skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read it in the 90s. I think what people forget is in the pre-dot-com-crash era, there was a lot of (unwarranted, it turned out) optimism. If you took the rate of technology advancement and adoption through the 80s and early 90s and extrapolated it forward, and also took into account the social changes it had already driven (and which hadn't really shown their strongly negative sides), it was possible to imagine these really wild possible futures that seemed to be only a few decades off.

Of course, past performance is no guarantee of future results, and the wheels fell off that particular cart shortly after 9/11, along with a lot of optimistic visions of the future.
Politics aside. While seeming scary, this kind of device is actually widely deployed in China, especially in schools. It proves to be very effective for police use:

1. Dull tipped, won't penetrate bodies.
2. While in use, no direct body contact between you and the other.
3. Effective, since human doesn't really have much strength in the chest / stomach area.

I don't think Mirror chose a good picture for the use, this one's probably better: http://news.china.com.cn/txt/2010-04/30/content_19937607.htm

Honestly better than guns and more effective than shields.
Thanks but I would rather not work for Narcs Inc.
There are certainly some cases where this makes sense. In the extreme case, suppose someone uploads a full copy of a new movie. It seems unlikely the studio would make up for the revenue from lost ticket sales with just ads. They might be violating contracts with their distributors as well.
As I recall, there was a movie where someone was in jail, the CO dialed the phone number for their free phone call, and then when the CO locked the number pad and left, the "hacker" immediately hung up and redialed a different number by tapping on the cradle switch.

They might have just tapped 10 times (dial rotary-0) to get an operator and then requested manual completion of the call. I don't remember, exactly.

I don't even know if you can still also do pulse dialing instead of solely DTMF dialing now.
What I dislike about conversations like this on HN, is that comments like the above don’t get downvoted because they are detrimental to the conversation, or because they are in some way a rules violation, but rather because people just don’t like them. It defeats the whole “moderation” purpose of self-moderation. And it happens every single time a political issue like racial bias in the tech industry is the topic at hand.
> Now if the employee was experiencing mental health issues as a direct result of coworkers or the work environment

Literally the opening quote:

”Over the last 5 years I’ve heard co-workers spew hateful words about immigrants, boast unabashedly about gentrifying neighborhoods, mockingly imitate people who speak different languages, reject candidates of color without evidence because of ‘fit.’”
Unbridgeable cultural gaps, as a general matter, are very real. I recently read Record of the Listener ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/1624666841/ ), which is a collection of stories published in China in the 12th century. And far and away my most common takeaway from any of the stories was "wow, I have no idea what I'm supposed to think about this". And these stories were published for their entertainment value!

Similarly, immigrant groups tend not to integrate, critics from foreign countries really are usually misunderstanding a large number of important points, and so on.

Between any two cultures, there is a huge amount of overlap. But nothing quite coincides, and the differences end up mattering a lot.
Have you considered respecting the professionals who keep us safe, and not assuming that they're all somehow bad people out to get good folks who just happen to be "in the wrong place at the wrong time"?
Sorry for my ignorance. Can you explain the reference?
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Was reading the US news perhaps part of his job? Google runs one of the largest news machines. Hopefully someone in there is actually reading the stuff the machines collect and disseminate to users.

I once had a boss that always talked guns. Every day he would go on about some politician's secret gun control agenda. The daily news wasn't part of the job until he made it so.
None of those are tabloids.
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Twitter has banned / restricted accounts for merely stating "Learn to Code" in a Tweet. Nothing they do at this point should be surprising.
PoC are disproportionately pulled over by police.

EDIT: And that means you'll never get accurate numbers on consumption/offense rates. So using those numbers is fully questionable.
Project Zero is a tiny subset of Google's security team. And while they do have an unusual concentration of extremely competent security researchers, it's not like they are the only competent security researchers/engineers in the company. Similar research happens internally, at all levels of the stack, including designing silicon (e.g. Titan chips that were shown publicly).
Developer time is valuable too, if you feel strongly about efficiency, feel free to write one in C++ or Rust. As an industry we have come to accept that developers are not cheap, that a multitude of open source libraries is good for everyone regardless of perceived deficiencies in quality, whether this is due to supply/demand is besides the point. The thing is, there are limits to "artisan, handcrafted software". If you want your GUI or app to look good, ship without license restrictions, build quickly, not resort to sweatshop labour, then you have to use stuff like Electron or Node.js. You can't have all of your cake and eat it too. Artisanal handcrafted software is nice to build when you have exited a startup or has a trust fund and nothing better to do with your time.

