skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks.

> As long as you express something in a civil way, you should be able to do it without repercussion.

To get back the original topic of the thread: an increasing problem in our workplaces is that lots of people don't think this way. And maybe I'm wrong, but the impression I get is that those people are overwhemingly of a particular political persuasion. It's not even "left wing" but a specific type of ultra-leftism. The word "woke" has so much baggage but I'm not aware of a better label.

It's impossible to have a good-faith discussion with these people. Any disagreement is immediately met with mind-reading accusations of bigotry. Professional and personal consequences are likely to follow, which I suppose is consistent: if I sincerely believed that someone was a literal white supremacist, I wouldn't want them in my company either.

I don't know how things are internally at Coinbase or Basecamp, but I can sympathise with the general idea of their "no politics at work" policies. There are better and worse ways you can implement such a policy - some of the objections I've heard are totally fair, e.g. gay men saying "since gay marriage is a political issue, does this mean I'm not allowed to mention at work the fact that I have a husband?" I'm straight, but I wouldn't want to work at a place where gay people feel like they have to keep their sexuality a secret.

But it's not always that clear-cut. Coinbase's initial "no politics at work" announcement said something like "we can all agree that something is a problem while disagreeing on the best way to solve it", and that's the key thing I think we're losing. You can believe that black lives matter without supporting the organisation called Black Lives Matter. You can oppose racism without agreeing with the policy prescriptions of Ibram Kendi (and there are black intellectuals who make such a case, e.g. Coleman Hughes, John McWhorter.) Maybe I'm wrong, and I don't claim to be an expert on any political issue, racism included. But can we at least have this discussion without my being called a white supremacist? To quote a famous victim of police violence: can't we all just get along? And if that really isn't possible, maybe we should just all shut the fuck up and stick to writing code.

Really I think this is a symptom of a deeper rot within our political instutitions. In a more perfect world, we'd all be content to keep politics out of the workplace because it wouldn't be necessary: we'd be able to satisfy our political needs through the structures that are specifically in place to do so. If workplaces are being hyper-politicised, something is going wrong with democracy.
Key backup makes this a lot easier, assuming you've saved the recovery key in your password manager. But it's still one of those frustrating points where it defeats the purpose of the exercise for the provider to be able to recover an account (or at least the content and trust within an account) for someone who's locked out.
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If literally the only thing standing in the way of sunshine and roses in this picture is that the Republicans are in charge, why is it so necessary for the Democrats to put them in charge?

The Democrats could just let the post office be privatised then run their own, on the side, out of to the Democrat HQ. It'd give them an electoral edge delivering pamphlets too.

The reason they can't do this is because the post office, fundamentally and inescapably, doesn't generate enough revenue to justify running it the way they want to. The Democrat voters don't want to bear the cost of the service they want. And the Republicans have noticed this.
Their election cycles happen every 2 years and I think there's no time limit for electoral advertising. So they're always promoting candidates, almost all year round.

To top that off, they have only two parties and party affiliation is almost like supporting a sports club.

A recipe for great objectivity.
Thanks. For some reason, I'm unable to see your email in the profile (guess I need more karma or something), so I sent a LinkedIn request.
HN isn't the workplace.
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But then someone at the bank has to decide between Visa and Mastercard.

And this persons surely thinks "ok, the conditions are roughly the same, what is going to make sure none of my clients even bother to ask why we chose this".

So the bank picks something they know that for sure their clients won't question, and here you are. Even if a newer provider emerged with better conditions, they probably wouldn't pick it because they don't want to deal with the inevitable questions.
Why some people are soiling their underwear to help the earth
You can and should protect GraphQL on the backend. GraphQL will just forward requests to resolvers which actually get the data, these resolvers should see who's logged in and only return data this user has access to. I'd say the security model the AI dungeon GraphQL uses (depending on GraphQL interfaces to protect subfields of objects) is broken. These fields should never be returned to GraphQL by the backend in the first place, if you're not authorized.
It is kind of hilarious that they use antitracking resource as part of their new malware infrastructure.
DHH made a response to this here:
https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e

And hn discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26967835
Only if you have Local Loop Unbundling. For most of the US the completion for the last mine is minuscule or non existent.
LoL: Wild Rift is surprisingly competent, and matches last around 15 minutes, speaking as a (former) dota player who hasn't played the regular LoL.
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You picked the one example of actual German efficiency: Stationary retail. Competition is so hard that prices are Eastern European while incomes are Western European. Those chains are also expanding world-wide. It is one of the few segments where American companies could not succeed in the German market, even though they have tried to (e.g. Walmart).
I think you over-dignify yourself as the "sane" side. You believe you can perceive all the flaws in your opponents reasoning, they're obvious to you - but reject the possibility that they feel exactly the same way about you. The humility you expect from them - you aren't displaying it yourself. The situation has far more symmetry than you assert.

