skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think that's bad? Drive on the 40 (route 66) from California to Texas sometime. All those abandoned train stations used to be Amtrak stops. Modern passenger trains could hit about 200 mph on that terrain. San Jose to Dallas is about 1400 miles, so a 8-9 hour trip would be enough to ride the entire line, with stops at the towns along the way.

I'd definitely choose that instead over a 3.5 hour plane ride (good for that route), especially with sleeper cars.

On top of that, there are abandoned train stations closer to my actual destination than the nearest airport. With drive time on the Texas side, the train would actually be faster, door to door.
I've also read the bill, and it's easy to quote. It explicitly says that any discussion about "sexual identity" is banned.

One of the requirement clauses states that the bill is "prohibiting classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in certain grade levels or in a specified manner". That quote is the whole clause. It doesn't ban instruction, it bans discussion. It is explicit. Those exact words. Anyone who says otherwise either did not actually read the bill, or they didn't read it very well.
Chesterton's Fence [0] should overrule fear of cargo culting, especially when the fence (or in this case color) was clearly put up by people who really knew what they were doing at the time.

Unless there is a significant cost to it, and unless the benefit is understood, there is no reason that they should be faulted as ignorant cargo cultists simply for keeping it in place.

[0] https://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/
I hadn't heard the name in quite some time, but I distinctly remember similar behavior on other mailing lists. I think it was one of the Omni Group's Mac lists - macosx-talk or -admin or -dev, I can't quite recall.
Most animals are smarter than we give them credit for. What they are lacking in is intellect and the ability to understand events that occur over longer periods or time. For example a cat isn't planning its meals for next week but it's smart as hell when it wants a meal right now.
But how accurate is that diagnosis, are there false positives and how much?

I know, anecdotally, that some homosexual men are gender dysphoric during prepubescent age but grew out of it during puberty, and feel it would have been a mistake to transition at that age.

But this isn't the point of the essay. The point is that asking questions like these would get you branded a heretic by the far left. And acknowledging gender dysphoria would get you branded a heretic by the far right.
It's important to remember that this particular kind of "heresy" is not about hurting an imaginary God, but actual real people.

Questioning the legitimacy of geocentrism is a victimless crime. Questioning the legitimacy of gay marriage or gay adoption or sexual transitioning has very defined, specific victims that face real actual harms from these attitudes.

Right now parents of trans children are being accused of being abusers, with legal threats to that effect. Gay parents and their supporters are being called groomers.

Clamping down hard on that is defensible. You may believe that this is an unjustifiable restriction of speech, but it is materially different from old concepts of "heresy".
THIS is exactly what some are afraid of. People taking statements, interpreting them with their own mental models, and coming to the conclusion the person who made that statement is x-ist.

Your own comment literally provides multiple interpretations of that statement and you chose the "sexist" one to be the default!?
What I don't quite understand is how these rural areas got electricity. If it's so expensive to run something to a rural area, who ate the cost of providing grid access? Or is cable/fiber just significantly more expensive per mile compared to electricity?
> All generalizations are false, including this one.

My problem is simplistic explanations tend to be very misleading. And I am very skeptical of cultural existentialism being a useful tool in understanding societies.

> pattern but plenty of other Muslim countries do.

I'm asking again, which ones?

> (I don't know, I'm genuinely interested): in Pakistan, today, is the military more or less Islamist

Pakistani society is probably the most Islamist in the world. The elite, both civilian and military are considerably less so.

> They execute actual Islamists who are a threat to their power.

They'll execute blasphemers, apostates, homosexuals and adulterers too. Along with liberals and communists.
Yes. We carry supercomputers in our pockets, it's nice being able to use them and not be subject to connection issues or server outages, or developer whim.
Some implicit hardware references implied by use of C casts.
C compiler doesn't guarantee bit spacing/alignment in strucs.

(*char) is used to force pointer address inside of a struct to align on byte boundary which is not true of all hardware!
aka adresses allignment may need to be 16, 32, or 64.
maybe read a book or a wikipedia article about what the middle ages were like
> next thing google decides that sites without ads are to be downranked ... fuck this

Probably already happened, they just didn't make a public announcement.
>This thing where people want to say horrible things without consequence

People say horrible things all the time! In fact, I reckon that if you said anything, a non-negligible fraction of the world's 7.5 billion people would think you horrible for saying it. It is not possible to avoid saying horrible things, especially out of context.

