skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine it depends on how the question is framed.

No one wants to be fired for merely mentioning the top news story of the day in office conversation. And sometimes it's a "racial justice" topic.

On the other hand, I also don't think most people want to be forced to detail their exact racial-justice views in the office or feel pressured to openly support something.
Perhaps the government should have a team of people who randomly try to replicate science papers that are funded by the government.

The government can then reduce funding to institutions that have too high a percentage of research that failed to be replicated.

From that point the situation should resolve itself as institutions wouldn’t want to lose funding - so they’d either have an internal group replicate before publishing or coordinate with other institutions pre-publish.

Anything I’m missing?
Mail delivery trucks. All delivery trucks? Regenerative braking is a beautiful thing.
> Sometimes periodical cicadas emerge “off-schedule” by one or more years. This phenomenon is often referred to by the general term “straggling,” although straggling cicadas can emerge either later or earlier than expected.

https://cicadas.uconn.edu/broods/

https://cicadas.uconn.edu/stragglers/
I don't know if the appropriate standard for technology is that it has to be completely safe for grandpa. In general we don't design society for the lowest-common-denominator.
Amazon already is in the pornographic-streaming market, just at a remove.

Who do you think the biggest customers of AWS's media-streaming IaaS infrastructure offerings are? People who need to move terabytes per second of live video over the Internet, but for some reason cannot make an Enterprise partnership with one of the public-facing media-hosting services (e.g. YouTube, Hulu, etc.) There's really only one industry matching that description.

I'd even bet that those infrastructure services already share a common backbone with Twitch. So this offering already basically exists. It's just white-labelled, rather than Twitch-branded.
Google did this right with developer mode on Chrome OS. Flip a physical interlock and your device becomes simultaneously "yours" and untrusted by Google.

Apple could do the same thing. They won't because the reason for the walled garden is revenue. The user privacy and security gambit conveniently aligns with generating revenue.
That was a huge problem in NYC subways around the 80s and the policing strategies for dealing with it were the origins of CompStat. It’s not a red herring because as soon as you make 1 on 1 mugging impractical the criminals will adapt and start using different strategies.

The value in a publicly funded police force is that they don’t have to worry about the economic viability of their countermeasures.
Can we stop talking about this old fart ! Barry Diller and all of his shit dating apps need to hurry up and fade away !
Not sure if the people below just did not read your entire comment, or if their sarcasm detector is broken.

I like to also point this out whenever someone mentions that only "X" percent of women are <insert male-dominated field here>. 97% of loggers are men, at least they were the last time I looked at that statistic. Grossly unfair to women. We must achieve gender parity in logging. Women have just as much right to be crushed to death by giant multi-ton trees and mutilate their limbs with horrible chainsaw accidents.
Be careful, friend.

There is an entire contingent of food bloggers and cooks who will make it their mission to cancel you on Twitter. Don't believe me? Look what happened Recipeasly[1][2][3]

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2021/03/02/recipeasly-fo...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/mar/01/food-website-t...

[3]: https://twitter.com/search?q=Recipeasly
California has so many great things going for it the locals would rather it not change. So they’ll pretend it’s full. And aggravate people there to leave and convince outsiders it’s not worth going to.

That’s how I interpret the laws. They are dysfunctional for a reason. Because no rational government could run this way.
There are a bunch of good libraries that work offline out there for speech recognition -- CMUSphinx[0] has been around a long time and work seems to have shifted a little bit to Kaldi[1] and Vosk[2] (?). Julius is still going strong as well[3].

CMUSphinx and Julius have been around for ~10+ years at this point.

[EDIT] - there's even a useful Quora post[4]

[0]: https://cmusphinx.github.io/

[1]: https://www.kaldi-asr.org/doc/about.html

[2]: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-server

[3]: https://github.com/julius-speech/julius

[4]: https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-open-source-APIs-for-spe...
Re Facebook, you can say that again. In August 2007 the source code of Facebook's index.php was exposed revealing a long list of global variables and not a single function definition in the whole 439 lines. Facebook engineer Steven Grimm commented 3 years later that similar, if not the same, code was still part of the codebase. So much for enterprise architecture.
When you say, "all opinions are equally valid", what does the word "valid" mean?

It seems to be this word is doing a lot of work and if you explore this your position will quickly collapse.

Opinions are generally about moral issues - what we should do, what goals we should pursue. They are not about positive facts like "how many people live in America".

In the arena of goal-setting there are indeed no objective facts. It is equally valid to want to pursue a global caliphate where all women are slaves to the men who own them and all gay people and apostates are executed, as it is to want to pursue a global social justice utopia (however you could even describe such a thing). There is no objective standard to reject either goal. There are simply preferences.

