skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better question to ask, rather than the one this poll puts forth (why are Americans scared to share their political views), is "why do people feel the need to share their political views at all?"

The reason for this is because people do not spend their time wisely. Instead of trying to convince equally powerless people to see reality in some manner which doesn't matter, the logical thing to do is work to increase your locus of control over your surroundings.

Politics don't matter, they are downstream from structures and incentives. Whether you like the police, lgbtq+ rights, abortion, equality, etc is completely irrelevant, how those things make you feel is irrelevant, stop wasting time on them and let other people waste their time on trying to validate themselves and their feelings with political games. Do real activities and increase your influence and control over your surroundings, then exert your values over that sphere. Caring about people agreeing with you is the position of the victim and slave.
Its so bad that US Citizens just dont get political theory just yet. Still a lot to learn. Its laughable that you thinking burning down property is fascism rather than just arson.
This is a dishonest argument. Trump ran I 2016, when gay marriage was already law. It was explicitly the result of Democrats being elected that legalized gay marriage.
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I'm not surprised people are afraid. I'm in Europe,so naturally most of my connections on LinkedIn are on this side of the pond too, however there are also some Americans.None of them post anything unusual, however the feed occasionally brings up some batshit crazy stuff from related people. You could expect that kind of stuff on Facebook from some 15 years olds,but not from senior people who have been round the corner more than once. You read it and wonder how on earth you managed to get to where you are now with a thought train like that.
It's not that much better here, in England, too. People refuse to tell how they voted publicly, but often reveal it in private of they know they won't be judged. Usually the logic behind the decision makes you question person's ability to comprehend things slightly more complex than a paper bag.
> owls can rotate their heads about 360 degrees

No, some of them can rotate their heads > 200 degrees in either direction. This gives them a full 360 field of view but they cannot rotate their vertebrae all the way round.
> * reveal codes

MS Word used to do this. Does it not now? (I don't use Word...)

> ... many US courts enforce strict layout and typographic rules, and WP is said to cater to that

Now this is a good reason. No one wants to redo that work for another word processor every time a new version changes formatting rules.
You’re fucked either way mate because “silence is violence”
Unless you support straight up socialism, as the article points out.
All this Thumb etc. stuff is not relevant to the 64-bit world though. AArch64 is the least fragmented of the big ISAs, with a solid list of base functionality — e.g. NEON is guaranteed to exist on everything.
that was... an incredibly well-articulated point. you just convinced me to buy some bitcoin.
UHaul is just more expensive for everything. They are not easier. They have plenty of hidden fees.
The redesign of New York City's subway map [video]
That would require a completely different political system. There have always been two mainstream parties, which in non-First Past the Post countries would be coalitions of smaller parties. These coalitions break up and shift alignments over time. This is why the Republican Party of today is not the Republican Party of 1959 or 1855, it's more like the Ship of Theseus that bears only the name of the original ship.
Im not american,

But i feel that on the long term the list of ”too wrong to discuss” opinion tends to grow, until you reach the point where civil and peacefull discussion becomes impossible.

To me it seems this is the road U.S. is walking on.
This will happen, of course, but shouldn't last long. Also momentum of the tracked object should help.

Btw, funny that my comment above attracted so much hatred. Didn't want to sound like a know-it-all but yes, at least in the case of the referee I guess that checking for a body would have helped.

For example, in this stylised picture we can easily tell the player's head from the ball:

https://www.pngitem.com/pimgs/m/80-803112_italia-italia-90-l...
That's disingenuous. That is an unusual extreme view held by neo-nazis AND extreme leftists (nation of islam types).

We're talking about people not feeling comfortable having a debate over abortion (it's a third rail on either side to try and establish a time when a foetus becomes a recognized being). This is something we should be curious to establish a benchmark for. Both sides fear that if we establish a number of days at which then we can't have abortions after and the other side fears we can have abortions before)
Wrong Cato:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato%27s_Letters#Influence
Because I am usually flagged and banned after one or two comments.

Good eye, that was me! "Take me back to 1938"
They also throw wind drift indicators out of the plane before commencing the jump run
Sounds messy. You’d have to manually define the JNI calls on both sides if I’m reading correctly?

Good to know it’s possible though. Just maybe with more tooling...
Fascism is a political strategy involving fear of change and scapegoating. If you’re trying to imply that use of force automatically translates to fascism, then you need to consider situations of community defense against fascists, which ultimately requires force. Self-defense and defending democratic rights is quite different from terroristic violence in the service of subverting democratic and human rights.

I reserve the term “violence” to situations described in
Hannah Arendt‘s similarly-named essay, in which terroristic violence has historically been used by failing dictators against the legitimate power of the people as a whole.
What's the difference between fatty acids and fats?
>Having done just a tiny bit of compiler development for ARM, I can assure you that having all of these variants is a pain. Making compiler writers' lives harder means you're less likely to get optimal performance. At least on the more exotic variants, but possibly even on the most common ones.