Even if you limit yourself to racist and sexist speech, how do you deal the fact that roughly 100% of the people on this planet, of ALL races and sexes, are themselves racist and sexist, and say racist/sexist things all the time? What are the consequences for a homophobic black person? What are the consequences for the Japanese woman who hates the Chinese? What are the consequences for the Libyan mother who circumcised her 4 daughters, with the support of her government and community?

The culture war that the left has started is an intellectually bankrupt grab for cultural power, who's primary effect has been to piss off the good people of the left, and to inspire a once-in-a-century outbreak of insanity on the right. I get that you want to make the world a better place, and it makes sense that punishing people for wrong views could make it so, but you've done the experiment now. Tell me, how is it going?
This is a lie. It blocks not discussions about "sex" but "sexual orientation". It bans students from saying they are guy. Calling people groomers who disagree with you is despicable.
Twitch is still the dominant platform for live streaming (as of early 2022)

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/livestream-viewership-...
And now it is flagged again. This really seems to rub some people (dare we say the "the aggressively conventional-minded"?) the wrong way ...
Los Angeles to San Diego is 120 miles, and the Pacific Surfliner serves it - and it only has 9 trains a day (round trip). (I notice that they've added a early morning service getting to LA at working time).

The key with these kinds of service is you have to run them consistently for 10-20 years before they start seeing the kind of ridership that can support the train density. People don't start building their lives around a transport option that they can't rely on.
We have people in our neighborhood posing as repairmen trying to get inside houses. I would like to have a buffer between me and the person at the door. Police might not do anything about stolen packages, but they will take incidents like this seriously. I also show the footage to my neighbors to give them a heads up.
- breathe

- breathe

- ask for help! you've done nothing wrong. one of the core responsibilities of experienced engineers is to help out less experienced engineers - if they don't know how to do things then hopefully y'all can figure it out together. "Hey _____, I was assigned ______ and I'm having a hard time figuring out the best approach to take. Would you be willing to sit down with me to talk through approaches?"

I can't stress enough how many of my "failures" in my career were due to me being too stubborn / proud / egotistical / etc to ask for help because I thought it would look bad.

If your senior engineers and leadership aren't setting you up for success that's a problem, but other than that…breathe.
Swipe typing is a must for me at this point. Tapping on the individual keys is such a slow process on a touchscreen in comparison.

Obviously, a real keyboard is leagues better than both, but needs must.
On the Beach by Nevil Shute was similar, not about nuclear winter but about radiation killing everyone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel)
In practice it seems Popper's Paradox is frequently cited as a justification of force against heretics, accompanied by claims that the heresy is in and of itself a form of violence.
Some progress has been made on this; see http://bundleprotocol.com/
I see some moral outrage in these comments.

To those who find themselves critical of the US here, what would you do differently?

Would you simply stop providing training to African soldiers? Who is then going to fight ISIS and Boko Haram? Or you simply let these groups to their own devices? Or you bring American boots on the ground to fight them?

To those inclined to believe some grand conspiracy theories: it's much simpler than that. The US has limited capabilities. And reading the future is not one of them. You train some soldiers, some might turn bad. You don't train them, thousands of girls get kidnapped and then killed or sold into slavery. There's not perfect solution here.
> it's really rich to see Paul write about "implicitly ending the discussion"

Misquote. He said "implicitly ending the discussion by calling someone a x-ist", which is not the same at blocking someone who is annoying - blocking someone is just shutting your door, not making them lose their livelihood by defaming them.
Cut it out.
Nordstream is in many ways just s bargaining chip, strong German and Russian interest in it, US obviously opposed. Instigating as much instability in Ukraine and making sure that German, Russian cooperation becomes untenable, was surely part of the US plan. Germany will now import US / US client states LNG and build corresponding terminals. US imposed various sanctions and the pipeline was held up for various reasons even before the war started. Obviously that doesn’t justify Russian aggression. This is just to say that the whole Gas thing is an excellent example of foreign interference in a country both in Germany (Russia & US) and in Ukraine (Eu & Russia & US). Note how it also played a role in the maidan revolution.
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Why is an individual students parents a subject for a classroom? That is utterly bizarre and it sounds like the teacher in your hypothetical is singling out the student.
Then you get their reasoning perfectly! I use "SO" online, but we're financially independent cohabitating partners because our state doesn't recognize domestic partnerships. If I say "fiance" then I have to answer when we're getting married (we aren't), and if I say "girlfriend" or "roommate", it doesn't convey that we are each other's beneficiaries, emergency contacts, requests for power of attorney, etc, so I just use her name and leave out the relationship in conversations altogether.

