skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With regards to being an IGC, I can say you won't always get banned. In fact, usually it's the folks on the extreme end of the homogenous group that end up doing the enforcement and driving people out. Is it censorship, bullying, harassment, or is this the system working as intended? I guess that's what people have to decide.

One anecdotal example I have was from a Slack I was part of years ago. These two men who identified as "allies" went around trying to address what they called "micro-aggressions". At the time they were heavily focused on "gender neutral language". To them, this term was well-defined and solidified because in their group it undoubtedly was. The problem was, the wider community had not decided what "gender neutral language" meant to it. There were outstanding questions like, "Is dude okay?", "am I required to observe this massive list of alternative pronouns?" (at the time, pronouns were much more expansive than they are today). It fell short of low-hanging fruit like not assuming everyone is a man on the internet by default. These folks were pestering and ventured into their own system of micro and macro-aggressions. At one point I remember a Norwegian man was berated and micro-corrected for using the term "ladies". A full on lecture was dumped into a thread where he was trying to tell a story of his own. My chief observation in this specific incident was that not everyone agreed that "ladies" is dated language (including women). This caused people to join camps, the camps fought, and inevitably the primarily tech oriented (and progressive oriented) cultural homogeneity won out, driving out both the people they sought to defeat like actual misogynists but an overwhelming trove of normal people who just didn't agree with specific things. The thing I noted about cultural homogeneity at the time was that it inspires people to think in terms of camps, which makes good people odd bedfellows with bad people (and I mean that on both sides of this particular issue). To this day I do not view "ally" men as trustworthy by default.

In other groups I had been a part of similar things happened, but the folks seeking homogeneity attached themselves to Codes of Conduct or Guidelines that became highly prescriptive, and at times, exclusive. They'd seek to moderate one side of this debate but not the other, and with a quickness that was hard to match. They developed a lot of abstract language about systems and power, and ironically enough, used it to boost themselves into power.

I've since distanced myself from any group that has overly prescriptive COC's or has a history of them. What makes that interesting is that I'm not someone who opposes gender neutral language, but I disliked how they enforced it. They weren't positive change agents, and they made the assumption everyone who spoke up was an apologist or some more serious label. I hadn't seen these problems for a while, because I really only hang out on specific IRC networks or HN as a result, both of which have fairly reasonable guidelines that prevent a wide spectrum of abuse.
If you sell cutlery without a handle and expect your end users to simply wrap it in a towel before using it maybe you should share some of the blame when your users hurt themselves.
It’s easy for people to forget just how spatially inefficient cars are because we’re so used to 30-40% of city space being dedicated to roads and storage.

We saw a dramatic example of this next to the bike path I ride to daycare/work: hundreds of new apartments, restaurants & other retail shops, outdoor public spaces, etc. next to a subway station. This was just part of a retail parking lot which broke 50% usage _maybe_ a couple of times a year. The number of people using the space when up by at least an order of magnitude and it’s a lot more consistent economic activity.
And then the question is, should you as a vaccinated healthy person mind getting infected in the sense that it can shield you maybe even more from future variants or is this a dangerous game to play?
same principle applies. a lot of people vying for something in which few can succeed
He's a TechLead at a FAANG company
I have fairly minimal needs, mostly basic mapping, calls, a Matrix client, and a web browser. I know that's pretty basic, even for ~2011.

That said, I'm using (and have been using) my Community Edition Pinephone as a daily driver for a couple weeks now. It's not impossible, it just varies based on what ones individual needs actually are :)
Very good food, too. The downside of Taiwan is to learn the local language.
> What do mean by "people like me"?

You can make a guess at that and assume what you want.

> There's a lot of accountability and procedure in policing here. For every bad news story there are millions of daily encounters amongst some of the worst people that you're fortunate to never encounter.

No, there isn't. Cops can do literally anything they want to you with minimal/no repercussions. If I defend myself against an aggressive cop I'm getting a felony and going to prison for decades.

> This is beyond ridiculous, especially in the comments of an article describing people being beaten and thrown out of their homes with extrajudicial violence. Is your suggestion that they're better off this way without any protection or governmental oversight and instead left on their own? Do you really think billions of people around the world agree with you?

Actually - argubly yes. I do believe in no state sanctioned violence. Someone removing me from a place I'm living would think twice if they knew I was armed/had weapons. I could rely on the protection of my network and my community, rather than the protection of some cop that lives two hours away from the area they're supposedly serving and protecting.

> An attacking cop means you've started a fight with the police, so the advice is to not do that. But are you implying that you'll do better against some attacking gang instead?

So let me get this straight, cops don't harass people in your opinion? I really wish that I didn't have the experience with cops that I've had - maybe I could stay ignorant like you about police violence.

