skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fasces are not a Nazi symbol. They were very common in Fascist Italy—due to its association with Ancient Rome Mussolini was a big fan of—and the Fascists were culturally and ideologically allied with Nazi Germany. But AFAIK it was not a Nazi symbol.

But they're not a Fascist icon either, despite what your comment suggests. The fact that it appears on the Senate building probably refers to the Roman meaning. The point of TFA is pointing out that these symbols are NOT owned by the Fascists or Nazis but should instead be returned to their cultural origins.
I'm not going to say you can't use a swastika in India, but the people the article opens with are extremely naive, and should recognize that, or they're just trolling. You can't live in the US (Queens is in NY, right?) and think you can simply display a swastika, mirrored or not.
Don't quote me but I believe you have to use both bands to get that accuracy. Some devices support it. https://support.garmin.com/en-NZ/?faq=9NWiPDU4gM0JWMfdWFol7A.

Real life test https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/04/garmin-vertix-accuracy.h...
I work 90% - every other Friday not working, taking the pay cut. The majority work 100%, about 2% work 60%. The confidence to maintain it is not that hard. I think my productivity is as good as I can be more focuses on the shorter week. Some colleagues need reminding I will not be in on the Friday - I take this as validation that it works.

Have the confidence.
For these 64-bit index entries we’d expect to have to scan roughly:
index_row_size⋅rows=2⋅64bit⋅10^5=1.5MiB

Where do the 10^5 rows come from? With a composite index and a point query doesn't the database scan just the 100 returned rows?
If the customer service rep works more hours, at a decreased productivity (tired workers make mistakes, over-stressed workers may be more impatient) such that the marginal return becomes negative, then YES! it becomes more cost effective to pay someone else to come in on those Fridays.

Just like we don't expect those reps to also work evenings and weekends, even if the company has 24/7 support.

The article points out some indirect benefits, like improved employee retention, which would decrease training costs and result in more experienced reps working the phone/email, which may improve customer service and relations.

This is really hard to promote, which is why there have been experiments along these lines for the last 5-10 years.
Fun is gone, unless you like doing pharaonic "proof of concept" forever. There is still some dumb money out there, but I'm looking to jump ship to web-dev as well (since I'm doing IT anyway just for the money, academia is too corrupt, audiovisual arts are moonshot projects and everything else just sucks).
Beef is very nutrient rich.

Yes, we Americans overeat beef / Hamburgers, but I don't think anyone eating burgers is at huge risk of malnutrition... as much as a risk of heart problems, diabetes, cholesterol, etc. etc.

It turns out that a standard burger with beef, ketchup, lettuce, onion, and bread covers most of your macro, and even micro-nutrients. It also is way overboard on salt and fats, but... that's not the particular problem here.

One of the bigger problems vegetarians have is finding a proper replacement of meat and all of the easy nutrients meat contains. All amino acids, various vitamins, iron, etc. etc. There's a fair amount of nutrients here.

And even the worst McDonalds burger contains a variety of lettuce / onions / ketchup that covers few nutrients that beef is missing (ex: Ketchup has Vitamin A, Potatoes / Fries has Vitamin C).
Cause of death counts as well. If I get hit by a car on my bike it is a counted as a cycling injury even though it was a fatal accident because a car was involved.
I see. I did not know.
Do you have a reference for this? Everything I've read is the purpose of the tape is to reduce friction (hence PTFE), not to actually seal. In other words, the seal comes from the fittings connecting tightly, made possible by 2-3 wraps of PTFE low friction tape.
As far as I can see this is just pure functional programming.

The IO type in haskell is defined,

newtype IO a = IO (State# RealWorld -> (# State# RealWorld, a #))
% of total population in 1930s Germany that were ardent Nazis vs. the rest of the world’s population shows that it was a small group of people.

Three hundred years from now, no one will care about said symbols anyhow.

