skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be nice if there was an interactive publish option, something like `npm publish --confirm`, which would print a list of the files to be uploaded and wait for you to type "y" to confirm.
probably more to do contracting bureaucracy than incompetence. With all of these public works projects there are just too many hands in the bowl to make it efficient. The alternative would be to do it dictatorially, which would not be acceptable either.
I guess the problem is that when he identified himself as a college professor, the cops didn't immediately genuflect?

"I was hoping that someone I knew would walk down the street or come out of one of the shops or get off the 39 bus or come out of JP Licks and say to these cops, “That’s Steve Locke. What the FUCK are you detaining him for?”"

IOW, "do you know who I am?"

There are legitimate abuses of police authority and unaccountability, and this is not one.
> Can someone point me to what exactly did police officers do wrong in this story?

This sounds like a perfectly fine interaction to me in this case, and like most other cases that you never hear about every single day.
It's easy for you to say that, because as a successful white person, you don't have any expectation of being accused of a crime you didn't commit.

> "I was not going to let them take me anywhere because if they did, the chance I was going to be accused of something I did not do rose exponentially."

Would you feel the same way if you were being stopped by the police in, say, Sudan, where the race of those running the system is not the same as your own?
A lot of Internet Tough Guys don't understand that if you're respectful and kind to the police, they'll more often than not go on their way without any type of escalation. Making their life difficult by refusing to talk to them at all or show any basic respect might work OK a few times, but really you're just going to cause problems. A better response than just repeating "Am I being detained?" is to filter your words carefully against some basic legal knowledge. Not necessarily foolproof, but most likely a better outcome than acting like a dick, as long as you're reasonably intelligent.
> After 9/11 we should have taken over Saudi Arabia instead of Iraq since that is where the money came from.

You can't do that, it would be like declaring war against Islam, since the Saudi are "custodian" of Muslim holly places like Mecca.

Furthermore, while most hijackers were Saudi and Egyptian, ISI, Pakistani secret services financed the attacks. But you can't really destabilize Pakistan either, since they have they are an nuclear power.

Basically, we are in a situation, I believe, where western nations are faking their war on terror, for various reasons (they can't tackle the Saudi issue, for instance). All the countries that were invaded/attacked by the west since 9/11, safe from Afghanistan, which was more or less warrant-able, had nothing to do with 9/11 : Iraq, Libya, Syria...
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As inflation-adjusted GDP approaches infinity the value of potatoes must approach zero, yes. Of course, were demand for potatoes to suddenly increase, the value of potatoes would too, so it does not imply any ability to buy an earth-sized ball of potatoes for a dollar in the near future. But the price of potatoes, at typical demand, must approach zero, yes.

The value of potatoes have been going towards zero for a long time, anyway. It's not hard to envisage a future with self-maintaining automated farming and fusion energy where potatoes are basically free.
For those who haven't read up about emotional intelligence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_Intelligence
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Indeed. The only thing in this story that really disturbed me is that the officer apparently went for his gun immediately. This whole situation could, and should, go in a friendly manner, "like a reasonable human being having a conversation". The US really needs to work on reducing the amount of fear in the society - among both general population and law enforcement officers.
Could you share any examples ?
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If not that, then something else.

My daughter's ex-boyfriend, who is Ojibwe and a pretty big guy (6'1" and muscular) got stop-and-frisked all the time, for all sorts of petty made-up crap. This is a kid that I expect will wind up with a PhD on interfacing nervous systems with computers, a kid in college on a Gates Millenium scholarship. They just see a big brown guy and start harassing.
If the government has nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear :)
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They did nothing wrong. That's also not the point. The point is this guy feared for his life and that's the state of things for a black male in this country. To stand there and hope/pray people stay around to witness a situation you are helpless in is pretty scary.
> He comes to the encounter with preconceived notions

This is the whole point, don't you understand?

Consider that your desire to see each encounter as a blank slate, disconnected to each other, is your privilege.

If you're black and encountering with the police, your encounter is full of decades and centuries of "preconceived notions" -- of abuses of power.
It doesn't really matter how specialized they are, if they hold it in cash.

And if it is "just" a cash position on their bank accounts, it doesn't mean that said money isn't invested or isn't working. It means that the banks have 194 billion dollars of almost free funding from Apple for their investments.
On one hand, it's unquestionable that radical Islam is an aggressor that is funding and directing terror attacks.

On the other hand, Muslims are people too, and it is extremely unjust to punish all Muslims for the actions of a radical sect. I think that Europe is in danger of lurching rightward and tempting the return of ethno-religious cleansing. Fascism is not pretty, and the danger for Europeans is real.
The standard idea is that the fourth type of cone is the anomalous type inherited from one's father. In the most common cases (deuteranomaly), it fills in between red and green.