I was surprised to discover how common this was after I tried to explain and found out many of the couples we knew and worked with who are "married" aren't.
What a hot take. I want more public data as much as anyone, but forcing companies to make an asset “available” hasn’t worked out so well historically.
I don't think that's fair. Nobody is debating what it means to be black, jewish or muslim. People's attitudes to people who are those things vary, but for the most part everybody is in agreement about which people are black, which people are Jewish, etc.

On the other hand, there is no such agreement around gender. People are using terms such as "gender", "man" and "woman" to refer to vastly different concepts ranging from "how someone subjectively feels inside" to "what physiological traits someone has" to "how someone is treated by society".

To the extent that not understanding someone comes from not understanding how they personally define gender and how that fits with how other people are using the same term, it seems quite reasonable to be confused.
Ok that subject I appreciated this thread which pointed out that despite propaganda on both sides, journalists are allowed to freely report the truth of what they see, unlike in Russia. Of course we all know that in the heat of the moment truth can be subjective but the absolute stranglehold the state has over media in Russia is a very different thing than pro-Ukraine war propaganda.

https://twitter.com/nikamelkozerova/status/15108328679407042...
Just to give my 2 cents.

The motivations for any human activity are varied and complicated, but I think virtue-signaling should probably be looked at through the lens of a preemptive defense mechanism.

One of the biggest threats to individuals throughout history has been being cast out of the tribe. The modern equivalent to that is being cancelled, socially rejected and ignored, de-platformed, etc. My theory is that people who feel weak start don't feel safe in asking "Is this opinion actually morally right?" but by asking "Will this opinion put me at risk or not?".

This is why virtue-signalers espouse the opinions they do: basically amplified versions of whatever they see it's ok to express on popular media. This is partly why many Twitter profiles went an identity promoting masks/vaccines/omicron to organizing their lives around caring about Ukraine/Russia/Putin in the blink of an eye.

Remember I mentioned feeling weakness? I'm not trying to be unkind, but this might explain why the people who espouse the most extreme Tumbler-esque opinions often physically look the way they do.

And this is why every single discussion on social issues on any non-anonymous platform is total bullshit: only people with true fuck-you money and who don't give a shit about their social standing can have an honest discussion in public on anything really controversial.
The left’s current position is that puberty blockers should be available to all kids until they can decide what gender they want to be. They claim there are zero (0) irreversible side effects to puberty blockers.

No drug has no side effects, least of all one that inhibits puberty. Letting a kid make a choice like that - one they can’t possibly understand the consequences of - is worse. Saying we’re doing it so that they don’t commit suicide in the short-term with no regard to their long-term induced infertility? That’s just irresponsible not to talk about.
I know you didn't ask me, but I just wanted to say that language is nothing without context. "Less capable" is very subjective and context-dependent, so without more specifics it can't really be "true" or "false" except very colloquially. As for "sexist" - in a void with no context, it's apparently sexist, but that doesn't mean the sentence can't exist in a non-sexist context.
But HN also adores tangents, and that gives plenty of room for GPT-3 to succeed. You could affect topical discussion merely by distracting it in several directions.
Ghost writing?
Note that none of those are “full”. The most crowded of those 7 Acelas is showing ~50% full with the others split between the <20% and ~40% categories.

And this is on the Northeast Acela, the crown jewel of the Amtrak network and between two cities with generally functioning public transit once you arrive. Most US city-pairs would be worse.
I started with the app and then after about half a year stopped using it and started exploring further. I think headspace and waking up are good. But after a while I wanted to go deeper
Half the planet would be dead and uninhabitable for a long time. USA has 88 nuclear power plants. No question they will all be targeted. So it's Chernobyl time 88, but there will be noone left to cover each of them with a sarcophagus.

