skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But why would you hypothetically remove bad actions from just the police? I genuinely don’t understand. By the exact same argument, if you removed all bad actions from everyone who isn’t a police officer, then of course you’d expect police to kill more people.

In the original comment, before all the ridiculous hypothesizing, the actual world is what was being discussed.
Overall the advice in this thread is really good.

I'll add something though: take one class in GAAP accounting, one class in sales and/or marketing. These skills will be immensely useful when you actually enter the workforce.
well, then perhaps the growing frustration with a configuration language where meaning depends on invisible chars is an argument. And then what helm and others are doing text interpolating and add helpers for managing indentation.

There are many experiments into alternatives happening right now, so I do believe yaml's days are numbered. I'm actively replacing it where ever I encounter it with a far superior alternative. Cue is far more than a configuration language however, worth the time to learn and adopt at this point.
Well then what is it that people on the Asperger spectrum are missing, if it is not this ability?
Picking a routing library out of 10 competitors might mean that it becomes unmaintained (in favor of some other competitor) or will have bugs integrating with your other libraries.

With a batteries-included framework, as long as the framework itself is maintained I can be fairly certain that parts of it just won't stop working as long as I follow the release notes when upgrading (there might be minor changes here and there, but nowhere near the amount of work of switching to a totally different library because the first one stops being maintained).
If A is a bully, categorize B as possible future mark. This for very few A, B and opportunity.

If A is not a conscious bully (for lack of a better term), B could be perceived as artificial, weak, blunt, out of bounds, insulting, exploitative, etc. Reaction is to push "out" and "defend", maybe "as if" leader. Introspection at A may overcome reaction, though may need reassurance from respected source (=leadership).
A and B will probably never work great together, though minimal interaction can work consciously.
How A and B relates defines span of real org culture (in heaven).
they are annoying for users. they are the reason sites like NeverSSL exist, for instance.
From random pizza-gate types, then up through the power hierarchy to the very top of a handful of world superpowers.

An effort perhaps quixotic at best, it's worth thinking about. We are at a tipping point in civilization and I don't want to complicit that going the wrong way.
It took a century to create the weekend–and only a decade to undo it (2017)
Google introduced new Short video app 'Tangi'
> Try to code something everyday. Learn to use tools.

fish45 made it clear they're already an experienced programmer, so I don't see that it makes sense to emphasise this.

They're more likely to struggle with theory than with their programming tools.
I guess what makes me feel that doesn't fit perfectly is the "continuous contact for 15 minutes" rule. If straight up load was the main driver then I'd have thought time would be a less important factor. But I can see if you simply assume load is proportionate to time in contact then you can model it as purely a function of total viral load.
Can you expand on your definition of liberalism a little? It seems like you're defining liberalism by how the word is used collquially in the public context but I took the parent to mean liberalism as in the academic concept realated to philosophy, political science, and international relations theory.
Your clothes get faded in the sun. A dryer quickly wears down the fabric and makes holes.
I think this is a question that fundamentally depends on which college/CS program.
The protests might lead to real change and save lives.

The riots will get people killed and are destroying businesses.

Events like this are as bad as the original event https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/22-arrested-60-l...

If this has deteriorated to an eye for an eye I'm not sure where it will end. I hope things get better before there is more loss of life.
ftfa:

'Some altar bread producers, like the Poor Clare Nuns of Bernham[SIC], Texas, were reportedly driven out of business by what they called "that big monstrous secular competition."'

A somewhat dubious accomplishment, indeed!*-))

I imagine someday shaking the hand of the CEO of Cavanagh Altar Breads: "So you're the guy who muscled the Poor Clare Nuns of Brenham, Texas out of business eh? Good going! What a coup! Must have been quite a fight! Can I buy you a drink?"

For your edification here are (very cute and endearing) pictures of the nuns of St. Clare with miniature horses at their Monastery of St. Clare Miniature Horse Farm:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Poor+Clare+Nuns+of+brenham%2C+Texa...

Ahhhh! Aren't they cute?! Mean old vicious money-grubbing capitalists, taking money out of the mouths of poor nuns and miniature horses! What is the world coming to?
Good luck. I say that sincerely, not sarcastically.

I think a core problem with the situation is that the masses on one side think of these events as one-offs. They're not convinced its a systemic problem because they don't see the "everyday" brutality. The masses on the other side don't see it as a systemic problem either, not exactly anyway; they see it as all cops being racist murderers at heart. Whether one side is closer to the truth than the other side is largely irrelevant, because neither view helps resolve the issue. Neither side can hear the other side because their own personal experience is completely at odds with the other side's point of view.

