skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read his comments closely, he was specifically talking about investment bankers. He talked about how it was hard to train junior bankers on deal making if not face-to-face. I think he used the term "apprenticeship". Even in the era of unlimited voice calls, emails, and video calls, as I understand, most M&A and IPO deals are still done face-to-face.

For the investment bank, many of the employees work in New York City and use a train (or bus) to commute. That is pretty low carbon intensity.
> I think NFTs are great because they move money from the hands of the stupid&rich to the hands of artists.

There are 15 million items offered for sale on OpenSea, for example, and each one of those will have cost the artist $50-100 in fees to list. Almost all of those will either fail to sell, or will sell at a loss to the artist. So, although the crypto-rich want you to believe you're democratising finance or sticking up for the little people against "the elite" or however they phrase it, the reality is the exact opposite of what you describe, i.e. NFTs are moving money from the hands of the artists to the crypto-rich.
yeah, but the 2025 one is the moon base.

i think the main reason russia wants to build the space station is for arctic surveillance. when global warming opens up arctic trade routes and resources (oil), there's going to be a lot of geopolitical shenanigans. idk if you remember when trump wanted to buy greenland and everyone laughed at him, it was related to this.
Java would run everywhere.
> I think in some European countries this is even part of labor law (so a company can't e.g. fire a worker for hearing he went out drinking heavily on the weekend).

That would depend. The industry I work in (infrastructure management) is very H&S focused, so if you weren't completely sober and able to work safely on Monday morning you would be at best sent home, and at worst fired.
> Meaning that, Yes, you do have the right of free speach, but No, you should not be saying the wrong things.

Yes. Exactly.

What's the problem with that?

Yes, you have the right to do what you want, but No, you should not do the wrong things.

Have you the right to drive?

Yes.

Have you the right to run over pedestrians?

No.

It's simply how societies work.

freedom starts where ignorance ends

the freedom of one ends where the right of another begins.

and hundreds other similar quotes...
If that’s true then they can review public data or use private data only with explicit consent. Suddenly deciding to read people’s private sexual fantasies just to “improve our algorithm” seems quite over the line.

Adding to that, the system supported multiuser role playing which many people used during the COVID year for intimacy with their significant others. Latitude is essentially deciding to peruse sexts for fun.
> It looks like people are discoursing, but they are really just signalling.

I was looking to put words on my feeling about this, and you did it perfectly.

I was wondering why suddenly so many people voiced the same engaged opinion, while I know for having discussed with them in private settings that they don't think deeply about society.

Now I realize that's because they want to look like they belong to a certain kind of people. It's not about ideas. It's about tribes.
No, I also thought about it and found it obvious that he won.
> you don't have a right to a job.

In non-America places (or in the few remaining unionised workplaces in America) you typically have some right to due process, and you can't just be terminated on a whim because you said something the boss didn't like.
Really that’s interesting,
just curious fortran over other languages
The overton window has shifted to the left on many issues. E.g. trans rights

In my own workplace the overton window shifted notably left in gender issues in the last decade.

You make a good point about hn people not being representative though.
> You disproved my point with occasional articles showing CNN trashing Fox News (and vice versa; one still doesn't appear to link to the other, which is what I actually said): is that an example of them fact-checking each other, or is it high school-level drama?

No, it's examples disproving your claim that they wouldn't want to drive traffic to their competitors by discussing them.

Sidenote: I wouldn't call 150k hits on each website "occasional".

Sidenote 2: Why is linking a relevant factor? They're discussing their competitor. Fact-checking can be done in the same way without direct linking. If linking is relevant, then your qualifier fails regardless.

Since by above proof sites have no problem doing that under "trashing" conditions, there should be tons of fact-checking of fact-checkers, if they failed at their jobs, which was my original question. Why are there not mountains of these examples?

Or just disprove someone else's fact check without mentioning them, or contextualize it if it's unfair, etc.

I haven't even seen conflicting fact checks, is my point. This is approaching impossibility if fact-checkers are lying/biased.

My conclusion as a frequent (critical) reader of them is of course that it's very rare they get it wrong.

> Neither of us are making any money; and, by now, nobody else is reading it.

I'm not doing this for external readers. Like I said, I'd love to be proven wrong, that's how one learns. I'll argue something logically until someone disproves it, shows a faulty assumption, etc - or my thesis still stands. The only way to strengthen your argument is to try to break it, which is what I'm doing. I assume anyone else especially on this site is doing the same thing until indicated otherwise.
I find the trinity of Matlab, Fortran and Julia quite interesting. They all have a similar syntax and I guess Julia can grab quite some people from the other two ecosystems. Clasically, scientists used Matlab for prototyping and Fortran for high performance implementations. With Julia, things might change. However, in science, changes happen slowly and there are still tons of codes (and also new codes) written in Fortran.