I can empathize, but isn't that just part of the job of making a compiler? Any successful, long-lived ISA is going to have extensions and revisions that will need to be handled in the toolchain. I guess my point is not so much that it isn't painful, it's more that I don't really see what makes RISC-V really different besides the fact that it's a younger ISA and therefore we don't already know for sure which extensions are going to become de-facto standard and which ones will be less common.

>I believe the author doesn't identify as a "guy".

Arg, of course the one time I don't use gender-neutral language I manage to mess it up. Edited, thanks.
The fact that the rubrik for interaction is "being yelled at" or "attacked", and not just "being approached in civil discussion" of any kind is telling of how one side has lost site of the whole point of "civics"
I like how unimplemented menu items in your Notepad clone are grayed out as disabled, I would love to see this principle implemented in the rest of this art piece.
Absolutely. For example I like Trumps stance on H1B Visa reform. I cannot share even this one policy agreement with peers without immediate labeling of bigot, racist, etc.

People appear to be so emotionally vested in this election at this point it’s better to stay quiet. IMO.
They also said that less than 50% of the code was shared, which means there is still a lot of platform specific code.

> Almost 50% of the production code in our Android and iOS apps is decoupled from the underlying platform.
> memory is a huge bottleneck ... cache friendliness will often trump something that has fewer instructions

Aren't these all arguments in favour of ropes?

Ropes are write-only when being constructed. They're not just cache friendly, they're cache oblivious!
A high profile executive working for a corporation in Iran will be fired and possibly arrested if they start talking about the government's stance on women's rights. Likewise in the USA if some executive talks about babies' rights they'll probably be fired and some smear campaign will be launched against them. Likewise in China vocal criticism of the CCP will probably lead to bad consequences.

I would encourage Americans to reject this type of culture and embrace freedom of speech and diversity of views. Reduce the number of taboo topics rather than increasing them. This modern blasphemy culture is spreading in many western countries. Reject it before it's too late. Conversations are good. It is how society moves forward. No good ever comes from silencing conversations.
Beej's guide still gets updated! I remember it from the early 2000s.

https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/
"Do we have to show tolerance to the intolerant?" is not the newest question in the book, and historians will probably tell you that in fact free societies stay free if they draw a clear line what is unaccepted behaviour.

Liberty is always a balance act, because if you give bad actors freedom in the name of tolerance they will use it to reduce the freedom of weaker actors within society. If you live in a "survival of the fittest"-type society that might be acceptable, but that might not be a free society anymore because it fails to protect the freedoms of some within it. If you overregulate and control on the other hand, you will also reduce the total freedom within society.

This is a balance few nations on earth managed to get right for prolonged periods. In my eyes the US didn't get it right for quite a while. Civility is a part of it, but letting people get away with fascist behaviour in the name of tolerance/free speech will potentially put the US (and therefore the whole world) in a much, much darker place.
'Ropes' are built using 'trees'. They're more specific than trees.

Otherwise, why do we say 'trees' when we could use the more general term 'graphs' if that's your argument?
Socialism is not mentioned once in this article.
Freedom Is a Luxury Good of the Digital Age
> An easy litmus test: are you advocating harm to a person for merely existing in the world

This a dog whistle. Please define "harm", and "existing".

This phrase is so often used by people who say "silence is violence" (it's literally not).

I don't think you're being honest in your argument, here. You are implying lynchings and holocaust, but is that truly the debates you're applying your litmus test on? I highly doubt that.

Are you not more likely to apply it to:

* trans women competing in sports with biological women

* abortion

* pronouns

* equality of outcome

right?

I'm not even saying I disagree with you on any of those points. But your "litmus test" allows you to point your finger where the harm is, and shut down debate, cancel the person, and "punch a nazi".

And you also consider yourself as having monopoly on defining what pros and cons fall under "harm", and "existing".

E.g. if you define misusing pronouns to be harm, someone else could define compelled speach to be to surrender the right to your own thoughts (2+2=5, from 1984). Again, I am not saying I disagree with you on the point, but both sides here have a very good case for screaming "harm!!!! I have harm here! Just for existing!!!".

Same with a trans woman competing with a biosex woman. "Harm for just existing" applies equally, actually, to both women. Now what? You're just stuck screaming "fascist!" to each other. Why? What are you actually trying to accomplish?

You will lose people with this attitude, not gain them. See Sweden and Trump.

> Then I have no interest in hearing your toxic and hateful opinion

I don't think you know what "hate" means.

> I sure hope you'll be afraid to voice it around me.

