skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's certainly one pro-abortion position, but not the only one.

The more general position is that whatever interests a fetus may or may not have to continued life is outweighed by the bodily autonomy interests of the mother in a given scenario. The Violinist Argument is a classic thought experiment that argues even if the continued life in question belongs to fully-grown adult human who happens to be a world-class artist, bodily autonomy still wins.
I'll start by saying that overall I agree. For engineers, specifically, things are still pretty good and companies are actively hiring.

That being said, be careful with this assumption. Recruiters aren't going to stop recruiting; that's their job. At many companies, they have a certain amount of outreach they're required to do. If they stop emailing, then all of a sudden they stop doing their job, and that means they're personally going into layoffs with bad numbers.

The jobs still exist, but behind the scenes it's likely things are changing. Companies are hiring 2 engineers instead of 10, or increasing their hiring bar significantly. The difference between "we're desperate to hire" and "we're open if someone great comes along..." is huge, but you won't see a difference in how recruiters treat you.

tl;dr = if a company cuts their hiring plan from 10 engs to 1, they still send the same number of recruiting emails.
There is a whole genre of people building "by hand" underground pools and other crazy structures in the jungles. Aside from being terribly unsafe, if you look closely you can often see marks in the dirt from machine tools that they forgot to smooth away in the soft clay.
And based on the Ritz crackers ad that just played when I opened the link, she’s not opposed to monetizing her moral outrage.
This is why I have a 3.7m entry dns block list, and a few other things. EFF ads.
Consumer vehicles have benefitted from improvements in the process to make safety glass, and are substantially more aerodynamic than they were.

In the 41 years since our VW Vanagon was made, the aerodynamic profile has not changed. And yet, while not measured with accuracy suitable for a lab report, we clean far fewer bugs of thing than years prior. As in, previously one might have to stop at a gas station just to clean the bugs off the windshield. Whereas these days, I'm actually surprised when a bug splats on the windshield.

That, and your premise is flawed to begin with:
...data showing that modern cars hit more bugs, perhaps because older models push a bigger layer of air – and insects – over the vehicle.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/12/car-spla...
Or VLang: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31944777
As cleaning a toaster most likely involves sticking things into it (like a brush, maybe even a knife to scrape off the burnt stuff) and you also don't want your kids to stick stuff (especially metal) into a toaster, I'd say it's safer to skip the "elbow grease" lesson in this special case.
This caused me to google some refrigerants mentioned in the comments, and I gotta say, reading about auto techs' opinions on different refrigerants is... weirdly interesting: https://www.autoserviceprofessional.com/articles/7868-real-w...
>But they're convinced they're not addicted as you can't get addicted to weed.

Habit forming, yes. Physically addictive? No.
Okay, so assorted cryptocurrency scams have obvious financial incentives, and I assume the sexual ones are trying to get people onto a paid site. What's driving the animal gore videos? I can't think that there's anything to sell there; is it just people uploading stuff for the shock value?
"vi is pronounced six, it rhymes with emacs" where you pronounce it "emix".
I actually agree with you and am now wondering why the heck I’ve used gg all this time.
Nothing to offer? Keep dreaming.
Yeah, I've heard from someone implementing it that on an RV32I core (so not quite a RV32E, but pretty close), the area difference between implementing the compressed instructions and not was about the same as 64 bytes of SRAM. There is a cross over point, but it's pretty damn low. Particularly when you weigh the reduced size of the code memory needed, it's almost always a no brainer.
And China will start manufacturing R12 and selling it, if the price paid for exchanging it is more than the manufacturing cost.
The article isn’t saying the venues were abandoned but more that they didn’t fulfil the promises on affordable housing.
That was a rhetorical question, I am not implying you should do anything.
Thank you for the transparency.
Authoritarian regimes offer strong leadership in the age of peak brain fuck.

To achive a sustainable way of life, which tackles alot of our problems, China is in a pretty good position to reign into its citizens lifes and change vast economic processes top to bottom.
The US has been in a proxy war in Ukraine since the war broke out in 2014 - we've had CIA training programs since at least 2015 to train Ukranians to fight Russians in the Donbas. The West did not like Putin backing Assad in Syria...

Ukraine is a proxy war and has been since it broke out in 2014 - plenty of evidence to suggest the US was nation building there too under the Obama admin (Nuland Pyatt tapes). Biden and Kerry were all over Ukraine as senators / VP since shortly after the fall of the USSR, and don't forget Ukraine had an IMF loan up for renewal (which was predatory to say the least) in 2013 right before Euromaidan, and Russia was going to bankroll their loan instead. Wouldn't be the first time a coup follows an IMF loan.

Don't take it from me though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOBntnuYCMA
As annoying as that is, these kinds of events are very helpful for young folks.