> It's seems like you have not experienced any serious danger because you'll change your opinion very quickly in the face of unchecked criminal activity. It's easy to make sweeping statements from your safe and comfortable home but it's highly unlikely you would enjoy, let alone survive, in places with less rule of law.

Again you know nothing about me, where I've been, or how I've lived.
I have used a combo of attrs and fastjsonschema to do dataclass validation on instance construction.

It works great for a python stack and you can generate some clean looking code if you have a reusable data class package
>Secondly, why is the merit of high income more valuable than waiting in the line for longest time? None of them is a lottery in my opinion.

People invest internationally. This gives a strong bias for money to chase large metropolis because of agglomeration effects. So now "everyone" has to move to the city to work for the investor money. There are people who just want to get their fair share of the money. If you let someone live there that can't find a job that gets him investor money then he basically displaced a productive worker bee and made the entire economy worse off. Social mobility takes a massive hit as a result.

That worker bee could have earned enough to live in a newly constructed apartment. If he actually managed to get a rent controlled apartment then congratulation, you just subsidized one of the richer individuals.

Think about it this way, you want vulnerable people to afford their apartments. Why are you subsidizing every single apartment instead of subsidizing people in need? In fact, the subsidy is greater the more expensive the apartment is. You're subsidizing the rich.
That is a terrible video.
Yes. Refusing to get a vaccine now is harmful to yourself and others. The current vaccines are effective. A more effective intranasal vaccine may come, but you should protect yourself and others now.
Ether is not POS yet.
I immediately hit reply to suggest the Hermes Lite also; despite the crazy supply chain situation, there is a current manufacturing run going right now. With N2ADR's filter board, you have a complete 10W HF direct sampling transceiver. Add a hardrock PA and you can take that easily to 50W or 500W at an insanely low price point.

I hand build a few of the early prototypes and have a couple of the production versions too. I cannot emphasize how underrepresented I think this radio is compared to a lot of the other SDR hardware out there. It compares favorably in performance and vastly exceeds the features of most amateur radio HF transceivers in the <= $2500 range.

Because it speaks the OpenHPSDR protocol it can also run a digital predistortion algorithm called PureSignal that samples the PA output and distorts the input signal to correct for amplifier phase and power nonlinearity. Digital predistortion is relatively common in modern radios like cellular baseband, but to my knowledge PureSignal is the only open source implementation of such and the only implementation publicly available for an HF radio.
single letter change is refered to as a point mutation meaning one residue. it is common

there are a number of mutation types and numerous mechanisms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation

in the case of point mutations, cosmic ray ablation, and wobbly fit of the replication mechanism lead to data corruption, conflated by error prone replication or error prone proof reading
I wonder if you could mill a dumbbell out of it, so even the handle itself is made of Tungsten. You would have a fairly normal looking 10Lb dumbbell that weight more than 10Kg or 26Lb. Everyone coming in the house would always (somehow) pick up these Dumbbell.......
> But if every time I said I was giving you a "gift" I actually punched you in the mouth you'd soon learn the revised meaning of "gift". ...

> The most important thing a developer can do isn't code. It's act as an analyst of what's possible and how to deliver it. This is a call for more meetings. Not useless standups but meetings with end-users to hear feedback. (emphasis mine)

Instead, standups are converted to PM wannabees pretending to be scrum masters who are offended when an old project's main branch is called master but do not know anything at all about the thing they are managing.
Eastern part is cheaper and less crowded.
Not disagreeing with you, but elevated bike lanes do exist and they are pretty cool.
I am indian (part of the society that benefits the most from Modi's economics and politics) but I just made this account (also another exhibit of how far-right my government is) to say that I read the conversation and I really think you gotta dig deeper into the social fabric of the indian culture to realise how far-right the organization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashtriya_Swayamsevak_Sangh) behind the government (from which Modi comes) is.

They have an entirely different image of the Indian subcontinent (based on this guy's vision of "Hindutva" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinayak_Damodar_Savarkar). This image roughly includes three parts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindutva:_Who_is_a_Hindu%3F):
1. Religion
2. Culture (Caste etc)
3. National Identity
Now the problem is that the government might actually not be really into building the one nation, one religion Indian subcontinent presented in the vision (yes that includes Myanmar, Pakistan, Afghanistan) but the millions of kids being trained by the RSS since forever in thousands of schools kinda do want that. The problem with Modi is not that he's a nazi or not. The problem is with a sizeable population in India who support him because they think he's their guy and will do to Muslims and other lower caste people what the Nazis did to others. Hitler is considered a strong military leader amongst that population. The last part is of course anecdotal (the sample size was around 50 people through out my life spread over different socio-economic-geographic factors. TL;DR
This is going to be a problem in the long term for the world
I deleted all my accounts.