(If you are a Lisp developer and you are reading this, I challenge you to build one in your favourite Lisp. Let's see how HN's favorite "secret weapon" fares against the entire ecosystem of JavaScript. The hypocrisy is unreal here, people would espouse Lisp in one breath and go back to coding their startup in Rails in another.)
Ask HN: How do you design UI applications?
I recently built a basic GUI application to help with the chore of selecting photos for wedding album prints from a digital collection. The app merely saves the names of photos that the user selects (/likes). I used tKinter in PY. A few of my friends were also interested, but I found that my app wasn't robust enough.
I am curious to know what language/GUI programming paradigm is easy to learn for beginners and yields good robust solutions. I just started to look at QT which seems to support cross-platform. Please advise :).
If you just want a quote with minimal context, here:

In-vehicle activities, such as listening to the radio or an audio book, were associated with a low level of cognitive workload. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00187208155751...

This stuff is not going to show up in a single study, but you can start looking if you really want to gain understanding.

Again I am talking the minimum threshold, complexity of speech is hard to control for. A book can easily get rather complex after all. But, the baseline does appear to be low.

I think you’re getting hung up on the mechanics of language as a communication medium vs the message it conveys. Decoding “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.” is much harder than “Do you want a coke?” not because English got harder but rather the message was more complex. Wood being a collection of trees vs dead plant matter, yellow referring to the leaves at a time of the year etc.

PS: Related literature does say using spoken commons for common tasks is distracting. However, it's not clear how much of this is due to the task and the poor implementation of voice recognition features.
Did you read the memo?

The author describes a specific scenario where a co-worker brought up these issues as work. So, yes, it sounds like for this person it was work-related.

However, I disagree with the author's recommendation to provide additional mental health support for people of color.

I think employee affinity groups for employees of different cultures can be a good idea, but specifically targeting POC for "mental health" services? That's not a good precedent.

Frankly, this memo is not well-written, my initial inclination was to dismiss aspects of it because I had a hard time following the reasoning, but once I read it a couple of times, I came around to agreeing about the diagnosis of the problem, but not all of the recommendations offered.
>FastMail support is worse than Google and has fewer features.

Actually I use Fastmail, and am a big fan. I've never had an issue reaching support. Of course I've rarely had to, the service is pretty reliable.

As for features, I could flip that around on Gmail. Does Google rigidly adhere to imap/carddav/caldav standards so that standards-compliant clients have no problems whatsoever in connecting, or are there still cheerful little "quirks" when trying to use non-official clients with Gmail?
Ask HN: How do you get your hair cut if your favorite salon/barber is busy?
How do you get your hair cut if your favorite salon/barber is busy and booked for next couple of days.
obviously he just gave a quote explaining that
I've read them all but it's been years. I want to go back to them. They are great books. Silly, goofy, and weird but very enjoyable. The world of Oz books is surprisingly complicated[1] but I would say the original series penned by Baum is definitely worth checking out.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oz_books
When you say solving ‘this’ what exactly problem are you noticing?
Long distance hiker here. This is not useful on the trail on two fundamental levels:

-energy is seldom the limiting factor in high mileage days. Typically it is a combination of joint pain and feet swell/bruising. A robot will simply remove some of your control over those primary factors.

- the chemical storage of energy in batteries is nowhere close to human efficiency, so you will never pay for the weight of this thing. Seriously, we drill holes in our toothbrush handle to get total base equipment weight < 8 lbs. It is only at these weights that we come close to our limits. Maybe a day hike on one battery would still have benefit, but one-shot day hikes have nothing to do with endurance hiking.
I'm not disagreeing that talking about politics at work is a minefield, at best.

However, trying to get everyone to talk about sports is annoying as hell. I'd rather have ugly political arguments than talk about some stupid sports game; that's my point. You're trying to paint sports as some kind of thing to unite over, but I'm pointing out that it isn't, all it does is create another division, between the sports fans and everyone else.

Now, of course, I don't care if a few sports fans have a conversation among themselves at work. However, with some of them it seems to be a religion of sorts and they have to push it on everyone.
Here's a solidworks tutorial making a differential gear which is how many/most vehicles solve this problem.

https://youtu.be/qqFTMhubEtc

A differential gear solves both the direction problem and the distance between the wheels when turning problem.
You conveniently left out some important statistics:

- Despite being 13% of the population, blacks commit 53% of homicides and 37% of all violent crime: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

Maybe that explains why they have more trouble with cops. It's easy to craft a black and white narrative of good vs. evil when systematically ignore all the sins of one side.
It is better not to engage people who think like that. They’re don’t have a good faith interest in improving the situation, they only want to talk down to people.
Where is the place that mid level software engineers think there are not good career prospects and they'd get paid more? I can only guess it's a place where there aren't many dev jobs. My experience is in the Seattle area and we are begging for people to even apply for jobs. There are 10,000 jobs easily in Seattle. My company would love to grow its dev force 50% and we can only get people by hiring them away from another company (perhaps an obvious comment :-)), and by hiring new college grads.

