skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly my thoughts. The fact that this guy seems like he thought it would be full of conservatives just because "the south", or because "founded by confederate guy" or "district voted Republican" is kind of hilarious, as an NC native.

The districts are gerrymandered to hell, most college towns anywhere are pretty liberal, and many if not most colleges were founded by terrible people.

If you want to actually bridge a meaningful divide of any kind, you're better off talking to native rural citizens that aren't getting liberal arts degrees.
The paper by Cooper cited positively in your link claims:

> For elementary school students, the effect of homework on achievement is trivial, if it exists at all https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=86753143098932071...

Which is diametrically different from the “large positive impact” you described in your comment. Maybe by “very young children” you mean to include 5–10 year olds?

(For what it’s worth, I don’t find Cooper’s arguments that arbitrary amounts of homework are beneficial for secondary students very convincing. But we should at least not mischaracterize the claims about primary students.)
jacquesm's really disagreeing with the person above you, probably just replied to the wrong comment.
debugging iframes. I write lots of code in jsfiddle/codepen/stack overflow and Firefox fails to be able to debug.
Actually, I would say that one could easily make it through a Religion PhD program without touching on any of those subjects. It would be harder to navigate law school without dealing with logic and fallacies, on the other hand. (Source: I went to law school, and my wife is a Religion professor.)

But my point was more that it's very reasonable for a college to require that all instructors have PhDs, and JDs (3 yrs) are not PhDs (5 yrs).

I have always found it odd that one can graduate from a law school and then immediately turn around and begin teaching law students. This is true also for PhDs and PhD students, but there is more temporal separation between first-year students and just-graduated professors because the degree typically takes 5+ years.
Guns and wars that’s why. Twitter doesn’t have an army and can’t dictate laws without getting its chain yanked.

Russia/China/USA etc is a whole different story.
This is one option: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers

Chrome developer tools can view binary data transmitted with this approach.
gclient (necessary for building chromium, among other things) got an "early version" working with Python3 just a few weeks ago. Apparently this stuff is still being ported.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom...
Turkey is doing almost the exact same atrocities today under Erdogan that they did in the 1920s under Ataturk.
The `start` statement prefix operator is a bit like Go's `go` keyword.

(In that when I translate Go into Raku, I usually replace `go` with `start`.)

my Channel \input .= new;
my Channel \output .= new;

start for input -> \message { output.send(message) }

start for output -> \message { say message }

input.send(5);

But what he was really talking about is something more like the following.

sub foo () {
sleep 10;
42
}

# ___
# V V
my $delayed-result = start foo();

say 'Hello World'; # Hello World

say $delayed-result.status; # Planned

say await $delayed-result; # 42
It’s not possible in general because you can only do a syntactic translation of python. To preserve the meaning of the program you would have to statically know something about the data types used. This is one reason why Dropbox, Facebook, and google have developed their own python type checkers.
> Teachers can't bear to carry that load themselves.

Why can't they bear the load?

- Because they are underfunded and understaffed

- Because society doesn't think it's the school's responsibility to teach

If society decided that reading and writing should be taught in school, then it would be taught in school and the system would be designed such that teachers would easily handle it.

Your "parents have a load to carry" in this case is throwing people under the bus like single mothers who are working two or more jobs just to put food on the table.

Your attitude is that their children should be left behind because those children belong to the unlucky sperm club.

And those children grow up to be disadvantaged and poor and the cycle continues indefinitely. I find it vile and revolting that HN can talk about the wonders of Elon Musk disrupting the automobile industry, can debate whether scooters will disrupt the ride sahring industry, which in turn disrupted the taxi industry, and so on...

And then when it comes to poverty, the attitude is, "C'mon, carry your load or fall behind."

This community talks a good line about disruption, but if the only kind of disruption that interests us is the disruption that happens to make people into billionaires, it's time to stop pretending that we're "hackers" and start calling ourselves capitalists.

