skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People who will call private security in your friend or family don't mind violence that much.

If private security shoots someone having a mental health crisis, they have far fewer legal protections to help them avoid consequences. This is precisely the point I have been making.
The tech solution is amazon go https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=16008589011

You don't get let in without an amazon account. Once in, you take what you want and computers figure out what you bought and charge you.
See: “whales”.
The challenge is defining the line between what’s considered politics and not. For example, would applying gender pronoun titles to internal corporate profile pages be considered politics or not
Depending how big the stick is and how it's implemented, this might push people away from novel exploratory research that has a lower chance of replicating despite best efforts.
I've had several experiences at home over he years where they said "If we come out and find the problem doesn't exist at the demarc, you will be charged X for a service call." Maybe that number was $75. In those cases, I just said yes, because it was worth $75 to me to have them test it. And in both cases they identified external wiring issues and rand replacement at no charge.

The most recent case was at work, with Comcast Business service, and they identified marginal signal power at our modem, and removed an extra splitter that was in the ceiling of another business. Took them around 4 hours to track down and repair.
I remember back in the early 90s wanting to write a custom IDE for LaTeX. Even in those 8-bit L-R text only monospaced font days, text editing was remarkably complex. Complex enough that I gave up before I started as I faced down the complications of being able to move from one line to the next.
This is such horseshit. You people on this website are far more of problem for the world than the crowd of woke 20-somethngs that as a group have very little power or money.
I found Destiny's in-game menus to be horrible. I played for probably a month before realizing there were more options behind right clicks or other invisible UX
That's normal and nothing to worry about.
Interesting, I didn't know that! I wonder whether restricting the expression of only political topics at work infringes on this.
I first got an idea of this "petty crime" epidemic when reading on a car brand forum when doing research about a model. Owners were constantly complaining about their rear quarter windows getting punched out. Over and over again it was west coast, but especially San Fran owners talking about it. It was so common that people were taking the recommendation to put down the rear seats so thieves could see the empty trunk and not punch out your window to check the trunk for stuff to steal. The criminals became experts in technique because even when handed dash cam videos with license plates and faces of perps, there were no investigations, arrests or prosecutions. You could see videos of them pulling in, making a hit and leaving in under a minute.

Living in NYC I've watched our politics slowly follow the same mistakes as SF in terms of non-prosecution and catch&release for "non violent" crimes just as COVID hit.
The confluence of the two has lead to an insane increase in crime in NYC. We have a similar anti-Asian hate crime epidemic, in addition to a 100% increase in shootings & 50% increase in murders 2019->2020.
The trend has continued, we are on track for another 20-50% increase in 2021, and summer, the traditional shooting season has not begun.
The murder rate has backtracked 10 years of progress in 1 year.

Some might say "oh well those are non-violent criminals being release, so its not the same people doing the shooting". Well in video after video of dudes beating the shit out of an Asian guy on subway, the clip starts with the guy jumping a turnstile to enter the station. It turns out some criminals do lots of different crimes! When you decide some crimes don't really need enforcing anymore, the criminal can continue to go do more of the other crimes as well.

I suspect the pendulum is about to swing the other way in NYC given the mayoral candidates. The impression I have is that the mayhem has now spilled over into rich neighborhoods filled with the very vocal liberals who previously supported these policies, and suddenly find themselves of a different mind.
how is this any better than security cameras? It's not like it would even stop them from forcing their way in
Maybe things were neutral for you, but not for others?

Man I wish I could see a face attached to every comment in this thread.
https://www.oginski-law.com/faqs/can-a-judge-take-over-quest...
I fail to see your point, you seem to contradict yourself in an attempt to justify your own bias.

Are you arguing that the solution to the problem you mentioned: "dystopian, totalitarian surveillance infrastructure, environmental devastation, and political corruption" is to avoid radical politics at work??? So, what do you propose? That the board (that is responsible for those horrors) steps in an remove / do away with these "radicals" in a "totalitarian" manner??? That is your solution? It sounds that you are no different from them, just have a different agenda and you are perfectly fine with them and their methods as long as they are aimed at the people you don't like.
Environmental action can be taken relatively quickly when nation-state-level corporate interests aren't funding campaigns to oppose it. The premier example is the banning of CFCs in the 1980s in defense of the ozone layer:

"The discovery of the hole [over Antarctica] was evidence that the magnitude of the problem was far greater than scientists had originally predicted. International alarm at the ozone layer’s thinning led to unprecedented multilateral action to ban the dangerous chemicals that were responsible for its deterioration – chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). By 1987, just two years after the hole was discovered, an international treaty was in place that cut the use of CFCs in half. Three years later in 1990, the Montreal Protocol was strengthened to ban the use of CFCs altogether in industrialised countries by the year 2000 and by the year 2010 in developing countries. Today, the use of CFCs is outlawed by 197 countries around the world and scientists concur that the ozone layer is slowly recovering as a result."

https://www.rapidtransition.org/stories/back-from-the-brink-...
Please note this is not Forbes editorial content, rather content published on their "blogging" platform where almost anyone can publish.
All of the grid tied solar systems are able to conform to the IEEE 1547 standard. Amongst the particulars are a 300 second reconnection time if there's an interrupted grid to protect utility workers. Most (all?) USA utilities mandate this standard.

