skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To treat criminality as a simple algorithm without looking at the entirety of the situation seems very small minded to me.

Criminal cases have HIGH levels of subjectivity.

Is murder in self defense the same as shooting a person for their watch?

Is robbery to take care of your family or for survival the same as robbery for wealth?

Life is not black and white there are many shades of grey, it's not a simple this/that alogorithm in my opinion.

How many people make stupid mistakes when young and their brains aren't even fully formed and pay for it their entire lives?
There is no reason for germline therapy
Anything medical could easily get that high. Cancer, trauma injury.
I have a hyphen in my first name that also causes problems. I love it when I put my name in and the web site say "invalid first name." Thanks mom and dad...

What is worse is people who "fix" my name by moving the second half of my first name and making it part of my last name. I'm an adult. I know what my name is.
> (Contrast this with talks by someone like Rich Hickey, who manages to communicate complex and broad concepts with no jargon.)

It really seems to me that a big reason Rich Hickey seems so profound is that what he's saying means 10 different things to 10 different people.
Things like canvas fingerprinting and other hardware “side channels” will most likely persist through reimaging
Watch MIT’s ‘mini cheetah’ robots frolic, fall, flip – and play soccer together
Is Robert Francis O'Rourke Hispanic?
Nice thing about a die is that you don't need six different things. Lots of ways to map a 1-6 number range to limited choices.
Here's my personal litmus test:

If you replace one gender with the other or one race with any other race (etc, etc) and the new sentence is offensive, then so is the previous one.

Is kill all women offensive? Then you obviously shouldn't say kill all men.
Having never heard of this, what other true "cult novels" are out there?

They mentioned Castaneda (The Teachings of Don Juan) in the article, I also thought of The Magus by John Fowles, The Glass Bead Game by Hesse and of course Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

What others are out there?
Ask HN: Who Invented the Stack Trace?
Having an interest in how fundamental concepts of software development were invented and evolved, I tried finding out where the concept of the stack trace comes from. I couldn’t find a source that describes the history of it. Can someone point me to some documentation on this?
I often did do this when I used to fly more often domestically, but it tends to cause other issues -- the primary one being a "frequent-flyer/mileage account name mismatch" which means that I have to undertake some manual process to collect my miles. I've lost out on countless 'airline miles' as a result via forgetting to do the manual process within N days after the trip.

Similarly, automated check-in kiosks are then usually unable to find the reservation via credit-card or passport scan -- meaning you're back to looking up the reservation code, and even that often fails, as if the apostrophe just flat-out causes issues with the query/lookup or something.

It can be very frustrating, and I'm increasingly often impressed (and vocalize the same) when I spell my name and the agent enters it correctly AND the system flawlessly handles it, too! The DMV systems in my state are one such example where I used to have issues but, in recent years, the problem appears to have been wholly addressed/handled.
>The idea that billionaires are going to form a coalition with nazis to oppress “people of color” is a leftist fever dream.

This is a fairly apt description of the Southern Strategy that Nixon rode to power.
But Linus is bad at everything except writing C code.
Yeah, that's where I use Rust now, where I previously would have used C or C++ (and if I previously needed C I always used C++ with extern "C".) These are places where I can't use Go because I need a language without a heavy runtime.

I use TypeScript for the browser and React native, because that is much better done in JavaScript land.

For short scripts I use Python.

Everything else I use Go.
Coastal people versus flyover country people
> If you can’t be kind, if you won’t empathize, then you’re not on the team.

And there are people like that out there, too, making decisions that affect us all. How do you treat people who demand you see their humanity, but refuse to see yours? Who, when they see our government hurting people, react with “they’re not hurting the people I wanted them to hurt!”?
As a young person, I have to say I agree with the "boomers". People are way too thin skinned and find excuses to become offended.

Freedom of speech and the ability to have different opinions is infinitely more important than people's feelings.
Some links on wealth inequality that I've read/watched recently:

- Income Inequality and the Taste for Revolution

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/426881

(Study based on global survey data and GINI coefficients.)

- Robert Reich: Everything You Need to Know About the New Economy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMmH_2EYohQ

- The dirty secret of capitalism -- and a new way forward | Nick Hanauer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th3KE_H27bs

- Why Free College Could Increase Inequality

https://www.thirdway.org/memo/why-free-college-could-increas...
There's still an issue with the package managers requiring arbitrary shell commands to be run, often with sudo. From docker[1] there are steps like these:

Install packages to allow apt to use a repository over HTTPS...
Add Docker’s official GPG key...
Use the following command to set up the stable repository...

Once you've done that, then it's just apt-get install.

> And we didn't even start to talk about updates - as if that isn't a security concern.

I think that's the worst part of it. Some software will nag you about updates, yarn and pipenv for example, but it's far more reliable to have one system that keeps everything up to date.

