skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've been here before, with stars older than the age of the universe. Last time, we thought that there was only one kind of Cepheid variable. This lead to underestimating the age of the universe. Later, astronomers realized the nearby Cepheid variables (used for calibrating the period/luminosity relationship) differed systematically from the bright Cepheid variables that we could see in distance galaxies.

Understanding the difference between Type I and Type II Cepheid variables lead to a greater estimate for the age of the universe, resolving the difficulty. So I expect some interesting astronomy to come out of tracking down the cause of this discrepancy.
I don’t think the issue is politics itself really, it’s more of a lack of maturity or compassion when it comes to having the conversation.

If people engaged in the conversation aren’t prepared to take every participant seriously, no matter their politics stance, then it’s a sure-fire way to create a toxic work environment. You can’t go into it with the assumption that everyone needs to be a left-leaning liberal, or that it’s okay to bully a Trump voter (or vice-versa with right-leaning and Obama).

If at that point you can hold a conversation about politics without losing your shit as soon as someone supports something you don’t like, then encouraging it is fine. If you’re still in the mindset of having compassion for only the people on your own side then some growing up needs to happen first. Otherwise all it does is alienate those colleagues with marginal beliefs. Not exactly diverse and inclusive then.

And it doesn’t necessarily follow that you’ll enable far-right nutjobs or neo-Nazis as a result. HR tends to frown on things like racism and such like, it wouldn’t really get very far.
I disagree that the statement is implying that. That statement is often used colloquially to mean that buying a house is a bad financial decision, specifically aimed at people looking for a place to live.
I'm trying to create a Pay-what-you-want alternative to Meetup and Facebook Events,

https://www.talkyard.io/-267/add-a-way-to-create-events-with...

It's an open source cross between StackOverflow, Slack, HackerNews ... and soon, I hope, enough features from Meetup.com to be an ok replacement. (I'd like to create my own event communities, using this, ... e.g. a co-working at a café group, and sketching group etc)
Interesting. No matter how many times I request it I get the same icon. Probably a caching proxy? Weird that you didn't see the same though.
$43,430 is the number that the federal government considers to be abject poverty.

Clearly it's not though.

But use your chart to check the 250% level often used as a cut off for services. You can make a 6 figure income and still be considered poor.
Yo homie don’t play that!
How do I measure this frequency? What would it look like on an FFT plot?
In photos: Bogotá students protest against police violence
The trouble with libertarianism is, ultimately, that libertarians only care about themselves.

The kind of policy that GitLab is proposing here is fine - or even aspirational, under a certain lens - until one day you wake up and find that the same software is being used to destroy your community and compatriots.

How could that happen? Isn't this free speech to max utility? Isn't that flawless?

No, it's free utility to anyone - and you might eventually find that the people who are using it don't have you and your neighbours interests at heart.

The design of technology is _not_ ideologically neutral. It contains embedded biases and beliefs - even if they were subconscious or part of a community mindset - and those can and will be changed and overruled over time.

Careless licensing of technology will lead to the overriding and subversion of those ideologies, in ways that many of us would find abhorrent.

If you'd like to support that on the basis of free speech, you should ask yourself whether the worst re-applications of these technologies would still allow you to speak freely.
I know they do in real life. It's the illustrations showing a static curve that the masses slide over that I'm taking issue with.
Is this a rhetorical question? Yes, it is the world I want to live in. If the business operates within the context of healthy competition, then while they are free to refuse service, others are equally free to boycott it. This democratizes social norms. I don't want to force gun shops to sell to people they have a bad feeling about (say, because they have a racist tattoo), and I don't want a law that attempts to distinguish between "good" iffy feelings and "bad" ones.

If on the other hand the company is a monopoly and no reasonable alternatives are available, then it is de-facto infrastructure and should be more stringently regulated for impartiality, as is the government (and frankly such companies are a problem anyway, and should possibly be adopted by the government when they reach that size). The DMV isn't allowed to turn you away for a swastika tattoo, and neither should the electric company. But a baker? Absolutely.
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> We can’t improve without discussion, and it’s unfortunate that these type of issues are so divisive.

