skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That does not change the calculus in my mind, because the situation goes beyond just money. How did the Sr. Bezos land such a well paying job with Exxon? An engineer position puts him in a privileged class. We have to look back further generations to see how his family was in such a position to raise a successful engineer?

Let alone that Sr. should have the knowledge and support he required to manage his money so well. I look at the Jr. Bezos having a privilege to have a father who he could turn to for advise, or who may have guided his development. Not saying he did, cuz I don't know the family, but it sounds like it was a real possibility. Who saves all that money, only to entrust it to his estranged son who he don't know or trust--as if he haven't had a hand in imparting the necessary temperament, sensibility, and wisdom for his son to be successful in some way in the economy? LOL.

How many people today are fortunate to have grown up in this time, in this is a period of unprecedented economic growth and social change, who have squandered their earnings, because they didn't have the support of knowledgeable and trustworthy parents or family?

Sounds to me like a chain of great decisions, luck or both.

I can give a counter example. I moved to an affluent town on the North Shore of Long Island, NY. I met a woman in my neighborhood who described to me her career at the local hospital, as a nurse, for over 20 years. She's African American, and landed this job in the late 70s early 80s by my calculation. She benefited by the social changes at the time that accepted African Americans as nurses in a largely white community. I also met her son, and he struggles with under-employment in his career. I had the impression she didn't understand why he was in that situation. She was proud of her success. I imagine it was difficult for her to reconcile her career in nursing, and her son's struggles. She had success, why not him? Unlucky, more like it.

Right now--that hospital is part of one of those large health care corporate systems. If she had this job today, its very possible she would not have seen her salary increase year after year, nor enjoyed a pension, nor stayed with the same organization for so long just being a nurse. There will always be new nurse graduates with more energy with just enough knowledge who are more manageable by corporate. That's the reality of hospitals and healthcare today, despite growth in this field.

Fortune goes to the right person who is in the right place at the right time. And if you frack up and fall out, someone else is ready to take your place, hey. Who in a great position can say they did it entirely alone? Meag Lottery winners. haha.
Just so you know, this is what a mobile user sees when someone uses code blocks to format quotes on HN: https://i.imgur.com/EDI0Ist.png

It makes people scroll side to side to read the quote.

Please don't use code blocks for quotes.
> The advantage of having a pre-existing implementation is that it's far, far easier to write tests before you implement because most edge-cases are covered in the existing implementation. Make sure you do a feature freeze before you start, then once you're ready for production do both shadow testing and canary testing and things will go well.

There are two ways I've seen it go vastly over schedule when these things bite you.

1) There might be edge cases covered in the original implementation that neither you nor current stakeholders remember or know about. So discovery can either take way longer than expected (until you're confident you know 100% of what the code does) or implementation can get constantly delayed by "oh, yeah, we do still need that."

2) Feature freezes are a rare gift. Usually it's "we need this new thing" which leads to engineering saying "that would be hard to do in the current system, we should rewrite it" so now you have to rebuild all the old stuff plus build the new thing. And its requirements will probably keep changing on you.
So are you advocating we charge police officers $100-300K for their training as well?

They get paid a reasonable salary to be trained in a job that will provide them a nice income for the rest of their life. Having a lower salary while in training is not unheard of in any field, I am not sure why you believe those numbers are unacceptable.

Further Baltimore shows why a national $15 min wage is untenable, as all that does is make more jobs "minimum wage jobs" because taking the min wage from $8 to $15 does not magically mean all the jobs that paid $15 now pay $22, that is not how economics work
Is that actually name-calling? It's a description of a comment (or a argument), not of a person.

I mean, if it is, then so would calling out someone's comment as an ad-hominem, right.
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Which is a non-answer unless you know, with sufficient confidence based on scientific knowledge (not somebody's beliefs or speculations or hypotheses), the amount of the externality and who can address it at the lowest cost. Which nobody knows for the case of CO2 emissions.

So the best course of action is to treat any uncertain number as zero?
He plagiarized part of his thesis too, but this kind of begs the question what constitutes plagiarism in theology.
Correct, and in that case, they regularly wear POLICE insignia
I'd imagine the general public wants both to stop.

It's not a choice to make for one or the other.
> A lot of software these days is built and served entirely from GitHub.

The identity could also be tied to Github accounts, among other options.
>You're misstating the alternatives.

No.

>We're talking about public policy.

Yes.

>The alternatives for public policy are "don't dictate what everyone must do in area X" or "dictate what everyone must do in area X".

The world is not this simple. Regardless, we must dictate that people cannot inflict externalities on third parties without compensation.

>The former does not need a "higher justification". The latter does.

Where are you getting this idea? You're just stating a conclusion without any support. I can do that too:

You are wrong, I am right. You need to scientifically justify acts that have harmful externalities. You do not need to justify harmful acts that restrict harmful externalities.