[1]: https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/
Then you still have an asshole, sociopathic roommate, and you no longer have any leverage on them. A dangerous game.

They literally live with you, and are supremely immoral.
Or the masseur [0] that got fed up with "do you have happy endings?" and started contacting the wifes of her customers.

[0] https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1377985 (in swedish though...)
I assume you mean http://bombsight.org. I can't find hard numbers but it's a lot more than 3000. Over 2000 v1 rockets and about 500 v2 rockets landed in London alone.
That's the issue. Articles like this talk about the "1%", but they're trying to convince people that everyone in the 1% are Bill Gates or Jeff Besos.

If the top 1% is an household income of $475,116, and you have 2 working people, they each need to make $237,558

That's certainly a lot, but on the coasts, a college grad can get a $120k or more offer straight out of school. I've heard of much higher ones, but lets use this number.

So to be a 1%, you could simply have a couple where both techies that make twice as much as a new grad. That's not exactly far fetched, when you include equity at a public company.

Of course, these people likely spend 3-5k/month on housing, are paying 6 figure in student debt each, might be sending their toddlers to a day care or a private school and saving for said toddlers' college, and putting a bunch in equity to supplement their 401k and emergencies. Clearly way better off than most, but also probably having discussions as if they should eat out less often to save some money and if they really need 2 cars or not, because gas and maintenance is starting to add up.

So in a good (great even) place, but certainly not the same world as what comes to mind when people say "1 percenter". High income doesn't really mean upper class.
Heh. We used to use this technique in the Military Police. Speeding tickets on base (at that time in Germany) did not result in a fine. They resulted in what amounts to the person's commander getting a notification and then deciding what to do with it.

It usually resulted in a butt chewing for the service member. The military spouses tended to be less impressed by this. So for spouses we always took a lot of time filling out the paperwork.

For the spouses who proclaimed how "important" their husband was, I liked to be especially obsequious and insist that they talk to my supervisor, and make them wait by the side of the road until said supervisor could make it to the scene (or have better things to do and tell me to quit screwing around).

Young me was a jerk sometimes.
If you're focusing on houses, you're looking in the wrong place. Look at rental property values, particularly in cities but even suburban areas.
https://youtu.be/bZWeFtgEAEk?t=41

Here's the difference between rich and wealthy. Shaq, is rich, the white guy that signs his check is wealthy.

Rich is something you can lose over the summer in Vegas with a drug habit.
Entity Framework is just an ORM. Every ORM has their quirks. It's unclear why you ditch a whole language, and even the OS just because you didn't enjoy using an ORM.

If you want to write pure SQL and pull the results into a struct with interfaces, you could do that in C# also.
Just saw this yesterday. John Cleese on Extremism - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLNhPMQnWu4
This entire thread is a testament to Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names. Shouldn't everyone by now have access to a list of "edge case" names to test their software against so these kinds of things don't get deployed? It's hard to believe it's 2019 and we are still struggling with things like names, addresses and dates.
"There are only a few hundred billionaires in this country, and they didn't get that money by being paid a salary." A non trivial number of them actually did.
Maybe he meant "can also cause problems in old systems"
Perhaps because news media, created by people no less fallible than you and I, are intent on casting him and his supporters in a certain light. Many directing this will claim fears, some real, some imagined. Personally, I'm more disturbed by the implication behind the congratulatory applause they gave at his predecessor's send off from the final Whitehouse correspondents dinner.
Since hyphenating my last name, I can no longer check into AA flights without human intervention.. minor inconvenience I guess, but annoying.

In general it seems we make bad assumptions about names - like that everyone has a "first name" and a "last name" to enter into two separate database fields.
This mindset causes trouble. Machines and programs must adopt to reality. Not vice versa.
Topgrade (written in Rust) [1] allows you to queue different package managers, including those you mentioned.

[1] https://github.com/r-darwish/topgrade
>The middle class (and lower class) has suffered tremendously from the lower cost of labor abroad and the ability to cheaply import goods and services.

The middle class in China and India (which barely existed a few decades ago) has profited tremendously from this. It's a natural equalisation: why does a worker in America deserve a better standard of living than a worker in Indian or China when the latter is willing to work so much harder to pull his family out of abject, mud-hut poverty?
Ask HN: Where do you meet smart or interesting people offline?
These communities should have free access to sperm banks.
The title is inconsistent with HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ubuntu is nothing more than the Debian "unstable" branch with Canonical branding plus non-free packages.

Compare https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=debian and https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu and you will realize that all the freshness of Ubuntu is build on top of what is available in Debian unstable.

I don't think this idea of "Debian packages are often very outdated" still applies nowadays. One can add "testing" or "backports" channels in your /etc/apt/sources.lists.d and get "upstream version" software. Even "stable" ships fresh enough software these days.

