skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The example of Niel Golightly demonstrates that opinions we held decades ago and have not held for many years can still get us fired. Thus, being willing to better yourself is no protection.

See https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-resignation/boeing... for the story.

Just to give a sense, at the time more than 50% of Americans agreed with each of these statements: Women should not serve in the military. Homosexual relationships between consenting adults should not be legal. Interracial relationships are wrong.

Today, those opinions are a firing offense. And if you said them publicly, they are a firing offense no matter how many years it has been since you thought them.
Why couldn't they just track at the server end which packages were being downloaded if they wanted to know which ones are popular?

This seems like something trivial to solve without impacting user privacy if they're downloading all the packages from you or your mirrors.

Unless the point was to see what PPAs people are using?
Perhaps you could re-read the article this discussion is about. You're misrepresenting (and projecting other ideas onto) a viewpoint that you seem to fundamentally misunderstand.

Semantics do matter, especially when specifics are used to highlight division, and that division is used to justify more violence (such as murders committed by the very people who are protesting).
Exactly the same technique can be used on the genuine device to bypass the secure boot and add a backdoor.
Could somebody explain what is going on here? How is this related to reddit and how is it clear that people are rounded up for religious belief? I just see something that could as well be regular prisoners being transferred.
Illegal certainly, but hard to enforce as knowing the sex is not difficult at all(although illegal), ultrasounds are cheap devices do not even need a lot of expertise to handle .

How will you even control abortions ? It is not like the U.S. where abortions are a political issue and ppl make it intentionally difficult ,
everyone is in favour of terminating unwanted pregnancies, it is just that is unwanted because of the sex many times and that’s hard to enforce as a law.
Great essay, useful concept I never noticed before. But I cannot agree with the last sentence.

"If you believe there's nothing true that you can't say, then anyone who gets in trouble for something they say must deserve it."

Even if one is 100% convinced that true statements are 100% safe, there remains the possible beliefs that being wrong is okay to some degree, and that becoming right is a hard process that may involve believing false statements and saying them.
"Suspect" is OK, but "killer"? Offering conclusions before a proper investigation has been conducted isn't police work, it's gossip.
In addition with management issue, the biggest issue/risk with .io is related to the fact the domain might have to come back Mauritius in a short term/few years as UK ownership of the related islands are unlawful:
http://domainincite.com/24236-future-of-io-domains-has-becom...
Are you sure you're just not predictable? If HN had Ads, you could be blocking all the cookies and analytics you want, but those Ads can "look" targeted.
Upper management should also be doing deep work. Middle management should be doing the logistics of translating the results of upper management's deep work into something that guides their team's deep work.
Since I initially registered to vote at 18 in 2001 I was an independent for precisely this reason...I have never wanted to identify with a party much less party politics.

In my experience on any given issue if you were to ask for a simple comparative analysis with 5 points for both sides almost no one can get beyond the talking points of the day from their favorite cable news channel.
Truck Dozer Crushing Experiment with Shredding Machine
Interestingly, Paul Graham follows and interacts with @TitaniaMcGrath. This thread is very revealing for the current identity politics: https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/128102398724248780...
There are other layouts in North America, including French (Canada), Bilingual (also common in Canada), Spanish (Mexico). Plus a multitude of people who have other preferred layouts. There is no official layout for this landmass.
I don't know what you responded to, it's deleted now, so I can only address your question directly:

Reputation. If you know a reliable killer across the Atlantic but don't know one in America, it makes sense to smuggle your known reliable killer in rather than risk talking to a police officer posing as a contract killer. Even in "extremely violent America", if you start asking around for contract killers most people will get weirded out and tell the cops to take a look at you.
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Cool idea. I'm happy with Pleroma though tbh.... I have a feeling fediverse will win in the long run.
Please who are you kidding? The rule "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for." is perfectly applying here.
It's not introducing context but trying to stir a toxic political blame game.

By the way, as I have written above, even that information is totally false, he NEVER lived in bangladesh, so he doesn't even come from that culture, nor was it ever written in the article, so why bring that up except for ideological reasons?
I don't think that's reasonable to think at all. Literally no one I know locally that is also a programmer uses the American layout. The difficulties of inputting symbols with ex. altgr is overstated.

