skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Transphobic" means "you failed to accept all my premises as axiomatic and then follow up by agreeing with me".

It's not just trans* activists. *phobic activists have effectively changed definitions such that meaningful debate is no longer possible. No matter what points you try to raise, you get labeled "*phobe" if you express any reservations.

This is a very poor strategy in the long term. In the short term, it suppresses vocal dissent because no one wants to be called names. However, in the longer term the "*phobe" term loses its sting as people realize it's just a way to end an debate without actually debating, so the accuser loses credibility. Activists get more shrill as their tactic's effectiveness wanes, and more people are driven away because who wants to associate with perpetually shrill people? It's an exercise in self-marginalization.
A path I have seen many people take, and one I'm going to take soon, is to work at a US tech company (not necessarily FAANG, lots of largish companies do this) and transfer internally from Europe to the US. There is no lottery for L1B visas, so it's usually hassle free compared to that H1B mess.

L1B visas can also convert to green cards at some point, but I have no idea how easy that is (probably not easy at all).
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I would not be so sure. Companies go great lengths to control remote workers and protect their information, so it's probably only a matter of time when working from VR will be required at least from some of them. And then it's Office Space v2.
You’d be surprised.

There are people that got roped up in it who were not lunatics, some have since recanted a lot of what they said and mentioned how it happened. It mostly comes down to people “doing their own research” and feeling like theyre being proactive but really Google, Youtube and Facebook sent them down a rabbit hole of related content, which in this case was a “grand conspiracy few people know of”.
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> Snowpiercer: Gave up after the main plot focused on maintaining a lie, not discovering a truth (conventional screenwriting).

What do you mean by this? The "geo-engineering backfired and made the world too cold" setting of the story? I found the movie schlocky and ham-fisted, but generally entertaining in a dumb-movie sort of way. I'm not sure what you mean by maintaining a lie and discovering truth.
I strongly agree with your main assertion. I heard several professional journalists recommend "networking" and "effective self-promotion and marketing" to get internships with well-known companies to add to your as the main advice for new journalists, versus focusing their advice on how to do quality reporting to produce good work samples.

However, I speculate that The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post are equivalently great places for advancement for reporters (if only because the NYTimes's new executive editor/editor-in-chief spent much of his career with the WSJ).
There are three strong factors that come to mind:

(1) Physical fitness. These same years have seen the explosive growth of obesity and related lifestyle diseases. A greater percentage of people in first world countries (and increasingly elsewhere) are either obese or overweight. I recall reading that one way to keep your mind sharp is to be physically fit (cf: "Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain" by Ratey and Hagerman). The corollary could be that if you are not physically fit, your IQ will suffer.

(2) Pollution. Air pollution has been shown to affect IQ scores (https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/air-pollution-li...). It could be that greater pollution has been causing lower IQ scores.

(3) Sleep. I recall reading that people get lesser high quality sleep than they used to. It has very clearly become easier to stay up late today. Poor sleep is really bad for you for a number of reasons, including your cognitive performance and brain health.
You going to burn down your living room?
>Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior and everything is better in New York (and California) because that's where so much of our popular media originates and is set.

Because it mostly is. The vast swaths of the inland US are cultural black holes of consumption. There is simply not enough population density, diversity, or opportunity to generate anything meaningful. It's probably hard for Europeans to understand that in the US, I can get in a car, drive a thousand miles in any direction to a new city, get out, and find the exact identical built environment around me, inhabited by the exact same people, speaking the exact same language and accent, wearing the same clothes, eating the same food, driving the same cars, listening to the same music, and practicing the same religion.
Funny story. A company told the Swedish gov they were going to install X number of charging stations. Very ambitious project.

So they just started reporting how many they had done, and kept getting grants from the government and the EU.

Until someone actually went out and tried to find the charging stations. That's when they fled. They had a front in Switzerland I believe. Most of them got away with it.
Perhaps they mean Canada. Canada’s Prime Minister said recently, “ We’ll always defend a woman’s right to choose, and we’ll continue to expand access to reproductive health services – including abortion. Today, our government announced funding for projects that will help remove barriers to abortion service.”
Read the whole comment, FlagID is there and function signature

func IsEnabled(id FlagID) bool {

would be satisfied just fine
I think I'd rather just sanity check an incoming const than trust developers with global state.