When’s the last time we see people be superstitious or negative towards a worse person like Ghengis Khan? He’s part of popular culture; projecting into the future, as depressing as it sounds, so will Hitler be.
There have been experiments that remove the gland that produces the hormone that kills off octopuses after copulation and birth. The octopuses seemed to live on with no problem, seemingly implying that the early death was indeed an adaptation to make room for the newly born.
this was such a great read, people like you make me want to learn more and more everyday
Which is ironic considering Google search results do exactly this with suggestions after the page finishes loading.
Sigh. There's enough religion in programming languages already. Can we not add or xor actual religion?
Arguably, and in my own view, yes! The stylometry website linked comment texts to persons.

The courts or legislature are the ones to decide this. I believe they could side with my view.
To make policy we should measure lethal heat events against lethal cold events. Cold events seem to be more dangerous on the whole. Do they decrease as the globe warms?

"Researchers analyzed data on heat- and cold-related injuries that required a hospital visit in [Illinois] between 2011 and 2018. They identified around 24,000 cases each related to the cold and to heat.

"Of those, there were 1,935 cold-related deaths and 70 heat-related ones. The cold caused 94% of temperature-related deaths, even though hypothermia (a drop in the body's core temperature) was responsible for only 27% of temperature-related hospital visits."

-- https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20200827/what-is-mor...
I've not done any major replumbing yet but I've been watching Matt Risinger [1] on YouTube for a few months and have quickly become a PEX fanboi. He's a home builder based in Texas and uses PEX for basically every job. There are some videos on his channel comparing different types of PEX and PEX against other systems.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@buildshow
Shortly after the end of the cold war, when we no longer had a common enemy to focus on and started fighting each other
It should not be ONE account, or it wouldn't be possible to distinguish individual users in a conversational thread from one another:

DELETED_USER: I agree.

DELETED_USER: No, that's BS.

DELETED_USER: He has his point.

Better would be:

DELETED_USER_1: I agree.

DELETED_USER_2: No, that's BS.

DELETED_USER_3: He has his point.
Of course that happened in some places but in much of France the occupation was extremely light handed to the point where peoples lives were barely affected. It wasn’t total domination. You are making stuff up. There is more to France than the north
He stopped paying people who wanted to be paid 5 days for 4 days of work? How is this different from 99.9% of companies?
This attitude is borderline parody. Don’t be so stringent and assume malintent. Most people aren’t sneaking Nazi beliefs into everyday interactions.
> All those people you mention became media personalities later in life _after_ they'd made their contributions

Right, sorry, I forgot that the only thing of importance that people have to contribute are Nobel prize winning papers. You know, lecturing, writing textbooks, writing standard scientific papers, peer reviews, all of these things aren't contributions. Obviously no-one should engage with the media unless they have won a Nobel and have decided they have no major papers left in them. In fact at that point, if they were real scientists, they'd just realise their time was up and walk off to perish on the tundra like the elderly inuits used to so they don't take up any more precious resources from the real scientists.

There is a commonality in your argument, at least from where I'm standing, with the logic of the 'proper binmen' people or the ascetics -- only those who suffer in silence away from society are truly the 'holy physicists'.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/nov/15/who-remembers-p...

It's ironic that you express the following sentiment:

> If your goal is to learn about the fundamental building blocks of the universe, writing blog posts the societal aspects of science doesn't help you with that. Real scientists spend their time doing science. There's very few exceptions to this. In fact right now I can think of a single person who's a world class researcher _and_ a prolific blogger;

when, just yesterday, the highest ranked post on the site was this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33750825

about this essay:

http://paulgraham.com/read.html
The Great Seal of the US has fasces on it, the House Rostrum, and many other older decorations relating to Congress do too. That's a symbol the fascists used, and they aligned very closely to the Nazis. It hasn't been abandoned since it was a traditional part of those things well before the fascists, as it was Roman iconography. So too, the swastika has been a part of various cultures that long preceded its use by the Nazis. While we should be sensitive about its use, it's clear many are generally happier to police other cultures than their own.
> For example, you define a function in the repl, or assign a value to a variable. You’re just supposed to keep the existence of those declarations in your head?

