skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very insightful reply.

I think there is a specific problem in the discussion of how class is discussed in the US today, which is that Americans think of class in quantitative terms, i.e. it is about how much money you make. But these theories start with Adam Smith who saw the primary division as being between working class (labor), landlord, and employer classes. To Smith, you have two different rentier classes and a working class, and the difference is qualitative. (Now, assuming Picketty is right that returns on capital are greater than economic growth, qualitative differences lead to quantitative differences, but one is cart and one is horse.)

Until we start recognizing that we as software developers are working class too at least until we cash in enough options to own real assets, we can't have this discussion.
All I need to know is we disagree and I hate you.
>I don’t feel any less safe now than 10 years ago walking around

As someone who has trained and trained with police... I can tell you those words are dangerous. So many people who gets their lives upturned by some mostly preventable event has used those words.

Pay attention, no matter where you live. Personally if people are shooting up near me and the police are selectively enforcing the law, “feel safe” isn’t going to be in my vocabulary, but I don’t know you or what your situation is. That’s just my view from being aware of how fast things can go bad.
“some would prefer to see the police cart drug users off to jail to get them out of the way” (article)

It seems like creating housing projects for these people would be cheaper and more beneficial to society than increasing the prison population. I’d like to see something like dorms with shared restrooms, cafeterias, and such facilities. It’d create work and demand locally while keeping the streets clean.
They're living in tents surrounded by rats, garbage, raw sewage and chasing away residents and business. Are these cities gaining taxpayers and businesses, or losing them? How happy are the residents of these cities with these conditions who pay for it all? You're very compassionate allowing people to decay on the streets. Congrats on your "win." What you won, I don't know. I see more misery than ever before. At least they can get their drugs without consequence now. I'm sure they're happy for that while they waste away in front of our eyes. At least you can say you were acting in a compassionate way, even while the results are completely contrary. Brownie points for you.
That crosses into personal attack, which isn't ok here. Also, please don't use quotation marks to make it look like you're quoting some when you're not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The timing is just so interesting though!

Two of my comments saw 3 downvotes in the span of a minute, the latter of which was much further down than this comment.
I see people shooting up in public places, people walking around naked, doing wheelies on a wheelchair on high traffic roads, drug needles laying on the side walk, etc.

I think enforcing these laws would make Seattle safer and an overall better place to live.
Yep, the argument I've heard is that it legitimizes encampments. Additionally I suspect people are outraged by the notion that homeless people could get trash pickup for free from the city when housed people have to pay for theirs - even though it would be a lot cheaper than sweeps.
Your first point is misleading. Satellite imagery and in the ground evidence clearly shows that the fires are almost exclusively driven by humans. Not wildfires. This is conscious deforestation at a massive scale. The dry season has made the problem worse, but it is an unusually dry season due to climate change. Bolsonaro has definitely encouraged deforestation.
How do we reconcile wanting to block fingerprinting so we can't be tracked, with the fact that almost every modern front end uses fingerprinting for things like figuring out the canvas size for responsive designs? I definitely don't want to be tracked, but I'd like responsive designs to keep working.
That's how it works in Europe. But when I suggested to a colleague in the US a few years ago that he take a defective disk drive back to Best Buy (or perhaps Newegg) five months after he had bought it he laughed out loud at the absurdity of the idea that the seller would do anything at all.
it's weird because it does look like Win 95 but a lot of things are different
Is it the same thing?

The article is about just not enforcing the law. Portugal changed their laws.
MIT licensed? With icons copied straight from Windows 95?
I completely agree with you about that. There are a number of climate change solutions (particularly around population control measures) that land uncomfortably close to eugenics. As a side note, my wife and I are not having children precisely because of the climate crisis. We don't want to bring children into a world that is looking increasingly unsurvivable.
I dunno, may be you are right -- that the "right" person hasn't been assaulted, raped or killed yet.

Certainly, the high profile stabbing in front of Nordstroms didn't do much. Nor, did much change when the homeless guy was stopped from throwing a women on her way to work off an I-5 overpass. Or the lady who was raped by the homeless guy at the U-district car dealership after dropping her car off for an oil change on her way to work in the morning.

I assume it would have to be someone connected to the local government. It took about five seconds to change the 2nd Ave bike lanes when a city employee was killed riding her bike down there.
Maybe a compromise would be to just build metrics reporting directly into browsers? I'm sure Apple/Mozilla/Google collect this data already, what's stopping them from just forwarding anonymised usage statistics to an HTTP endpoint for each website?
I'm anti-incarceration for moral reasons, but it's not clear to me that there is a definitive consensus that incarceration does not work. See: https://www.nber.org/digest/jan02/w8489.html

> "Annual expenditures of approximately $10 billion on drug incarceration almost pay for themselves through reductions in health care costs and lost productivity attributable to illegal drug use, even ignoring any crime reductions associated with such incarceration."

