skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same, I've been fascinated by the role of violence as entertainment throughout history, but I struggle to find good reading material about it.

Unfortunately, whenever I ask around for recommendations or research on this topic online, people assume that I'm anti-violence.
I think this was partly spoofed in a Charles Stross book -
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14150.The_Jennifer_Morgu...
The title on this is horked, it should be "Senate Testimony on Privacy Rights and Data Collection in a Digital Economy"
I wonder how much is the share the painters get..
It makes me feel worse. But I'd like to hear why you say that HN somewhat is an echo chamber, and what you think would make it less of one, or where you might look for examples of non-echo-chambers on the internet. You're welcome to reply here, or email hn@ycombinator.com.

It's possible that you've observed something that's not on our radar, and such information is important for us to be aware of, even if we can't solve it by moderation.
More ridiculous clickbait outrage farming.
I'm honestly more appalled by the choice of music for that trailer. I've seen gorier stuff in anime.
>The pain the trolls are creating is directly causing war, discrimination, dictatorship, genocide. And regardless, there is no need to obsess over who "had it worse" or whatever.

Not really.

From the native Americans to Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, the US (and Western Europe and USSR for that matter) did war, genocide, discrimination, segregation, slavery, and so on, very well, on a huge scale, without trolls.

Trolls are absolutely insignificant in causing "war, discrimination, dictatorship, genocide".

If anything, our "troll heavy" days are much better in all of the above terms.

And if you mean the infamous "Kremlin trolls", those are just the fad of the day, to point them blame on someone. The US had and will again do its thing in the middle east for oil, regardless of what some Facebook troll says. And they'll compete and go to trade war with China for their private interests, regardless of what Twitter says.
Why are you asking people why they became a developer? That has nothing to do with their ability to do the job. You're in a professional environment, so ask the relevant question: do they have a learning mindset? That's really the only thing that matters.
It should not. The decision to assess a claim in context (eg a speaker's expertise or lack thereof) or in isolation is often an important one, and creating an implicit contextual fork and then attacking an opponent for choosing the 'wrong' prong is a well-worn rhetorical tactic for seizing control of an argument on procedural rather than substantive grounds.
No? Why do you think that?

Ask a Vietnam War veteran, or a Korean War veteran, if they fought any enemy soldiers at any point. War was not declared in those cases either.

And these are obviously not soldiers in the first place - they're sailors.
> it's still possible to call an object without ensuring it's initialized properly. I have yet to find a good way around this.

Implement the class's new method with an implementation that just throws an UnsupportedOperation exception?
Obviously now that people have seen that this is possible it will be replicated in short order whether they release it or not.
Hepatitis A infections soar in U.S.
Checklist amendments would require far less retraining than creating a new type.
Tried to access on HTTPS, only to get https://scriptshadow.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/canary-i... on a page by itself. WTF?
Inside A Scam Call Center
If the executive order signed in March does what it says it will I would not be surprised if that changes as well...IE: shifting some of the liability for non-payment back on the university and requiring them to state what the default rate is for graduate. IE: IF you take on this loan, how likely will you be able to pay it back later on.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/trump-pursuing-ways-to-h...
One side of me thinks this is really, really cool.

The other side is running away as fast as possible. If anything shouldn't be developed by committee, it's something that controls a few thousand pounds hurtling down the highway at 70MPH with at best an observant human watching over it.

Here's my reasoning:

Mistakes in Django? Bad things happen.
Mistakes in the Linux kernel? Potentially really bad things happen.
Mistakes in self-driving cars? Really bad things certainly happen.

Oh…and it looks like anyone can install it with just a few extra electronic parts?
Somewhere I heard that was the case, but I didn't verify it. These benchmarks show Jython performing hundreds of times worse. spectral-norm: 0.12 secs for CPython and 4.96 secs for Jython. How can the JVM be 40 times slower than an interpreter? Maybe they didn't warm up the hotspot compiler (amateur mistake), or the Jython compiler is suboptimal. However I compared the code: This https://pybenchmarks.org/u64q/program.php?test=spectralnorm&... versus this https://pybenchmarks.org/u64q/program.php?test=spectralnorm&...

