skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the UK does just about everything in it's power to disarm the victim, making them weak, meek, and powerless.

When you're talking about the law and the UK you need to recognise that there are different legal systems.

In some parts of the UK owning a handgun for defence is legal.

In England you're allowed to defend yourself. This includes a pre-emptive strike upon your attacker, and you're allowed to use a weapon to do so.

This is confusing to people who don't know anything about the laws in the UK, but perhaps those people should stop talking about UK law.
A neat hidden feature (AFAIK, maybe it's buried in documentation) is that if you branch locally and name it [issue number]-branch-name, pushing that branch and opening an MR from it will automatically tie it to [issue number] for the same workflow.

Handy for those situations where you started writing code before opening an MR.
> I'm -1 on photos on resume since it opens the door to a lot of bias (unconscious or not) so I hope you offer a lot options without photos / icons.

To that end, many HR departments in the US have a blanket policy to reject applications with photos present due to the potential liability of bias or discrimination complaints. Many protected classes[1] can easily be identified via a photo. If they reject every application with a photo, it reduces their attack surface for future lawsuits or complaints.

Potentially less of an issue if you go through recruiters or hiring managers directly, as the recruiters will just redact that part of the resume if needed and hiring managers may not know (or follow) standard HR policies. But you still open yourself up to a risk of rejection purely by inclusion of a picture, irrespective of the content of your resume or capabilities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group
Sucks* that for a lot of us the choice is between making $100k in the suburbs or $200k in the city. I'd MUCH rather live in the burbs or country, but at the end of the day you just make so much more money living in an urban environment even after accounting for cost of living.

*Sucks being relative. I know I don't have it that bad.
I find it funny that this climate strike is happening the same day as the Area 51 raid, wonder if its some sort of diversion
It’s a well written article. I did not get the point where the internet relies on people working for free. Yes, free software such as curl is in use, but where does the internet rely on it? If there were no curl, there would be something else, wouldn’t it?
Caveman Ug can own a fire: When Zog tries to take it, Ug kicks him in the nadgers. In fact, Ug and Zog could be spiders.

Property is based on potential violence. States are just organisations dispensing it on a controlled basis.
I get tired of hearing about science reported on by people who feel the need to make it more buzzword compliant to get page views.

The initial "robot" created by this project was described like this:

"Our first swimmer study successfully demonstrated that the bots, modeled after sperm cells, could in fact swim," Saif said. "That generation of singled-tailed bots utilized cardiac tissue that beats on its own, but they could not sense the environment or make any decisions."

A fair summary would be that the team stuck some cardiac cells on some kind of structure with the result that it moved in a way that mimics swimming to an outside observer, but of course was simply pointless movement because there was no way to control the constructs.

There also is no mention of longevity, usability for any purpose other than "look, it sorta swims", etc. For all we know, these "robots" might only "live" for a few minutes.

The addition of optic stem cells had the predictable effect, where light could now be used to alter the previously random path of the constructs.

All this is interesting, but the article implies that it's some sort of important breakthrough or that it's nearly ready for some sort of purposeful use when all that's going on is some researchers are trying to construct synthetic organisms from stem cells like a kid building a lego kit, with results that are equally predictable.
There is so much about Amazon that is clearly in the 'Day 2' territory. I am not as swayed by one day shipping as the author is. Yes, its a big challenge and yes it makes things even more likely that Amazon will hurt brick and mortar stores (as an experiment look at the commercial retail space in your town and see how many 'things' retailers there are. Not as many as there were, and in some places entire city blocks have given way to 'services' retailers (salons and restaurants)

Amazon continues to struggle with counterfeits in their inventory. They continue to struggle with market vendors who give shoddy service. They continue to struggle with customer perception when something is "sold by amazon" and then ships from Malaysia by boat. They continue to have failures in even their 2 day "prime" when the two days only starts when the item ships, and it can take a week for an item to go from "ordered" to "shipped". And as they crack down on both buyer and seller fraud, it gets harder for legitimate customers to make a return claim.

All in all I am pretty bearish on them.
Using all free plugins in our place.
There is a free bitbucket status notifier that will update the CI build status on a branch / PR.
You have to retry via the Jenkins dashboard.
Because efficient is not the same concept as cheap.

Worse, you are likely looking at the costs of single family home purchasing, without considering cost of upkeep and transportation. Not to mention efficiency of getting work done.

That is all to say, because it is complicated. Scale fundamentally makes things hard to reason about. And cost discussions typically micro optimize a single factor.
>As long of course as no one is coerced into anything

In what insane hypothetical does a 17 year old girl have consensual sex with a 74 year old man on a billionaire's island? At best it's prostitution, c'mon.
Interesting. Site-wide search in both cases has almost always been next-to-useless for me.
Deuterium is abundant on earth as well. It's tritium and helium3 that's unusually abundant on the moon. But it's the result of solar wind deposition over copious amounts of time. And it's one of the dumbest reason to mine the moon.