In the last case you can always get the source, update it and send a nmu back to Debian. Lets not forget that that is how open source works :)
Which is what this whole discussion is about. As well as understanding the root cause of such bugs (in-band signaling, etc), to start to fix them ideally.
> I think the mere act of getting her involved scared him enough to undo everything he did. He was not happy I had figured that out.

Most people only act evil under anonymity, thinking they can get away with it, and can't withstand the risk of public shaming.

This applies not only to the internet, but government officials, entertainment industry execs, etc, anyone who thinks themselves safe from scrutiny.
I am in Florida, and pretty familiar with the market. Like anyplace, it depends on where you are at in the state. Overall there are plenty of jobs, some places just have more and pay better than other areas.

Tampa area has a good number of jobs usually but is also a little depressed salary wise.

Jacksonville is pretty solid, but skews towards Microsoft/.NET people, but not excessively. Pay is usually really solid, and startup scene is good. Larger employers are banks, and JM Family.

Central Florida (excluding Tampa), so basically Orlando East to Volusia and Brevard Counties is pretty solid as well. More defense contractors in this area, pay is decent for the low cost of living. There are also a decent & growing amount of space based positions popping up. They use to be huge, but it died down for about 10 years but has started picking back up. Startup scene is pretty good, and growing.

East South Florida (Ft Lauderdale - Miami) is solid and growing all the time. Pay is good and again cost of living isn't crazy for being a known city. Startup is growing more and more with a few good successes in the past few years.

South West Florida - Ft Myers area, I rarely see anything advertised down in that area but there are some larger enterprise employers.

Key in Florida is you don't find a ton of tech only companies, usually it is businesses trying to solve problems not invent new tech. That said, there are a number of name brand tech companies in the Orlando and Miami area. Miami and Jacksonville are the best overall for startup environment with Orlando and Tampa respectively.

There are some other areas like Gainesville which kinda falls into the Central Florida category. The panhandle outside of Jacksonville is kinda weak except for state government from what I have seen.
I don't think it's a tautology. The question is whether those "small steps" ever add up to anything "great." When many people think of scientific progress or "the scientific method," they imagine innumerable scientists working across the world, each making incremental contributions to a shared body of knowledge, one peer reviewed article at a time. There's something that seems even virtuous about this picture, which I imagine is part of its appeal.
the people who started exchanging labor for money and today are billionaires, which "class" do they belong to?
What if you work and ALSO invest in another company?
What if you work 10 hours a day in your own company?
Once you amass capital, there's no need to apply any kind of effort? Capital is indestructible?
How many times should we try communism?
Had a similar thing happen after a guy left me a false review.

The guy was an employee of a local company. He cold called me. I was busy so I just hung up, but I did hear the company name.

Then I saw a bad review left by someone pretending to have been a customer of mine. He used his real name as it was a google review.

I googled, found out he worked for the company that had called me. Spoke to the owner, gave the owner the info. He said he'd look into it.

Called back 30 min later, apologized for his employee's actions, said he disciplined him and got him to admit his action was petty and wrong, and he made him take down the review.

Real life leverage is a powerful thing.
We all know why Apple needs the appstore... To make money
Point taken, but the original Pixel was launched in 2016, not 2013.
Your link conflates "the democrats" with "the left"
PG is the default database. You can use something else if you need it, but PG is where you default to start with.
Hopefully the information is quantum in nature, then the no-cloning theorem solves the cloning problem :)
Is there a good way to protect against this aside from good password hygiene at your domain registrar?

I use namecheap if that is relevant--maybe there's a better/more secure registrar to move to.

But I guess, equivalently, someone can just equivalently hijack your email account directly if you use a service like Gmail or Yahoo.
You can watch it in action in Greece of the past decade.
> I don't think that really impacts practical discussions of death.
I only keep hearing good things about Estonia. What is it actually like to live there?
But advocates on either side of this debate (or others) often times are sufficiently aware of that struggle with complexity as to exploit it in argumentation. So what you point out is absolutely fair... as is the observation of the original poster.

In this subject or any other where speakers are likely to be strongly emotionally or philosophically bound to their position, you must first consider the speaker/writer/etc. and then use that to gauge any particular argument they might make. ...and this is complex, too... you can be right and still engage in undue overstatement or trivialization to make your point.

tl;dr: Don't take anything at face value. Facts can be painted in many different colors. Don't merely accept, be judgmental.
> The most recent Samsung S series they support is from 2014, almost six years ago.

You know, maybe I was lucky or hit some weird Window, but they used to have S7 Lineage OS on there and I still run it on mine.
Yeah, multiple iterations of the chicken-egg problem.

