skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even ignoring complicated questions about gravity and space metrics and their evolution over time, if a big bang occurred in an occupied region of space, we'd see the results of these two things crashing together. We see similar, but much smaller, such things all over the place in space. We do not see any collisions best explained this way.
Everyone in this thread below is assuming after the 30 minutes I just fuck off and do nothing. LOL, why would anyone pay me if I did that? Obviously, there's always a ton of stuff to do. But, again, it's about results, not hours worked. There's times when you have to put in almost 48 hours non-stop, others where you don't have to work all week. The point is that if your employees have tasks to do and they're doing them, who gives a fuck about how long it takes them? The 40 hour work week is fucking horrible, anyway, and as is pointed out later in this thread, creative work like coding goes on in your mind pretty much 24/7. If I come up with the solution to a problem Saturday night you can damn well be sure I'm taking some time off to compensate for that. Otherwise I'll burn the fuck out.

Sure, some unknown quantity of people can just fuck around and hide from work, but again, you're not paying me because I'm a fuck off person, yer paying me because I have the decades of experience, and because you know with certainty I'll do the damn work, find more work when I need more, and will never miss a deadline on my own fault. Everyone on HN just assumes bad faith all the time, geez....
It's called a reversal. They went from "we do not currently exclude" to "this list, _not limited to_" which means anything they want it to mean.
There's an argument that rape is considered a worse wrong than assault because it involves sex.
That wasn't me. I'd argue the opposite. Though I'd also maybe argue that SRV records is what we should have standardized on for this stuff a long time ago.
Firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a rifled barrel minimum of 16" long, and an overall length minimum of 26".

Rifles are defined more by what they AREN'T than what they ARE. "Shoulderable", "rifled barrel", 16", and 26" are the points where the federal government classifies a firearm as something different, such as a shotgun or a handgun.
Actually I generally agree with this. I think he has some distinct flaws too. I just didn't want this to become a referendum on Joe Rogan.
Scaling internal communication at Stripe (2014)
Just because the license lets you do what you want with the code doesn't mean you’re allowed to commit fraud.

For example, if a person were to repackage someone else's open source project with a link that says, "Donate to support the development of this software" that's still fraud (assuming they keep the donations).
What would they use for power? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Coal_mines_in_Italy compares rather poorly to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining_in_the_United_King....

Also, where would they get iron? https://www.britannica.com/place/Italy/Resources-and-power:

”The Italian peninsula is a geologically young land formation and therefore contains few mineral resources, especially metalliferous ones. What few exist are poor in quality, scant in quantity, and widely dispersed. The meagreness of its natural resources partially explains Italy’s slow transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy, which began only in the late 19th century. The lack of iron ore and coal especially hindered industrial progress, impeding the production of steel necessary for building machines, railways, and other essential elements of an industrial infrastructure.”
> Even if their client is a serial murderer and has co fessed their guilt to them, they still have to do their best in representing them.

IANAL but I believe this is untrue. It would not be acceptable for a lawyer to represent to the court something that they have reason to believe is false.
Earlier this year, the British Library in London put on a major exhibition called 'Making Your Mark' about the history of writing. Accompanying the exhibition were online articles exploring the origins of writing; they make for a very readable and informative introduction to this fascinating subject:

https://www.bl.uk/history-of-writing/themes/the-origins-of-w...
Then don't talk about it; else be labelled something nasty and be effectively unpersoned.

( Not trying to reach for the 1984 language, but it's the most accurate terminology I can come up with.. :\ )
> Another use is legitimiate "adult entertainment" sites where people don't want their sexual fetishes appearing on a credit card or ending up on a blockchain somewhere where the public can see.

Have you ever actually purchased adult entertainment on a credit card? They are inconspicuous companies that don't exactly flag what fetish you're into. At worst, you get a cover-company that doesn't actually match up to the website name. I dare say that this is a solved problem in the credit-card world.

Worst case scenario: buy Visa / AmEX gift-cards with cash and use that to fund your porn-stash. If you really have someone watching over your credit-card statements that you're worried about. There are very simple means of avoiding the problem in the traditional credit-card world. If credit-cards are available, then no form of cryptocoin is necessary for any kind of anonymity or protection.

> And there are legitimate reasons to use monero and bitcoin. Sending money to family in countries such as china, iran, and venezuela is one.

No, at best, that's a reason to use BTC. No reason to use Monero yet. And furthermore, using BTC to avoid local currency laws is going to probably put you up to scrutiny by the local authorities.

