skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But when a cishet white male gets access to "the old boys club," he gets a combination of opportunities and constructive feedback. People tell him he needs to fix X"

This is a hateful lie, full of resentment and projection. I have NEVER had anyone mentor me and tell me what I had to fix in my professional relationships and personality. I have come from nothing, and achieved due to hard work and merit, not because of my color, gender, or sexual orientation. I've had to figure it out on my own. It is up to each of us as individuals to navigate the world around us. Grouping people by their intersectional identity group is incredibly hateful, petty, and divisive.
You can't click through a UAC prompt to elevate if you don't have local administrator rights.
you named al khawarizmi, which is the only one that I'm really familiar with.

he spoke arabic. Most of his major works were in arabic, in Baghdad. and he has an arabic name.
When I was growing up the general assumption was that you'd have to program the computer in order to use it. Learning BASIC was touted as a new household skill like setting the time on the VCR. That never really happened because of advancements in usability and design.

Tl;dr no
Of course.

I'm not sure that's the sort of politics the original comment had in mind, and I'm certain that these things are not exclusive to the social sciences. I've heard that parts of CERN can be very political, and I've personally seen two adult men nearly come to blows over the synaptic organization of visual cortex. Internal politics, differences of opinion, and interpretation are parts of every human endeavor.

EMDR sounds goofy, but there may actually be something there. When Francine Shapiro died last month, the New York Times ran an article about her and her work, which for which they interviewed Richard McNally, who was one of EMDR's fiercest critics in the 1990s and 2000s; at the time, he called it "merely one of the many therapeutic fuzz-balls that litter the landscape of psychology today." In this article, he says “I’ve changed my mind,” Dr. McNally said in a phone interview. “I’m willing to do that based on new evidence. It looks like there’s something going on there; the representation of the trauma seems to be reconsolidated in a way that doesn’t distress people as much when later recalled.” From here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/science/francine-shapiro-... I'm not a clinical psychologist and I don't know a ton about EMDR, but I do know a fair bit about eye movements. As part of my dissertation, I recorded neural activity from monkeys making eye movements. We found changes in the activity of single cells and neural oscillations (LFPs) just before the eye movements started, a finding that has been replicated many times and in many brain areas. It's not immediately obvious to me whether these effects can be harnessed to treat PTSD, but there's at least a shred of a mechanism there.

That brings me to my main point: psychology is a huge field, and contains people studying perception, learning, language acquisition, and more. That work is overwhelmingly experimental and data-driven. Clinical psychology is a small part of it–and it's also probably the hardest part. I'd agree that it and psychiatry haven't had the same success that (say) orthopedics or even oncology have had. Some of the practitioners, especially the ones that get a lot of public attention, are certainly overconfident. That doesn't make the field a fraud though.
8k billable hours per year = 153 hours per week. Not even Elon Musk works that much.
I think the reason developers in particular need to be cognizant of this (as opposed to "everyone doing no harm") is because of labor power.

There's a societal expectation that everyone provide for their family. If you're doing so through evil means (selling drugs, joining the mafia, sweeping floors as part of a genocidal political movement...) then you're in the moral wrong. But if you're sweeping floors for Goldman Sachs, no one could reasonably blame you for causing the financial crisis. Your contribution to an organization that falls somewhere juuuuust south of neutral is morally justifiable because you've gotta pay the bills.

But if you're the kind of developer we're talking about here, your ability to provide for your family is largely taken care of. Your decision to support an organization is no longer rooted in this socially-acceptable "gotta pay the bills" mentality, and instead about providing luxuries. That's also fine, but you now have to reckon with the fact that your contributions aren't in pursuit of helping pay the bills, and internally grapple with the morality of sending your kids to private school vs using your specialized, valuable skills to help modernize your neighborhood community center's tech stack (but at a much lower salary).

All people need to grapple with the tension between individual/family-level selfishness and societal well-being. But the relieved, privileged life that higher salaries afford also comes with an added moral obligation to evaluate how we spend our time.

Something something spiderman great power great responsibilities.
It's probably a useful skill even at a relatively superficial level for a lot of people. But there are an awful lot of useful skills out there and people have differing interests, aptitudes, and needs. So I don't buy the idea that everyone should learn to code.
Can you give examples of specific vehicles from Volvo/BMW/truck companies that are at level 4?
That "international feeling" likely results from the unique (as far as I know) visa policy of not having any: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Svalbard

Interesting place for sure.
This kind of context is incredible important. Boris Johnson spent a decade in Brussels writing up as many stupid suggestions from fringe EU politicians as he could, all of which failed if they got anywhere near a vote (which most didn't), and managed to create the impression that most EU laws were like this. It even got the point where in the recent Conservative leadership election he told a bare-faced lie about EU regulation (to do with smoked fish of all things) and got away with it. Just because someone suggests something doesn't mean 99% of their colleagues don't just roll their eyes and say "anyway, as we were saying..."
Not only is it "not universal", it's vanishingly uncommon.

