skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's plenty of political views so toxic and harmful they don't deserve civility.

An easy litmus test: are you advocating harm to a person for merely existing in the world, living with the skin color and sexuality they were born with, or making choices that don't harm anyone else? Then I have no interest in hearing your toxic and hateful opinion and I sure hope you'll be afraid to voice it around me.

It's a great thing to have political discussions and to try to see all sides of a topic. Your willingness to see the other side's points should stop at the point where the other side is actively trying harm people for the crime of existing in this world. (See also: antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia, racism.)
Hardly. Go read about Stonewall and the ACTUP movement.
This is an explanation of the fast inverse square root that I hope is easy to understand. I also managed to improve on it a little bit.
The article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-01320-z
The Option type isn’t really something owned by functional programming. Union types exist just fine in imperative and even declarative programming.
The sentence for those crimes is prison, the loss of voting is just an arbitrary bonus that is "the way we've always done things."
Just being easy to use doesn't mean it has a solid back end. I agree pytorch is easier to comprehend UI for average person.
This is getting better. We will wait for your story about the part about the outcome of the complaint.
This is Bunnie Huang and Xobs' open source/open hardware BeTrusted platform, now open for Crowd Funding - be in quick
Fighting "fascisms" with fascism...

I find it entirely bizarre that so large scope of population and media is fine with what is going on...
ReScript (formerly BuckleScript/ReasonML) is a nice option, but I agree in an ideal world these features would exist in the JS standard.
Especially since both parties are more or less in one part of the political spectrum (as defined here: politicalcompass.org)
It depends, he hates Rossie O'donnell so for her he is against it. But for his friend Peter Thiel he is in favor of it.
https://github.com/christianbundy/octotree/issues/1#issuecom...
2020 State of Haskell Survey
Knocked on the head...for now.

All it takes is for one person to start the virus up again and the entire country has to go back into lock down.

They're playing a permanant game of country wide lockdown whack a mole with the virus.

No one can ever get comfortable again until herd immunity is reached which lockdowns delay.
what if those views aren't civil?
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So beautiful. Good job.
My entire perspective on "writer's block" shifted after surreptitiously stumbling on Jerry Weinberg's book "The fieldstone method". I very rarely now start with a blank page and very rarely beat myself up for "writer's block".

In a nutshell, the book describes how the act of writing can be broken down into many stages: sometimes you are collecting "fieldstones" (i.e. research), sometimes you editing, and sometimes you are synthesizing. Regardless, there's always something to do that moves you forward.

* Field stone method - https://geraldmweinberg.com/Site/On_Writing.html
Cato's leadership struggle in 2012 took it from a strongly-right-leaning but fundamentally intelligent and rational policy organization, to one step above the John Birch Society and a bare GOP stump organization.

I don't care one way or another about banning, but yeah, people really should not put any weight into what comes out of it today.
Ok so I randomly clicked on one of you links and it says

Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) indicated a protective effect of masks and respirators against clinical respiratory illness (CRI) and influenza-like illness (ILI)

Meta-analysis of observational studies provided evidence of a protective effect of masks and respirators against severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
No, sorry. Ostracizing others is absolutely not equivalent to attempted murder.
See calling some things "basic rights" is already a point of contention and a loaded way of framing this, as if people are evil and wanting to not give other people something fundamental, essential for life, and "basic" that's been already decided. It's not decided, and a lot of what we've started calling "rights" these days aren't all that basic or universally agreed.

The way you've phrased it means that it's perfectly reasonable to be uncivil (violent) towards others. That's a breakdown of communication and has effectively "othered" the individuals/groups based on their disagreement with your framing of the topic.
various aspects of IQ, demeanor, education, work ethic, surroundings, and a whole host of other variables, some external some internal. Of course the majority of people on HN and in the public will revert to weeping and gnashing of teeth rather than acknowledge this obvious fact, because the majority of people on HN and in the public implicitly tie human worth to economic output and intelligence (which is the actually bigoted and racist thing to do)
Is is very much the point here since it is these words, and the way their meaning has been made malleable to fit the narrative of the day, which enables these practices. As long as this practice is tolerated it will be difficult if not impossible to agree to a basic level of civic discourse. Without such an agreement it is impossible to 'agree to disagree' which has been one of the tenets of liberal democracies since the concept was first implemented.

Just like he who controls the present controls the past, he who controls the dictionary controls the discourse.
I agree. However, both sides have shot at each other and neither has the moral high ground here.
> I believe the author doesn't identify as a "guy".

I don't think this was meant as assumption about the authors gender. The same way i wouldn't assume that there is physical, actual pain involved when you said "having all of these variants is a pain" even when you literally wrote it.
You call it "not practical", I call the alternative "not effective".