I don't think the US cares about sending money abroad... but China probably cares if you're avoiding their Yuan -> USD restrictions or creating a secondary market to trade Yuan / USD.
Fear and outrage is a major component of driving traffic to news itself, no?
I was just thinking back to when I was brand new - my first job was 4 long months of sending out resumes.
(That) Space was also created by the big bang.
Every lunchtime my colleagues and me solve world problems. We talk about how stupid the current leaders are, and how easy it is to fix the problems in the world. We solved world hunger a few times, and also transportation issues and other things.

Then we say "Another world problem solved!" and go back to work.
It's inevitable these platforms will have government mandated restrictions on speech, as well as government mandates to NOT restrict speech. There's no other way to really manage the issue.

Whinging of the poorly informed that free speech protections can only apply to the government aside.
But if the opponent knows you subscribe to this rule (assume ignorance over malice), couldn't they take advantage of this?
wow great information! thanks for letting me know. Will definitely be looking into it
VANTAs absorb well in the visible and infrared range, but not radio waves. They would also show up in IR, shedding all the heat they soaked up from the sunlight. Absorption is not the full story when you're in thermal equilibrium and also emitting the same amount of energy.
> I will say that it takes a certain level of privilege to say one shouldn’t discuss politics at work.

My counterpoint would be that it takes a certain level of privilege to be able to discuss politics at work. Or, to be more specific, anything other than the job you are working. (And, of course, the things your employer can't legally stop you from talking about.)

Or, to put my point more specifically: Almost all of the discussion I have seen ignores that most of these problems are, at their root, class based problems. I suppose what is more saddening from a humanist standpoint is the way the extremists on both sides wish to eventually put the other under their heel.

That said, touching specifically on my personal experiences in Education, the issue is that any Metric based solution will likely run up against Goodhart's law sooner or later. While what I witnessed in Academia was probably far from the norm, I doubt it was rare.
> I would suggest leaving, in that case.

Well, that's the thing. If that's such a simple thing to do, I would suggest that you leave if you're uncomfortable in a company where employees are allowed to voice their opinions on company policies. You supporting your family is not more important than me supporting mine.
> Are you sure you really want to discuss politics at work

It would really depend on the individual Trump supporter whether I would want to discuss politics with them or not.

However I don't think whether I 'want' the discussion has anything to do with anything. Discussion of communal affairs is basic to humans, and my 'wanting' has nothing to do with others' need and right to continue to be human. An employer does not own people (even during their hours of employment), and this kind of clause would be illegal in any reasonable polity.

Obnoxious behaviour, forcing of one's opinion (or neurotic need to discuss) on others, etc, is another matter and prevalent enough in plenty of areas quite outside of politics. The only simple authoritarian solution to that would be to ban conversation altogether.
> I don't think there's such a concept as "higher-gravity region" in modern physics, unless you're thinking about "in the vicinity of a giant star, black hole, or something equally massive."

I think at the beginning of the universe, there might be a lot of regional discrepancies. They might even just be "temporary" regional discrepancies from gravitational waves due to the inherent nature of the universe growing and everything still crashing together.
But why would that matter? If, like you said "...all originated from a similar point in time and space and that it rapidly expanded outward", any star forming next to it would be pushed out of the observable edge.

Hence, no one would ever know if a star was there in the first place.
The site guideline is "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." Since Gitlab retracted that part of their policy, that part of the title became misleading. That's why I edited it. As always, we're open to suggestions for a better, i.e. more accurate and neutral, title.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The last traces of tech-centric Internet are being done away with... Only the ad-ridden cesspool remains. Sigh
This is coming dangerously close to what is commonly known as "reading your mind" and I'm terrified at what this means e.g. with law enforcement.
Dead Man's Switch with CloudWatch
https://github.com/dapr/dapr
> But I actually like that different teams can mix a lot easier.

My team shares an open office with another one, working on a different project. We see them every day.

I don't think anyone knows any name of the people in the other team.
I'd love to see a ranking by country of the most carless cities.
Sure, I'm just saying that a lot of it is due to unsuitable approaches.

If you're actually going to look at it, I just want to make clear that I've never fuzzed it or anything, beyond running valgrind maybe twice (should be mentioned in the git log). And on the functional side, I don't even know what state this project is in. I think I lost interest in it when I needed to implement yet another way to encode x86-64 instructions, since having both floats and doubles is a requirement to run interesting things with OpenGL.

Let me know what problems you find!
I'd rather read about hash collision versus hit by meteor.
OVPN DNS Leaktest
You should shut down conversations with nazis and the far right figures he regularly has as guests. Joe Rogan platforms these people for profit. Joe Rogan is not a good person.
You'd be surprised at what is "not illegal". Every community moderates.