The non-stop ads disguised as content, and the consorship of posts critical of xi and ccp were the final nails in the coffin. I recall a story breaking about China and human rights, and it was chilling to watch shit disappear every second as I refreshed the comment thread.

I do not miss it, in the rare case of quality content/discussion that's relevant to my interests is often posted to here or some other aggregate.

10+ years I spent in that place, watched it get worse and worse. I quit reddit 2 years ago, and I do not miss it, at least not what it is now.
Ukraine fits the bill, you can rent a nice apartment in downtown part of town, internet is cheap and fast, food costs something like 3 times less then US, cities are walkable, you don't really need a car. Lviv or Ivano-Frankivsk for a more cozy atmosphere or Kyiv if you really want to live in a big city.

Climate is on the other hand, winters could be cold and summers unpleasantly hot so in that regard Balkans could be better.
Then you'd find this interesting too: there's quite a lot of gold stolen or faked like this:

"Exclusive: Fake-branded bars slip dirty gold into world markets"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gold-swiss-fakes-exclusiv...
Not only that, machining that piece would take ages and wear out a fortune in tooling.
Yes, but it seems like the Pet Rock for this crowd. It's entertaining to give it a heft, but I doubt if it will see as much daily use as his amortization projection suggests.

I think a better desk objet is a Curta calculator.
> If you expand a road, there will be greater usage because demand soaks up supply.

This can only occur when there is sufficient latent demand, or phrased differently, the supply of roads (and sufficiently fungible transit modes) is so insufficient that that moderate increases in supply do not create a surplus. This lack of surplus (traffic) representing an economic inefficiency which it can only be desirable to reduce[0].

What is stupifying is how 'induced demand' (read: building more roads will cause more people to perform economic activities facilitated by transit) is contorted into an argument against building roads.

[0]Until such point that traffic inefficiency is in equilibrium with others. e.g. I can't see Manhattan widening 5th ave anytime soon, but most of America isn't pressed for real estate.
You can easily shatter it with a vice grip or locking wrench, and with the rise of tungsten wedding bands EMTs and hospitals are more and more equipped for this.
But the lower efficacy drop of Pfizer is still higher than the less degraded AZ efficacy...
Prior to the pandemic, Caltrain was already at maximum capacity during commute hours. If people are going to return to offices in large numbers then Caltrain needs a major upgrade before we build a lot of housing near stations. On the other hand if remote working continues then there's less reason to locate new housing near transit hubs.
The reason bike lanes do not have demand induction effects is because there is inherently low demand. A majority of the population cannot use bicycles for long trips, and even those who can cannot use them for all trips.

Bike lanes are ableist and classist. Only healthy citizens with an excess of time and energy are able to use them for trips. The elderly, children, those with heart conditions, asthma, or many other health conditions, and anyone needing to transport anything heavier than their own body cannot use the lane. In most cities this represents a minority of the population. Creating exclusionary space for bicycles is the opposite of progressive policy and efficient urban design.
Hard work is necessary but not sufficient.

Picking the right problems to work on is also necessary, and difficult to get right. Worming in on a hard unsolved problem that is eventually incredibly important is the scientific equivalent of winning the lottery, and we know lots of examples of this. Recently, mRNA vaccines, neural networks, and the twin primes conjecture come to mind. But there are doubtless many, many other examples of people working on a possibly-fundamental problem which never actually break through, and we never hear about it.

But I would argue it's still worth making a concerted effort to identify good problems to solve, and specifically thinking about what makes a good 'hard problem.' It's much easier to make progress in an under-studied area, simply because the low hanging fruit haven't been eaten yet. The danger, of course, is that understudied things may be understudied for a reason: they're not actually relevant to anything else, or there's some secret impediment and many others have already failed.

By contrast, cracking away at ridiculous subproblems from the last generation of academics is almost always a dead end, imo; you're competing with people who already know the field extremely well, the low hanging fruit has been picked, and the obvious roads to relevance have probably already been well-explored. Unsolved problems in a long-standing discipline are often unsolved because the right tools are missing or it's impossible within the existing paradigm... Or the problem is just irrelevant, relative to the amount of effort needed to solve it.

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Netta Engelhardt Has Escaped Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox
The `dnsfunnel` resolver has been added to Alpine to solve that issue. Additionally, musl will gain TCP support for situations like DANE where individual records may be very large.
US govt spent a $trillion to win the war in Afghanistan.

Destruction is easier than protection.
One of the early signs that foreshadowed my mother's decline was the deterioration of her driving skills, and this preceded almost all other noticeable symptoms.

Driving is a complex skill that requires rapid, continuous sensory integration to perform well. It makes sense to me that it is something that would first show a deficit.
Most likely you arent paying enough
What are the materials with similar, but lower, densities? WC, I guess, at 15.63 g/cc; what else?