In any event, while color perception is certainly subjective, both the underlying spectrum and the eye's physiological response are very much measurable.

An interesting experiment would be to see whether she could construct two paints that she can tell apart but that look identical to everyone else.
The next generation of 737 is really good. It's got better engines, the winglets for improved efficiency, and all that jazz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation

Unfortunately it wouldn't make a good bomber because of the basic layout of the plane. Compare the overall top-view layouts of the 737 vs the B-52, paying special attention to wing attachment points and where the bombing bay is, and you'll see what I mean.
Guys, it's on their 'early careers' website. I don't think this is them trying to be YCombinator.

I think it's quite a cool little idea for them to get people from non-traditional backgrounds into the BoE. Most crypto people would never think of applying to the BoE for an internship normally I don't think.
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Ah, I love it when people share challenges moments before they close.
It's not competition. Saying one is doing doesn't mean others aren't as well.
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No, you don't need to get through Microcorruption. This is Microcorruption on a different architecture, with a more complex environment.

But I like Microcorruption too (I'm biased) and would definitely not try to talk anyone out of playing with it as well.
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Let's put it like this...

1. He wasn't wearing a puffy jacket.

2. His build wasn't a close match for the person they were looking for (the police admitted this themselves).

3. It sounds like he was driving towards the scene of the crime.

Bearing all these things in mind, why would they investigate him?
Setting the bar a little high for us, aren't you?
The Sikorsky S-97 is the perfect emblem of what I mean by the myth of technological progress.

The Super Tucano A-29B:

•Has a greater range, at 800nm vs. 320nm, much more for the Tucano with one pilot and the extra fuel tank, with an even greater difference if the Raider flies at top speed. (Yes, I know, it's easier to refuel a helicopter.)

•Is currently in proven service in CAS roles in COIN operations with 23,000 combat hours vs. the S-97's zero combat hours, which only flew its first demonstration flight in 2015.

•Costs far less at $9 million per unit with almost no development cost vs. a government projected program cost of $200 million and a unit cost of $15 million at full production. Defense analysts expect this to rise to $30 million a unit and $500 million in development costs.

•A low-flying CAS helicopter is a great idea, unless of course you're flying in thin air in the Hindu Kush, or your opponent has the ability to down such aircraft. Ask the Soviets how that worked out...

But the totally unproven S-97 incorporates new technology, which requires R&D thus inviting the procurement bonanza, so it beats out the combat-tested Super Tucano in the GAO procurement arena every time.

There's a reason JSOC wants the A-29B.
The Martian author, besides being thoughtful about his research, also used a master weapon: he published the whole thing online for every nitpicking nerd¹ to criticize and contribute. It's well known that the best way to get an answer to a question is to confidently give a wrong response.

¹ I say this as a self-identified nitpicking nerd, though I'm too ignorant to do it properly :)
So bizarre that you used a specific outlier case of $75-125k, more than twice what the actual average is. And given that your outlier exists, I wonder what that says about teacher salaries on the lower end of the bell curve given the average of $55k.
FIX really is the TCP/IP of money.
When Lewis Carroll discusses a similar logical problem in "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles" it comes from the perspective of a Zeno paradox which cannot be resolved in the same way.

Essentially, Achilles says "A, therefore Z." Tortoise says, "Well, suppose I don't see the connection here, you have some symbols on this side and some symbols on that side, could you help me?" So Achilles modifies this to, "A, and A implies Z, therefore Z." And the Tortoise says, "well, that sounds very good and I trust your proof that A implies Z but I'm still not seeing the connection here. Could you help me connect those left hand things to the right hand thing?" So Achilles modifies this to "A, and A implies Z, and (A and A implies Z) implies Z, therefore Z." And the Tortoise says, "aha, of course '(A and A implies Z) implies Z' ... but wait, now that I've written that down, I again don't see the connection here...". Essentially the point is that our generic rule that replaces "x and x implies y" with "x and y" is a process which lives outside the declarative scope of formal logic. (In the Curry-Howard isomorphism: you can have a value of type `x` and a function which turns values of type `x` into values of type `y`, but these are definitions, and there is no way to capture the true process of applying the function to the value -- just another declaration of another function which has type `x → (x → y) → y` which is by itself never involved in a process.)