The things you describe as political policies - they aren't. "Universal health care" and "minimize gun deaths" are goals, or value systems. You can make excellent pragmatic arguments for why they make sense (e.g. human capital is valuable), but as primary values they're motivated by emotion. Likewise, your perspective of "someone who doesn't work and doesn't contribute to society doesn't deserve govt handouts" does not "make logical sense" - it simply fits your value system, motivated by a sense of righteousness. You might be able to construct logical arguments for it, but let's not kid ourselves that's why you feel that way.
Arundhati Roy is always a great read. A notorious Hinduphobe and Indophobe wielding a poisonous pen she may be, but the way she has parlayed her Booker prize win into international celebrity is something every wannabe Indian intellectual should learn from.

- Casually accepting racism against India from the Washington Post? Check.

- Expecting first world facilities in a third world country? Check.

- Para after para of beautifully written tragedy porn? Check.

- Deliberately misrepresenting the CAA without mentioning the 1947 Nehru-Gandhi promise to the wretched non-Muslim minorities of Pakistan about their always having a home in India? How dare Hindus and Sikhs whose teenage daughters were forcibly converted to Islam and married off to decrepit old men in Pakistan come seeking asylum to their original homeland. Go back you dirty scum! Don't you see we are more concerned about Rohingya Muslims from Burma? Check.

- Referring to the RSS as a fascist organization while previously having celebrating terrorists as "Gandhians with guns"? Check.

- Barely concealed hatred for the man who united India: Vallabhbhai Patel? Check.

- Referring to the Delhi riots as an anti-Muslim pogrom while her friends in academia and the anti-Modi media prevented a publisher from publishing a book on the riot?[1] Check.

- The Kumbh mela only exists "so that millions of Hindu pilgrims could crowd together in a small town to bathe in the Ganges and spread the virus even-handedly as they returned to their homes across the country."

- Talking about the West Bengal elections without talking about how incredibly violent the naxals, communists and socialists have been in the state for the last 50 years? Check.

- The narrative for West Bengal is already ready. If the BJP wins, it did it over the corpses of thousands. if it loses, it is because West Bengal rejected communal politics.

- Lying about SII and Bharat Biotech vaccines being some of the most expensive in the world purely because the companies are Indian?[2] Check.

- Mentioning the Gujarat riots of 2002 while downplaying the murder of Hindus as well as the original trigger: 59 Hindu pilgrims including 27 women and 10 children locked inside train compartments and burnt alive by a bloodthirsty 2000-strong Muslim mob? Check.

Like I said, Roy is a great read. If you want to create a Modi voter, all you have to do point this person to her writings. And then show them the truth.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/24/bloomsbury-ind...
2. EU prices:

* Oxford University and AstraZeneca: $2.18 (1.78 euro)

* Johnson & Johnson: $10.42 (8.50 euro)

* Sanofi and Glaxo Smith Klein: $9.27 (7.56 euro)

* Pfizer and BioNTech: $14.71 (12 euro)

* CureVac: $12.26 (10 euro)

* Moderna: $22.06 (18 euro)
- high density cities

- rewilding

- fast and expansive rail network

- right to roam

Get these things right and we can lower our environmental footprint whilst maintaining - or even improving - quality of life for the average individual.
They’re not hypothesizing a measurement device recording those times and then rounding. They’re just setting up a “let’s take as a given that this is what really happened in the world” and asking what errors our processes could do if we do a series of imprecise measurements and then compare those measurements.

Side note: my HP 3458A can do a small handful of 8.5 digit DCV measurements per second.
Stardew Valley is also a fantastic experience on mobile. Other than missing co-op, it's exactly the same game as on PC. It's been a great distraction on long plane trips.

Just want to point out although I was once dismissive of mobile gaming, there is a whole mostly-untapped market for genuinely great video games on mobile despite the current market being flooded with low-effort/exploitative options.
here are some articles by some of the contributors:

Fortran Package Manager's First Birthday (2020-12?): https://github.com/everythingfunctional/fortran-forum-fpm-fi...

It was very quickly that many interested in using fpm also expressed some interest in helping with its development. There was one problem. Most people were not familiar with Haskell, making that a significant barrier to their being able to contribute. But everybody had significant experience (or at least interest) in Fortran. It was thus that we decided we would rewrite fpm in Fortran, enabling a larger portion of its intended users to also be contributors. With the initial prototype usable for developing libraries, and many already converting their existing libraries to be fpm compatible, it didn’t seem quite so daunting a task as it otherwise would have.