So you're admitting that your argument is based in threat of violence?
I started WebRender back in the spring to scratch a personal itch. Was lucky enough to get a couple good reference customers early on so it's already bringing in enough to keep the lights on:

https://webrender.io/

Basically, it's a quick and easy way to get SSR up and running for sites that use modern frontend frameworks for their whole site. It seems that every team I work with needs to jump through the same crazy set of hoops and stand up servers just so they can serve pre-rendered pages to search engines.

Our thing solves the problem by sitting in front of your site (using Cloudflare Workers), passing regular traffic through, and showing crawlers a cached, pre-rendered version.

Best (for me), it's designed to fail open, meaning customers are unaffected if my stuff falls over. Thus, letting me have things like weekends and sleep.
You’re just saying random things in an aggressive manner without making any sense.
>>> Take GPLv2. Suppose I license some code I own to Alice under GPLv2. Later Alice gives a copy to Bob. Where does Bob's license come from?

There is some case law around that in France. A software company makes GPL software or library, a contracting firm uses/modifies it, reselling the result to some clients.

In 2 cases I am aware of, the final client was the government and sued the contracting firm for breach of contract (the GPL is a contract) and won. (Winning is relative of course because the client can't use the software they paid for anymore and years are passing by in court).

The contract creates a chain of contractual responsibility, which I am not an expert in, but as far as I understand it opens any party to being sued by any other party.

Yes it means that GPL developers, by giving an open contract to anybody who is willing to take it, are pretty much opening themselves to be sued by the entire world.

In practice you sue for a purpose (maximizing damages :D) so the purpose guides whom to pursue on which grounds.

Now to answer your question... what happens if you decide to cancel the license? Well, you can't unilaterally cancel a contract on a whim.
> Have decent speedups been gotten by previous CPUs by the addition of conditional moves?

This is not a direct answer to your question, but: I recently had to tune the conditional move generation heuristics in the GraalVM Enterprise Edition compiler. My experience has been that you can absolutely get decent speedups of 10-20% or more with a few well-placed conditional moves. The cases where this matters are rare, but they do occur in some real-world software, where sticking a conditional move in some very hot place will have such an impact on the entire application. Conversely, you can get slowdowns of the same magnitude with badly placed conditional moves.

It's a difficult trade-off, since most branches are fairly predictable, and good branch prediction and speculative execution can very often beat a conditional move.
Would it be possible to add a personal note to a post?
I find my self having random ideas sometimes related to articles. Would it be possible to add a note to favourited posts that would be visible on my favourite page? Sometimes my ideas are completely not commentary but mostly implementation ideas in my research.
I'm a foreigner, we don't have either. But Indy 500 was groundbreaking at the time, and then came IndyCar. The graphics and all around racing was really great.
> one side has lost [sight] of the whole point of "civics"

Today the president voiced approval for his supporters literally running his opponents' supporters off the road.
Discord can be special, but at least for me, I find it hard to feel like a part of a community. Maybe it's because I'm older, maybe I'm nostalgically remembering how awesome the internet was back in the day. But, I find it extremely hard to make friends online and be a part of a community now. I tried searching out topics I'm interested in but I rarely engage with it. I find this to be true for 95% of the users.

Somewhere along the line, the switch from "these are people" to "these are random strangers on the internet" took place.
Belarus protesters use Telegram to keep up pressure on Lukashenko
Why is everyone equating vi to WordPerfect. Vi and WP are miles apart.
> Things like substack attempt to use alternative models, but that is limited imho, their market size is not that big.

Not every businesses need to generate billions or even more than double digit millions, I think lots of people/teams will be happy to find market which can make them 1-100k/month.

Problem with unbundling groups might be convenience of interaction inside FB, if unbundled not many people may want to sign up and interact.
Necessary pointer:
George R R Martin still writes on WordStar 4.0 on DOS.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27407502
Conan clip this refers to: https://youtu.be/X5REM-3nWHg

As I need to write for work I recently got into this topic - this blog post makes some interesting points about how distraction free writing used to be the norm: https://vascsurg.me/2019/11/17/distraction-free-writing-used...

The AlphaSmart Neo devices became tremendously popular among writers recently, apparently many of them can’t stand modern software anymore because it has become too visually distracting for them: https://orcutt.net/weblog/2018/03/17/my-prodigiously-convolu...

Distractions certainly are too blame here, but my pet theory is that the added visual input blocks top down imagery in the visual system.
The sociological aspects of this era are .. sadly fascinating.

2020s material comfort, education systems, insane technological 'tooling' .. and yet we're still a good old mob when too much ambient stress rises.

What should we do ? have gatherings to just dissolve tension and make people go back to normal lives without trying to find weird remarks or conspiracies about what's going on ?
The interesting bit would be: are the 10 KB even persisted, or are they discarded after decode?