A small handful of states permit "private prosecution" of crimes, with very significant limitations. It certainly can't be used to shut down the victim in the fashion you describe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prosecution#United_Sta...

The "race to the courthouse" article you linked doesn't even specify which country it applies to, and cites zero sources.

It appears to refer to https://definitions.uslegal.com/r/race-to-the-courthouse/, which isn't about criminal prosecutions at all. It's about certain civil law situations.
(EDIT: in re-reading your comment, I see that you're just trying to illustrate a point, and I'm going all pedantic. Apologies.)

I currently own a phone so small that it doesn't even have a keyboard[0]. When they get the thing to fit in my ear, then I'll start to worry that they're getting too small.

I'm being just a bit facetious, but in seriousness if voice-controlled AI can improve a bit, size might cease to be an issue.

[0] Apple Watch, and the only thing keeping from just ditching the phone is a. battery life b. Apple's use case they designed for is not "ditch the phone".
This shows the whole world how hopeless the US injustice system is. None of this would be possible in a civilized country.
I'd like to see a separation of Science and State, much like we have with religion except maybe actual separate.
Ah I figured it probably wouldn't be the same degree of commitment as Kotlin given the disparity of demand. Are you at liberty to say whether this is a project JetBrains hopes to eventually use in a production capacity for its own work?
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Elizabeth Warren proposes a public option for the Internet
So you're saying you hate puppies?
Qt isn’t just a UI focused framework, it’s a full stack framework, from UI widgets over included web frameworks all the way down to native integration.

Especially in automotive you’ll find that pretty much all media/entertainment functionality is running Qt, all the way through the stack.
They have a DHT; I think the supernode is just for bootstrapping. Similarly all Bittorrent clients start with a hardcoded list of peers.
How is it cruel?
previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20625547
I just want to say thank you to comments on this thread, this type of discussion is why i browse HN.

Q: I want to manage my own email, what about people’s solutions can ensure that outgoing mail is not shunned by the big players?
Had to look that term up. I have nothing against women. The opposite. I just don’t like layers upon layer of fake to conceal problems.

Same with programmers.

It doesn’t make sense to make 1billion people buy more hardware bc a small bunch of programmers.

It has nothing to do with handcrafting asm. All the virtualization, virtual machines own little patchy frameworks which are unnecessary, virtual dom, the actual dom. Just to show a some text or a button on the screen which doesn’t adhere the OS Interface guidelines and probably doesn’t support screen readers, color scenes, font changes, dpi changes, proper behavior, keyboard navigation, scriptability.

Yes, I like things and people lean.
Countries (1 Quarter of World's Population) Face Extremely High Water Stress
> "We are committed to selling your data if you let us"

"We are committed to selling your data unless you tell us not to" (opt-out vs opt-in)
Yes, so they can automate 90% of their function.
For comparison. https://github.com/trekhleb/javascript-algorithms/blob/maste...
Define "doing". Funding? Performing the exploration/excavation of these sites?
but can you back that argument with any credible sources?
Pick a civilized country you think doesn't have some atrocious quirk in their legal system.

That said, I don't disagree, I think I'm trying to say that there's no such thing as a civilized country if we're basing that on the sensibility of their legal system. Everything is on some spectrum of terrible to tolerable to the average person. The average person is not called to a grand jury, so it's not something they get riled up about.
It seems a bit of an oversimplification, but it is the impression I get. Many of the decisions we must make are between those of freedom and security. The security argument is easy, especially after a tragedy, but the slow erosion of rights is only apparent after the fact.

I worry that fear will result in rash decisions, creating widespread censorship abilities and banning anonymizing services that can be used to bypass them.
Only if you can convince them to run your malicious binary. That's a much different attack, with this attack no user interaction is required.
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I placed an order with Amazon last week, on Friday. Just got free shipping, no Prime, nothing. It was delivered two days later, on Sunday.

Cool, thanks, but I really didn't need or expect it that fast, and I kinda feel bad for whoever may have had to work extra to get me my Friday order on Sunday...
What's "disgusting" about resource allocation?

If the airlines were just required to never do this, they'd obviously have to increase ticket prices, the prices today factor in the reality that they overbook because it works fine most of the time. Ban it and the prices rise because the costs don't change but the number of tickets sold falls.