Resurrecting Fortran (2021-03): https://ondrejcertik.com/blog/2021/03/resurrecting-fortran/

First year of Fortran-Lang (2020-12): https://medium.com/modern-fortran/first-year-of-fortran-lang...
I wish them the best, it needs to happen.
Political debate used to have rules. Take this [0] debate between William F Buckley and Noam Chomsky about the Vietman War, for example. The two clearly detested each other but the debate was mostly civil.

Christopher Hitchens' debate are others worth watching.

Does these even happen any more in MSM?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DvmLMUfGss
"Growing trees out of other trees" - this is just growing branches out of trees, right? Bizarre mischaracterisation if so.
It's quite to me natural to me, and I think Adam Smith is off base here.

If the parents earned that wealth through voluntary exchange, and they didn't do so by exploiting negative externalities, then it's theirs to do with as they wish. If they want to pay 1000 people to fan them, start a charity, or give it all to their kids, that's their prerogative.

It follows from the concept of private property. The parents earned that wealth at one point, in that someone voluntarily gave it to them in exchange for subjective utility of equal or greater value.

What right is it of yours to take it away from them just because you don't approve of the way they're spending it? They can buy 500 Ferraris but can't give it to their kids?

In my view it's plain theft dressed up in layers of abstraction and indirection just to hide that fact. (No, not all taxation is theft, as some level is necessary, but swiping half or all of someone's property is).
I think you're trying to explain what's special about the number -1227133513 or how it comes about / how one could arrive at it. This is something the author understands very well; in fact that's what the whole post is about (well, it's about more advanced matters, using this as a "hook"), and many nice methods to arrive at that number are discussed in the post and comments. (And BTW your computation corresponds to 1227133513 or -1/7, not to -1227133513 or 1/7.) The sentence you quoted is merely asking which of the many discussed methods gcc is actually using, and this cannot be answered by mathematics; it needs to be answered by pointing to the relevant source code.
Heh, Bangalore traffic and Chennai's heat and Delhi's pollution are unbearable.
You could use investment in companies that the CCP has investment in (and generating revenue for them; which also acts as taking revenue/fuel away from competing government types/ecosystems) as a proxy as well.
Energy-saving gas turbines from the 3D printer
> And it's faster if and only if you're repeating division by a single number since you're still doing the equivalent of divide to get the invest

This is done at compile-time by the compiler. We're talking about division by a constant, not by a variable. So it's always faster.
That sucks. Like you said already, especially the communication and handling of the situation. Although it is really hard for email services to keep spam outside and their services healthy (stay off spam/deny lists).

MailChimp has been working for me pretty well in the past. They have transactional emails too, this used to be a separate service called Mandrill:
https://mailchimp.com/features/transactional-email/

Currently I am trying out Sendgrid, which is now owned by Twilio. For the other Twilio services they are always clear in communication with great guides for everything. This seems to be the case for Sendgrid as well (so far):
https://www.twilio.com/sendgrid/email-api
(little plus, they have Azure Functions integrations)
Is it me or is drum and bass entirely missing from that site? Not sure you can have a real history tree of electronic music that misses it out.
As the old Soviet joke goes: "We have freedom of speech in the USSR too. The difference is that in the USA, you can use your freedom of speech more than once."
Why on earth would want to do this for? (They don't want it and most of us aren't interested anyway.)
New algorithm reveals birdsong features that may be key for courtship
>Similarly, 62 percent of adults told us that journalism was “too political”

I don't understand what this even means.

Is it that people think that there is too much reporting on politics?

Does it mean that people think that journalism is too biased towards political ideologies?

Does it mean that people think every story is excessively told through a political lens?

Without knowing what these people mean by that it's a completely useless statistic to use.
Probably not, since it would inevitably be a proxy for some protected classes and would appear as an unfair hiring bias.
Oh I see. I think I misunderstood what the original comment was saying. There shouldn't be a need to sell the building to appraise its value but right, the new owner might have to sell it to be able to pay the tax if they have no other means to pay it.
Surely that depends on a number of things -- the nature of the employer's business, the manner in which the opinion is expressed, etc? I think businesses should generally be free to set their own terms and conditions, provided they are compatible with the nation's labour rights.

Personally, I'd prefer to live in a society where people are encouraged to have frank and respectful exchanges of views, and I'd prefer to work for a business where I'm not afraid to share my views, but equally where political discussion is not a large part of workplace culture.

But that's just my preference _- we're not discussing what should happen, but what rights people have, and no, I don't think you have the right to say whatever you like and keep your job.

That doesn't mean your boss should fire you because he disagrees with something you said, but it does mean it should be possible, provided you are accorded due process.
Consoles are cheaper than mobiles.
"It's where folks who build an overly complicated wall-sized "design" diagram declare that the project is done, even if literally tens of thousands of hours remain to get to lights on."

