skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience when these people are made the least bit uncomfortable in any social situation they immediately call the police. They're not who they pretend to be online.
I'd like to give you the benefit of the doubt and think that you didn't intend to offend, but I'd venture to guess that only extends to not intending to offend folks in this forum?

You chose to use term "redneck". When used like you did that's clearly a snide derogatory term that blankets a certain class of disadvantaged folks. Not only is that term insulting when used by you to a whole class of struggling people but you also then applied the implication of that term to a whopping 30% of Americans.
US manufacturing economy contracts to worst level in a decade
It goes back further than that - DOS got the idea of 8.3 filenames from CP/M and before that DEC used three letter file extensions on its minicomputer operating systems. The idea arguably goes back even further into the mainframes of the 1960s although it gets a bit messier then to trace it.
I don't play that many tables, but probably not much thought would be given to those hands since people playing 10-20+ tables are usually trying to grind out hands at a low +BB/100 win rate or even breaking even while taking advantage of rake back deals (not sure if that still applies today).

But at 3-5 tables you can definitely play close attention to everything going on. A lot of really high level players do well in both environments.
Open Source and Power with Matt Mullenweg
I don't blame him, really. I find it quite clever. But I think it's silly to deny it and act like all apparent instances of it are baseless conspiracy theories.
This rant reminds me of Gary Bernhardt's talk from Strange Loop 2012[0]. In that talk, Gary shows a true modal editor that has more than just "edit" and "write" modes. His talk focused mostly on visual layers that could be laid overtop of the code, but it made me think adding "debugging" and "git" modes would be nice. I certainly wish git had a dedicated mode every time I use fugitive[1].

[0]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world
[1]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
As of this writing the protester in question was injured, not killed.
Definitely checks my list on the Life Goal aspect. Got into a serious relationship in Canada and part of moving forward in it for me involves a commitment to moving with me to Japan in a few years. Luckily, she's more and more invested in it and I've been pivoting my career to leave me the most options to end up there to work and learn Japanese. Been loosely studying the language for a few years now, ready to go faster when the plan becomes more concrete.
Whether Green Day is punk is debatable... probably mostly centering around whether you think punk is a musical style or a philosophy.. but I'm really just saying that it's not really debatable that the Sex Pistols were punk, since the term "punk rock" was pretty much coined to describe what they were doing.

I don't think Green Day counts as punk rock, because actual punk rock was about a lot more than the music... so Survival Research Labs, f'rinstance, was definitely punk in my book... and so were Nazi skinheads, although they sucked. But as you say, opinions vary.

If you've read the Monkees writeup in "Punk", it's a snide hit piece the thrust of which is "these guys represent everything we're not". Punks hated hippies, and fake Madison-Avenue canned hippies were considered about the lowest of the low.

Personally I'd rate the Monkees a bit better than that, once they started dropping acid... anybody who gave me Head surely can't be all bad!
> the army is made of citizens as well after all.

That's probably not the case for HK.
Having an intelligent strategy does not mean you are intelligent, specially in politics. Probably none of this was his idea, but some adviser's.
As a note there are 20 million ex military in the US, most of which are armed.

So the US civilian population has an out of shape military with small arms at around 10x the size of the standing military.
> Having 100K subscribers proves you are an actual channel with fans who will want to know if a comment posted under that name is the actual content creator.

There's 2 issues here. First it doesn't means the subscribers are actually legit. You could see from time to time channel that can lose hundred thousands subscribers in a day because Youtube purged a bunch of fake accounts. It's harder to see now that Youtube abbreviate the subscriber count, but I remember, it wasn't something constant, it was sporadic.

Second, it's only true if the name is original. More and more channels reach the 100k everyday, it's just going to be harder and harder to make sure none of them try to impersonate someone else. If that stay the only thing needed to be "verified", you'll get someone that will get that "verified" status even though he isn't the one he is saying he is, that's just the good old Murphy's law for you.