All it takes is one idiot to mutate one of those vars and all sorts of hell can break loose.
Based on the picture, I don't see a big difference between this and the "painted bicycle gutter that motorists are comfortable driving 50mph inches from". Is it the single center motorized lane that is the important distinction?
I never understood the violence argument.

There are 1 million transgender people in the US https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227946/

There are 44 murders against them in 2021, which apparently was the worse year ever. https://www.hrc.org/resources/fatal-violence-against-the-tra...

This is a murder rate of 44/1mil, or 4.4/100k.

The general population murder rate is 6.9 in 2021 https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-murder-rate-violence-big-citie...

I can understand that trans people murders might be under-reported, but on the other hand, trans people do tend to get into more risky behavior than the general population (the general population includes retirees, children etc.)
I broadly agree that some people, mostly on more extreme ends of the political spectrum, are trying to censor views they disagree with in a way that is potentially dangerous for a free society.

However, I strongly believe that every employee of a company (and every shareholder) carries a small amount of the moral culpability for their company's actions. To purposefully choose an extreme example, would you be willing to help develop spyware for Russia to hack into phones and surreptitiously monitor communications, if your company asked you to do it?

One of the most fundamental problems in society right now is that we've decided corporations should be exempt from any kind of ethical standards. A corporation's responsibility is to make as much money as possible, we say. If it makes money, we can't expect them to do anything else.

Corporations, of course, are imaginary constructs which cannot truly be responsible for anything. Luckily, they are staffed by people, who should have just as much of a moral compass as any other human being. Your moral compass should not evaporate the moment you walk through the company door.
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Agree,

And I wonder, how does it matter if the milk is frozen? (Can't they put it in the micro? I guess I'm misunderstanding something)
Yes, definitely use CertMagic. Let me know if you have any questions!
Ironically, I think your comment is a very glib American thing to say. You reduced the entire Canadian market to just being cheaper, which was perhaps true in the height of tax breaks, but that doesn't negate the size of the industry in Canada is massive.

There is significantly more VFX/animation studio work in Canada.

I feel like you both insulted my comment, then proceeded to do the thing you suggested my comment did. it feels like projection.
I’ve been performing gangland style murders of my own printers for decades.
Maybe better instead of wasting our tax money on a secondary priorities, Ottawa should really invest on fixing the asphalt roads itself (yes, in Ottawa city), you can't drive for a few minutes in Ottawa without potholes, bumps, and forever lasting constructions.. Those are the priority that should be focused on, as it's just not about damaging the car (tires/ suspensions/etc.) that none are covered by insurance, but also might harm people could be causing an accident avoiding it or caused by it. Get your priories right, Ottawa!
> It’s very much a fact, though.

> my girlfriend (Ukrainian) said

> comms of <some> dead Russian soldiers in the early days of the war talking about this,

> including a sms conversation

So a girlfriend, some comms, and an sms conversation prove the attitude and expectations of an entire military force and their leaders?
"The reaper didn't come today, so he won't tomorrow"
You have referenced the number for 2000.

You can also see Australia punches well above it's weight in that survey. The stuff CS produces on UHNWIs is also very interesting.
It all depends on how define intelligence, If by intelligence you mean the ability to reason about and solve complex problems then education definitely improves intelligence. However, if you choose to define it as something innate then by definition education does not change that. I think the former is a far more useful definition, its more important what a person can actually do as opposed what they could do in some hypothetical world
I believe it’s in North America.
/many/ as friends is countable
I do like the way they added type-switch and switch expressions to get some of the sum-type ergonomics out of the existing object oriented type system.
> trans people do tend to get into more risky behavior

What risky behaviour are you referring to?
They hired remote workers regardless of location and decided to give everyone a month to starting working from an office?
There is no guarantee of success for any given individual, that’s always true. However, if someone you know is 18 and deciding whether to go to college, what would you recommend instead? What steps would you advise taking to be successful without more education, knowing that most high paying jobs require a degree just to get in the door for an interview? It just happens to also be compelling to me to know that, causal or not, degree holders on average have 2x higher salary and hold most of the patents and managerial spots are held by degree holders. The Fed data isn’t just a sampling of a few people, it’s accounting for everyone in the US. Don’t take my word for it, do a little searching and see how many research results conclude that there is enough causal relationship between degrees and income that the investment potential appears to be a pretty clear win.

