skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before the pandemic, I would walk 45 minutes to and from the office each day. It was magnificent time to think. I’d often leave the office thinking about a thorny technical problem, and on the way home, inspiration would strike. That happened so often that I started noticing it was always at the same point on my walk home. I’d see that place up ahead and privately joke to myself, “I’m about to have a great idea!” Then I’d forget about my private joke and go back to thinking and walking. Then I’d have a great idea! Sure enough, it was at that same spot.

The spot wasn’t magic. I’m convinced that it was the amount of time I spent walking. It was enough to start loosening my tight mental grip on the problem and let my mind roam. That relaxed mental processing was immeasurably valuable.

In a few weeks, I’m choosing to go back to office. What I’m looking forward to most is reaching that spot on my walk home.
I don't think the argument is that it's some separate sphere entirely disconnected from normal human interaction. It's like saying "the point of a movie night is to hang out and enjoy a movie together". If me and my friends were halfway through a movie, and I stood up and staged a loud political protest against something one of the characters said, my friends would be pretty rightfully unhappy with me.
Or maybe it's just an endless sea of 35-50 year old white dudes that throw a hissy fit whenever someone else is considered instead of just them.

Here's the point -- you're a fucking dipshit if you think "wokeness" is even in the top 100 problems that this country is facing.
From the site:

> The Third Thumb is a 3D printed thumb extension for your hand, controlled by your feet. The project investigates the relationship between the body and prosthetic technology in new ways.

Looks like you control it with your big toe via a pressure sensor inside a shoe? Sounds cool!
> the advantages VASTLY, and I mean VASTLY have outweighed the short-term drawbacks.

Except you're not even including the value of diversity in your argument.

"Unity" also leads to groupthink and monocultures which are less resistant to new challenges. Unity comes with costs you're ignoring.

Languages aren't just an encoding, but an entire paradigm of thinking. Eradicating linguistic differences eradicates entire perspectives.

Languages aren't just measuring systems. Culture is embedded in them too.
I keep my vehicles a long time. I wouldn’t buy a turbo. When they fail, and they will, it’s super expensive. V8s have been around for a century, and they are very reliable.
Apple also makes a 30% cut of every scam app, so they're not in a hurry to shut them down.
>There is nothing to suggest the man acted improperly at work.

That's where you are wrong. He wrote some things he genuinely believed in, and its reasonable to assume that his actions will follow similar lines.
Would I want a self proclaimed nazi to work with me? Hell no. Would I want a misogynist to work with me? No.
It really depends on the settlement, but yeah they're not exclusively religious fanatics of course.

In any case, the parent comment claimed nobody was fighting over theology, not "mainly".
That's really optimistic. Turns out it doesn't work and usually ends the woman's career at that company -- or maybe she gets some justice and then is destroyed by the folks on the internet who thinks she's just a feminazi b*(&. (I'm showing my age here I guess; I don't know the terminology of kids these days.) Look up Jennifer Blakely, or Kara Woo, or see the 2018 report analyzing 46,210 harassment claims filed with the EEOC or Fair Employment Practices Agencies between 2012 and 2016 that found 65% of women who make complaints lose their jobs soon after. I'm sure someone will helpfully tell me that they probably all sucked at their jobs and so they just complained of sexual harassment before being fired because they're vindictive and/or trying to game the system. It does sort of prove my point but most people who tell me that feel they've discovered something original.

Women just want to go to work and not deal with politics also. That means not being cut out of the stock tips discussed after lunch, not having to deal with egregiously gendered jokes in discussions with the other (all male) managers, not having to do extra office social stuff because "you know women they're good at that", not having their technical work denigrated while supposed soft skills are played up. I can't magically not look female to go to work. So I'm stuck.

Either I put up & shut up or say something, which is then automatically political.
It's worth noting this has been backed up by other research. If resumes are anonymised and hiring is blind, then women and minorities actually get hired far less of the time according to multiple studies. [1] This means they are receiving positive discrimination. It's also not surprising, considering the gender balance of HR departments [2], and women tend to hold gender biased beliefs (female teachers in the UK mark boys worse for identical work, for example [3]).

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tri...

[2] https://www.visier.com/clarity/gender-divide-part-1/

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/education-31751672
And employment discrimination was legal in some states less than a year ago.
rectifying a decade of anti trust activity is hard. these gargantuan app store owners will very certainly continue to do well for a while, even if competition is opened.
I mean, that’s fine I guess? You, as a theoretical person reporting an issue, are not the one who’s got to keep the project going, and it’s not my, the theoretical maintainer’s, job to keep you enthused.
The day you became a clearer thinker
Twitch launches a dedicated ‘hot tubs’ category after advertiser pushback
I would really love a link to that paper. A quick google search didn't turn up what I was looking for.
> One side is advocating to be more aware of systematic racism and the other tried to incite revolt while rejecting the validity of our last election. One is advocating for a large discussion and the other is working against democracy.