If your job is working you too hard, with not enough pay, then people here get another job. It seems harder to high people with some experience at my company anyway. New college grads make 120k+ at top companies (we are a startup but not a unicorn, we pay a little more than that).
Seems pretentious as hell, to be honest.
I wonder if these might be safer than e.g. American crowd control tools.
No, it is definitely that they disproportionately target PoC.
Not everyone has a thick enough skin to deal with situations the best way. The community should take lead as well.
There's still a disconnect here. Infosec is a specialized profession unto itself, too. A CISO is not just "an engineer that's gone into management". My original point is that security is so far removed from "engineering" that it's incorrect to equate the two (even though it's done all the time).

>I think it's easier for the right kind of engineer to get into management rather than a lifelong manager to gain competence in engineering

IME, it's the opposite. It depends on your specific goal (are we trying to train someone to be CISO or are we training them to be a SOC team leader?), but it's ridiculously easier (and more effective) to take a person with existing management abilities and teach them about security than it is to take an engineer and teach them security management skills.

>Having someone with no background in engineering running a department is suspect.

It's really not, because again, engineering != security. It's no more suspect than the CFO not having a background in engineering.
Googlers are very politically active on Twitter, and Google allows employees free expression, and Google is hugein people's lives, so the Internet iis able and interested in Google gossip.

"Big Company has some wealthy, elitist, casually racist employees" isn't news, except when the company is Google, for some reason. But Google doesn't fire people for airing dirty laundry.
Glad the tutorial is helpful! :)

It was a last minute idea and I'm excited about how it turned out.
Definitely not FEMA or federal govt! IMO FEMA should be defunded in the wake of climate change and let the private sector factor in the actual replacement cost & risk. I feel this is the fastest way of putting a dollar figure on the cost of climate change and might actually lead to some positive change if cities & individuals are not able to externalize the costs of CC to general public.

PS: I am a liberal democrat & by no means support the rest of libertarian/right-wing agenda.
Is that true for homeowner's insurance? As far as I know, the 20% rule is for private mortgage insurance (PMI), which pays to the lender if you fail to make your payments. Basically an added payment because with a low down-payment, you're seen as an extra risk of default that must be insured separately.
Check out the diversity report: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/diversity.google/...

They show hiring and attrition numbers, but they don't break down every category by tech/non-tech.

I'll highlight these:

2018 (Tech): 2.5% (1.4%) black

2014 (Tech): 1.9% (1.1%) black

I guess there is some improvement here. For reference, California is ~6% black and the USA is ~12%. If you grew up in a black neighborhood or went to an HBCU, you are probably accustomed to much higher percentages than the average and being diffused into a huge organization might be jarring.
Just to clarify, it's not 'emulation' -- they have patched a copy of iOS itself to run on stock ARM devices, virtualizing hardware as needed.

It's the same idea as a 'Hackintosh' but with iOS/ARM instead of macOS/Intel.
I would usually just wait but if it’s urgent I’d go to another barber with availability and ask for a “touch up”, that way they don’t mess with it too much
> Agreed, rolling resistance at 30mph (about the fastest you'll ever ride a bike, even down a steep hill)

What do you consider a steep hill? There are hills here that I can routinely get up to 35 mph with a little effort. Many cyclists have gone downhill at speeds exceeding 50 mph [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc2nqMXlZWg
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I'm guessing it's because Latinos and blacks in general are underrepresented in the white collar labor pools that Google draws from. Most Google employees, if not developers, are still in white collar office-type professions.

https://www.ibtimes.com/racism-us-job-market-blacks-hispanic...

According to that study, black people make up 2-3% of the white collar workforce. This indicates that Google's diversity initiatives are broadly working, but Google alone cannot overcome the societal issues that keep various people out of these well paying career paths.

Hispanics represent about 5% of the white collar workforce, so again, the 3.5% indicates that Google is not exactly where one would expect, but still not as off as a naive analysis would seem.

The narrative that Google is not hiring people of certain skin colors because of racism on their part falls apart the moment you look at numbers over which Google has little control.
They are encouraged to express their political opinions as long as they choose wisely what are their opinions.
> It’s obvious that the police will want a device that produces more convictions, no point in disputing that.