Case in point: In Sweden any politician, and mainstream society in general, who even hinted at reducing immigration has been called a heartless racist for the last 30 years, completely shutting down debate.

The effect of this was predictable (indeed I've been saying it for about two decades): MORE people become anti-immigrant. (the Sweden Democrats are probably the biggest party now, if there'd be an election today)

When you're told by the press and politicians that even raising a topic makes you racist and you should be cancelled, you're not exactly going to be won over.

It's so sad to see from the sidelines. Why has the left shifted so much to shutting down all debate that isn't 100% in agreement with the party line? It's not that I disagree with them on the issues, it's that it's sad that they're not seeing how it's actively hurting their stated goals.

If Sweden is any predictor, then this is going to get much worse (or, if you're on the right, it'll get much better).

Every time someone who said "biological men should not be allowed to compete in sports with biological women" is called Hitler, that's one more person lost to your whole argument, and someone who says that Trump is an OK compromise, and who'll think "if that's your choice argument then you're too crazy to be listened to on abortion, too".

tl;dr: If you're choosing between "practical" and "effective", choose "effective". But also see history for how I think when you say "practical", you actually mean "low effort".
Does make one wonder just which features he's talking about here. It's been probably 30 years since I used WP for DOS, so I don't quite remember how it all worked, but I have trouble believing there's anything all that great about it.
I would say most of that 62% are moderates. Because extremists today would quickly align you to other side the moment you show some of their beliefs
Yeah... but since it inside a submarine I'm not sure one can generalize to what pulse codings and switchboards were in use internally.

If the phone was for connecting the sub to landlines, sure, otherwise, who knows?
> Executing more instructions for a (really) common operation doesn't mean an ISA is somehow better designed or "more RISC", it means it executes more instructions.

True. But as bonzini points out (or rather, hints at) in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24958644, the really common operation for array indexing is inside a counted loop, and there the compiler will optimize the address computation and not shift-and-add on every iteration.

See https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/x5Mr66 for an example:

for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
sum += p[i];
}

compiles to a four-instruction loop on x86-64 (if you convince GCC not to unroll the loop):

.L3:
addsd xmm0, QWORD PTR [rdi]
add rdi, 8
cmp rax, rdi
jne .L3

and also to a four-instruction loop on RISC-V:

.L3:
fld fa5,0(a0)
addi a0,a0,8
fadd.d fa0,fa0,fa5
bne a5,a0,.L3

This isn't a complete refutation of the author's point, but it does mitigate the impact somewhat.
Then you get people who silently support the views.
You don't need special compiler support for fixed-point-math, just left- and right-shift to "move the point around".
I would completely stand behind this comment if the word "harm" wasn't completely redefined in the last few years.

Just in case: speech, however abusive, or denial of association or services is never "harm".

Replying to a deleted comment: I think that white-only service is asshole behavior, just as holocaust denial and other stuff. I fight and would continue to fight it with education, counter-propaganda and civil boycott, but I would fight for those people to have legal right to do it without persecution by government at the same time.
Ask HN: How do custom software dev firms make money?
Hey HN, I'm working on a project for school and need to learn a bit more about the revenue model of custom software dev firms.

I've been googling, but can't seem to get a straight answer. It seems like there's an initial project cost & then maintenance revenue ongoing for the software / app's life. Is that accurate?

Appreciate any insight y'all can provide!
Thailand never had a bad outbreak to begin with and no one knows why.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/world/asia/coronavirus-th...

Also, isn't Thailand a dictatorship where if you insult the royal family verbally you can be beheaded?
I'm not referring to framing something ambiguous. I mean for example people openly discussing final solution to Jew problem. Are you suggesting basic civility and discussion about the issue with them?
Not only that - it was simpler, probably easier to refurbish after flight and had, IIRC, twice the payload capacity (because it didn't need to carry the ascent engines along for the ride).

It wasn't as reusable as the American counterpart, but if we did that with today's reusable boosters the way SpaceX does it, it wouldn't be that bad.

Remember, of course, what drove both designs was the capability to bring large objects back from space in a single orbit

It's really no surprise Buran was abandoned and the shuttle was bad at everything else (except looking good in pictures).
It's pretty easy to find such examples throughout accademia, it's hard to know where to start. https://heterodoxacademy.org/the-skeptics-are-wrong-part-2/
> The bigger problem with these is usually not the vendor of the router, but the vendor of the SoC the device is built on.

That just means the device vendor isn't exerting the necessary pressure/valuation on the SoC manufacturer.