If given a modern tooling, Fortran is not too bad, thought. It is in some respect a "no bullshit" language which doesn't allow you to spend your time on infrastructure, architecture or meta programming, because it is virtually impossible to do these things within Fortran ;-)
Just curious why? What else is missing?
+1 for Missive. We've recently started using it at my work and it's been great.
I upvoted you because I don't think you should be downvoted for expressing your opinion.

But I also think we should wonder: how many white armed men were killed?
Good question. I have it only because I don't want the light mode, nor the gray alternative.
A mode with like beige or eggshell would be ideal until we get e-ink displays as standard.
Is cold war really a 20th century invention? Posturing and proxy wars were going on forever between the then-superpowers, they just didn't have nuclear ICBMs.

Unless somehow weapons get less effective with time, or we reenter a unipolar world, I should imagine cold war of varying intensity is the Nash equilibrium for all time to come. Better get used to it.
In six days. He rested on the seventh day.
I think that's an unfair characterisation. I read it as the commenter using racism purely as an example where reduced diversity of opinion towards no racism is a good thing, not saying that all opponents of diversity are racist.
Yeah, during high school and uni years, whenever I helped someone with C/C++ assignments or projects, the very first thing I taught them was:

1) How to add `-ansi -pedantic -Wall` to their compilation flags.

2) That they absolutely have to do it whenever they're coding C/C++.

3) That they need to read and then clear out all the warnings before continuing to code.

Suddenly, their programs started to work most of the time, instead of crashing or hanging.

I still give this advice whenever I teach people, but with modernized set of flags. That'll be `-Wall -Wextra` and `-std=c++17`, or whichever standard is most current for their situation. Recently I've been teaching people who use MSVC community edition, so I tell them where to bump the warning level in setting - and the IDE is good at catching and annotating typical mistakes too.

Myself, I do all that + run clang-tidy for good measure.

(Another C/C++ thing that beginners need to be told is that, for any given translation unit with compile errors in it, they should always focus on the first couple errors, particularly on the very first one. A compilation error usually confuses the compiler, so anything past the first one or two is usually garbage, and disappears if you fix the real ones.)
> Yes it does, because in almost every case it sucks :)

I mean I get it but fundamentally it's not true. Might seem like a nitpick but it's not. If slack search sucks, that's an absolute statement. It is what it is and there's nothing you can do about other than beg a product manager at slack to make it better but they'll likely ignore you.

With email, an open standard, you can just switch clients. Or bypass clients entirely and handle search separately. There are no limits to what you can do.
Which hilariously is leading to the pushback.

People were willing to live and let live when the psychos were confined to gender theory classes and unsuccessful bookshops but now that they are so prevalent and demanding that people indulge their delusions every waking second it seems people are starting to get sick of it.
As long as the rider and their bike is much wider than the misalignment, the only effect is to shift which point in the picture corresponds to the moment they pass the finishing line.

As the OP demonstrates Wout was ahead even at landmarks over 20 cm from the front of the wheel the only way Tom could win was if his front wheel physically elongated over 20 cm in those last milliseconds.
Costs aside, lets not pretend the viaduct was removed just to improve property values. The thing was a ticking time bomb that would have killed dozens or hundreds of people the next time a moderately sized earthquake hit, to say nothing of the cost of cleaning up the damage and replacing it.

Speaking a somebody who lived in the area both before and after the demolition (not a property owner), the whole place is just so much more beautiful. Some commuters may have lost a view, but what they lost pedestrians all over the area gained. Even outside of the waterfront itself, the view from the street level in the adjoining neighborhoods is gorgeous now.
Phew. Those are the sort of release notes one might expect after 6 years.
There is investment of capital with positive value, like in startups.

There is investment with (mostly( neutral value like gold

There is investment with negative value where you buy a resource that everyone needs (like land) and then you hog it and prevent others from using it. For economy to work properly, the latter must be discouraged.
Same can be said about English with regards to programming. Most people don't have English as a native language.
This article provides excellent insight into contemporary recruiting techniques.

Contracting agencies are inherently predatory.

'Working hard' to get 'hired on full-time' has and always will be a myth. The 'corporate finance' line makes no sense. If the company didn't have the budget to bring you on full-time then they wouldn't have had the budget to bring you on as a contractor.

My entire employment history consists of contract gigs like this and they all play out the same way.

1) Promise of a full-time position

2) Excuses like 'It's not in this year's budget, but we're in the process of renegotiating the budget so we can have some of you contractors brought on full-time'

3) Contract's extended indefinitely/you're let go only to be offered another contract position with the same organization several months later

Regulations to stop this may be necessary.

