skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Googler here; my opinions are my own.

Not saying I have a position on dragonfly I would quit over, but several people in the company who do stay because they believe leadership is responsive to employee concerns and believe they can influence the direction here. I believe that personally as well. I certainly didn’t believe that about any other company I had worked at before.
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> Legislation is going to do absolutely nothing except maybe kick the can down the road a little further.

Making it bloody expensive to produce ghgs seems like a pretty excellent way to spur investment to me.
Isn't that what the US is doing with Saudi Arabia? Gen. McChrystal was making this argument on the Economist podcast. If we sell them the weapons, at least we have some control in the long run, because these type of deals include training, logistics, support...etc. and you leverage these dependencies in future negotiations. Would you rather give this leverage to Russia or China?

I think the same might be applicable to this scenario.
Yes, yes there is! In order of impact:

Write to your representatives to support this bill, or a similar one if not in the USA: https://medium.com/basic-income/this-idea-can-literally-chan...

Carbon tax the fossil fuel industry to make them switch to green energy faster (they are already investing in this). Distribute the proceeds as UBI to sell t to the public - Alaska’s Permanent Fund already has done this by “nationalizing” their own oil reserves for decades AND they have the lowest inequality of all US states. Win win!

Form a political party in your country to focus on the most pressing issues (and avoid getting mirrd in eg gender bathrooms) and an app to unite everyone (I am doing this with rational.app and rational.party)

REFORESTATION. CARBON SEQUESTRATION. There has been something in the human psyche that associates deforestation with progress. Well, it no longer is (we are bumping up against other limits).

Support efforts like Nori and IBM’s carbon credits blockchain. But on a country level, it would be amazing if they set up a fund to reward countries for trees and carbon sequestration. Have actual incentives to grow it instead of laws punishing deforestation only. Bolsonaro would have something more cashflow positive from the rainforest in his mind finally. We have to PAY FOR WHAT WE WANT, WITH TAXES.

Raise awareness, eg with scandalous art pieces that have a license to pollute with black smoke in a city, and attract people to websites that show accurate models of what’s happening NOW, not just projections. Like parts per million of CO2 and methane, acidification of oceans etc.

The rainforest produces 20% of the world’s oxygen and Bolsonaro wants to cut it down. we need more PRESENT DAY STATS repeated enough time by enough people.

Want to know more? Contact greg at the domain qbix.com with HN CO2 in the subject line
No.

So is that's your fundamental issue with a paywall? Anything that's available to Google (and Bing, DDG, etc) should also be available to you at no cost?

Restating that from the other perspective: if the information isn't universally available for no cost, it cannot be looked up via a search engine?
AFTER?
"Gender" is a social construct but while "old" or "young" is a social construct "69 years old" isn't really.
Probably, Tolkien and Lewis are often noted as being friends. Tolkien regularly gave friendly criticism of Lewis's frequent use of obvious allegory. The main character in the Out of the Silent Planet series is noted as being based on Tolkien.
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A pledge is pointless without a plan. Not much substance coming out of those promises.
Note that Skycfg isn't a language itself; we're using Google's Starlark (a deterministic Python dialect) for syntax and evaluation. This means that we get IDE support and tooling for ~free, such as Python syntax highlighting and Starlark formatting with Buildifier.
> If people can change their gender based on they feel, why can’t they change their age?

One of these is subjective. The other is not.
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Indeed it is, but we were lucky in that it turned out to be possible to switch to non-CFC refrigerants at a, in the end, very low cost. And then we could continue with BAU.

Climate change, otoh, demands massive changes in our energy systems, in what we eat, how (if?) we travel, etc. Technically, all doable, but politically, I'm very sceptical.
I don't think it's fair to count that as part of the 6M cost that you are "saving", if you just did the typical thing and threw them away you wouldn't need parachutes.
It's an issue of fact vs expression/perception. There was a moment in time when you started breathing outside of your mother's womb. There is usually a witness and time is a one-way metric.

Gender expression is a different, more complex matter. There has always been "grey" areas from an anatomy perspective and I think there is consensus that other factors affect this as well. Race, depending on context, is even more complex. Is it about nationality? Geography? Skin color? Religion?

Most things about people don't fit in neat boxes. Age is not one of those things.
No, this is actually quite close to a quite heavily traffic'd area -- Mt Robson and Jasper National Park are quite close. The town of Valemount not far. Hwy 16, the northern branch of the Transcanada Highway, the route between Edmonton (major city population ~1million and about 5 hours away) and most of B.C. is like 50km away. There is a major 4-season ski resort being built in Valemount over the next few years. Hiking, heli-sking, mountain biking, and snowmobiling are big sports in the area.

