skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that people in the western world have largely abandoned churches for their attitudes toward "sin" and morality, they replaced churches with corporations, media companies, and governments to dictate what is sinful in society.

Once people realize what they've done will they reject corporations, media, and government? If so, where will they turn to?

I suspect that the need for parental moralization of behavior at some tribal level is a group survival mechanism that we can't get rid of.

Regardless of whether it is the church, government, news media, social media, or some corporate policy, it all seems to end up the same from where I sit. Yet, in replacing faith with consumerism or corporatism or governmentism, it seems many people have lost a great deal of hope along the way (see the current mental health crisis for evidence).

It seems people were happier when they left this sort of moral policing to the church/temple/whatever at least they had hope in something positive to keep them going.
Not to be cynical, but as the first sentence in the article suggests, I think the goal is really more aligned with “attracting tech-savvy youngsters to the Catholic Church”.
I think you dont understand the cost of democide. Being disarmed by your govt is a very dangerous position. What do you put as the value of human life ? How about 262 million lives ?

His research shows that the death toll from democide is far greater than the death toll from war. After studying over 8,000 reports of government-caused deaths, Rummel estimates that there have been 262 million victims of democide in the last century. According to his figures, six times as many people have died from the actions of people working for governments than have died in battle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide
If you are that worried about children you should think about inventing new ways to monitor children, so that it becomes impossible to do something to a child without a lot of people knowing about it. Instead of trying to find excuses to spy on everyone on the internet.
>> Cutting a surface in half is significantly more complicated than cutting a curve in half.

No, it's actually the Exact same thing. Just applied independently to each of the curves in one direction.

But none of that is really important. 15 years ago it would be trivial to learn how to do it with a Google search. Today not so.

Also, a book result is still better for me than the commercial tool links which contain no math or theory what so ever.
> A multiplication `uint16_t * uint16_t` can still cause an overflow after promotion to signed int

Last time similar thing bit me was when the platform had 16-bit int... so just adding two int16_t can very well cause int overflow.
And Silicon Valley municipal politics and health fads totally unsupported by anything other than good feels.
Yes politics is about all of us. Trying to limit speech in the office to the football game last night is like saying we prefer our employees to avoid intellectual subjects in their discussions.

Politics is about what is WRONG and what is RIGHT. It is about ETHICS. Saying you can not discuss politics is saying you can not talk about what is wrong and what is right.

The logo of Gitlab should now be the 3 monkeys; See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak (about) no Evil.
This is not necessarily true. Some sellers can request disbursement at any time. For a breakdown of when Amazon pays sellers, see [0].

In this case, the only delay is the 7 day holding period after the latest possible delivery date.

For example, if you sell and deliver a product on Jan 1st, you may be able to disburse the funds as soon as the 8th.

However! This example does not hold for the situation described by the GP because no tracking information can be provided to Amazon. In which case, the longest possible delivery period in the shipping method selected will be used.

More importantly, what the seller did as described by GP is big liability, for two reasons:

1. Phone numbers should never, ever, be used to contact the customer directly. They are for the seller to give to the carrier. This is a violation of Amazon's ToS.

2. Sellers should never, ever, deliver directly to buyers. Not only will this hurt their valid tracking rate metric, but it also makes them a very easy target for item not received cases as there is no proof that the item was delivered. The only recourse in a case like this would be through small claims court.

And on a much more minor note, it's unprofessional to visit a buyer in person. Amazon is not eBay.

[0] https://3t122x28ppxb3z3e3u3i0eib-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
About 6 months ago, when the deplatforming conversation seemed to be at its peak, people couldn't spit out "free speech only applies to the government" fast enough. Well, reap what you sow.
The map is not the territory. The argument is not that they are without benefit, but that there are downsides to people who don't fit the statistical model.

For censuses, an example might be the list of religion, race or gender checkboxes. If your identity doesn't correspond to a checkbox, it appears not to exist.
And the people who are suggesting that it’s somehow a “privileged” position to be able to suggest that politics and work don’t mix are being incredibly disingenuous about this point. The people whose viewpoints are least welcome in the modern workplace - traditionalists - are both the ones who would benefit _most_ from finally being able to get in a word in edgewise in workplace political discussions and also the ones who are calling for a professional rather than political workplace.
Very interesting read... I wonder at what distance the expansion of the universe itself nullify the gravitation attraction?
If you get fired for being gay you may think about this differently.
It's like having prayer in school. It might seem like a good idea on its surface to some, but then you have to decide whose prayer. In Engel v. Vitale many religious groups actually filed amicus briefs against having public school start their day with a prayer because to be nearly universally acceptable, it had to be designed by a committee to be as bland and unobjectionable as possible.

