skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Coinbase blog post is directly self-contradictory. First it lists some things that they focus on in order to accomplish their mission. One of those is this:

> Enable belonging for everyone: We work to create an environment where everyone is welcome and can do their best work, regardless of background, sexual orientation, race, gender, age, etc.

Then, just a few short paragraphs later, they list things that they focus minimally on, because they are "not directly related to the mission." One of those things is this:

> Broader societal issues: We don’t engage here when issues are unrelated to our core mission, because we believe impact only comes with focus.

It doesn't get more blatantly contradictory than that.
Sweden's population is far healthier than Michigan's and has better access to high-quality care. This can be seen from the differences in their life expectancy (82 vs 78).

Imagine how bad Michigan would've been if they followed the Swedish model.
> The comment author does not advocate ignoring the world, he wants to separate his engineering work from politics and thus wants to look for employers who do not push a particular political program on him. Which seems a perfectly valid (and attractive to me) view.

A lot of engineering work is inherently political. For instance, an engineer designed the gas chambers at Auschwitz and by doing his engineering work he supported the politics of the holocaust since his work and those politics are inseparable. In most cases, the connection is not so obvious and clear cut, but it's still there.
To prevent things like the Great Cannon of China from performing a denial of service attack against a third party.
Couple at sea for a month reveal shock at scale of coronavirus pandemic
That's my problem with all of this. Purely mission-focused companies sound great -- in a vacuum. A totally apolitical workplace could only exist in a vacuum.

Politics is not something that happens twice a year in a voting booth, or even something that happens on TV; it's how you and I engage with civic society at large, and to say that the workplace should, or even could be divorced from that seems almost silly.

Coinbase doesn't walk to talk about politics at work? That's neat, and sounds nice. But they're making that statement in a time where "not talking about politics" is something that very much works in favor of some groups and against others.

I know that we're engineers, and we want to spend our days building and shipping. I wouldn't ever fault anyone for that desire. But we have to acknowledge the fact that neutrality favors, and will always favor, one side of a debate. To protest that politics are something that "doesn't happen here" is to bury one's head in the sand.
One might make the argument for related vs unrelated politics. (Though the line between what's related and unrelated is fairly subjective)

A bakery is obviously going to have an interest in politics directly related to operating a bakery and the employment laws affecting it. A bakery might reasonably avoid political stances on something unrelated, such as nuclear power, foreign conflicts, etc.
They didn't have any deaths yesterday from what I can tell. They had five deaths today.
Hadn't noticed that but that's a good point. "Way higher": I would have guessed the same as you but, upon further thought, I guess I'm not surprised: creating a crawler is 100 lines of Python so I would guess that there are actually tens of thousands of bots running around grabbing web pages. Humans are an ever diminishing portion of the "web", especially given the (old) focus on "semantic web" and machine-friendly-ish formats...
This is true but in reality the percentage of ownership is so tiny that most regular employees have no say. This really just leaves billionaires, institutions or the C-suite with the power to control large companies.
Radionuclides are major contribution to growth of cancer rate.

Quote: Radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons tests probably caused 17,000 cancer deaths in the United States in the latter half of the 20th century

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1849471.stm
> Sure, but all of those negatives are also true of the thing you’d use in place of a private-use codepoint: an inline-reflowed image.

Not true: your inline image should have alt text, e.g. if ⅌ didn’t exist then you’d use an image of that shape with alt="per". If the image doesn’t load, it’ll be replaced by the word “per”, and screen readers will read it as “per” or “graphic per” or similar (I believe JAWS adds that “graphic” prefix, not sure if you can convince it not to by careful ARIA attributes—or even if you can, whether you should; these things are a bit dangerous to fiddle with).

Alternatively you might use inline SVG, which gets you vector goodness, and can definitely (rather than possibly) be presented to screen readers as the word “per” perfectly.