(As an amateur physicist, I hasten to remind everyone that Zeno won in the end; there is a context which Zeno could have never foreseen where a Zeno paradox makes a certain kind of motion impossible. The reason nobody can travel faster than light is that if you take your spaceship and try to race a light beam, first you throw down a beacon, and then you accelerate to speed c/2 relative to that beacon -- in your shiny new reference frame, due to the constancy of the speed of light in inertial reference frames, the light beam is still moving at speed c away from you.)
FWIW, trolls don't uniquely focus on feminists. Their emotional buttons are just so easy to find and push; when your advocacy === your emotional button, then you are broadcasting how to make you upset. If you are easily made upset, then you are self-primed for being trolled. So, if you don't like being trolled, then either hide your emotional buttons or change what happens when someone pushes those buttons.

The fact that feminists appear to be uniquely targeted by trolls is indeed the result of a societal structure, but it is not unique to feminists. Instead, feminists are just another set of humans who are louder when they get upset. People used to complain about so-called Soccer Moms being too easy to upset.

If you don't like the trolls, then don't feed them. I had thought that people had learned from the vi-vs-emacs flame wars how to avoid unproductive drama. Feminists spin their wheels by getting upset at trolls, just as vi users wasted their time getting mad when emacs users were not using vi.
Not to take away from his experience, but being surrounded by cops is always scary. I was never under suspicion for anything serious, but got stopped for running traffic lights or cycling on the wrong way of the street. That was not that scary (no guns), but it is always clear that you are completely at the mercy of the cops. Sometimes stories like this seem to escalate when people talk back. Don't talk back to cops! That is my mantra anyway. Don't argue, don't try to use logic. Just apologize meekly and try to be as nice and compliant as possible.

A (white) friend of mine used to wear the wrong kind of jacket, associated with left youth, and the cops would also sometimes search him, and even do anal probing for hidden pot. (All this is for Germany, mind you).

Also the stories about calling SWAT teams to innocent people's houses, or the unreliability of forensics, are really scary. I think "unfairly detained or killed by cops" has to be accepted as another modern risk, like being run over by a car or getting cancer. And unfortunately the risk is probably higher for people with dark skin.
I'm just worried that "games" are something people judge by graphics quality, and I'm not even sure we have a competitively pretty debugger.
Isn't this absolutely terrifying? People being rounded up, house arrest, cities locked down, violence against immigrants. It's a very bad look, and it's especially hard to criticize the response in the wake of the attacks.

Rather than fight and complain piecemeal in response to government oversteps in their attempts to stop terror, dissenters need to formulate a concrete affirmative plan for dealing with terror while maintaining civil liberties and privacy. I'm not sure exactly what this plan would look like, but without something organized to push for, the government is going to keep getting their way and making everyone less free.
Except that guy is nowhere near 160 lbs and the cops should have asked for an age range and a variety of other factors before detaining suspects.
Thanks! I'll be adding a sample JS subscriber client and some sample code with that as well.
> My handmade one-of-a-kind knit hat was an object of suspicion. My Ralph Lauren quilted blazer was only a “puffy coat.”

"They did not realize that I am an individual of high socioeconomic status, one whom should not be treated like a prole."

There are many clear cut examples of police racism and abuse of power. This does not seem to be one of them.
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Streetcars suck. It's less flexible buses, basically. Subways, on the other hand...
Many lost lives paint his fear completely well founded: USA police clearly tends to kill black citizens because of race.
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Yes, our government is going full r-tard. I fail to see the difference right now, between the "left" and the far right to which the left loves pointing fingers at. With the state of emergency, the left is behaving exactly like fascists.

Now imagine the left voting all these anti-freedom laws, suspending (some) human rights (as it is the case now), and in 2 years, the far right coming into power and using the laws the left voted for their own benefits.
So your theory is there was no such thing as an Etruscan people?
Students would be interested as this is a nice addition on their initial portfolio. I agree though on the marginality of the price for the potential value of the idea.
>You have the privilege of being a dick to a cop when you're white.

Not really. Cops escalate against whites too and are often on a hair trigger. We just have to accept that the type of people our police forces attract as officers, with present combination of required qualifications and incentives, are most likely not going to be the most even-headed or rational members of society. If we really care about improving policing, we want to increase the incentives so that the job attracts the best and brightest instead of the washed-up football players that can't hack it at junior college.

I'm white and probably 40% of my interactions with police have been unpleasant just because those policemen felt like feeling important that day. You just have to grin and bear it, because doing otherwise risks escalation. Submission is the component most victims of escalation neglect.

