skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And FWIW: I didn't personally feel the backlash at Brendan was appropriate, but given that it existed the outcome was probably unavoidable.

I say this as someone who, while living in Virgina and having never lived in California at the time prop 8 was on the ballot (I moved here a few years later), I donated to opposition to CA prop 8 and decided to not get married to my (opposite sex) partner out of solidarity with gay people who couldn't get married in our state.

I never felt that I should be or would be persecuted at Mozilla (which employed a lot of christians, and particularly Catholics), if it had become public that I funded opposition to prop 8. Nor, by the same token, did I think it was appropriate for Brendan to come under fire for funding support for it. I have sympathy for the theoretical argument that it might be difficult to work for someone with personal views incompatible with yours or your identity, but in practice Mozilla was an an extremely open and inclusive place that employed people of all kinds and treated them with respect. (In other words, a theoretical problem which wasn't in this instance a practical problem by any report I heard.)

Although I don't have any actual knowledge, if I had to speculate I would guess there were other Mozilla employees who supported prop 8 (many?). -- especially considering that prop 8 _passed_ with >52% support.

Even though I strongly disagreed with him on this subject (apparently! not that I'd have any way to know other than the media coverage of this), the incident made me feel slightly less safe and welcome there-- because clearly your lawful and constitutionally protected outside-of-work personal/political/religious views were potentially subject to scrutiny. Although not very much so, because it appeared clear to me that the events were primarily being driven by public noise, and not by some internal wrong-think witchhunt.
With an antitrust suit: grievances are addressed years after the fact, if at all, with little meaningful compensation for the aggrieved employees.

With a guild/union: grievances are addressed immediately or before they occur (depending on the structure of work contracts), minimizing the economic suffering to employees.

Generally, from the perspective of employees, guilds/unions are better.

EDIT: a "guild" is a union for independent contractors.
Thanks for sharing. You've described my own stutter and struggles perfectly.

Like you, I can tell I'm going to "block" on a word before I even say it. So it's less of what's thought of as a conventional stutter and more just a complete inability to say the word. It's a strange, almost scary, feeling to those who experience it. However, if I'm particularly excited about something, or don't care about the opinions of company I'm in, I occasionally "push through" the blocked word and it instead turns into a conventional drawn out stutter.

I also use similar coping methods, which as you note sometimes result in awkward situations. To give a hypothetical example, if I want to tell my coworker "I need to go home and let my dog out", I might notice as soon as I start talking that I'm going to block on "dog", so what results is something like "I need to go home and let my... [long pause as I try to think of a replacement word]... pet out." (Which of course leaves me feeling flustered, as I wonder what the my coworker thinks a dramatic pause before announcing I have a pet, and who says "pet" instead of "dog" anyway?)

This article was actually great, and does a good job of driving home that this is a physical disability relating to how our brains are wired, or our neurochemistry. Growing up in the 80s and seeing speech therapists about the issue, all the talk was around just "learning" not to stutter. Yes we can learn workarounds and coping methods, but at the end of the day it's still very much a biological issue, and it's obvious to those of us that experience it.

Reinforcing the idea that it's related to neurochemistry, I've noticed that any strong CNS stimulant (caffeine, etc) erases the stutter. And conversely, being in caffeine withdrawal (or just tired in general) amplifies it.

The good news is that I've found it's rarely interferes with my personal or professional life. It really only surfaces when I have my guard down 100% and I'm just engaging in casual conversation, while also tired or sleep deprived. When I put on my "work persona" for meetings, presentations, just general professional banter, it never surfaces. In those situations it's almost as if I'm talking through a manufactured persona, which would echo sentiments expressed elsewhere in this thread about the stutter disappearing when singing, speaking another language, etc.

On the other hand, I'm pretty confident the stutter is at the root of crippling social anxiety I experience in some situations.
> “war” for actual wars

Every generation of warfare [1] looks completely indistinguishable from the previous one.

5th generation warfare [2] is "war" in every sense of the 1st principles of war. However, it manifests in a way that is unrecognizable in traditional surface-level manifestations of war. If anything, "not looking like a war" is a primary goal of 5th generation warfare.

> But the next generation of war – the so-called "fifth-generation" – won't feature armies or clear ideas. It will be what U.S. Army Major Shannon Beebe, the top intel officer for Africa, calls a "vortex of violence," a free-for-all of surprise destruction motivated more by frustration than by any coherent plans for the future. [3]

> the fifth-gen fighters' weapon of choice is political "stalemate," contends Marine Lt. Col. Stanton Coerr, in a new piece in Marine Corps Gazette.

> 5GW fighters will win by ... point[ ing ] out the impotence of secular military might. ... These fighters win by not losing, while we lose by not winning."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generations_of_warfare

[2] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2005/07/20/dreaming-5th-generat...

