skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, you have people like Dave Grossman (of the "Killology Research Group") telling cops at police seminars that one of the "perks" of the job is that, after killing another human being, they'll have the "best sex [they've] had in months". https://twitter.com/RzstProgramming/status/13852746532292853...
Your backyard or 100 acre plot, doesn't change a thing, isn't restricted airspace. A plane can fly over it, and the one in a million chance that you're flying your drone high enough to impact a plane or helicopter exists.

Say people just start launching rockets and drones literally anywhere, at any time... How are flight paths supposed to be know ahead of time to avoid collisions? With 45,000ish DAILY commercial flights handled by the FAA, almost 20,000 airports in the US, how exactly do you think you can safely co-exist without catastrophes if people can just start putting stuff up there?

My reaction to this whole "unconstitutional" rebuttal to everything in the US is literally jaw dropping, confused, and wtf... If you're smart enough to not do something stupid, or not put yourself in a position to make mistakes that affect others, thats great. Good for you. There's 350 million other peeps just in your neck of the woods and I can guarantee you that same innate sense of logic and common sense doesn't apply to everyone else. When a stupid move can put the lives of 100s of others at risk, or cost a ton of money every time they need to intervene, I'm not sure you get to just throw around "me myself and I and my constitution" and actually come out not sounding like a 1 year old throwing a tantrum because he's told to not wipe poop on everything and everyone.

How many hundreds of millions or billions would have to be wasted in downtime, planes crashes, car crashes, lives lost, random injuries, before we ask people to do the equivalent of reading the dumb ass common sense instructions that came with the toy that is way more than a toy?
The thing that has most shocked me throughout the years is how lockstep the media is on foreign policy, no matter what 'side' they are ostensibly on. Theres no war the media doesn't like! Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, etc.

One particularly shameful episode I remember was Trump being described as finally 'presidential' when he fired missiles at Syria. I genuinely think if he had started some disastrous war it would have rehabilitated him with the MSM.
Unfortunately leaving it individually doesn’t help much: the societal damage is huge.
>We don’t get mad at Sony that PlayStation games don’t run on Windows…

Actually there was much rejoicing when the Playstation moved to x86_64.
This is pretty good guidance on crafting a solid resume for a product manager: https://www.productlessons.xyz/article/product-manager-resum...
If I've learned anything from Survivorman it's that you figure out how to get clean water first and the rest is a nice-to-have.
"WWII codebreaker Alan Turing becomes first man known to be gay on a British bank note"

Fixed it.
You are correct, however it does frame the issue differently, i.e. we need to find out how to not shoot people vs all cops are racist.
The canonical website [0] has this paragraph:

> The support offering will include Blender LTS releases
> across Linux distributions, Microsoft Windows, and macOS.
> Canonical’s engineers will engage directly with customers
> to provide comprehensive technical support to users by
> understanding, diagnosing and resolving issues as swiftly
> as possible. Canonical will manage the entire support
> process including integration with Blender’s support
> infrastructure.

It reads to me mostly like customer support, but if their contract specifically says they'll provide "long term security maintenance" as stated in the article, then I guess they'll have to engage directly by providing the security patches? At least if the blender team themselves don't have the time/inclination to do so, Canonical wouldn't really have much of a choice.

[0]: https://ubuntu.com/blog/blender-support-from-canonical
Long time ago i created a facebook account. I remember vividly the moment when some form asked my to volunteer my religious beliefs. At that moment I knew we had entered the twilight zone.

We are not out of it yet and, for all I know, we might never be.
The target audience for those calls isn't the police though, so police bristling and the message not convincing them isn't a major "problem" with the message. It's not a goal either, and it brings with it some negative side effects, but given the effectiveness of the message the people behind it almost certainly consider the negative side effects worth it.

The targets are politicians (to redistribute funds), voters (to vote for politicians who will...), and prosecutors (to prosecute criminals who happen to wear a uniform).

Nor is the goal to convince cops to get other jobs. Cops don't decide on what the police budget is or how many cops there will be. The goal is to get the people who do decide that there should be less cops. Coal miners is different in that the goal was to appease the population of coal miners...