On some level, you must be aware that the other side frames these issues differently than you do, but with the same ferver and honesty as you.

I happen to believe you're both spouting a load of ill-founded, partisan-driven, ad hoc beliefs, so I'm yet another point of view.

Oh, and "large discussion"? Most people who share your ideology at Google, Facebook, and the like seem much more interested in imposing their point of view on others than in any "large discussion". To they contrary, if we express disagreement in discussion regarding certain issues, they try (and often succeed) in having people like us fired.
somebody fork firefox already. I sadly had to stop using it, as the amount of open sores it's accumulated recently was too much for me.
People can judge the merit of arguments and form hypotheses about their authors.
"racializing all facets of everyday life, including emojis"

Every representation of humans is racialized, they exist in a social context where race exists.

Pretending that it is not and then complaining when someone says, "hey, we maybe should make it so not everything looks like white folks" is just silly stuff. Emoji diversity is good and 100% harmless!!
I think this comment got attached to the wrong thread.
This is one of the most boldly racist statements I have ever seen on Hacker News.
Yeah I have a U-Haul nearby and can rent a bench seat pickup with an 8 foot bed for <$100 to do what I need to do around town. I have to keep this in mind when looking at trucks and trying to justify the utility aspect. $50K is a lot to pay for convenience and I don’t regularly tow anything…
They are, and the reason for this was given in the GP:

"It's as though there is a bargain"

The board and executives know who weilds the stick. If it's the left that generally wants higher corporate taxes, more regulation, more anti-trust, and they control the media, then they're the ones that you want to appease as a bargain.

Adopting wokeness is significantly cheaper than all the alternatives.

The right mostly wants to leave companies alone (aside from the "censorship" issue in social media), have little representation in mainstream media, and are not on social media as much (due to age), so companies don't see them as a threat and don't need to kowtow to them.
There’s been a noticeable decline in rule of law and quality of life since prop 47 and prop 57 passed. I disagree. Many of these people are prolific criminals but there is no cash bail either so they are arrested, released, and then not put on trial for 6-9 months all the while committing more crimes and for the most part the DAs don’t even bother to prosecute.
Would love to try it. How can I get one?
I haven't seen this yet, but I imagine it would involve running at least "voice2json record-command | voice2json transcribe-wav | jq .text". This will record a single command (until silence), and output the text transcription.
I have taken 4 military deployments since entering the corporate world. The first one caused me to be away for 14 months, the second two I was away for a year, and the last one I was away for 7 months. For all my deployments (5 total) I have been married with children.

In this case the experience is a bit different only in that you separate from your day job AND everything else (wife, kids, pets, house, bills, commute... everything).

Aside from that it’s not as different as you would think and likely (unexpectedly) stressful for similar reasons: boredom, fixations on unimportant things, regrets, and so forth.

The best of those deployments was the one spent traveling around Afghanistan meeting interesting people, seeing the real world, and living life in a sleeping bag in hallways where I could find space. That was the most rewarding thing I have ever done. It was like a real life Life of Walter Mitty.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Walter_Mi...

If are going to take extended time off from work make it count, I mean REALLY count. What rewarding thing do you want to do that you will remember for the rest of your life? What are you willing to risk to improve yourself or somebody else?
This is what was done with codepages before the advent of the internet, basically. The problem that arose was transferring information between systems - even without the internet it was needed at areas that were near borders, etc.
Thanks - added an edit to my comment.
The same poor employee will be sitting there making shit pay, monitoring 30 people simultaneously. Then they will get bored and fall asleep and miss when something really happens.
Indeed, and no one is suggesting that everyone should only be allowed to buy iPhones.
Should I have preceded my comment with "trigger warning: real information ahead"? I mean, it's now considered "flame be" to state your opinion? Not everybody gets their science from CNN, so not everybody is going to have the same opinion as you. People with different opinions are not trying to troll you by stating their opinions.
Let go of last year's loss and gain this year
The ship has sailed on that, given EA and Activision have already pioneered slot machines for kids known as loot boxes.
I'm not taking a side here, but I am impressed with your dedication to this conversation.
I'm imagining right now how this spherical bad white man spends a day harassing everyone with sexism, then at 5 pm grabs an envelope with a fat day pay, turns to the more qualified woman sitting next to him, makes a disgusting self entitled smile, and on his way to the exit gives a high five to his even whiter boss.
Nah. Just an oversight. No excuse though.
The entrepreneur is perfectly willing to use my work to push political changes. I don't see why I shouldn't be able to too.

