skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that's a compelling argument.

In both these cases, individuals are talking about broader societal trends. It's not a contradiction if they aren't talking about their own specific experience (i.e. "I'm silenced, therefore I can't talk, listen to me talk about how silenced I am"). An 18th-century writer discussing sex may contribute to the counter-argument that by virtue of their writing about sex, it isn't as taboo a subject as they imply. But in and of itself, it isn't proof that such a trend does not exist.
I had a high school teacher show us Threads during a breakout portion of 10th grade history where, for 9 weeks, you learned all about nuclear war. It has stuck with me my entire life. Somewhere about 2/3 of the way through the course we watched the film. It singlehandedly hammered into me what weeks of still imagery, theory, and historical facts could not.

What you learn most importantly from it is, while the initial hyper-violent effects of a proper nuclear war are so much more horrendous than anything humanity can imagine based on anything ever seen prior, it's the slowly diminishing quality of life that spirals out from it that reminds you of the futility and pointlessness of it all. When, ten years later, you see life is operating at medieval (or worse) levels, it's a truly crushing feeling.

The film is available on Amazon (for purchase only), I believe. Everyone should watch it, but I cannot emphasize enough that for some people it can be a real stressor. It has no happy ending.
We have a independent national authority (ASN ~ Nuclear Safety Authority) which is tasked to assess the security of all nuclear power plants and certifies them for periods of 10y.

The plant that is being closed was certified by the ASN.
The 40y lifespan was the MINIMUM certified lifespan of the power plant. It could very well run for another 40y.
These kinds of equipment are modernised every 10 years during the shudowns.
The power plant itself is NOT the one that was built 40y ago.
I just cannot bring myself to believe that. Related to google specifically, it would take an enormous effort to make me believe otherwise.

I uploaded a picture to google maps as part of a review. About a month later I get an actual notification on my phone - hey do you want to share this picture you took in City Park last weekend? It creeped me out beyond belief. Google had been rifling through my personal pictures in the background while I was going about my life. It was an enormous breach of my personal space and it is just one example of many related to google.
A company flew me out to San Francisco to interview once. On my way into the building in the morning I was mugged (almost right outside). I told my interviewer, they took me to the lunch room to sit down and compose myself. "Take as long as you like", they said. 2 minutes later they came to collect me for my interview.

I was a wreck. Worst interview of my life. Didn't get the job. I am pretty sure I would have if I wasn't falling apart.
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More likely if factory workers got better wages then prices of goods would go up, demand would go down, and some factory workers would no longer be needed. Amazon doesn't have the luxury of deciding it doesn't want to create value for it's shareholders, and I'm speculating widely, but I'm guessing the marketplace (B2C) aspect of the business is probably operating on much slimmer margins than the cloud aspect (B2B). If they were to subsidize the marketplace with cloud profits, it would be anti-competitive. They would be operating at a loss which would prevent competitors from being profitable and competitive.
This is the reason/intention. Potatoes...even worse are jugs of water (low price high weight and bulk). It is a little less clear cut and for sure we're trying to make it easy as possible to reason about the change when picking up a shop.

Full Disclosure: I work for Target/Shipt and my opinions are my own.
We've since changed the URL. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23848620)
Probably not. There is most likely another door once the elevator opens, that also require some sort of key.
I find it hard to square Biden and Trump as supposedly same level of extreme. Or Clinton and Trump.

They just are not the same level of extreme. Quite the opposite, the democratic party is significantly more choosing toward center figures.

It also tend to choose less extreme tactics to get their way - there was no democratic goverment shutdown etc.
This is a smart move by Zoom. A lot of traditional companies with poor remote / WFH policies are looking for any "solution" to increase "productivity". I'm using quotes here because this product doesn't have to actually increase anything, just be marketable enough for some big corporation to shell out for 1000 of them to cope with the reality that offices won't reopen for a while.
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Do you really believe that it's not possible to be left-wing and progressive, even part of a minority, generally accepting the things you mentioned as genuine problems that need to be addressed, while still simultaneously thinking that identity politics is flawed and counterproductive?

If I criticise the left it's not because I'm right, it's because I want the left to be better.
I've addressed these problems you listed in version 0.0.19 but getting updates to the F-Droid store is a very slow process. The next F-Droid release will have auto updates enabled with the F-Droid team, so those and future issues should be fixed relatively quick from that platform.

Regardless, thanks for trying it out.

