skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Need to know hardware alignement requirements in order to align a given value post struc extraction.
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.2/gcc/Variable-Attribut...
The major fiat currencies use a proof of violence system to establish value. Specifically, engaging in economic activity incurs fiat denominated tax liabilities, even if that activity doesn’t use the fiat. The currency issuing and taxing authority has offered proof that it will use whatever violence is necessary to enforce those tax liabilities. This creates a more or less inelastic demand for fiat and thus gives it value.
I attribute the desire to go out of their way to spend more money just to live in a cramped box among strangers to be overdeveloped social neurosis. Humans lived for millions of years in large open spaces, owned land de facto, and had ample space (think kilometers) for themselves or their children to run around outside.

If you want to live in a box and own nothing, go ahead. I can't imagine going back to living on less than 8k sq meters. The growing population is a virus encroaching on man's ability to own his kingdom, not something to be applauded and smiled about.
It kills your livelihood. It will make it hard for you to get a future job if they don't give you a good reference, especially if the industry is close-knit.

It puts your financial wellbeing of you and your family at risk.

You and others will probably think twice before dissenting otherwise you better dust off that resume and tap into those savings.

But I guess people aren't killing people so cancel culture is okay, is that your standard?
IMO making meditation a productive activity with (shudder) metrics is far more divorced from tradition.

Again, isn’t aimlessness the point of Buddhism? Taming and mastering the ‘I’ and it’s worldly attachments like aiming for things?
For a long while, notes backend used IMAP.

I lost a bunch of notes that I didn't realize were stored on an email account that went away.
Midlife cognitive training could improve balance in later life
Well that explains a lot of things.
How Cast Iron Pans Are Made (2021)
Because no software is good at removing ambiguity. Only humans or maybe AI are good at maybe detecting ambiguity and removing it. It requires previous experiences, something computers cannot do accurately enough. Programming languages are a bit like real languages, they require human intelligence.

And there are still edge cases that could be ambiguous to humans, so you definitely want any compiler to refuse ambiguous programs. Computers are mathematical machines, they do everything without asking for your permission, so you better pray their behavior is well defined.

Look at what happens when language are ambiguous like javascript or HTML: it becomes hard to use, and js engines are monsters you don't want to understand how they work. I'm not a fan of C++ and its difficulty, but it's my favorite language because it's well defined.

Maybe compiler engineers may attempt to demonstrate how inserting semicolons in some place could create undesirable situations. Writing parsers is one of the toughest programming task, in my view.

Rules in languages don't exist for nothing. Even duck typing has a cost. It's like deciding that people can drive anywhere on the road, and let people decide how to avoid each other. Sure they can, and it would work 99% of the time, but 99% of the time is not good enough.
I'm developing right now an app like fabulous for tracking your routines & habits. Personally, what I can say - if you stick to routines, you will feel better & have more energy, it is a crucial part of your life.
I used Headspace for about a year ~5 years ago. Before that, I had tried meditation randomly but hadn’t gotten much out of it. After a few months of using the app, I learned enough to see the benefits. It helped get me to a point where I also added IRL meditation classes and community.

I no longer use the app, but I’ve maintained a practice since. The app was useful as training wheels / structure. I was motivated to learn about meditation and it helped me.

I think any number of free resources could have worked, but paying and having structure was a motivator to continue.
At least Naggum's was creative and entertaining in his abrasiveness. I'm not sure if I would have enjoyed actually interacting with him, but I always chuckle a bit reading through his old rants. If you read these things with a bit of humour it's quite funny.
Certainly domesticated cats are much more adept at predicting the behavior and actions of humans.
You're absolutely correct, but that still isn't helpful to someone who is already committed to being a single-issue activist. You're taking completely the wrong angle. You have to address the why and not the belief itself.

Edit: It's not particularly important or relevant to what's been said here if you see the mainstream discourse as shifting to being "more moderate". This is a given with any single-issue activist, it's your business if you deal in organizing activists. The shift to being moderate only happens through this process, there's no other process.

If you don't concern yourself with organizing activists, then this isn't your wheelhouse, and I don't see why it was brought up.
Yeah, good point - I thought it could be that Next.js changed their default behaviour to use strict mode when they upgraded to React 18 but another comment says React 17 silenced the duplicate logs(!) so maybe the change is older than that.
You seem to be ignoring Pat Buchanon who literally used the term "culture war".
Are you critiquing the luxury goods market or am I missing something?
> Not lately, according to the data the UK has been reporting

Original research or are you repeating the well-known debunked tripe despite knowing better?

The unadjusted rates in population subgroups are in table 14.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Every single age subgroup has a significantly lower risk of death when vaccinated. The risk of hospitalization is also lower, but less dramatically. This is despite cases being recorded in the vaccinated at a higher rate over this interval (which is probably an artifact of the data rather than being real).