I can't access the site, so I have no idea what you've actually got set up; but I'd suggest excluding any kind of comments section would be the number one thing to keep from inflaming the situation. People can talk about it elsewhere by linking to your site if they must. The smaller those discussion groups are, the more likely they are to maintain reasonable discourse, change minds, and consider solutions.
My point is we should pay cops very high salaries, $300k+ to attract those that might go into other professions.
I'll raise you one level of meta, and note how surprised I am that the discourse right here on HN, which is normally populated heavily with a... let's say reactionary conservative worldview... has swung hard to the "left" on this issue and others in recent weeks.

Indeed the perception of "mainstream" seems to have shifted away from the messaging the administration wants to present in lots of forums like this.
Install via steam store, snap store ... No need to worry about installs from source.
I disagree on breadth vs. depth. Breadth will give you the tools to succeed in a wide variety of areas and prepare you to delve deeper on your own. If you go deep into ML for example that doesn't prepare you to work on operating systems, but if you have a broad understanding of both then you'll have the tools you need to find new resources and read research papers in both areas. (For the record, my school has a huge emphasis on depth over breadth and I feel like I'm sacrificing parts of my education by not being able to study more areas of CS).
I mean very clearly the good people at SpaceX have heard of these languages and decided against it. I think JS and Chromium are the best UI kit I can think of in terms of man hours to get X done. If you're careful the only thing I've ever had issues with is latency, but in space if you're in a situation where missing a frame or two is important you're already beyond fucked.
> I clicked this. It contains a apparently completely baseless claim that a masked looter is an "undercover cop". The claim also has been denied by the St. Paul police department.

That is only one of the reports in that lengthy tweet thread. And it's not baseless, here is the evidence for it: https://twitter.com/dyllyp/status/1266166402521522176

Here's the tweet where the St. Paul police department denied it: https://twitter.com/sppdmn/status/1266202225677910022

Posted 2.5 hours after the original claim - fast investigation for the police to clear themselves of all wrongdoing.

> Is it your intention to discredit claims of police brutality by repeating apparently false ones?

Lol.
Help with what? Keep cops in shape? Absolutely. Make cops more compassionate? Possibly not (not sure). Would it help to hold criminal cops accountable? No relation to military training.
All these ships have Bangle Butt.
As someone else tempted to post this item (and finding this earlier share), I appreciate your read and the HN backstory.

I try to avoid (though frequently fail) falling foul of the "reflective/reflex" trend. I did poke through BGR's "about" pages, and the story struck me as far more smoke than fire, though possibly worth discussion. No longer.

For a time (generously, Lippmann's "Public Opinion" through "going viral"), a key principle of journalism was that it was based, somewhere, on facts. I disagree somewhat with HN's policy of deprecating source names much of the time, as reputation (or its lack) really should count for something.

But site bans, especially for egregious abuse or indifference to facts and reality, especially in the relentless pursuit of attention and virality for their own sake, and yes, wasting all our time, I can get behind.

Back into the ban bin with BGR.com, from me.
What is this gibberish? I was fluent in 68k assembly 30 years ago and teaching compiler construction at university 25 years ago. Were you trying to make a point?
Never cracked the main body, but I did get a crack in the black plastic collar around the nib/feed which had ink seeping slowly out the front on to my fingertips. TWSBI sent a free replacement part.

Nib problems on the other hand, less helpful. A friend bent the tip of his Eco (fell off a table I think) and they said “buy a new pen”. Spares not even for sale.
> Easy or quick. Some of my worst college experiences involved putting off CS work that, while still easy, had sneaky edge-cases that took many hours to cover.

This still burns me at my actual job, more than a decade later. Stupid edge cases.
Your argument is rather muddled there to say the least. You start off talking about consumer hardware then bring up an anecdote about a developer writing userland software against a developer board (ie non-consumer hardware) and use that as an argument that the Linux kernel is hard to develop against despite there being nothing in your anecdote discussing kernel development.

"Anacdata" is always going to be pretty sketchy in any technical debate but here it seems especially so since this isn't even your own first hand experiences (let alone relevant to the point you were trying to prove).
I know this is hard for some people to accept, but the police in a free and democratic society are ultimately accountable to the citizenry yet some police behave as if they are only accountable to themselves. They shoot, club, pepper spray and choke people and yet only start to face justice for these actions as a result of a literal uprising.

Everyone accepts that the police have a hard job to do, yet the system has grown to shield bad officers from justice and reduce public accountability. This is a system driven by institutionalized racism.
> Purely out of curiosity, which words surprised you the most?