What's more prefereable? Killing an unborn fetus at 3 months development, or obligating a mother to carry it to term? Why? How can you possibly say that your preference is objectively true? It obviously isn't.

If you think your preferences are objectively more right than others, you need to explain what part of the nature of the universe makes it so. (Incidentally religious people have this explanation - it's because the creator of the universe declared that these are the best preferences.)

If you want more reading, you can look up the difference between positive and normative beliefs.

Your goal here is just to set up a system where the people with power, who happen to agree with your preferences, get permission to punish people who disagree with their preferences. This is 100% a belief conditioned on the fact that you know that people like you have the power. If the people with power disagreed with you you'd be a free speech advocate (as people of your opinion were a few decades ago).

There is in fact no way to objectively set up a policy of "Allow the right opinions, and punish the wrong ones" and it's childish to say you can.
> The entire history of this issue is roughly 100 years old and almost entirely due to imperialism and mismanagement

There were four empires who controlled the region over a period of thousands of years. There is a long long history of ethnic violence in the region, going so far back it’s literally prehistoric.

You’re just cherry picking facts to support one side of the story.
Maybe you feel that way because you've only ever had mobile devices which hamstring any possible developer tools
I don't disagree with your general sentiment, but companies (unreasonably large ones especially) have certainly manipulated the political sphere "outside their walls" in such ways for a long time. See East India Company, Standard Oil, etc. See also the Gilded Age for a time that is very reminiscent of the times we live in today [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age#National_politics
Sounds like an easy way to introduce more corruption into scientific research rather than remove it
Did you buy it used? If so, where?
I don't resent people raising political or social arguments. Actually, I quite enjoy them and actively partake outside of hackernews. What I do resent is being told what the right answers are and forbidden from disagreeing on threat of termination and ostracisation. My own preference order is appropriate discussion of social issues, no discussion, told what the answers are without discussion.

Let me give an example. At my most recent job there is a monthly lunch for women at my level with our VP. Who is also a woman. The explicit topic of this lunch is career advancement for women. I learned about the lunch from my two female coworkers.

In order to get promoted you need to have feedback and buy off from upper management. Same for raises and bonuses. Now, I don't know, but I assume having a monthly meeting to talk about my career advancement with the VP of our group would be a benefit for the pursuit of getting promoted and getting more money.

My perception is that if I said something like "Hey, isn't it a bit unfair we give this perk to women and not men?" Is that I would be quickly shamed. If I stuck to it, I'd expect to get fired. I don't think I could even question the logic of it, and I do have some questions, without being fired.

Ironically, it strikes me as an extremely privileged perspective to have the same political beliefs as the company and also to insist on talking about them at the company. "We just want to say what the owners think and punish people who disagree. Who could object to that?"
There’s a very good reason there is an old tradition against politics and religion at work. You’re there to get stuff done, and topics like that tend to derail things.
It's a ridiculous exageration. The police have not been deployed. The provincial gov't made noises, and the police basically told them to bugger off.
I suspect a bit of causation-correlation mixup whenever this topic comes up. I have the feeling that the reason why they don't need much punitive measures is because they have so many social safety nets that erase the need to commit crimes in the first place or help people get back in to society after committing a crime. If anyone has any data about whether this is indeed the case or not, I'd love to read about it.
I wonder if this has anything to do with Cicada 3301? Their puzzles involve prime numbers quite a bit.
> The Bitcoin network is not this. The Bitcoin network is everyone meeting at a central square, fully able to communicate - all having a full list of all transactions

Not at all, you can start right now trying to sync (from scratch) a new node with the network and regardless of how many malicious/corrupt/etc information you receive from whichever nodes you find (there's no central square) your node will never show you an invalid state, it will at worst be out of date or missing information.

> But they have no messaging problems! Bitcoin is not the same difficulty as Byzantine Generals! The work is meaningless when everyone is always communicating.

Of course there are messaging problems, it's a completely open network full of malicious nodes or nodes going offline or being unavailable. And your node doesn't have to always be communicating, it can go offline for months at a time and then sync back up with no issues.

> If there is ever a merge conflict(a double spend) based on those rules, first transaction wins.

The first for whom? Different nodes might receive transactions in different orders.

> Consensus becomes whichever one has all the transactions.

