skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is related to that culture war. We both accept a man can become a woman so all those things are ok for the transexual debate. If we don't accept a box of chips and plastic is a human, or my purely imaginary friends are people then it's not ok to follow that reasoning. That's the point I'm trying to make in its essence.

That you are confused by this argument means that you will accept anything as long as it has the right form and presentation. Nazis were anti-smoking. That I am anti-smoking does not mean I'm a Nazi, but you could make that argument with your reasoning because it has a similar form and presentation. The advocate of robots rights will say that opposition to it has a similar form and presentation as the opposition to trans rights in the past. Thus, will you support robot rights, because not doing so is similar in form, like your nazi salute analogy to opposing trans rights? This is the weakness in arguing by analogy.
Air is removed to reduce drag / pressure on the car. If, instead of removing it, it were accelerated, you would need one of two things:

1) Move the air at the maximum speed of the cars. This optimizes for that speed, but increases wear on the brakes and total braking distance by putting forward pressure on the train as it slows down.

2) Move the air at some average speed. Now you increase overall energy consumption having to fight (some) drag, while also having (slightly) increased brake wear and stopping distance. Nobody wins here, and you'd need to do a lot of fancy maths to figure out the right balance between energy consumption of the train and air-moving fans versus energy consumption of creating and maintaining a vacuum.

Alternatively, you could get crazy complex by having something like blast doors sitting between different zones (acceleration, top speed, deceleration) that automatically open and close, and try to create loops of air at different speeds and directions in each of the sections. I'm not even going to bother guessing how difficult to safely operate or how efficient such a system would be.
How does making your own product on a home 3D printer compare to the cost per unit of having something like Shapeways or similar do it? Out of curiosity, I took my design for a Dremel gig that is about 4 - 5 hours of total printing time (biggest part is 3 hours, and several 1/2 hour pieces), and a single unit cost from an online quote was roughly $35. Plus there is a good selection of materials, including metal options (much more expensive though), but biggest advantage would be consistency of builds (I still find 3D printing at home to be finicky at best).
Yes, I've heard it said that CNN was the beginning of the end of journalism as we knew it. The drive to have 24 hours of things to say and the need to get people to watch it constantly really changed the formula. Now it's just a money making scheme and not really helpful in any meaningful way.
Nvidia's approach to software is really interesting, and demonstrates that they have a hardware culture through and through.

They could turn Canvas into a web app and charge a monthly subscription. Alternatively they could go the OpenAI GPT-3/DALL-E-2 route and give it away as a web app or API to generate a huge potential customer list. Instead, they're only interested in technology demonstrations.

I'm not arguing that this is a good _or_ bad thing. It's just interesting to watch a company drive one of the greatest innovations humankind has ever developed (AI), yet fail to capitalize on the resulting value creation due to a hardware focused culture.
Theft of Bitcoin wallet private key from a well-known Bitcoin billionaire seems applicable.
Heh, before the internet rumor mill existed, I had friends who worked at fast food joints with ball pits. They ALWAYS complained about kids pissing in the ball pits. That scared me off from ever messing with them as a young adult (and they didn't have them around my area when I was the right age/size to play in one).
No it isn't, laws are made for the people.

There is no such thing as natural human rights. It's something that gets redefined by the dominant cultures constantly.

If Christians want to live under Biblical Law, let them.
if Muslims want to live under Sharia, let them.
If Jews want to live under Jewish Laws, let them.
> DARPA invented a communications network that could survive a nuclear war. Instead, everyone uses Gmail.

So sad, but so true!
The Catholic Church is one of the oldest and richest institutions on Earth. Its views on contraception are still way out on the fringes of public opinion.
Visual Studio on Windows 10. I don't know why you'd use anything else for a .NET project: it's by far the path of least resistance.

I was one of 3 developers but the others were writing iOS and Android apps that interfaced with my Web product. That said, they had identical setups. Since the code was hosted locally on the Pi and we were all remote, they needed to be able to build and deploy my code also.
I've seen the entire portion of the island visible from the ring road. It is absolutely beautiful and otherworldly... if you count the spectacular waterfalls and fjordlands as "beautiful" and the barren wastes of Mars and Venus as "otherworldly." If you're particularly inebriated you might see miles and miles of sheep, with no humans in sight, as "alien." If you're from New Zealand this might not be novel, but I'm not.