The "racial divide" is less of a thing than it's made out to be; race is just one signal among many. One thing is for sure though, and that's that the media is very interested in provoking racial tension, rioting, and other "exciting" news events.
nvd3 (https://github.com/novus/nvd3) is also pretty good.
Distributing that becomes much more of a pain, though. Unless it's a major component of the software, I'd really rather keep it in pure Python.
I know lots of white people who have never had a negative interaction with police. The only times I have were really when I deserved it (like coming down off a rooftop of a building where I didn't live, drunk and high, to the welcoming arms of the police. Who didn't arrest me).
Interesting that this question was asked in relation to GamerGate. When I researched that, the major media was only reporting the feminists' side of things and the claims of abuse. It was really hard to cut through the noise to figure out what the core dispute was. By the time I found a structured presentation of counterpoints...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXZY6D2hFdo&app=desktop

...they suggested it was that a few women disrespected their market, trolled millions of people (including women gamers), made claims of abuse with feminist ideology, violated their own rules for money in design of their own games, and were possibly using the claims to get attention to their games. Never heard any of that in original reporting on major sites and that's why I was originally confused about why so much hate came their way.

Not saying this is true of anything referenced in the above article. Just telling readers to be aware that there's at least two trends going on:

1. People, including & especially women, being harassed online with any number of bogus justifications covering up bullying. It's a larger problem & the justification (eg feminism) rarely is the real issue.

2. A tiny portion of women, who may or may not represent most feminists, getting slammed online for using bullying and media manipulation to push their politics or products. I say media manipulation because I almost never see major media report calling it out even when it's obvious. Reporting is often one-sided, possibly due to risk of losing business if their image is seen as discriminating against women. I think one can argue against specific women's claims without hating on women in general.

So, we have two problems. One gets all the attention. Each time, the recipient of that abuse spins it as them being in a minority, having certain attributes, etc as evidence there's a large scale attack on those things. Reality is human nature is at work with any group competing with others and lack of accountability letting some be abusive. Certainly prejudices in there to combat but it really boils down to abusive people enabled by the Internet. Happens offline, too, as anyone who went to school, a bar, a football game... anything... should know.

Other problem we should watch out for and call out when we see it. That problem is not limited to feminist: any members of a group that can make itself look the underdog or target of abuse can use that as leverage in promoting politics or themselves. This happens across the board. Relevant to this thread, that many feminists do it certainly contributes to attacks on those individuals and might contribute to attacks on others posting similar idea. The troll throws them all in one mental category and attacks at the first sign of the same ideology in a new person.

So, that's my two cents on the problem.
Ah; so you guys found a consulting model for it :)

Consulting models aren't bad (indeed - they can be very profitable); but they don't hockey-stick like people think software does. This makes them unattractive to VCs, but they're a good space for bootstrapped startups (aka "small businesses").
Genetic heritage? What the fuck.

I guess there's some truth about what they say about genius and insanity.
Thanks, I didn't see it yesterday otherwise wouldn't have posted.
> The slightly less cynical view is that they know that the next time something happens they know that - if encryption is involved, they will be absolutely pilloried by the popular press, opposition etc. for "not doing everything that can be done".

And the slightly more cynical view is that they are using the attacks to push through legislation that they wanted for other reasons AND they're using a story of hypothetical public opinion after hypothetical future events to make themselves seem more sympathetic.

And this is also not this is "doing everything that can be done." The Paris attackers didn't even use encryption and the attacks were not prevented, so there's a lot more things that they'd need to do before banning Tor and open wifi would even make a difference. So they'd still open to criticism from the same angle; score one for cynicism.
Well, I made the wrong assumption in what was being asked then, I guess. I would presume the "left to right" rule is more generally assumed knowledge in C/C++ than postfix/prefix distinction of ++/-- which are pretty much the only unary operators with such a distinction in the language, whereas "left to right" is a rather underlying general rule and one in which you generally assume people are familiar with.

My apologies for answering the wrong question, but yes in that case the standard is also mostly clear that you can assume that things are evaluated from left to right in C/C++ and thus the first x in the line should be evaluated prior to the x++ later in the line...
no idea what you're talking about. your number fits a ba with zero experience on a national average. teachers make a lot more with even limited experience in big population areas (with politicians on the dole) with corresponding higher cost of living (ie. chicago, where i stated).
The only "max" about that is in the name Max Planck :)
i wish this article appeared on their facebook page so i could like it to share it with my network

this article is a month old, so maybe it went away?
> How long would an economist expect there to be exponential growth in electricity consumption? Steel production? Indium usage?

Irrelevant, because exponential growth of wealth does not depend on exponential growth in any of these things, or in anything material. Wealth is what you can do, not how much stuff you have; as technology advances, we figure out ways to do the same things as we did before, using fewer material resources (not to mention doing new things that no one could do before--like posting here).