This is not some remote arctic outpost.
Yep. The Inklings was the group and it included Tolkien, Lewis' brother, Christopher Tolkien, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inklings
You are unmeasurably right. Some people still continue to defend censor in spite of all these; I tell them this will also be abused against them. See my username.
I've known several photographers who have lost 25k, 100k+ followings by being banned from instagram for posts that did not break the ToS. This has been devastating to their careers as freelance artists. I wouldn't recommend leaving a more tolerant platform (tumblr) to put all your eggs in a FB owned basket. With instagram, it all seems to depend on who the mod is who got assigned the reported photo to look at. Many of these artists now run a backup instagram and promote it on their primary account about once every 2 weeks to keep a solid follower count on it in case their main gets the hammer.
I had trouble dependably taking vitamins and meds, a low self worth thing.

I started saying "I love you" to myself each time I took them to reinforce to myself that I am worth taking the time to do the needful. Saying that loving thing to myself on a regular basis dramatically improved things.
Many people would like to see America become less dependent on China's industrial base, maybe even most people.
My observation is that what I can only call information operations on Tumblr are very similar in form to various groups retweeting divisive political memes on Twitter or other social media.

I'm sure it's no different on any other platform, so I hope this comment isn't seen as some way to skewer tumblr for being unique in this regard: but the number of times I've stumbled across content spreading some nugget of content about a health-condition, mental state of being or current event that is OBJECTIVELY untrue getting eager reshares and comments applauding the original poster that would cause any trained professional to expire from the horror is staggering to behold sometimes.

Again, not unique to tumblr, not here to suggest it is, but since it's the focus of the conversation we're having, there it is.

Already I've seen people I follow talking about leaving the platform because of this decision, which is going to hurt my own blog as I rely on them to discover new and interesting content (not porn, but I'm a big fan of futurist artwork, giant robots, Ralph McQuarie style space paintings, stuff like that).
Adlib came out first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Lib,_Inc.

Then Yamaha, Roland, SoundBlaster, ... and nowadays most people don't care what their audio chip looks like, unless they are doing professional audio.
Indeed. Imagine someone exposed to fiberglass or coal dust whose health may be equivalent as a person twenty years older than them. Might not a stronger case be made that a person could be 69 rather than 49?
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Does it matter if there's consensus?

From everything we know so far, there was no consensus about Dragonfly, but it got built anyway.
I've been falsely accused, as have the half the men I've ever heard this topic from, people I know personally. I'm in one of the big 3 tech cities.
| Thinspo (thin inspiration) is positive anorexia reinforcement, like anorexic role model pictures.

Thinspo was originally "thin and sporty" (Thin+Spo) and promoted a super healthy and physically fit lifestyle and positive choices.

Over time it has been co-opted by those with deeply negative body image issues, and those with anorexia fetishes.
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On lobsters comment scores are public, downvotes has to specify a reason and moderation is public.

Programming topics are probably better at lobsters. (And almost all other topics are off topic.)
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My main 2:

* Start with the low-hanging fruit. I learned this from my old job moving furniture: some days I simply didn't have the energy to step up into the truck or climb stairs (maybe I had worked overtime the day before, etc). Just grab a box or anything at all, and walk as far as you can to the house or up to the truck you have to unload. Too often we focus on loading up both arms and tucking something under our armpit to maximize our efficiency, when doing 3 small tasks can be done stress-free individually but lead to the same result.

* Let your subconscious do the work. To stay in zen, it's as much about building the practices and habits that let you work as it is about doing the tasks themselves. Try loading a problem into your mind and then taking a break or sleeping on it without solving it (I almost always preload a problem this way before bed). Most of the time, my brain solves the problem for me and in a better way than if I had tackled it the "hands on" way. I'd say the majority of my work is subconscious now, so I effectively have a partial I've spun up to assist me - similar to pair programming but my partner is the universe.
They were part of the literature discussion group The Inklings, which met mostly on Tuesdays at The Eagle and Child pub in Oxford.

Tolkien is the one that convinced Lewis to leave atheism behind and become a Christian. Tolkien's poem "Mythopoeia" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythopoeia_(poem) - was instrumental in that process.