I really don't think most people use the American layout. That's just typical america-centric narcissism.
True. Maybe we'll finally get the retro 60s future video phone. Think of a one button click Jetsons phone. There's certainly a market for appliances as well as tools.
But this specific article makes no mention about it.
Yeah, that makes sense, I mentioned freepascal specifically because it has pretty broad platform support (and can generate LLVM bitcode). But, maybe the cost of translating to C is worth it.
> I have never in my life understood how being a member of a racial/gender/religious group implied association with some specific political party.

Surely it wouldn't surprise you to learn gay voters are more likely to support pro-gay-rights parties?
I think you're projecting your perspective of the relative dangers to the Amazon rainforest and the {other} rainforest in that metaphor. In your head one class is in real trouble, and other class is in lesser trouble. Try to exercise your metaphor from the perspective other forests are in equal or greater danger:

eg:
Imagine if someone told you the Pacific Temperate rain forest needs saving and you responded with "sure, but we're prioritizing resources for the Amazon first - its got it way worse"

You just (wittingly) downplayed the imminence of one over the other and missed on the particularities because of how you perceived their relative danger.

Now consider your original metaphor without the bias about which forest is worst off in reality. You might find that "all forests matter" might be a more valid response in that context because they don't want to dis-proportionally favor one at the cost of the others.
Not sure about the latest PSUs, but in the past high efficiency PSU's had to make trade offs with increased ripple/noise so they weren't ideal where maximum stability was desired.
Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in France?
One nice benefit of working from home due to lockdown is that I haven't set an alarm in months. I just naturally get up fairly early with the sun now, so it's pretty unlikely that I'll miss my first 10:00 call.
Edinburgh? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Castle#Geology)
ATS is not readily usable for large programs. Among the "popular" programming languages Rust is perhaps most likely to get some support for interactive formal proof down the road, given that the safe subset of Rust basically enforces the rules of functional programming (and the unsafe subset is self-contained in a way that's not necessarily true elsewhere). Work along these lines is already happening as part of RustBelt.
Your comment reinforces my initial point: "A broader solution is almost always less efficient for a specific constrained sub-problem."

It all sounds very complicated compared to paying a bit of money and toggling a setting. For example, googling for "elements/riot/matrix audit bot" results in no pertinent results from what I can tell. Being possible is not the same thing as being easy to use.

edit: Also companies don't care about being clear to users except as legally required or beneficial to the company. Employees not being constantly aware that they're being watched all the time is a positive and not a negative.
Well, usually people are killed then dismembered.
Oh, good. Sooner than I thought for Chaddox.

Chaddox has its downsides, but I think it'll be an effective band aid solution. As far as mRNA vaccines, I read that blog post and think Lowe, (and other biologists) have more hope for Pfizer than they do for Moderna. However, Pfizer's vaccine needs more time.
https://www.fortran.io/

For example.

More seriously, I could imagine a security flaw in numpy wreaking all sorts of havok. But it's also somewhat difficult for me to imagine that there are any security vulnerabilities left in BLAS. But then I remember Heartbleed.
Does anyone have a good solution to stopping ones glasses from steaming up while wearing a mask? I enjoy being able to see when I’m walking in public
Thanks for this, your account is moving. Despite my moaning about it, Athens can be a magical place and I spent some of my best years there- not just because I've spent most of my life there (I also lived in Corfu for a long time) (which is just a whole 'nother kind of magickal). I guess, one needs to see Athens with fresh eyes, not the eyes of someone who grew up in Athens, to appreciate it best, as something new.

And just to set the record straight- there are many "geitonies" (neighbourhoods) in Athens, places with parks and cafes and communal spaces right next to peoples' homes, like the article says it and as you hint at it. And when it's hot and everyone is outside, mingling, you do get this feeling of people living their lives all together. Finally, most of the "proasteia" (the suburbs, although Athens is now one big conurbation and there's no real demarcation) have always taken care to maintain as much greenery as possible, exactly to offset the grey concrete. That makes it a little better.

And like I say in my original comment, the summer evenings are magic. The temperature falls a little to just bearable levels of warm and the smooth light makes everything seem sweeter, nicer, calmer, prettier - familiar, to me anyway. Athens is, after all, the only place in the world I can truly call "home".