Apparently wholesale tungsten costs US$30/kg, which is about one fourth the US$130 cost the guy paid. I'd think either wire EDM or wire ECM would be able to dice tungsten into featureless cubes for a lot less than US$100/kg. Its brittleness wouldn't be a problem.

Also, it could very easily be impure, or even not tungsten at all; lots of people have gotten tricked into buying tungsten-carbide jewelry they thought was tungsten, and tungsten carbide isn't even metal. The Amazon seller says it's actually 5% nickel and iron, though I'm not clear whether it's an alloy or a powder-metallurgy sinter using those metals as sintering aids. Alloys aren't necessarily less dense than their densest pure component, so impurities might not even lower the density. X-ray fluorescence would be a cheap way to detect heavy-metal impurities (though not, say, boron, carbon, or nitrogen).

The guy is excited about how it's durable and will last for a long time. I think he will be disappointed if it really is so brittle that he chips the corner off by dropping it on the floor. Probably the nickel and iron will prevent that.
He also mentions setting realistic expectations. So, not "work hard to get rich" or "work hard to have a breakthrough scientific finding" (as there's too much involved there) but perhaps "work hard to be appreciated enough to make very good money" or "work hard so that I can make an non-trivial addition to my field of study" etc.

Also, if you're not really motivated by anything working hard can get you, then there's no point in hard work. Most people hate hard work and it's not worth it for them, hence they coast doing the minimum that doesn't get them fired. It's a perfectly valid life strategy, although the American religion of workoholism treats it as heresy (while millions of people practice it, feeling unnecessary guilt doing it).
https://luciteria.com/metal-cubes/iridium-metal-cube-9995
> >> Of course, to work hard, it really helps if you enjoy your work.

> Working hard when you enjoy your work is easier and might look like workaholism to someone who is definitely not. If work is play, you might play longer & that gets a lot done, because mistakes you throw away don't feel like wasted time.

Exactly, and it's a misnomer to call that hard work. When someone enjoys their work, the work is easy. They are not "hard workers". You falsely believe they are hard working because you personally would not enjoy doing that work and would therefore not be motivated to work as much. But that only means that the work is hard to you, it doesn't mean it's hard to them.
Wing says it now regards Logan as the “drone delivery capital of the world”
i doubt it. he was winning math competitions at a young age. I doubt he knew all the shortcuts in advance but just intuited them. He was probably smart enough to be given a hard problem and upon pondering for a minutes figure out the shortcut.
I never did. Altho I was a Muslim kid growing up post 9/11 so I think that played into it
Because people were previously unable to find units where they wanted, so they were forced to live further away. Now everyone can compete for the good location units so price goes up.
I know HN just puts the title from the article, but I'd love it if we could add an OPINION when it's an opinion article.
You don't need to (pre-)cook pizza sauce, though. The thing that struck me was this article about pizza claiming that the exact things you put in pizza sauce, being practically the only things on a piece of flatbread that the article is claiming counts as a style of pizza, is compatible with the article's claim that it doesn't have tomato sauce on it. I mean, either most pizza doesn't feature tomato sauce (because pizza sauce doesn't count, for some reason), in which case why mention it, or otherwise I'm pretty sure this does too.
Ask HN: Is your company making vaccination mandatory?
We've seen this week that Delta Airlines has made it mandatory for employees to be vaccinated or face a fine [1]. Other companies are also making this move or at least reporting vaccination status [2][3], spurred on by calls from politicians[4][5][6]. However there may be fall out from that [7].

Has your company made vaccination mandatory? If so, how has it been received from your point of view? If not, do you think your company will at some point make it mandatory?

If you have not been vaccinated but your company has made it mandatory, will you get it? If not, do you plan to leave? If so, what kind of timeline did they give you to be vaccinated.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/covid-costs-billions-so-delta-to-charge-unvaxxed-airline-workers-200-month/

[2] https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-08-07/list-employers-with-covid-19-vaccine-mandates

[3] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/gm-is-now-requiring-all-u-s-salaried-workers-to-report-their-vaccination-status-11629996274

[4] https://www.reuters.com/world/countries-make-covid-19-vaccines-mandatory-2021-07-13/

[5] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/us/pfizer-vaccine-mandates.html

[6] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/guides-pubs/downloads/vacc_mandates_chptr13.pdf

[7] https://whyy.org/articles/a-philly-doctor-made-the-covid-19-vaccine-mandatory-then-he-lost-7-staff-members/
>And they are NOT generally valid.

you make this statement, but then you just have a bunch of examples where it is not specifically valid for you.
Haha, thanks! I think I'm warming to the idea now.
Another consequence of this is that, theoretically, the virus could mutate and be unrecognizable by the antibodies produced by the vaccine.
Gold is also about the same density as tungsten, though it would make for an even more expensive stunt at $1.5 million.