skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s far beyond politics and more a religion than anything.

I believe this is a result of the fact that Americans have turned away from organized religion in recent years (note: I'm not religious myself). There seems to be something deep inside of most people that requires a shared spiritual experience. Wokism has emerged to fill that need.
> I don’t see if one neighborhood is full of parking attendants and rich one is less proving discrimination.

Suppose only a poor neighbourhood has laws enforced, while in another there is no enforcement. Would that be discriminatory? I think in effect, absolutely. In terms of intentions, it remains to be seen what the reasons were, it could've been a mistake or a matter of optimising resources. But there are clearly limits to this argument, and it is also clearly discriminatory in practice.

For example, racial profiling is very much a form of discrimination. Suppose two ethnicities live in a city, one (A) has a 0.5% serious crime rate, the other (B) has a 2% serious crime rate, on average, and say equal chance of minor offences. Profiling citizens of group B more often, e.g. stop & frisk, would be a more optimal use of police resources than random selection, to stop serious crimes.

Yet, 98% of group B is innocent of serious crimes and is being subjected to more enforcement, which lead to a higher than proportionate conviction rate of minor offences, simply for belonging to a different ethnic group. It also leads to more run-ins with the police, which disturbs your day, risks escalation, makes you feel like a second-class citizen etc.

That's discrimination, because the 98% innocent individuals from group B are being treated more harshly without cause, purely on the basis of their belonging to a group. Discrimination is when an individual is maltreated on the basis of belonging to a group, rather than as an individual.

Yet also 'more optimal/efficient use of resources'. They're not mutually exclusive.

And that's true not just within policing, by the way. If you know that 80% of ethnic group A have empirically been good hires, and 70% of ethnic group B, in the past, and suppose you had many people to choose from to invite for an interview, and then interview. Suppose you have limited resources and selection & interviewing is time-consuming. Does that allow you to 'optimize use of scarce resources and efficiently reject all applicants from group B'? No. It'd be perhaps efficient, but also very much discriminatory.

Of course if you have two neighbourhoods and one has rampant parking abuse, the other not, then indeed it does make sense to allocate enforcement capacity accordingly. But only to a point. And that point must be evaluated. And whether you've reached that point, will be indicated by the data. That data isn't available, yet it's a priori stated that the parking enforcement cannot be discriminatory. OP noted a few possibilities that could indicate it is discriminatory, but we'd need to see the data to draw any conclusions. I think he's right in saying that.
Ask HN: GitHub Actions free for Open Source: Unlimited Until ... ?
So, GitHub Actions (the built-in CI/CD tool) is currently free and unlimited for public repos.

I'm looking for any insight on how long this might last.

I'm finding this question hard to judge, because the offer clearly brings incredible value to Microsoft and GitHub, but the nature of Actions means their cost could add up quite quickly. Matrix tests can lead to exponential explosions of runner time, and I've seen repos that can easily rack up 10+ hours of runner time per push.

My own experiments with Actions currently take about 45 minutes of runner time per push, a good chunk of which is Mac runners, which are quite expensive on the paid private repo plans -- 8 cents per minute. (Though maybe this is explicitly subsidizing the public repos!)

Have any public repos been warned or had their Actions limited for aggressive (but not fraudulent) use?
I can't see that working out the way they expect.
Can confirm that both Samsung and LG cheap LCD panels (~$400) that I got this year do not force a network setup and work without it.
The title is quite misleading, the privacy problem is not related with the website being free or not.
> if I have a belief that my employment should make a positive change in societal issues, how could I work somewhere that I believe contributes to making things worse?

Why the binary presentation, though?

You can make the world better by doing a single thing well and respecting your customers (and their all-kinds-diversity) while doing it. Even if you're not directly contributing to BigIssue by doing it, the people who are presumably need to be able to count on a reliable supply chain that gives them the tools/services/resources they need.

Unless your work has serious atypical externalities, just doing what you're doing doesn't itself make things worse -- it make fail to do the absolute maximum it could possibly to to make one specific thing better, but if that's your focus you should be working on that thing directly. In a reasonable organization there should be a lot of opportunity to put your thumb on a scale towards continually improving all sorts of things-- without inviting disruption and discord --by threading the needle and nudging all the free choices in the right direction and respecting that other reasonable people can have different priorities.

There are an neigh uncountable number of travesties and injustices in the world and finite time and resources to fight for them... but as a society we can't stand strong to face any of the big issues if the water taps aren't flowing, the power isn't on, the communications lines aren't communicating, the spread-sheets aren't spreading, the trash (literal and figurative) isn't getting collected, and whatnot. We have to prioritize, triage, and focus on what we can accomplish.

And someone-- many many someones, in fact-- has to be the shoulders we stand on as our tallest reach for the stars.

