skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"if someone had shouted this in a supermarket or bank line, what would happen?"

They've have been thrown out of the store for sure. They might also have been banned from the store, depending on how it escalated and how they reacted to being thrown out.

The police would have been called if they were banned, and maybe even if they were just thrown out for the day.

Twitter has basically done the same, without the cops. And they even said how to get un-banned, which was to remove the comments that violate their TOS.
Ok, here's some https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/2015

- Police departments disproportionately killed black people, who were 41% of victims despite being only 20% of the population living in these cities.

- 41 of the 60 police departments disproportionately killed black people relative to the population of black people in their jurisdiction.

- 14 police departments killed black people exclusively in 2015, 100% of the people they killed were black. For only 5 police departments were 100% of those killed white.
> Expectation of privacy in public places has never been a concept anywhere

It's certainly a concept in Europe, see the famous Caroline cases. Quoting for example from the European Court of Human Rights case von Hannover v. Germany

> The Court notes at the outset that in the present case the photos of the applicant in the various German magazines show her in scenes from her daily life, thus involving activities of a purely private nature such as engaging in sport, out walking, leaving a restaurant or on holiday. The photos, in which the applicant appears sometimes alone and sometimes in company, illustrate a series of articles with such innocuous titles as “Pure happiness”, “Caroline... a woman returning to life”, “Out and about with Princess Caroline in Paris” and “The kiss. Or: they are not hiding anymore” [...] The Court reiterates the fundamental importance of protecting private life from the point of view of the development of every human being’s personality. That protection – as stated above – extends beyond the private family circle and also includes a social dimension. The Court considers that anyone, even if they are known to the general public, must be able to enjoy a “legitimate expectation” of protection of and respect for their private life [...] Furthermore, the Court considers that the public does not have a legitimate interest in knowing where the applicant is and how she behaves generally in her private life even if she appears in places that cannot always be described as secluded and despite the fact that she is well known to the public.
> You know what would be EVEN more effective at fighting climate change than not having children? Committing suicide.

I'm sorry but I think this crosses the line. I don't want to impose my morality on you but in my opinion me saying "most people should not have children" is not the same as basically telling people to kill themselves.

I understand that I am in the minority when I say this I think not conceiving children is not the same as telling people to kill themselves. I think people do not have a fundamental right to reproduction at the same level as they have the right to be left alive (which I think comes higher).

I'd much rather see most people not have children rather than they kill themselves.
This study [1] does indeed not reference N2O. So this make me suspicious:

The garlic study [2], states: "Garlic contains allicin, diallylsulide, dialyldisulfide and allyl mercaptan, which affect rumen methanogens, decreasing rumen CH4 and acetate production and increasing rumen propionate and butyrate production (Busquet et al., 2005)."

Allicin is not referenced in the sea-weed study. One would have to study the exact mechanism [3], to be conclusive.

[1]: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

[2]: http://www.thecattlesite.com/articles/2858/effect-of-garlic-...

[3]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4714447/
It's totally a PR move but it certainly does increase his exposure to the fortunes of GE. His ability to sell his shares are limited by his position as CEO. I also imagine that if the frauds were real and gone on for as long as the report states, the first thing a new CEO would do is to expose them because otherwise he will be on the hook for the frauds committed by his predecessors. (Culp was a successful CEO at a very successful company before taking the helm of GE)
So anti ads- everyone looses type of deal? I guess I’d like to know if a company hates me so I can never shop there so bring it on
> Most people arrive at the decision to purchase an electric vehicle exactly because they are questioning their way of life. Electric vehicles are not a talisman of false hope, they’re a singular step in the right direction.

Oversimplistic view, you have a stake in Tesla or you don't know better. Otherwise you would also discuss the TCO, the total power need to produce e-vehicles, where Lithium is harvested and under what circumstances, that increased electricity demand fuels the discussion about nuclear power plants. And many more points to consider which certainly don't give a 100% conclusive picture in favor of e-mobility.
The supreme court is by definition correct, at least in a legal sense. Their interpretation literally is the law.
I wonder why clojure's spec idea isn't being discussed that much.