You can make an argument that some sites have moderated too much, or been too overtly political.

But every community moderates, and has to. This can be demonstrated with a simple example. Guess what isn't illegal? Spam!

It should be obvious that FB and Twitter etc have to take spam down though.

Then there's abusive behaviour. Stalking, harassment, etc. Often not illegal, but hurts a platform. Better take that down.

What about propaganda? They should let it all go? That sure sounds like a....phone network. Actually wait, it sounds more like the news media, which has been regulated for decades. A zero moderation policy would likely have led to demands for regulation, too.

And then there's the massive category of topics which are not illegal, but horrifying. Have zero moderation, and you end up as 4chan or worse.

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I'm generally in favour of keeping politics out of things, but your "we take stuff down only for a court order" is a naive view. Literally every forum moderates, they have no choice.
“Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.”

― Linus Torvalds
Is this an opinion strictly about politics? Or does it apply to other topics? Sports? Art? Entertainment?

Sometimes others look for more than just a paycheque at work.
Data Engineering Challenges Around Data Orchestration, Cloud Migration
Krugman wrote a column once I quite enjoyed where he stated that he couldn't quite see why people objected to the TPP because "more trade" isn't something to object to. His own comment section proceeded to school him in what the trade agreement actually contained.

This is something that would be quite hilarious to see from an actual scientist about a topic that is supposedly their field of expertise but it's very much something you'd expect from somebody who is there to legitimize a neoliberal (no quotes necessary) ideology.
Plasmonics
that black or white thinking sounds fallacious
CircleCI unveils per seat plus per usage based pricing
Doesn’t make sense: a phone conversation is more akin to a gchat or messenger convo. A Facebook page or wall is more akin to publishing... and historically publishers have used considerable discretion about what gets published.
You think they could save some money offering people a yearly "no ads" plan, across all google properties and any site with doubleclick and ads words. Very strange that they only offer paid plans for office productivity, youtube, and backups.

It would be even cooler if a certain percentage of the rate was a "designate your target" that allowed you to directly fund things like google reader etc.

It's also kind of crazy they dont have some kind of pricing sheet that shows me all the subscriptions available to me, along with some bundle options. I have to search out each product to see its price. It's like they dont want me to look for ways to give them money.
Which makes it even clearer that this isn't an issue... we're not adding 3000%, we're adding 1% (assuming "millions" = 3 million).
My bus throughout the majority of k-12 showed up at 6:50, and first bell rang at 7:23.
I have a habit of opening the same link multiple times, since it's sometimes easier to click the link in the thread than to Ctrl+PageDown to switch tabs.

In this case, I had it open, came back to the HN thread to leave a comment, opened the site again to look some more (twice?), came back to the thread and read someone else's comment about consistency, went back to look at what they were saying, and that's when I noticed the icon was different compared to the other three tabs of it I already had open.
Fortunately for buyers, all legal systems don't enforce 0 tolerance policies for end users, at least regarding drug use. In western Europe, drug use is officially prosecuted but in reality it is rarely the case.
> An alternative explanation might be that he went looking for an easily-refuted straw man to advance his political agenda.

Well, that's obvious from the very first sentence of the masturbatory piece.
They fucked up when money entered the picture. Naturally some companies don't want their ads next to ISIL/ISIS beheading/recruitment videos for some reason... and it's allegedly bad for growing the audience too.

The bottom line is, that G/FB/Tw did not remain neutral, because that hurt the aforementioned bottom line. Now, of course - as you said/transcribed - the problem is that if fascism becomes profitable then what?
VX Underground
We have a model for transit-oriented suburbs in America. Pre-WW2 streetcar suburbs are still spacious and have nice private backyards, but also have transit within easy walking distance. Transit-supporting density was generally achieved through smaller front yards, narrower streets, and less parking.
Correct.

He has many interesting guests and interviews.

Then he has on some far right asshole to spew their rhetoric unchallenged.
> If it's illegal, we'll take it down. Give us a court order. Otherwise we don't touch it.
> the area with the color they can't see gets a lot darker

Interestingly, for me (deuteranomolous) the colors I can't see often seem lighter. For example, green traffic lights appear white. I assumed this is because I can still see the light, it just doesn't get interpreted as green, but I don't know whether that's true.
Reddit CEO's prepared remarks for congressional hearing about CDA 230
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_car-free_places
> Since Gitlab retracted that part of their policy,

Must have missed something - what was retracted?
The fact that some people claim Jordan Peterson is somehow alt right is even more ridiculous.
No way the thing that works literally in every other country on Earth will work (or is possible) in the Bay Area.