[3] https://www.wired.com/2009/01/how-to-win-a-fi/

[3]
The definition of minimally good life is “being able to survive without too much effort.” (Feeling happy has nothing to do with it. Notably, some people managed to have a “good life” while being prisoners, say, in a concentration camp).
Yeah they need to hack or infiltrate Github, or get a warrant for your data.
Given: 1) a system in which either party A or party B win by small margins, and 2) a group of people who votes overwhelmingly for party B.

Let's think of options to increase election win probabilities for party A.

One option: legislate laws and bring about a justice system in which that group of people are disproportionately imprisoned/fined/etc and made to lose voting rights.

Unsurprising result: party A has higher chance of winning elections.

Problem: current system incentivizes politicians in party A to enact this option.

How to stop this option: give voting rights to everyone including felons.
I've made this comment before, while Haskell has succeeded in terms of inspiring other programming languages, as a language for use itself it's a non-entity. Here's a list of all the popular open source Haskell software:

- XMonad

- Pandoc

- Shellcheck

Everything else is just tools for using Haskell (Cabal etc.).

Seriously, compare:

- Haskell https://github.com/search?l=&o=desc&q=stars%3A%3E1000+langua...

- Rust https://github.com/search?l=&o=desc&q=stars%3A%3E1000+langua...

- Dart https://github.com/search?l=&o=desc&q=stars%3A%3E1000+langua...

Haskell has been around for a long time. It's not just "avoiding success at all costs," it's a nothing. It inspired good features like Option and Maybe in other languages, but it itself is on the same scale as Dart.
No. A 'game' can be played, and without any assets it cannot be played. It is just a 'engine'.
GP said "threatens", not "sues". Here are some results from searching "trump threatens journalist":

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48696131

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7jw5p/the-white-house-is...
I always thought Mentats were a reference to (and an extension of) the original Computers - humans that performed calculations in their head.

> The term "computer", in use from the early 17th century (the first known written reference dates from 1613),[1] meant "one who computes": a person performing mathematical calculations, before electronic computers became commercially available.
This is an incredibly silly characterization. There are a lot of reasons not to go after a public utility in a deeply punitive manner. With PG&E, for example, supposing the state sued them for billions of dollars and put them out of business. Guess whose pocket that would come out of?
Introducing TensorFlow Recommenders
It also now has Vim keybindings, it's a bit hidden in the menu but makes a big difference using it.
The singing part has been investigated:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996848/

> As illustrated in this paper, singing represents a promising therapeutic tool in a variety of neurological disorders. Singing is particularly useful in ameliorating some of the associated speech-motor difficulties because of features such as continuous voicing, decreased production rate, and increased awareness of individual phonemes. Although the precise mechanisms underlying the efficacy of singing remain largely unexplored, a number of hypotheses have been proposed
The Tailwind CSS utility framework[1] is open source and can be used without restrictions. The restrictions are for Tailwind UI[2], a commercial product sold by Tailwind Labs, that includes prebuilt page designs and application components built with Tailwind CSS.

[1] https://tailwindcss.com/
[2] https://tailwindui.com/
Kings and pharaohs accumulated capital even if they didn't use the word. We're something like 10,000 years into amassing resources at scale in the hands of the few.

This growth coincides with states, incidentally, and is the subject of the very cool book https://www.amazon.com/Against-Grain-History-Earliest-States.... That book combined with https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/022647822X (as a state, like a dog, must compete in an ecological niche) and an archeology professor that liked to point out that "progress" is a recent Western invention (vs recorded history) inform my perspective here.

I am not saying that we shouldn't strive for better, just that I don't see a fairly short reversal, on the timescale of a lifetime, as a compelling reason to scrap the approaches that collectively have brought us this far.
Demonstrating that - that it's a natural virus released (accidentally or intentionally) from a lab - would be the realm of an intelligence agency or police forensics, not a genetic analysis of the virus like the debunked article linked upthread.
California is run by the democratic political machine. Name one prominent California politician who does not come from either the San Francisco Bay Area or Los Angeles.

Sure, there are democrats in the Central Valley, their opinion just doesn't matter.
I could agree with a compromise - a research station in orbit, and then mechanised exploration and 'settling' of the atmosphere itself.

If there's any chance at all now that Venus might have life, I'd think it worthy of about the same amount of funding Mars missions have had in their search for organics.

Atmospheric Venutian [life] could be very interesting and potentially very useful. If it's found to exist in any way, I'd not be too surprised to see an entirely privately-funded* mission in a couple of decades. Venus is energetically cheaper to get to versus Mars too.

I think it's a compelling target - 'Tomorrow's Antarctica'. You've got to have people there to do the science stuff.

- ed

* as in Biotech etc funded.
A collapsible side bar and max width are hardly big features you need a whole post for.
I've had a stutter for as long as I can remember and have noticed a correlation between how nervous I am about speaking and how much I would stutter.