Except Cancel Culture is making it that these can't be discussed without complete agreement.

Take for example, "Women in Tech", personally I don't see underrepresentation of women in tech as a problem that can be or should be 'solved'. For the better part of 15 years, there has been a massive movement to encourage women in STEM. There are hundreds of Women in Tech meetups, scholarships, Womens only courses... yet the numbers have barely budged in more than 10 years. Personally, it looks like in aggregate it will be difficult to get 50/50 representation of women and men in tech. To make it clear, we should definitely support everyone who is in tech, and make it an inclusive environment, but the continued push for 50/50 isn't going to happen so perhaps its not worth the huge money sink it is.

At the last place I worked that opinion was flat out branded "sexist", and if you didn't vocally agree with every women in tech initiative people asked why.

So I would say the ability to speak openly about politics was shut down long ago, and not by the people you think.
> I find the other comment about a programmable output voltage in 50mV increments a little amusing

To clarify, when you program the chip, you set a voltage with 50mV resolution and a lower and upper percentage bounds that you'll accept. The minimum percentage is 5%. So for instance, at 5V, you can't narrow down the range to less than 0.5V (4.75-5.25v).
Your job is to maintain the shitty neolib echo chamber with entirely arbitrary rules. "Unsubstantive" is not a rule. You edit titles to make them more favorable to companies.

You're not a moderator, you're just a shitty censor.
Yes but Quark Gluon Plasma existed immediately following the Big Bang. We arrive at the Big Bang by reverse engineering lots of evidence we see in the universe. What evidence is there that nothing else currently inside the bubble of the observable universe could possibly have been there, very far away from the Big Bang, at the time of the Big Bang?

I don't see why I'm being down-voted because as of yet no one has answered that question. I'm not saying the Big Bang didn't happen. I'm saying we have no observations that give us any confidence we'll never encounter something that wasn't part of the Big Bang. This star actually pre-dating the Big Bang is extremely unlikely, I agree. The simpler explanation is the uncertainty in it's age estimation. But equating "the observable universe" with "stuff that originated in the Big Bang" is an assumption we simply don't have much reasoning for, other than we haven't seen much other stuff. But then... we also don't see many stars this old.
Ego death feels and seems and looks, quite literally, like you are actually experiencing your physical death. But then you come out on the other side just fine, or if you don't resist but instead let go, perhaps "enlightened" for a while ... (there are degrees of enlightenment IME)

It's strikingly similar to death experiences I've had slowly waking up as I die in morning dreams ...
Yeah, I was trying to figure out if gitlab’s position is a bit more morally consistent than it might seem at first glance, but I agree with everything you said. Perhaps we can say a progressive vs oppressive split is more consistent but not fully consistent

Regarding eg affirmative action, I guess that also brings up a good point that the implementation of an affirmative/positive/progressive opinion may start to get a bit hairier than a simple platitude. Platitudes or moral statements can easily be defended but once you begin to take concrete action based on those, people may disagree with how you rationalize those actions
>> Underrepresented minorities in tech

>> If you disagree I’d love to understand your viewpoint as to why.

I'm a underrepresented minority in just about everywhere but tech, yet you draw the line "at tech" for some arbitrary reason (as if my place of work or work opportunities defines who I am).

This is why I disagree. Someone is making arbitrary groups of underrepresentation and/or minority harm who have no real claim over said power.

Also:

>> I will say that it takes a certain level of privilege...

I am one of said underrepresented minorities "not in tech" (I also don't work in tech anymore, so I guess I'm in the clear now) who have no interest or desire to talk politics at work. Not when I was poor and drawing on EBT/SNAP/WIC and not when I've been well off, or anywhere in between.