As I said, verify tag make people believe that you have actually been verified. It does makes sense that you change your politic so that you actually verify people...
So, I get why you're saying this, but it's actually a very well studied problem in business. Basically, let's imagine you're the Carter Foundation and you have found a way to treat the 30 cases a year exhaustively and prevent any meaningful spread for 2M$/year, and it's expected to stay flat over the rest of the future. Let's say you have a one time cost to get rid of the remaining worms of 10M$. Well, it's almost certainly a good idea to get rid of the worm's then, it costs 20% as much to treat next years infections as it does to eradicate them eternally!

Instead consider if it would cost 1B$ to eradicate them. Still a good thing to do... but the interest from 1B$/year is about 50M$ (order of magnitude). You could keep guinea worms completely eradicated and give away 48M$ to other things indefinitely.

(This is effectively the same calculation and efficient business should make for most any decision. Is the internal rate of return on this decision good enough to earn the money to do it.)
From my own experience in Raleigh:
Entry level = $65,000
Mid level = $85,000

I would be quite let down with the pay range you have mentioned.
This isn't the first time this has been brought up: https://parall.ax/blog/view/3301/boris-johnson-the-unlikely-...
> Still wouldn't do anything to a malicious government controlling the army.

Except that an army cannot fight on 10 fronts at the same time. When you have a whole country turning against you, you can't be there at every single place every second with a regular army. On the contrary a regular army would be beaten up in no time.

You also have to take in account that it's much more likely there would be rogue generals turnings against the power in place so general + armed people is a good catalyst.
>At my job, we have one remote employee and it's incredibly painful. Removing even the tiniest bit of friction there would be greatly appreciated.

my rule for remote work, is that remote should be first. even if you only have one remote employee.

i also realized that this is actually a good thing -- because if someone get sick, has an emergency and has to work from home for sometime, it doesn't break the team's flow.
I am going to reach and say that the poster means to describe Hong Kong as Kowloon & Hong Kong Island. I have never been there, I am just here to try clarifying.
intelligent anti-vaxxer is an oxymoron
When I think of punks of the tech industry I think of the Homebrew Computer Club. I've tried looking for a similar community but these seem to be few and far between.

I lot of the tech communities around where I live seem to only be interested in "startupping", seed funding and networking rather than experimenting and pushing tech itself. Hackathons, where I used to find a few punks years ago, are now filled with people mildly interested in tech and big corporate sponsors.

Maybe it's the fact that technology keeps getting more complex and thus a few punk hackers are not enough to really disrupt it.
hopefully the admins maybe able to fix that
There has been an explosion in "the onion"-like fake news sources that say they're satire somewhere on the site, yet by reading the article without that context one would have no way of knowing unless they fact-check. The articles have very little, if any, of the kind of humor that defines satire. They usually publish fictional pro-GOP headlines that are often shared on social media with strong reactions from uninformed commenters.

Not flagging these articles with an appropriate label pretty much ensures that this whole facebook-based fact checking feature is nothing more than a vaporware PR campaign.
You're also assuming that the army wouldn't fracture under an armed populace uprising.
No doubt today we have more tools at our disposal to distract ourselves but regardless reading is still the highest bandwidth method of transmitting and retaining information and its not going away until a better method is found.

The proposition I disagree with is the idea that people don't read as much or to the same extent as the "good ol days", which I think is false. There are a lot more people now, maybe the frequency as a percent of the total population is lower, but in aggregate numbers there are more people reading to a greater extent than ever before living right now and the demand for books/reading material has never been higher in the history of mankind.
> You say that but since the 90s there has been a concerted effort to not let law enforcement escalate to that point (at least in group situations like this).

You say this as if the inaugural protesters weren't rounded up, detained for illegal lengths of time, and subject to spurious lawsuits and fines that were enormously damaging to even passerbys.

> but in an ongoing clash like this the politicians would hold the cops to a reasonable ROE.