I don’t see a lot of reason not to invest in education. The fear that it might not pay off doesn’t (for me anyway) push back that much on the strength of the nationwide correlation between degrees and high income.

I’m a little sad about reducing it just to money too, education is an investment in other ways too. When done well, it can be time spent gaining knowledge, investigating history, helping people understand more of the context of what’s happening here and now. Education provides freedom to explore, both now while you’re studying, and in the future with your career. I don’t have a lot of belief in the idea that the opportunity cost is too high.
“This was a well-planned and managed layoff that WhiteHat Jr did,” a former employee remarked.

Indeed. Vicious, but well played.
If you're accusing me, be good enough to be specific.
This is likely a general layoff. Edtech bubble in India has bursted. Many edtech are going through huge layoffs.
Landing page is not a website. Wish there were more examples of some functional aspects of good design.
You're welcome to provide a better approach.

Pointing out the limits of the currently implemented mechanism (in Bitcoin) does not equate to Bitcoin being inferior to the trust system of conventional currencies.
Why would I use this over say minikube + ingress or just plain Docker + Caddy?
If it was the same strain as genotyped, it would have been an outbreak.

Considering that bacteria is everywhere, if it was an actual outbreak it would be the same strain.

Now, there should be as little contamination as possible, but the reality is that levels of sterility always vary, and it is a certain amount of contaminants in PPM or PPB.
I suspect lines really are only needed when you want to fit maximum lanes in a given space - many of the four lane roads here would turn into one lane each way without lines.
I agree with your points but his particular joke was about transphobia vs racism. That trans and gay people can turn on their white privilage in a second to attack black people, including using cops to attack black people, knowing cops are trained to fear black people and use excessive force against them.

Of course he isnt taking into account people who are both black and trans but in only this one case, you need to actually understand the joke first.

All that said, Netflix is also wrong because as employees of Netflix the people will be linked to this content weather they like it or not and it doesnt matter what content you are talking about weather its The Bodyguard(Islamophobic), Dave Chapelle(Transphobia), Squid Game(anti capatilist or anti communist depending on whi you ask) or probably the worst, Cuties(GOP and Qanon has diluted this word, but pedophilia). If you are an employee and this is original content, your name is forever linked to it and so you should be able to have a say in it. If it was purchased content, maybe you could say you weren't involved.

Overall this is a complex issue with multiple layers and I say this all as a hardcore leftist.
"> Not all mothers can or want to breast feed.

Those that don't want to should probably reconsider having kids."

How well does that work for their first baby if it's some unanticipated problem the mother has??

Modern civilization starting with agriculture is also a repudiation of the "survival of the fittest" philosophy you're pushing.
It's really hard to tell the difference between "intended to disgust the viewer" and "intended to tittilate the viewer with a fetish I don't share". I mean, any scene of sexualizing children is going to disgust me. How am I supposed to know which ones are meant that way?

(Also, consider the existence of exploitation films, which loudly proclaim how bad X is in order to have an excuse to show X to people who like seeing X.)
> Culturally they offer the world very little.

what do you mean? you say that you work in vfx but do canadians creating television and movies not count as "offering something culturally?" Not to mention the long list of actors and famous musicians/bands from canada. more specifically, I wonder what you consider to be important cultural contributions.

anyhow, your prognosis of 'borrowing from everyone else' is factually correct. canada is a land of immigrants. though, if you don't think toronto has a specific toronto food culture, you'll be disappointed when all you find is the usual gaumet of international food options in new york and la. unless if you want to tell me that italian food is somehow a cultural contribution of new york.
>while the rich can keep money in market accounts and get returns up to and over 5%

Sure, if your money market fund is backed by junk bonds as collateral maybe. But that’s hardly the same as an FDIC insured deposit or UST collateralized fund. The yields on those are not great no matter how much money you have to invest.
The book I'm reading Weapons of Mass Instruction explains this as being part of the goals of forced schooling as designed by Carnegie and other industrialist to make easier to manage laborers.
Hopefully it was accidental and not a sleight of hand, but I hope you realize you pivoted a statement about the trans activists being pushed back against (that they are “deluded”) to being about trans people as a whole. I feel like this kind of pivot happens so often in bad faith that people now do it subconsciously and not even necessarily in bad faith but simply out of habit.