Likewise, anything publicly debated at work has to be inherently bland and without class consciousness, as that calls into question relationship between the workers, the professional management classes and the reigning neoliberal order. The only approved topics will ones that distract from class consciousness and divide the workers into factions that render them unable to operate cohesively.
My job is to do HN a favor, such as by making sure the site guidelines apply.
this won't: (bits + 7LL) >> 3
While I have no doubt that this is said with well intentions, imagine a systemic way of dealing with this that is not facism.

There isn't. The only systemic and consistent way of enforcing "respect" as a society is some government thought court crime tribunal.
I don't see how he arrives at the conclusion there would be less pollution. Compared to when? What exactly would he define as such?

I could counter all the stuff he proposes now with bringing in more of the bad news but I've already done that in another answer if you are interested.

He can be optimistic as he is a white male with prosperity. This group is the one with the best conditions on earth - it's easy to enjoy life if you can be a part of that.

The people who suffer the most don't even have the luxury to think about global concerns and inequality. They have to fight to survive every day and they have to feed their families and escape the next war to finally arrive in the West where he will be treated worse than a dog.

Please ask these people how they cannot share his positive view on our planet.
> I similarly wouldn't expect Visa and MasterCard to allow me to buy drugs legal in Canada

Ironically the government here in Ontario will sell you marijuana by mail and they accept Visa and Mastercard! The rules must be very vague and inconsistent.
We don't really have a "ban" as such, see my recent handbook change here with more discussion: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...

But even before that it just seemed like a "guideline" to me rather than a strict "rule" that was actively enforced, and it was introduced years ago before we had a proper Code of Conduct in place.
I know many of you work in tech in areas of the country that lean very far one way. I go back and forth on this: is this guideline more important in state like Virginia where you will start to see a more diverse and potentially time wasting or is it more important in Silicon Valley where some minority opinions should be protected if only unpopular? And if unpopular they would respect users views more?
Does that in any way change the meaning?

Would you still do business with say, turkey as they move in the kurds?

India as they continue to oppress kashmir?

Or gab?

stormfront?

do you have a line beyond legal minimums?
I have no doubt that multiple people will publish such scripts, and that they'll be subtly incompatible.

(Cynical? Moi?)
You should fire those people, they are not good people.
You're also four and a half times more likely to be killed by "Firearms, type not stated" than someone's bare hands or feet, surely some fraction of those are rifles.
Sorry please see the other answers as you share some of your thoughts on my words and I've already given my answers to that.
Yes, that's a real problem. At the same time, as long as Google is very clear why they are doing that I think they will be okay. After all, they already do this on Chromebook.

Now, why should they do this? Because I have seen malware sites tricking people into first enabling 3rd party apps and then installing their apk.
I2C failure modes:

1) Errant clock pulses--either through reflection or ground bounce since your system isn't differential--which put your system into an unknown state since every clock pulse is relevant to transaction state. And the fact that the lines are merely pulled up rather than actively driven makes them more susceptible.

2) Hung buses--once the bus is hung, there is no guaranteed way to reset it. You have to rely on your slave I2C chip actually having a timeout reset.

3) Transactions often complete but can ACK wrong. This is bad if you're doing something that isn't idempotent.

4) Nobody ever gets an I2C module completely correct. I2C has a bunch of little corners (Can it send just an address byte? Does it really get clock stretching correct? Does it send the correct events to the CPU on restarts?) and everybody always seems to miss at least one of them.

SPI: Not great, but the extra control lines and the fact that nothing is bidirectional is an asset for reliability.

The primary advantage in reliable systems is that SPI has a CS/SS line that serves as a reset. Even if your clock bounces or a slave chip gets confused, you can often detect it and drop the CS/SS before you complete the requisite number of SCLK cycles and prevent the transaction from completing. Also, dropping the CS/SS almost always frees the SDI/MISO line even if the chip goes haywire.

CAN: Specifically designed for harsh environments with voltage spikes, temperature fluctuations, RF interference, etc.

Fully differential so resistant to noise--some topologies can even survive a break in one of the lines. Retransmits are baked into the hardware. Error correction is baked into the protocol. System does baud-rate adjustment on the fly so it handles frequency drift.

The downsides are generally more complexity (although that is buried in silicon), external transceivers and normally more current consumption during operation.
> where's Europe's Google

Europe's Google is Google. Everyone there uses it, so why would you need your own?
Depends on your goals and metrics. I'd say yes, it is worse.