Besides, if advocacy was really what people were sold on in large numbers how can we explain the literal order of magnitude compensation differences for rank and file engineering staff at tech companies and tech roles in non-profits? :) I think that asks me to believe that there were many people who's next alternative to a google role was taking a $40k/yr 501c3 job and google was foolish enough to offer that person a mid-six-figure compensation package.
> with the butterfly BS keyboards in the past 2-3 years

Sadly 4 years now, they started in 2016. It's the main issue blocking me from buying another MBP - this keyboard broke when it was already out of warranty, I really don't want to risk it again.
>Human rights aren't a partisan issue.

Guns and fetuses beg to differ.

(Though at least in US politics both issues seem to be trending slowly toward majority agreement and becoming non-partisan issues.)
> If you offer web-hosting to a group of white nationalists, this is a political action.

no it's not - you're just offering a service for a fee. As long as the service is not illegal, and you're not under-charging (which can be considered a political donation), then it's apolitical.

Deliberately choosing not to conduct business with a certain group because of their political ideology, on the other hand, _is_ a political action.
There’s a difference between talking about things with colleagues and being an activist. I don’t think anyone minds water cooler conversations about things. But using the company you work for as a base of activism is different. Actively creating a sub-culture within a company that polarizes or coerces employees is hostile.
Funny you should say that, as the Marshall Plan terms were quite generous and the countries that refused them due to commie pressure are now significantly worse of in terms of GDP per capita, etc.
Just got back from a round trip (intra-eu). My experience was surprisingly pleasant.

Flights are mostly empty (<20% on mine), which makes for good onboard social distancing. It also means there is no point booking in advance. The airline also offered free date changes on all tickets, which also works well considering availability.

The number of flights is certainly down, and I'd suggest avoiding routes that (as the OP mentions) are not actually operating. Have a plan B to avoid getting stranded.
Maintaining an application that still has Symbian users (some people are really conservative and like their Nokia E52s, plus there isn't as much malware for this dead OS), bugs in old GCCE are rather annoying.

Sometimes, for no reason, GCCE just crashes compiling totally innocent code. Usually, a minor rewrite of the logic helps, or even weird edits such as adding a new (useless) parameter to a method.

The last GCCE toolchain for Symbian was released by CodeSourcery in March 2012. It contains GCC version 4.6.3. It is theoretically possible to adapt and compile a newer version, but the sources need so many edits that I gave up after a few days.
This is not a mainstream view. Maybe it's a 2020-american thing that every action and company and invention is judged by its political potential, but most people wont agree that Gutenberg is to be blamed for what politicians did.
This seems to be more prevalent at companies with younger workers and often more associated with tech companies and the West Coast (of the US).
5 years that made me start a SaaS business during Covid
Your argument may have had some legitimacy as a proxy when all were cases that may be similar to what is being argued about Apple.

But now we have something better - a real judge hearing arguments about the facts on the ground. Not just a laymen’s interpretation.

Especially in this particular case, the judge brought up consoles and PCs as Epic’s market and didn’t buy its attempt at defining the market in a way that was convenience.
The scientists, by and large, are drawn from the upper-middle class and the elites. The most reputable scientists go to the same universities as the political and business elites.

Class divides are probably a contributing factor here, the right wing in the west is realigning to be a pro-low-class wing of politics (who thought we'd live to see the day). Scientists are, by and large, silent on the idea that scientists could be living in a class bubble.

There was a global warming example typed up, but I decided against it. Choose your own favourite example.
I can't say I have a great deal of knowledge on the subject, but isn't doping done by surface diffusion? How would the transistors be created in the interior of the volume?
Thanks for the comment.

> Scrimba is $19/month, and aimed at adults. From the front page, you build boring stuff, and it's not clear where to go. Quality is mixed

I linked the python course in the original comment but mostly recommend scrimba for building learning material for kids because you can mess with the code and run it inside the video directly. It's free for that.

Have you tried using something from the magpie, sparkfun and other kit suppliers?

Any elaboration on the specific product would be helpful. I want to know what kind of kits aren't available or upto the mark.

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/programming-an-fpga

https://learn.sparkfun.com/

But I totally understand the current market could be better. I have spent a good chunk of time finding parts for raspberry Pi although the projects were a bit more complex and budget constrained. I got them from various Chinese market places and had to read up a bit.
Ok, but it really looks like it is placed for the benefit of cyclists coming down the hill of the street. Also it is far enough back that when you are waiting for it to turn green you can't see it.
2012-2015 rMBPs are the best laptops ever produced, imho. My 2012 rMBP has been passed down to my brother, with a new ssd, and still rocks.

Why Apple had to mess with that perfect formula, I will never understand. I blame Ive.
Enforcement is a totally different thing though. The law itself is good.
IBM has been doing some research on Hierarchical Temporal Memory (the concept behind Numenta's stuff), via "IBM Cortial Learning Center" [1].