If you're using a LSP server, which btw uses the "clj-kondo" which borkdude mentioned, it's totally independent from the REPL and will tell you immediately if your source file is missing a function definition or a variable.

Now it could be argued that you could have a wrong version of a function declared in the source file (and hence LSP / clj-kondo would still be happy) while the correct version got only defined at the REPL but...

That's not how I develop: typically I test stuff at the REPL but only define my functions in the source file. And from the source file, I "eval" the function and its hence available directly in the REPL.

Now I don't know about others but in my case I regularly write anonymous functions at the REPL, which I test directly on some data at the REPL, and then I copy/paste the anonymous function to the source file and give it a name there.

REPL> ((fn [x] (* x 2) 21)
42

OK, good, it works now, I cut/past (fn[x] (* x 2)) to the source file and change the anonymous fn to a defn.

But I'll also sometimes just directly write the function in the source code file.

In addition to that, unit tests can help too.

So it's REPL + unit tests + LSP (which uses clj-kondo) and all three are totally independent.

And yet although they're independent, when LSP tells me something like: "Function x is called with only argument but expects two", I can fix it, eval the correct function, and the REPL is immediately aware of the correct version.

I've always got both the REPL and the Clojure LSP server running, independently, simultaneously.

> or assign a value to a variable.

Clojure really tries to put the emphasis on functional programming so you don't typically have lots of mutable variables to juggle with. I'd say I have more of a "global application state" at the REPL than different variables.

> I must be missing something.

Maybe you're simply not aware that you can code in the source file, eval there, and the eval'ed functions are directly available from the REPL?

I'm not sure my explanation are very clear but I hope it helps.
> requiring everything be written in Python

This is the number one thing that doesn't make me want to even try the switch. I am trying to learn some machine learning for educational purposes, but I have free choice to use what I want: F#, Python, and Racket.
Maybe as a final commit I should add some background music?
I don't know how much can be attributed to this but always seemed weird to me that the safety tests (which both are mandated legally and also used in marketing) are solely about how safe the passengers of the car will be in the event of a crash.

It seems like a classic collective action problem. If an automaker has a new car design which will make its passengers 5% safer in a crash but passengers in the other car 10% more likely to die then they have incentive to do the design change anyways. I wouldnt know the exact numbers but would think with a lot of the changes (such as cars getting 1000s of lbs heavier) the impacts are real - especially when you factor in pedestrians.
Minus static_cast or replacing C cast parens with angle brackets.
As mentioned, please make sure you follow the HN commenting guidelines. The GP asked a question in good faith to spur curious discussion.
I've tried to use git notes over the years but unfortunately notes are tied to a specific commit hash. It's a blessing and a curse.

Works great for some types of review system, or for "tagging" things related to deploy. Notes on commits on the master/main branch, which doesn't get rebased? Awesome thing, they work.

But you can't as easily use them on branches: the moment a branch whose commits had notes is rebased, and SHAs change, good-bye notes associated with the "previous" SHAs :/
China Covid: Protests continue in major cities across the country
I don't think they're minimizing what the Nazis did, just pointing out that the symbol has been completely highjacked by one narrow use of the symbol.
Is git bisect a power user feature? I was taught git by a senior engineer early in my career and it was the first "this will save your rear" tool he showed me.
One of the biggest shames in the West is the taboo around Nazi symbology when it was plainly coopted into that political movement. These symbols will be reclaimed. We just have to wait.

The Nazi rampage will be a footnote in history like most tragic events before.
The UK has a National Health Service for all its permanent residents, which is over-stretched right now because people keep voting for Tories who claim to cherish it but won't fund it (and divert funding to their pet projects). Also COVID burned out medics at a high rate and Brexit made it harder to attract foreign medics to work here.