You say this like there aren't still ongoing lawsuits of brutality cases from Ferguson or that BLM isn't still organizing widespread civil rights demonstrations that draw hundreds to thousands and then being chased off by cops with tear gas, truncheons, and "non-lethal" bullets.
His life's been ruined by a shrieking Twitter mob. Who's next? These sjws are complete parasites. They never fork. Just go after vulnerable people at the top and insinuate their way into established institutions.
>intelligent anti-vaxxers

Oxymoron.
Since when is criticizing a national government or it's policies == hating an entire country? Not to mention the author was born and raised in China... I would also be careful in raising the assumption that most people reading FP (or for that matter HN) have never been to or lived in China.

Edit: typo
Those places are not examples I’d like to follow.
I’m struggling to think of a first world country with a law that’s similar, is there one?
> intelligent anti-vaxxers

No that's an oxymoron if I have ever seen one.
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Curious if there's any place where this is common. I assumed everyone trains center mass. Also, there's a femoral artery in your leg... you'll be just as dead if that gets hit.
I'm happy you are at the good end of the status quo, but until people are offered to work anywhere they want before salaries are factored for location it is not remote work just good old exploitation.

https://elsajohansson.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/what-does-a-w...
Thru-hole components are horrible, and I'm glad they've mostly gone the way of the dinosaur. Not only are they huge, they're harder to replace and frequently result in damage to the PCB. It's not too bad for resistors and capacitors, but ICs are the worst; the safest way to remove those is to use diagonal cutters and cut all the legs off the chip (destroying the chip of course), and then use your iron and a spring-loaded solder-sucker to remove the legs and the solder from the holes. You can forget about non-destructively removing an IC so you can re-use it. Sockets suck because they fail eventually, due to corrosion, thermal cycling, etc. Gold-plated sockets help, but these are expensive. And yes, the space is significant with PTH components.

Surface-mount stuff is much, much easier to work with. The catch is that you need a hot-air rework station, but you can get a very decent Chinese-made one for less than $200. With one of these, you can easily replace SOIC/SOJ type ICs. The ones with 0.5mm lead spacing are very easy to work with; you can use some tweezers and a hot-air station to replace these chips easily, and just assembling a PCB with them is easy with a regular iron with a fine tip.
> I think the problems are unrelated to gun ownership

Exactly, if the same logic for guns were used on other things then you'd have people up in arms saying nobody should be able to drive cars because of how many people kill others with them.
That sort of node exists as KNL, for numbers of compute elements up to ~200 with threading on. Unfortunately the on-chip OPA (RDMA) interface didn't materialize as far as I know, and KNL is dead (unless you're Down Under Geosolutions?).
It's definitely the case that an armed populace acts as a check against tyranny. You can argue that this is not enough of a benefit to warrant private gun ownership given the societal costs and low probability of a tyrannical government in the US, but this benefit definitely exists.
Sure, as of right now:-
WD 10TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive £184.26 (the 12TB version has been as low as £180)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-Elements-Desktop-Hard-Drive/dp/B...

In the comments from the above (you'll find similar in other comments, and on Reddit & YouTube). The Harddrive inside is a WD100EMAZ (WD Red 10TB), which currently retails for £318.68
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-10TB-3-5-SATA-5400rpm/dp/B07194...

It's even running the same firmware. It makes no sense, the only logic I see is that customers are willing to pay more for the 'enhanced features'. If you look into this, you'll find no manufacture states the read and write speeds of their USB drives, making it a little harder to compare, so there is a little luck of the draw in what you actually get. Seagate are similar: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/8thr34/seagate...
>Did we win Afghanistan?

The Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan and the illegitimate communist government was ousted right?
I've heard somewhere the way to find start up ideas is to take something like this list and add AI to it. How do you add AI to a nail salon start-up?