There is no absolute reason you have to be privileged to not want to talk about politics at work. This is a majorly false assumption.
I'm pretty sure that generalizing from a single anonymous "somebody" to "gun advocates" as a whole does not "demonstrate understanding of statistics and mathematics".
The universe is expanding. This started at some point, and I suppose the theory says that it started at the point where there was no space.
Dang's job is to maintain the echo chamber, not encourage actual thought and discussion.
But.... Homie wants to play.... :_(
It'd be interesting if there was a discovery service, compatible with all open source community software out there.

So one could search for local communities, like at Meetup.com or Facebook, and topics like "running" etc to find local running group communities?

Any thoughts about how to make that happen?
The absolute answer is yes. You have a right to say it. Nobody is owed comfort.

However this clearly won't lead to a productive workplace, which is why it's not a good idea to allow these discussions. There are plenty of other restrictions within a private company to create the best conditions for the work they're paying you for. It's perfectly reasonable.
I know you were trying to be objective but Monero has to be considered in isolation

There already have been indictments that happened to involve finding a Monero wallet on a seized computer and the state was unable to discern any information about the current balance or transactions accompanying it

Again this would be another culprit busted because of their known bitcoin transactions, and the other wallets were just found alongside. So it doesn't prove or disprove that starting with a Monero transaction would net results, but it provides an ongoing and improving degree of confidence.
Stability really helps humans focus on other ways to generate revenue and profit.

And the "rent" declines over time. 12 years ago my mortgage of $1700 seemed expensive. Currently comparable rents in my area are over $2500. It gets better the longer one owns
Here we go again... "scientists would look at the ripples in the fabric of space and time". Am I the only one who finds this expression very confusing? What fabric? There is no fabric. Space and time are coordinates. They do not exist physically at all. There cannot be a fabric of space and time.
This list is much longer than I expected but still so small. It will eventually have to contain almost all places or, rather, be replaced by a wiki page with the "list of places that still have cars". That future seems so unimaginable to most but it needs to somehow happen in a matter of decades, if not years.
It's situations like this that the idea of a 'permanent web' like IPFS resonates.
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Cybersecurity Ventures is not a clickbaity newspaper. They are specialists. Obviously when they publish articles in their domain, it has an advertising purpose but producing shoddy figures would only hurt their brand.

You can't trust everything coming from companies at face value. That doesn't mean you shouldn't trust anything.
I had plenty of conversations at work about differing tax policies, libertarian vs authoritarian policies in regards to land ownership, drug legalization, military action, etc.

The problem is the willingness of people to engage in civil discourse has fallen off a cliff. "Thought leaders" on both sides are making serious $$$ by convincing their followers that the other side is to be truly despised and that all opposition must be met with aggression of some sort (if not physical, verbal, spiritual, etc). Creating an us vs. them mentality has proven (yet again in history) to be very profitable.

Every time this happens, the results are regrettable and 50 years later everyone is looking at history books going "what the holy hell were they thinking?"

tl;dr the problem isn't discussing politics at work, the problem is that society in general has turned into a team sport where people pick sides and start acting like hooligans when they meet someone from the other side.
It is true. Less experienced with shrumz, but he had one powerful experience with that in pitch dark in bedroom. Also had a lot of Keta experiences.

These will break down weak peoples' ideas of what their reality is... and they prob won't be able to handle that.

Opened minded people of course can, because they are used to going with the flow of life.
Right - that's why I worded my sentence "it is possible planet 9 is a primordial black hole"
The Dutch government threatened to sue Oracle over a claim of multiple billions
Interview with Donald Knuth: Programming is like nothing else in this world
> The Holocaust is far from unique.

Only if you ignore the ideology behind it. Which doesn't make Stalin, Pinochet, Franco, Pol Pot or Mao less evil.

> "ICE are not executing Jews" distracts from the very valid analogy.

