skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually surprisingly simple to do.

If you've never done it or seen it done before, my only real advice is break up the cellulose into fluff before you put it into the blower machine, and put little bits gradually and slowly rather than stuffing it to the top. My wife thought she could shove a whole bag inside and have the mixing blade break it up, but it clogged the machine instead, and I had to waste a couple of hours unclogging the tube.

In terms of applying the insulation, you just want it to be thick, fluffy and somewhat even.

Other than that, just captain obvious stuff:

- you need two people (one in the attic and one feeding the blower machine)

- start from the edges towards the manhole

- use a respirator mask

- stay hydrated and take breaks if you need to (the attic is surprisingly hot)
What about local management software listening on some ip address? (e.g. routers?)
There will never be a valid certificate for a local ip address.
It's sad to see a company suffer the cost of nationalism. This is what happens when nationalism trumps human to human connections.

Protest in Hong Kong has descended into nationalism and sovereignty issue for 1.4 billion people. Majority wins even though there is some protection guaranteed in most nation and there are plenty of examples in recent days where majority wins. In social media it's majority wins, minority is always relegated to corner.

I hope it resolves amicably.
Everything is political, and politics affect everything. If you think there are no politics in something it's likely that the politics involved in it are not close to you, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

Identity isn't political, until you have one that isn't an accepted norm. Sexual orientation isn't political, until people want to deny you insurance over yours. Race isn't political, until people refuse to sell you houses because of it. And so on.

"Keep politics out of $thing" is the purest expression of privilege. Doesn't make you a bad person or anything, but it's worth keeping in mind.

Shifting back to topic some: this idea that Google has had for years about platforms and now about it's internal one, that you can somehow keep the ugly elements of our society out and just have a nice, clean, advertiser and marketer-freindly area (ala YouTube) has permeated everything they've made. The problem is any place that people gather and collaborate will, eventually, get political. It can't not. As a species we have dragged politics into everything since long before we tricked silicon chips into thinking. I don't know why people keep thinking the Internet can be different, but it can't.
This is exactly right. At my small startup we may have heated discussions about monads, or tabs vs spaces, but you'll never hear any talk about any elected official or laws or current events.

It's not that we don't care. It's just that it's not the reason we spend 8+ hours/day together.
Murder is irreversible, whereas economic damage is able to be remedied through restitution (not that it is 100% of the time, but 100% of the time you cannot restitute murder).

Capital, irreversible punishment should be for capital, irreversible acts.

Why do people perform transactions or give ANY trust over phone calls they didn't initiate directly or indirectly? It's not rocket science and I'm sorry old people are so trusting but at this point everyone should know better. At some point people have to pay for their stupidity unless you want to assign everyone a personal babysitter.
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There can be more to it, that doesn't also detract from it. In a track oriented car, there can be switches and dials to manage things like cooling, fueling, brake bias, boost levels, suspension stiffness and setup, and so on. This car likely has all that stuff, except fueling and boost levels of course, but if it's all accessed from a touchscreen, in my opinion that detracts from the experience.
HK allows dual citizenship and there are around 300,000 Canadians living in HK right now[1]. Not sure about other nationalities. And I think HK passport can go to many countries visa free or visa on arrival[2]. So in a sense many protesters do have a plan b if needed.

1. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/unrest-in-hong-kong-fue...

2. https://www.immd.gov.hk/eng/service/travel_document/visa_fre...
I think they just overestimated the ability of their employees to respect each other when they hold differing world views. That's kinda natural once you reach a certain size and your colleagues may as well be randos on the street.

To be fair, that's a learning most businesses stumbled upon decades ago, it's the new generation of "re-invent management" companies that are speedrunning HR policy.
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This is wonderful when your very existence isn’t political. So cis het white men. For the rest of us we don’t have this luxury. This is the pinnacle example of white and male privilege.
It comes down to what do you value? Do you value playing "your" best game vs "your opponent's" best game? Or do you value playing the best game possible, using whatever tools necessary to do so?

This philisophical split is also in the speedrunning community. The tool-assist players aim for absolute perfection: what would a "perfect run" actually look like? They make recordings at 1/60th of a second, and have a computer input the sequence of buttons with absolute perfect accuracy.

Or, are you a human-only player, who values skill and training?

There's something to be said about the two sides. But I find myself preferring the "theoretical perfection" side... as just my personal taste. I can see why people prefer the skill-and-hard work approach though.
Don't debate politics, but please contribute to our corporate PAC that supports some of the worst politicians.
> though this sounds like it would really hamper the idea of the national popular vote compact which I'm personally pulling for.

I'm a supporter of NPV. I don't think it's likely to be a problem, although this feels like something that will shake out a lot further in the federal courts.
This tool is great. Very useful for CTFs
Sex is power, power is political.