The py3 version is calling numpy which calls a highly optimized C library. So this benchmark suite is worthless. They failed to warm up the JVM hotspot compiler, and they are comparing interpreted Jython with a highly optimized C library called from Python3

The lack of a warmup phase is confirmed by the raw command line and output logs on various benchmarks. Amateurs. This is a highly misleading set of results on multiple levels.

https://wiki.python.org/jython/JythonFaq/GeneralInfo#How_fas...
I'm not sure that the title accurately reflects the article that people don't want to devalue their home values by moving apartment blocks next to their million dollar homes. Somehow everyone in California is a liberal, and the article cites Massachusetts as a state allowing denser urban areas. Maybe the article would be better titled wealthy people in suburbs don't want apartments next to their homes. Reading other articles by the author he seems to think the only things that matter happen in San Francisco. Might want to get out of his bubble. There's a wide range of liberals and conservatives with a wide range of perspectives in a country as large as ours.
I'm wondering what would happen long term if art and other mediums banned violent material. I know it is censorship. I'm just wondering if we would become a more peaceful society or if this would not have much effects.
I prefer Moskau

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=paiQRSpg4Aw
It is really crazy that we go through these massive hoops to simulate what would be trivial to do in an AST editor. I recently read through some of the literature on projectional editors, and while they have historically had some usability issus I really hope that this will change in the future.
One point of view is that it's important for people who have not been in combat to see these things. It makes war less abstract and educates people on what the reality of combat is like.
Seems 90s christian soccer-mom puritanism is making a comeback. I wonder how ultra violent gore action is somewhat passable but showing a bit of female skin is a no-no, US morals are funny.
Pay more. In general, women have a higher preference for ‘meaning’, ‘environment’, ‘flexibility’, ‘community’ or family. Your job offers none of that, so you have to pay a lot more to convince them to join your IT dungeon.
Super clickbaity and low effort title.
Interpreters with Non-Determinism Using a Free Monad
I find it bizarre that people worry about this since we clearly already produce more than enough bullshit on our own without any need for AI.
Here's an archive for those who don't want to give Kotaku clicks:

http://archive.is/JtQcw
What's incredible is how politicians like Bernie Sandres and Elizabeth warren are sending messages to all these debtors that their debt is illegitimate and they shouldn't pay for it.

I bet a beer you can trace delinquency to the politicians speeches
So maybe increased climate change is how we can replant the world's lost trees
To sum up:

* Your job is no longer easy

* ----

* You have to help people, no longer get to play with your toys all day

* You hate your current job

* ----

I'm seeing a pattern of 3/5 but only because I'm assuming you aren't a mother. If I was wrong, Happy Mother's Day!

Have you ever been in a company where senior people were responsible for helping new people? Or, are you searching for that company where everyone comes in magically perfect and at exactly the same level of competence? I've never been at that company, when you find it, please share it here so we can all go work there.
We don't use deep dream, but a CNN to power our Instant Preview Tool: http://instapainting.com/assets
https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/features/W...

“The ILO is keenly aware that people in the fishing sector often face harsh or difficult working conditions: they may spend long periods at sea and are frequently exposed to unpredictable and dangerous conditions. In a number of countries, the fatality rates for persons in the fishing sector are many times greater than the national average, for example higher than those for fire-fighters or police. These rates may exceed 150 to 180 per 100,000 workers, rivalled only by such other hazardous occupations as forestry and coal mining.”
Why quote something that means nothing?

"Could be 35ms" will always be right even if it is 300ms...

Also, I didn't even see that quote on the Wikipedia page.
Instead of collecting debts, they should figure out how to make education free.
Disclosure: I work as a blue-collar engine mechanic. Ive never been to college.

That having been said, im familiar with debt after the 2008 housing collapse. I lost my truck and my trailer home, partly because of a shady home loan and partly because well, my employer went out of business. That having been said it was relatively easy to discharge these debts. the bank wasnt too upset about the home and offered to help me restructure payments, which I agreed to until I found someone else to buy it from me. The truck I sold back to the dealership...which incidentally also went bankrupt, but they were easy to work with.

I know people in this town with student loans that show up at the local watering hole every week and count their beers in dollars and their tips in change. One of them got her license revoked because she wasnt able to make student loan payments, and had to move back in with her folks. Because she has outstanding student loan debt, she cant qualify for section 8 housing or food stamps. Even her family gets harassing calls about the money she cant pay back fast enough.

She is a biologist, but all of her money goes straight to the loans. it has for 9 years now.

Why is it I can ditch close to 90 grand in loans lickety-split but students cant? how is education any different?
Reader modes are a good step, but they only work for static content. Ideally this could also be applied to web applications, the same way that apps written in Qt or GTK behave and look very much like native apps on Windows/Mac/Linux.
In my experience this is the real issue, and what I expected to read about in the post. The democratization of adding in-page content is both powerful and easily abused. There's little measurement of what the impact of these types of prompts is, save for what engagement they drive directly through the widget. They can clutter the UI and deteriorate the brand. In many cases they look out of place and are tone deaf to the customer. In the worst case, they're basically in-app advertisements.
There are things in the works to shift some of the liability for defaulted student loans back on to the Universities along with some forgiveness programs attached to these. People who can afford to pay them back should, but the universities need to be held accountable for spiraling out of control costs for programs that students often can't pay back because of lack of market demand for skills and over-priced degrees.
This is all assuming REST is still a good idea.
(typing) 'Robert

(autocomplete) 'Robert'); DROP TABLE students;--
The title isn't accurate: California is not a monolithic political entity, and the Bay Area especially is not very liberal.
Considering their original cost taking them out of the lake shouldn't comparatively cost a lot. They are all at the surface and can be pushed to the shore and collected.