(The above is from a study conducted by a prominent U Chicago economist and another economist who is now at Princeton.)

It’s really very complicated. One of the macro trends over the last few decades is a massive increase in crime from the late 1960s to the mid 1990s, then a decrease since then. Incarceration started increasing in the 1970s and 1980s as a response to that increase in crime. When crime started coming down in the 1990s, incarceration started coming down about ten years behind that in the 2000s.

Nobody really knows why crime started dropping in the 1990s. Some people think that the reduction is attributable to the banning of leaded gasoline. Maybe. But I don’t think studied have ruled out the notion that the reduction is attributable to putting a large number of people in prison. See: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/089533004773563485

> Crime fell sharply and unexpectedly in the 1990s. Four factors appear to explain the drop in crime: increased incarceration, more police, the decline of crack and legalized abortion.

It’s not an area where you can point to a definitive consensus, and everyone interprets the data to fit their own political views.
There is little oil in China, so the tariffs may not even be related to that.
exactly, "absurdly", what journalism
You're replying to a sarcastic comment which is actually intended to praise Sourcehut's good frontend, hope that helps.

Further, it's a completely open source product which strongly encourages self-hosting; the main reason to subscribe to the hosted instance is to give money to the dev.
Yes. Bolsonaro himself has claimed that the fires were started by humans:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20769327
Almost none of the IO of that page is cached actually[0]. The only thing I'm sure that is cached is the templates themselves. I'm pretty sure that neither git lookups, nor DB accesses are cached, where you can save time. And mind you, this is served from a single data center in USA, and the latency can already eat up a lot of that. I in Europe have 300ms ping to it, so it might be that you are simply far away from the physical location.

[0] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/git.sr.ht/tree/master/gitsrht/bl...
Is this in California? I've noticed in California that food service workers (at any establishment) tend to be Hispanic. In Toronto, they tend to be Asian.

Since these companies are required to be race-blind when hiring, they are going to be a reflection of their local job markets.
I read The Tiananmen Papers circa 2003. It's dry but it's primary material, allowing you to make your own judgments about how Chinese politics works. I think it's served me well, and I don't think I've missed out on any insights offered by packaged, scholarly narratives. Precisely because it was primary material it's aged well, even with the huge changes in Chinese society and government since then.

OTOH, I had studied International Politics in undergraduate, and took several classes on SE Asian history and politics. And I also had done some semi-professional research regarding exports controls on supercomputing technology--a big issue back when Linux Beowulf clusters were hot. So I had some background knowledge going in.

Still, there's much to be said for primary material. I know there's some debate about the selection of what went into The Tiananmen Papers, but doing a deep dive on a narrow issue is more useful to understanding the broader society than you'd think, even if the material selection is skewed. For similar reasons, I feel like I learned a tremendous amount about Chilean political history and culture, more than all other sources combined (except perhaps contemporary Chilean newsprint) reading "Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile". There are fundamental truths about a culture that are revealed by the fine details of how historical events unfold, independent of the larger context (i.e. Allende's soft socialist revolution, or brutally paranoid Chinese state repression).
Its all the same coating, but the strips are dark meat and the filet/nuggets are white meat. At least they were when I worked there.
Good point. I'd have responded that it has never been reported "properly", but then, Newsweek, one should hope, is pretty proper. Let's see.
I don't agree with this at all.

Sponsored segments are typically produced by, or use the same production values as, the creator who is providing the content you intended to consume. The sponsored segments are an accurate reflection of the content you're consuming and typically do not detract from the overall experience.

Like the normal web ads we see, they are intended to pay the bills of the individual(s) or company that is providing this content to us for free, so they may continue doing so.

By blocking the sponsorships, you're denying them the right to make profit from their work in a manner that doesn't execute unexpected code, intrusively collect your information, or otherwise violate mutual trust.
The War of Drugs, like most things, is abused by the rich and powerful.

But would you seriously look a Black mother or father in their face and tell her that her child is dead (and they are broke) because he freed himself from the oppressive Puritanical culture and enjoyed drugging himself to death and stealing their resources to feed his addiction?
Form elements are a letdown; the <form> could have been styled to look like a window and input elements skinned to look like actual checkbox/radio/input boxes in Win95. Instead they are just white boxes.
Every stat on violent crime I’ve seen is that the 80s were a peak tho?
We also have compote in English, which is a dessert made from fruit in syrup.
> do you think every drug addict on the west coast wants to hold down a job and live our normal life?