What if A and B have all the transactions except for 1 double spend, where A picked transaction 1 and B picked transaction 2, because that's what they saw first. Which of them do you follow? You can't just leave it to chance, you have to be very confident that everyone else will pick the option.
One my pet peeves is when the local NPR station will advocate some position or policy based on a recent small study (usually by/at some state school), sometimes they'll couch it saying it's not peer reviewed, it's preliminary, or something, but it's too late, they already planted the seed, had their talking point -all with a study to back up their position and listeners just go along with it.
There are multiple meanings to the word noble, and you have chosen one that makes little sense in the context of the rest of the comment. It is hard to read this as anything other than a bad faith argument.
>light

Looks like it's not light
https://slate.com/business/2021/05/ford-f150-lightning-elect...
Why is Microsoft against this? They don’t really make much that needs repairing. Is Xbox that big of a market for them?
As much as ‘queue’ looks like it would make sense, the word is actually ‘cue’
Eugene Wei x Kevin Kwok: TikTok and the Limits of Social Graphs [video]
The 74% recovery rate was in reference to BC only, not all of Canada - I updated my comment which mistakenly referred to all of CA for that recovery rate.

The reason to focus on BC is because they are the only province to have passed EPR that allowed these facilities to be built. The point is that EPR, taxing plastic packaging, and investing in recycling works, and BC versus the rest of Canada is the prime example of that.

Also, the study from the National Observer cited national data from 2016, which was only two years after BC passed the EPR bill. So it's old data and mostly covered provinces with no EPR policies.

As for BC, yes, beverage containers are the highest rate at 74%. But all rigid plastic still achieved a total recovery rate of over 55% in 2019, and the rates are increasing.

Should it be higher? Absolutely! And it's getting higher. But I'm mystified by so-called environmentalists who look at this success and cognitive-dissonance themselves into emitting more carbon and accelerating climate catastrophe because "plastic is bad", instead of asking how we can push for legislation to replicate BC's success everywhere.
> Boards should have more apprehension about their companies being exploited as political platforms by employees.

The ownership of these companies are the ones pushing these politics. Their employees are just pointing out their hypocrisy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_activism

A quick skim indicates that student activism has been recorded in some places dating to the early 1800s. How far do you think we should roll back civil rights?
It is unconscionable in 2021 that gender stereotypical examples to point out gender stereotypes can still exist. Did you know that just 2.3% of United States preschool and kindergarten teachers are men? Why is nobody talking about this gross inequality? Right from the start, when our little humans are the most vulnerable and influenceable, they are denied gender balanced care, examples and behaviours. How many young boys have been discouraged and had their dreams of helping their communities in this way denied?
> First, you're implying that all opinions are equally valid. That is... I'll be polite and simply call it nonsense.

I agree the idea opinions are all equally valid is nonsense. It's also very likely we disagree in many of our political opinions.

At the end of the day we still share this society. Unless your plan of saying my opinions are "unwelcome" includes forcing me out of this society, how do you expect that to play out?
You don't really see them running away.

The big 4/5 are doubling down in their wokeness and courses that have a very American & democrat slant with absolutely no space for discourse because there's really nothing to gain, risking your job to fight a corporate machine that analyzes woke actions as a sort of compliance of PR to keep appearances.

You either sing the political tune or try to remain neutral. Censorship of a lot of ideas/opinions have become so normal and demanded even (FB, Twitter, Google, etc) that "those that bring themselves" will mostly be those furthering the woke narrative.

It's funny how Israel creates a conundrum because it's the one place were the bipartisan support from the US clashes with the woke view so they're trying to suppress it as fast as possible.
as I am one that doesn't seek to evangelize my political views at work, I would rather go the other direction pay me more if I agree not too bring them up. (and that includes political causes I agree with. I don't like it because it inevitably causes arguments between other coworkers that hold opposing views and i have to put up with both sides.)
Unidentified Flying Object != Alien

Its just an object, that appears to be flying that we have not yet identified.

Nothing even remotely controversial about that.
I think the C roots are also why PHP arrays double as hash maps.
"objects less than 6 feet tall" That is utter nonsense. You're honestly saying you can't see something five feet off the ground in front of an F-150?

"1999 Chevy Silverado for ten years, it could haul just as much stuff as a 2020 F-150 but it also let me see the road" - this is also utter nonsense. A 1999 Silverado 1500 is a 1/4 ton truck with a TC of about 4,000 pounds. A 2020 F-150 is a 1/2 ton truck with a TC of about 7,000 pounds.

So the more apt comparison would be with a Ford Ranger, which obviously sits lower to the ground than an F-150, but having owned both a 2500 Silverado and several F-250, the front visibility isn't much different.
Yes but I’m 6’3” so it’s not particularly difficult for me. And mine is from 2012 & I don’t think it’s quite that high off the ground. I see trucks that are lifted significantly far less often than I see midsize trucks (& obviously full size that are similar to the height of my own)

That being said they are generally unnecessarily large now & at this point midsize trucks are more than capable enough for most people. I think they mainly buy full size trucks for roomier cabs and more luxury features at this point
It seems like it would be relatively cheap to stockpile a few thousand transformers in warehouses just in case.
Politics at work is still politics at work. I'm generalizing a bit here for sake of the point. There is a large amount of people advocating that other people with leanings and opinions should have their services, contracts, and professional relationships cancelled. Based on their personal politics. This cuts both ways. If companies can rightfully do that to customers, then it is also legit for them to do it to employees.