If you look at the raw sum without considering the subgroups, your number is confounded by the fact that the vast majority of the deaths are in people 80+, who are also vaccinated at a higher rate than the general population.

This is about the best known statistical "paradox" that there is-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox

Another confound is that we really don't know the number of unvaccinated people. Counting errors get magnified. If you think you have 1M people in a locality, and you know you have vaccinated 930,000 people... you get a huge swing in rates if you actually have 980k vs 1020k people.
Oh I agree, it's a regional thing and not cross country (at least this country). It should connect metro regions and maybe have some long thin routes between those.

For California if they could do SF to LA in ~3 hours, that would be a huge change since the current drive is about twice that (and extremely boring from my drive last week). LA to Vegas is another route that should exist given the massive amount of 45 minute flights and cars that already do that.
As a hi senior dev who has spent the last 6 months full time mentoring a fresh-out-of-bootcamp junior, while also having my own project drag on longer than expected... you are doing fine. Your team (and management) is clearly woefully unprepared, unequipped, and unwilling, to properly mentor a new engineer
Yeah I often see this kind of vague posting about cancel culture, but generally speaking people are being cancelled (which can either just mean being criticised, or the more legitimate problem of people contacting employers) for either directly saying things that are offensive (the aforementioned -isms) or are implications that directly lead to -ist conclusions. My understanding is that the underlying complaint is that the social left has cultural power right now - conservatives are equally likely to "cancel" people for atheism or being gay or having an abortion, but when they are on the back foot use the free speech argument as a wedge against the same behaviour from the other side.
Oh ok. I was thinking patterns have occurred throughout history and that we could learn to identify those patterns to avoid repeating history.

But good point, no two times in history are completely identical so we shouldn’t bother.
Ah, thank you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Ordinal_dates

Looks like I'm using the second format (YYYYDDD) with the first two year digits truncated.
I would characterize the Amtrak support as ideologically motivated solutions in search of a problem.

Other than the NE lines, Amtrak is a pet project.
“Political right” is doing a lot of work here. People aren’t getting fired for supporting lower taxes or environmental deregulation.
The freight railroads fought for years to get Amtrak setup so they could ditch their unprofitable passenger rail. Freight trains also don't travel in the same way passenger rail wants to, and rarely stops, and is slow.

The solution is to build parallel lines and more passing sidings and dual track, but that's expensive and nobody involved wants to.

For comparison, the double tracking of Los Angeles to San Diego has been in progress for 20+ years now and is at about 2/3s double track. https://www.sandag.org/index.asp?projectid=260&fuseaction=pr...

And if you really want freight and passenger to coexist you build entirely separate lines (or quad track allowing overtaking).
The best moment is when you become aware that you aren’t yourself immune to everything you critize others for.
The 90s was a strange ideological moment -- the eastern religion failed, so the western religion admitted pluralism within its own denominations. It was an interregnum in which the liberal democratic order was unchallenged.

It is, today, challenged from all sides. What PG et al. call "free speech" was just the peace of a political moment. In every other era "free speech" is a demand with costs; we should expect that to be the default.
Why isn't anyone making something the size of an Intel NUC but powered by an 8+ core ARM CPU with NVMe/SATA SSD and meant for running Windows?
amusing irony
How many care?

Society has splintered in half, with the at-risk along with those who can’t afford to live separately, and everyone else.

People spent the last 24 months segregating after initially combining. Unlike before there is no need to even consider how it spreads from an individuals behavior anymore. We had a unique brief period of history where we actually helped the immunocompromised and other at risk populations live, and then simply reverted to the mean. At risk populations never had that consideration before and now dont have it after, and we learned how to manage. The rest of us will slowly and periodically move to being an at risk population - there are always opportunistic infections - and thats good enough for our emergency services capacity.
> If PG wanted to stop getting pushback for approaching what society thinks is an acceptable line, he totally can, he just needs to rebrand and get out of the startup game.

No he doesn't. He can also opt to continue being exactly the brand that he is, remain firmly in the startup game, same push back against the self-appointed "social police", who only get away with their "policing" because people usually roll over.
> I could envision a WM that allows you to group windows together into tabs or sub-windows.

Fluxbox (fork from blackbox, a sibling/cousin to openbox) did this over 20 years ago ...
The bigger question is, does it violate any patents? Not necessarily intentionally, but because there's only so many ways you can build a GPU and (almost) all of them are patented already. Apple themselves failed to build a GPU from the ground up, so it's actually difficult.
Yep. A junior delaying a project for a month sounds like a completely fucked up process.

