skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do discuss opposing political views with my boss. It turns out these discussions can be reasonable.

The point you bring up though is a good one, and it's why we need advocacy in the office. Because despite the legal protections against segregation and discrimination, it still exists. And it's next to impossible to do something about it when greater society doesn't believe in it, because no one is racist or sexist to their (usually white male) face.

But that's not political, it's just human decency. Equating it to politics, and even worse letting the mere existence of discussion (which was advocacy ultimately is) become a heated debate is the problem to solve.
I'm not an expert or a chemist, but I have the impression that the leaching of chemicals from plastics should generally be in proportion to how soft and flexible they are. The first thing that comes to mind as full of "squishy" plastics is a typical automobile today, hence the "new car smell". People are also conditioned to think that more soft plastics means higher quality.

But clothes and other things that don't smell and aren't squeezable would seem on the face of it to be unlikely hazards. We've got built in chemoreceptors, so why be paranoid as though we didn't?

Are you aware of or concerned about PVC piping widely used for plumbing? Do you know of any practical plans for eliminating it?
This ignores the monstrous complexity of setting up PHP (and php-fpm) on a host machine. I prefer fully contained targeted binaries these days.
Ah amazing, I see they are protecting my kids by Checks notes keeping the porn revenue for themselves?
Do you think this moderation paradox - of needing curation at scale, but automatic moderation + "user flag" moderation being inadequate - is a universal problem, or do you think it's specific to ad-funded platforms?

I wonder if a patron-driven community that sets its own moderation policy wouldn't have this problem, because when a topic gets too large it will inevitably splinter into smaller communities where the preferred moderation style of each subset can be catered to.
Having worked in both domains on the technical side one thing they share in common is no one really knows what makes something "fun" or makes UI/UX "intuitive". There's no sure-fire formula and the most successful approaches I've seen require extensive experimentation and iteration.

To take that further the most successful teams weren't the "smartest" or the "hardest working" but ones that had the fastest iteration loop. It drives everything else about the process, relentlessly optimize that loop and it was like a superpower that enabled teams to take more chances at whatever difficult thing they were trying to solve.
> utf-8 is dangerously compatible with ASCII

This. My name is Kayodé Lycaon. Note the é... how many places don’t support it? Some people consider names to be sacred and changing the spelling is more than a little offensive. Even UTF-8 can’t represent all characters in use. I believe there are Japanese names that can’t be represented by its character set.

I get it’s technically difficult but so many places treat people who are different as edge cases to be optimized away.
Since the rebate is per manufacturer you are penalizing the first movers. Meaning, Tesla and GM's electric vehicles are $7500 costlier than Ford because they exhausted their rebates early on.

The cap should have been for the entire country so that companies like Ford can't sit back years before rolling out with an EV and gain a second movers advantage now that the tech is mature.
There's a relationship between private security and gangs but they are not remotely the same.

Private security is mostly an extremely boring, mundane job and they are extremely worried about liability, very risk averse.

This is different than private military contractors.
People are suggesting the same thing because it sounds nice to be able to correlate them, but the evidence just does not exist yet. At the moment is seems somewhat likely that they are correlated at all, really.
Wow. Two turtle geometry-related posts on the front-page today. I wonder if Logo is headed for a comeback. (fingers crossed)
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> People are human. But work is work. The canonical point of a workplace is to come together to fulfill the aims of the entrepreneurs.

> The personal aims of the workers are fulfilled best outside of work.

> Just stop to think about it logically for a minute... is the workplace the best place to circulate a petition condemning something that has nothing to do with work?

> The workplace necessarily is going to bring together people that do not agree on personal matters - but who best align on matters relating to... work.

> Color me naive, but shouldn’t what happens in the office be about the office???

> Shouldn’t we be advocating on non office things outside of the office??

entrepreneur? LOL
Electric scooters are $1700 in my country
Yes, but for people
Perhaps if you drink it lightly roasted? I had some made in Batangas and it was dark roasted, and tasted like your typical dark roast of anything else...to me.
Perhaps today you could have machines manage many clerical duties. Essentially like a giant vending machine.
It is but it might finally pop the bubble around "study says X" in the public's mind
I may be generally optimistic because I grew up in a place that regularly (once every few years) was without power for more than a week at a time and it wasn’t that bad as long as you were even barely prepared.

I guess I believe we can patch up what ever does break within weeks or months and our society (the last year highlights) can survive in very extreme conditions. Temporary loss of technological comforts isn’t so big, and I believe, temporary.
Sublime Text can (and is) used by many people who pay nothing for it. And, to be clear, I was talking about apps in general, not just Sublime Text–which is one of the few apps I trust to not fall victim to the issues I described.
The state should not be providing union busting enforcement.
No, this is not more like one of those lawless third world countries. I don't understand how some people have such little life experience to make these sorts of comments.