The bigger problem is that they will start deteriorating and leaking plastic long before their 10 year life time. After all its plastic in under uv light and constantly changing temperature.
:) Calling it a luxury isn't a judgment on whether or not it's any good. It just means its an expensive thing you don't actually need.
I am in the weird position of being bullish on cryptocurrency, but bearish on all the existing ones.
The article talks about people who are "computationally near" in ways unknown to us. But the unknown is a rich source of myths. It's not really true that there are no coincidences. What is true is that we can't easily distinguish coincidences from something more sinister. Sometimes all we can do is speculate about the spies.

Here is an example of Tweet "proving" that Siri is spying that got 3.7k retweets. I don't believe it (I expect it's in untargeted ad), but can't disprove it.

https://mobile.twitter.com/airbagmoments/status/112247415862...

I expect we will see many new Internet superstitions arise as people try to cope with the unknowable. Maybe even new religions?
A plurality of the math teachers in my high school had degrees in PE, and two of them were the football coaches, so, uh ....
Does it follow then, that the bulk of Michealangelo's work had "no artistic value" because they were kitsch commissioned works by the church?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19883936
Jetson Nano Dev Kit
Factories Tire of Wage Wars; Give Fridays Off, Spiff Up Bathrooms
https://theoreticalminimum.com/ might be a better bet, though assumes some familiarity with calculus.
I guess that's fine but don't presume the other person is somehow accountable to you for their opinion or values your assessment that they're a liar at all.

I frequently make points to taste test them without being married to them, but I'm not going to lose sleep if someone wants to get worked up over whether or not it was genuine.
> It might be pervasive, but most people could go through their life without learning half the mathematics that they do in school.

Most people do go through their life without learning half the mathematics they were notionally supposed to learn in school.
I should explain how this process works, and how I wound up giving this testimony.

Basically, a staffer on the committee found me online, was interested in my ideas, and asked for a phone call. A couple of days later, he scheduled a second phone call, this time including the committee chairman's staff from the opposing party.

I got a formal invitation to appear with about eight days' notice, along with a request for written testimony on specific topics. You pay your own way to get to D.C. for the hearing.

The testimony was due 24 hours before the hearing, so that staff had a chance to review it and plan their questions.

In the hearing, there is a two-hour block of time, and senators each get five minutes to ask questions, alternating parties, in order of seniority. Some of them want to know stuff, others want to read a statement into the record. You get a glass of ice water and a little countdown clock at your desk that tells you when the five minute blocks of time are up.

At the start of the process, the three witnesses each get a five minute opening statement. In my hearing, we had a former diplomat and expert on the GDPR, and someone from the financial industry. The hearings are open to the public and if you are in D.C., you should attend one! It is quite a spectacle!

I'm very thankful to Matt Blaze and others who wrote about what hearings are like, to help me prepare for this. And I am happy to answer questions in turn.
The phrase "Cold War" isn't without meaning. They were generally deemed to be the enemy by Americans at that time, enough so that Americans were often surprised to learn that Russia and the US were on the same side during WW2.

This is how search auto completed my query on the matter: were russia and us allies in ww2

That suggests people are still surprised to learn that and routinely search that question. Americans tend to believe that Russia has always been our enemy and remains so in the eyes of many Americans to this day.
>Citation needed.

You really need a citation? Go look on social media for yourself, and the kind of trending complain posts. Or college campuses for that matter. Or youth oriented news outlets.

>And anyway, if it were true, why would that be bad?

Well, because for me people should be more resilience, less hysteric, and more adult. That's why. And because a society of touchy-feelers is a crippled society.

Also the world is not a safe space, and life is not a Disney movie. People unprepared for it will only fail more, be more gullible, and make a mess of things (like an idiot who thinks all animals are like cute pets, and gets eaten by a wild animal).

>Oh wow that is so wrong and so offensive to boot. These are straight up lies. You have no backing to this

Yeah, I don't have "backing", e.g. some expert report by scientists, saying "Only 21% of the people complained about this under Obama, but 87% under Trump", and "67.4% didn't care, they just show it on some media, and will drop it again, when it's not trending anymore", as if those things exist.

I only have my grasp of reality and observation skills. And my experience dealing with such things, and being involved with people across different decades, and seeing people jump on bandwagons, and going off again when it's not trendy anymore.