Having wrestled with scala's type system for like a decade, it all seems so pointless and stupid when compared to spec. At the time I thought this scala type system stuff was so advanced and scientific. So embarrassing to ppl who push this stuff.
Yes, cis-het white men do not have a seat at the table when discussing whether or not communities are oppressed. But they do have a seat at the table when discussing what they can do to help tear down structural inequalities. That's called being an ally.
In my humble opinion, meditation is the only way. There is no substitute for meditation. There is a nice app for free called Plumb Village. It’s by Thich Nhat Hanh, who I think gave a talk at Google once.
Not a Bluetooth expert and I might have misunderstood the paper but it seemed like it can be done any time two devices initiate a new connection (not when they're paired but anytime they start communicating). AFAIU, it's a firmware level hack so not something you can do with standard Bluetooth functionality. You need to be able to get a custom firmware into the Bluetooth chipset to carry off an attack.
Are there any known similar vulnerabilities for OpenThread? I suspect Thread would be more secure and probably a better choice for meshed networks
Many people find that meditation reduces their need to sleep. A few months ago when I was meditating for around 1.5 hours per day (a mixture of walking and formal sitting meditation) I felt well rested on 5.5 to 6.5 hours of sleep, when my normal needs are 7.5 - 8 hours
Happens in America too, celebs today are one bad take away from being ‘canceled’
Can't this logic be spread to a bunch of other injustices in the world? If I interact with some party who is contributing some injustice to a group of people, whether in terms of work conditions, lack of political voice and so forth does that mean I'm collaborating/supporting their regime?

An example is the current situations happening in Hong Kong and Uyghur. And the fact that everything we buy on a day to day basis is "supporting" this oppression.
You know what lock-in is, so no point in pretending you don't understand what its problems are. It's not about productivity, it's about anti-competitive jerks who use development tools to hamper competition.

Of course those who push lock-in like to present it as a positive thing and hide its real nature, but it's just a smokescreen which is easy to see through. Once in a while, they just can't help it, and express their real views: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft#Vendor_...

Anyway, I don't think explaining this to you in particular is useful. You know it all well, but pretend it's a good thing. Which is very shill-like.

Unlike you, even developers of such lock-in stuff admit, it's a bad thing for the industry. Those who are interested, can find comments by Dan Baker (from Oxide Games) for example, who is a former developer of DirectX.
SCOTUS hasn't actually decided on that.

The Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling was a narrow one, ruling that Colorado's process explicitly discriminated against the bakers - it showed forbidden anti-religious animus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...

> In a 7-2 decision, the Court ruled on narrow grounds that the Commission did not employ religious neutrality, violating Masterpiece owner Jack Phillips' rights to free exercise, and reversed the Commission's decision. The Court did not rule on the broader intersection of anti-discrimination laws, free exercise of religion, and freedom of speech, due to the complications of the Commission's lack of religious neutrality.

It'll probably be a few more years before we get a better test case for the issue that the Court can't as easily dodge.
It truly was before the _age_ of smart phones though.

Today virtually everyone who's 14+ years old has a one, it wasn't like that at all in 2008. And the definition of "smart" definitely changed too.

Just like the age of tablets started when the average 40yo mom started using ipads, not when Microsoft showed their prototype in 2000. Or the age of electric cars didn't start at the end of the 19th century, but a few years ago.
Twitters approach is that of teaching a pet not to pee on the rug. You rub their nose in it first. "Bad, bad!"
Thanks for your candor, I generally had this sense. If we had something like, “we usually ask for a take-home but a pointer to a code sample you’d be willing to discuss will work.” Would that be acceptable?

My logic on the take home was that interviews are hard without something to talk about and contrived problems are not super reflective of real work. Therefore, I’d send a dumb version of a simple task we have, then we’d walk through trade offs and such.

If I have some code you wrote and can walk me through that’s a very useful datapoint not just for competence (if you’ve been around a while you probably are good) but for personality and how we’d work together.

Does that seem more reasonable as a trade off for your time?
I have one of each!
There is definitely a problem with policing in the United States that needs to be fixed and there are a ton of cases that illustrate why. But for the life of me I can't understand why Michael Brown is championed as one of them. I don't want to be crass but Michael Brown was a bully that got caught up in his own anger and paid for it. Out of all the examples to choose from why would they choose him.
Bakkt crypto platform to finally launch in September
I'm pretty sure it was OS X Server (or might have been NeXT) that had a feature where you could save the state of the server config GUI to a text file that you could check into source control and/or back up. Then you could load that file to get the GUI back to its previous state after you screwed something up.
I don't want to watch videos and read books when I'm going home. I have a thing called life and actually love it. If a PM wants me to learn a new tool (I'm thinking especially of useless migrations to Grunt, Gulp, Broccoli, Rollup, Webpack ...) or the f*ing js framework of the day, I had to do it during my working hours. I'm with your coworkers.
The fact that India’s population is growing does not imply TFR is above replacement.