That the ICE isn't executing anyone also doesn't mean that they won't in the future. Heinrich Himmler – the SS leader – called the "bolshevist method of physically exterminating a people [...] un-Germanic and impossible" as late as 1940.
Based on [0], but it seems to be extremely ill-defined what a "car-free place" is. For example, in the United States, something like a single car-free street seems to fit this definition, whereas in Europe, you will find pedestrian streets basically in every town or village, but only the places where for example the entire city center / old town is carless appear in the article. I also tried to do a little manual disambiguation:

US 59
Germany 36
France 31
Austria 28
Switzerland 26
UK 17
Spain 17
Australia 16
Canada 11
Bulgaria 11
Italy 10
Portugal 9
Argentina 9
Poland 8
Netherlands 8
Morocco 8
Mexico 7
Belgium 7
Greece 6
Croatia 6
China 6
Sweden 5
Romania 5
Japan 5
Israel 5
Ukraine 4
Turkey 4
Russia 4
India 4
Brazil 4
Serbia 3
Denmark 3
Nicaragua 2
Lithuania 2
Lebanon 2
Finland 2
Vietnam 1
Urugay 1
UAE 1
Thailand 1
Nepal 1
Montenegro 1
Malaysia 1
Lybia 1
Latvia 1
Kenya 1
Kazakhstan 1
Indonesia 1
Hungary 1
Estonia 1
Cuba 1
Colombia 1
Chile 1
Sierra Leone 1
New Zealand 1
Czech Republic 3
Costa Rica 2
Burkina Faso 1
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_car-free_places
Why would we care about the benefit of the average person? How is that even an argument? Like imagine forbidding to publish some books or music, because we somehow decided that they might not benefit the average person.
Yes do NOT buy a Pixel from ebay/amazon because they are all Verizon or Sprint bootloader locked, even if they can work on other carriers. Carriers lock bootloaders so you can't circumvent their tethering paywalls.

Only Pixels from the official store are rootable.
lol, flagged for truth.

I've seen people here advocating for crazy far right talking points. Eugenics, race based IQ, all sorts of crap.

It's absolutely about civility.

Course the left, the actual left, gets shut down right quick. Why? Because dang is a lib and libs are cowards.

Scratch a lib, a fascist bleeds.
But don't you think individual employees have a responsibility to recognize when they're contributing to causes they don't like, and possibly resigning?

Doesn't this rule therefore forbid employees from discussing and acting collectively over this, which in the US is a federally guaranteed right?
I have no support for this supposition, but it seems to me that this could easily result in abuse if Native Americans no longer had the protections of being a US citizen.
Doing meditation and other spiritual practices seriously seems to have a potentiation effect on psychedelic outcome IME.

My later trips have been much deeper and more profound after lots of this type of work.
Yes this was an issue in a race I worked last cycle in Montana. Deliberately hostile SOS to benefit Rs
If you don't want to act as a steward of society - with your own leadership, governance, as a lead - if you don't want to be accountable to potential societal consequences, then sure, ignore the behaviour of bad actors or the irrational.

The problem has been lock-in and users unable to "take their network with them."

The idea of decentralization to me is being fully mobile and having the decision to be able to choose what network(s) you're part of, and in part that would be based on leadership, governance, rules that each platform can have in place - and ideally enforcing and evolving as necessary.

Imagine you could have Facebook but immediately you can decide who's leadership you're following for moderation and all other settings/decisions of the platform - and thus who your attention, money, goes to.

The government being in charge of moderating free speech - except for perhaps acting along with, setting rules for authority like police - is going to be very inefficient, bureaucratic, not leveraging the efficiencies of free market systems, capitalism.

Government could potentially play an important role, however private sector options are likely to exist sooner and be better. Let people choose who moderates their community, networks, allow the best options to naturally rise to the top - to act as role models for competitors to take notice and attempt to mimic the best parts.
> "We're publishers. Whatever goes through our pipes goes through our pipes. If it's illegal, we'll take it down. Give us a court order. Otherwise we don't touch it."