If you're OK with higher ticket prices, you can already buy a more expensive ticket, which will mean you're not going to get bumped (because involuntarily bumping people on a more expensive ticket costs them more money) so you can already experience this alternate world today.
You don't even have to bother with that.
Amazon offers chemicals/stuff in 90/99/99.999% pure versions with associated non-linear pricing.
How does this not fall under your 5th amendment right to not be forced to testify against yourself?
After a quick research* , the conclusion I arrive at is that Moxie stretched the truth. Removing PushKit functionality does not removes the ability for apps to do E2EE messaging.

From what I understood: with PushKit, it's possible to send a signal notification to the app. The app then fetches and decrypts new messages and generates appropriate notifications locally.

This is also possible to do with regular (silent) Push Notifications. The key difference seems to be that they are low priority and might not be delivered (thus no notification will be generated), and with PushKit it would.

So AFAIK this seems to be more an UX issue.

* I might be understanding something incorrectly.
Sure. I was watching tv shows with english subtitles and was looking up every word I didn't understand in a dictionary for an hour or more every day. Some days much more, if the show was interesting to me, so it was kind of motivating. At the beginning pausing video and switching between media player and dictionary proved to be a bit too exhausting, so I also wrote a tiny program that did that with a single hotkey before I really started doing all this. A few months later I got to comfortable enough level to start reading a book, it was a bit harder with a book, because not only there was much more new words, you also need to listen to pronunciations to make sure you don't learn the words incorrectly with your own pronunciations, luckily my dictionary program had that built in. That's about it.
What? That would just be a rant.

Electron apps generally have no accessibility consideration, and accessibility is often the cornerstone of usability. Especially for keyboard users.

Additionally, their performance is abysmal. Even the latest Slack update, which was focused on improving performance, see Slack using more CPU than my Java-based IDE (Jetbrains) sometimes.
Walmart Retaliates Against Worker Who Urged Employee Walkout over Gun Sales
Does intent matter when you commit a crime? Do you get a different sentence if you use the money to buy drugs rather than food?
This happens for the same reason a close friend or a family member gives you a terrible Christmas gift. Ostensibly they know all about you, your values, and your preferences. Despite this, it's actually hard to predict what someone really wants or desires.

Not only does this problem remain true despite the high amount of information that advertisers have, but it's compounded by the business model. They don't want you to buy just anything you'd like, they want to sell you some particular product or service which you may never like, no matter the information that's been gathered on you.
Since the account is compromised and can run any executable it damn well pleases, I'm not even sure how preventing powershell from running a script is at this point is supposed to help.

You strike me as a very typical infosec person, always endeavoring to make mountains out of molehills and add unnecessary friction to everyone else's job in order to add minor benefits in highly improbable scenarios.
In the early 1990s I worked for Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond's record label, back when they were dominating the UK and European pop charts as The KLF (https://weirdestbandintheworld.com/2011/10/20/the-klf/).

One day we received in the mail a cassette tape and a letter from a law firm representing a composer or publisher (I can't remember which) of a famous Broadway soundtrack from the 1960s. The letter accused the KLF of infringement. The cassette contained one of the songs on the Broadway soundtrack, an instrumental section of which repeated a three note riff that sounded a lot like the same three-note sequence from one of the KLFs biggest hits. The rhythms and song structures were otherwise nothing alike.

It didn't seem like an obvious example of copying, and it was quite possible it was a coincidence or some obscure influence on The KLF or their core musical collaborators, who would have been youths when the Broadway soundtrack was released.

"Are you going to fight this?" I asked the label's president.

The answer: "No."

From The KLF's perspective, it wasn't worth a long, expensive legal fight they might lose. The KLF had been burned before for rampant unauthorized sampling in a previous incarnation of the band called The JAMMs, as described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_(What_the_Fuck_Is_Going_O...

Also, the label president didn't say it, but potential bad press could have also been on her mind. At the time, the KLF had the British music press eating out of their hands, and a public legal fight could change the narrative of the KLF as being brilliant pop iconoclasts to something less favorable.
Let's be realistic, while you can see denialism of science across the spectrum, there's only one side of it that denies it in the face of extinction-level events. Scientists can't hope to transcend politics (an unrealistic and meaningless goal anyway) when the Right is so given to removing them from the discourse. They need to enter politics and lean in with everybody else.
Keeping someone confined? It’s not NOT cruel.
Holy crap, what is wrong with the scrolling on this site? It makes it super hard to read the article.
Edit: the following is in response to an assumption the parent meant "cruel" as in "cruel" not "cruel" as in "Cruel and Unusual Punishment." [0]

Depriving them of the ability to work and be a productive citizen. Depriving them of their existing assets (fines), and as stated by Manning and others, that grand juries have tended in the past to victimize those they call as witnesses.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruel_and_unusual_punishment
Memory loss seems to be a popular (albeit weak) defense in Washington. [0] I always wondered if trials that accept this as a valid defense aren't setting a precedent. Is there a freedom to subjectively reject such a testimony absent any clear evidence that the person does remember?