Hell, one of my previous co-workers has a PhD in mathematics from an Ivy League university and was being paid $15/hr by a contracting agency to work as a programmer while some of our teammates had no IT experience and struggled to figure out how to use their computers.

Right now I'm working for a contracting company at a massive healthcare organization (16,000+ employees) as 1 of 9 people on our IAM team where I'm tasked with automating all the things and I'm only making $24/hr while the full-time employees that do less work are being paid double, some even triple what I earn.
Or that he/she is responding to the "move out of the country as it slowly descends into the medieval hell it wants to be" part which fits well into the category of what they call "toxic shocking propaganda". It's easy to make sense of their comment, you just have to try.
Newer manhole cover have a hinge that will prevent you from taking the lid off.
Another point I think is relevant is that I feel many solutions that you've described are easy to understand, quick fixes. In a world that is growing more and more complicated I think people are more prone to gravitate towards the simple.

Another reason, in my opinion for the leftist narrative being so captivating at the moment is that people are delaying adulthood, kids, family more and more. When you are young, or have little, true life experience you don't see why the simple solutions to help all these people wouldn't work. You haven't been in the trenches of life to realise that compromise is needed and that we don't always understand the 2nd or 3rd order effects that our actions will have.

Again all this is my own personal experience but I think it has some bearing on todays political minefield.
Yep. Not an original video at all. It's still great.

These days sometimes the artist makes a video for an old song. For instance, Earlene Bentley made a video for "Caught In The Act" 23 years after she released it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55KOBCgv7f4

It's not exactly common, but it's interesting to see it what it happens. (her "big" hit btw, in the early 80s, in specifically gay clubs was "The Boys Come To Town" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl0fBil_4dU) ... it has that 80s hard driving orchestration ... pretty nice. The instrumentals are occasionally sampled on this one, about as much as Two Tons o' Fun are. It's always nice to overhear the latest pop song and be like "oh look, there's Barbara Roy's instrumentals from If you want me still living on". (https://youtu.be/lOCMRk8Nex4?t=272 for the uninitiated)
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> You don't have to do business on the App store. You don't have to launch a startup on the App store.

You don't have to drive on the highway either, so I assume you're fine with having that freedom removed too.
I should say that it might not make a difference, but mainly to point out that one needs to be careful as to what exactly we use as our datum.
We both win with WFH.

I have a co-worker (generally a lovely person) who is about ready to explode when she hears someone crunching on an apple.

WFH, I can now eat an apple without self-consciously slow-crunching.
The biggest issue with Usenet was spam. NNTP is an open protocol. It is supported in quite a few email clients. Have you tried Pan?
> Liberty does not mean freedom.

Actually that's literally exactly what it means.
Well, as soon as a company’s profit is not aligned with the customers’ goals, it would happen. The question is always which road is more profitable.
And of course a 'correct' opinion today might be 'incorrect' tomorrow and since you've previously expressed the 'now incorrect' opinion you can be in trouble.

Just delete your Twitter account and say nothing to anyone about anything, especially in the workplace.
Yeah that's probably it. The KDE developers are unlikely to be keeping up with the latest Apple devices.
I hate to be cliche, but social encounters and the mythical "hallway conversations" are what stop work from being groundhog day for me. Very little productivity happens on the computer, that's just the time to write up whatever solution I've spent my day working on away from said desk.
Usenet is more similar to a group mailing list, so hopefully they aren't talking about "refreshing" it to be like Slack.
Not true whatsoever. Everybody in Germany (well I reckon more than 90% of people) use cash / debit cards ("EC-Karte") to pay at shops and for tickets / parking meters.
Just because Germans don't always use credit cards for small payments, it doesn't mean they are paying cash that they get out of an ATM beforehand.
And the millennial generation and younger use Apple Pay and similar systems on the same level as other countries.
The "Germans refuse to pay with anything other than cash" myth / meme isn't true anymore since about the early 1990s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx9GH6L7VwI

This one has connected with me recently on that more tribal level!
The ISS has run many hundreds[1] of experiments, and more are sent up with every launch. It's an invaluable resource, because it's the only (relatively) cheap resource we have for running microgravity experiments which require human input.

They're not the sort of headline-grabbing experiments that most people seem to associate with space (I don't know why they do, most science isn't very exciting), but it's facilitating a lot of science which couldn't reasonably be done without it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_research_on_the_Int...
You made it sound good except for the cloud bits. If you toss those out, it sounds like IRC, which I agree is great. However, the local logs I can dig through with `grep` and `less` very quickly are a huge part of what make IRC great for me, and why I've never felt quite as comfortable in newer stuff like XMPP and Matrix (although I do use all three regularly still).