That's not the relevant question. Is it better for the rest of us if that drug addict is on the side walk or living inside? In the latter case, there's a better chance of treatment success, but it's also better when they remain addicts.
The policy being shilled by the article in question is about non-violent addicts.

Whatever problems the commenter in question has with violent criminals has absolutely nothing to do with it - but they chose to attack the non-violent policy (And then get defensive about how their points are being misconstrued. What are those points, then? Violent crime is bad, and should be dealt with? I don't think anyone disagrees with that one. What does it have to do with a diversion of non-violent addicts?)

It's like complaining that standards on organically-grown produce aren't preventing contaminated meat from ending up at your grocery store. Whatever problems you have with contaminated meat have nothing to do with the produce policy.
If you can avoid inflicting a painful VCS migration on yourself, you probably should.
It's also heavily used in fraud prevention, blocking malicious actors, and on gambling websites.
Don't use user agent check for features. User agent detection doesnt keep pace with development.
As long as it is outside city limits, but operated as a city extension, in something like a rural environment, I think this is a great idea.
I surely enjoy wild associations as much as the next guy, but I meant more pedestrian topics such as:

- are you eating meat or are you vegetarian?

- do you take a car to work or ride a bike or take public transportation?

- do you drink tap water or bottled water?

- do you send your kids to private or public school?

Now try discussing any of these in depth "without politics".
> The reporters designation of "figured out" seems to stem more from the fact that the solution fits his own view than any actual real evidence.

It's an opinion piece.
Those icons are outdated but still look better than the Windows 10 icons.
We used the icons from here while giving the author credit: https://artage.io/en/icon-packs/original-windows-95-icons?li...
Well duh, if they did then Bezos wouldn't have $zillions in the bank.
> I can buy the same products from Aliexpress way cheaper and have them delivered in 2-3 days.

I use aliexpress for things I don't need for 2-4 weeks, I'm really curious, normally 2-3 delivery is like $40+ (Which I prefer not to spend on something that's $1.75)
But it's still the closest proxy for the average person.
Seattle needs more public dumpsters and sewage receptacles for non-landowners/land-renters.

When London was covered in rivers of shit in the 19th Century because there was no sanitation infrastructure, was that because the citizens were anti-social criminals? Or was is a societal problem that needed a funded solution?
It's still all about ad revenue though.
As I understand it, it's because there often aren't 'local lines' per se. For instance, if you want to go from Doncaster to Retford (about a ten-fifteen minute journey)[1], you're either on the East Coast Main Line (which runs Edinburgh-London) or the Hull line (which runs Hull-London). The necessity to runs express/intercity services on the same line reduces the ability to schedule local services - a slow moving/frequently stopping local service would block express trains.

It's less about moving local traffic off current lines, and more about freeing them up to provide local services. You could potentially see something like Bawtry station[2], which is between the two, brought back into service if there is demand, whereas it might not currently make sense to do so as the line's primary purpose is intercity travel.

[1] Not necessarily something that might be affected by HS2 - just a set of stations I know as an example.

[2] Closed in 1959, but Wikipedia notes: "land near the station has been protected should the site be required as a new station, with car parking facilities, in the future as the town grows". The line initially went Doncaster-Rossington-Bawtry-Scrooby-Ranskill-Barnby-Retford, but now only Doncaster and Retford remain.
if it's the Blitz, don't be the guy who shows up to tea time and tries to talk about the weather.

it isn't that tea time is the place for political battles. it's that when bombs are falling, there is little else which feels worth discussing.
Alternate back lore for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Same! Whenever I have to explain what agile is I start with retrospectives. It's the one rule that is mandatory. Standups, sprints, JIRA boards, grooming/refinement sessions and everything else in a heavyweight framework like scrum is there to support the principles of agile, but none of it is actually necessary. IMO every software developer should read the Agile Manifesto ( https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html ) every once in a while and consider whether their process is actually working for the team.
If my neighbor beat his wife, damaged my car and pissed on my house I would do exactly what ever good neighbor should- call the cops and make sure they have enough evidence to send his ass to jail. The problem is when the cops don’t come then what do you do?
We can look at Germany as the best example of how to do this correctly. In Germany, it is literally illegal to portray Nazi imagery. They did their best to fully "kill" the Nazi movement after their loss in WW2.

Shutting things down works. The (modern) US just doesn't want to go that way. In fact, shutting things down and erasing history is perhaps one of the most effective methodologies from a historical point of view. But historically, the US had an office of censorship for a reason during WW2, so that public opinion could be unified against Nazi-ism.

People often ask why WW2 was so effective at unifying the country. Well... yeah. Office of Censorship and clamping down on speech, and systemic advertisements + propaganda funded by US Government and pushed by Walt Disney.