UK workers are (with some narrow exceptions) entitled to 5.6 weeks per year of paid leave. Employers can choose to make you take some of this leave when they want it taken rather than when you want it, including the Bank Holidays (national holidays). In a tech job you are almost certainly going to get 5.6 weeks plus the Bank Holidays and maybe more.

It's calculated as 5.6 weeks because logically if I work 5 days per week, and you work 4 days per week, and our employer gives us both 20 days of leave to take whenever we like, for you that would be five weeks whereas for me it's only four weeks which isn't the same. 5.6 weeks will be 28 full days for a full time Monday-Friday office worker, but only 14 full days for their colleague who only works Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning in a job share.
You can see it in the log and only at the relevant commit.

No need to git show the object id of the .txt files in the repo to see the message.
> a small group of people decided to use it while they did a bunch of nasty stuff.

It sounds like you might not understand the vast scale of the Holocaust, and that it affected every Jewish person in Europe. It sounds like you might not realize what also happened to the Polish Christians (and other Slavic peoples) under the Germans - which was another attempted genocide by itself.

We spent 1000 years in Poland, and our entire culture was totally destroyed in just a few years. 90% of the Jewish people in Europe were murdered. In many places, no Jews remain at all.

https://vanishedworld.blog/exhibition/
Approximately 14 million German soldiers served in WW2. And many non-party members co-opted or looked the other way. They may not have been formally registered as members of the NSDAP, but they're generally counted with the bad guys.
> For example, nothing stops you from plugging a space heater into the outlet at the end of a string. But relax, it's Christmas!

IIRC because they're designed to chain but not for high power applications, Christmas cords are one of the few extensions which routinely include a fuse[0], usually 2.5 to 5 amps.

So you can plug a space heater at the end of the string, not much should happen.

As opposed to using a 15A extension to plug a 20A device into a 20A circuit, which you can absolutely do, and which will burn your house down.

[0] in the US, as opposed to the UK where everything includes a fuse because ring circuit baby
Thank god there is Fossil [1] for the source code management (yes, management implies also making notes and documentation besides versioning) of my personal projects.

[1]: https://fossil-scm.org/
The consistent speed thing is so crazy to me as someone who almost always uses cruise control. Why don’t more people use it? (Pretty sure it’s been standard on every car since like 2005?) If people used cruise control and stayed in their lane most of the time (i.e. not switching lanes constantly to try and “get ahead”) I feel like traffic would improve noticeably everywhere.

When I drove in Germany it was eye opening to no longer be the exception as a person actually following the rules and not driving like someone on amphetamines in a rush for a meeting. It’s the same feeling when you work at a company with bad management and then work at one with good management: “You mean I can just trust you to do your job…?” -> “You mean I can trust you to drive a car at high speeds without killing me…?”
An optional data retention policy would have the advantage of not exposing
HNers to the risk of having their data taken to train a language model that
emulates their style (which in the audio medium is called "voice morphing", and in the video medium is called "deepfakes"; it doesn't seem to have a name of its own in the written medium yet).
At my previous place we did half day Fridays. But there was MASSIVE overtime from Monday to Thursday. I don't want a four-day week where I'm expected to "compensate" by working for free. Companies should stop bullshitting their employees before offering a four-day week.
Obstruction of the view should be the #1 thing that gets you pulled over. It kills pedestrians! You can't have crap hanging on your mirror and you can't mount your stupid iphone right in the middle of the windshield, either.
By using only coding patterns that are known to JIT well and lower level primitive types and containers if provided by the language. Maximizing the use of packages written in native code also helps.

The resulting code is even more annoying to write than using a lower level language typed language in the first place, but ecosystem access sometimes makes up for it.

Hopefully tools like mypyc get better, letting well-typed python code with reasonable usage patterns be compiled to reasonably efficient native code.