Of course the SoC manufacturer is gonna try and get away with bare minimum of work for absolute maximum of profit, just like the device vendor. The pressure needs to start at the end of the chain (which is end users) :/
That's an interesting stat, though its political in nature.

I suspect that the disconnect is far wider in scope. Most people are totally perplexed by the disparity between their own reality and what is portrayed in the news. For 3 years we had evidence-free but unrelenting Russia/Trump hate. This seemed insane, but it turns out that was just the warm up act to coronavirus!

The reality of what people see around them is sooooo far away from what is portrayed on the MSM. It amazes me that anyone pays any notice to the MSM at. But what it really shows, is that most individuals are not their own authority in their life. They defer to what is the consensus opinion that is blasted at them 24/7 from the MSM, rather than acting according to what they actually experience.

Imagine, somehow a person was frozen in time, and seeing how the majority live now - scared of living because someone said something on TV!

But that is the power of the media, and why it is such an effective control. The majority disagree with what is portrayed, but feel pressured enough to keep quiet and therefore acquiesce to whatever is being shouted out.
>Yet if you looked at Twitter or Facebook, you would be convinced Labour would win with complete dominance in posts upon those platforms.

"Never mistake your Twitter feed for your country" (https://twitter.com/NickCohen4/status/1205273956078563328)
I'm not trying to be fair to the languages. I'm trying to be fair to the people looking at what skills are in high demand.
The Canadian PM got caught red handed in a number of scandals, lining the pockets of his friends with tax payer money. Overpaid $100 million in COVID medical equipment; his former parties' MP setup a shell company 7 days prior to be the middleman between govt and equipment imports (pocketing a nice $10K per unit purchased). Add on that a huge no-bid contract awarded to his favourite buddies that run a for-profit charity that has promoted his brand for years, paid his family members, expensed lavish trips, etc. These guys had zero experience in these domains. Then he prorogued parliament to prevent investigations. He continued with filibustering tactics, threatened an election during the pandemic when further inquiry was pushed.

It is amazing how time and time again, his supporters entirely dismiss these things. Amazing that they are fine with a government with zero transparency and zero accountability, despite their platform clamouring for exactly that. Regardless of the party in power, I would be equally as disgusted. I wonder if people will wake up when they see the bleak financial situation that comes to light post-COVID.

I haven't even mentioned his other previous ethics violations but I'll spare you the details.
Post-factum correction: My father is 59.
Not american, but I believe it was said that this election you won't see the final results perhaps days/weeks even after election. Due to mail in votes I think?
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October 31, 2020
Weren't polls actually quite accurate for the UK in 2019?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2019_U...

Obviously social media is a terrible barometer for political mood. It's designed to build a self-co gratulatory bubble, but I'm not sure I buy the argument that polling is rigged or unscientific.

Polling is a statistical model of a rare event of human behavior - of course there's uncertainty!
Running WPDOS in a web browser with a cloud storage (well, periodic memory snapshots) would be the best choice for who still wants it today. We already had multiple solutions for vi...
Retrospective: Hacktoberfest 2020
Assuming this is a genuine question, thousands of businesses and lives have been irreparably destroyed. Suicide can take years to manifest after trauma. It's also worth noting that a lot of people have been temporarily propped up by government social programs, which will presumably end at some point. Once they do end, the destruction is no longer hideable and the people who have been made destitute by government mandates will have absolutely nothing.

A restaurant owner who saved their entire life to open up a business was forced to shut down for the greater part of a year with inadequate government support. Of course that causes depression and even suicide in some cases. Their life's work has been eviscerated through no fault of their own.

During the lockdown, the government's message was essentially "do not open your business by threat of enforcement action, but by the way you have to keep paying your rent/mortgage and we're going to give you a token amount of money to help".

While this was happening, governments around the world were throwing cash at banks and big business. Small businesses got screwed. As usual.

As for the specific medical reasoning, I'm no medical professional and would not pretend to know how the Australian Medical Association comes up with their claims.

If you were questioning the source, I'd implore you to post counter-evidence.
The basic premise of almost all internet firms - at enough N, 0.01% is profitable. The long tail guarantees that people mash that dopamine grabbing button.
We have substantially improved and increased both testing and tracing and isolation/quarantine.

We have testing in industrial environments that are known to be dangerous (eg abbatoirs, health care).

We have tracing that in the last week caught a single case in a school that ended up with over 800 people in isolation while being tested. Our tracing is not only close contacts, but the close contacts of contacts.

This test/trace infrastructure is being replicated across the country and by next winter, we should have standardized processes.