At least some people have seen something of more value than just marketing there, and worth exploring.

[1] https://nice.sandia.gov/documents/2015/NICE3talkwwwFinal-NO%...
I'm currently using cloud datastore.. But tempting to use firestore cause its easier in the app... However my raw data schemas are often not exactly what i want to expose to the app.. I know it solvable with firestore, but only with firestore's solution..

Also the pricing setup, im just not sure about it.

Currently i have decoupled all database layer operations behind a Repository service in Golang.
>If you offer web-hosting to a group of white nationalists, this is a political action

How so? I would say that this is a risk of exposure to politics but hardly a political action.
https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en if you want our main projects site, many of which have nothing to do with the Raspberry Pi computer.

Here's our Python Module 1 - https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/codeclub/python-module-1

It uses the online Trinket as an IDE
Okay, but again, if your metric is consumer empowerment, how does you dictating the properties of products consumers can buy based on your personal preferences result in more consumer empowerment? Can most consumers take their System76 laptop, and then set it up so it has the properties of a laptop with something like the T2 chip if they so desire? Any more than you can reasonably be expected to delid the T2 chip in a MacBook to get it to do what you want?

I’m not trying to judge your statements by my goalposts as you seem to be implying, I’m trying to understand the internal logic of what you’ve been saying which AFAICT isn’t lining up.
I haven’t seen a driver that has a ride share when one is from Lyft and the other is from Uber.

But that doesn’t matter because you would calculate minimum wage by taking the amount of time worked with the income and then computing the difference between the hourly rate.
Sorry if it didn't come across in the post, it'd be no doubt a fair step towards more ethically sound governments.
"SOMEWHERE or other—I think it is in the preface to Saint Joan—Bernard Shaw remarks that we are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and as an example of modern credulity he cites the widespread belief that the earth is round. The average man, says Shaw, can advance not a single reason for thinking that the earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth-century mentality.

Now, Shaw is exaggerating, but there is something in what he says, and the question is worth following up, for the sake of the light it throws on modern knowledge. Just why do we believe that the earth is round? I am not speaking of the few thousand astronomers, geographers and so forth who could give ocular proof, or have a theoretical knowledge of the proof, but of the ordinary newspaper-reading citizen, such as you or me."

This is by George Orwell, who goes on to explain his reasons for thinking the earth is round.

"It will be seen that my reasons for thinking that the earth is round are rather precarious ones. Yet this is an exceptionally elementary piece of information. On most other questions I should have to fall back on the expert much earlier, and would be less able to test his pronouncements. And much the greater part of our knowledge is at this level. It does not rest on reasoning or on experiment, but on authority. And how can it be otherwise, when the range of knowledge is so vast that the expert himself is an ignoramous as soon as he strays away from his own speciality? Most people, if asked to prove that the earth is round, would not even bother to produce the rather weak arguments I have outlined above. They would start off by saying that ‘everyone knows’ the earth to be round, and if pressed further, would become angry. In a way Shaw is right. This is a credulous age, and the burden of knowledge which we now have to carry is partly responsible."

Of course, this was before pictures of the earth from space...
Whoa, a blast from the past. I vaguely remember you. Wonder what YUI & co are up to these days
In my case, cracking of knees was common when I was a teenager. However, it doesn't happen much in the adulthood. I haven't been able to find an explanation for this.
The nuclear incidents didn't, either. Decontamination of Okuma has been successful and residents are already returning.

Pripyat is an animal and vegetation haven. Really shows how dangerous our species is to the planet.

Point is, nuclear power plants, even the old ones, are nowhere near as dangerous as the media portrays them.
And that's how you end up with speakers saying ridiculous things that don't work in practice. Because they come up with some idea (or more likely, a very minor tweak to an existing idea) but because nobody has to actually do it, and all their time is spent speaking, nobody uncovers the critical flaws.
No. And I have never observed anyone doing this.
certain roles require you to be apolitical, i'm thinking of employees of a national civil service whose role is to implement policy not decide it. If you had to quit when a party you didnt support was in power it would cause huge problems for continuity of services. Essentially then the civil service becomes political, which is really what it should not be.
The angle on this article is a bit strange. They talk about Icelanders as the real Vikings because they where settled by 100% Vikings. How are other Scandinavian countries less Viking? They where also 100% settled by Vikings at the same time because that is where the Vikings came from.

This whole story reads like this complete detachment of Iceland from everything else around it. But many Americans are entirely infatuated with Iceland and don’t look beyond its borders to put it in context.

Almost everything said about Icelanders here would apply to my native Norway. The attitudes, values etc are very similar. Same with the connection to nature.