That's how we learn.

I still do dumb stuff all the time, it's just more complicated dumb stuff :D

But at least it is complicated and -novel- dumb stuff.
What part of the world do you live in that tells you that you can make those types of decisions for people that live in other places in the world?

Come to Texas and drive your car with no AC and just the windows rolled down. Please, I'll let you stay at my house for the duration of the experiment just to watch you bitch about the heat. I'll even record it for your socials so you can just show everyone how amazing your idea was.
What would be non-misguided direct action warfare
Wow. "I prefer honest and open employees no matter how many lies we have to tell to get that" is quite the take.
Do you believe the media has relatively clear political convictions? The treatment of presidents and parties in the US changes drastically depending on who's in power. It's almost like a joke.
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Also, I was hit by bugs around lakes and swamps just riding a bike. Walking some places was unbearable because of bugs my entire childhood.

They are almost all gone now, clear as can be.
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R32 in Aircons and R290 (propane) in monoblocks is on the rise in EU-Heatpumps.
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> For what it's worth, every GitHub project has a mechanism for submitting issues. It's better Open Source spirit to utilize these tools as intended.

Are project issues the right place for reviews of claims? Negative point sure would be nice to have as github issues (and checking for some easily searchables: they seem to exist [1,2]) but many of the points in the review don't suite issues well. I don't think "you can open tickets" would be a useful response to "wat" [3] either.

Alternatively your suggestion was for me to wade through the issues to figure out if the critizism holds, which I find is not a helpful suggestion either, as many of them are not particularly well searchable. Also, I assumed, as the review got a bit of attention and the creator was in the thread, it would lead to an interesting response a-la "we are aware, fixing it, many fixed already, here is our roadmap" with possible discussion. I am a bit saddened that it turned out to be much more hostile and negative.

[1] https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/11059 (won't fix undefined behavior in generated code)

[2] https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/7519 (fixed missing openssl header)

[3] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
...while at the same time, being used in proxy wars.
It didn't happen in Los Angeles for the 1984 Olympics.

The Los Angeles area has so many pro sports teams with stadiums or arenas and so many colleges with stadiums or arenas that most of what they needed was already covered. They only had to build two new permanent venues and make some temporary adjustments to some of the existing ones.

The new ones were a velodrome and a swim stadium, both paid for by corporate sponsors. The velodrome was built at a Cal State university paid for by 7-11, and the swim stadium was built at USC and paid for by McDonalds.

Both of those venues were useful after the Olympics. The velodrome was the only Olympic standard velodrome in the US and remained in use until 2004 when it was replaced with a bigger facility nearby that included an Olympic velodrome plus facilities for some other sports. The swim stadium hosted many major swim events until 2013 when it was closed and renovated and resumes hosting major events.

Los Angeles was also able to make its Olympic Village and athlete housing cheaply. They used undergraduate housing at USC and UCLA. Combined they have enough on-campus housing for something like 35000 undergraduates, most of which is empty over the summer.

Los Angeles has so much normally going on when it comes to large events and tourism that an Olympics is not really a big deal there when it comes to infrastructure.
You have solved a mystery that has plagued me for years, thank you!

tac took off at a former company of mine and I really like it. The hard t and k sound make it a much a better word than dash if you're describing a set of command line options.
While I am excited about RISC-V, let makes sure we don't get carried away.

> Risc-V: fully open source processor design, along with a reference implementation and tooling. As far as I know, hardware does not have a history of being free and open.

Yes, it is possible to have more FOSS hardware, but this is not a guarantee. Companies can choose to keep their implementations closed and modify the implementations. RISC-V is permissively licensed afterall.

I really hope companies who implement RISC-V in the future keep open about their implementations, but it isn't a hard requirement.
I agree, companies are more worried about it than they need to be, but they see it as a risk they don't need to entertain.

Most people continue doing what they were doing the day before unless pushed.
what is the dilemma? Seems to me that if you can't abide working on the codebase, you have to do the right thing for you and the company and look for another employer.
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Plenty of people do.
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Instead of $132 per kWh like Lithium batteries these cost $25 per kWh and with almost endless number of cycle times. Covers pros and cons.
Broadly refers to countries with a history of being colonized rather than a history of being colonizers. There certainly was a racial aspect to colonialism, yes.
Along the same lines, there’s also the short book “War is a racket”, by retired general Smedley Butler

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
Plus you have the people resigning around the lay-offs. Nobody wants to be on a sinking ship and having your workmates sacked and morale at the company dropping can make people think about other opportunities.
No guide on Unix commands, but I will absolutely die on the hill that "sudo" should be pronounced "pseudo" instead of "soo-doo."
Child me figured out how to make a wire hot with a 9v battery. Why fuck with a HV transformer.
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All this panic about tech layoffs seems a little premature given we haven’t even begun to see the impact of rates hikes on quarterly earnings yet. Many companies still have open recs and budgets to keep hiring.