There's nothing quite like hiking for miles before looking down and realizing that you've been walking on a dense two-dimensional mat of berry bushes and spiral-shaped alder trees. It's quite possible that you saw trees but did not recognize them as such -- from a distance, this "flat forest" looks a lot like moss. Not much can survive annual meters-deep snows, which is one of the reasons I'm uncharacteristically flippant about invasive species (the other reason being the sheep population).
We are in Ontario, Canada, if it matters. I know Quinn from blondiehacks orders from them without difficulty, so I’m not sure what it is about us that they don’t like. They tend to be very curt/nearing unfriendly in their responses.
you could do something like https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/cgo-and-python/
> Their co-founder Aaron Swartz developed RSS

"He was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
> The immediate political debate in the U.S. isn't about zygotes, but rather fetuses.

No, it's already law that currently 10 states have bans on all abortions past 6 weeks, restricting women's control over their own body. But feel free to move to Texas where a 12 year old daughter could be raped and forced to carry a baby. Sounds like freedom to me. /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_law_in_the_United_Sta...
Without a source, I have to say it sounds like bullshit.
Europe mostly only has abortion upto 14 weeks and is a very liberal place.
If you don’t have a RSS feed, I won’t see your content. There are only a handful of sites I view direct any more and most likely you are not going to make the cut.
Because learning terraform or cloud formation takes time. I am an average developer and I understand foundational infra theory. I know I can click around AWS without help in order to deploy a CRUD app. Why bother with scripted infra if I am going to revisit it once a year to fix an issue?
I'm with you. Even if it's an over-exaggerated response to something truly honest, I still support the sentiment. It's the inevitable response to the frog [us] being boiled to where we have no trust

With that said, I see this as thinly veiled data collection under the guise of spam prevention. There are perfectly capable methods that respect privacy as you mentioned. They chose to have a mountain of data as a responsibility instead

I really wish the industry acted more like we do where we have to (eg: HIPAA) -- if you don't need it, don't collect it.
This roughly matches my experience, though he doesn't really discuss the language differences in this article. Here's a similar kind of article I wrote a few years ago, "Learning Go by porting a medium-sized web backend from Python": https://benhoyt.com/writings/learning-go/ -- mine focuses more on language and standard library differences.
> I don't think anyone would mistake that for a human life.

I don't think many people claim a zygote is a person. I still don't see any plausible argument that human life begins at some time other than at the point of conception.
Good for Snap. I suspect this won't move the needle on young users - but I suspect it will probably help them recruit old sysadmins like myself. It's a sign of a still-directed-by-instinct and not KPI-uber-alles, which makes me happy to hold on to SNAP.
Daly makes the case that conventional economics deals with "intermediate" means and ends, such as food production and health/leisure; and that we should instead be more concerned with "ultimate" means and ends.

He explains that "ultimate means" are necessarily constrained by entropy. He equivocates on what the ultimate ends are, but professes his own Christian belief in a creator [sic]. Unfortunately, he ends his argument by doing the very thing of which he accuses his non-religious counterparts -- accusing them of sticking up their noses at religious people, and positing a ridiculous straw-man: "They look down their noses at religious people who say there’s a creator: That’s unscientific. What’s the scientific view? We won the cosmic lottery. Come on."

Otherwise, I'm on-board with sustainable living. I think our current economic model is doomed, and our ancestors will suffer for our excess. Accounting for ecological cost and implementing tariffs for those countries that don't seems like a reasonable step.
And there's an article on the front page of HN just about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32139612
There are so many levels of irony with your choice to respond with this meme, in this thread, on this HN post.
In a software engineer. My cousin is an electrical engineer working at a large power distribution firm.

For all intents and purposes his job is absolutely critical to society. I basically fumble around and do a few projects for my clients.

I get paid several times more than him.

I am happy for myself but it makes no sense to me how society is mispricing our work.
Nice website! Light and concise.

This is probably a me problem but I read “Southeast” as Southeast Asia. Not the Southeast region of the U.S. I kept scrolling down and got confused for a second while it hit me what “Southeast” actually meant.

Edit: thinking about it a little more, it might be because I live on the west coast and think of Southeast Asia food more than Southeast US food.
> I could probably write an article just about why the number input is terrible.

And, with as many people are saying outright "don't use numeric inputs" I would very much want to understand what issues you encountered, when, and, on what platform. Otherwise it sorta feels like FUD in 2022 to push against numeric inputs without specifying the actual issues.