Wow, this is easy! I should have been arguing like this all along!
There is no evidence presented that Russia and the GRU used this. None. Could be true. Could be false. Could be trying to propagate this ridiculous "it's the Russians" narrative so prevalent to explain everything those in 3 letter agencies don't like politically. From the electoral unpopularity of Hilary Clinton, through why Wikileaks publishing secrets of their crimes is not in your interest to now why people are protesting (not record unemployment, not continuing police brutality, not the existence of an underclass in the richest nation on the planet no. Russians).

So yeah, could be true but if you laugh at anyone claiming *Russians" with no evidence to back it that's probably the safest thing to do.

No evidence at all of Russian hacking Hilary's email if you were paying attention in the last week or so other than from evidence free DNC claims. Maybe they did, sure. And maybe Saddam had WMD - believing that lie, and i did, cost us rather a lot. It would be silly to fall for it again.
I read a report earlier that some of the riot organizers were using bicycles to move from place to place. Perhaps this is reaction to that.
An ad coupled with some pretty shoddy arguments against a font that is extremely legible. I like typography as much as the next geek, but I have purposefully chosen Times New Roman many times in the past because it is so damn easy on the eyes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/02/14/...

"Fittingly, the most chilling scene in the movie doesn’t take place on a city street, or at a protest, or during a drug raid. It takes place in a conference room. It’s from a police training conference with Dave Grossman, one of the most prolific police trainers in the country. Grossman’s classes teach officers to be less hesitant to use lethal force, urge them to be willing to do it more quickly and teach them how to adopt the mentality of a warrior. ... In the class recorded for “Do Not Resist,” Grossman at one point tells his students that the sex they have after they kill another human being will be the best sex of their lives. The room chuckles. But he’s clearly serious. “Both partners are very invested in some very intense sex,” he says. “There’s not a whole lot of perks that come with this job. You find one, relax and enjoy it.”"

1. You do what you train to do.

2. What you look for in the world is what you will find.

3. Police work is risky, but not excessively so. https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfar0020.pdf
DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors
I seriously doubt there are people out there with billions of people on their contact lists, so why would that matter?
Can you talk a little more about the types of roles you're interviewing for and what your typical answer looks like? I think that would be useful to provide more context for any answer.
The Seattle PD tried this during the 2001 Mardi Gras riots. It earned the police chief (Kerlikowske) a higher level position
Honest question; how is that different from all of the other companies/celebrities declaring support?
I'd say people misbehaving doesn't justify attacking non-violent people 200' away from that. Many examples of the recent days can not explained by "someone nearby did something, so it was an unlucky accident", and their police departments and local governments don't seem to care all that much. Which is fueling the anger, given this happens at protests against overreacting/overly aggressive police.
World War II Secret Mustard Gas Testing
Because Nix is a language there are many ways of accomplishing the same thing. Some ways are easier, some require more work. For example if you make a derivation in your home, it is easy to install it with nix-env from there, and you are done, but if you want to include it in your configuration, you typically would create an overlay that includes your package in nixpkgs. Then you can list the package. If your derivation requires creating a configuration, service etc. On top of that you will also need to create module that specifies configuration options and configures the application.

So in many cases you are told to use nix-env, because the person just answered how to write a derivation and didn't go further than that.

I think flakes (still work in progress), will help here, because it defines a standard that supposed to do all of that in one file that is easily composable.
I have no strong position in this argument, but, robberies and other armed crimes are regularly paired with a murder in order to get rid of the witness.
Lonely Planet: What Awaits Tourists After Lockdown
> digital infrastructure of Citibike is now exploited to keep cyclists who rely on these bikes for safe solo travel off curfewed streets, even essential workers.

To clarify: essential workers are specifically exempted from the curfew:

"This Order shall not apply to police officers, peace officers, firefighters, first
responders and emergency medical technicians, individuals travelling to and from essential work
and performing essential work, people experiencing homelessness and without access to a viable
shelter, and individuals seeking medical treatment or medical supplies. “Essential work” is work
performed by essential businesses or entities as defined or permitted by the Empire State
Development Corporation."[1]

So the Citibike shutdown may be preventing essential workers from legitimately traveling to their jobs.

However, I think it's more likely that Citibike's motive is to prevent loss or damage to their bikes during civil unrest, rather than enforcing the curfew.

[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/home/downloads/pdf/executive-ord...
It's not specifically fascist, in the sense that many groups are doing it, and it's not exactly a central tenet of fascism. Mussolini was himself a journalist.
> It may be because they have to deal with a population with 3 guns per capita

where did you find this figure? this is off by more than a factor of two from any source I can find.
> It is not acceptable to have a non-zero casualty rate

Systems have both false positives and false negatives. A system with no false positives but many false negatives can be worse than a system with few false negatives and few false positives.
Zuck once crapped on us oldsters a bit, but I suspect older employees, who tend to know the difference between their business and the company's business, are looking a bit more appealing these days.
What is keeping many people on Facebook is FOMO. Every person who quits and leaves, especially publicly, reduces the chance that those remaining will miss something important and the perception that it is an important source of news and information. Let it become a ghost town of bots.
I'm gunna go ahead and assume it was due to the the lack of violence and looting.
Seems pretty weird from the UK POV that they would do it with the car, pretty sure that's not what happens here ?
America certainly had violent riots during elections. Also after sports games. It happens.
I think that's a really good point to bring up. Decentralization solves some problems but it doesn't automatically make everything better.