(though, home is were .bashrc is...)
>I don't want to succeed at the basic function of life

Treating having children as a success and a reward in of itself is part of the problem. If someone doesn't want to have children because they feel like they'll have a bad life, that's their decision to make. Not yours to try and apply some strange value judgment where completely unborn children somehow have a say in the equation.

You're making the argument rather absurdly personal with your claims that they're a helicopter parent for not wanting to have children and claiming that they're weak/unreliable/untrustworthy. Stop it.
Curious about this too. I recently looked into sperm preservation. Something like $1,250 to setup and $250/year after the first year. Seemed reasonable to me.
The actual police haven't even ruled it a homicide yet. I'd suggest reading a range of news coverage and not taking the paraphrased words in an article that's itself a summary of coverage from elsewhere as literal quotes.
Wonderful topic for a book. I don't see a price for the electronic version? Will it be free such as Practical Common Lisp?
A Chinese company invested $150 million in Reddit.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/11/18216134/reddit-tencent-i...
> Identity politics is the recognition that people of similar backgrounds tend to have similar political desires...

You're taking a very short-term view of "identity politics". When the US was founded under the phrase "all men created equal", it was with the clear understanding that "men" meant white landowners, and specifically not women. This was marked progress from previous royalty-based governments where "god" selected some fantastically rich white men to rule. Identity politics are as old as history itself. Only the name is new.
> "makes it unappealing to me"

and to most of us, but i imagine that most people aren't in the target market. My university outfitted all new lecture halls built in the last ~20 years with professional grade video recording equipment, most likely for thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars. By comparison, $599 for professors giving lectures via zoom seems like a bargain if the sound and video quality are substantially better than an ipad.

For the rest of us, we'll most likely continue with our phones, laptops, cheap webcams and ipads.
For another data point, I immediately thought "that's a surprisingly good name!"
I agree about the screen size. I'm really looking forward to next year's XPS 15, once they deal with the usual 'first model' issues.

That said, I haven't found a situation where the processor has been a problem, but that's probably a matter of workload. For software development, it has never been an issue. If you are re-encoding video for a living or doing CAD, maybe it could be an issue.
I think the important distinction is the side effects of having a neighbor that rents out on AirBnB. In your case it's "occasionally his guests encroach on our driveway which is adjacent to his" which I think is unacceptable. I have rented ~10 AirBnB's with friends over the years and in every case we either flew into the location and used Uber/Lyft to get around or carpooled there resulting in us only using the allowed number of parking spaces.

A family or group of people occupying a residence that would be occupied by a similarly size group is not a problem in my mind. It's only when there is noise at all hours, trash left around the property or on yours, or parking in your parking area that I would really start to mind.

Maybe that's easy for me to say as someone who doesn't (that I know of) live near someone who rents out on AirBnB. That said, I do live next to 1 house that has ~6 (I honestly can't be sure) people that live there (all adults) and on the other side have a house that is often vacant and the owners have their parents live there sometimes I think and none of that bothers me. That's mainly because they keep to themselves, don't make lots of noise, leave trash laying around, or take up extra parking. So knowing all that I don't think I'd mind an AirBnB as long as all those factors didn't change.
the twitter mob didn't "decide it was racist," racists started co-opting that symbol to identify themselves to one another in a way that flies under the radar[1]. The term is "dog-whistle."

I can't speak to the case in question, but my guess is that there were other dynamics in play if the "ok symbol" was enough to get him fired.

[1] https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/okay-h...
> Is there a high-pitched sound, or not?

I found this such a bizarre analogy (responding to pg's point, not directly to you). There can be meaningful difference of opinion and perception on whether or not a sound exists; people literally might not have the physiological equipment to hear it. However, the assertion that "there are things I can't say" (meaning, presumably, "there are things I will experience significant hardship for saying" rather than literally "… things I am physically incapable of saying") is surely proveable by mentioning such a thing. He dismisses this idea, but seems never to explain why he's dismissing it, other than by this analogy, which to me seems false.

If the answer to why you can't say what things can't be said is that merely specifically mentioning their existence brings on the unspeakable consequences, then I would say further: I find it perfectly possible to refer to and defend the right of freedom of speech by defending the expression of ideas with which I vehemently disagree. Hopefully Nazism is a safe enough bugbear to assume that every reasonable person disagrees with it. And yet I think Nazis should be able to speak, and at the same time that they should experience the consequences of that speech; and I feel safe in saying that no-one here will confuse my saying that with support or defence of Nazism. So why can't one of these things that can't be said similarly be named without supporting it?