You can run the math the flux of those elements from the solar wind is minuscule. The area you'd need to harvest for a reliable steady state is huge. You'd be better off putting up solar panels, energizing a rail gun and launching more solar panels into space made from lunar silica.
Same here, though I can’t say I’ve seen the same issues with performance as others. Maybe because I’m not reading through several thousand line files, but loading the site and files is pretty snappy over here. It’s not like a static site, but I’m never twiddling my thumbs. The GitLab site itself is a bit slow, but self hosted never seen wait times.
No sorry, I have no experience working with Latex
To this day, Tandy in the UK uses a logo that appears to be using the old Radio Shack logotype font: https://www.tandyonline.com/

Hell, if you look at the footer, the copyright even uses the old "stacked" TC logo (like you used to see on TRSDOS boot)
Freedom is a two edged sword.

You are free to say what you like, but the rest of us are free to take actions in response to that so long as those actions don't violate your constitutional rights.

There's no constitutional right to a job or a board membership.
How do you know it is "in full" if all you have seen is the embedded quote?
I think this is a better argument than merely talking about the content of the speech. That said the question is whether the punishment matches the severity of the crime. There was no due process here so we'll never know for sure.
> At least Richard Stallman is not accused of raping anyone. But is that our highest standard? The standard that this prestigious institution holds itself to? If this is what MIT wants to defend; if this is what MIT wants to stand for, then, yes, burn it to the ground…

…Remove everyone, if we must, and let something much better be built from the ashes.

Salem, Robotics student who started Remove Stallman campaign

If this isn't literally "revolution [of free speech and thought in cyberspace] devouring its' children", then I don't know, what it is.
I imagine it's because stopping upper than GEO clears the plan from any thinking about debris.

A lower cable would cross GEO twice a month at a huge relative speed. There are a lot of things there to hit the cable.
As written, this Amendment applies only to Congress, but it seems you reasonably infer that if the right of free speech is a limitation on Congress it should apply to state and local governments as well. Why wouldn’t it apply to other institutions operating in a public capacity, or operating with a public charter?
> Stallman has been a problematic person for a long time. I'm no fan of his. If after a while the university had said, "Enough is enough, Richard, you need to shape up or get out." I would have understood that.

According to the Register, this is the position of both the SFC and GNOME

> On Monday, the Software Freedom Conservancy called for his resignation. "When considered with other reprehensible comments he has published over the years, these incidents form a pattern of behavior that is incompatible with the goals of the free software movement," the group said in a blog post. "We call for Stallman to step down from positions of leadership in our movement."

> So did the GNOME Foundation's executive director Neil McGovern, who said Stallman's Minksy defense email was "the straw that broke the camel’s back."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/17/richard_stallman_in...
> Several analysts said in recent weeks that China’s economic growth was already testing the lower end of Beijing’s full-year target of around 6-6.5%, which is likely to spur more policy easing. Second-quarter growth cooled to 6.2%, the weakest in nearly 30 years.

6% growth would be the envy of many countries. For comparison, the last time the US did that was 1984, after back-to-back recessions and a flood of deficit-financed defense spending:

https://www.thebalance.com/us-gdp-by-year-3305543
I am in the US and it’s an entirely devoid of content page. It just tells me how much an installation would cost. What is it? Why would I use it? Is this a new Tesla offering?

It’s not even a product page.
Huh, looks like they changed it.
Russia Has ‘Oligarchs,’ the US Has ‘Businessmen’
I think that $10/month charge is pretty small for these commercial installations (although the grid charge may be higher).
Raising Prices Is Hard
Why is he unemployable?
It's not about you though. People have choices. They don't trust a free service, because you more often than not end up being the product. Again, not claiming Credit Karma sells your data (on the contrary the CEO claims it's only for selling ads based on your credit report)

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2qq95l/i_am_the_found...

But it's my choice as a consumer. Do you make all of your choices with only cost as the factor? Probably not. Or at least not when it comes to security. So, people will have their preferences. But apparently not, if you're party to this settlement.
> If urban areas were more efficient than rural areas, it would be cheaper to live in an urban area.

This story might look different when you remove subsidies from the picture. NYC tax revenue subsidizes upstate life in the form of infrastructure etc. Imagine if the residents had to pay for that directly instead.
Urban areas being more efficient also means it should be cheaper to do more variety of things with more variety of people. And it is hard to argue that is not the case.
>It's not clear if the girl did it for money, or was more or less nudged into this by her life circumstances.