Bank (banque) is a fun one. It comes from the Lombard money lenders who used benches as makeshift tables. That's also why the root of the word is germanic despite coming from Italy.
How is the reaction of the people relevant to our topic? Are you suggesting that the police is acting differently when they suspect that there will be an outrage, and differently when nobody is watching them?
Training currently seems to actively preclude deescalation. This makes me skeptical that anyone currently within the organizations could adequately discern who else within their organization deserves the privilege to be armed.

https://www.post-gazette.com/local/region/2016/09/11/Weirton...
For starters, the rioters are already breaking the law at the point of police contact, and they know that they are. Secondly, the officers are typically in a dangerous situation, and have more pressing concerns.

If you find yourself in a riot, leave. Common sense and common decency, no?
AIUI this is mainly to be used by news publications, which need to continuously build their credibility regardless, rather than as evidence in a courtroom.
I'm concerned in targeting things like Janus etc to the MIPS architecture for streaming over WebRTC because typically I only see MIPS on legacy devices in my world. How does MIPS handle this stuff?

PS: I know that Amazon has a product in the space and we're vetting AWS as our cloud provider due to it's diverse product offering. I've been looking at opensource solutions due to vendor lock-in but would love to hear if you have any experience with the Amazon offering!
CS is less about coding and more about thinking analytically about coding. I started coding at 11, but some of my college classes were still pretty difficult. I wouldn't assume your classes will be a cakewalk - definitely put the time into studying your material even if you think it's easy.

With respect to getting a job - I would think about programming as a tool. What industry do you want to use that tool on? I would think long and hard about that and consider double majoring/minoring in that new thing. Physics, math, business, whatever. Computer Science + some area of study where you can use CS for the betterment of an industry (outside of CS) will leave you in the best position to do well.

I would also suggest really focusing on Data Structures/Algorithms. Worst case, you'll be good at whiteboard interviews and can get a job at a FAANG company.

Network, hard. Your professors probably know lots of people, and your classmates (in your major) will go on to get jobs you might be interested in. Develop connections with the people around you, and become a person they want to work with in the future.

Above all, don't waste your college time. Actually give a shit about what you're learning. Try new things, make mistakes, have fun, but also work hard on your degree.
I think the idea is that low pay actively excludes many high-achiever types who are capable of making much more money in the private sector--without gambling their lives. You cannot recruit the best and brightest unless you can pay a competitive salary.

Paying more doesn't guarantee 'higher quality' but it sure helps.
Whilst I would usually agree I feel like the technology community as a whole can do a lot in the fight against injustice in this world. I understand your sentiment though and will not post again.
Could the police roll out tanks in response? Sure, but I do not believe the U.S. politicians would be willing to start all out war between police and civilians.

Have you read about what happened during the Civil Rights Movement? How many MAGAs would even blink if police started killing Black people?

More recently MOVE was bombed and no politicians thought twice.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/10/move-1985-bo...
You seem to equate high salary with compassion. What is this notion based on?
> But at the same time it shows that rocket tech is not as difficult as people make it out to be.

It really doesn't. The scale model probably weighs a few pounds where as the real Falcon Heavy weighs 3 million pounds [1]. Think about what a different scale that is!

Also note that the scale model's (really cool) test flight failed -- with the real Falcon Heavy that lesson would cost something like $150M.

I think this is kind of similar to: it's really easy to query/serve a SQL database even if it's a few tens of terabytes in size. But make it a few tens of exabytes, and things are dramatically more difficult due to the scale. The architecture that works at the terabyte size (single machine) falls over completely.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy
> 1. I can't remember the last time I saw video of police brutality from a reporter. Maybe never. I think that's a great example of reporters not reporting!

Here's TWO to start you off!
https://twitter.com/TheTNHoller/status/1266908874105372672
https://twitter.com/JasonLemon/status/1266529475757510656

> 2. News isn't dying so much as monopolies have taken over a not-very-well-regulated industry. That kills off competition to create better product.

Sorry, you will have to explain this more. Didn't Jeff Bezos buy the Post because they were bleeding money?

3. We all pay for news. They sell our eyeballs to sponsors/advertisers. They even run "news" that is actually ads to get us to buy things or vote some way. We pay for it just like we pay Google for all their "free" services.

Again, what do you mean by this? It seems like we have a difference of opinion where I think newspapers are struggling to survive and you do not.

4. Maybe we do. Maybe we don't. Either way we pay. See #3. Also either way, we complain. Just like you did.

See above.

5. I think the complaints are largely because the news coverage sucks. See #1. That's also a pretty good reason to not want to pay more for it than we already are.

Can you define "news coverage sucks"? What would you like to see?
Related ongoing thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23371537
The Supreme Court has ruled on this subject. The Congress can pass a new law but it is unlikely to stand up in court. The existing case law on this is pretty well established.