The education system needs to be disrupted from the bottom up, but it needs people who actually care about educating children more than negotiating term sheets.
I remember going to the museums on field trips and we kids would all love seeing what would've been the "modern" pieces that were on the tour list (I had some somewhat eccentric teachers in middle school). Even in young adulthood (read: in college) I took many a date to MCA in the summers because, and maybe chalk this up to typical youth rebellion, I liked it. Only recently, because I can travel more now, have I gotten to see more Classical and Renaissance period art in person and, honestly, I feel completely robbed - or like I robbed myself. I look back on some of this stuff that we all looked at as "genius" (and would attempt to recreate in art class as kids with construction paper and elmer's glue) and it's just crap to me now. So I guess I disagree that "modern" art isn't "accessible". It seems that there's been a culture invented around it in order to make it look and feel more sophisticated than it actually is.
Haha, that's a great link. I actually laughed out loud at how ridiculous his comment sounds.

I used to work on a team at Amazon that was _very_ relieved and happy to move away from Oracle and onto the AWS databases. I wasn't directly involved but I understand the migration work was monstrous. I think it's clear from Ellison's comment that Oracle considers that to be a product feature.
Sure you could. We have more than 2 dimensions.
> Instead of concerning ourselves with ensuring safe spaces for students, we need to create more spaces in which constructive conflict can occur.

This is incredibly naive, and misunderstands what a safe space is and what it is for. Many humans suffer from, for example:

* PTSD from abuse, war, or other trauma

* Neuroatypical behaviors that are mocked/belittled/ignored in the wider public (e.g. Crowd anxiety, tics, nervous behaviors, misreading social cues, etc.)

* Being Queer in an environment that is actively hostile

* Being a minority in some other capacity (racial, gender, cultural, ableness, economic, political, etc.)

Just existing in society can be high pressure and stressful -- a level of background noise in your daily life that most people don't see or recognize. A safe space is a place where you can let your guard down a bit, where you can simply be who you are without being challenged about it constantly.

I genuinely believe that having these spaces is a healthy thing for everyone who is in a stressful minority position. It doesn't matter if you are a trans kid at some university or a conservative tech worker in silicon valley -- having a place where you can feel comfortable and not judged for who you are is valuable. It does no one any good if we're all operating at maximum stress all the time.

> Trust me, no one will get hurt.

Unfortunately, as a queer person myself, I don't believe you. Polite conversation is a nice ideal, but things can escalate quickly if two people have fundamental disagreements. Despite the adage about sticks and stones, words can hurt people and lead to outcomes like self harm and suicide, removal from a community, etc.
> private telegraphs that were subsidized by the government

The post you replied to said that those things would have to carry you. What are you even ranting about at this point?

> If every means of communication is in private hands, and access is denied to you, then you effectively have no free speech.

Which is a theoretical risk only. But I'd say the answer is that you can buy whatever size internet connection you want and then host it yourself, in the exceptionally unlikely situation that no data center in a thousand miles will rent you space.

(This would require 'common carrier' rules to be broadened very slightly, I'm aware things aren't perfect.)
I just slept through third period every day.
>Maybe it's a non-sequitur if we're discussing your personal feelings, but the fact that twitter is a free service offered by a private company without guarantees means that twitter has no obligation to provide service.

This is bizarre, another non-sequitur.
Two different physical machines.

The more locked down the work laptop is, the less likely you are to want to use it for mixed purposes.