It's worthwhile to read it, but as a warning, it was written from one (highly educated) friend to another (highly educated friend), and it is not easy to understand what Tolkien is trying to say about the nature of reality without reading through it a few times: http://home.agh.edu.pl/~evermind/jrrtolkien/mythopoeia.htm
Some engineers also have shares.

US for-profit (non-bank, non-insurance, non-investor bund) companies, unlike European ones, are not legally required to maximise profits unless they are insolvent. Primary reason for short-time profit drive is investor pressure. The most important fiduciary duty is business competence. The right to reap profits is given in exchange for that.
> Dragonfly doesn't offer anything to Americans

Precedent matters. Google having built a censored search engine for China makes it harder to say "no" to Saudi Arabia, Russia, Poland, France or even the American government. Apple understood this when they refused to build a cracking tool for the San Bernardino shooter's phone.
Approval of the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act would basically mean that recruiting and retaining foreign nationals from countries other than India and China might be impossible for another 10 years as the entire quota (140k/year) of green cards would be fully dedicated to India and China.

Way to go USA! Way to go...
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Carbon fiber and aluminum, mostly.

The reason for reuse isn't really the cost (though that's certainly part of it). The main driver is that they are going to become the production bottleneck if Falcon 9 reaches the flight cadence they are shooting for. The fairings are a big, unwieldy shape, and they take up a lot of room during the manufacturing process, so they can only make one at a time.
It helps with debug-logging from make anyway (the -d flag), so you get just a few relevant lines of checked rules for each target, instead of a page of irrelevant stuff like "maybe in SCCS there's a .y file which can generate a .c file which can generate this file ... hmm no I guess not" ... for each target.

Come to think of it, it reduces the number of stat() system calls quite significantly, that can make a difference in large builds.
> i think the important difference with age is that there are hard legal implications that go along with it, that SHOULDN'T exist over the dimensions of sex and race

There are many incentives for women. Think about tax cuts for starting a company, etc. etc. Do you want to remove those incentives?

> If this passed, could I become 65 and start withdrawing my 401k penalty-free?

Well, women (at least in Italy or Europe I guess) can retire earlier than men. So, can a 60-year old become a woman and retire, while as a man he would have to work until he's 65?

You haven't thought this through.
QAnon stuff gets millions of shares on Facebook every week. It's nuts and not a tiny slice of people. Ballpark 20% of republican voters at the very least believe in this stuff.
They don't need to show consensus; they simply need to show (as they have done) that there is some number of bad actors within the company with both the means and motivation to enforce their own bias on the rest of the world.
Happy to discuss if anyone has thoughts or opinions!
You could use group policy.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi...
iOS apps used Touch ID feature to trick users into paying hefty fees
I see. I don't mean to offend but wanted to better understand the situation. It makes sense to me that Chinese folks want access to Google's search engine, and the only path forward is for Google to work with the government.

From your perspective, is the Chinese government the one who is compromising in order to give its citizen access to a tool?
The costs are always passed on to the consumer in the end. It makes no difference to the big energy companies.

In fact, it creates the perverse incentive that the legislature are generating so much income from carbon taxes that they will not want it to stop. Imagine that they're taking 2% of GDP and someone comes along and promises low-carbon energy solutions. The government is then going to lose 2% of their budget. They won't want that.
I think that the distinction that dustingetz was trying to make is related to the fact that trees are graphs. Many applications naively nest data in tree structures with links from nodes to other nodes that are implied by the data. Maps are powerful enough to represent arbitrary graphs, so if you don't take advantage of this you end up with a lot of duplicated data in tree format. Then you need to do a bunch of tree traversals to link the data to itself at query time.
The vast majority of people can’t ... but that’s a discussion for another day (-:
Why does lack of CCA security make FHE unattractive? The entire point of FHE is to allow malleability of ciphertexts.
Acknowledging incentives and actual human motives/behavior is not politically correct.
Why, is gender arbitrary? There are albino blacks, blonde latinos, etc.
In Firefox the zoom levels are saved per website. It has had that feature for a long time.
Or do you want to zoom once and have it zoomed on all websites you visit?
I believe it was Sam Clemens who said that if history doesn't repeat itself, it certainly rhymes.

John McPhee wrote about a similar flight mechanism in the Deltoid Pumpkin Seed back in '71.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEREON_26
What material benefits does a pensioner have by identifying as a younger person? They would lose entitlement to pensions and benefits and social security in most European countries.
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I kinda got the impression they wanted to leave Google without actually leaving Google. I think they're just done.
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