If you want to get politics away from the office, stop giving the wealthy and corporations political power
Talking about the differential experiences of women vs men in the workplace and pushing for policies or support to improve the situation seem like pretty political activities to me.

Just as an example of how these situations become political also, I was once at a company where an employee raised an issue that was pretty unambiguous and had multiple witnesses. The same employee was then demoted and sidelined until they eventually quit. They were well liked in the company, so a number of people quit along with them in protest. There’s no way for something like that to not be political, in my opinion.

I guess it’s just not always as simple as going to management and hoping for the best.

Edit: also it’s great that we view women’s right to not be harassed in the workplace as a given, but how did it get there? Decades of tireless political activism. Sure, some things people are political about seem less important, and will probably fizzle out, but IMO it’s not worth quashing the potential for real, good change for the sake of not having to deal with the things we think are unimportant.
My argument is that your preferred work policy - "appropriate discussion" is impossible without a lot of implied use of your least favorite policy - being "told what the answer is."

In turn, your second policy - "no political discussion" is practically unworkable. I demonstrate by an example. If you want to make it so your coworker can't wear his swastika, you must allow political discussion:

"This piece of clothing has a certain understood meaning in society, wearing it implies he supports xyz, any claims to the contrary are a fig leaf."

"No, no, I just like the look..."

And we have a political argument on our hands about whether such attire is appropriate.

In short, allowing no political discussion at the workplace is not possible.

As to your own metaphor, it falls flat. Everything is politics. Not everything is sports. It is very possible to go about your day without making any sporting statements, and impossible to not make political statements.
Although you might have a point with regards to vocational training, there is basically no research coming out of places like lambda school and the recurse center (please correct me if I am wrong). Things will change only when researchers can find stable (and reliable) sources of funding outside the traditional sphere of institutions like universities.
Dark magenta would probably have the same problem that floating features have, which is it distracts from the content (and would probably be hard to read compared to actual skin tones).

The situation was, people chose yellow as the default, and that excluded some people. So, if we cared about being polite and fixing it for those people, and if our options were to either change to some hideous magenta that couldn’t be misinterpreted as representing a real skin tone vs just offering more skin tones, I think we made the right choice.
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." - Marilyn Strathern
This one is confusing. Walled Gardens have certain negative traits. At the same time, it’s difficult to say Apple doesn’t have the right to run their ecosystem they way they have currently designed it.
Seeing under-qualified women who were winging it the whole way through their degree get top jobs straight out of uni, then getting rejected from the same firms myself, had me very jaded on this subject. Also missed an internship i really wanted, instead of automating key processes for the company they ended up doing literally nothing the whole time they were there (they barely figured out the basics of Powershell by the end of the internship (the company wanted it done in Powershell)). This led to depression and a year of me not even bothering to seek employment. Sorry if this comment is pointless, just needed to vent.

My personal view is that it's not about being a woman but about being a well socialized 'cultural fit'. Almost all women i meet are well socialized, only a minority of men my age seem to fit into this category though.
More like they’ll close and shoppers will go elsewhere, such as online or out of the city. It’s a loss in revenue for the city either way, and a pretty sad reality.
Yeah. The post makes much more sense to me in terms of arguing that it doesn't go against regulations / rules of their payment processors, etc.

It seems they've had trouble in the past trying to draw lines around sexual activity. It's a safe bet that if hot tub streams got banned, all the involved streamers would still keep toeing the line as far as they can. Drawing a broad line & cordoning it off seems reasonable.

Though I wonder if there remains an incentive for pushing boundaries in 'just chatting'.
YouTube recommendations have been historically way worse with not much push back. Not to mention way more sexually explicit content on YouTube.
Its an ugly word for an ugly thing. I think the person who came up with it knew full well they were creating an ugly word and that was their intention from the beginning. Also, we need a word to describe this thing to effectively communicate what it is without having to be descriptive. We already have highway, freeway, street, and boulevard. Choosing a new word shows that this type of road is different than the others, and for me the term "stroad" sticks in my head because it perfectly describes the horribleness that I have experienced on them that is not present with highway, freeway, or street.
The problem with these kinds of things from this particular gov't is that they are spoken about and press releases are issued.... but they never actually happen.

Electoral reform, indigenous reconciliation (or even just clean water for reserves), CO2 reductions, you name it...

Ok, we did get cannabis legalization.
Only five in New England?
I would argue that this has always been the case, it has never been uncommon to be fired for political activities done outside of work. Perhaps you're only noticing it now that people who think and act like you are experiencing it?
Off topic but why do people still write on medium and share on HN? Its paywalled and most people will not be able to read the post
That could happen with any number of modern car parts. Seatbelt interlock would not materially affect the overall MTBF. I was stranded with a dead fuel pump once.
There's one very important difference, though.
About a third of my waking life is spent contemplating. It has been this way for a couple of years.