Work is ongoing in areas like health and aged care, and we are planning for how to bring international students (an important part of our economy) back for the start of the university year in March.
I got the abstract only.
Simple queue, first come first served
Yeah well when you have a president who openly supports the police shooting unarmed people, unarmed people become afraid of saying anything against the president. When you have a president who's openly calling immigrants thieves and rapists, immigrants and their American kin become afraid of saying anything against the president. If you have a president who openly calls your religion "a religion of death" you're going to be afraid. I support firing Trump supporters, of course I do I'm the son of the an immigrant and people like me are being locked up by him for nothing. Why would I ever want to work with someone who openly wants to throw me in jail?

Edit: ug I mean identity politics has really been tainting the discussion! Who could be causing this?!
If you have decades worth of muscle memory invested in it, you bet it is one of the best programs out there... for you.

This is how I feel about vim, at any rate.
Is it because most Americans don't actually know Political theory? The 'left' wing of the US is comparable to the moderately centre of the UK (maybe a bit to the right actually). They can't think as one group or groups yet because they are just beginning to actually get a grip of the fundamentals.

Adding in, before US folks bite this comment. Please understand that Socialism is not universal healthcare, it is not the right to reliable and inexpensive housing and it is not feeding the children of your country before they starve. These are basic human rights. When you parade around wanting to defend free speech, why not defend these basic human principles? You cant speak if you are unable to due to rent prices going up and not being able to feed your family. Or going to the doctors or university costs you your whole life.
Office Droids are rejoicing. I do not get any this, because (pirated) Window 95 was the last one, as Linux was quite complete already.
In this discussion, I don't see why they're not equivalent. We're talking about reasons why people hide their political beliefs, not abstract ethics.
Reveal codes.

They had a box below main editor that everyone used to go in and edit codes for outlines, indentation, page breaks, etc. Super simple.

https://images.pcworld.com/reviews/graphics/125257-2406p075-...
I totally get using vi to write a book or something on an air gapped computer. No distractions. But not sure about WordPerfect. To each their own though.
The usual suspects are:

* reveal codes (a second mode, where you can see typographic and layout commands interspersed with the text itself, a bit like HTML tags)

* templates for judicial submissions (many US courts enforce strict layout and typographic rules, and WP is said to cater to that)
But... there are actually people who believe that those with a certain skin color or of a certain sexual orientation or religion actually should not have basic rights.

Not everyone who gets targeted as such holds those beliefs, sure, but they absolutely do exist in America. Until fairly recently, those people’s beliefs actually drove real policies in America that had real teeth and caused real suffering for real people. Of course we still see remnants of these policies and we certainly see knock-on effects of them today.

It would certainly help if the left did a better job at isolating those who actually hold the beliefs I listed above versus those who hold beliefs that are merely “in the orbit” of them. It would be great also if the right did a better job of isolating themselves and their own respectable beliefs from those beliefs that are not respectable.

But in any case to act like any belief that someone holds needs to be treated with respect and never framed as a direct affront to human rights, even if it is, shows a lack of knowledge about the range of things that people actually believe.
Good. Never pass up a chance to keep your mouth shut.
You couldn't just change the permission on the disk to solve the issue?
Thanks! That's an interesting angle I hadn't thought about before. I mentioned in the site creating prototypes of real machines, but I was thinking more of you brainstorming your own ideas. Maybe people can create virtual machines, ask other users to use them in the virtual world, work out all the design bugs, then if people really like it (and it is physically feasible) build it in the real world.
I would absolutely be denied opportunities for projects, publicity, promotion, and advancement in my field if I were known to have political views that deviated from the norm in my industry, which I will state for the record is hard left.

Consequently, I express no personal non-work related opinions not only at work but in fact not even with “friendlies,” as loose lips sink ships.

It is a shitty way to live, given how much time one spends at work.
Here's my experience:

> At least 20 hours charge

I think I get about 3 days on complete standby (with no sim card)

> Browser

Has had a usable browser for at least half a year.

> Phone audio

Works

> Camera

Its supposed to work on Manjaro at least.

> IM

Someone posted Matrix and Telegram work in a sibling thread

> Native apps

Pretty much everything is native afaik, excluding PWA/electron/emulation

Can't say about the rest, since I didn't really test it much with a SIM card :/

One thing I'll say though, it has(had?) problems with wakeup, ie. if it goes to sleep an alarm or timer wont wake it up.
The Lincoln report is also worth a look but tl;dr:

- everyone agrees that there should be more viewpoint diversity
- but most people still support silencing "dangerous opinions"
- and far right and far left more likely to support termination for offensive views

https://joinlincoln.org/pdfs/lincoln-2019-viewpoint-report.p...
The costs and risks involved in large scale power generation facilities isn't really fit for private companies and market competition. And when you add a market element to it, companies might cut corners to increase profits ( or minimise losses), and you certainly don't want that.