Another fancy trick is to use ligatures to replace entire words: make your own fancy web font replace the sequence “ per ” with “ ⅌ ”.
Good luck. We're all counting on you.
I have seen companies claim that the things that their customers do with their product is not their responsibility. They have claimed that they are right to ignore that issue because they believe it is "political".

Naming something as political can be used to shutdown conversation that can and should be happening in a company.

Let's get concrete with this:

Do you feel like a soft drink maker has an obligation to disengage with countries that have set up systemic discrimination and regularly violate human rights conventions?

It really doesn't seem within the mission of providing the world with sugary carbonated water.

It's hard to imagine cutting ties with a country due to disagreement with how they treat their population as non-political.

And yet 34 years ago this happened:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-09-18-mn-11241-...

But wait you say: it's just a prudent business decision because the economics were against them and it was a "PR" win.

It doesn't matter. It's political.

This is an inherently political statement:

“Our decision to complete the process of disinvestment is a statement of our opposition to apartheid and of our support for the economic aspirations of black South Africans.” -Donald R. Keough
That's an 8-bit CPU.
Police brutality of black Americans is simply and factually not relevant to the business of every company.
Google's Hybrid Future and 3 Contrasting Viewpoints on Future of Work
They had zero deaths yesterday. Sweden is not aiming for a suppression strategy with cases like New Zealand and Australia.
What is a hobby platform changes over time though.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul_Carpenter6/publica...
Subramanian Swamy always denounced birth based caste system and always said anyone with 3 qualities - knowledge, sacrifice, courage should be considered as a brahmin and he has also said in many places that as per this Dr.Ambedkar is a brahmin and Nehru is not.

Don't just rely on Indian fake news media.
A combination of factors .. here's some ideas

A cognitive limitation that it's hard to see the bubble we are in.

Being smart at the things in our bubble makes us over-confident about things we really don't have deep nuanced experience about.

We don't know what we don't know, but we think we do .. until we gain enough experience to appreciate life's complexity and our own limitations.
I wonder what he would have gotten had he did a paid advertisement on Daring Fireball, MacRumors, etc
What Can Tech Do to Aid a Free and Fair Election?
How seriously should we take the threats and intimiations of the President of the United States that he will subvert election results?

What can the tech community do?
You haven't really provided any arguments for why converting companies (entities providing goods and services) into mini political parties is a good idea. Anyone can yell about "status quo" and "change". In reality, "status quo" is frequently an ill defined concept and the benefits of change depend entirely on what kind of change it is.

When I work for a company, I provide my labor in exchange for payment. I am then free to use my money to support an activist organization or a cause. So are all other employees.

Corporate activism, on the other hand, is inherently degenerate. It means your employer withholds resources from improving the business or paying higher salaries. They instead apply those resources to some causes of their choosing. Any employee who doesn't agree with the cause is effectively coerced into supporting it unless they quit. So is every customer. The goods and services become inherently tangled with an ideology of some sort.

Why should a model where everyone is free to pursue their personal activism be replaced with a model where people are coerced to pursue activism "approved" by corporate execs?
Plenty of that code is still (one assumes) in use in Windows 10. Why make it easier for someone to find a zero-day?
Nikola Postpones Debut of the 'Badger' Electric Pickup
> A lot of harm has been done by humans “just doing their job.”

I'd say most harm was done by humans who did not just do their job, but thought they knew how everyone else has to do their job, live their lives etc, by political activists.

You might think of activism only as what those do that you're politically aligned with. What are those on the opposite side who work just as hard to bring about their ideas of society?

What serves the public better, a utility company that "just does its job", or a utility company that snoops around people's garbage, identifies dissenters and then stops supplying water to them (because otherwise you'd be aiding the enemy)?
See my reply comment to him
danpalmer, you raised an excellent point.

Disregarding all politics, it's a statistical fact females are excluded from lots of activities early in their life due to giving various activities gender specific contexts. And this is a thing.