How about: build an augmented reality display for customers who are waiting to get their nails done. It's got a camera, and it will show users what their nails would look like with any of the styles offered by the salon applied.
> our society

Whose? Isn't that exactly the issue?
No. Chinese army would have walked in and do away with armed protesters.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/UefsportStreamsi/comments/dbu0m1/matchthread_real_madrid_vs_club_brugge_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UefsportStreamsi/comments/dbu0mu/uefathread_real_madrid_vs_club_brugge_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UefsportStreamsi/comments/dbu0nr/officialreddit_tottenham_vs_bayern_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UefsportStreamsi/comments/dbu0op/official_real_madrid_vs_club_brugge_live/

https://medium.com/@mdjahirhossin824/tyc-sports-r-e-a-l-madrid-v-club-brugge-e-n-v-y-o-n-l-i-n-e-tv-2019-8fb3a2966f7
https://medium.com/@mdjahirhossin824/livestream-club-brugge-vs-real-madrid-uefa-champions-league-reddit-3e1acaadd2b5

https://medium.com/@mdjahirhossin824/vivo-r-e-a-l-madrid-v-club-brugge-e-n-v-y-o-n-l-i-n-e-tv-2019-bb5e92f9f5b9

https://medium.com/@mdjahirhossin824/futbol-directo-espn-tv-r-e-a-l-madrid-v-club-brugge-e-n-directo-80c1773bc703
I like Snopes for fact checking but they lost a lot of credibility when they tried to "fact check" a Babylon Bee article that was obviously satire. (Babylon Bee is clearly labeled as satire and humor, sort of like The Onion or Duffel Blog.) Later Snopes tried to partially walk it back, but unfortunately the whole incident gave justification to those who claim that fact checkers are biased and pushing a left-wing agenda on Facebook.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/08/16/readers-think-satire-...
The world would react quite brutally I imagine to another massacre from China - especially one on this potential scale.
Montrealer as well. I get the feeling like Montreal would be the best city between Berlin & Toronto. It's kind of grungy and full of culture like Berlin, but still authentically Canadian in terms of being open-minded.

Moved here from Vancouver and it's totally where I'm rooted now.

I haven't lived in Toronto but I imagine it's a lot greyer of a city with a deep hustle, work>life mentality. Not to mention the unaffordable living.
About the only one of those that's maybe easyish to do is highlighting things. Working with text in just about any photo editing app is a pain in the ass, scribbling and doodling is pretty impossible with a mouse or touch screen(though if you can do this well I commend you) and all those things take longer and are more difficult than just picking up a pen and doing it.
Ignorance plays a large role, but even when people are overwhelmed with (accurate) information, I'd say over 90% of people still take the cruel but easier path.
There are several studies on this that conclude otherwise. For example[1]:

"Firearm prevalence is significantly related to total violent crime (B = .600, p < .05). With each unit increase in firearm
prevalence, the expected count of the violent crime index increases by .600. This also indicates that the percent change in the total violent crime is an 82% increase for every unit increase in firearm ownership. The prevalence of guns does significantly increase the
violent crime in the county. This finding is consistent with previous research on firearm prevalence and crime both in the United States and internationally."

[1]: http://www.cjcj.org/uploads/cjcj/documents/jpj_firearm_owner...
It's as easy as those two steps, but in most of Africa those two steps are not easy. Read the article: for the people in Africa affected by the worm the disease is so debilitating they are unable to grow food or continue their education. This parasite ruins lives.

>Why we sould not run to extinct entire species? We don't know where hides the next cure for cancer,

This is like trying to argue against abortion because any given baby could be the next Einstein. Sure, but any given baby could also be the next Hitler... and both statements aren't even wrong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong).

Whatever ill effects of the guinea worm's extinction can be overcome. If they can't, we were all probably going to die anyway.
I suspect this is a story of two low performers colliding and causing problems for each other. "John", the director of engineering, was fired, probably for some of the reasons the author points out. But there are also many signs here that the author wasn't performing up to standards, was difficult to manage, and had very high expectations and wanted special treatment.
I scream when I eat glass
> The Swiss bunker / guerrilla strategy.