Eventually I just accepted that I will stutter at some point when talking and tried not to worry about it and my stuttering improved a lot. Like others have said here, I do believe anxiety and the fear of potentially stuttering will actually cause you to stutter more (at least in my case this was true).

One positive though is that I am very good at finding similar words to convey the same meaning when in mid-sentence if I feel a stutter is coming.
I've been writing code professionally for quite a while now. I'm not trying to land my first coding job. The vast majority of programmers working on side projects are already established in the industry.

I've learned a few novel things from my unfinished side projects, but I've never really used them in my day job.
I think you misread my argument - It's not a shallow dismissal and I know what the authors point is. I'm pointing out that keeping posts short is hard for a lot of folks and requires work - you might be able to get a lot more posts out if you don't take the time to edit for clarity and concise prose. Its easier to be long and rambly.
Mars makes sense. There’s an environment they can interact with and a tool in a human’s hand is superior to a tool in a robot’s hands. For instance if nothing is found at six inches, a human can dig to twelve inches, but a robot might not be equipped for that. I’m struggling to see any scenario where humans-in-bubble-with-sensor-array is superior to sensor array when talking about the Venusian atmosphere. You can potentially respond to things in seconds rather than minutes, but I don’t think that’s a reasonable trade off for the risks and costs.
There are no ambiguities over its real intentions. It won't run in court but it's very clear what he is doing.
They could just make the mobile wiki the desktop default too. It is minimal, readable, and clean.
It's a tough word with a lot of t's, and s'
Early Sales for Developer-Facing Startups
Isn't the whole point of PDFs that they (mostly) don't change? They represent content as laid out on a page.

So, IMO this is neat if it's new tech for reading PDFs and extracting data from them (and maybe leveraging current under-used features to store more machine-readable information), but bad if it's about introducing even more complexity into the PDF documents.

Perhaps 10 years from now we will have responsive PDFs, but I feel sorry for whatever damned soul is going to have to expand hard-coded limits in order to fit the new PDF specification text into a single PDF document.
So functionally there is no difference? It’s just a user perception thing?
> In reality it's $45-50k car.

Is something wrong with the $38k version?
IIRC, everything in Dune is supposed to be a horrible example of something taken to its extreme.

It’s like with Nietzsche¹; most fans are not really fans of what the author actually intended.

1. https://existentialcomics.com/comic/360
The ARM M7 is a microcontroller class processor. Its a high end one, enough to comfortably run Python for example, but its not an application class processor.
Embedding Gecko is harder.
fair enough. By "popular" i should have said "beloved".

Objective-c was hated by pretty much everyone, and was mainly used because of iOS.

i've yet to find an iOS developer that actually doesn't wish he could code in swift on the server side. It's a really pleasant language.
Liquid mode? It looks like a tool to reflow the content in existing PDFs, which are often intentionally not responsive. I don't see how this is similar to HTML.
These cores, and any modern computer has a quite a few, run their own OSs and software that's usually packaged as blobs the OS loads during driver initialization.
had to use this recently. `nmap` is (surprisingly) more portable and have a more complete output.
Hydrogen fuel cells are not a source of energy, since hydrogen (H2) is not naturally found on Earth. All H2 must be generated in a process which consumes either natural gas or eletricity. Therefore H2 fuel cells are more aptly described as an energy storage system than as an energy source.

Therefore the relevant comparison is between H2 fuel cells and Li ion batteries. Batteries have much higher full cycle efficiency (energy input -> storage -> energy output), but they are large and heavy. H2 can be stored in less volume and less weight, but it is less efficient. In my opinion, batteries will be a technically and economicly superior solution for all uses other than where weight is extremely critical such as in aircraft.
It's a private company. If their executive pay strategy is wrong it's a self correcting problem over the long term.

Minus the fun of getting to mock them from the peanut gallery, I don't really see why this is news.
Bean Machine: A Probabilistic Programming Language
Phew. I was fearing a "reddit redesign" for Wikipedia.
> On climate and the environment, it is clear that Biden/Harris will do a much more-careful job.

How is it clear? The point to this article is the issue of lip-service and zero action. Hate to say it, Trump leaving the Paris agreement did more for the environment than being in it. Businesses were pissed he left the agreement and started to implement the agreement's proposals... something those businesses were ALREADY supposed to be doing while in it. But they weren't.

The biggest issue going on is the bullshit lip-service about climate action. Greta Thornberg was the prime poster child of lip-service just to get attention, but accomplishing nothing in the real world. Too much "environmentalism" the past 30+ years has been about "awareness". Don't pretend there's a single political candidate (in or running) right now who is willing to put in the hard work to actually made the necessary changes.
German electricity prices 'among the highest in the world'
I don't know why they did that, now we have empty space on the left and right, it's really useless, why is it better than using the full screen?