Edit: feel free to post issues like this directly to the project in github if you decide to try it out again
Stop dehumanizing an entire group of people. All humans feel anxiety and that's a fact. Excluding one group of people that is equally likely to experience it because it's currently in vogue is still discriminatory.
It’s still an indicator that “no you’re not crazy, we’re having issues on our end” but not a foolproof one. It’s kind of sad that twitter is usually the best place to confirm an outage as it begins, rather than the software providers themselves. I assume if they actually exposed global availability metrics in most cases it would not look as good as they would want it to
Housing is the #1 most contentious topic on HN. It almost always gets out of control.
We've been self hosting Gitlab CE for a couple of years. Its been great. No downtime, upgrades are seamless, fast, works.
> why would they then commission one this year, as stated by the article?

The answer being that it was originally commissioned decades ago, construction started 2007 and was supposed to be finished in 2011, its purpose is to replace three older blocks from the 60s which were put offline in 2014 [0].

Putting 3 old blocks offline to replace them with one modern block looks like a rather good progress.

Tho, those small steps just doen't sit well with the current popular narrative of "Let's end all fossil fuel use instantly and replace it with fission reactors everywhere!". As if changes and projects like that wouldn't take decades to retool whole industries and infrastructure.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk_Datteln
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Your comment makes a good point. There really needs to be a renewed openness to consider alternative viewpoints as coming from a spirit of good faith.

A grammar fix: it is "discussed in depth", not "in debt."
> 80% of people don't care or don't read

I don't think it's "irrational" to suggest that you shouldn't be collecting data from those people as they have clearly not given consent to you doing so.
I think there is a vacuum in this market for good products.

The Facebook portal is excellent and has basically no competition anywhere close to its price, but it requires use of Facebook (or Whatsapp).

I just want a decent camera/mic set up to attach to computer that's connected to my TV and all of the options are extremely expensive and thoroughly mediocre . I ended up getting the Logitech Meetup which required the proprietary expansion mic to work well enough in a relatively small room and was over one thousand dollars. The 'right sight' software still doesn't work.

The Zoom product is also a miss to me, I just want a decent room scale mic and camera to attach to a TV and use for videoconferencing. The Portal includes computing hardware and software to make calls, but really that's a bonus. The MeetUp is just a dumb camera/mic that requires a computer (which for me is perfect, I can use any video conferencing application that I want), the non-portal products that include compute hardware are usually around two thousand dollars.

At least this is more reasonable priced.
> According to the article, it wouldn’t take both major nuclear powers firing all their weapons to create a nuclear winter. Even a smaller-scale war could destroy humanity as we know it.

I'm skeptical of this; in the 20th century there were more than 500 atmospheric nuclear tests. Given that, it seems unlikely that a ""small"" nuclear war would necessarily cause such dramatic effects as humanity-destroying nuclear winter. This said, cities getting nuked would probably launch more soot into the atmosphere than the desert or ocean getting nuked, so... maybe?

But I think we should try to avoid finding out for sure. ;)
>> Honestly, work from home has been such a quantum leap in my quality of life.

Likewise, but backwards. I hate not being in the office at least 2-3 days per week, seeing people, socializing.

EDIT: WFH is great and I love it, but for me, I'm not as productive full-time on-site or full-time off-site. Having a hybrid approach is my sweet spot.
By calling it whiteness, it implicitly discourages "brown" people from adopting the enumerated values.
On the other hand you can get pretty far even if you don't any social network but you can solve textbook problems.
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These stories are always very nice and the plants cost effective, but are they true? Pakistan had a 100MW solar powerplant built for them. It actually ended up producing 18MW and required extensive amounts of water to clean the dust off of the panels.[0] I'm sure they were also told that renewables are cheap and will be great, but somehow everyone missed this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaid-e-Azam_Solar_Park
or, you know, host a gitlab instance yourself & call it a day
Incredible. Another example of the school to prison pipeline at work jailing black kids. This one is especially ridiculous since it's obvious that the child needs therapy, not a jail cell.
I have found that what best predicts interview success for me is the ability to confidently give answers, even if they are nonsense. One of the problems is that interviewers often aren't sure of the answer either.
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It has nothing to do with the size of the group.

It's about whether a member of the group will ever have to encounter or understand views that are unorthodox in that group.

If not, they assume they can't be wrong. It's the "way things are" which nobody disputes.

This creates a mental blindness where they can't possibly imagine someone wanting to say something in good faith that was against this "way things are", to them it would be like saying the Earth has no moon or that cats can fly. Why would you claim that? What's wrong with you?
This is altogether lovely, thank you.

What follows isn't as much of a direct reply just some thoughts motivated by your post.

My wife and I met when we were in our 30s, neither of us having ever been in a serious relationship, and both of us having given up ever being married, not to mention having kids.

We're both fairly clear-eyed and long-term environmentalist types, and we know how big an impact every person brought into the western world has. We decided to have a single birth child, and then adopt a second.

We had our son, who turns 18 in a couple of months, though various circumstances caused us to not adopt.