Last time I used it I was pleased with the performance benefits but it couldn't even compile all files in a module to a single shared library, despite this being mentioned as possible (and recommended) in the docs. Maybe I was doing something wrong, but they don't answer their github issues often, alas.

Any little thing helps though, it's one thing for throwaway scripts to be inefficient, but applications? At a large scale it is a monstrous waste of time and literal energy.
You give me hope and a dream. Maybe when the kids are in college we can share a coffee in Osaka. See you there
So a weekend toy project.

Hand-coded parser-lexers are far more powerful because their diagnostics are useful and are much easier to maintain.

Lex/yacc / flex/bison products by contrast have awful diagnostics and become steaming piles of confusion that have to be rewritten.
I've been in front collisions with European cars a couple of times, they are designed to fold in and down, first protecting the pedestrian and then the legs of the driver/passenger.

It's amazing how they fold at the slightest hit.
Why not? You don't get to impose your beliefs on your neighbour.

This silliness of taking things out of context and then attacking them has got to stop.

Hindus were using the symbol long before the existence of the German state.

Nazis using the swastika as an expression of hate, not OK. Hindus using their symbol, OK.
I’m not arguing with you. You are not an honest person who is interested in an exchange of ideas. You’ve only come here to spread propaganda on behalf of your masters. Be careful, you’re doing a bad job of hiding what you are. Your boss will be angry. Your social credit score is going to plummet.
Are there more opportunities in the MLOps space?
Or you find yourself married and with children, and that final step of regaining some bandwidth becomes structurally impossible to achieve.
Nowhere in the mein kampf by Hitler does he call it a swastika, in the original German publication He called it haken Cruz which literally means hooked cross, it being a hooked Christian cross. t was a Christian bishop who translated it to English and translated hakencruz to swastika. Effectively taking the blame off Christianity and pushing it onto eastern religions
Somewhat related: another symbol Nazis used was Fasces.
I would love to see this actually implemented; I remember iOS allows for custom keyboards, but is it possible to implement something this radical or would Apple stop it?
In the US nuclear navy, the power plants have to be manned 24 hours a day both operating and shutdown. Ships in maintenance periods also generally go through a phase where ship personnel have to support maintenance work around the clock. Additionally, some parts of the training pipeline are run 24 hours a day.

I say all that to say that while I am not a subject matter expert, I have a significantly above average amount of experience working various types of rotating shift work as well as duty rotations (a duty rotation is working 24 hours every 2, 3, 4, or 5 days depending on available manpower. Yes, you read that right - for a month, I was at work 28 to 32 out of every 48 hours).

Forget 4 8 hour days, I would work 4 10 hour days right now in a heartbeat with no discussion or regrets.

1) it is invaluable to have a normal working day where you can do tasks - change your oil, get your haircut, go grocery shopping without a crowd, see a matinee, the list is endless.

2) the scope of weekend trip you can plan across 3 days instead of two is exponentially higher. So much room for activities.

3) time after the working day just isn't that useful. Drive home, eat dinner, now it's 630/7pm. Waste a couple hours, go to sleep. After a 10hour day, the time after work is precious and useful to relax, but then you get a whole other day off.

It surely isn't for everyone, but it surely is for a lot of people. The thing that blows my mind is no one is even willing to try.
> Just because I can't walk into Google headquarters and demand a dividend doesn't mean that I don't still own some portion of those profits.

"Own" in what sense? You can't request them, you can't even vote for them to be spent in a certain way, and there's no guarantee that they'll be paid to you.

Someone once said this about NFTs but it also applies to the idea of Google stock as "ownership of profits" - it's like having a wife that you never seem to have time with, but you don't have to worry because you have the paperwork which says you are married to her.

> there's no corporate board on this planet that would accept indefinite stockpiling of cash, which is why buybacks happen, including for Google!

The board is appointed by voters. Those voters are Sergey and Larry. Sergey and Larry determine whether buybacks happen.
It's like a who's who of cryptocurrency-based black markets and facilitators.