IANAL, but can well imagine this could have an impact on the interpetation of purpose.
Yes! Deleting files won’t work as it’ll fail with “no space available”. Snapshots could not be deleted. Resizing APFS volumes would also fail. Finally I caved and reinstalled from a backup. Now I keep a spare APFS volume of 10 GB that I can hopefully remove to resolve this problem when it happens next time.

APFS has serious problems and shouldn’t be forced upon people who value their data.
Hey, just saw that, great work!
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Right.

The logical end to all of this exists in places in this world. You cannot share your opinion on Islam in some parts of this world, you’ll die. You cannot speak out against the government in China, you will be in jail.

It’s called political persecution. We are on the proverbial slippery slope.
I'm not going to "cancel" you, but it's a little telling that your example of a moderate view immediately went there.
It also varies very much country to country.

The US subsidises corn, so has a surfeit of corn, so they feed a lot of corn to animals. This gives US animals a different profile to say, Australian grass fed animals (although obviously Australia also sometimes finishes animals on grain, but it isn't corn much).

All in all dietary studies are a total shit show of confounding variables even when done incredibly well. Then there are the thousands a year that are not done well, but if they have the right headline get coverage.
The point on unconstrained extensibility I think is largely around the fact that anyone can add extensions wheras with ARM, the company retains control.

There are advantages to the RISC-V approach it is likely to lead to more fragmentation - and worse gives the ability for a major implementation to add proprietary extensions that are not licensed to anyone else putting smaller players at a disadvantage and leading to fragmentation, not only in the hardware but also in the software ecosystems.

Whilst you may not like ARM having control at least everyone (for a fee) has full access to the ISA and implementations.
Ethics applies here just as well. You are trying to equivocate the actions of those who actually attempt to kill those who disagree politically (aka “terrorism”) with attempts at eliminating platforms for wide dissemination of speech.
This calls to mind the USA lawyer who had nowhere to flee after taking on Chevron.

https://www.salon.com/2020/08/27/the-case-of-steven-donziger...
Ton's closing remarks were very touching, he was clearly emotional about planning his succession. I admire him greatly for all he has offered over the years.
And just after I read this on HN I see this shared by a fellow brit asking WTF https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-camp-cancels-austin-texa... and indeed... it's hard to comprehend of this level of voter and campaign intimidation like this anywhere. When I've read things like this in the past it's been in failed states.
I'm not complaining about the downvotes but given that my comment contains significant substance about the Cato Institute, I would appreciate more feedback. Are you downvoting because you think the leadership struggle in 2012 didn't affect it, or because you also think the JBS is a serious policy organization?
That's fair. It's definitely not a killer, (or even in my opinion the worst thing about RISC-V,) just another one of these random little annoyances that I'm not really sure why RISC-V doesn't include.
I am very unconvinced by cross platform UI solutions, as such I like the idea of Kotlin Multiplatform. Sharing non UI code has always been possible via C/C++, but it suffers from several issues not the least of which is having to write C/C++. The executions I've seen of this for example often bundle curl + boringSSL for an HTTP/HTTPS stack instead of linking against the system provided networking libraries.

Aside from Kotlin I also think Rust with C FFI or WASM are good potential avenues to explore here. In the WASM case generic business logic can be written in Rust and compiled to WASM, platform capabilities such as networking/GPS etc can be exposed to the WASM VM via functions provided by the host. Further, with WASM it would also be possible to run the same code across web, native clients, and the server.
I've still got my 3.5" WordPerfect floppies -- found 'em a while back when moving!
2.6? I’ve seen also 2.4 on devices few years ago...
I finally realized that “winsocks” name is a clever pun.
"There's plenty of political views so toxic and harmful they don't deserve civility."

The people that you think don't deserve civility in this scenario literally have the exact same viewpoint. This is the disconnect and it goes both ways.

Unless its straight up illegal, civility should always apply.
I didn't know that, I was under the impression that it was fixed to Python - thanks. Will have to checkout how to use different kernels for different languages.
The leadership could have been compromised in some way.
> Political left and right both formed extreme wings that attack moderate opinions for not being extreme enough

Very well said. I hate all extremes of politics. I like asking questions and being critical. What I have noticed is that critical thinking is attacked viciously from both sides. Asking questions that go against your side's "hard fact" is greeted with intense hostility and vitriol. I would imagine that this behavior is encouraged because it teaches people to not ask questions and follow the herd.

Forming your own opinions, coming to your own conclusions, asking your own question -- this is all so offensive nowadays. It is sad because often there is real social risk in saying something that might offend the left/right. If you live in a community that heavily leans to one side, you are scared of stating your own opinions because people could shun you. This social punishment could extend to your children -- what parent would want to take that risk?