If the work laptop is running an OS that you hate, loathe, and despise, then you are likewise much less likely to use it for personal things. But then you’re also likely to be hating life, at least as it concerns work.
I'm not going to say it's not technically possible, because it is (although it would be a huge battery or bandwidth drain, not to mention an insane tech scandal if found to be true); but if the only proof you have is a video feed that resembles your conversations I'm going to guess you're giving that data to Google is some other way. There are a thousand ways this could be happening, and most them have a psychological component.
Some do (that happened to mine when I forgot it once, bank called me). Others do not. The best ones require that you take your card before they do the thing you wanted it to do (as a measure to ensure you don't forget your card).
AUX: is a device name in MSDOS/Windows. There are several others in the same situation. The names can be used but you need to use sneaky, underhand methods. :)

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/create-restricted-files-folde...
Yep, old news 2017. But everybody seems to kinda see about the same thing. Although I'd say it really died when Oracle bought what was left of Sun. And so then died java (meh), and everything else, btw.

Kinda sad, I think Sun was a fairly innocent victim of the dot-com bubble bust.

So fck larry fcking ellison, and I hope the horse he rode in on throws him and then kicks him square in the nuts (I have nothing against the horse).
That's very simplistic thinking. The rules could say absolutely no racism which sounds reasonable but then the definition might get blown wide open when a liberal Gov say they need to restrict immigration, if you don't agree with that person that said it you could easily spin that they broke the TOS.

Why do I even have to try and explain this?
Apparently this warranted multiple downvotes?
>Cannot relate to the people here who are screaming bloody murder over this. You have to give to get.

Perhaps you can't relate because "the people here who are screaming bloody murder" are mostly not attendees: they're organizers.

And they've been doing a lot of giving ever since Meetup started charging organizers.
In my day I had to walk uphill to school - both ways!!
>Shareholders in public companies can easily sell their stock and invest in something else if it seems to be the future.

That doesn't preclude lawsuits. American business law is fucking stupid.
When you're aware someone is applying this shit to conversations you're involved in, I honestly can't think of something more frustrating right now.

Also, it's a cult. Like, actual cult. Marshall Rosenberg was a crazy person.
You (and other Amazon) employees keep saying orgs/organizations while talking about Amazon vs. Google vs. FB vs. .... I was confused and after reading for a bit I realized you mean divisions within Amazon.

That might appear to be a valid distinction, to an outsider it appears less material. Perhaps you can start by describing how the culture varies within Amazon.
I was under the same impression for some time, but as you can see from replies, there's some disagreement about that.
I'm at Amazon now, my team is fairly shitty - let's say in the bottom third of engineering teams anyone at the company would want to work for - and the average tenure of people on the team is close to 5 years.

It's hard to get fired as a college hire. It happens, but only if you're pretty lazy or a fuckup or a mis-hire to begin with. I've seen vanishingly few cases where someone was managed out at a time that it denied them stock vests, and only once that it was even mentioned (then by an exceptionally petty manager).

To be perfectly clear: working at Amazon sucks for plenty of reasons, some of them covered in this thread. Compensation is not commensurate with the quality of engineer you have to be to work there, the company is disgustingly cheap in general, many teams are drowning in tech debt (the original post's cheerleading aside, half my org is still suffering from the slapdash way the Oracle migration was sped through to meet arbitrary internal deadlines), and the fraction of managers interested in building petty fiefdoms rather than interesting or good tech is increasing at an alarming rate. But anyone who thinks it's a huddled mass of sobbing husks with PTSD is overstating it.
Indeed! Just this morning, I saw a black Town car with the plate "REGENCY1" make an illegal left turn from Market to 9th in order to pick up some fatcat at NEMA. This was a professional driver who will still be allowed down Market under the new rules.

The only solution is to ban all auto traffic and only allow busses in concrete separated lanes.
This comment doesn't hold up to scrutiny if you know how Amazon comp works. A standard SDE package is something like this:

year 1: $X cash + $Y cash bonus (vests daily) + $Z RSUs (vest at end of year), where approximately 95% of the comp is cash.

year 2: $x cash + $Y cash bonus (vests daily) + $Z RSUs (vest at end of year) where approximately 90% of the comp is cash. Likely a few percent more than year 1 in total comp.

years 3 and 4: $x cash + $Y RSUs (vests semi-annually for most) where the RSUs make up a meaningful part of the comp. Likely a few percent more than year 2 in total comp.