And vice versa for boys. So it's not okay to say often "this is girls|boys stuff" until people reach puberty when gender specific contexts actually start to matter.
1. ChatOps is still a feature of GitLab https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/chatops/ and supports multiple chat platforms. GitLab doesn't need to own the chat to make chatops work.

2. GitLab contacted Matrix.

I think 3. and 4. have answers in https://matrix.org/blog/2020/09/30/welcoming-gitter-to-matri...
Show HN: Luna Display for Windows, hardware to turn the iPad into a PC display
I am not being deliberately obtuse about anything, though I am starting to question your reading comprehension if I'm totally honest. Most of the questions in your comment can be answered if you'd care to actually read over my previous comments again. And then there is the last bit.

> Please let me know why this statement isn't true:

>> To assume that men need not take part in child-rearing before the child is ready for daycare is a sexist assumption.

This can be answered quite simply with: that statement is in fact true. Not sure why you feel like I should answer such a question, as I haven't implied anything like that.
Blocking even the discussion of change is the definition of conservatism. It's explicitly against change and implicitly for the status quo.
Damn, you're right. I didn't notice because Playground remembers the last content you had in the editor... Anyway, the correct link is https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=62d362e2bf72001bd3f3c4a3ed0...
Hi HN! I'm excited to share Luna Display for Windows, a new hardware dongle that turns the iPad into a wired or wireless display for the PC! We are long-time Mac developers who transitioned to Windows over the past 1.5 after being sherlocked by Apple (long story..)

So why hardware? There are no official APIs available on Mac or Windows for creating a virtual display. We have competitors that use low-level drivers to create a virtual display, but that is prone to subtle bugs. For example, virtual displays on Windows require reimplementing the GPU stack, which is extremely complex. We went with hardware because it's the only way to provide absolute reliability and compatibility across all PC programs. Luna Display is indistinguishable from a regular monitor to Windows.

Luna Display started as Mac/iOS apps written almost entirely in Objective-C. To go cross-platform, we selected Rust as our language of choice, and we've been incredibly happy with it. Our apps are now mostly Rust, with glue layers in C# on Windows, and Objective-C on iPadOS for the UI code.

Another interesting thing about our tech stack is that it contains a custom video compression algorithm and network protocol that we built for very low latency. The network protocol is built in Rust and sits on top of UDP and has a custom congestion control system. Our video compressor is C/C++ and a mix of assembly for max performance.

If you're interested, we'd love to have you back us on Kickstarter! I'm also happy to answer any questions about hardware, Windows, Rust, getting sherlocked, you name it. :)

PS: Luna Display also works with Mac if that's your jam!
If it was this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24636921

There is a word in that comment which auto-kills any comment. If they remove the c_r_l_j_r_i_g word the comment should un-die.
English is not my first language but I think it was the host who introduced that term?

Also he was pushed really hard and seemed willing to denounce violent far right, not just in sweeping terms.

Also: Contrast this to Biden (who could easily be my favorite except for his candidate for vice president) who AFAIK refuse to denounce ANTIFA at all.

I dislike Trump and I am scared by how many seems to be close to worshipping him as a family values guy despite his two broken marriages and other problems.

That said, I think he will easily win again this year. Why?

- underdog sympathy: media tackles him harder and it seems easy to see as an unbiased observer (Again: not a native speaker, but at least I don't want either of them, although in Bidens case that is more because of his choice of vice president candidate.)

- BLM is out everyday to remind people to vote for a law-and-order president

- the Left still underestimating the discontent in the working class

- Trump simultaneously bringing home troops and strengthening the armed forces so people won't lose their lives or their jobs (for now).

- His support for law enforcement (unlike HN-ers many people seems to support the police)

- He is actually wildly successful in certain areas. He has actually managed to get more peace in the Middle East than a number of other presidents, including Obama who got the Nobel peace price.

That said: I don't like him.