We need a constitutional amendment.
Temptation bundling: Use instant gratification to finish least favorite tasks
Fantastic article! I feel like a lot of this could easily translate for blockchain engineers since that too is a distributed system.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23370056
Edit: Removed my response. No worries :)
One opinion I have about studying technical subjects in general: don't let yourself believe you understand something until you are confident you could teach/explain it to someone else. And do that (modestly) when you get the chance to.
“Call your representative” is vacuous advice. It will achieve nothing. It’s going straight to /dev/null.
It's been flagged to oblivion so as not to pierce HN's tender bubble.

Should have mentioned which JS framework was used to build the site so the post would stay on the front page.
The issue is not the rarity of police brutality (although I disagree) it is the acceptance and silence of the perpetrators fellow officers who witness it. It means that all of these officers who don't intervene are guilty of dereliction of duty and condone the violence. These people should not have power of citizens. It means the entire system is corrupt and broken.

"When controlling for violent encounters with police and crimes committed, blacks (armed and unarmed) are actually less likely to be killed by police than whites." Legitimate Source required?
This study seems to indicate black men are killed by the police at a rate of 2.5x that of white men.

Your argument essentially boils down to sure cops brutally kill people and get away with it but its really the media that is at fault for bringing this to the surface. If we just let the cops do what they want everything would be calm and those uppity minorities would know their place.

"Sites like this and an irresponsible media simply exaggerate the issue and needlessly inflame tensions without providing proper and necessary context."
Just so I can understand can you please explain the context missing from the video depicting the murder of George Floyd, the source of these nationwide protests. Also please explain why his fellow officers stood around watching and what would have happened if the media had not elevated this incident. Please use small words as I am just some guy that thinks that even a single case of cops getting away with murder is far too many.

All in all this comment is pretty disgusting.
As a programmer, I accept that I'll make mistakes from time to time. Excoriating me for doing so would not help.

The bad apples should be removed. Riots and mayhem work against that goal.
Your first link shows: more black people are killed per-capita by cops than white people.
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Your second link shows: Black people are more likely to be convicted of homicide than white people.

You've made a number of unfounded leaps on top of that:
That "Black people commit 52% of crime." This is wrong in several ways. You're assuming that conviction rates accurately represent rates of crimes, and also that "all crime" has the same statistics as homicide. But instead, we see that black people are convicted of only 27% of overall crime. That's including the fact that certain categories are known to be racially disparate in conviction and sentencing - e.g. white & black people use marijuana at approximately equal rates, yet black people are nearly 4 times as likely to be arrested for it.
That the people killed by cops were all committing a crime at the time. I don't have statistics on hand for this, but a well-known counterexample is Tamir Rice.
I assume this is a related newspaper article: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...

Important to note it refers to overweight (might be referred to as "a little chubby"), not obese.
I don't know that the unions are the problem per se. They're just the face of the advocacy for the interests of criminal cops (which isn't surprising: it's literally their job to advocate for their members).

In fact when this gets polled, police rank and file are absolutely behind their "bad apple" compatriots. There is deep mistrust of public oversight within the law enforcement community as a whole, and that doesn't have to do with their labor organization.
Just, Devil's Advocate, but would that encourage rogue police to not leave the victim alive? My understanding was that part of the reason many people get angry when they discover the right to privacy ends when you die, is because it is difficult, (maybe even non-sensical?), to file constitutional claims on behalf of someone who is deceased.

(Are there any attorneys on HN familiar with, for instance, the rights to privacy of the deceased? I'm pretty sure they don't have any.)

I think it's best just to file a civil suit rather than trying to set up a system that the Supremes could very well deem unconstitutional.

What might work is for municipalities to write into police labor agreements that XX% share of any civil judgement precipitated by your actions will be borne by you alone. You're still jointly and separately liable, but the municipality would be able to go after the officer in a separate action.

Something along those lines would accomplish the same thing without bringing constitutional questions into it.
That way of saying "you are free to leave" serves only to suppress dissent, discouraging honest discussion (possibly leading to ballots) about how things should work. I think it's fair to call that a "disgusting" motivation.
Why not major in one and minor in the other? Even though my only major was Computer Science, I still took enough English classes to minor in English. Took a class on the History of the English Language (learned how to read Old and Middle English), two American Lit classes, a Middle Eastern Literature class, the Technical Writing course I needed for CS anyway, and a couple of composition classes (maybe one or two others, I don't remember). And it didn't take any more time than I needed anyway.
1: Understand the difference between software engineering and computer science. A lot of "computer science" will help you write a compiler, but you probably won't write a compiler on the job. Software engineering will help you when you're trying to make a bulletproof, scalable application.

2: Seek out internships.
Thanks for the reminder of this. In the last release of my software, we renamed all the "slave" objects to be "masters", without any real thought to the connected social implications.
The reference is that he never would have been elected in the first place except for violent protests.