Given that comp structure, it is essentially impossible to do what AtlasBarfed has suggested, as people get paid quite quickly.
> If it can happen to Jordan Peterson, it can happen to anyone.

Ha.
Au contraire mon frere, I always mention BRA71L when I’m up 7-1 in Rocket League
Especially since you can use the Inline::Python module.
>If a meetup is not even worth $2 to attend, is it really worth an hour+ of your personal time?

Considering it's mostly organizers who've been the most vocal about it, this is a pretty strange question.
Man agrees to pay $25,000 for abusing YouTube’s takedown system
More accurately it’ll just shuffle the deckchairs on the traffic map by creating a dedicated taxi thoroughfare.
>People like Jaron Lanier felt that online discourse would suffer if there wasn’t some nominal cost to, say, sending an email.

Interesting, and I think to some extent it is true.
Lol, there's literally no way for transport to work if they blocked the whole street. Market cuts through the middle of most of SF.

And yes it will make a huge difference. I have through market for several years and most of the problems are caused by drivers on the road.
I can only imagine how much more charitable you would be with his level of wealth, given how charitable you are with the _literal vast expanse_ of your current.
> > I imagine that the majority of CSE imagery shared on the internet uses something more robust than OnionShare

> The majority is shared on normal social media and Bittorrent, although the worst is shared on dark web sites of the same robustness as OnionShare.

By what measure?
How will any foreign owned entity realistically do business?
Crucial Conversations was good for me, if for no other reason than it created a shared vocabulary for me to communicate with my boss.

The #1 I got out of it was to create safety. If someone doesn't feel safe, you're not getting the "real" them, you're getting their defensive self, which is usually an asshole. Everything else is about how you create that safety, but honestly it's not hard once you know what you're trying to do.

The problem is that creating safety takes effort, and a lot of times it's just not worth it...
And the know how to do all of that and what to buy and where to buy it.
>Don’t have $2? Really? Even meetups for spiritual teachers who operate as a non profit suggest a $20 donation per event for instance.

One could counter that these people are the ones who've spoilt the market for the rest of us.

And really, it's not attendees who're complaining, it's organizers who believe in keeping their events free for attendees.
The VOLT is world's first floating, transforming e-bike
Why Facebook Sucks (2007)
What did Solaris do that made it a good choice?
Is Facebook’s Blockchain Project Libra Doomed from Here On?
> They fund a huge number of film productions.

> All the while we never once see China portrayed as an enemy.

> Games are not permitted to promote LGBT acceptance.

> Films sometimes bend backwards to include China as a strong and moral ally.

Sorry, are you just this making stuff up or do you live in that much of an echo chamber? None of this reflects anything about mainstream American culture -- if anything, everything you say is the exact opposite of reality. Even this comment thread is a counterexample.
Perl 6 botched the transition so badly they're not even going to call themselves Perl anymore, and Perl has basically fallen off the map for new projects. The Python 2->3 move was rough but the language seems to be thriving despite that.
That complexity is a good disincentive for unnecessary traffic.
> Take that up with the people claiming gender is a social construct

There's gender expression, and there's gender identity.

The people that use that phrase to 100% include gender identity are pretty much all anti-trans bigots. I do take it up with them when the opportunity arises, but if you're going to say the same things then you're part of the problem. You can't say something and be blameless because you heard it from someone else.

> that identify as gender fluid or making up the alphabet soup of modern genders

Maybe some of them are going too hard on the need to categorize everything, but they're still not choosing that underlying nature.
Taxis too.
Makes you wonder why we switched from = is equality and := is assignment like it was in the ALGOL family.
Genuine question, what was so bad about Larry Ellison?
Well how about Bako Sahakyan?
Hitachi’s Train Station of the Future
Teachers and the Income Ceiling
If actions are different, I tend to put them in functions (independent testable pieces, yay!) and iterate over a mapping:

LINE_ACTIONS = (
(re.compile("pattern 1"), do_stuff),
(re.compile("pattern 2"), do_other_stuff),
(re.compile("pattern 3"), do_something_else),
)
...
for pattern, action in LINE_ACTIONS:
m = pattern.search(line)
if m is not None:
action(m)
break

Or even use a method registry pattern that would auto-populate LINE_ACTIONS by just declaring the fuctions:

@action("pattern 1")
def do_stuff(m):
...