Ironically the only way I see this problem ever being solved is via an extremely responsive, informative, and at least somewhat on-demand version of public transport.

Which I don't really see happening, at least without some sort of competitive market of public private partnerships.

But as long as public transport remains the status-quo, it's not going to overcome that equilibrium battle in the vast majority of the US. And I suspect that would even be the case even given nearly unlimited resources to get there.
White male is decidedly a protected class with that definition.

Disclaimer: I am Asian and like to point out irony, don't lynch me.
The post we are all commenting on has the words one percent in the title.
Great list. There's also the option of going for a SailfishOS smartphone because you won't have to abide to FAANG tracking.

Fairphone 3 doesn't quite fit the bill, but I'd still mention it in lists like these as it is possible to unlock bootloader, the phone is modular so can be repaired, and the Fairphone 2 ran a myriad of OSes (#3 just got released, give it some time).
WhatsApp works, but you have to check from time to time since Google made Playservices mandatory for push messages. Signal and Telegram don't.
FWIW, the human birth process is not viable without cultural accumulation. Baby heads are too damn big and kill women if they don't have a midwife to help them through. But it's a cycle and the midwife is only helpful herself because she has an oversized brain to pass along cultural knowledge.
Fortunately that is an insanely wrong statement.
Grad student's suicide is a cautionary tale about abusive lab environments
My intuition is that Cancel Culture operates a lot like the Drug War. The vast majority of non-PC speech and illicit drug use skirts by the Eye of Sauron without getting caught. But every now and then some poor bastard has his life ruined because he's in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Saying that Cancel Culture doesn't do harm because people aren't afraid to wear a MAGA hat, is like saying the Drug War doesn't do harm because people aren't afraid to drop acid. Regardless of what percentage of people are caught, it's unjust to destroy someone's life because they put the wrong substance in their body or the wrong idea in their mind.
If one really wants to summon the Bolsheviks to explain fascism, it might as well be trough the Bavarian Soviet Republic [0].

Because that's some regularly overlooked context to the rise of Hitler, with his brand of fascism focused on anti-Bolshevik/communist sentiments which neatly played into racial theories [1] and stereotypes [2] that were rather common back then.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_Soviet_Republic

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch#Etymology

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_Jew
Would be interesting to try both! As for the self destructive aspect, I think that says more about ones subconscious desires. The dice can be corrupting... or perhaps revelatory.
That’s much better than some of the other “documentation” that Apple has…
If you're paying out of pocket, sure. But you can get a very good family insurance plan for $2k per month that should cover everything.
'Don't take a chance, dump your stash,' says lawyer after flight diverted to US
Or just apt install docker.io

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=docker.io
> How do you treat people who demand you see their humanity, but refuse to see yours?

Call their bluff. Being that unempathetic while demanding empathy from others is a lot worse than just neglecting kindness altogether.
Nature is the grey goo scenario. This used to be a very nice rock in space and then life got it all slimy.
The real wealth that car companies created went to consumers in form of consumer surplus.

The automobile used to be a toy for millionaires, now even (American) minimum-wage workers can travel daily in comfortable, individual, climate-controlled vehicles capable of incredible speeds.

I would pay $100k for a ten-year-old Civic but I don't have to because the car companies work hard and compete with each other and have driven down costs and prices to the bare minimum.

Same for many of todays billionaires / huge corporations. They're generally not stealing from us, but creating enormous wealth for all of us in the form of consumer surplus with their desirable goods and services.
I can only speak to my experience. The friction involved in slicing those pieces of work ends up creating a sizable force. I'd love to hear more about how you've handled it well.
Farmer-to-farmer digital network for African farmers
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
So what is the implication about this homogeneous group you call “flyover people”?
Why do you decide for all users? I'm user and I'd like to have a reliable parser able to parse anything given sufficient memory. That's the point of library functions: provide flexibility for any use case.
Or the author does know the definition of patent trolling, but is ignoring it to serve an agenda.
Pixel 1 came out in 2015, right?
It's ridiculousness to me that fine revenue ends up in city / police coffers. Talk about a conflict of interest.
Unfortunately, Debian testing doesn't get security updates.
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But, this is a problem specific to Haskell and its poor record syntax, not the functional paradigm in general.
Function hooking is a lot more popular than you think it is.
Hey Jared, in fact, if you click into the video on the Open Steno page, the stenographer & developer you're talking about is Stan Sakai, who is involved in Open Steno:

https://twitter.com/stanographer
You saw it take hold in 2016. Obama got the populist votes, and then Trump did. People wonder how the same people could vote for both, the common thread is populism.
The six metrics every architect should consider when designing object storage
> What else exactly do you need?

I always like to know the units (seconds? nanoseconds?) and the reference-year (1970? 2001? 1601?)