Freedom is power, power is political.

The unfortunate reality is that there are no closed systems in nature. Nothing can be completely firewalled off from politics, power, game theory, status, memetics, social dynamics, tribal value-signaling, etc.

The best we can probably hope for is localized, fuzzy consensus on taboos. We might all decide it's inappropriate to criticize sexual behaviors, or bring up religion in polite company; but it's probably fine if someone has strong feelings about adding a stoplight to 3rd & Main, or increasing funding to national parks.
Because they have work to do. That's why they're there.
For browsers sure. But if you're not using a browser and you're using TLS it's just a bad idea.

You can do PKI with plainkeys. You definitely don't need the complexity or x509 certs.
Lately I’ve been experimenting with the idea of fully native cross platform desktop apps. Latest iteration is to write the majority of the app in Go and communicate with a native frontend over TCP. So far I’m finding that building a really simple UI and communicating over TCP to be pretty simple. At the same time I keep the majority of the business logic in the go server. It probably doesn’t work for all app types but it is fun to play with.

With Rust I imagine taking advantage of LLVM you could just import the business logic into whatever app environment you need to and work it that way. Has anyone here tried that? I would love to hear how it went.
> When you make your living doing a thing it's far more lucrative to do things right than to do them wrong.

Really? You're posting on a thread about Amazon doing a wrong thing, which they've been doing for the greater part of a decade at this point. Maybe Amazon the company will be punished for this, but the people who made these decisions have probably already made millions and can just move on to another company with no repercussions. The idea that it's somehow more lucrative to do the right thing is ridiculous.
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I've been toying with the idea of using SQLite as a data exchange format instead of JSON or XML. I can't stand navigating through complex JSON trees, I want to just use SQL queries. Has anyone else tried this?
Where did you see that?

Also how do two masters students with no experience in NLP get $50-500k in compute credits? How do I get that deal?
Ok but breaking a website's terms of service is not illegal, according to the Ninth Circuit: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/ninth-circuit-doubles-...
If they told you that, the target sites would find a way to block it. Obscurity is just another weapon in this advertising-and-bloat-blocking arms race.
This was c++ and not C, but it is a preprocessor pitfall.

I needed to compare and older and newer version of some file from the RCS, so I saved temporary copies named "new" and "old". diff told me what I needed to know, but I failed to delete those temp files.

Hours later I typed "make" to build my program and got all sorts of errors deeply nested in some library function. Did someone misconfigure the server I was on? OK, maybe it is an incremental build problem? etc. It took took long to figure out the problem.

It turns out that during compilation, as one of the library .h files was being scanned, it contained #include <new>, which picked up the junk file in my working directory instead of using the C library.
Agreed. I am transgender, lesbian, asexual and polyromantic, and none of these things have I ever had so much as a discussion about at my office, nor have they sparked any 'political' discussion. (I work at one of the major 5 banks in Canada).
But do most professional settings go to this extent to police their employees:

> creating a team of moderators to monitor conversations on company chat boards
> Can a doctor test drugs in mouses? (Why you excluded bacteria from your list?)

Bacteria is included into a "living being", but anyway. I definitely do not pretend to present a well thought oath in the comment yet. But seems The Hippocratic Oath is a good precedent. Probably, it's better to compose such ethical principles for each activity, because there are different fallacies and temptations for different professions. And there is a separate set of temptations for a common human. We teach and study natural sciences, but we don't teach ethics and philosophy in popular nowadays STEM curricula.
As Boris criticises Brazil; he might want to reflect that until the 1990s; here in the UK we used to set our own fields on fire to burn the stubble.
I remember the smoke; and the red sun and moon.

I am pro preserving the rain-forest; but interestingly enough that is also a human managed environment and has been for 1000s of years.

As for bio-diversity; I am pretty sure a lot of the UK was once forested and certainly had wolves, bears and other inconvenient creatures; at this point we are starting to even wipe out our insects.
For the sake of bio-diversity we should re-introduce all those animals.
> I have yet to see a discourse or manifesto about real issues in Hong Kong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Hong_Kong_anti-extraditio... :

> Complete withdrawal of the extradition bill from the legislative process

> Retraction of the "riot" characterisation

> Release and exoneration of arrested protesters

> Establishment of an independent commission of inquiry into police conduct and use of force during the protests

> Resignation of Carrie Lam and the implementation of universal suffrage for Legislative Council and Chief Executive elections

Those are all real issues in Hong Kong right now. Note how economic conditions are not in that list.
Most people don't realize how large and varied Texas is. Driving across TX takes a day. West TX is what a lot of people think TX is, dry, hot, flat, boring desert. The area near the gulf, including Houston, is humid and green.
Yes, but that should be determined by subject matter experts in policy and politics.