I'd rather have any decent engineer or business(wo)man or teacher who knows a bit about politics, can keep their mouth shut at times etc.
I think Musk will deliver. May take another 5 years. Sure we'll still be buying older kit like vsats for a year or two after that too, but it isn't going to be growing.

You're right about GEO market -- it's more than just IP. We have an old UKI doing probably it's last event this weekend (delayed due to covid). The replacement doesn't have a dish. Started decommissioning a truck with a vsat today -- replacement is 4g/5g only. The traditional non-IP market is shrinking even without starlink.

The biggest risk to starlink I suspect would be Musk dying. He seems to have the ability to defy naysayers and change industries.
What is the situation at your company currently?
Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
I had windows source code access (read) about 2005 but because of that I am not allowed to contribute to ReactOS even today.
Returning from Singapore I was asked if I had any "rare feathers"... I said no but was still taken aside and searched.
I don't mean to nit-pick, but 'petrol' and 'gasoline' are not generic terms for fuel. Some (piston-engined) propeller airplanes use petrol/gasoline, and are usually exempted from certain local taxes (as are marine users and farm users). Airliners are usually powered by turbine engines (often 'jets'), fueled by kerosene (or one of the JP-series fuels) which fall under their own tax regimes.

*addendum: apparently Canada has implemented or is planning to implement a carbon tax on aviation fuel.
You need to explicitly enable it. If you download/create an account (I’m not sure which) after a certain date it’s enabled automatically, but if you are an old user, it would not enable backups unless you do so yourself.
It's worth noting that the price of an OP-1 was much lower when it initially launched. I bought mine directly from TE for $850 + shipping + import duties. A re-launch of the product bumped the price to where it is currently.

I also agree that the current price, while high, is not leagues above what other music gear is priced at. Take a single synthesizer, a sampler, add a keyboard, a sequencer, effects pedals, and a mixer and you can easily exceed $1000. The OP-1 has multiple synthesis engines, multiple sequencers, multiple effects, and sampling capabilities (you can even sample from FM radio, sound familiar?)

While the OP-1 may not win awards for any one of those features, it does unify all of them into a portable package. The OP-1 has also served as a gateway drug for me. I've since purchased even pricier synth gear :)
That's not quite true. A pool has less variability than an individual.

My expected cost of future accidents might be N, with variance M >> N.

The insurance pool can absorb it if I have a catastrophic outcome, but I can't.

So it may be worth buying an insurance contract with a negative expected value to hedge risks.
A list to support my argument :)
You can count on one hand the number of countries with a “good” COVID response.
Nope, the WAN and LAN networks need to use different, non-overlapping network ranges. The only automated way to get the LAN prefix is to ask the ISP via DHCPv6-PD.

Routing in v6 is exactly the same as in v4. If your ISP gives you 203.0.113.42/24 on the WAN, you can't turn around and use other parts of 203.0.113.x on the LAN. The only difference is that in v6 you actually get a routed prefix, and that DHCPv6-PD exists to automate it.
Trump speaks in code, so it's hard to take any of his words at face value. This could be interpreted as "nuance" or, in context with a pattern of behavior, it can be seen as an sly sort of encouragement -- which is how the Proud Boys are taking his comment.

If the way the comment was received is incorrect, then it is up to Trump to correct it. Obviously, he will not be doing so.

You can draw your own conclusions.
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All great points, but I never say "I don't know" if I actually know an answer. I've always provided answers to my kids (both biological and students I've taught) if I know the answer. It often then stimulates further discussion and can lead to even more complex questions.

As an example, my son often asks me scientific questions, and I provide the answers, and we talk a little around the subject. Eventually he stumped me though, when he asked if you were travelling at the speed of light would you cast a shadow. At that point I actually had to say "I don't know" and we ended up asking Twitter for an answer, and we both learned something.

https://twitter.com/Coding2Learn/status/715247765547270144
>it's the "I'm remaining apolitical/status quo" types who are at least permitting you to hold opposing viewpoints even if they personally disagree. It's the activists who are trying to remove all dissent.