It is not possible to do that and make as much money as google, fb, etc. The end result of unmoderated public places on the internet is always this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread...

Which is great! But not for making money. From that article:

> Allowing any aspect of your brand to come anywhere near something unpopular and taboo is like a giant Christmas present for people who hate you [...] It doesn’t matter if taboo material makes up 1% of your comment section; it will inevitably make up 100% of what people hear about your comment section and then of what people think is in your comment section.
The text of the 1st amendment discusses the Congress not passing laws that abridge the freedom of speech. It’s origin is for a people’s right to protest the government without retribution from the government. It has nothing to do with private actors having rules about what happens in their private property, and for good reason — that would unduly restrict a persons freedom to enjoy their property.
Well, there was at least a theoretical plan by Hitler to resettle Jews to Madagascar.
It depends on what you mean by gun control (full ban vs restrictions), but the opportunity cost of banning firearms is not negligible.

* There is an economic impact (lost revenue for firearm producers, sellers, resellers, ammunition producers, gun ranges, sport associations, hunting groups, accessory producers, etc).

* There is a personal utility cost (enthusiasts, hunters, and sport shooters can't enjoy their hobbies anymore).

* There is a communal cost (those people now have fewer reasons to come together and form groups).

* There is a personal defense cost (citizens and especially at risk groups are less able to defend themselves).

* There is a national defense cost (armed citizens impede invasion).

* There may be a military readiness and recruitment cost.

* There is an increased probability of tyrannical government (armed citizens impede this, I don't know to what degree).

* There are time and legal costs (this will be fought aggressively and take up large amounts of legislator and judicial time which could be spent on other matters). In the US this would require a full constitutional amendment which is by design a non-trivial undertaking.

* There are regulatory costs (someone needs to define and interpret what bans mean).

* There are enforcement costs (all existing firearms would be grandfathered in. To my knowledge there is no legal basis for eminent domain of firearms or seizure of assets that were legally purchased pre-ban. For example, any alcohol purchased before prohibition took effect was still legal to possess and use. Any automatic weapon purchased before the ban on automatic weapons is still legal).

You can argue that it's still a net benefit to ban firearms (and you may be right) but I disagree that there are negligible costs.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21275269.
It's complex because K8S is used in a wide variety of complex environments.

Secure dynamic overlay networking, plus egress is inherently not a trivial thing. Then add customization/extendability on top.

The important thing to get is that it uses really simple building blocks, very UNIX-y. Every time a new container starts it starts a program (the CNI driver) and pipes in a JSON. And the driver does what it wants (executes iptables, BGP announces a prefix, commits something to its internal DB) and spits out some JSON that tells what IP the container got.

And .. that's it. No magic. Everything has to be configured, arguments passed to some daemon at cluster setup time, and so on. Yes, kubelet and apiserver both have hundreds of command line args, but [almost] all of them are very clearly associated with tuning a functionality (or passing some data forward to some daemon/driver/component) - and thus if you don't touch it but it works, yaay, you don't have to care about it (though of course it might turn out that you'll need to scale up/down/faster/lighter).

The socket API is fine, even with a new shiny API the network fundamentals would have to be managed just the same way. The Linux kernel would be the same, just as Ethernet, IP and so on. Reinventing all of those wheels just to provide transparent pod-to-pod networking doesn't seem to ever worth it.
pedantic semantic quibble: precursors are molecules that are used to produce a target molecule. Analogs are molecules which are a functional substitute for a target molecule.

5-Aco-DMT is an analog to psilocin, and is believed to be a prodrug (converted into target by your body), but I think precursor is a misnomer in this case.
What if your customer is a geopolitical entity involved in a conflict.

What if they are an entity having "politics done to them" by a geo political entity.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21275269 and marked it off-topic. The comment originally said something like "Not advocating for Joe Rogan but..."