The relationship is the same by type, the content of the topics is of the same type.
dang it! I even had cue first!
No, that was the internet failing to convey my sarcasm. Twitch just said, “hey folks, hot tub streams aren’t sidestepping the rules, so here’s a special category to make it easier for you to not sidestep the rules, wink wink.”

They ought to just enable explicit content and put in decent parental controls rather than this B.S. Advertisers might actually prefer having a clearly defined explicit content tag, rather than risking their ads running next to soft-explicit streams.
You do realize most of these things have very little impact on cost and are barely understandable for random normies. Tor? DNS? Like they're gonna put that in their marketing campaign?
Deep-learning side-channel attacks: the theory
And so that's the vehicle's responsibility? Like, you're complaining that a truck/suv has a 9-foot blind spot.

What's an acceptable blind spot - where if someone hits a laying down/sitting kid in front of their car, it's the driver's fault and not the vehicle's?
> Color me naive, but shouldn’t what happens in the office be about the office???

Yes I don't understand any of this either.

Maybe I'm just an old dog who's been in software engineering for 20+ years, but when I get hired by a company they exchange one thing (money) for what I can offer (programming).

If I am uncomfortable with what they are asking me to do regarding my skill of programming, I can quit at any time and go somewhere else.

I can't for the life of me understand how employees are debating things like the Israeli/Palestinian conflict during their time at work, on public channels.

There is plenty of time outside of work to do whatever you want.
Because 'Murica.
Choice isn't the basis of most moral contracts if you really sit and think about it.

People don't choose to be born citizens of any country and yet they are still bound to be dutiful to that country, to not commit treason or undermine the country, etc.

They may renounce their citizenship sure, but children can also renounce their lives (a bit more gruesome, still)
General Periodical Cicada Information
Downvoted for giving good advice: truly, this place is more indistinguishable from Reddit than any of us care to admit.
If your claim is that gender differentiated behaviour in children is spontaneously observed due only to nature, why do you need to invent an example? You've never seen a girl play with a stick like it's a baby, because that's not a thing that girls typically do (I doubt you can find a single example of this).

Girls treat the outdoors generally the same as boys do, and iirc are recorded climbing trees in the same numbers.
They are not the same. We engaging here in this discussion are genuinely trying to influence a situation over which we have some modest influence (all the while refining our ideas and maybe even learning something).

These activists primary motivation is to achieve the high the comes from exerting power over other people.
I am not sure I understand why people are downvoting / disagreeing with this. The pevasiveness and permanence of racism- indeed, the use of the term "whiteness" as a proxy for all social ills- is basically the core tenant of CRT.
Amazon lockers?
The problem here is that the office is deeply interwoven with the political. Part of this is that, as they say, "the personal is political". But let's set that aside for a moment, because we could make the case that in-office personal matters (e.g discrimination) is legally covered. (I'd debate that, but that's more political than HN likes to get, so... setting aside)

Even then, companies have political impact. When the CEO of Citizen decides hate mobs are a good idea, and he sponsors homeless hunting for sport with a $30k bounty, that's political.

If your company decides to sell surveillance software, that's political. More so if they pick specifically whom they sell it to or not. If your company decides to oppose or not oppose attempts to get at user data, that too is political - either way.

And worse, if your company decides that since they have money, they should get a voice in the political process, that too is political.
so close... you need to put your car in jabberish (jedi jibberish) command console which will then correctly understand "cool jodi" as "Cool Jedi" and enter mind control mode after which you'll only have to think of calling Jodie and the other phone will be ringing on speaker...
I love how you don't think that many of us have worked both freelance and "employed" jobs.

I have value and most people here probably do as well. How do I know that? Because I can make others earn money by solving their problems through different means (usually technological in nature).
Paradoxically, PHP's stateless architecture is also what makes it dog-slow with large frameworks such as Laravel. Now you have to load the whole framework with every request.
I suppose it depends on how you define nice? If you cheat at some point people will catch on, even if you don't face any real consequences. So if you want prestige within your community then cheating isn't the way to go.

If you want to look impressive to non-experts and get lots of grant money/opportunities, I'd go for lots of straightforward publications in top-tier venues. Star findings will come under greater scrutiny.
We live in the age of the lie. It's impossible to take anything at face value, because it seems like every organization we interact with is just lying to us all at every opportunity.
Meh. I'd argue more people need to tow their boat than haul lumber, but I live in Florida where that's visually true.
Oh, how did Reddit do that? Or are you all just full of shit? Do you think there are people who don't use both sites?