>> I argue that (1) the touchy feely issues should be dropped,
>> Wait. You are arguing that young people should be banned from discussing topics of their interest?! A total ban on free speech for the youth? what do you mean by this?*

No, I'm saying that touchy feely issues should be dropped (e.g. voluntarily discarded by those peddling them).

That said, your (strawman) suggestion is not bad. "A total ban on free speech for the youth" could be a good plan to me, if somewhat heavy handed. They can listen, learn and understand first, speak later (e.g. after 25 or so).

As Bertolt Brecht once wrote (as a standing judge for a collection of crappy poems from young poets on social issues, most full of melodrama and naivety), "People shouldn't be allowed to write poems until they've completed their army service" (referring to the mandatory general conscription at his era, at around 18 y.o. or so, synonymous to becoming an adult).

I'm half joking, though B.B did say that. But the point is that people should be able to listen to such suggestions and be "offended" without screaming bloody murder and run for "safe spaces".
It's the difference between drowning in an ocean of bullshit and living on a planet that is one giant bullshit ocean.
That's a special section featuring and highlighting USA artists, as you can order direct from artists on our site so you can pick and choose them. If you clicked through and selected them you would in fact be ordering from USA artists. It can be misleading if all you do is scan the home page, but we did not design it to be a bait-and-switch.

If you actually go through the purchase funnel it also gets re-iterated (you are prompted to choose where you want your artists from).
Well, obviously you wouldn't remember any thought processes as being weird, because at the time it would be subjectively normal.

When it comes to the poor judgement of teenagers, most of the brain literally isn't completely assembled yet until age 21.
I disagree that it takes just a few months.

I'd say there are tons of hidden dependencies you have to learn in writing programs. Stuff that the tutorials and books often leave out. And that most developers take a few years to learn these dependencies, because there currently is no widely-known easy way to learn all this "tribal knowledge".

And when universities try to systematize ways to learn this tribal knowledge, they come up with a curriculum that takes most people 4 years to get through. (Yes there are many smart developers who could learn the curriculum faster.)
There's no such thing as someone you're not going to have to train. Every single company does something different. To suggest that you're not going to have months of train up isn't feasible. I wish this mindset would go away. Training is, and should be an integral part of any workplace. It's what makes your whole team better, it's what makes everyone have a similar style, and shows people the expectations. This goes for internal code process as well as external code and tools. Embedded especially is going to be hard because it's a specialized skill set that's far harder than people realize especially once you get into space constraints.
It's sad we make it a war zone
Many of the things you said sound pretty representative of new CS graduates as well. It'll take them at least a year, and a lot of mentoring, to learn the best practices and get their hands dirty. I get the impression the problem at your company isn't with bootcamp-vs-CS-graduates. I suspect the problem is that your company is hiring too many inexperienced developers at once (to save money), and isn't doing a good job of hiring the best bootcamp graduates (probably also to save money).

I might be biased since I have an engineering degree, but no CS degree. Self-taught myself a bunch of stuff, made the switch to software, and have now worked for 2 of the FAANGs. My very first software employer certainly had to mentor me quite a bit for the first 4 months, but I certainly justified the investment over the following year.
Yeah I don't think it addressed that enough, though it does say,

> Wealthy homeowners also argue that upzoning will not help reduce housing prices in the near term. It’s true that it takes years for land-use changes to affect housing affordability (although those long-term affordability improvements could be significant)

Which suggests the homeowners aren't worried about devaluing their houses? Seems backwards, can someone explain?
Because a few people got fancy degrees and discharged their loans.

I'd totally support discharging your loans and having your degree placed into some sort of ADMINISTRATIVE HOLD so it has no value until the loans are being paid back. You can easily pick up the payments once you're fully employed.
Single payer or medicare is basically the imposition of price controls, which cause shortages and leads to rationing.

In the US, you can get an MRI pretty much immediately from one of many facilities. The wait time in Canada is pretty ridiculous, and far below the standard of care anyone should expect.

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wa...

I've known people who moved to the US from Canada because they could not get adequate health care under the single payer system. Hospitals on the border with Canada routinely have to deal with the spill over from Canada because Canada's system does not have the capacity to deal with all of the cases (I have relatives in such hospitals who talk about this). Medical tourism to the US from Canada is one of the few options people have to get timely access to needed healthcare.

We already have an enormous amount of regulation and control of this area by the government and it is not working. Regulation can be like violence - its practitioners always seem to want to use more if it when it is not working. It's time to take a step or two back and reevaluate.
Google sells ads (and ad targeting) but I haven't seen any evidence that they sell data.

There are lots of less well-known companies that will happily sell you lists, though, cobbled up from who knows where.