For example the issue of who controls the three different areas of “Kashmir” should not be settled by the opinions of college graduates who have little exposure to international politics and policy and or history.
Monkey has shit the bed already though hasn't it.

I never had the need to discuss politics at work. Just don't do it, why open that can of worms. Absolutely no need to do so. One time a coworker asked me and I said "I don't discuss politics at work". Be professional, people.
Yeah, that’s a terrible idea. I’m good at programming and like doing it, but not enough that I’ll put in appreciable time outside of work because I have _other hobbies_, as incomprehensible as that sounds. I put a lot of time into them, and between them and having a social life, there’s no time for programming.. but that certainly doesn’t make me a worse programmer or less motivated when it comes to my work.
Great project. I don't think I've ever seen this visual of a representation of machine learning algorithm, specifically not a regression algorithm.
There are ~85,000 Americans living in HK.
An Electron flame war seems inevitable. It's fine for quick cross platform support but it absolutely screws over the user. QT is far from perfect but at least it's native.
I'm not at Google but my guess is that the number of Chinese employees and the current protests in HongKong might create some internal political fights.
Their job is to create a forum for others to debate, and to try and maintain neutrality. Their own politics aren't necessarily relevant. Everyone wants to be able to have their political opinions, try and convince others, and not get fired. It's kind of a pick-2 situation. Feel free to bring politics in with ya so long as you embrace the philosophy that you can say anything you want on your last day.
I'd much prefer tapenade any day regardless of price, though I did grow up eating it.
This actually made me laugh - I couldn't agree more. Since when is sexuality an open topic at work?
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well done - kitboga would have been proud!
WhatsApp? A direct messaging service? They have no recommendation engine, no algorithms, no nothing. It's all just infrastructure. How can you blame WhatsApp?

I mean, it's basically just "SMS, but then free". Blaming WhatsApp for the messages its users send is like blaming ISPs for piracy, right?
The problem isn't that there is no transit in the city center, the problem is that the city center isn't allowed to expand or increase in density, so more people can't actually live there.

Then more people live in the suburbs, but you need a car to get from the suburbs to the city. Then you get more demand for roads and parking in the city and people stop using the public transit even there.
> "But with free refills, the cup size is irrelevant."

Only if the customer is dining in; for take-out, it matters. On the other hand, soft drinks costs pennies per serving, so you are still mainly correct.
"transgender, lesbian"

Wait what
Another important point is that big tech is a topic this election cycle. Talking about google is political.
Time to re-read "I can tolerate anybody except my out-group."
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In all fairness, I get the feeling that a lot of Google services are there because Google has to have them. Apple have them. When people buy an Android they want somewhere they can go to get stuff. But for Google, that's it. There's very little extra effort expended to make it nice to use. They've just ticked a box. They offer films. That's it. It'll sit there and gather dust for a few years before Google sees that competitors have moved on, so they go and give their service a face lift. Then another 5 years of nothing.
Whats the hold back to getting it via pip install via a wheel? I'm curious (happy APSW user here). Its not well elaborated from what I could find. This is something I would love to help with but not sure where to start, as I'm not sure where in the process of doing the builds it falls down.

Would Cython help, perhaps?
I expect them to loosely categorize politics, while still encouraging open corporate discussion of LGBTQ, racial, and other such issues. People may have different opinions about that.
In California. They are completely unfuelable elsewhere!
If you pee in the river once a month, but the municipality of the town upstream decides to release its entire sewage into it, does the river calculate the impact per-capita?
I begrudgingly cited wikipedia, but there's enough in there to show, at the very least, that Cuba has a better healthcare system than the USA.

Cuba is desperately poor, like most post-colonial countries. Despite this, Cuba has: [1]

- a greater life expectancy than the usa.
- more hospital beds per capita than the USA.
- more than double the number of physicians per capita than the usa.

The list goes on. Communism works in theory, but in practise the CIA spends trillions of dollars making sure it doesn't. And even then it puts them to shame.

The only way Cuba's way of doing things, not their embargo-induced circumstances, is sub-par is if you toy with the fascist idea that not everybody deserves basic human rights like healthcare.

BTW, this is across industries like healthcare, education etc. The war on Cuba is the same one waged on the poor in America.

[1] https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Cuba/Unite...
> who you have sex with shouldn't be political

Sexuality has been a political issue (covered by legal or religious restrictions) in almost every society that has ever existed.
Because some of them don't agree with the right point of view.... >.>
Beyond that if you're going to spend 8 hours with someone, you also might not want to argue every time Trump or Pelosi does something radical.
I think they overestimated just how willing certain people are to not do their jobs and sit around arguing while being paid.
If someone spends a significant portion of their day in heated debate about subjects unrelated to their work they aren’t performing to their ability no matter how they spin their output story to make it look like they are performing well. I think freedom to step away from work for an hour or two to unwind is great but it needs to be in moderation - I think people going too far and spending multiple hours of a day in flame wars is what the policy is meant to address.
The article doesn't have a copy of the policy, but it seems to be about political debates that are unrelated to your actual job? (The latest news story, for example.)