It just needs to be done from the top down. You can't expect the free market to do it on its own.

> By comparison, how many white nationalists do you think had their minds changed by having their speech censored? Usually this only reinforces the belief in a {Jewish | Globalist | immigrant | etc. } conspiracy against whites.

The idea is not to change their minds. The idea is to prevent them from talking, and changing the minds of others.
And disable JS. The idea that clients need to execute arb code to see a page broke the information / presentation separation, on purpose. I leave it off (surf lets you easily toggle it per process), and it's pretty rare that I actually want to use it, and in those cases, the page could easily have been designed to work fine without it. It's a deliberate problem.
At their core, ads are a form of psychological manipulation. Subjecting yourself to this manipulation just because you feel guilty about getting a "free lunch" is absurd. Tracking and resource usage are also bad, but they're not the root of the problem.

Pick a less harmful way of funding content creators, like direct donation.
I played Dylan's Masters of War today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEmI_FT4YHU
Anecdotally, I observed daytime public intravenous drug use within my first 3 hours on the ground in Frankfurt a few years ago. I don't know exactly where, but it was within walking radius of the main train station. I think it was in/adjacent to some kind of red-light district.
In my personal experience, this came down to hanging up there with all the algorithm and data structure knowledge but no idea of what implementation in real life look like. The majority of people that suffer from this is identified by the OS they use --- just like leetcode isn't 100% accurate, which OS you use should have no impact on the ability of people to program. But the gaps are significant and I've found that people who use Windows to (usually) be very behind on actual implementation of software (of course there are good programmer who use windows, but they're the exception in my anecdotal experience).
> Seattle's crime rate, like most American cities, has been steadily declining since the 1980s.

Someone else says the opposite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20780632

Not sure which one is correct...
For small setups, it is better to stay away from Kubernetes until it reaches a good level of stability. We jumped early on in the K8S bandwagon (before AWS EKS) and paid a steep price for that. We continue to pay. Our AWS cost has doubled since the time we transitioned to K8S from AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

I really wish I could say what would be a good time to embrace K8S, but your mileage might vary. When we made the switch, our service was at about 80TPS during regular load and would go up to 300TPS during peak load.
> But the idea of calling a trans woman a woman is a political move?

You are arguing that we should accept a man who’s feeling “womany” as a real woman, and that he should legally be treated as a woman.

Personally I think that’s absurd. I think we should let everyone be who they are, but I disagree about having legalities determined by what someone claims to feel.

Feelings are feelings, and very much soft and fluid. The law should be hard.

Clearly though, you think that the base argument makes sense, so my question is: do you accept it universally? The full way out?

Should a person who feels like or identifies as an animal (a furry), be considered a “real” animal? Should he legally be governed by the laws which governs real animals?

If not, why so? How is that different?

Or how about the famous attack chopper? Again it’s the exact same argument: someone claims to feel something, and demands you to respect the consequences of it, no matter how ridiculous.

Being opposed to such is a rationalist view, and has nothing to do with so “hate” no matter how much someone want to frame it as such.
IOW, it's exactly like PayPal and Amazon Pay and Sanmsung Pay and Chase Pay...
> These concerns all apply to existing jail breaking methods.

Of course they do, hence my comment.

> At that point I don’t think it’s having or not having root access that is the issue.

That’s the most naive thing I’ve seen said all week.
Imagine if we funded schools so kids could learn useful skills, and raised a progressive income tax so the working poor could keep more of what they earn!
Most American houses are barely fit for purpose. It's time for a major re-think of construction methods, styles, materials, and priorities.
Downvoting (from what I gather) is supposed to be used not as a disagree button, but rather as a tool when a comment doesn't add value to a conversation, hence why downvotes are so restricted on HN.
What's hard to replace about it?

That's not meant as a dismissal, I'm just not very familiar with Oracle DB and I haven't heard about it dominating on query performance or language features. That might imply it wins at scales I haven't ever needed, but I could imagine some other reasons.

Are the standing advantages support and scaling, basic features, or something else?
I don't fully agree with you. There are some channels that do sponsorships well: Jay Foreman, Tom Scott, etc.

There are some that do it terribly: Kursgesagt recently, Wendover productions (I hate deceptive segues), etc.

You can see more about my thoughts on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20780728

I guess it's a personal choice, but I prefer tracked ads that are properly labeled and not deceptive to integrated sponsorships and product placement any day. The real fear is that an extension like this will encourage even more deceptive and hard to skip sponsors (embeded product placement).

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HKers enjoy visa free (or VOA) travel to many countries, but entering obviously is only the very first part of the process; staying legally is the crux of the matter.
That's great for the 1% of people who know how to use that, but what about for the general public. When I make a website I'd like the responsive parts to keep working.