I don't imagine there are any 17 year old girls having sex with 74 year old men who see a distinction between those two things.
I feel the same possible for different reasons. I grew up in a small city in Europe, however, I live in the suburbs of chicago now. I could make $25k more in the city right now. I am a decent developer I guess, I get recruiters contact me about jobs in the city but I just cannot imagine commuting or moving to the city. When I was younger I enjoyed going clubbing and bars but it got old.

Now, I just want the kids to get off my lawn and have some peace.
Intent is irrelevant ... only the impact. One must always be ready to reckon with the impact of their actions and speech, regardless of what their intent was.
But now you're talking about a completely different issue -- competition from foreign labor pushing wages down. But that's also the same reason why the unions can't really get more money from them. They can't pay US workers more when competitors are able to (and do) pay foreign workers less.

You're also now looking at the company's perspective rather than the employee's. The fact that there are other industries is a benefit to the employee -- if you can go to college and get paid twice as much as a software engineer then some people will take that option (benefiting them), which reduces the labor supply in the original industry (benefiting the remaining people).
OK - if your resumes are not made with TeX, then the rest of my question is moot. Thanks for answering!
It's not a company. It's a university, for God sake. If no free speech there anymore, then where? In the kitchen, like in the USSR?

Now if he was a pedophile, he should be in jail. But he is not, he is exersizing free speech, no matter how disgusting it is, he is entitled to it. Should Nabokov have been made unemployable too for writing Lolita?
I achieve 50% success in my product ideas
“...in not directions...” -> “...in both directions...”
Good tool, minimalist and easy to search when compared to alternatives. any chance we get to see result sort/order by functionality on results or download?
Yes and prostitution is a normal job like any other in my jurisdiction. Coercion isnt part of that. They pay taxes and get to sue if a client doesnt pay. I find the criminalization of sex workers as it is happening in the US extremely barbaric.
> This isn't us vs. them.

The discussion is between free speech and appropriate speech. Which is both sides have tribes supporting them Libertarian vs SJW. You might not see the divide but every one else does and you can see that.

> The prevalence of comments trying to turn this against "SJW"s or whatever "other"

You might not agree with or recognise the tribes but they exist.

> This is a man who said something wildly inappropriate in an MIT forum and got fired.

MIT is a university its a public place where adults go to seek truth, if this is an inappropriate place for adults to discuss adult subjects then where is?

I get the argument it's not "public" because the land is privately owned but it is a place where the public gather. While I frequently see this argument it is never accompanied with what would be an appropriate public venue for adults to discuss inappropriate things.
Someone saved you the trouble of reading it https://ricochet.com/320028/archives/i-read-the-famous-femin...

Many people were confused as to this being satire or not but one of the authors did a Q&A to help clear things up

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/qa-author-feminist-g...
What to do when you're too anxious to sleep
Why was the fighter even allowed to compete in the new league? Do you have a reference for the fight?
Yes it is an emotional argument. I used to work somewhere with content moderation. From my conversations with people on that team, the effects in this article are spot on, and I would argue are damaging. Maybe not catastrophic but journalists gotta make bank too.

Think of the disgust or shock you might feel if you saw, say an adult flirting with a kid, or if that’s not graphic enough, having sex. Now imagine you need to see that every hour or so for your job, 5 days a week, forever. There’s no end, there’s no stopping people.

At best you lose some of your humanity and innocence - nothing really shocks you any more. At worst it causes some form of PTSD or you even sympathize with what you are seeing. I can see how that could be less painful in short term than continuing to be shocked and depressed with things you don’t agree with.
Try Vanilla.js.
> (highly impractical)

Forget everything practical - we are in deep theoretic waters here! There are thousands of algorithm with even a polynomial solution where you still go for the heuristic because the polynomial version is way to slow.

> Isn’t there some (highly impractical) algorithm which dovetails through different Turing machines, in a way that has an asymptotically optimal runtime for a given problem, just with really terrible constants?

Optimal might be, as long as optimal does not mean polynomial. Otherwise you would read about it in the newspapers ;)
I don't know of such algorithm, but "trying out different turing machines" gives me a strong gut feeling of "not polynomial".

> I thought we knew an algorithm that, if P=NP, would solve NP problems in P time, (but with absurd constants), and otherwise solves the problems is worse than polytime.

Is that the algorithm you are refering to? Sounds like what Turing proposed once. The interesting branch is the P=NP, since then you could answer really really interesting things in P. Theoretically - and if indeed P=NP ;)
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Has anyone seen data on this?

I recently starting making an effort to purchase things like paper towels, Advil, toothpaste, etc from Target (in person) instead of buying from Amazon to reduce the amount of packaging I have to recycle and throw away.