Overall it has been productive. I've explored countless ideas, learned about new topics, articulated my views, understood concepts and viewpoints I disagree with, changed my mind on some both ways in the process. It has been a little counterproductive. It is easy to get lost in your own head after a while. Overall I wouldn't recommend spending so much time in deep thought, but spending a decent amount at least for some period in your life will really help you discover who you are, who other people are, and things about the world around you that you wouldn't otherwise.
I upvoted you because I want you to come back and tell us how the lego tasted.
It's impossible to know if it did or didn't help people.
"Excuse me, do you think you're a manager now because of gendered benefits extended to you? Hmm? What's that? I should pack up my stuff?" I think if there was a men's group, to help men get promoted, that people wouldn't shrug and say "Maybe it doesn't help."
I haven’t explored the space, but for at least 7+ years I’ve thought micropayments were going to be the next step. Maybe naively, but I figure it might change incentives around written-content consumption in the same way Spotify and Netflix changed pirating. If it’s easier for me to pay $10/m and not have to worry about paywalls/ads, then I might not feel the need to install adblockers and all sorts of other stuff everywhere.

My next immediate concern, if micropayments platforms blasted off, would be the insane dearth of of walled gardens that might spring up. In relation to streaming services, Deloitte calls frustration around this “subscription fatigue”.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/vb58ex/theres-too-many-damn-...
Surface systems? (tablets, laptops)
In the games I've had it supported in, and I'm running a 3080 and an Ryzen 3700x, it really does a fantastic job. Cyberpunk looks and runs great on ultra raytracing, and Amid Evil looks fantastic with its new DLSS and RTX patch.

There are a lot of games coming out, but I really don't think Flight VR games are it's major selling point right now. Just as Fight Sims haven't been the top sellers for anything expect their own equipment. If you want it added for Microsoft Fight Simulator, check the forums and I'm sure theres post you could boost with your opinion.

But I really never see X-Plane integrating DLSS into their product. They have to focus on realism in all aspects, and are more focused on appeasing the FAA for their flight sim accreditation then benefiting users.

This dislike of X-Plane started after the Spyware incident, even if they have doubled back, I really doubt X-Plane will be advancing anything this generation.

To circle back to your initial statement:
>DLSS is so irritatingly restricted right now

Its just not true.

Its a new technology out for less than a year at this point. It takes more than 2 months to incorporate a completely new graphics stack unless you're already using an engine like Unreal 4. The comment just feels bloated with pretentiousness, and isn't fitting of this forum. I don't use DLSS because I don't really see the benefit without heavy raytracing, and I can't imagine what it for do for me in a game where I am flying 40k feet off the ground.
Political beliefs are a protected class in practically every first world country, including the US. If an employee was a member of a fascist party it'd quite literally be illegal to fire them on that basis.
Perhaps you'd consider making a case for your opinion instead of resorting to attacks on people.
I've thought about it a lot and I don't think it might be achieved.

The trouble is that for the evaluators (all the institutions that can be sources of an incentive structure) it's impossible to distinguish an unpublished 90%-ready Nobel prize from unpublished 90%-ready bullshit. So if you've been working for 4 years on minor, incremental work and published a bunch of papers it's clear that you've done something useful, not extraordinary, but not bad; but if you've been working on a breakthrough and haven't achieved it, then there's simply no data to judge. Are you one step from major success? Or is that one step impossible and will never be achieved? Perhaps all of it is a dead end? Perhaps you're just slacking off on a direction that you know is a dead end, but it's the one thing you can do which brings you some money, so meh? Perhaps you're just crazy and it was definitely a worthless dead end? Perhaps everyone in the field thought that you're just crazy and this direction is worthless but they're actually wrong?

Peter Higgs was a relevant case - IIRC he said in one interview taht for quite some time "they" didn't know what to do with him as he wasn't producing anything much, and the things he had done earlier were either useless or Nobel prize worthy, but it was impossible to tell for many years after the fact. How the heck can an objective incentive structure take that into account? It's a minefield.

IMHO any effective solution has to scale back on accountability and measurability, and to some extent just give some funding to some people/teams with great potential, and see what they do - with the expectation that it's OK if it doesn't turn out, since otherwise they're forced to pick only safe topics that are certain to succeed and also certain to not achieve a breaktrhough. I believe European Research Foundation had a grant policy with similar principles, and I think that DARPA, at least originally, was like that.

But there's a strong entirely opposite pressure from key stakeholders holding the (usually government) purses, their interests are more towards avoiding bad PR for any project with seemingly wasted money, and that results in a push towards these broken incentive structures and mediocrity.
Sounds like hell to me but to each their own.