That, or the junior taking WAY more responsibility than a normal junior and deserves a fantastic raise.
I don't particularly enjoy sawing wood or gluing boards together, but I enjoy the art of woodworking.

Similarly, I don't necessarily enjoy writing code, but I do enjoy building useful programs.
I think he just got bored with saying the same things over and over again. The point was made, and so on.
“Hacking modernity?”
I didn't say it was essential, I was filling in the details that the parent post was not able to understand. I do not play games, and I do not believe either of the two necessitates the other, I just have a knack for understanding simple concepts.
You mean this UK?

MET police uses facial recognition.

> https://www.wired.co.uk/article/met-police-facial-recognitio...

The UK has more CCTV cameras per capita than any other country, bar China.

> https://www.yahoo.com/video/britain-more-surveillance-camera...

UK parliament sneaks in new live facial recognition rules.

> https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2021/08/23/uk-go...
Lawyers completely disagree with your interpretation. Being say is part of someone's sexual orientation, so the don't say gay bill prohibits discussing it at all. Being trans is part of a gender identity so it is not allowed to be discussed. The law is very explicit in this, as I've quoted.
this sounds similar to angular which performs multiple passes in dev mode and warns if values have not settled
You can believe that gender is irrelevant and only sex matters, but you should still make an effort to be polite and nice to your coworkers - for example call them by the name they go for even if it is different from the one on their ID, use the pronouns that they prefer, etc.

Of course, like all things related to politeness, there is no absolute rule - if I change my pronouns every week I shouldn't expect people to keep up. But it should not be surprising that you can be fired for not making a minimal effort to be nice to your colleagues.
Fair point. But Musk actually said he wanted Ethernet at one point. Or maybe he said something like it, I don't remember.
> Here's one: I don't believe that gender identity is a valid concept

One funny thing I learned from studying high demand religions: you don't have to believe something for it to be true. It's existence is entirely orthogonal to a person's opinion.
You mis-paraphrased the argument. Your paraphrase insertion [] is incorrect. It should be:

[that such x-ist labels are applied to statements regardless of their truth or falsity]

Your conclusion is roughly his point, but his point holds independently of the "truth" of the underlying statement.
> We’re simply not going to end someone’s life over a differing opinion

Unless that opinion is about who owns a specific piece of land.
I don't think gp was questioning that, so much as the likelihood of finding more than one fossil from the same event, given all the times we could have found fossils from.
Yes, but it's in the context of someone already having said that an "x-ist" statement can't be true.

The quote in question is immediately after this paragraph:

> If you find yourself talking to someone who uses these labels a lot, it might be worthwhile to ask them explicitly if they believe any babies are being thrown out with the bathwater. Can a statement be x-ist, for whatever value of x, and also true? If the answer is yes, then they're admitting to banning the truth. That's obvious enough that I'd guess most would answer no. But if they answer no, it's easy to show that they're mistaken, and that in practice such labels are applied to statements regardless of their truth or falsity.

Which the quote about the variation of a statement is given as an obvious counter argument once someone has already said that x-ist statements cannot be true.
Can you please be more specific? I really do not know what would be “heresy” now. Maybe I’m tweeting something which is “heresy” (and knowing that since nobody reads my tweets).
Which groups are deserving of criticism that they're currently protected from?
The story goes that the editor wasn't initially made public because they thought it would be too difficult to use. After some persistent requests, they let a few people have the editor as a trial. Even without any documentation they were able to make new maps from scratch, which convinced Looking Glass. The tools were then included with every release of the games afterwards.
The kind that comes from 30 years in a country considered to have "amazing" public transport.

Rail is great if you're going long distances, or if traffic is an absolute nightmare. Not so much for the much shorter distances inday to day travel. Worse, if you're walking out to the train station, that's even more time spent that would have been covered by a car.
Interesting and an odd choice of behaviour in 17! I tested in a codesandbox with Next.js using React 17 and 18 and observed that only 18 did the double logging I was seeing, so assumed it was new behaviour in 18. Actually I guess I was seeing 17 silencing the double log.
Lol with a reply like that, I don't care. It was a simple question that could have been a yes or no, but you had to do the most. Take care stranger. Enjoy yourself.
My experience has been the opposite. Empathy and willingness to learn are treated well, both by activists and trans people themselves.
It's not just congress. On the west coast, they also answer to the state legislatures and multiple municipalities.

Example insanity:

Capitol Corridor trains have 4 cars. Two are handicap accessible on the bottom level and/or also bike cars. The Berkeley station has two platforms on one of two tracks. (The other track has four platforms).