I'm not sure the message is a good idea myself, its seems unnecessarily divisive to society, and that's a bad thing. It's pretty important to understand the goals of the message when evaluating whether or not it does what it intends to though.
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There's a meme floating around that elucidates this well, I think: Celebrities with a freezer full of candy bars guilting you into giving all of yours away. I don't think there are really any wealthy people who are giving away money for truly altruistic means. Maybe I'm jaded, but there always seems to be a benefit, a catch, for the rich person. Otherwise, why announce the fact you're giving the money away? That in of itself should raise cause for concern.
Fair point, thanks for noting
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The US federal government requires users to agree to terms in return for receiving potentially identifiable data. Usually those terms include something like, "I agree to not attempt to use these data to identify any individuals." Granted, an agreement carries more weight when it's with the federal government (lying to them is criminal). But this kind of clause can prevent legal groups from reliably trading in identified data, even if it's from a private hospital. If they break the agreement, they'll probably never again receive new data from the provider, and stale data is low value.
>Four days after the Jan. 6 insurrection

It's comedic how these far left wing publications continue to call it an "insurrection" when there were no weapons used and the only person killed was a woman that was assassinated by a trigger happy mall cop whose identity has still not been revealed.
Sounds like a great reason for everyone to stop using Chrome. This is a capability that's been in Firefox and Safari for awhile now.

We're getting back to a point where the dominant browser is focused on rent-extraction over user-focused design and features, and alternatives are superior in pretty much every way other than bug-compat with the dominant browser (e.g. same thing we had in the IE6 days).

There's no reason anyone who's technically inclined should be using Chrome as a daily-driver at this point. Their interference in ad-blocker extensions should have been enough, this should be the nail in the coffin.
I don't love defending Facebook, but as of last year, they employed 15 THOUSAND content moderators (https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/06/09/300000-...)

Content moderation at Facebook scale is really, really hard. Even for real people.

Again I hate to defend Facebook, but your comment is very misleading by ignoring that Facebook HAS hired humans to help solve the content moderation problem. A lot of them.
I think it's obvious and I haven't spent a second of my life voluntarily consuming any mainstream right-leaning news, but maybe I'm just way, way smarter than all those rubes who you believe have basically no connection with reality outside of when their propaganda happens to be accurate. shrug!!!
There is only one agenda in this article, which is that return to work is an oppressive measure imposed by CEOs on employees. The NYT writes exactly what will sell. You and I are simply not its audience. The racism etc is just being co opted.

They want all their middle income job readers to feel comforted by the arguments made and studies cited. It's a shitty transition to go back to an office. I'm sure a lot of workplaces are going to abuse that notion and provide very bad workspaces. But you generalize on scale for such topics only when you know your audience is absolutely not discerning.
Industrial work in USA has been indeed cheaper than in China for a few years, and not just labourers, and materials.

Now, dozens more countries are jumping onto the space in the market that China is retreating from. Unfortunately, US is not one of them.

It's easier to open a factory for me even in a country like Bangladesh (which stands on ∞ place in ease of doing business index,) than in the most business friendly states in US, despite nominally better tax rates in the US, and cheaper non-labour inputs.
Speculating that this might be the case does not MAKE IT SO.
That might be related to PABA.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-Aminobenzoic_acid, which is also associated with premature grey hair.

Since PABA is produced in the digestive system, it's possible that stress impacts eating/digestion in some negative way?
Does that make sense in this situation?

Like the leading idea is that it occurred naturally, and there's heavy emphasis on it starting in that wet market. More than enough ammo already for the mob to hate on Chinese people, and sadly that's what happened and has been happening.

Suppressing inquiry into a possible source of the pandemic seems more like political shenanigans than some vague effort to save the population from harm.
Sadly there's no live database (or maybe that's good because otherwise the jobs would get snatched up before you could blink). All I can say is look for jobs that value work-life balance. It's worked well for me so far.
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Wholeheartedly agree. I can't help but feel with each new article like this that many journalists are watching _their own WFH opportunities_ slip from their fingers.

(FWIW, I'm a fan of fully remote companies; this article just doesn't pass as anything but opinion.)
Yes, I did say that as a joke, but I guess some took it too seriously. It would never work but it was the first image that came to mind, a merry go round of Tesla's.
Just some napkin math, in the US we make 100 billion plastic bags a year out of 12 million barrels of oil. That breaks down to about 200 bags/gallon or .7 cents worth of oil per bag at current oil rates of $57/barrel. If you taxed oil at 10 times the value of the oil, a bag would increase to 7 cents. I'm still not blinking much at that price, it's a rounding error to me and now I have $35/gallon gasoline. It sounds like it's easy conceptually to tax our way out of gasoline, but I still don't think most people would blink at the cost increase to plastic items.
If you want to piggy back on Google's centralized notification system (which saves network and battery usage), you have to distribute via the play store. I have no idea whether signal does this, but it would make sense for them to.
> I would absolutely not feel trusted if after working remotely for so long they say they “need” me to be in the office

The problem is that the "I don't feel trusted" might be hiding the actual true underlying issue. What if your manager does trust you, why would he need you in the office ? Is it because you don't have proper communication channels ? Is it because he can't properly follow up what's going on ? Is it because he has to spend more time sharing the common vision with you and other employees ? Is it because he can't understand the issues you face anymore ?