There aren't exactly many cars to be broken into in lawless third world countries, there aren't many garages with things in them to be broken into along with said things stolen in lawless third world countries, and there aren't many garages with doors to be damaged in lawless third world countries.

Like, come on.
Yeah, it isn't, but that's a bit surprising since in many other places the same specific legal definition explicitly does include political affiliation for obvious reasons e.g. so that the employers couldn't fire someone for being a member of some labor rights or communist party or even a candidate from them.
Yes dark magenta would be as fine as canary yellow was.
Oh, yes, those poor persecuted right-wingers. They only have checks notes the Senate, the Supreme Court, and most of the state legislatures to defend them. Whatever will they do?

>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.

Imagine being this enlightened.

I wasn't making a legal argument, I was unabashedly making a moral one. You're free to start your own tech company where only right-wing speech is allowed. That doesn't change my opinion that the right wing, especially the sort of right-wing culture warrior who doesn't want "politics" at work, is morally and intellectually bankrupt. Your best argument for your beliefs is that it is not literally illegal to hold them. I don't disagree, but I also don't think that's exactly a winning argument.
Observation: bigger and heavier vehicles are safer for their occupants in any impact.

Regulation: cars should be safer

Impact: All vehicles continuously increase in size and weight year on year, decreasing the safety of older vehicles and non-vehicular road users
Yes, I should clarify that the process is to normalize to letter+combining accent and then strip out the accents, e.g., in Java:

Normalizer.normalize(text, Normalizer.Form.NFD).replaceAll("\\p{M}", "");

(I hope I got this right—I adapted it from some code which actually strips out some other bits of text to turn, e.g., F. Janaček into FJanacek.)
Same as most other parts of the web.

20-25 years ago, everyone used tables for layout and random snippets of JS were scattered everywhere. HTML today has a much more expressive vocabulary as well as a whole suite of well-established best practices. Meanwhile, JS has evolved from a bunch of cute onmouseover handlers to an entire ecosystem in its own right.
This isn’t surprising, largely a consequence I think of the ‘Bowling Alone’ phenomenon, such that people don’t do much outside of work anymore which allows the expression or development of political views.

I also think that deep down some tech workers feel guilty about how much they earn (wokeness generally entails self-flagellation), and this manifests as workplace activism.
That's obvious from your arguments. You think that the most important factor in the merits of a belief is whether you believe in it or not.
Unsupervised Speech Recognition
I didn't even remember this, OMG.. VBScript that used to ship with IE and could be used instead of Javascript.

We are so lucky that Bill Gates missed how important internet would turn out to be..
I could imagine Apple eventually complying with an order to allow alternative app stores – and ending up with an app store market share comparable to or perhaps larger than Google's on Android.
That is true, but it's possible to avoid using those. What you can't avoid using the actual OS itself. Try booting into Yosemite sometime and comparing your computer's idle resource usage to the latest Big Sur and you'll see what I mean: try as I might, I cannot get the computer to use less than 5% CPU usage, while this used to be trivial.
It looks like he asked about the domain transfer, and from the transcript Lee didn't say "no", and then later --- it looks like a month later, from the transcripts the other Freenode ops posted --- Lee asked for an employee of Freenode Ltd to be given access to Freenode's DNS and IRCop status.

Here's a log; search for "kevinp":

https://paste.sr.ht/blob/4f5c7a6b3f6adb4697572f8cd77582fa16a...

This is all super weird.
You don't even know what generation I am. I'm younger than you'd guess.

You didn't address any of my arguments, other than to say it's just my perception, which I admit, is a possibility.
Adam Argyle is rad.
For some people, work is life. So it isn't surprising that one spills over the other for them.
Some journals allow you to specify reviewers to exclude. True that there is no guarantee about published work being good, but that is likely more about the fact that it takes time to sort out the truth than about nefarious cabals of bad scientist.

I think the inaccessibility is for different reasons, most of which revolve around the use of jargon.

In my experience, the situation is not so bad. It is obvious who the good scientist are and you can almost always be sure that if they wrote it it's good.
The Panama Papers Double Cross How a spy-for-hire got guarded dirt on the elite
Specifically, because it harms consumers, it harms the industry (or industries in this case), and hurts innovation.
I don't think many people will be driving an EV Ford F-150 cross country.

Minivan...yes. SUV yes. Work truck, not likely.

If people have the occasional need to drive cross country, just rent a gas vehicle till the infrastructure is there. Till then it's just fear mongering causes a slower adoption of EV, which means a slower rollout of a national network.
I love this project but I’m tired of hearing about it until the next story is that I can buy it.
I think we would all like to be able to safely discuss most things anywhere. If you ask the question a certain way, it might not so much about about 'the desire' but the 'right / ability' to do it without getting fired.