Our wonderful son is on the autistic spectrum; he's nearly six feet, two inches tall, with a beautiful, kind spirit, but his emotional and intellectual development is several years behind.

We never made the mistake of piling up expectations on or toward him. We're fine with the strong possibility that he will likely never materially achieve in ways similar to his parents.

He is loved and he loves us. My wife and I have, on average, another 30 years in this life. If our son is living with us for the next 30 years, that's fine. It would be our honor.

He continues to grow and mature; there's at least a good chance that he could end up moving out and going his own way in some number of years.

That would also make us very happy.
Oh boy, I used to think that, and now I have teenagers and it's turned into a whole different set of problems. :-/
Hey - this is one of the best-articulated responses I've read around this topic, so first of all, thank you. I take it to heart and have shared it with the full team, because it's important are actively thinking about this.

I am really sorry to hear about your past experience at a fertility clinic. One of the many reasons we are offering an at-home solution is for this exact purpose... performing such a personal process in a clinic is often times scary, unsettling, and uncomfortable (and sometimes downright humiliating - especially when interacting with people who have intolerant views).

Our brand is something that we've given a lot of thought to and that we continually discuss as a team. We work with many different clients who are using our services for various reasons. To your point, we've found that many of our clients are part of the LGBTQ community and are preserving their fertility prior to starting hormone replacement therapy.

I have personally spoken to many of these clients and have heard similar feedback to yours. We, clearly, still have a lot to learn about our clientele - their backgrounds, goals, needs, experiences with fertility, thoughts around family planning, etc.

I would love to set up an LGBTQ-centric campaign for the community, and I will make sure we do soon.

Thanks again for your awesome feedback! And if you would like to try the service, please message me at khaled@givelegacy.com, if you're open to giving us this kind of honest feedback, I'd love to get you a free kit.

PS in this field.... puns are always welcome.
> If a court doesn't find "refuses to wear a mask during a global pandemic" to be a direct threat to the health of others, I'll eat my hat.

For a person not diagnosed with COVID-19 who is simply occupying a space and not in direct contact with another person -- I'd think that could be reasonably described as "indirect threat"

> Offering something like curbside pickup is, under the ADA, a "reasonable accommodation". People who genuinely can't wear a mask should request it.

That is a good solution to the issue and I personally wish more businesses would take this route to solve the problem, but unfortunately it is not happening.

If I call up my local gas station and tell them I want a Snickers bar, have a medical condition and can't wear a mask, the $8/hr employee on the other end is either going to argue with me or tell me to come in anyway. They're not going to contemplate the implications of the ADA and determine that curbside pickup is the best legal solution to the issue.

These are really the kinds of national conversations that should be facilitated from the top, but unfortunately that is not the perspective that our current leadership has.
Am I missing something because I feel like we're agreeing? Because everything you mentioned are good examples of other forms of privilege, or I guess lack thereof.

I'm always so surprised in internet discussions that people will readily acknowledge lots of forms of privilege but then turn around and be like "white privilege" or "male privilege" -- naaah anything like that can be explained by these other 300 types of privilege. Like "black privilege" and "female privilege" exist too -- it's just a language for describing how the different facets of ourselves change how we're treated.

Privilege being the word for describing when that facet helps you not experience "worse than normal" treatment than people without it might -- contrasted with "advantage", when you get "better than normal" treatment for having it.
The camera probably doesn't matter too much if you have a mask. It's probably more important to remove physical evidence than to worry about additional video evidence.
That’s only really meaningful if you can somehow separate that from all the rhetoric about “dismantling whiteness”. A lot of this rhetoric is fine in isolation but works a lot differently once you start assembling different pieces of it.
Few things:

1. The only body qualified to asses the safety of a nuclear power plant is the french nuclear safety agency, Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN)

2. ASN deemed its security "very satisfying" [1]

3. The usual fallacious arguments have been debunked time and time again (seismic fault, various upgrades, more incidents than other plants etc...)

4. Read the actual report on Fessenheim from ASN [1]

The actual answer from the article:

The answer to why Fessenheim is closing is sadly one of politics. It goes back to 2012 when then President of France, Francois Hollande, made a deal to guarantee the support of the Greens (les Verts). Hollande promised France would reduce its reliance on nuclear to 50% instead of 75% of all electricity.

Part of the deal was to close Fessenheim.

1. https://www.asn.fr/L-ASN/L-ASN-en-region/Grand-Est/Installat...
https://send.firefox.com currently not accepting submissons.

"Firefox Send is temporarily unavailable while we work on product improvements.

We appreciate your patience while we make the Firefox Send experience better."

For what it's worth we've seen a couple of malware links come through this way in the past month.
> Do you have any sources about those being the true cause of the shutdown?