No, that's just partisan hyperbole. No one is "permitting" me to hold an opposing viewpoint, nor is anyone trying to "remove all dissent."
> I for one see no need

asdffdsa mentioned plain old MITM. I listed several other applicable reasons in my linked comment:

1. It allows an unscrupulous ISP to more easily track your browsing

2. Modern browsers will rightly warn users not to trust the site. This makes the site look bad.

3. It prevents MITM injection of ads, trackers, and most importantly malware. There will always be browser exploits, so they're worth blocking.
See how toxic the politically active (in the workplace) employees are: i am getting downvoted simply for saying that I would choose an apolitical company if I was looking for a job...
Which is a shame. Just from high level descriptions of the 68k architecture, compared to my own (albeit very limited) experience with x86 assembly, the 68k seems a much more elegant and easier to program architecture.
I think this is all contextual to our times. We just have so much disagreement on what we are sure is moral/immoral.

If the different political sides had more balance, I think it'd make sense to permit a modest bit in the workplace.

But today the left is so sure of its position to the point where they think they are in the black & white moral right _and_ they are increasingly dominant and loud in our cultural institutions and many corporate institutions that it is substantially interfering with basic ability to think.
That is a baseless claim. Completely false.
Exactly that. Hence a permanent recommendation by PHE and NICE, that for public health reason, most of UK residents need a supplement. Alas - it is all but forgotten. Mostly acted on for newborns, where the GP surgery, probably reminds the parents or even distribute small bottles of Vitamin D drops. (administered orally) For everyone else, the widespread Vitamin D deficiency, goes virtually unnoticed. It is the default, with no-one pushing for a change. It is a low hanging fruit, wrt Covid-19 and also seasonal flus.
Yes, but have fun organizing anything meaningful when executives and large funds own enough shares to overrule any fraction of workers out of hand.
Sorry, but I find that to be an immature, reactionist post - how is it racist if it's about nationality and legla status? Illegal immigrants cheat not just the system, but legal immigrants, and themselves. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by applying for H-1B or other processes to earn a better life. Consequently, you lose nothing if you are deported, since you received a free tour ride out of Uncle Sam's own pocket.

Everyone wants an owned house, a nice car, a stable job, and a loving family next to them. You have to earn it. Get in line, haha. If we allow illegal immigration, we're destroying people's chances to stay professionally and legally competitive with each other, and working and integrating yourself in a new country is devalued.

You can't keep living under Damocles' sword of being thrown out at a moment's notice, serving as blackmail for your employer and nemeses. Why not earn the citizenship and the right to vote - to do something about Trump, Biden, and other such politicians? To make sure you can fund your children's college before someone from 4chan doxxes you to the authorities?

I'm sorry I'm surrounded by people who believe in impossible goals like world peace and lack of borders.
I wish that we collectively had become more political in the past decade and stopped being apolitical cogwheels of machines that have, ultimately, used to undermine democracy.

We all bear responsibility to what happens to this world, and we, collectively, are building systems that affect how people think and view the world, and hence how they act. We are part of this shared universe, and now more than ever, we are the ones creating it.

That's of course coming from a point of view where Democracy is the only moral political system, and the understanding that democracy dies if not defended daily by being political. First very slowly, then very quickly. There are obviously other points of view, and dictatorships have their supporters.
You have to have a certain baseline of skill in order to not automatically fail, ie in order to be one of those hundred products in the first place.
I didn’t say filter out.

Churchill was a combination of a realist and an optimist / idealist.
Pa Governor Tom Wolf on a Hot Mic – “Masks Are Political Theater”
Everything is politics. People need to come to terms with this.
To put it in a _slightly_ more direct way: HN is just as delusional as the rest of the world, more so in topics they have no understanding of whatsoever.