If I have to search from within the program, I find that it's basically never as fast and as powerful as what I want. If the local logs use some sort of database instead of a plain text file, I feel my hands are tied behind my back.

This is more of a client problem than protocol problem, I think, but IRC just still has the best clients by far. I really hope some other things can come closer to matching irssi one of these days. Logging, keyboard shortcuts, scriptability and configuration, not automatically re-ordering my precious channels. So many things are worse than irssi.

Also, before someone says it, I know irssi has XMPP support, but lack of OMEMO made me not bother. Similarly, weechat has a Matrix plugin or two, which was the best Matrix experience I've had in a lot of ways, but it was super buggy and would break or constantly log me out, so I couldn't seem to stick with it.
* You walk in "nature", which almost everyone likes

* You can talk with your rich buddies while doing it

* You don't get sweaty or tired from doing it

* However you can still claim that you exercised

* You don't meet filthy poor people

* At the end you can replenish the 250 kilocalories you burned playing 9 holes by eating a big 400 kcal tenderloin steak and washing it away with 5 glasses of wine (also 400 kcal)
> WTF is "fheyly"?

It's the secret love child of "fully" and "covfefe".
On the other hand, there's nothing forcing you to live in intra-muros Paris.

I live in Nanterre, 5min away from the RER station, and my rent is 1200€/month for a 2-bedrooms apartment (50 m²). I have a <1h commute for about anywhere in Paris, and <20min for La Défense.

Point is, you can have affordable-ish rents in a business center without building humongous high-rises everywhere, as long as your public transport network can support it.
I'm not from the US either, however I wanted to frame the argument in a way that would be understandable to the majority on this site.

> "But this post is about people self-censoring their opinions, particularly in the workplace, for fear of repercussions, and that is something that absolutely is getting worse. Like many others I steer clear of all of these topics myself, as even though I hold "approved" opinions on them."

In a way, this gives you just a little perspective on how homosexual people have felt for millennia, in fact how anyone with a sexuality, religion, political view or any other aspect that was sufficiently divergent from the status quo have been treated for millennia. In many parts of the world, some of those things still carry death sentences, and it's not very long ago that this was also the case in our western countries.

Being told that ones views are "not cool, dude" is extremely mild, and the threat of doxxing is wildly overblown, unless you are an actual political activist. And in that case, it still a lot more dangerous being an ultra-woke leftie than a white supremacist, considering the cases we've seen of violent attacks, car rammings at protests and so on.

> "I fear that someone may wilfully misinterpret something I say and cause me irreparable harm by going on some weird crusade to have me fired and my life ruined, as that seems to be what normally happens these days."

I'm sorry, but that is just horse manure. You hear of a small handful of cases, which are given completely overblown coverage in the media, because outrage sells. That is not an accurate representation of the world, it is a twisted media picture. It is especially bad in the UK, where the big media is overwhelmingly conservative.

As someone who probably agrees with you on a number of things, being of an old-school leftist persuasion (trade unions, progressive taxation, wealth taxes, completely legalize weed, trust that people have good intentions at heart, judge people by their actions, not by where they happened to be born), and someone who interacts with a lot of different companies from all over the spectrum, I simply cannot recognize your argument that people who don't hold "woke leftist" views are discriminated against.

On the contrary, there is still a undercurrent of conservative and somewhat xenophobic attitude at a lot of manual labor and otherwise "blue collar" workplaces. It has gotten a lot better, but it is still present.
> Her limited-edition book Private Views: A High-rise Panorama of Manhattan

I find it deliciously ironic that she would restrict access to her work like this - though perhaps there are other avenues not mentioned.
One thing I learned after 10 years of being vegetarian: antagonism is a a loosing strategy.

Shaming and tribalism doesn't help anybody, and is an arrogant view of the world.

You are probably some *ist right now, compared to a future world view.

Just because people have an opinion you know is unwise doesn't make them a bad person. They are like you. You are more like them than you think, but like them you have blind spots that prevent you from seeing it. Tolerance goes both way.

We all create suffering, at different scales and in different manners.

The idea is not to cater to racists, but just to make sure their believes does not translate to hurtful actions in the work place. If it doesn't, then it's ok, they probably tolerate stupid things on your part too.

If it does, then first, try to engage with them to make it stop.

Only if it doesn't work, should you reject them.
I always thought about this, but not about Coca-Cola, since people actually need to want to buy it to acquire it, but Visa and Mastercard have huge advertising budgets, notably for events like the World Cup and the Olympics, and I never met someone who actively pursued a specific card flag when getting a new card and instead just get whichever their bank has to offer.
Thanks, I was thinking about doing the same plot as you. Watching the race, I believe Wout even appeared to be faster after the finish line, if I recall correctly.
Couldn't the same thing be achieved with more approximate FIA?