[0] https://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/25/washington-defense...
So, the part that confuses me with this argument is we live in an Intel world where they have 98% market share in servers. So we're already at the whim of a single company. Why not challenge that dominance?
You obviously don't live in america then. Police are heavily trained to DE-escalate the situation. I know, I'm a person of color and the few times I've had to deal with the police, they were polite, courteous and professional.

The thing is is survivorship bias often shows in the media. most police encounters are not reported in the media because it's common and everyday. But the very few that turn into a big production get reported because it gets ratings. So through survivorship bias, confirmation bias, and availability bias, the problem seems bigger than it actually is.
Game development is a risky and often thankless undertaking as it is, that the developers sought profit in the face of widespread IP theft is neither immoral nor unsurprising.
Don't forget that the CO2 footprint of these things is immense. Though take growth away and things will be come zero-sum; people will try to take things from each other rather than from growth, and will find petty reasons for conflict which will escalate sooner or later. Either way, we're likely f*ed.
That's not necessarily correct, it would depend of the implementation. See my reply.
My technique was to pick a TV show that I basically knew all the lines to (Friends, in this case), and then watch it in Spanish with Spanish language subtitles.

This way I already know what the English meaning is, and I can also map the sounds to the written script.
I am at work but the whole article is very interesting and completely focused on other things other than what you mentioned - basically failed policies to encourage private investment have caused lower and lower investment. The article then goes on to suggest new alternative policies.

This is from speed reading.

Reply?
I love it, will steal..
The relationship map is neat.

A quick reverse-image search of the logo pointed me to the visualization tool https://kumu.io/
Intro to Corteza, an open source alternative to Salesforce
You're not george washington, so no need to lie about chopping it down. I have no qualms chopping down under-productive fruit trees. Especially non-producing fruit trees like Bradford pear. They just like to fall down and damage your property. Don't even think about touching my 75 year old live oaks though! If you're going to eliminate a "lame" fruit tree for a much more productive garden space, I think that's a good trade.
They're already choosing to install a game on Steam, on their work computer. That's the scenario we're talking about.
I hardly can imagine why.

Their rockets are carbon fibre, aluminum-lithium, and steel alloys with such overkill corrosion rating that they should stand strong acids, not simple seawater.

And mass cost of hydraulics for propulsive landing != hydraulics for regular gimbal steering. Those should be very different in their power and mass. Not only they have to steer the gimbal much faster and harder, but also aerodynamic elements on the rocket, fuel throttle, and those legs they land on.
How are you defining civilized country? Contempt of court does not appear to be unique to the US justice system.
The combination of headers, ripped images, scroll jacking, and that it is posted from the source give this article a very blog spammy feel, optimized for that exact google search.
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You should edit your post to link to the english version of the wikipedia page.
It's not theft to provide software as a service. Nor is it a con of any sort.
Courts need to be able to compel behavior and threatening punishment for not complying is an important way to do that. The only part I can see as being cruel is the actual imprisonment. One can probably make a good argument that American prisons are cruel in general, but I don’t think that will get too far in court.
The answer to this is pretty complex and the article explains it
Amazon famously doesn’t really sort any of their inventory. It’s more efficient to place inventory randomly.

https://classic.qz.com/perfect-company-2/1172282/this-compan...
The ability to easily grep for functions in C-like code is why I've come to appreciate projects defining their functions like:

int
foo_func(void) {

You can grep for `^foo_func\b` to get to a declaration or definition, or `^foo_func\b.* {$` to get to a definition or `^foo_func\b.* ;` to get to a declaration. This is instead of using something like `^\w.* \bfoo_func\(`, which is what you'd need for:

int foo_func(void) {

By the way, anyone know of a way to insert a literal asterisk here without having to follow it up with a space?
Tesla considers raising prices in China from September
* it's to testify against assange/wikileaks, not herself

* she was offered immunity
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This is why “responsible disclosure” has been rejected as a term among security professionals for many years now. Vendors invented it for self-serving reasons.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ecostrat/2010/07/22/coor...
This is impossible.