No, we should fill the Bay, build more single-family units, and hope that whatever reasons we have for not having functional transit magically won't apply in the newly-minted suburb.
It comes down to whether it's enforced (regardless of how). If there are repercussions of any kind, then in order to make that judgement you need an objective perspective of what's political which is even more of a waste of time if not impossible. Whoever is tasked with discerning what should be punished and what isn't is bound to have some bias.
Disagree with this.

First off, in the world of VOIP and conference calls this isn't true anymore, and we still don't censor VOIP providers.

The point is you can choose to be a carrier or you can chose to be a service.
How did you configure your free tier? We're being told that the org account is on a 30 day trial.
They avoid mentioning it in the blog, but besides the charge per usage (minutes), there's also a flat 15USD fee per user/month: https://circleci.com/pricing/
Hypothetically, why is it so unreasonable that you would ban someone who advocated for genocide from participating on your platform?

The government is not supposed to legislate all morality. There's plenty of awful things you can do that are perfectly legal. Companies can and should be able to choose who they do business with.
I think having a tight-knit community of people willing to do each other favors in the face of a world that may not necessarily approve of your beliefs also plays a big part. Also true of both conservative/Orthodox Jews and Mormons.
That’s exactly our problem. Even on hacker news, check out the top comment on any new proposal or technology. It’s always negatively mentioning the downsides and unintended consequences.
I find it kind of weird that this has to be stated.

Work-- and commerce in general-- should be a place where people can put aside differences which are irrelevant to their enterprise and work together for a common benefit.

Extensive discussion of divisive topics which are unrelated to working conditions can really get in the way. Twenty+ years ago it seemed like it was the norm to me, I'm not sure why people seem to have lost this insight.

This doesn't mean that you have to be totally neutral to mass murderers or what not, but it's prudent to think carefully about where your political and moral hard stops are. If they're not significantly more extreme than your preferred views then you're probably adopting a position which is overly intolerant to a diversity of opinions and you're probably wasting a lot of time by failing to cooperate with others.
There absolutely was, and is, an AS/400 machine. Originally, it was a custom (and kinda weird) CISC processor and associated specialized I/O architecture. Now it's a customized Power derived processor and a somewhat more standards oriented I/O architecture. There is an extremely well defined abstraction layer that the applications run on top of that allowed them to be migrated, but it's intimately tied to the physical implementation of the underlying AS/400 hardware.

I'm not an AS/400 expert, but did work in one of the largest AS/400 shops in the world for quite a while. The AS/400 folks definitely didn't live migrate apps CISC->RISC when they upgraded. Sat is lots of change management meetings there. Could they have? Dunno. But they sure operated like that was SOP.
My experience with the W3C guidelines is that they don't work well in the real world. I think their definition of contrast is not quite right.
Microservices is absolutely meaningless. It's just SOA (services-oriented architecture). Services = groups of functionality and business logic that interact.

How you deploy these services can be completely arbitrary. They can be split up in different methods, classes, assemblies, or entirely separate processes running on different servers.

Going straight to that last option is completely unnecessary for the vast majority. And when it's needed, it's actually because of team organization rather than app architecture.
Opportunity cost of banning cars is huge. Opportunity cost of gun control is negligible (as showcased by the rest of the world).

Gun control is the low hanging fruit of death prevention.
Futura Sciences – Current and Future Science Dictionary
I am laughing at all the horribleness here :-)

I39L caught my eye, I think it’s one of the earliest abbreviations of that form that I have seen. Do you know where it came from?
Didn't google do something similar? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20779004
Would you pass an opportunity to include illustration of an astronomical object at a scale of 1:1?
> If it's illegal, we'll take it down. Give us a court order. Otherwise we don't touch it.

Interestingly the underlying assumptions in most analyses like this is that everyone lives in US and obeys US laws. What if China goes after a political dissident through Facebook? Even worse, what if Facebook propaganda is used to incite genocide by the government of Myanmar? Where do you get the court order to take it down?

Unfortunately the business model of Silicon Valley is at odds with this simplistic first-amendment/court-order sort of argument.
That's one part of it. The part were employee cannot discuss politics at work is very problematic however. What about unionizing?
> What portions of the law/politics do they want to favor race/gender?

That was never stated. Don't stick words in people's mouths.
> hold responsible for what they enable.

That's irrelevant. The rules are for conducting responsible research, not for pondering the potential misuse or evil use of whatever technology. Physics and bio have a far greater record of evil uses, and it was never questionable. It was accepted that scientists do science, and ask questions later. The before-the-fact crusades are a very recent (like, 10 years) phenomenon limited to the west coast of the US