But since Google operates internationally and is involved in so many things, I assume any given political issue is probably job-related somewhere at Google.
'tis yea.
"I really don't think this should have been downvoted to hell."

Um... as far as I can tell my post received no down votes lol
Big tech and hiring practices and internet privacy and google itself are political topics this election cycle. Should googlers not talk debate about tech and hiring and privacy and google?
Which politicians?
It's a controversial thing sadly, likely due to the effects it can have on precedent. I can see why it makes judges nervous.

Personally, I think it's a necessary balance to Prosecutorial discretion however.
I tried sourcehut a while ago but I found the pull request flow to be confusing. There aren’t actual pull requests but instead some sort of email flow that I didn’t have time to figure out.

If there was a video walkthrough for the process, it would help people like me get the ball rolling faster
Yes. It's called HR and they will just fire you.
Exactly.

If I'm working on a team that is rolling out a new Google drive feature, I really don't need to hear you talk about why drinking straws are a phallic symbol and used by the patriarchy to keep woman down.

We have work to do.
The current CEO is also a target of said lawsuit-blessing, so "execs" is a reasonable description that encompasses both (without something wordier like "current and former Oracle CEOs").
> When the Chinese aviation authority, absurdly, accused the airline of imperilling safety because its employees had joined the protests, Cathay dumped its chief executive.

Question: Is there even remotely a legitimate security concern here? Let's say in a hypothetical scenario, the unrest spirals out of control into a state of complete desperation. The HK government and the CCP refuse to compromise on any of the five demands, and the protestors refuse to stand down.

Let's say politically polarized HK pilots and cabin crew are flying a plane full of mainlanders.

Would you be 100% comfortable being a passenger on that plane as a mainlander?
Maybe they just can't no longer assume that they can get away with it and prevent leaks about their practices from becoming public.
That fish farming sustainability article seems highly suspect to say the least, they're complaining about GMOs and such being "unsustainable" which is ridiculous. If anything GMOs are more sustainable in many ways, higher yield for less land, better targeted pesticides, etc.

I'll have to look into it more, there's a few different agencies certifying "sustainably farmed" fish at the moment which seem to be readily available around here at least.
What? It looks like your source claims the exact opposite of what you do. What am I missing?
Exactly. I find it quite bizarre when some folks suggest divorcing from politics as if the possibility exists. Everything is political. Even this very conversation is political.
Just because you pay them off every month doesn't mean you don't have debt, you just have it for a shorter period.
So, wait. The focus will being on getting work done?

That'll never work.
People avoid consuming news that bums them out
Am I a bit wimpy, when I have to think about all the animals that live in these forest, right now being burned alive?

I have a hard time grasping why, again, people are so damn greedy. For the quick money, basically destroy this precious resource of the amazon forest. I am really angry. I stand with the people, that care about this and want it to end [1]

I do hope, that this Mr. "Trump of the Tropics", listens to his colleagues in Germany, France, etc. and just stops.

I cannot consume any more beef from south america, knowing this is happening because of it.

[1]: https://twitter.com/violadavis/status/1164720036021321728?s=...
My father actually bought quite a bit of "Cargolifter AG" stocks. Obviously they are worthless now.
The guy that founded CargoLifter (Carl-Heinrich von Gablenz) is still at it and his "new" company "CL CargoLifter GmbH & Co. KGaA" actually manufacture balloon cranes much smaller than the original CargoLifter design.
Talk about work at work. If you meet someone at work who you think you want to be friends with, invite them for coffee before work and talk about non-work stuff then. But at work, just talk about work.
"Hey man, what did you do this weekend?" - "Not much, my husband and I went up to the cabin to spend some time hunting and fishing"

For normal adults, that's just someone sharing their pleasant weekend... but others are triggered by implied gay sex and gun possession.
I recently started replaying through MGSi and combat is incredibly punishing, it's much easier to learn patrol routes and sneak past.
I literally forgot about Mercurial. It’s been years since I’ve even heard it mentioned. Are there any strong arguments for using it over Git these days? Is this just about supporting legacy code bases. I’m sure there must be a way to migrate to Git [and maintain history]. I’m not trolling, I would love to hear from someone who prefers Mercurial over Git as to how it benefits them.
I'm sure the oppressed party in your example feels the polar opposite and don't want to hear your whining about how feminism doesn't matter in modern society because it's good enough as is. And I think that's the point :)