Similarly, (but not necessarily in the exact same vein,) there is an overarching sentiment that all trans people agree with the broader LGBT community, but it’s definitely not true.
The Typescript way would only work for local variables in Java. Since another thread might update a field between the instanceof check and the use of the field.
I was not replying to your proposal, but to the comment by "lenkite", which only defines "var Animal" and no type.
Not if Climate Change is any concern. What we need in Antarctica is a factory that makes it colder there, not dump heat there. What you want to do is have heatsinks that dump heat to the cold side of the vacuum of space.
This isn't about foreign policy, this is about domestic food prices, which are more politically important than foreign policy for any government in any country
The right is the populist party because small towns get a disproportionate vote.
Ask HN: Startups working on services enabled by autonomous vehicles?
Do folks here know of any startups working on ideas that depend on level 4 AV tech becoming a commodity in the next few years? e.g. autonomous street cleaning, repurposing parking structures, mobile grocery stores
No, there are books and there's the knowledge people have in their heads. The bigger danger is the declining of society over a few hundred years. If there is no preparations for it. We could see a loss of knowledge. We could have a situation where knowledge is locked in machines and books without humanity being able to access it.
In any profession, if you want to be very successful, America is your best shot.

But you can't have both cradle to grave security, and the opportunity for success. You can see that in the endless Progressive proposals to erase American billionaires in exchange for more security.
You can buy a goat in milk for $500 or so.
This wasn't a good look on Netflix employees back then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMPp6kdXUek
Seems strictly true assuming they're using 'pirating' to mean copyright infringement?
> L1B visas can also convert to green cards at some point, but I have no idea how easy that is (probably not easy at all).

False. L1B is not related to Green Card in any way. You can get the employer to petiton you for a green card while working on L1B.
A part of me suspects that the proxy war the US is waging against Russia to decimate the Russian military and force a regime change is motivated by getting Russia under the control of western IP, financial, and other regulation.
I don't think it's in a comedians job description to take anything seriously
Do people tell you that you are not really an addict or mentally ill, that that's not even a thing, and that it's just a phase you grow out of once you simply make up your mind?

[edit] Ok, got it. I don't mean to question anyone's personal experience, and sorry that this is what's happening to you.

Also, I don't want to 'rank' the degree of marginalization different groups experience, that's not at all what I'm after. Ideally, none of this would exist and everyone would just live happily ever after.

What I mean is that I don't see a national debate, through politicians or 'celebrities', that deny the existence of, say, alcoholism.

But again, I don't mean to imply that those groups don't suffer. Also, I can just be wrong.
Agree with you on both accounts!
Not intelligence but insecurity is the formula for success. Truly intelligent people are comfortable figuring stuff out along the road. Success is accidental and might even be worth avoiding.
I love the uses of random noise here to create texture and shading at the same time.
Black holes created from energy are called Kugelblitz black holes [1]. The article correctly points out the difficulty of doing so with traditional lasers.

But if we can ever figure out a way to reflect (and thus lase) gamma rays (or some other much higher energy radiation) this then becomes possible.

Of course we don't even have a plausible theory on how we might construct "grasers" [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_laser
> I do think there are situations where support can't help, but those are usually situations where Heroku is probably not the right place to host a service.

This hasn't been my experience at all. Mysterious performance issues are met with "We can't help, just install NewRelic" (the issues don't exist when running the same code on other services). Billing questions have yielded delayed and cryptic responses. Table stakes customer support simply isn't being addressed. And I don't blame the support agents, I just don't think they have the tools or resources to help.

By comparison, AWS has managed to answer almost all of my questions within one or two messages. Hell, even Amazon has admitted when there's a bug on their end. That simply doesn't happen at heroku anymore.
I think this title/article is a bit misleading.

1/ The company was hemorrhaging money and wanted resignations (if I'm understanding "INR CR" correctly, they lost $218,102,508 USD last year??)

2/ This was India, so the stock image feels a bit misleading

3/ It happened two months ago, not recently

4/ It wasn't just coming back to the office; it was relocating people to offices who hadn't worked there before

5/ They even forced people who worked near an office go to OTHER offices in other cities

Here's the original source, which is much better (and includes details on revenue and expenses): https://inc42.com/buzz/exclusive-over-800-whitehat-jr-employ...

This isn't a case of workers preferring WFH over the office; it's a sneaky layoff.