Alternatively, I might just break the processing into a function:

def _process(line):
m = pat1.search(line)
if m is not None:
... do stuff ...
return

m = pat2.search(line)
if m is not None:
... do stuff ...
return

m = pat3.search(line)
if m is not None:
... do stuff ...
return

_process(line)

Of course, this depends on the purpose. Could be completely inadequate in some situations.
Do you know many Amazon warehouse workers?
>However, I feel the discoverability isn't there. The local UX meetup will likely choose one platform. The local frontend developers meetup will choose another.

I think discoverability can be had via Google events search, Facebook, Eventbrite, etc.

Yes, there will be fragmentation, but I know people have found out about Meetup events via Eventbrite, and people have mentioned these on HN as well. So fragmentation is status quo anyway.

>I've always liked how easy it is for a local developer to just stumble across my group.

You could do what some organizers have been doing: advertise your events on multiple channels.
Then remove vehicle access entirely, don’t build a dystopian traffic route. Otherwise you’re attempting to justify poor urban planning and unsafe vehicle travel.
As someone who does just that, it should not take anywhere near a decade. From now, two or three years would suffice for a complete streets design + rebuild. Extras included (eg separating storm+sanitary sewers, or other infrastructure recapitalization) could add a year or two. If it takes them more than 4 years, construction delays inclusive, the issue lies elsewhere than the design and construction. Perhaps things like maintaining traffic flow, etc.
Let's face it, Solaris was a pile of crap. Security-wise alone, it was a disaster.

I'm glad Linux (and not Oracle) killed it, for all its faults, it's a much better foundation for the future.

I never liked dtrace either, and much prefer the direction eBPF is going. ZFS I'm ambivalent about, but I find that on average it's more trouble than it's worth.
An alternative would be to buy a complete used PC, which can also be had for a total of around $100.
The Golden Butterfly and the All Weather Portfolio
"As you know people, as you learn about things, you realize that these generalizations we have are, virtually to a generalization, false. Well, except for this one, as it turns out. What you think of Oracle, is even truer than you think it is. There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle. And I gotta say, as someone who has seen that complexity for my entire life, it's very hard to get used to that idea. It's like, 'surely this is more complicated!' but it's like: Wow, this is really simple!"

"This company is very straightforward, in its defense. This company is about one man, his alter-ego, and what he wants to inflict upon humanity -- that's it! ...Ship mediocrity, inflict misery, lie our asses off, screw our customers, and make a whole shitload of money. Yeah... you talk to Oracle, it's like, 'no, we don't fucking make dreams happen -- we make money!'"

"You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle."

-- Bryan Cantrill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
All I read between the lines is "election season is coming up and this is the path of least resistance we came up with".

Twitter + Politics is probably a net negative on the world.
You pulled out some much more interesting points. Maybe my issue is I was looking for something to tie it all in a bow, and really it's just a collection of observations that are interesting in their own right.
Zones, DTrace, leastpriv, ZFS, a bunch of innovations and concepts that influence system development to today.
This is not the meaning of bikeshed. If they spent years debating whether a particular spot on the block should be a loading zone or a taxi zone, that would be bikeshedding.
He's living my dream. I feel trapped here in the US.
I guess, but the amount of space and inefficiency that building a highway that literally runs over 1 block over the middle of a city would seem to be not at all worth it.
Add Blizzard's weibo account response to their list of actions "....We will always respect and defend the pride of our country."

https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dfkmp1/blizzards_...