In practice, very few handicap people use the train, since the stations are basically only accessible via bike, car or corporate shuttle. However, many people ride bikes to the train. This causes a shortage of bike slots, so people would bungee their bikes to rails, etc in the handicap area, always leaving a few seats for wheelchairs. (The conductors would make a bicyclist move their bike in the vanishingly rare scenario when the handicap spaces filled up. This wouldn't even delay the train in practice.)

The liberal politicians got wind of this, deemed it discriminatory, and forced the conductors to crack down on bike bungees, potentially stranding commuters even though the train was mostly empty.

Amtrak responded by adding bike slots and redesigned the cars. The conservatives deemed this unacceptable, since the new cars don't contain gun lockers.

You see, you're allowed to carry a gun on Amtrak, but it must be secured in a locker. So, Amtrak retrofitted the bike spaces so one closet (for three bikes) had a sliding metal door that could be locked. The door partially blocked one of the three bike slots (so road bikes fit, usually, but not mountain bikes), and if (and I don't think this ever happened, even once) someone brought a handgun on to a full train, they'd kick 2-3 cyclists off the train.

Why did I mention the Berkeley station, you ask? Well, with the lower bike storage density in the cars, sometimes (1 of ten rides), the train would have departing bikes in a car without a platform. The "platform" is a concrete pad that sits about 6 inches above the gravel. For liability reasons, allowing a bicyclist to disembark on gravel was a firable offence.

Instead, the bikes were supposed to move to the correct car one station earlier (though it was not always known which car was correct). Failing that, they could attempt to take the bike upstairs then downstairs to move cars, or be dropped one station later (downtown Richmond), then bike back to Berkeley.

It would have cost a few hundred in concrete to add two platforms, but it would have required coordination between multiple bureaucracies.

Also, they were forcing cyclists into dangerous situations to avoid liability. I'd love to be on the jury if something ever happened!
> It's always the company's fault

There's a basic expectation that people should be actually showing up to work. How can you possibly vet during an interview that someone will be flaky like this? Sometimes people just don't have a good enough work ethic that meets the basic expectations and no amount of ramp up plan or initial feedback is going to produce changes quickly enough to make continuing the relationship worthwhile. People like this are just constant ongoing headaches. Thankfully, they're in the extreme minority in my experience.

Although I would cut some more slack for the background noise during calls. Not everyone has separate rooms they can work from. Instead, the company should have sent him a good headset to use which would mute background noise. Sometimes my coworkers will apologize for their dogs barking and I'll say I can't hear anything when they are using a good headset.
Actually, if you work in tech it's kinda tough. Especially when he buys a large stake in a company whose services you consider valuable and then starts bleating out erratic trollish(?) hot takes. I ignore him on Twitter and then they turn up here.
It sure would be great if English could be simplified to remove gendered pronouns.

In Tagalog, it/she/he is a simple word, "siya" (pronounced "sha" if said quickly).
If you don’t understand, why are you drawing the attention of the “wolves” by speaking before trying to understand?
cat survival-guide.txt
It’s not a proof. It begs the question and starts from the assumption that the OP is ok with the US bombing people. Then it uses the dodgy premise that the US is worse than Russia when considering the metric “number of people bombed” (which I assume includes things like Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Vietnam war, not bothering with details such as the fact that these were actual wars and not unprovoked agressions), ignoring any other metric like “number of killed foreign civilians”, on which Russia, as the proud heir of the USSR, would be vying for the top spot with nazi Germany.

So yeah, faulty premise, cherry picking, and circular logic, as well as putting words into someone else’s mouth. It is just sub-standard trolling.
We had to rotate all our handles to vertical because our cat learned in 2 weeks how to operate them.
It is not compassion to lie to people and pretend they are what they are not.

Gender dysphoria is real, social contagion is real, and we shouldn't accept or embrace a self-destructive ideology that radically derails the lives of teenagers and younger.

Adults can behave however they want, but it should be considered child abuse to foster transgenderism and transsexuality in minors.
Is that what it means to you? That's an interesting angle I had not considered.
> He was hired behind my back, and began a React project using some "admin template" that we didn't need, and now it's a dirty mess. He had a wedding+honeymoon planned before he started with us I guess, which took him out 2 weeks shortly after starting.

Not the employee's fault...

> But he also missed half days of work whenever a contractor showed up at his house. Meeting calls were attended with of his wife making outbound sales calls in the same room and frequently with his dogs barking like crazy the whole time. He often traveled on the weekend and emailed that he "got stuck" and wouldn't be in until Tuesday or Wednesday. On days he showed up for a full day it was typically 10:30am to 5:00pm. I had to change pretty much every code commit to use it.

Those are issues where firing would be appropriate if they happened more than a couple times. Especially if they happened early in the job (aka probation period in most countries).

"You're not working the previously agreed amount, quantitatively!" is probably the least controversial reason for firing someone.