skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telling people to stop talking about politics because one don't feel like the discussion is important or productive can be viewed as its own form of covert political discourse. "The status quo is fine, I'm doing fine, discussion to the contrary hurts my worldview".
One thing my wife and I have done to our house, which is a regular "ranch style" 1970s home - here in Phoenix, Arizona - is to add on our back porch "house curtains".

Our porch faces toward the west. We have a huge mesquite tree back there that shades the house during latter part of the day (plus our patio is covered), but in the later afternoon, sun will shine in as the sun sets, and heat the house up. So we strung aircraft cable with small turnbuckles and hung up colorful polyester fabric shower curtains (this was a recent change, originally we had used canvas dropcloths, which worked well too - but were difficult to keep clean). We can slide the curtains "closed" to block out the sun in the evening.

Between that, plus having double-glazed windows installed, extra insulation in the attic, roof ventilators, and the fact that our house is of concrete block construction (not stick frame) - while we still have to use AC, we find that we can keep it set higher most of the time, and during the early summer/spring and late summer/fall times - not at all (opening the windows at night and using fans to bring in cooler air - then closing things up in the morning before it gets too hot). It's noticeably reduced our bills, considering how old our house is (and we have two heat pump AC units on the roof - that has it's own interesting story, but not relevant here).
The difference between isolation levels and consistency levels
Supervised consumption sites would go a long way toward fixing the needle problem.
Oh, this irritated me so much growing up in Tucson. I would read about something like passive water heating, or all of the ways we could reduce our need for AC (even back growing up where climate change was more theoretical) and saw that people didn't care.
The lifecycle of Linux kernel testing
I grew up on <1mbps internet and still managed to download 8k+ mp3s and hundreds of movies. It was slow going, but my expectations were low given that's all the bandwidth I'd ever had, so I wasn't frustrated by it until I tried 20mbps one day.
Hmm, a headline with an extreme claim that seems completely unbelievable to anyone in the Pacific Northwest? I'm sure this is a legitimate article headline and not just clickbait, so I'm going to move my mouse cursor right on up there, expecting a rewarding, enlightening, and satisfying use of my time.
Some great operations in there. Especially
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https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=XKCD_Random_Number(...
"RFC 1149.5 specifies 4 as the standard IEEE-vetted random number."
The fact is that visibility is the first step to recovery. You can arrest them, hide them or try to move them around but it doesn't change the fact that they exist. It just makes it so you don't have to look at the problem, which is really the American thing. Better to hide the problem than solve it.

These kind of efforts take time to take root. As people do things like this in public, that means more opportunity for social services to reach out and try to solve the problem. In 10-15 years you'll see drug usage rates drop as addicts can seek help for their problem without vilification or risk to having their lives destroyed.
It might be worth recalling that historically, trying to supporess interolant viewpoints often helps make them more popular. Which is to say that intending to avoid repeating a historical mistake may wind up encouraging the exact opposite. Cautious consideration of the possible effects of deliberately adopting intolerance may be worthwhile.

It may also be worth inquiring about what a person means when they refer to their own lives before going on to describe genocide. There's potentially some awkward outcomes there.
You need it to be smarter. It needs to look just like someone using a real device - visiting at sensible times with sensible durations - but slowly mixing in to the visitor's actual profile and visiting enough of the "wrong" sites to begin poisoning the data well. And you can't poison everything the same way. You need to make different users have their data poisoned in different ways, so that you can't just filter it into background noise but it becomes impossible to meaningfully filter the data to draw any one conclusion. I would love it, if I could build such a thing.
I don't think Fox News got Bolsonaro elected.
> We absolutely cannot let evil stand when we identify evil. Otherwise, it marches in and kills many.

No, you let evil speech stand. And you call it out as evil, and make clear reasoned arguments why it is evil. That is the solution.

Only when that evil speech turns into action does the society step in.

Resorting to censorship only demonstrates weakness and an inability or unwillingness to argue against evil. This leads to people questioning whether the target of censorship really is evil at all.
The worst mistake I've ever made in an attic was doing cable runs (TV to the bedrooms) on a summer day in Texas. Sure, we started when it was cool at 7am... but we finished around noon.

So, to add to that: do it on a nice day in spring or fall.
From my view as a person who owns a retail brand and absolutely needs to pay for advertising to get page views and resultant conversions. The current state is pure extortion. I need to pay over three dollars for a frigging click? Almost $20 per sale in advertising fees just to get page views on HoneyGear.com from both google or amazon. I’d like to sell the products for half the current list price, but in today’s market with advertising expense, it’s impossible to lower prices.
Because the big money making opportunities are not in the liberal democracies. With Europe and USA on a path of the decline - none of the powers that come online care about liberal values. They learned the lesson that it is important how you manage the economy, not the social values.
They don't have statistics to back their position, this attitude of not working from the data we have is such an issue that it has become local satire in Seattle: http://theneedling.com/2019/02/05/magnolia-named-worlds-most...
The device doesn't _need_ a certificate for a "local" (presumably RFC1918) IP address.