In other words, please do write an article. Although I'm skeptical, I would read it with an open mind + in good faith.
An almost hour long Dashcon video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPwgSXZJcok
Obviously the closest thing in the general sense to Python is Ruby. But I think a case can be made that in practice, the closest thing to Python on the static language side is Go. The list of superficial differences is a mile long, I don't deny, nor will I exhaust my audience's patience with actually writing them out. But the interface orientation of Go captures the essence of how you design in Python surprisingly well. Of all the static languages, Go has the closest thing to duck typing, in particular the ability to declare a "duck type" for an existing third-party thing that you don't want to or can't change, and integrate it into your code as a compile-time checked member of that "duck type".
The argument is an attempt to get around the personhood issue: it's basically an attempt to build a case for abortion even granting fetal personhood, because personhood is very messy, ambiguous, and contentious and an argument for abortion rights that short circuits it would be very powerful.
But that ISN'T what the Supreme Court did. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32143004 for my description of what they actually decided.

That said, your precedent point is important. See page 119 of https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf for Thomas' concurrence where he says that Supreme Court decisions supporting access to contraception for married couples, for couples to engage in consensual sexual acts (specifically sodomy), and a right to gay marriage.

Abortion rights do not fall by themselves. They are part of a web of related rights that will rise and now probably fall in conjunction.
> (including some advocating for "after-birth abortions")

Could you double-check that? I've never heard this, but I've seen a couple of pro-life groups say that pro-choice groups are advocating for that, as a sort of propaganda to equate not just abortion with murder, but abortion providers with murderers too.
Copyright is not absolute, it has some exemptions like fair use, historic preservation and education. IANAL but I understand they work fall in at least one of these categories.
Wait what made it radical? You said that the general consensus is that the cutoff should be 12-14 weeks and Roe made it 15 weeks (or am I misunderstanding?).

It would seem radical to deviate from your chosen standard to set a limit at 0 weeks. It does not seem radical to enforce a standard that is only one week different from the one you’ve chosen.
But poetry requires pip… you can't use it without using pip
It's freaking crazy to me how unliberal Europe's abortion laws are.
> I especially struggled with the DynamoDb library for Go; so much so I wrote a Python script to query Dynamodb, and called it from Go.

This seems like a compelling enough reason to stick with Python
As people have commented defects aren’t desirable, but what I think your feelings are leading you toward is Wabi-sabi (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi). There is no such thing as perfection and if there was it’s undesirable.

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
It's fair to speculate that Microsoft likely has Windows already running on M1 machines somewhere deep within their labs. Even if it's just some engineers doing it "in their free time"

Wonder what Qualcomm had to do to get that agreement though. All signs seem to point to Qualcomm being absolutely poisonous to work with and their ARM offerings being uncompetitive with Apple's now
For clarity, although this is probably buried by now: I definitely think that if there is real upside at some point it should be shared with early employees, not just key senior hires later - and I push for this wherever I am. I just don't believe you can make this stick in a expectation-value sense. Certainly not rigorously.
What do you mean by copycat? As in he takes someone else's paper and gives it a clever name? Or do you just mean he is using lots of silly methods of doing data exfil?
>> That the NRL is of a different opinion only shows that they are an extremist organization, way out on the fringes

> It's the oldest and largest national anti-abortion organization in the United States, hardly the fringes. They do a lot of campaign financing.

IHMO, whether it was fully understood by the GP or not, "extremist organization, way out on the fringes" was probably in relation to the US Democratic Party, not American politics in general.

It's toxic, misleading, and annoying, but I think a lot of rhetoric nowadays is trying to manipulate the "Overton window" to partisan advantage rather than debate the issue itself.
No, pthread TLS is the slower one. Accessing system TLS can be done fast since lib knows the details of the implementation and, worst case, it can use inline assembly.

Also, pthread TLS adds a pointer dereference to each access.
Why do so many APIs do that i.e. 200 OK - {"errorCode": 45634, "errorMessage": "you messed up"}

Is there a reason that I'm just not aware of? a throwback to SOAP?
What exactly have you tried to order? I've been ordering from McMaster both to a fairly small business and my personal home address with absolutely no issues for over 8 years.

Are you in the US? If you're trying to buy those tubes, are you trying to order very long lengths? UPS apparently has a limit of 108" total length, and a sum of 165" for length + "girth".

As for McMaster overall - I agree with some other sentiments here that they're great, though I do admit the "McMaster tax" (paying 10~200% what you could find the identical part somewhere else for) can be annoying at times, but is worth it when you want a reliable supplier with almost universally good quality products.

edit:
Based on your reply to a sibling comment, I looked around, and found this thread that seems to reinforce your experience that McMaster shipping to Canada is...unreliable: https://www.chiefdelphi.com/t/mcmaster-carr-supplying-to-int...

I would try the recommendation there of ensuring you have a business name on the order, or, contact their support - I've had to contact them a couple times and they were generally quite helpful.