Now you can go back up to my original post, and see what it was about (I was replying to someone claiming that halving world population won’t help as we are “reproducing exponentially”). I think you are trying to make some point I probably agree with (or correct something I’ve said but it’s unclear what)
> but just tapping on the “hang” button

That looks like a hack. I understood it at 7 years old, but it is typically the kind of hack I’m told other adults wouldn’t understand. Do you think it was much used beyond technical-minded people who always wondered how things worked?
We could use a little German-ness in that case.
What's your meditation routine? As in, how do you actually meditate, do you use something like Headspace?
Without evidence, any comment you make is uninformed, so maybe spend a few seconds with your favorite search engine before commenting.

There are numerous reports of police showing up to suicide calls and shooting someone.[1][2][3][4][5] There's certainly a discussion to be had here about whether the shootings are self defense, but Taylor_OD's speculation is certainly not "without evidence".

[1] https://www.blacknews.com/news/matthew-tucker-fatally-shot-p...

[2] https://www.twincities.com/2018/04/12/sheriffs-deputy-fatall...

[3] https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/knwa/police-investigate-dep...

[4] https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/southwest-valley/...

[5] https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/breaking-officer-involve...
> most often "skeptical science remarks" although popular, are poorly informed and misleading.

I thought I was the only one who noticed this! Seems very popular and common in forums like HN and Reddit, but less so elsewhere.
Did memfd already made it? I wouldn't hold my breath.
The problem is that mainstream static types systems have two massive holes in them: nulls and pervasive mutability.

Knowing that a list has length n at compile time isn't that useful if you're expecting the program to change the list's length at runtime. Or maybe there was never a list in the first place because it was null.
It's misleading to just say "because of the green text" it's so much more than that. If you have an active iMessage chat and users are using iMessage features, it's a weird experience for the non-iMessage folks.
It seemed like a real victory to have emojis in the UTF format, but of course now Apple turns on the big FU and finds other ways to chide non-iMessage users.

Don't blame the kids.
you missed my point - rights went down the drain a long time ago.
I second this. I have been practicing Isha's meditation technique 'Shambhavi' which I learnt at Inner Engineering program. No matter what, I set aside 45-60 mins everyday for doing basic yoga and meditation for the last 5 months.
Firstly, daily yoga made me very aware of my posture(work/excercise/sports) and it has helped me gain discipline in life.
Secondly, the inner peace after meditating lasts very long and it mellows down my entire day. I am more aware of my emotions and thoughts. I am very grateful for this.
And I'm completely sure its exactly what's happening. In 99% of the people.
Augur, the oracle of web3, plans its rise from the ashes
I don't care what the issue is, but whenever someone makes this argument, it instantly makes me care that much less about whatever they are advocating. Everyone has a right to silence and non-involvement without having their motives questioned.
That strategy seems silly at first glance. All of these are so fact-specific and infrequent that the victim will not have committed them to memory and would be better served with a 116 + dispatcher to triage?
What an amazing story of human cooperation. One on hand, everyone wants to make boatloads of money, on the other hand, sometimes we realize that if we all pitch in to a shared resource, we can make something better and cheaper than otherwise possible.

There are so many things I wish humanity could apply this to, glad to see it working in practice!
In that case you can thank the educated women of the world who are forgoing having children in all the countries where the fertility rate is already below replacement.

They've probably done more to combat global warming than most "ban cars/meat/flying" fanatics.
In the very beginning, there were light bulbs and wiring panels...
Shipping vehicles has been a solved problem for a century, shipping autonomous vehicles has not. Although they are taking the money for it, Tesla are not shipping autonomous vehicles.
If they enclosed the gearbox, they could add a roller bearing on the reverse side of the sprocket to provide counterpressure to prevent flexing. Enclosing it would prevent grit from getting in as well.
>Code which, for most people, does work.

Working is not the problematic part. There are two interrelated problems: how much complexity is introduced, and how to proceed when something is not working, or is flaky.

You, me, and our fellow posters know very well that Lennart's solutions are complex - in fact, more complex than the problem domain. Accordingly, the ability to narrow down, fix, or work around problems suffers. Systemd and PulseAudio aren't UNIX applications [1]; they are entirely new, rather opaque, sub-systems unto themselves. Thus they require separate knowledge, separate intuition, and separate skills.