Well, no sane person would say that. When you have that wall sized UML modeslls, you can maybe call your design phase to be done, but never the project.
And you can argue, that if you done the design right, the rest is just grind till all is implemented. But it is quite hard to get the design right at first try ...
Very impressive work. It's really sad how the lack of open documentation wrt. GPU internals is hindering and impacting this kind of innovative, performance-focused analysis and development. OP had to resort to a crude hack in order to get low-level GPU shader code from the proprietary driver, and then analyze it via a reverse engineered GPU-support stack.
Thanks, that looks interesting!

Although it can be quite hard to get clean IP ranges and keep everything of SPAM/deny lists.
Fair point, founder rewards are pretty common too.

Square Inc creates new shares for Jack Dorsey to sell like every week or so. Continual dilution that the market tolerated. Although fairly unique for the equities space, these are the case studies we are growing up with now.
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Vivaldi mobile browser can force dark mode on websites, it looks similar to what Dark Reader extension does on desktop.
Works well for HN, but breaks some websites and you can only enable it globally.
Just wanted to provide a bit of an international perspective on golf as I think it might be interesting. Golf isn't considered a stereotypical wealthy persona activity everywhere. Many towns and villages in Scotland have a local golf course that's inexpensive to play on with a scruffy clubhouse basically becomes the village pub. There are places which are for the wealthier among us, as you can imagine you can't just show up unannounced to Old Course at St Andrews and pay a few quid for a round.

It's not really my cup of tea, though.
1) There are hundreds of Pyramids in that area. To my understanding no bodies were found in any of them.

2) Gold and copper are the metals available during Khufu's reign. Is it reasonable to you that copper (or even Iron) was used to cut granite?

3) 2.5 Million blocks were used in the construction of the Great Pyramid. Weight of blocks range from 1-10 tons each.

4) The granite for the "King's Chamber" was brought 934km to Giza from Aswan

5) A 20 year construction timeline as claimed would mean a block would have to be cut from the quarry, moved to location, and placed in the correct spot every 4 minutes with construction running 24 hours a day 7 days a week without stopping.

Is it not more reasonable to conclude Khufu simply performed maintenance on the outer casings? A 20 year project with a 200 men crew to polish outer casings seems about right to me.
It seems you are quite the Evangelist.
Bowling, billiards, shuffleboard, darts, disc golf seem suitable off the top of my head. I'm sure there's many more.
No the commenter picked racism as an example, because they think viewpoint diversity is not necessarily good. Big difference to your statement.
Here's the March 26, 2020 report

Okay. And the revised reports?
> Also, any musician that wants to get big should know that the fastest way is to add words/lyrics

Ahem. I think you'll find it's a little bit more complicated than that
From what I remember, in polite circles it was always known that you should never discuss politics and religion with anyone except your immediate family and close friends.
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I hope we get a booming space race. The innovation and excitement in engineering would be a really refreshing lens to view the world from, albeit a distorted lens no doubt.
And a lot of old-school lefties in the UK consider Blair's New Labour to be centre-right, "Red Tories" etc. Blair might have been left-wing but he certainly wasn't a socialist.

The "left" in Britain arguably haven't won an election since 1974.
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Thanks for your comment, i'm working on heterochromatin formation rn as a phd (not claiming full understanding of full epigenetic field ofc, but have some conceptual touch).

>Lysenko claimed to do things well beyond anything current studies of epigenetics would allow

You are right, but this is not true for all of his work; look at his earlier works on seed vernalization by heat treatment - he experimentally did what is mechanisticaly described now [0]. Isn't it funny - instead of tweaking crazy plant genome with complicated patented GM tech with minimal improvement as a result, you can dip your seeds in warm water and change the phenotype competely. Worth revisiting?

Btw, both your and my comments fairly can go to Vavilov too and his less-known sides of research. But for myth sustaining purposes - Lysenko is totally bad, Vavilov is totally good, thus communism (or whatever "bad" label is tranding rn in capitalism criticism) is anti-science.

>they preferred Lamarckism instead of Darwinism for purely ideological reasons

I've tried here to add this scientific debate dimension to this preference, which is omitted. Both theories were in their nappies back then, and one (Lamarckism) was more appealing bcs of its alignment with ideology, right. It does not mean that genetics were evidently true back then and SU denied it for ideology' sake - this is how is read in the OP writing.

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ppl.13163
No, please don't. I hate dark modes and all the energy wasted on making them a feature.

Fix it with some CSS if it really bothers you.
If you're on android I recommend Kiwi, if you're on iOS I recommend android.
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I haven’t used a Flash site for ages but I guess it would not be impossible to run it in a VM somehow.