you came across one that existed. And if you could live forever, there would be uncountable minor varations variations of imposter books before the actual one.
Haha I kept trying to pronounce it as a word, in true internet era style.
Seconding Sapolsky's course.
> should be retroactively aborted

> well-crafted insult

This is unnecessary vitriol directed at the person themselves as opposed to their code. It achieves nothing. He could get the same message across with far less words if he stuck to outlining the problem as opposed to attacking the creator of the problem.
Sure. But clear is different than brutal. If you say the truth and people get too mad to listen, you might as well not have spoken at all.
Also use it every day, but there is something to be said about the issues with it, mainly that it’s invisible to most people. It’s very much a techie thing and I think the only reason it’s still around is because it’s default in a lot of site software. It’d be interesting to see what kind of engagement larger news organizations get from RSS links.
It would be great if they would AB test articles. AB testing headlines is basically looking for ways to draw people into articles. So while it’s responsible and even good to test your product, the headline is not the product.
For what was acceptable from Linus, sure.
I don’t understand why parents name their kids unique names. My name is unique, and other than getting my first name as my gmail address, it has no upside. I was constantly spelling it out until I decided to go by a short form which is a normal name, but because nobody names their kids normal names anymore I still have to spell it. (“What’s the name for the order? Gray?”).
Aerospace, engineering, construction.

Hosting companies also.
"on-usb amp to a crappy aux port on commodity hardware?"

Well, the cool thing about flexibility is that I can do that if I want to, and it will still work if I don't. Yes the amps in phone headphone ports are crap but as long as you're aren't trying to walk around with $500+ cans with crazy high resistance everything still works fine.

And as for the mainstream, you really have to step back and think about all the people in this world with audio players... first world and third, high and low tech, city slickers and country folk, blah blah blah. What port do the majority of those devices have?
I do this as well and it doesn't always work like you described. Unexpected breaks are the worst. I also feel less sick if I am sitting/standing sideways to the direction of motion. Somehow I don't feel motion-sickness at all on water, air or trains, but just on road.
I have worked at several startups. So far my payout from stock options has been a $7,000 loss, but maybe some of these shares will be worth something... someday!

My career was accelerated because of all the experience I had, and in terms of title and skills I got ahead faster.

But in terms of total compensation and the number of hairs remaining on my head, I would have much more wealth and many more hairs had I played it safe at a megacorp.
I would be very interested in knowing the specific details of how you got your equity stolen in a legal way, if you have some time to reply.

Thanks
So, their take is that 60% replication is good news. Yikes.
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Are there any big examples of feminine names becoming masculine? It always seems to go the other way.
Ottawa is also an option, and not just Shopify.
If this isn't already the plot to a Borges short story, it should be.
Leprosy
I suppose the theory is that fear of embarrassment makes people put in extra effort before submitting anything. This would reduce the time spent politely rejecting submissions.

Intuitively, in my opinion this sounds plausible.
I would pick a very common name.

A unique or exotic name would make it too easy to find them online, and I rather give them the choice of privacy and control.
I’m a fitness app addict but I know they sabotage my workouts