"Our second change introduces a maximum line width to our content on pages where reading is the focus, such as article pages and discussion pages. Research has shown that limiting the width can lead to better retention of the content itself, as well as a decrease in eye strain. "

This is bs.

So all documentation website should now have that max line widht to better retent the content?

Edit: maybe it's just me but any UI/UX you have used for the last 10years are really hard to change in a positive way.
I was going to post that, Letters from a Stoic, single best book I read. I already bought it 4 or 5 times and end up gifting it to friends/family.
I don't have any experience owning a concrete paving company [0], but there are many use cases where weight matters a lot (and refueling turnaround time also matters) like in aviation where a 45-60 minute ground turn is important to some carriers and where having the airplane get lighter as fuel burns off is also a feature from a performance, efficiency, and landing safety standpoint.

Without data to back this belief: I tend to think that synthesized jet fuel is probably going to be a technically easier solution than converting the jet fleet to hydrogen fuel (or to battery-electric storage). If you take yesterday's carbon from the atmosphere to make today's fuel, it's even carbon-neutral.

[0] - $NKLA's Director of Hydrogen Production/Infrastructure does. ;)
Yep long before there were official Mac clones (remember those?!) the ST was an unofficial one in the form of Magic Sac / Spectre GCR. Never had it myself, but what a glorious hack indeed.
Thwarting Side-Channel Attacks
They had no competition for a long time. After opteron and before maybe Zen 2, Amd was not competitive.
Could you link to the research report of Bank of America?
How do you know you can trust a journal?
I have respect for Dustin Bowder's vision with regards to Diablo III, however disastrous it proved to be with the game's hardcore fans. It misunderstood what the franchise was about and fundamentally went against some of its core "values", but at the end of the day, pre-nerf Diablo III at Inferno was one of the most heavy skill-based kite-based arpg to date. You had to be there.
I think the defect which causes Atom C2000 processors to fail after 18 months comes to mind, to both businesses that bought the equipment and the equipment manufacturers that used them.
In CA, non-competes are still valid against executives, founders, and any employee with a material share of the ownership of the company (for a multi-billion dollar publicly traded company, a material share can be a fraction of a % of the total value of the company).
For some time it may have been less than 70. But your point stands. I too liked reading many of the product ads. Got
to learn of new genres and features. And there might have been more innovation in those days (both hardware and software),even if not all of it earth-shaking, as opposed to a lot of copycat and fluffy stuff these days (not all, of course).
I dont really know the correct terminology, but I think batteries also have an issue with "burst" power loads.

Think like the difference between a battery and capacitor.
Some alternatives like super capacitors may bring greater power, albeit not at the same total storage?

Is this correct understanding?
This page led me to rediscover the name of the digit-to-consonant mnemonic system I absorbed from the 2000-vintage internet (probably Everything2): the Major System [1].

Fittingly, I'd forgotten the name of this technique, though I still sometimes absentmindedly perform it on phone numbers and other digit strings in my environment when I'm walking around or whatever.

Basically, you map the digits 0 through 9 to specific consonants, then come up with vowels to build out phrases that are more memorable than a bunch of boring numbers. I think I stopped practicing the system around the time I started storing phone numbers in cellphones, but reading this has reminded me to pick it back up and see if I can find any practical uses.

[1] http://www.ludism.org/mentat/MajorSystem
I disagree with the idea that free markets need guardrails for the reasons that I mentioned before: I believe that consensual agreements between people shouldn't normally be regulated by the state, and that when you take a free market and then add "guardrails" to it, it's no longer a "free" market.

All that minimum warranty legislation does is to remove the freedom that people previously had to buy products with shorter warranties, or without one. It means that they can't even buy the same product together with an optional warranty from the manufacturer, thereby ending up with a situation that's functionally identical. Warranties for practically every type of durable product existed before these changes were introduced, and people have always tended to weigh up the projected lifetime (which they can infer from factors such as the availability of manufacturer or third-party warranties or insurance), manufacturer reputation and projected total costs of ownership whenever they have bought something sufficiently expensive.

Agriculture is of course an important industry, but I don't think there's any wider threat to agriculture in this particular case, and if these practices were to create one in the future, the market would respond by punishing a company like JD (and no doubt the state would as well in light of the strategic implications). It just seems like a slow and painful realisation for parts of the industry that things have changed. Hopefully we'll now see plenty of disruption and innovation (and modding ;)).
Why would there be a way to force a private company to do something they don't want to? How would that even work.

As a private company it is their right to fail.
> Its like instead of building something good or getting techie buy in they've instead tried to lobby governments to make it mandatory for some enslaved customers

Haha, yes, you are literally describing the business model of SAP, Oracle, IBM, and most sales-led enterprise software or services companies. You can replace "lobby governments" with "lobby c-level of large corporations" as well