It needs a certificate for its name, and arranging to have a valid (by which I'm assuming you mean trusted in browsers) certificate for a name isn't hard. Sectigo and DigiCert both offer vendors a suitable product for that purpose last I checked. If you're making a short run hobby product you could just use Let's Encrypt.
>people and businesses are still moving here, our economy is growing, and massive redevelopment is occuring.

Yes, despite these massive social problems. The economic growth is not caused by drug decriminalization, so I'm not sure why you're loosely associating the two. One uncorrelated bad thing is not seen as the "price" for another uncorrelated good thing.
There is a time and place for political discussions.

Work isn't one of them, unless, it's directly related to the work being done.
Create your own VPN and install the DNS blocker there. [Algo VPN](https://github.com/trailofbits/algo) is a great start. Furthermore, you could repave the VM daily or in any time interval. Using WireGuard as VPN protocol as opposed to OpenVPN and others will increase your browsing speed to the point of making it feel you are not even connected anywhere.
The problem with statements like this is that not choosing sides is exactly as political as choosing sides. There is no such thing as ignoring politics — it's an essential part of the human experience, so any organization must grapple with it.
Indeed, Samsung decided they wouldn't bother recalling exploding phones in China.
Git is simple to import, but all other related data may be subject to API rate limits.

I've opened an issue with some improvements suggestions, like surfacing when we are rate limited and allowing gradual access to the data while the import is going on: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/66525
Caddy and Nginx are both examples of common tools that cut tons of useful modules to save kilobytes, both require recompiling to get that functionality.
I'm guessing they aren't conservatives or anarcho capitalists.
Well, no, many jobs are much more complicated than that. Honestly, a contractor relationship where you are taking orders from one person and only have to worry about what they think is refreshingly simple compared to working in a highly collaborative environment.

For example, at Google, your manager is one person whose opinions are important, but things like promotions also depend heavily on peer review and your general reputation.
or you know, Amazon and Microsoft could throw in some cash.
More anecdotal data, but our family (which used to spend $5k+ a year on Amazon) decided to actively buy locally and do what we can to reduce packaging waste (mainly for food). (note: I applaud Amazon's influence in the past decade fighting the clamshell package).

Just looked and we now spent less than $500 so far this year.

Reduced consumption, sometimes going without that new shiny thing and instead borrowing or buying used. For food, we simply cut out delivery (if we want resto food we go to a place that uses reusable cutlery, if we want staples, we just go to a store nearby and try to get bulk items).

Amazon has killed my trust in generic online stores. Fulfilled by Amazon sounds like a fraud engine, and I simply can't support that anymore. I'd like to know if there's a good alternative, but for now we just don't shop online if we can avoid it.
Tolerance of someone who thinks such things is certainly possible.

Tolerance of someone who says such things in a work environment--knowing that the subject of the speech might be a coworker, boss, or direct report--is another thing entirely. Employees should not have to tolerate that, and employers should not expect them to.

To be super clear about this, making bigoted statements is a behavior in the workplace, and it is smart of businesses to set and enforce expectations for acceptable workplace behavior.
The most political most Googlers work gets is what to call variable names. We decided to not use master/slave, so we are A-OK now!

But seriously, I know a few roles have immense influence over peoples lives, but most of us just try to efficiently plumb data we don't see between black boxes we don't understand.
> Math is probably one of the if not the least political thing out there

If you can concede that some things are less political than others, then how difficult is it to assume that "No political conversations" is a shorthand for "conversations about things which are not highly political"?
Wow, Seattle has turned worse over the last few years. At some parts downtown its nearly as bad as SF. I don't think Seattle has figured out anything...
> One day, you will find yourself up against an intolerant person, and your only defense is to also be intolerant against them.

For me, that day was a long time ago. And that was not - and is not - my defense.

That's just the facts.
It was not just a lit review. It drew conclusions from the synthesis of the citations and advocated for specific policy changes within Google. That was the part that pissed people off. Lots of people don't believe that the studies support the conclusions that he drew.
Most optional plugin-style functionality can be toggled at runtime, and never has to be loaded into memory, why would including more optional modules in the default distribution affect performance?
Is it merely a viewpoint to disagree politely upon that people should be called using pronouns they identify as? For example, if I repeatedly called a cis woman a man, and insisted she was a male, should this be objected to any differently than if I repeatedly called a trans woman a man and insisted she was a male?