Tricky question though.
I think the more interesting part is investment into a bad behavior. And that's what most PoS are trying to solve, ex. with slashing, etc.

With PoW regardless outcome you have to spend money on "work", to buy IRL electricity. And even if you fail with your attack, say 51%-attack, it still costs you some significant amount. With a _naive_ PoS you revert your attack costs on chain, i.e. you can do as many attacks as you want, you can do them even in parallel and it's going to cost you few bucks maybe of computer time.
> often run with slave labor

Can that be an excuse to stop any industry? Might as well stop selling phones, books, shoes, clothes and... really any industry. I'm sure they can all be traced back to "slave labor" somewhere.
Racial differences in homicide rates are poorly explained by economics [1].

[1]: https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2015/11/16/racial-differe...
I call this fractal requirements.

It most commonly afflicts organizations with management that insists upon KISS interactions from their direct reports, but then micromanages the details when the going gets tough (scrutiny from higher layers). Some of the more common phrases you will hear in these interactions is, "I don't understand why this has to be so complex", or "Give me the 50 thousand meter/foot summary". They elevate their mental model of the domain to a level where they cannot resolve the granular details.

Analogous to the lack of optical resolution of any telescopes (including Hubble) we have to see the American flag on the moon [1]. You need a very massive bandwidth (the telescope diameter) to resolve those details, but then you trade off for increased processing time (analogy breaks down here).

Surprised Pikachu when they drill down, and the requirements explode in complexity. With most successful, highly-refined systems, it isn't the primary requirement that should be the focus of planning (Microsoft Word is just a text editor, how hard can it be!?). It is all of the 1% of features 1% of the market/stakeholders want that deliver 80% of the value proposition of the system to them. Stacked together, all those "corner cases" add up the value of the overall system, and add up the complexity. It isn't just a heap of features binned together; the team has to make sense of how it all fits together.

[1] http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/45-our-solar-syste...
Yeah text editing is hard. I've yet to find a Linux console editor that can do word wrapping smoothly yet preserve the normal line endings. Basically what the textbox on every GUI browser does right out of the box. It seems to be a very difficult ask.
My advice is you haven't found meaningful work and you should use the time to find it. A person who seeks idleness is inevitably disappointed. Find meaningful work.
Let's imagine this is true - so what? Would people be unhappy? Would someone die? would people have less issues with their personal lives is sex expression wasn;t at troubles as it is?
They want the simp $ but without being a porn site. So twitch will just evolve into girls-gone-wild light.

This is kinda hilarious though some brand managers must really be squirming when they are tying to sell advert spend for furniture or something on the twitch beach boob cam.
You have not responded to my rebuttal to what you said, you're just bringing up a different argument.
There are often real food shortages because of price ceilings. Actual food shortages can be seen when the shelves are empty and food cannot be bought at any price.
I'll be honest, I wouldn't care. The left as it seems you envision is not a monolith.

But this is a good example! Gun policy (and the constitution itself) are legitimate political discussions that people can have without turning into a "fight." You can even educate or advocate either side in a civil way.

You could even engage in advocacy for gun owners that get murdered by police, like Philando Castile.
The connection to politics in your scenario isn’t clear to me. Are people having charged discussions on Slack about whether men should be allowed to harass women?

I would think the scenario would be an open and shut case of going to associate relations to complain about the harassment. No real political discussion to be had.
...So yes.
> So someone like Henry Ford who helped popularize cars gets no glory, but someone who dedicates their life to running an orphanage for free does?

Yeah that sounds about right to me. Ford got a ton of money, what's he need glory on top of that for?
I miss Christopher Hitchens' way with words. He truly had a talent for expressing himself richly and convincingly. The ultimate irony is he deconverted me from the religion of my childhood posthumously because I saw the news of his death and then googled him. Which lead to a fascinating summer of YouTube videos of debates and conversations.
Use py-autoreload in your uwsgi config.
> it was decided they’re necessary to keep the state from being stuck

It wasn't necessarily decided by elected representatives, most of these protections have be put in place by courts and are based purely on legal precedent rather than legislation.

> It’s legal to sue government agents as private citizens for violation of rights.

It is legal to sue anyone for anything. The standards of proof required to win such a lawsuit make it generally ineffective at rectifing most cases where rights are violated.
I hadn't seen anything saying a year or two, I think I've only seen predictions on the orders of hours to days which would basically make it impossible to detect on anything that could be reasonably close to us since they'd be around for such a short time and only during/after the brightest part of the whole thing.
He's saying that it might not be getting worse due to a cost-cutting strategy, but rather an attempt to optimize the value for the most possible people.
I sleep about 6 hours a day, I work about 9 hours a day, and the rest is for life sustaining activities, housework, personal projects, and leisure.