An interesting read:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/san-francisco-school-s...
Switching to Gitlab from GitHub. I wish they added a stackoverflow-like product too.
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Quark Gluon Plasma (observed at the RHIC), at really early in the universe there was too much temperature and pressure to have stars or even atoms. At least that's my understanding.
It's a hard sell to someone who has cursory interest on the subject had the title been your first hypothesis. Still, not great.
I'm not so worried about the supreme court ruling -- businesses don't usually succeed or fail based on the justices ruling that their business model isn't technically illegal. I want to live in a world where the community embraces good things, and actively rejects fascists and bigots whether or not it's legal to do so.
ASK HN – LinkedIn 4th Degree Connection Checker
Yo HN, I have a list of 100 contacts w/their linkedin URLs that I need to send to my Angellist syndicate to see if they know anyone who can facilitate an introduction.

I'm aware LinkedIn is pretty stingy with 3rd party developers, but surely I'm not the first person in our online history whose had this problem. Someone must have written a script that my advisors can open that will run through all 100 names and spit out the 5-10 where they have a mutual connection.

If not, anybody know why that doesn't exist? Cause i'm smelling a fun side-project, and I just don't need that kind of distraction in my life right now.... :)
Being work-related is orthogonal to if it is political, or the benefit it'd bring to your employer.

I'd be making the same objections if I didn't have GDPR and Patientdatalagen to point
to. Hell, I'd have been in favour of introducing those laws, even knowing that it would increase our costs (which I also care about, just not to the same degree).
They do have a regulatory shield though. Section 230 allows platforms to moderate their sites, while leaving them not liable for any content they do leave up. It's considered speech of the user.

This has come to a head as plarforms have grown larger. Note that even if some platforms were strictly neutral, they'd still be affected by the changes the government is proposing. It would have been very unlikely that none of the major platforms would have moderated beyond legal minimums.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communica...
That's uncannily accurate.
I'm sorry, I have to disagree friend. You're overlooking the basic neurochemistry of these substances. If you take Psilocybin or LSD, it will cause actual, scientifically observable changes in the brain. These actual changes can be of great benefit even if there is not necessarily an official therapy employed.

The whole recreational, non-study-able drug use phenomenon, the societal wave of recognition of the value of these experiences, it's all due to the fact that these have a real positive impact on the neurochemistry of the majority of people. Set and setting is important in all branches of medicine and self-improvement, but it's undeniable that these drugs will do wonders even with loosely structured goals at the outset, given proper set and setting as a baseline.
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Which part is black/white thinking - the belief that values need to inform your actions?
I think it's being a bit forward-sighted to assume in any reasonable timeframe SpaceX is going to suddenly enable more/better spacebound telescopes, or that we shouldn't safeguard our existing capabilities until we can ensure that is true.
No one with any power asked Elia Schito to leave Opal. He kept his position and still mentions it in his Twitter profile.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/elia
'we're publishers' is exactly the wrong thing to say. Publishers have some responsibility over what they publish.

The smart thing to say would have been 'we're common carriers'. And then to actually behave like common carriers.. At least that would have gotten them to first base. Now they look like heavy handed censors with a stake in the game.
Hypothesis 3: Due to inherently incomplete information, our understanding of the age of the universe is not yet perfectly correct, and the universe may be older than current models and theory.

Strap yourselves in folks, maybe The Big Bang is but one event woven amid a deeper tapestry of events, significant only in its capacity to occlude deeper periods of time.

It should surprise no one that we might be wrong about some centralized, focal aspect of the universe, given how wrong we've been before, about things we assumed to be the center or origin, previously.
Running one's own recursor using DNSSEC via an ISP's resolver (for the privacy benefit relative to authoritatives) would take care of active attacks by ISPs on their users. Windows and Linux could do this you know, but security would be enhanced only relative to sites that use DNSSEC.

But I don't disagree that DoH is better.

I do hope that in the long run ISPs become less toxic.
The image at the top is a screenshot of http://worldswritingsystems.org/ Oracle Bone Script is actually included, but the description is cut off.

Edit: That site was discussed earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18967333
Advertisers didn't care for over a decade until partisan agitators such as Media Matters and Vox methodically cherry picked screenshots of brands next to maligned youtube channels, and then contacted brands threatening to publish names and shame if they didn't pull their advertising.