I understand the former (calling a cis woman a man and insisting on referring to her as he pronouns) to be incredibly rude. But the idea of calling a trans woman a woman is a political move?
Yeah I mean, without statistics his anecdotes are meaningless. It's a common thing to complain here in Seattle, but having lived in the Midwest for most of my life I know what true violence looks like and feels like. I don't hear guns every night like I did in KC. There aren't 600 murders a year like in Chicago. I'm not saying Seattle is perfect but I've never felt safer.

And I live in the Central District, which is one of the more violent neighborhoods.
The Alaskan fishery is much like the fishery south of it in BC, where 'sustainable' is a bit of a joke - I think that term is based on taking a 'sustainable' number of the estimated population returning to spawn in rivers. Alaskan rivers are doing better than BC's, but returns are dwindling and both governments are consistently shifting baselines on a yearly basis. Every year quotas are smaller, but so are the populations.

This is something I follow constantly and the numbers are actually terrifying. Some rivers have okay returns of some species of salmon, but some like sockeye are at incredibly low numbers. They are by some measures on the brink of extinction, and many spawning runs are extinct already.

In BC, sockeye returns are currently being tracked daily and the result so far is that less are returning than ever before, and the amount returning is far less than the department of fisheries and oceans' lowest estimates. It's an emergency in my opinion. People shouldn't be eating sockeye.

I'm not sure about sardines and anchovies. I know herring have been seriously overfished, so I have doubts that anything we fish is sustainable at the moment. I hope it is.
> prevent leaks about their practices from becoming public

Google is a company that provides gyms, cooking classes, non-work discussion forums, extensive cafeteria service, massages and so on and so on to make sure employees are living within the company as much as possible.

But discussions on such random forums don't reflect company practice just as the gyms don't exist to make every employee a professional marathon runner in Team Google.

Since the forums became quite the distraction, there are more rules about them now. I'd fully expect gyms to be limited or shut down if they had adverse effects on the workplace, too.

(Disclosure: I work at Google, but the above is my very own, personal, slightly cynical take on the company)
This article is disingenuous at best. I don’t support the war on drugs, but Seattle’s handling of the situation isn’t close to a model for other cities. As someone who lived here all my life, it’s been a complete disaster. I’m frankly really disappointed in the NYTimes for publishing this garbage.

He doesn’t go into the negatives of what the policies in Seattle has done to the city until so far later in the article. The local officials are very lax on drug use, homelessness.

We have entire tent cities. Petty crime is pretty high. The police won’t bother to respond if you report a car break in, for example. There’s trash littered on practically any street that has tents. Some of these folks are addicts and some aren’t but to say Seattle has solved this problem - you mean we just ignore laws and allow anyone to do whatever they want. Repeat criminal who was arrested last week? Here, we’ll keep you for an hour maybe and you’ll definitely be out by tomorrow.

I’m not advocating jailing all drug use so private prisons get rich, but Seattle’s extreme leftist take on pretending like the problem hasn’t been a disaster for the city is just absurd.
> I don’t see the social services much though.

What are you expecting, naxolone-wielding ninjas? Most social service work happens in offices, shelters, medical facilities and various volunteer orgs.

I certainly agree that we could do with a lot more of it.
We have safe injection sites up here in Vancouver, you still find used needles lying around everywhere, depending where you go, only you also find the small saline packs and disposable spoons from the injection sites lying around with the used needles.

The police don't really seem to care. I've watched a couple of officers find a small pile of used needles at one of the skytrain stations, they laughed to each other said how they should be cleaning that up, then just left. I know about an hour later, a bunch of school kids take the bus I was waiting for. Calling and reporting it did nothing.
Well, when discussing Trump there typically is no politics involved anyway.
Potentially because people have different understanding of what a free and fair society is.
Is an interesting comparison. Salty taste and color could relate in some ways, but tapenade don't has the "exploding in your mouth" part, neither the strong fish oil taste. Is perfectly good in its own terms even if is not caviar.
Just looked up the hot coffee case. It could only happen in a city with strict gun laws. In Texas someone would have enacted his sheriff fantasies on this perpetrator a long time ago.
> actually means "live with it."

No, it means the human body acclimates to its environment. You really do get used it.
>meth heads
>>Man accused

Is there a specific name for this particular type of generalization where a one-time event gets represented as a greater-than-one quantity?
So can we please not jump from "this person disagree with me or thinks something about my life choices are immoral" to "this person denies my whole existence"?

Yes, there are some people who fall into the latter category. But there are others somewhere in between, and it might be useful to exchange world views and increase mutual understanding, and maybe even change some minds.