Good luck.
There are few facts on which Pruneyard relies that are completely at odds with the attempts to apply it to social media moderation:

1. The speech being conducted was agreed by everybody to not be disruptive.

2. It was agreed by all parties that no one could confuse the speech of the protesters with the speech of the shopping center.

For social media concerns, these two facts do not describe the actual situation, and so Pruneyard is not appropriate precedent.
He's not a conspiracy nutjob. He's a paid PR rep.

It's his job to create conspiracy nutjobs, so he does sound like one sometimes, like when he writes articles saying that environmentalists don't like nuclear power because they are intentionally trying to destroy modern society.

But he doesn't actually believe any of it, which makes it worse.
The article is basically saying that there is a focus on commoditising tech talent for what builds shareholder value, and a loss of the passion, imagination and richness that tech can add to the world.

My own relationship with tech reflects in that: I despise some of the things that tech is used for and has managed to amplify in our species. I still pursue my passion because somewhere deep down I know that it could also be different: That the power of technology can also be used to magnify and infuse the world with values that make our existence worthwhile and wondrous.
I think it's because everyone in SEA has a scooter, so using Grab Taxi isn't super important. Although, I do see it used more often at night, for going out.

But Grab Food, Grab Mart and so on are spectacular services, and I find them way better and faster than Uber Eats in many places.
I have experienced this with IPTV on Kodi, but I've only ever noticed it on the BBC News countdown tune, sining a semitone up and down. AFAIK that's using ffmpeg
Correct:

https://www.theverge.com/2012/4/12/2944329/stuxnet-computer-...
As an engineer who uses Go and appreciates it as a replacement for most purposes where you might use C or C++, the complaints just seem bizarre.

You've got people who argue against explicit error checking and people who don't understand the important role of nil pointers and people who don't see the massive net win of garbage collection in concurrent programs, and so on.

Endlessly.

It feels like a waste of time defending the language when the people criticizing it seem to hold such a vastly different point of view. It's like trying to convince people that Natural Born Killers is a good movie or that Primus makes good music. There's an unbridgeable chasm between you and the people you're trying to convince.
Completely agree on your last point. It doesn't change the fact I'm still genuinely concerned by the fact so many people hold on to dangerous delusions. And yeah, I do think they're dangerous, when they begin motivating people in positions of power to make decisions that affect all of us.
How would a person with the ability/equipment to do this work at home get matched up with a company that wants to buy such things?

This seems like the sort of work that was spun off from some kind of existing business relationship.
A machine shop with a lathe and a mill, especially CNC, can manufacture just about anything.

I personally refurbish electronics. It's nice and quiet.
I feel that's a worthwhile distinction to explore, but I really really place priority on honest discussions.

If you are putting forward "You are not required to get pregnant", I feel that's empathically not a honest discussion point. We can discuss rape, incest, non-consensual sex; and we can discuss consensual sex where precaution was taken against pregnancy that failed; but that sentence is patently and trivially and demonstrably not universally true, so immediately I feel we are not discussing from point of mutual honesty and charity.

Put it differently if that helps: what percentage of people that willingly tried hard to get pregnant, are undertaking abortions? And when they are, why? (we happen to be a couple that had to spend a lot of time money and hardship to get pregnant; but there would still exist scenarios where abortion would feel like a possible scenario, depending on outcome of tests, viability, health issues, etc!).

Similarly, what is "Action to kill"? If I take a morning-after pill, I am preventing a cell from implanting into my body. Somebody can present that as "action taken to kill", but somebody else can take that as "refusal to donate my body". We can take opposing positions on that, but I think understanding that both positions exist is required for honest discussion.
It's a postfix sigil, even if it's part of the identifier name. You're not allowed to put ? in the middle of an identifier. (I use ruby and elixir, so this is second nature to me. It might not be for others).

I'm aware ruby doesn't have fields, I called it fields/methods because it's a method in ruby but people in other languages will read it as a field, which it is, a good percentage of the time.
> I wonder if there's a market for a new word processor for children?

Undoubtedly.

...but not one that the market will pay actual money for, so you'll have to plaster it in ads - but having ads targeting children is unethical and/or illegal.
Wait, so all that text just for telling us that a company - driven by capitalism - is not giving away cloud compute power for free? What a surprise! And AWS is better in that regard because...?

Sometimes I wonder how articles like these can make it to the hot page.
Did they explicitly tell you that's why the order was cancelled? I've placed many personal orders with them and never had issues.
I was kinda hoping an article with a headline like that would present some code and tooling and explain it in terms of how a Python programmer sees the world.