Is that obvious? If this were as overwhelming an incentive as you say, we wouldn't have accurate breathalyzers for alcohol. But we do, and it's simple to see why. 1) Cops aren't the only customers; medical establishments, individuals, and workplaces also have a legitimate interest in measuring impairment. 2) Tech like this doesn't remain novel forever, it can be checked for accuracy, and if you made a device that exaggerated impairment your reputation would tank, your company name would become a political hot potato, and your sales would never materialize. 3) There is definitely a point in disputing the idea that cops are indiscriminate gangsters roaming the streets trying to lock up any citizen they don't like the look of. Police have their personal and institutional biases, but by and large, most are interested in tools that allow them to safely and fairly administrate the rule of law. Police don't have much career or institutional incentive to arrest someone for a DUI at a traffic stop or not—they just stop bad drivers and check. It's prosecutors who are trying to rack up conviction numbers as a matter of career advancement and political viability. But even that gets checked: their work will be subject to an adversarial legal system, at which point any evidence that the device doesn't work would come out in court and tank their conviction rate.

So... where do you see perverse incentives here, again?
Ask HN: How can I learn to read?
There's a study that shows that when you read the first time through a book, you learn some amount of the information, but when you reread it the second time, your brain only recognizes that this is familiar information and just ignores the material.

This means that rereading is a no-go strategy for learning.

So how can I learn to read?
I think the motivations of most police to choose a career as a police aren't in line with the best interests of citizens
I do not know about the person you are responding to, but I particularly take issue with how PA abstracts the hardware and does not allow low latency applications or servers such as Ardour, JACK, or other professional audio recording software to access it in an efficient manner.

So you end up with this weird situation where pulseaudio reroutes itself when JACK appears and no longer takes control of the sound card.

Why do we need to support two sound servers to take care of all the necessary features? I really hope pipewire fixes this use case and allows pro audio applications to work directly on top of pipewire while still supporting consumer friendly use cases like bluetooth speakers.
This is the first time I've ever hoped for the complete failure of a company featured in Launch HN.

This is an ill-conceived solution to exacerbate an existing injustice: uneven prosecution of laws in the War on Drugs.

Shame on you.
> Yeah, but what happens when someone never shows up for things like this? Do people start getting suspicious that they're anti-LGBT?

There was no expectation for everyone to show up. The meeting space wouldn't even have facilitated it. It would be unreasonable for there to have been an expectation for that reason alone.

Nobody's going to think your anti-LGBT unless you make comments at work disparaging LGBT people. You don't have to be proactively pro-LGBT in the workplace to be not "against it".
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One of my previous companies had "kids day" during which employees could bring their kids, there were random activities set up for them (craft, coloring books, etc) and everybody could volunteer to hang out with them.

I never attended, and after maybe half a dozen of sessions during which I kept doing, you know, work, my coworkers started assuming and asking me if I hated kids... And I have 2!
That's subjective, but your observations are valid in many scenarios.

The point I want to make is that Messages is not preventing them from including Android users because they don't have an iPhone, which is a general misunderstanding that I often observe when talking with Android users who use Whatsapp or similar and is also recurring here. If the Android user gets locked out, it's because a human decided to, not because Messages refused to include that user based on ecosystem lock-in (unlike Whatsapp).

However, like Twitter OP, I can testify that teens attach a lot more weight to the blue/green than they should. But then again, it's everywhere in popular culture. Try finding a recent hit movie/TV series or music video, produced in the US, that shows green bubbles (or Android for that matter, even though it has a higher market share).
No, it doesn't. I'm having a hard time putting my finger on your misconception, but you seem to assume all time periods are equivalent and practically meaningless.

Withdrawal of the bill and gaining enough time to mount a response in the future, if necessary, is an absolutely important achievement. It means the protests can stop without the risk of fly-by-night passage. It means the potential of future protests can be a deterrent to future introduction of the bill.
Great job to the founders, awesome to see more cool companies out of the UW nano program.

Curious why all the negativity, perhaps people are unaware that cannabis actively DOES impair driving to dangerous levels. Also, as this startup is from Canada I'm almost certain the mindframe of the founders is to develop a device that makes legalization EASIER, not allowing police to use it catch and arrest people on the street who they think are high.

One issue we have been dealing with in Canada is how to regulate driving after consuming cannabis. A zero tolerance policy for smoking + driving within days is unreasonable and thus will be ineffective. This device and the research behind it looks like could help regulators and police catch people who are dangerously high while not arresting those who happened to smoke much earlier.
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You're missing the point that the war on drugs is racist, oppressive, expensive and counterproductive. Adding technology does not improve any aspect of that.

FWIW I do not think driving high is safe at all, but I don't think it's a serious problem either (by the numbers).
Good to know that they're working on it more. I used it the while back trying to learn digital sculpting.

I remember reading that Blender's Sculpt mode was far behind the commercial sculpting tools such as Zbrush because they have things like Sculpting Layers.