To carry it even one step further, I agree that, if someone says that there's a high-pitched noise and I don't hear it, then it is rude to deny that they hear anything. But is it rude to ask them what it sounds like (for example, does it sound like something I can hear?), or if they can identify where it comes from, or if they hear it all the time? Maybe that falls under the category of 'demanding' evidence that pg says is rude, but it seems to me to be rather a gathering of evidence that I think is the sort of activity highly valued in this community.
It doesn't bring confidence to me that the other competitor is company run by the richest man in the world.

I meant a real competition.

Most likely the way it will happen is that it will be really nice for customers with Amazon offering lower prices until SpaceX is driven out of business and only Amazon is left.
In this case, it's true, I was not chastised or marginalized.

With a different group of people, I could have been though. I've seen articles written to the effect of "if you are against rent control, you must hate the hard working people who benefit from it."

I picked a somewhat less controversial example, where I did speak up. As a mostly conservative, Catholic person in tech, there are plenty of other times where I understand my perspective is not welcomed, and have not bothered to speak up For a just a few examples: people claiming Catholic nuns are slave labor; people printing random quotes from the Bible and making fun of it without actually studying it; people making derogatory comments about religious people. In all of these cases, the people in question made the comments assuming that everyone around them saw the world a certain way (i.e., was not religious).
It's true that the 2nd half of the post (which I should have read before commenting) is a retort to my objection. If I understand well, the response is that I am blessed (?) with "orthodox privilege".
Also, each separate tweet will now have its own distinct discussion threads instead of everything being mixed into one. Certain tweets can be quote retweeted and included in other threads, making exploration even easier.
Or just have it wait for an RPC message. A thread waiting on IO doesn't cost much, and you can always spin up more to do the work it was supposed to be doing.

But yea, conditions weren't designed from the start with distributed systems in mind, so you almost need a runtime that can save a whole thread to disk and recover it later. Back in the day though you could just open a window and ask the user what to do directly.
By far the most terrifying movie I've seen on nuclear war has been Threads.

If you can find a good copy of it, watch it.

Also, many people these days act like the threat of nuclear war went away with the end of the Cold War. But the threat is still very real, and there are still thousands of nuclear weapons that the US and Russia continue to aim at each other, not to mention the rest of the world's nuclear powers, some of which have been at war with each other before and stand a good chance of going to war again.
> My therapist observes that you are only as happy as your least happy child.

I am not a parent (yet?), but this sounds very true based on what my parents always told me.

By the way, thanks for your comment. It might not be "in line" with other comments, but I found it genuine and heartfelt. And it enriched me.
There’s an interesting corollary of that: multiple “Black Lives Matter” organizations believe in ending capitalism and dismantling the family. By your argument, nobody should use the phrase “black lives matter” either unless they, like the founders of that BLM org, actually are literal Marxists.

Maybe you are a Marxist and you think it’s a grand idea to abolish capitalism and the nuclear family. But actually, effective communication is a little beside the point here. If you effectively communicated that you wanted to abolish capitalism and the nuclear family, nobody would care or pay attention. If you instead hid those ideas under a slogan specifically chosen to be as undeniable as possible, you can sneak a lot of things in pretty fast.
You misunderstand me: the people complaining about “cancel culture” are the ones who simply want to be able to air their opinions without hearing criticism.

I don’t know what’s happening to Uncle Bob on Twitter, but right now his account has 150,000 followers. So, what consequences is he actually suffering here?

What if you switched out the MAGA hat for one bearing the rebel flag or a misogynistic slur? It seems eminently reasonable to me for a conference to kick people out for refusing to remove a superfluous article of clothing that makes other attendees feel unwelcome.

Jordan Peterson’s offer was rescinded not because of a “twitter cancel culture mob” but by students and faculty at the University, who absolutely have a right to decide whom to allow into their community: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/mar/20/cambridge-...
Why should someone who is already living in the US for the purposes of studying have to move somewhere else during a global pandemic and then move back to continue studying when the pandemic is over?