The projections for a 500 warhead attack estimate 100-150 million dying immediately from the fireballs, shockwaves and fires. Then most survivors will die from the radioactive fallout, radiation sickness, starvation. Most animal life will end too.
People have successfully proven to exterminate each other on large scale by very low tech.
I've used high intensity cardio to manage pretty much any mental health issues I've flirted with over the years. (for me, mostly issues with focus, anxiety).

I am almost 40 now and I do see it seems to be diminishing in terms of effectiveness. I've tried to vary the amount and intensity but that has had limited impact.

I find now I need to manage other factors: alcohol intake, my diet, socialization, sleep, news consumption are all big ones for me.

I think there is a reason people do simplify many aspects of their lives as they get older. The sharp tools of youth aren't quite the magic they used to be.

Apps like Headspace, or just meditation generally, is something I have tried and I can see the benefit. I try to "clear my head" twice a day. Usually that's a 20 minute nap, and I've been trying to find another option and meditation seems like a good one.
I often think intelligence is an anthropo-centered definition, and even then, intelligence is often badly defined for mathematics.
I'll preface my comment by saying maybe (certainly) some people are more nuanced on the matter.

I think the baseline is equality. Anything after that, we celebrate our differences and the debate is about a future direction for us all. Extremely generic I know, but better than trying to homogenise us into a singular point of view.
Maybe you chose your "hunger" example in haste, but it's not a great counterexample to the points in the article. Only the person making the statement about being hungry can know the truth. The focus of the article, as I read it, is on shared truths that must be evaluated in public sphere.
I hear you, but for someone who jokes around, he has a habit of making some of those jokes become a reality. If he writes it down, dare I say, we should not dismiss it as a joke.
Hahaha, same here.

Have you noticed how the discussion here is fairly civil? It's very similar to most Reddit places, lobste.rs and other *moderated* fora as well.

Most of these extremes only arise in unmoderated spaces such as Facebook and Twitter. Or the original /b/.

Similar things are happening in the news comment sections wherever they don't care to moderate.

It radicalizes people long-term. I am no fan of censorship, but EU will probably step in eventually.
Who is "we", in this case? Humanity as a whole does not really have any means of coming to agreement or making collective decisions...
> By law, Amtrak’s passenger trains also have priority over freight traffic. But in practice this doesn’t happen...

Yeah, no kidding! I've always understood the relevant law to be the other way around - granted, this based mostly on what I've heard from other Northeast Regional passengers while we're sitting at a dead stop waiting for a load of orange juice or something to get the hell out of the way, as seems reliably to happen at least once per trip.
Old wunderlist user, migrated to MS todo which as expected has gotten worse over time, particularly the buggy macOS app but is good enough on the web and iOS.

IIRC the original developer offered to buy it back from Microsoft but Microsoft refused.
* Heresy supporters give themselves a license thinking it is about issues of real racism, sexism, and other real bad problems, but...

* The tools of censorship are then used for normal speech. Proof: Ron Paul had a YouTube channel. He left politics before the covid and no videos had been posted since the pandemic started. But they censored his YouTube channel full of videos by censoring all of the videos and the channel.

* Proof here: https://twitter.com/ronpaul/status/1308849979730071554

* This censorship of the political right happens in a long list of cases that have nothing to do with racism, sexism, or false propaganda. Ron Paul's YouTube channel being censored is one example in a list of thousands just like it.
I've been trying to do this myself and it's surprisingly involved. Even for sending it isn't nearly as simple as it used to be like 5 years ago.

You need to pass DKIM and MTA-STS specifically as two things most tutorials on 'sending email in golang' didn't tell me. I'm considering writing my own article on sending -deliverable- emails, because it's probably pretty important your stuff doesn't end up in spam.
No it isn’t. Nobody is literally losing their life over this.
First of all, I love trains. I've taken more than one trip across the continent (N. Am.) and it's incredibly fun, and you see so much of the country, and meet so many interesting (and annoying sometimes, sure) people. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

That said, passenger train travel makes about as much economic sense as riding in a horse-and-carriage. It's romantic but it's technologically obsolete.

That's why freight trains get priority over passenger trains (despite what the law says on the books) because there's no economic incentive and little political will to do otherwise.