Work is where I spend most of my time. Being a positive force in the world is important to me, so I only work on important problems, and to defend against falling into a motivated reasoning culture, I only work places where people can freely discuss ethical issues. I don't want to trick myself into thinking I'm connecting the world, but then discover I'm actually building tools that facilitate genocides in Myanmar or ethnic cleansing of the Uighurs or something.

So no, at least for me, attempting to compartmentalize my life like that seems like a really bad life strategy. I just don't want to regret how I spend a major part of my life.
From the employer's perspective, the definition of "extreme political views" would be the labor rights / pro-union parties (wherever there's not a two-party first-past-the-post system like USA, those often are explicit separate parties) and the communist party, but the working class would very much want that employers don't get to make that decision.

The criteria for too extreme should not be specific to employment. If some organization is considered too bad to exist (e.g. the Nazi party in post-WW2 germany), then it should be dismantled as such, but if the country considers a political movement legitimate enough to participate in elections and gain seats in government, then obviously supporting that organization or membership in it shouldn't be an obstacle for employment as well. I have no idea on what the legal status (if any) of KKK is today in USA, but whatever it is, IMHO it should be the same both for politics and employment.
I agree 100% and I wasn't trying to contrast free markets and collective markets. I just dislike the virtue signaling around "job creation". It's not virtuous at all.

We fail to acknowledge that "job creation" benefits the business, because it helps them earn revenue or reduce costs. Ain't nothing noble about hiring someone to do a job. It's a business, not a charity.
Well you can show tits on the beach but not on Twitch/youtube/etc,
Another is the difference in interest in video games. The thinking has been that video games just haven’t been tailored to girls’ interests. Which actually is admitting a gender distinction. Anyway I tried my best to find games my daughters would enjoy, with some success.

But the video game mania of every nephew of mine was on a completely different level. With them it always became an issue for their parents to intervene and moderate.
I still don't understand why you are downvoted.

The fact that it is being used at Shopify and Github doesn't make Ruby Rails Fast. It just means their Business Model fits its usage COGS. Especially true if you are a SaaS with low / no Free Tier or Non-Freemium model.

Now that Shopify are spending hundred millions on cloud it absolutely make sense for them speed up Ruby Rails. I just hope it wont end up being like Twitter.
Citations on this topic haven't been doing well the last couple of decades. See what happened to James Watson
Any collision is going to be totalled..it all crumples
PNPM (https://pnpm.io) is trying to solve that particular problem (i.e. "node_modules taking up too much space").
If you watch the video to the end, you see how it escalates from shoplifting to violence when the thief doesn't get his way - essentially he doesn't know the word "respect" beyond "I demand you respect me", even in the midst of a robbery.

Having seen similar shoplifting incidents around SF, I feel bad for the security guards. They're not allowed to physically stop thieves at larger chains, but they're expected to follow and hinder them. It's a very tough job, ad prone to injury.

It's fascinating to watch the change in behavior when the "security guard" flashes his SF Police badge and says, "Actually, I'm a real cop." Then the thief drops everything, stops mouthing off, and heads for the door..
> naturally caffeinated

Isn't there ways to cross pollinate stuff? I've been out of school for awhile and I never got into biology... but why couldn't we get caffeine in, say, apples? or wheat? caffeinated bagels would rock...
Being "tough on crime" is what got us into this mess in the first place.
I think we're encouraged to reflexively refuse that notion. But if we consider its feasibility, everything kind of makes sense. But that initial reflexive urge to reject the reality you painted is interesting. There is a bit of a chilling effect going on, for sure.
If you add 'self funded' to this hypothetical person, then it would not matter if they play any games. Getting published is really not that hard if your work is good. And if it is good it will get noticed (hopefully during the hypothetical person's lifetime). Conferences have less of these games in my experience and would help.

Also, I know of no researchers personally who are enthralled by the existing system.
Yes. Just like the "COVID-19 lab origin" theory was called a "conspiracy theory" and "debunked" months ago. Only this lie has been going on for much longer.

Recently we've been seeing Asians being subjugated to barbaric hate-crimes, and the perpetrators are almost always African American.

These patterns emerge in virtually every crime statistic, and "socioeconomic status" doesn't explain the discrepancies, unfortunately.
> Some employees can create profit if you could hire more of these employees you jump

And that's my point. Every hire a business makes is to increase revenue or reduce costs. Employment benefits the worker, but it also benefits the business. If a business could get the work of that employee done without hiring that employee, it would happily do so.

If two parties partake in a trade that has mutual benefit, why is either of them "noble"? Why aren't we calling the worker "noble" for providing the business with their skills and time?
Man, pipes and noise can be nice, but people who really like a v8 will also love the lack of a torque curve.