I don't, and I'm not sure it's possible to figure out exactly — since it's politically sensitive and possibly involved "back channel pressure" and other shenanigans.

That said, it has been a longstanding topic in German anti-nuclear circles, cf. list of articles (German) on:

https://www.heise.de/tp/thema/AKW-Fessenheim
Your first sentence makes no sense, given in the comment right above you (which is quoting the article) it points out that it was with a cookie-less browser and a VPN. You're far more likely to be the one who's bubbled in differently than your average person.
You're pointing to instances where snaps aren't involved- kinda missing the point. Just because there are other ways to get the desired result, the optimal path used by most people is seriously impaired for no benefit.
I don't think either of us really posited an argument, but you're right that I shouldn't have responded to a snarky bad-faith comment with my own.
Cisco Proximity has been using this type of system for a few years now. Not sure which range of frequency they use, it's definitely ultrasonic. I've had instances where my BT headphones were still connected at my desk, and my laptop in a conference room couldn't hear the conference system.
I'll keep that in mind, and I'll add that link to the book's contents, and I'll add you to my book's Hall of Fame. Thanks.
If your parents are already on Facebook there's Portal.
>All of the women who took the public interview failed, while all of the women who took the private interview passed.

Companies that are serious about avoiding gender discrimination in their hiring practices need to carefully consider what they are really looking for when certain candidates seem to have "the right stuff" after a whiteboard interview. We need more research in this area.
I too thank you for your greater elucidation of your position. I disagree in some key areas.

In brief, that products are necessarily worse if they're fake; that societies approach should conform more to your model rather than being more liberal (in all except trademark infringement).
No, it's about caring about other people's health and quality of life (there are long term effects from covid-19). Feelings aren't really figured into it.
Some of this is like the Groucho Marx joke "I don't want to belong to any club that will have me". For companies, it's "I don't want to hire anyone that doesn't have a job". The thought being that if they were any good they'd have a job already.
So you seem to take issue with "white christians" as an example of an identity group?

What would you call it when every Republican since Sara Palin has talked about "real American folks", in contrast with "godless coastal elites"?
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And that's a really recent phenomenon, and least if you somehow come from the conservative "orthodox" part of society, also considering popular culture, plots of Hollywood movies in particular.

Also there is a difference in having a proper discourse and just spilling out controversial opinions. I think in a philosophical context it's possible to discuss all sorts of things, in fact that's very much where the updated - and more critical - ethics comes from.
I'm actually a little scared to leave my current FAANG gig for that exact reason tbh. I'm fairly certain I wouldn't make it back in the door without more leetcode grinding + repeated loops than I'm willing to do at this point in my career.

Plus, stack on top of that, I've seen how the sausage is made. I've done 90+ interviews on the other side. At the end of the day, it comes down to how lucky you got in the loop. I've seen some people written off for some bullshit reasons. Similarly, I'VE declined on people who're likely far, far, far more skilled than I am because of the lowers/raises approach and the narrow slice you're tasked with reviewing in the 50min you're given.
Chromecast has been using ultrasonic pairing for "guest mode" for some time. Haven't seen any major backlash from it yet. I'm assuming it's very briefly used to exchange some configurations, not continuously transmitting data.
0.05 percent of what?
You can roll back to the previous version to restore access[1]:

"%Programfiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\officec2rclient.exe" /update user updatetoversion=16.0.12827.20470

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/hrq0mn/outlook_im...
I never got the vibe that "IC" was intended to be dismissive, or intended to be a pejorative or anything. I think it's more of an HR thing, because the distinction between IC vs Manager usually affects compensation and blah, etc. Whether or not that should be the case is a separate question.

I always assumed the term just leaked out of the HR world and into the general parlance.
This is certainly the most common rationalization.

But the reality is that the situations are very different and elicit very different responses.
That "threat to the community" part is unbelievable. At no point in the story did this kid ever pose a threat -- potentially to her mom, however, biting a finger isn't a jail-worthy action to take against a kid. We don't throw parents in prison when they spank their kids.
It so sad that we didn't wake up early to replacing these ageing plants. So now we can't be in situation where we would have modern plants coming up as we phase out the oldest plants. Which would have been the sensible thing to do.
Brilliant comment! Thank you.
A quantum leap is very, very small :)
> but isn't N=48 a little small?

Not when the effect is large. 48 people is fine when there is a 2x difference.
"A lot closer than most people realise" != the same.
> That and debate gave me the ability to just start a sentence without knowing where it will end and then talk my way to a conclusion that sounds like it makes sense

You're effectively advocating for more bullshit. The problem is that this works in the first place - we shouldn't be rewarding it.