Same with institutions. The Thing like the Icelanders had existed all over Scandinavia. It was not unique to Iceland. But Norway being much larger had multiple Thing. They still served as a sort of proto democracy. New Kings got voted in by election. Every free man and women could vote. Every offspring of the king, bastard or not was eligible to “run for office” so to speak.

What is unique to Iceland is how tightly knit society they are due to how few people they are and everybody knowing everybody.

And of course that they can read the original sagas but sagas also play an important role in Norway. I also learned about old Norse and read sagas in high school.

It is more difficult for us of course but we can still see it is a strongly related language. I can guess a lot of the text if I read an Icelandic newspaper.
As a young author, I'm always thinking about the process of writing a book. At some point, someone needs to write this book, a long book with lots of little details. I'm thinking: I don't want to write it, but it'll be so much better than doing nothing and leaving it. I can either start it and finish it on a different day, or just put it down for a long time and try to get some ideas out of it.
Advice: Use a good travel agent. In the UK I've used Trailfinders for many years for non-standard long-haul involving changes. They've dug me out of problems when I;ve had them. Like time when my wife didn't pack my passport on a long-haul to Australia. I went back to get my passport, but would miss the first leg. The airlines autmatically cancel all other legs.

The travel agent had sorted it all out while I was on the tube home, I ended up being able to catch up with the family in Singapore a day later after a flight via Düsseldorf. They earned their money that day.
I didn't try 14, but on 13 on the "sign in to apple id" screen, you say "don't have one", then say set up later.

has this been removed? It might be getting into GDPR violation territory.
Saying "facts don't convince people" is a way of saying "begging the question doesn't convince people", I think.
https://itch.io/community ?
That is not an issue in America. Can you point us to some proof/evidence? It might be an issue in some Middle-eastern and African countries, though.
For people wanting to look into HTM (Hierarchical Temporal Memory), do check out Numenta's main website [1], in particular the papers [2] and videos [3] sections.

Otherwise, HTM inventor Jeff Hawkins' book "On Intelligence" is one of the top 3 or so most fascinating books I've ever read. It doesn't cover HTM though, just how the brain works at a conceptual level, but in a way I haven't seen anyone else explain. Jeff clearly has an ability to see the forest through the trees in a way that is not too commonly found. This is one of the reasons I think HTM might be on to something, although it of course has to prove itself in real life too.

But we should remember for how long classic Neural Networks was NOT overly successful, and almost dismissed by a lot of people (including my university teacher who was rather skeptical about them, when I took an ML course on like 12 years ago and personally believed a lot in them). We had to "wait" for years and years until enough people were eventually throwing enough work on finding out how to make them really shine.

[1] https://numenta.org/

[2] https://numenta.com/neuroscience-research/research-publicati...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialNumenta

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Understanding-Creation-I...

Edit: Fixed book link.
The evaluation process is quite sophisticated, with thesis committees, talks, reviews, etc.

That's much more sophisticated than for software engineers. I'm not trying to imply SEs are evaluated by sprint planning points and velocity, but a lot of that comes down to sprint planning points and velocity. Beyond that, you have performance reviews, and I've never been in a company which did that well.

Code reviews are nice. But even a lot of that is pattern matching sanity checks, little better than a lint program, when a team is rushed.

I mean, do Ph.Ds know how to architect maintainable code? Perhaps not. Have they been encultured in a culture which rewards cowboy individualistic douchebags? Without a doubt. Are they arrogantly convinced of their own superiority? For the first few years after graduating, at least from the "better" schools, more likely than not, yes.

But I think your comments about lacking esoteric knowledge are completely off-base. Ph.Ds thrive on esoteric knowledge.
>if you don't have a satisfactory social group, what better way to fill that void than by joining a group of hundreds or thousands that all think and feel the same way as you

...kthartic posted on HN...
This is exactly it. People in this thread are saying "I don't understand why it's so crazy to say 'I'm not taking sides'"... Well because it clearly communicates that you still think there are "two sides", and that they're equivalent. That is clearly not the case, and if someone thinks otherwise, I don't even know how to have a conversation with them.
> Because there's really no such thing as, "apolitical."

This a thousand times.

I've tried to be apolitical in a "least damage" way, but it is not possible. You are supporting someone who is doing something abhorrent either explicitly or implicitly.

In tech we are huge enablers, and when we support implicitly we need to accept that we are enabling behaviour that all employees would find unacceptable. Whether it is individuals, management, directors, the board - the accountability for that is at all levels but definitely starts and stops at the top.

That employees are left to fight this shows a lack of accountability at the other levels - but it isn't apolitical of the company, no... now the company has chosen to go from implicitly supporting behaviour enabled by them to explicitly supporting that behaviour.
Thanks! I added a comment to the relevant qutebrowser issue: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/71