All these question are not related to him not trusting you in any way and they are very reasonable concerns. Identifying and addressing those will bring you one step closer to a fruitful collaboration.

But if you stop the conversation at : "You want me to come back to the office, but I feel more productive at home so it means you don't trust me so I quit", is exactly the problem. It's super hard to start a reasonable conversation if the premise is "you don't trust me".
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>access to the physical levers of having their ideas heard (location, same office space)

Well, yeah. If you can't bothered to be in the same place as the people you want to communicate to, you're signaling that having their time and attention isn't important to you.

As Aaron Burr in "Hamilton" so put it, you have to be in the room where it happens.
In a small company you're likely to wear more hats, though, so while the focus of the org is smaller, your piece of it is bigger.
have you tried turning it off and then on again
The article literally talks about racial riots.
Yes the only thing in the way is a huge international lobby industry that pays politicians to turn a blind eye to systemic labour and environmental exploitation.
The endpoint URL should probably be stored in the environmental variable file.
> these guys will just pivot to breaking up packs and selling cells or whatever

I'm sure electric cars are being, and will continue to be, stolen, parted out, etc. But battery theft won't look quite like catalytic converter theft as batteries are much heavier and aren't as easily accessible. Check out the video of a catalytic converter theft posted by another commenter in this thread [0]. The thief slides under the SUV at the 1:37 mark, does some cutting from about 2:00-2:14, then slides out with his prize around 2:24. In and out in less than a minute - no need to jack up the vehicle (SUVs and trucks are often already high enough), no need to enter the vehicle. And the catalytic converter weighs something like 10 pounds so he can just walk away with it. Stealing an 800-pound battery pack out of a Tesla would be a much more involved operation.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP3N4RwHd5k
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Most social networks operate with a business model/philosophy that the bare minimum of moderation will promote uploading and engagement, capturing the biggest user base, while also saving on expenses. Moderation is just for when you achieve market dominance or attention, and the bare minimum is shifted slightly towards a bit more moderation to appease any critical comments, outcries, or changes in expectations.

AI moderation is, and, I think, always has been, a cost saving measure. The effectiveness of it for the health of a platform has always been secondary.
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Murdoch seeks to remove editorial independence rules at the Times
Reddit also grew to be one of the biggest sites on the internet with their low censorship policy before they started the crackdown. It’s not evidence crackdowns are necessary because they got successful first.
What is the purpose of each notebook?
You're advocating for the Nordic Model, which was a colossal failure. Sex workers have no protections, they're harassed by police, evicted, etc. Legalization opens the path to regulation and protection that otherwise isn't afforded.

The 'illegal tier' already exists, it's a farce to suggest that legalization "creates" it.
I do not see what the 50% threshold has to do with anything, nor why the idea of not sacrificing for the whole unless everyone else is sacrificing is a fallacy.

If US makes it so its residents cannot afford to go to Hawaii and Taihiti and Seychelles for their honeymoon, but China continues to allow their residents to go, then unless the people of the US are very selfless, I predict it is not going to well for the leaders of the US.

It is a prisoner’s dilemma, if anything.
Our postman often skips a day or two. We get no warning. It's just some days he doesn't show up. This used to be very rare. Now it's about one or two days a week.
I'm not actually sure what Go would do in a double-fault scenario (that's when a panic causes a panic), but assuming it can recover from that:

In the absolute worst case scenario: stack unwinding is itself a piece of code[1]. In order to initiate the stack unwind, and deal with SEH/defer/dealloc, the Go runtime would need stack space to call that method. Someone might say, "freeze the stack and do the unwind on a different thread." The problem is the bit in the quotes is, again, at least one stack frame and needs stack space to execute.

I just checked the Go source, and it basically uses a linked list of stack frames in the heap[2]. If a stack is about to overflow, it allocates a new stack and continues in that stack. This does have a very minor performance penalty. So you're safe from this edge case :).

[1]: https://www.nongnu.org/libunwind/
[2]: https://golang.org/src/runtime/stack.go
> There's never any guarantee that JS that optimizes perfectly today won't hit a performance cliff in a new JIT implementation tomorrow.

I would say the opposite: there kind of are such guarantees, to JIT development’s detriment. Because JIT developers use the performance of known workloads under current state-of-the-art JITs as a regression-testing baseline. If their JIT underperforms the one it’s aiming to supersede on a known workload, their job isn’t done.