As an American living in Switzerland, this is not a fair comparison. The Swiss strategy involves mandatory service (with the backing of the government), short and long term preparations against an outside invading force (with the backing of the government), highly regulated gun ownership (with the backing of the government). It's always wielded with the backing of the government against an outside force.

In stark contrast, the U.S. mindset around gun ownership has always been about wielding the weapons against the government itself. Instead, what this effectively means is that this will be an easily hijacked ideal if, in our politically charged era, portions of the government are viewed as "illegitimate" and one part of the government backs a coup with gun-toting civilians against "the government" (the part not liked).
3) a supposition that "if it ever came to that" a meaningful subset of the military and the police would join (and lead) the revolution.
Even without the list being suitable for mockery, ideas are EASY. Ideas are like opinions, everybody has one. Take a shower, have some ideas. Go out for drinks, hear a bunch of drunk people talking about the great idea they just had. Winnowing out the chaff (not done here) is harder because not everyone agrees on what's chaff, and building a successful company for any of many definitions of success is harder still.

The idea is when an egg is fertilized. Producing a baby is a lot more work, and producing a successful adult is a lot more beyond that.
Any use of a firearm is potentially lethal and should be treated as such. The precision necessary for the scenario you are proposing is not physiologically possible during an active conflict.
Seriously optic nerve https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/177500-gchq-nsa-secretly... was the equivalent a whole floor of that guy.
A little farther you say? That's not nearly going to cut it. We need radical change. The only way data will be 'safe' is if it lives on your device and verifiably only leaves it when intended. Any untransparent store is per definition prone to abuse.

By now I think it's safe to say the free market has provably failed us. We should require regulatory bodies to enforce an open standard for this if you ask me.
Even as a full remote employee for the last 3 years, I still find GitLab to be head and shoulders above others in their approach.

The emphasis on _async_ communication stands out. So many places basically think "we have video chat and slack! done!". But then you realize that the east coasters all got together at 5am west coast time. If everyone is used to at least recording, then just notifying the channel "hey we chatted about X", it helps a lot.

At the same time, I still feel if offices were just nicer spaces, people wouldn't be as pro-remote. Every office I've been subjected to (over 15-18 years, it's been several) are rather ugly, distraction-laden environments. I'd be ok to go work in an office, but, almost every tech office I've been in is both depressing and full of stupid interruptions.
Surely you don't want to stream through cache, though.
Different police units are trained for different rules. Somewhere it is a verbal warning, warning shot, shot in the leg, shot to kill. Sometimes it is just a verbal warning and a shot to kill. Not defending the police in this specific case (I do not know the details), but blaming an officer for following the sequence he has been trained for is misplacing the blame. My 2c.
If there were guns in those protest groups, the military would have long since rolled in and simply seized the territory in a routine urban invasion.

No, you can't fight the People's Liberation Army with your tricked out semi automatic .223, no matter how many drum magazines and bump stocks you attach to it.
Hello. I grew up surrounded by guns and on food stamps. My parents like cheap beer, low brow humor, my father mostly worked manual labor jobs, and they generally vote "anti-government". Some people call it white trash, others call it rednecks. The term is offensive if you want to be offended. That's fine if you're offended, you have the right to be. As someone who grew up around that life, I call them "hillbillies, Hill-People, The banjo-music-folk, or fucking hicks" depending on my mood.

Now, that said: your read is one read on OP's comments, that people who own semi-auto, clip fed tactical rifles and support the second amendment are all rednecks. Another, very reasonable read is that rednecks exist, and some of them support 2A and own murder guns. It's the whole Square/Rectangle thing.

As for Afghanistan: Comparing the war/politics there with a potential modern US civil war is comparing apples to rocket ships: There might be some similarities if you try (people fighting each other for political reasons) but the actual events, techniques, and implications of the wars would be universes different.