I think it's ridiculous so many political discussions these days jumps to an existential fear of your side's complete eradication, and a mindset that any action is justified to avoid that outcome.
See anyone saying anything against Western countries for not trading with Iran, Venezuela, or North Korea?
American Born Chinese
Political and social consequences as distinct from legal or physical ones. Voters don't always like their candidates being hateful. I tend to drop racist friends.

I still think racists deserve emergency medical care and effective fire departments, though.
hyperbole doesn't make an argument so try it elsewhere.

the simple matter is those subjects are not likely the issue at hand but instead of politically sensitive issues. worse when one side is more than willing to declare opposition to any position as racist or bigoted because their own presumptuous moral superiority there is no room for intelligent discourse
You say that but the person you replied to is right. Suppose China steps in and murders another 10-20,000 people. What then? Do we just look the other way and keep doing business there?

Suppose China gets really ballsy and invades Taiwan, or even Australia. What then? You still going to virtue signal about leftist bullshit or will you help defend the free world?
Given that most plugin-style functionality can be toggled in runtime config so that it's never loaded into memory when unused. And given that maintainers can provide a separate "apt install package-minimal" distribution with none of the plugins included for people with low, bandwidth.

How does a smaller binary make things more efficient?
You're mischaracterizing the first group.

If it's relevant to the work you're doing, then politics is fine. If's not, keep it to yourself.
I mean, what's MORE worth talking about than human rights, the environment, history, etc.?

Those are indeed important. Fundamentally so. This is also why sociopaths and scoundrels will try to wrap themselves in those flags to further their own ends.

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

Also, many of the taboo topics are very efficient in calling forth human group instincts and group-think behaviors. This makes the aggregate less intelligent and more prone to being led to concerted action. That is also precisely why scoundrels and sociopaths seek to be the ones out in front, waving the banners.

This is not to say that all such leaders are sociopaths. Just that everyone should be aware that there are incentives which attract them. This is also why, in traditional culture, leaders can be held to high standards.
Yet "Moms for Seattle" can't be bothered to take a real photo of homelessness affecting Seattle's parks :c

Those advocating for harsher handling of homelessness in Seattle have repeatedly shown themselves to be incompetent and callous. It'd be great if they could make an effort, like actually voting, rather than phoning it in and throwing money at blatantly photoshopped mailers.
I'm the first to say how horribly broken tech hiring is, but that's relative to an ideal. I frankly don't know of any other way to hire at large scale and ensure a baseline of quality across the company. Google leaned heavily on whiteboard interviews during my time there too, so that doesn't explain shifts in employee norms and culture.
I hear you, but have you considered that the world's actually on fire? Perhaps you wouldn't notice because you don't live in the Amazon.

I don't mean that seriously, but it does serve a point. How can you tell if people are just ranting "because of the internet" and not because they are suffering and think your political inaction is contributing to their pains?

Because of your comment I will try to be more cautious about people complaining as they might just be attention grabbers but it's also dangerous to fully ignore them because it makes us uncomfortable.

We should be grateful people rant to one another, because it means we still believe we can help ourselves. If this was a dictatorship we were living in there would be no point in complaining to the neighbours.
Hey folks, nice to see this article hit the frontpage. I'm one of the co-founders at satsearch. We're working on building more content like this to open up the space industry to more people.

After some initial feedback, we're already working to expanding this article. We've also published articles on small satellite thrusters [1] and reaction wheels [2]. We'll be publishing one on ground-station-as-a-service soon.

Would love your feedback/input on what you'd like to see next.

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There's no solution to climate change that does not involve science.

However, there's no solution to climate science that doesn't involve engaging with humans either. Pathos is a fundamental part of engaging with humans.
https://www.newsweek.com/cathay-ceo-refused-name-hong-kong-p...

> The Taiwan News claimed that Cathay Pacific CEO Rupert Hogg's decision to resign last week came after he refused to name names to the Chinese government when he was asked to provide a list of employees who were involved in the Hong Kong protests.

> China's Civil Aviation Administration ordered Cathay to provide a list of employees who were involved in a recent protest. He was also ordered to suspend the employees. According to the Taiwan News, Hogg provided the list—but it included only one name: his own.

> His resignation was first announced by CCTV, China's state-run television station, 30 minutes before Cathay Pacific announced Hogg had stepped down.
Well that's a gross misrepresentation of what I said, and a really weird dichotomy to boot.

I said that these violent addicts are refusing offered social services, yet we let them walk around and continue to harm the public.
Yes, I do agree the 24/7 thing is very annoying. Although living in Marin for the past few years, it's weird because bus service to/from SF is actually 24/7 there. But, it's totally misplaced.

Within the city though, for everyday tasks, SF is basically on par with most cities in the world. Most cities do not have 24/7 transit.
Soon? Looks like someone's ahead of the curve:

http://www.hngnews.com/lodi_enterprise/article_37e5f4bf-f699...