Some battery systems, like the Tesla Powerwall include a contactor that allow their microgrid battery systems to conform to the standard without a loss of power to the site they power.

https://standards.ieee.org/standard/1547-2018.html
Every so often I like to brew up some cacao instead of coffee; it's like a chocolate tea and feels quite nice
Yeah, good question. My first attempts were with fluids: water and air. Water doesn't work very well because there's a lot of resistance to flow unless the pipes are large in diameter. It's not practical for anything but the simplest of circuits. So I went with air for a long time before I realized it had no chance, either - when it compresses and decompresses, it heats and cools, and that energy is lost to the surroundings. It makes horribly inefficient circuits. It's also hard to seal moving parts without adding an unacceptable amount of friction. And finally, you still can't see air moving through a circuit.

So I stepped back and thought about how to do it mechanically. But the hardest part of a mechanical circuit is the absolute simplest part in electronics: the junction. That is, where electricity flows in one wire and splits along two wires. How do you make chain or a belt split? Not only that, but it has to follow Kirchoff's law: the sum of currents leaving the junction must equal the current entering the junction. I finally realized that's what a differential gear arrangement does, and planetary gears are a sort of differential arrangement that would work perfectly for this. It was very, very hard to make the mechanical junction so that it had low resistance while under load, but I eventually got it. Once I had that, I knew it would all work.
I spent countless hours in French middle school, learning to move the tortue with Logo. We used MO5 in a nanoréseau.

I liked it so much that I took extra course after hours to do more of it.

This was thanks to French state "Plan_informatique_pour_tous"'plan (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_informatique_pour_tous) which put a computer in every middle school of the country.
Correct. As long as you are relatively powerless (think low to mid level IC), silence is tolerated.

Attempt to transition to a strategic or management role and you will discover your past silence must be "clarified".
The trouble is, industrial researchers usually don't publish negative results or failures to reproduce. So it takes a long time to correct the published scientific record even if privately some people know it's wrong.
I don't follow your argument.

Suppose we worked at a sporting goods store and management noticed that employees and customers were regularly getting into arguments about teams, players, game outcomes, etc. So, management says to employees "Employees should not discuss their own personal views on sports. This will help us better serve customers and work together."

Well, once that new policy is in place, it won't exactly be a head scratcher as to how we should view an employee wearing the jersey of his favorite basketball player. Personal opinions on sports are out and wearing a sports jersey is clearing showing, or at clearly will be interpreted as showing, support for that basketball player.
>if roughly half of the country (or your state) vote for one candidate and roughly half for the other, then it should imply that the opinions of both of these camps are roughly equally valid from the perspective of the society.

Or, it implies that roughly half of society is wrong. More than one genocidal dictator was originally elected by popular vote. We do not need to take as a premise that equal support implies equal value.

>those people may be your neighbours and your colleagues and they have the same right to be there as you do

See, this is exactly the problem. Right-wing cultural opinions tend to define certain groups of people as not having the same right to be there. You cannot simultaneously advocate for tolerance and be totally okay as just a minor difference of opinion with the other side saying that some people should be thrown out.
When you say “switched on a lightbulb” is that figurative? Or did bright light somehow make your condition apparent? Sorry if I’m being daft here.
It seems like this is hugely effected by covid ban right now. A large % of countries that are just enter - italy as an example - are counted as Red given the covid ban.
It is probably higher than that given your ORM / ActiveRecord Performance directly impact DB cost. But the point still stands at ~20%.

But again, it only works for specific type of Web Apps. Those that require lots of traffic to generate relatively smaller amount of revenue, running on Freemium model wouldn't work because your cost / user are far higher. And these Web Apps / Site power 90% of the internet.
I think what people are getting at with this (and trying to be cordial about it as best they can) is that the only people that want to have a separate image for every color person on the planet are racists.
Why the Bronte sisters may have died so young (2019)
No reason to do double spend when can do MEV
This sounds inseparable from the replication crisis. The incentives are clearly broken: they are not structured in a manner that achieves the goal of research, which is to expand the scope and quality of human knowledge. To solve the crisis, we must change the incentives.