I work at a company that just laid off 18% of the workforce (Coinbase) including many people in engineering. The day this happened my email, LinkedIn, Twitter inboxes exploded with companies asking me if I knew of anyone looking for a job or if I myself had been impacted.

I reached out to many of my former colleagues who had been impacted to see if they needed help. All had multiple interviews in flight and were not having trouble finding jobs.

Aside from many crypto companies the inbound jobs were from many public and private companies and spanned many industries.

I expect tech layoffs to get worse and the white collar job market to tighten towards the end of this year and 2023.

I expect the main driver for this will be cost reduction at public and private companies in the lead up to earnings or quarterly reports. Main cost for a tech company obviously being labor.
Culture- such as the culture of homophobia- takes on a life of it's own. It does not represent beliefs or fear it just is.
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I thought this article would be about a different topic, mainly how there’s a lot of people these days who feel infinite optimism must inevitably yield a positive result, and any hesitation means you will ultimately fail. People try to “manifest” the perfect life, or hope that a government will eventually ease their debts or burdens, or that inevitably crypto or other such Ponzi schemes must make them rich if they just hold long enough, or that faking success is necessary to attract real success.

For these people, I wish there was a clear way to get the message through: No one is coming. The universe, the government, crypto, massive sudden wealth; none of it is coming to save you and none of it even cares about you. You’re on your own here. Get your shit together.
We tried to open one mere months ago.

But aside from that, the US government happily pressures companies with unrelated retribution for not following orders. Instead of an agency that has staff, process, records, etc. you get threats directed at particular people e.g. this regulatory judgment at company X that you own will go against you if you don't do this thing that we've press released that we're asking company Y that you own to do. Or your contracts get dropped.

It's like the US justice system in general, where they'll do things like making you plead guilty to something in order to keep your sister's children from being taken away.

Is that preferable? Are you seriously saying that you still want this stuff to be done, but you hate that it's done above board, in public?

Misinformation warriors criticize this stuff in other countries while simultaneously supporting it here. They've also started saying "false equivalence" together over the past year (maybe an influential book or blog?) which for them means that censorship is good in the US because we only censor bad things, but censorship is bad when our enemies do it because they censor good things. You can pair it with "whataboutism" which has also changed in meaning - it used to mean that someone answered your criticism of something (Soviet business freedoms) with a completely unrelated charge against you (that you are an apartheid state.) Now it means that when you criticize Russia for invading another country, when they criticize you for invading another country that's "whataboutism" because they're the bad guys and we're the good guys.

These arguments wouldn't convince children if laid bare rather than being paired with accusations that you're probably a Russian or Chinese spy if you disagree with them, and that eventually they'll come for you and give you what you deserve.

> fall somewhere between "ignorant" and "willfully deceitful".

I mean, this is a threat, right?
This is an odd response in my perspective.

'I don't like it because it's not secure and I was able to get access to prod via this method.'

'That method has been fixed.'

'Well...I still don't like it.'

Bugs are being found and fixed all the time. As for a the different plugins need different versions. Yes. This also occurs in general coding to where every package or library that you want to use in your code is also going to be versioned. If that package or library gets updated, your code might break.

This goes back to having some things in place. Backups and a maintenance and testing schedule. If you don't test things before pushing them out to prod maybe fix that first.
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They got close. A 4th and 5th position in Austria in 2018, their best season so far. A 5th this year in the opening race.
I am an Arab, that's why I always notice it. صحراء means desert, any desert, not a specific one.
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I will still interview with companies I am not seriously considering, for the experience. This is true if the company looks financially unstable, or any other myriad of reasons.
When I'm thinking "change ownership" I pronounce it ch-oh-n with a long O, but when I just read it in context I can't help but pronounce it like "clown".

Lately I've been listening to Linux-related podcasts and it always takes me a couple of seconds to figure out what they're talking about when they say stuff like "slash et-see". (Which is fantastic, because it recalls "&c", et+c.)
Particularly weed, what negative externalities do you experience?
I agree that is very weird at first. But after building a toy project including about 5,000 lines of Lua, I can say I got used to it fairly quickly. Most of the time, I was accessing arrays via iterators anyway, so I had to deal with indices very rarely.

Aesthetically, it is repulsive, but when actually writing code in Lua, it was not much of a problem. I felt much stronger about "do"/"then" and "end" versus curly braces for delimiting blocks.
There's also the consideration that literal religious gospel is taken as fact by some people who use that assumption to push particular ideas in government and law
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Honestly pretty funny that you are so critical of identity politics yet so uninformed about what that term actually means