The result of this short-sighted crusade was Youtube becoming unprofitable for millions of small creators around the world, and people of all sides of politics suffering including non-political LGBT creators.
I think it depends on how the recommendation algorithms are implemented. (I have no idea about how Facebook and Twitter recommendation algorithms work)

Let's say for example you have a community contributed labeling system that allows users to label content. A recommendation algorithm might then be written that simply pulls the top 10 highest number of viewed pieces content that have the same labels as a piece of content the viewer just viewed. In this case, there is nothing in the algorithm that evaluates the content itself. The evaluation was done by users of the software, not the software itself.
I suspect you're suffering from status quo bias. Try flipping the situation around: imagine we have this same area as undeveloped land, with a button that magically converts it into the current Bay. Would you prefer to develop the land or not?
Can you share more about how you did this? Was it a one time thing? How did you figure out the dosage?
Same sex marriage wasn't even recognized in Colorado at the time. Your ire would be better directed elsewhere, such as the state where the action they wanted to celebrate wasn't legal. Especially a state where you can penalize someone for not baking a cake for an event that isn't legal in the first place.

The whole case was a ridiculous hit job.
It’s funny how these modern companies are rediscovering the old rules for behavior. When I was young it was a given that you didn’t discuss politics, religion, etc...
Isn't that the case here? A company is suppressing all speech about politics?
I disagree with the usage of DPI here like it's a significant barrier. Your ISP has access to both the IPs and the SNIs. They can dedicate resources to log them or not to. SNI requires only a little bit more processing power, but otherwise they "know" both.
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft – Stanford Graduate School of Business [video]
It would be a red flag if he weren't. Imagine if he were hoarding cash while preaching his vision of the future which seems a few trillion shy of launching. It would be borderline fraudulent. If you have a lot of cash, it means you either really don't know what to do with it or think all companies are on the brink of failure and will underperform the dollar.
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Naval is exactly wrong.

Facebook must choose between being a “platform” like a phone company and being a “publisher” like a newspaper or broadcaster.

The rules are different and the accountability is different, which is why Fb lawyers spent years and millions arguing for “platform” status.

Edit: my main goal for posting my comment is to prevent some startup on HN from reading the parent & deciding to classify itself as a “publisher” only to find later that was a huge mistake. I’m not a lawyer & they shouldn’t take my advice, but hopefully they’ll at least double check with someone who is.
In your "neutral" comment, you're already taking a stance on the topics and automatically defining marginalized and privileged. People are far more complicated than that.

That's why these discussions aren't a good idea. Companies are paying you for productivity and ensuring a calm environment is important. You have plenty of opportunity to discuss and create all the change you want elsewhere.
I wish it was that simple honestly.

If Google is doing business with nazis then as a consumer I have absolutely every right to boycott Google.
There are more than 600k millennial millionaires in the US
If $villain has outright said he’s going to do that with it, then the $salesperson might still sell the $hammer if their personal safety is endangered. But they should also notify the $police so that $someone can be warned and $villain can be apprehended.

I think this $scenario is outside the $effective area of the $metaphor.
What if you have a co-worker who is an Arab immigrant and does not believe in trans-sexuality due to his cultural and religious background? Should he be able to express that? Why or why not? Ought the trans-sexual to be able to express his beliefs if it makes said co-worker uncomfortable?

When two deeply-held elements of personal identity are in conflict, the only way to resolve it is for both sides to keep silent or for a third party to insert himself and pick the side in which he believes. In either case, you are telling someone he must change who he is.

The alternative is to simply not discuss such matters at work.

And yes, I believe both sides have the right to express their beliefs and that the comfort of neither trumps the right of the other to speak. I just think time, place, and manner are generally reasonable constraints.
That turned up at some point. But note that 1 it doesnt give an actual answer. And 2 I didnt need to read about knot vectors at all, so it wasnt the correct solution for me.
>many streets are designed as loops, making it impossible to use them to drive from one end of the city to the other. This solved a major problem—before the redesign, some streets were choked with nearly 30,000 cars a day, most of them simply passing through. Now, Lores told Citiscope, “If you enter by the south, you leave by the south.”

They got away with transient traffic and are now generating their traffic in adjacent communities. Smart.
The very first pull-quote is "Bento boxes are expressions of a mother’s love for her child".
Delegates do, however, have floor privileges, the right to sit on committees and vote with them, and the right to vote on legislation. Under the current House rules for the 116th Congress, delegates can also vote with the Committee of the Whole,[0] though if theirs is the deciding vote on a measure, a new vote takes place without them. For the past few decades, that privilege--such as it is--gets restored or removed depending on which party controls the House. In spite of their non-voting status, delegates do have at least some power and influence in the House that can be leveraged on behalf of their constituents.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_the_Whole_(United...
Ask HN: Recommendations for generating pdf/docx reports in code?
Looking at generating reports in a system we're building.

There's tonnes of options, does anyone have any experience or recommendations?