Does anyone have ideas on how that may be achieved - what a correct incentive structure for research might look like?
> The best analogy I can come up with is a private road connecting half the people in the country

That is pretty inaccurate. It is more like there are three interoperable road networks (apple, Google, other-free) and you are asking one of the roads to make you an additional toll operator.
That seems like a pretty uncharitable interpretation of the comment.

I think what they're saying is that you should view an employment relationship as an exchange, where you get money (which can be used to fulfill your basic needs), and your employer gets your labor for a certain number of hours per week.

As you are voluntarily exchanging your labor for money, it's reasonable that the focus of the workplace should be to advance the goals of your employer and not your personal goals. Of course it's best if these goals align and everyone can achieve their goals simultaneously. But when there's a conflict, the employer's goals should take priority. That's why they're paying you.
Sometimes "Bubba" is in the US Army. And yeah, the US Army is concerned about him.
How does Facebook use speech recognition in its own products?
I’d remove religion. Adults choose their beliefs, both political and spiritual.
It's not about malicious actors. The community is perfectly capable of splitting on its own. See: ETC/ETH.
>think about it logically for a minute... is the workplace the best place to circulate a petition...

We've set commerce at the center of our society and gone so far as to grant corporations "personhood", allowing them to wield enormous political influence. As such, they're able to donate unlimited sums of money under the guise of "free speech". With regard to its effect on the spirit of a functioning democracy, this is illogical to say the least.

To some extent, this outsized influence disenfranchises the citizen voter. So, given this system, it's actually quite logical for workers to express their social/political preferences through the corporations for which they work. It's a means of reclaiming some of their power by influencing an entity that itself has more influence.

If this deference to corporations were not the case, then I might be inclined to agree with you.

>*People are human. But work is work."

At least here in the U.S., our work-life balance is totally out of whack. We're expected to give so much to employers and invest so much of ourselves in the success of the company. We take time away from our families, etc. As such, the lines between our personal and work lives are already quite blurred. So I think this is where it seems strange to some that they are expected to leave select parts of their personal lives at the door.
>hoarding vaccines

If you have any prescription meds, check who it's made by and where it was manufactured.
To me, the value Apple provides is a simple in-app flow to make a purchase. That's worth something. Getting kicked out of an app and having to type credit card info into a browser would suck.

But is it worth a 30% markup on each transaction? Well, disclose the fee to users, give them an alternative (shittier) option to pay, and find out.

I think an actual free market with forced transparency would settle on transaction fees an order of magnitude less (i.e. closer to 2% or 3%), similar to Visa and MasterCard.
Portable versions of development tools
I used to own this book! I think MIT Press produced it. A wonderful read.
Genetics is one thing, but there are also environmental differences we don't even know of. One example is lead banned in 70s for its neurological effects. Water in Scandinavia may contain 0.1% less zinc than in SF and that makes a big difference on some neuron properties that we don't know much about.
you say that everything is political and I do not disagree. But I consider it is a essential professional skill to be able to at least minimise the prevalence and effects of political ideas in the workplace and anywhere where the subject and debate is not appropriate. Too many people are outright declaring they are entirely set against even considering adapting to the needs and requirements of and elementary civil courtesy and manners towards paymasters who already not only provide exceptional levels of pay and additional lifestyle enhancements alongside a job but also nothing less than incomparable freedom of expression in your actual performance of your work which is easily recognised by comparison with your freedom of solutions for the work involved in any other engineering job.

edit what baffles me - translation : disgusts me - is the total lack of consideration given by politically activist employees to their colleagues. It's time for this behaviour and practicing of intolerance to no longer be tolerated.
Part of it is less fear of Twitch themselves but how some of the more toxic people in the audience react. Sadly if a woman does something like simply stand up and walk across the room showing their rear in an utterly ordinary way, some folks will not just say nasty stuff, they'll publish the clip on reddit subs like /r/LiveStreamFail and try to drive up a mob behind it. Then said streamer increasingly has this mob of viewers that's a combination of horney enthusiasm or hate watchers, neither of which they wanted in most cases.

Sweet Anita has had some great discussions on this. She has Tourettes, including ticks that violate the ToS, but has successfully negotiated things with twitch to make that ok. So Twitch isn't straight up incapable of nuance here, they're just being inconsistent and incompetent.
I think it's fair to charge the responsibility of the additive to the material that it's included in. It would not have been included if it didn't serve a purpose of enabling the use of that material.
Nautobot – Fork of NetBox
HR is a reasonably well-paying clerical field amenable to those with non-technical degrees. This and its human-orientation makes it a natural fit for soft-science/sociology majors working outside their field.
Why do people need to publish? The whole point of publishing was content discovery. Now that you can just push it to a preprint or to your blog what’s the point? I’ve written papers that weren’t published but still got cited.
Many of the people on both extremes of “I want only work, never politics, at work; the world was perfect in 1948” and “work is an ideal place to bring my politics into, because others cannot escape hearing me and my crusades” are quite incapable of working around those fuzzy boundaries without issue.
I don’t think everyone interpreted “Simpsons yellow” as race-less. Certainly the show didn’t - On the show, Homer identifies as a white male IIRC, and some characters (like Apu) are not yellow.