I still feel like it's a net benefit, but that's purely a _feeling_.
Gitlab-CI is easy(ish) to learn and extremely well documented. The built-in container registry and artifact repo are super useful.
User AtlasLion provided a link to an article describing the product launch here: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1124625_tesla-offers-ne...
Pretty sure Nintendo still make hanafuda, as well. Literally the oldest company in the video game industry.
Why does the US hide oil underground?
> The firing was appropriate and reasonable, not a response to extremists, zealots, or some other kind of witch.

Many people, including you, have lost their grasp for the concept of different moral attitudes. The above is just your opinion, not mine. I do not agree with it and find it irritating that you consider your moral judgement an argument that requires to be countered.
Those words are used interchangeably in modern discourse. But it's not like the craziness goes away if you define the terms more carefully. There are people who seriously beleive there is no biological difference between the sexes when it comes to internal characteristics like mind and personality. The external differences are, I hope, obvious to all with eyes to see.
Ok, I can't tell at this point. Too ambiguous for me to know for sure (though looks decidedly masculine); I just looked, and apparently this person is a transsexual? Lord but this is confusing.
Kinda got the impression that was fairly tongue-in-cheek, lol
Fairly sure that was the vector for the big matrix.org breach.
“I thought we deleted that ” Metadata and Hidden Data
We use it with Fastlane to automate our entire build and delivery pipeline. We set it up for our mobile clients, too, and it saves us a lot of time getting code shipped quickly.

We have a Mojave VM configured with Xcode, Fastlane, and the gitlab runner.

We automate uploads to Appetize.io for every feature branch so that QA and clients can test out new features in a simulator running in the browser.

We automate builds and uploads to Apple test flight and Google playstore alpha tracks on our develop branch.

The gitlab runner is by far the most reliable and easiest to setup part of the whole deal with the worst being maybe cocoapods or npm for the projects that rely on them (react-native).

I'll ping you on gitlab. Happy to go into more detail!
>The problem would be the friction of deciding what I reward and what I don't. I don't want to make 200 decisions like that every month in my day to day browsing.

Yeah that is exactly the problem. It would be like having an ala-carte TV cable where you were charged every time you turned on the TV to watch a certain show. I just wouldn't do it.
I wonder where progressives get the silly idea that the Enlightenment philosophers that birthed liberalism said "Punishing people for speaking is bad if the government does it but its 100% A-OK if a mob does it." Perhaps you could show us some citations?
Photos should not be included on resumes sent to most American companies. They are a huge source of bias in the the hiring process and will either be rejected or have the photo removed immediately.
> Perhaps you should use a better search engine

Not sure what search engines have to do with the topic. I have read the two medium posts, the vice article, and the pdf.

> If you want to argue with someone about the definition of sexism

I am not doing that. You claimed that RMS was sexist in this incident. I am asking you what he said specifically to make you believe that.

> you should go argue with them and stop wasting my time

Why post in hackernews if you are not interested in discussion?
The consequences here are not out of line, because this wasn't the first time that RMS made his views on statutory rape (he doesn't see the harm in it) clear.

The man has no understanding of the concept of consent, and why a child is unable to grant it. He can have whatever opinions he wants, but as a spokesperson for the FSF, he sure as shit shouldn't be broadcasting that one.

This isn't some rando who works for an organization being punished for airing their opinion. This is someone whose job is public speaking, speaking in a way that actively harms any organization he is associated with.

I generally don't see the hacker community jump to the defense of someone who has so colossally mucked up at his one job, but here we are, turning ourselves in knots in the defense of the right of a public speaker to remain employed when his speech is actively harming his employer.

It should also be noted, without the faintest shred of irony that the man consented to resign. I don't see why everyone is making such a big deal out of it...
I think it's perfectly legitimate to describe somebody who initiates and runs a charity, and who is focused on deploying that gifted money as effectively as possible, as an entrepreneur. You don't need to be profit-driven, you can have a different goal altogether.
So if it was Berkeley (a state school), he should have not been fired?
1) location of death (or final resting place, anyway) matters a ton for likelihood of fossilization,

2) not all animals die in the same places,

3) if sex has an influence on the distribution of likelihood of dying (or ending up in—water carries corpses, predators and carrion-eaters may drag them) in fossilization-friendly locations, we'd expect to see a difference in the rates of fossil discovers of that species by sex, different from whatever actual distribution there was of male & female in the original population.
Is a dollar a watt cheap for commercial sized solar? Five years ago 50kw in a field was about 75,000 dollars in the UK. I assumed prices had come down since then for commercial quantities. Isn't first solar down to 30c a watt or something for the panels?
I like this explanation of what it is:

"In a sense, the Å-machine is to Dialog what Glulx is to Inform 7. "

It reminds me of Alan Perlis' quote:

“Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.”