All so I can seamlessly play music on TWO bluetooth speakers while also browsing logs without learning regex.

>Lennart Poettering is a dev who has contributed MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF CODE

Massive amounts of code is a clear and present problem. Why is the solution more complex than the problem domain? Why is the success being measured by magnitude of effort, rather than by barriers removed, and standards adhered to?

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[1] what makes an UNIX application? small POSIX applications tied together with shell scripts, communicating via pipes, exposing services as files, following the `Worse is better' and `Do one thing, and do it well' principles.
Says the social justice warrior.

We're not all warriors. That's a fact of any population. And the non-warriors aren't scum, despite the chest-beating of those that are.

Just speaking out against intolerance, wherever I find it :)
I mean, hackerrank puzzles IS how most companies interview so it isn't unreasonable to assume that that's what the job is like. Presumably orgs would ask questions related to the problems they are solving during an interview
how would static typing help with "method fn is deprecated use foo' linting ?
What I'm trying to say is that "Good" is what your moral intuitions (however you got them) tell you is Good. There is no goodness without a conscious being it would apply to. There is no way to consider something as Good if all your nature screams at you that this is evil. (I will leave Christian concept of Good God running Hell for eternity out of the picture for now).

A separate claim is that those intuitions are a result of long evolution and are a bunch of heuristics that tend to increase gene survival and propagation, plus a bunch of accidental not too detrimental for that purpose rules. Most likely not an absolute optimum set too.

A meteor smashing into a mountain on the moon is neither good nor bad.

What's good for a human and what's good for an octopus and what's good for our upcoming robot overlords can be completely different.
Yes it is. By complaining his co-worker was saying that her commute was more important then Garner's life and more important then fighting the problem of police brutality against black people. It was 100% racist and extremely selfish.
What's the tendency when a study with a small sample size that show a large observed effect get performed on larger samples? Has it been studied?
You can't expect regular users to jailbreak their iOS devices
Point taken. "Bastardization" isn't black and white. It's measured in shades of grey.
The counter argument would be- just because you enjoy knitting 30 minutes a day and it relaxes you, does that mean it will work the same for anyone/everyone else?

If there was a study that empirically proved knitting for 30 days made you happier, then it would be a lot easier for people to say "OK, I'll take the time to learn how to do this and do it for X amount of the day".

Given that I still see your point. No reason to be so skeptical, just try out meditation and if it works great if not oh well.
Are you saying that the incidents in this article didn't happen and that State Farm isn't paying LEO to investigate customers it believes are fraudsters?
This all resonates with me. I appreciate it. I have no illusions of getting rich at all - the work I want to do is not particularly lucrative, especially at lower scales. It does however involve a lot of disciplines I'm passionate about, produces a product I'm passionate about, and would likely keep me engaged or even engrossed for a very long time. It would also be positive for my community. What I do now is not these things.

I agree especially that you really don't need that much to get by. I've been a main or sole provider to a family for a while though so it's hard to shake the urge to earn more. I find that attitude very toxic at times though... Money hasn't done much to improve my life in meaningful ways for a long time now. Over time I think I'll adjust to earning less just fine, so long as everything and everyone is taken care of.

Thanks very much for the input.
>“ While the benefits differ slightly, the magnitude of benefit from other SIDCHAs -- like exercising, drawing a picture, writing a blog post, writing three business ideas, cooking a meal from scratch, etc every day -- can be just as great.“

I’m not sure how you can equate meditations benefits to drawing pictures, or writing three business ideas. They are fundamentally different activities that produce vastly different outcomes, some being much more valuable.

In the case of meditation it’s the ability to pause the incessant thinking mind, glean insights into the nature of consciousness and be able to enter the present moment more frequently. Those things alone are worth far more than being able to draw pretty pictures or bench your body weight.
Good Code Podcast: On API Design
This reminds me of an article shared here on the value of doing nothing.

How does walking around with a clear head compared to meditation practically speaking?
CGI Form Handling in Perl (1995)
I've given up on GIMP in a sense, Krita is the closest to what I actually want it to be but it's still missing some key stuff for me when it comes to vector selections and font work (but font work on GIMP was also less than great). It's much closer to what I've wanted GIMP to evolve into, so I've been crossing my fingers there.