You have to pick some skin tone for the default; just floating features would be off putting.

Believing that the pan-white default of “simpsons yellow” is raceless because you feel represented in it excludes that others might not feel represented in it. And it’s a small thing to have fixed that costs you basically nothing.
…for mostly straight white men, making more money than more qualified women while getting away with sexual harassment.

Advocating for equal treatment isn’t proselytization, it’s asking for treatment like an equal human being.
I clicked on directors to discover that I've seen at least one film by almost all the directors in all the tiers (my omissions being Denis Villeneuve, Nicolas Winding Refn, Gaspar Noé, and Tom Six.

Over the course of my life and in my thirties especially, I've watched a lot of movies.
People don't spontaneously decide that conducting murder in a concentration camp is a morally acceptable career path. The Nazis succeeded in the first place because they injected their politics into every aspect of life. Politics-free spaces create additional friction that impedes the rise of radical ideology.
They're also poorly explained by genetics, as evidenced by the blog you cited.
Also peachy and light like coffee grown at higher altitude
I think this is difficult to check convincingly.

References are often ambiguous. A mention like “Although some have argued X[1]” could be skeptical, but not explicit, about Reference #1’s quality. I could mean that there’s convincing data on both sides, or I could mean that Ref #1 is hot garbage (but don’t want a fight).

In some cases, there might be legitimately useful information in a retracted paper. If a paper describe an experiment, but then shows faked results, I’m not sure it’s wrong to cite it if you use a similar setup; that is where the idea came from, after all.

Most critically, there’s an unpredictable and often long lag between reading a paper, citing it one’s own work, and that work being published. I’ve had things sit at a journal for a year before publication, and it never occurred to me to “re-verify” the citations I included; indeed, I’ve never heard of anyone doing that.
Cool! Looks like it's FPGA-based. Here's some of the source for the CPU, I think: https://github.com/MEGA65/mega65-core/tree/master/src/verilo...
Agreed, as long as there isn’t some major issue internally (sexism/racism) that affects your ability to work, or the work itself is an issue (being made to create distasteful content for example) I don’t want to think about politics at all.

I don’t want to have outside matters pushed on me while working regardless of how much I agree with them.

I’ll happily engage in activism outside of work where people aren’t forced to sit around me every day.
Oh and don't forget Citizen. With that combo you'll never want to sleep again!
It wasn’t just the Red Scare. Black people were cancelled by default. Jews were tolerated, at best, and quota’d out of leadership roles. Women were functionally disallowed from being anywhere near whole classes of employment. Gay people were forced to hide and remain closeted to even be allowed in polite company.

Most of what right wingers complain about being “cancelled” for are perpetuating arguments to restore the bad old days where members of all those groups were treated as second or third class citizens. Can you blame them for occasionally being a little overexuberant in telling you to STFU?
The size of the store and the number of employees needed to maintain adequate mantraps would be too many - and you’d basically need to shadow every customer anyway.
Yes, and I think you provided a lot of the answer.

You can spend 5 years customizing off the shelf ERP software to do insane things because John in accounting and Jane in HR won't budge from weird processes they built over the decades... Or you can use that opportunity for business transformation, simplify their processes and their program, save money, reduce errors, improve responsiveness and timeliness, and generally make it a win win win.

Not all complexity can be reduced of course. I can imagine self driving cars, rocket science, etc are all about critical edge cases.

But when it comes to business, and particularly back office processes (where a huge amount of IT goes) , a lot of complexity is unnecessary. Each company each department each person is certain they are special, unique, and their requirements are paramount and unchangeable. But if you move around a bit you'll come to believe otherwise.
Metrics. You can’t manage what you can’t measure!
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The Cybertruck is coming from a leader with a history of hasty, half baked communication. If you think the Cybertruck will be out this year or exactly as pictured and specified... well I think that is extremely unlikely.

A production prototype doesn't even exist yet.
I once wrote an l-system to generate class trees to explore where the next version of Turbo Pascal 5.5 would break. It was inspired by this book.

I wonder how you'd write a deep net with one?
We’re getting PDAs, but we still don’t have direct brain/computer interfaces?

This isn’t the cyberpunk dystopia I signed up for.

PDAs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_defense_agency