This means that there’s little “slack” (https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/12/studies-on-slack/) in JIT development — it’ll be unlikely that we’ll see a JIT released (from a major team) that’s an order-of-magnitude better at certain tasks, at the expense of being less-than-an-order-of-magnitude worse at others. (Maybe from an individual as code ancillary to a research paper, but never commercialized/operationalized.)
I am sweating here the fact that I am making more than is allowed in order to contribute. Fidelity lets me, so I do, but someone like Thiel, of course, can find ways.

How in the f*k do you invest into startups with something that is not publicly traded anyway? Was PayPal over the counter? Why was it so cheap?
Wow, that's an amazing story. Thanks for posting, i had no idea something like that ever took place
> Plenty of noble causes [...] get tarnished because of select bad actors

> Why are we so prone to write off large, obvious movements?

Every time ethics are involved some people can feel judged, feel guilty and project it into anger. Cynicism becomes an easy coping mechanism.

One example is people stating that they don't care about something. (If you don't care, why are you spending time saying it?)

Another is accusing entire crowds engaged in causes of being hypocritical or egotistical.

...then social media stepped in created a huge echo chamber.
You're equating being a left handed person to being stolen from your parents, beaten and raped? That is one of the most disrespectful, disgusting things that I have ever read on this website. You need to seriously read up on history and learn a bit before you ever say that to anyone again.

That is complete and utter racist garbage.
A lot of Truth would be freed at the expense of a lot of noise.

Information wants to be free. Privacy is equally important.
It's not only they work for Facebook, but are also pretty proud of it. After all, Facebook is the starting F of FAANG, which is a Holly Grail of every aspiring software developer, a pinnacle of human achievement.

It's not Facebook that needs to be fixed, it's humanity.
Roths are bad collateral in general, because they are a special asset that survives bankruptcy (up to a certain level). Now, Thiel would actually care about his Roth getting chopped to only a few million, so in this case we'd have to look at what laws prevent that, which I don't know.

Edit: Using a Roth as collateral is apparently prohibited under IRS rules 4975(c)(1)(B)
Pivot to a written-first culture. It's the natural endpoint of remote orgs.
For quick access, you can copy/paste this into the Omnibar:

chrome://settings/cookies

Just turned it on myself. Thank you, OP!
Windows 11 livestream crashes as Microsoft decides to not use YouTube
Loudly conversing in the hallway is a terrible medium for exchanging information. Written documents are not only clearer, they scale in distribution and can be referenced later.

Hallway conversations are temporal noise, at best.
Context: US Congress is discussing a bill that will force Play Store to act like a platform (meaning no cut at all if you choose to use another form of payment)

https://world.hey.com/dhh/here-comes-the-law-eb302a46
I don't have evidence to back it up, but I believe that the ability to use a whiteboard boosts innovation.
Submission boxes, pitch dens, hackathons, or even just a place to dump written proposals etc. Some kind of structure so that contribution does not require winning a social battle first.
You might be in the wrong place then. ;-)
[EDIT] removed mean sarcasm—poster engaging sincerely elsewhere and I felt this was unwarranted. Sorry.
I fasted for 2 weeks. Only water, tea (no sugar or milk) and a tiny bit vitamins just for safety.

I actually loathed going back to eating. At a point I thought it strange that I am actually dragging switching back to eating -- before the experiment I thought I will be looking forward to it.

I have fasted many times before and after, though no longer than a week. I think it is easier to fast if you are already doing something like intermittent fasting and are used to skipping whole days of eating.

My experience is that the worst is 2nd and 3rd days of fast, it gets better after that and about a week later headaches stop and you are feeling light and slightly energized.

I will not repeat fasts over 1 week in length again as I have some data to suggest that my muscle mass and physical fitness decreased due to that fast. So if you are looking to loose weight by going radical fast you need to be mindful you can be loosing muscle mass that is really important to burning energy, and this could undo any benefits. I think if you are very, very overweight and very, very determined you could use this as a drastic measure with intention to build the muscle mass back after you finish fasting.

On the other hand shorter fasts (1-3 days), though not so enjoyable, don't seem to be leaving any lasting harm (for me) and over time you get used to it and can control calorie intake better.
I don’t blame them. We’ve spent decades pumping the police into a paramilitary force that when reality meets expectations it’s just another human (often I believe) trying to make the best of their situation. Personally I distrust most police and I’m suspicious of them, but removing funding is a bad idea in my book, and I’m sad to see police leaving the profession.

When it comes right down to it, many of us need the police more than they need us. We think we’re a bunch of badd asses that can defend the homestead if we had to, but we still call 911. When the police don’t show up, we get horrible outcomes, and it’s worse for everyone.