An interesting example relevant to this case would be Mastodon: it's an alternative to Twitter where many instances federate together, and instances are allowed to do their own moderation. Many instances have much more protective rules than Twitter and have smaller communities that their moderators are better able to integrate with.
By what metric should success be measured for a social platform?
The county coroner changed their report and labeled the death a homicide after the outcry that the original report was a cover-up. They no longer have any credibility.

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867219130/george-floyd-indepe...

> In charging documents released last week, prosecutors said that preliminary results from an autopsy "revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation."

>However the new report from the medical examiner did not include such language.
There's a link at the bottom to the text, if that's easier.

And frankly, the fact that there's no other way to indicate a block quote is absurd.
From the tone of Plyphon_'s comment it seems to me pretty obvious that they had at least read the article you link above and the point of the comment was not to actually get a source for OP's comment, but to score some kind of internet burn points. Judging from the earlier greying-out of Plyphon_'s comment I'm not the only person who thought so. I don't think that kind of comment should be validated with an actual response. It is borderline snark and certainly does not contribute anything to the conversation.

I'm happy to accept my mistake if I have misunderstood Plyphon_'s comment.
Every article I read about restaurants just seems to reinforce that they are powered by their owners hopes and dreams rather than any financial or business literacy. It makes then ripe targets for exploitation.
there is always this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23397615

kinda stuff being posted here and it gets approximately zero traction

So how else do you expose the ad to eyes other than getting meta by making postings like GP?
So...if you get to create narrow definitions of words the way you want, define your opinion ("they would not have found it interesting") as fact and use ad homen attacks ("You should learn something about the subject..."), you get to be right.

You are undoubtedly a joy at parties.
Sure, but if you are interested in buying a mattress, are those not where you generally want to go anyway?

I suspect the mattress hobby community is not very large.
It's starting to look more concerted. Check out the story about the defacement of the memorial to the black Civil War regiment in Boston. Something's up.
They do read your facebook messenger messages.
Add to the list that Firefox doesn't have good security compared to Chromium variants, like proper per site process isolation.
You are completely right. The idea of contact tracing a virus that registers as a mild cold for most people is a pipe dream.
Weirdly, growing up in Texas and living in Austin for 20 years, I never saw a burning car until I moved to Alabama. I've seen several as well as many of the resulting pavement scorches.

AL does not have an annual vehicle inspection, by the way.
Experts: Couples 'should wear masks while having sex' amid coronavirus pandemic
snowwrestler has repeatedly made the point that you can't not have a public policy about something; you can only accept or change the status quo.

England has a public policy that people drive on the left. America has a public policy that people drive on the right. In a society that had no codified rule about which side of the road to drive on, where people just weave back and forth, the choice to not enforce a particular convention would also be a defacto public policy.

It seems to me that in general you should only need the preponderance of evidence to suggest that a public policy change will do more good than harm in order to adopt it; otherwise you're unnecessarily biasing yourself in favour of the status quo. This of course should be done with an appropriate risk-weighting decision theory (how you weigh a small chance of large negative utility against a large chance of small positive utility, etc).
Communities have more positive outcomes when they have access to resources which are disproportionately more available to white communities
Literata was commissioned by Google as the new default font in Play Books, btw.
I left Facebook Nov 10th, 2016 after being on it for about 3 years.

That was easy because it was clear where it was headed. Getting friends to quit took some time, but about 40% of my friends are off completely, and another 20% mostly read instead of post (so they claim).

Now if I lived in certain parts of the world like Myanamar [1] where the Facebook -IS- the internet, I'd be hosed. This is some serious Dole / DelMonte level stuff Zuck is doing.

[1] https://seasia.yale.edu/myanmar-facebook-internet-and-intern...

[2] https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/facebook-is-the-internet-f...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/01/facebook-free-...

[4] https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/facebook-is-the-internet-f...
I have been trying to think of good, relatively simple policy decisions that can make a large impact. I have not heard too many proposed besides removing qualified immunity. I would be curious what ideas people have:

Ideas include:
-Banning police unions
-Having a federal agency to discipline police (outside the purview of local politics)

I haven't heard this idea elsewhere but I like the idea of us addressing from the top down the fact that we have the highest incarceration rate in the world at 698 per 1,000 currently. This is something like 10x some comparable countries, and at least 3x any country we consider "free" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...). We can make a top down decision to change this by making a hard "200 incarcerated per 100,000" cap at the state level. Dec 31st of each year, each state with over 200 per 100,000 prisoners has to release prisoners until they are below the threshold.

I am not saying it is a simple problem, but any other solution ideas?
To his credit Justin Amash has been very active in speaking out against government and police actions the past week or so.
You apparently are unaware of the intensity of the Chinese propaganda campaign in this area. I would counsel "You should learn something about the subject before you comment...", but only an ass would say that.
> Facebook is the last major social network where people are able to speak their minds.

Do LinkedIn or Reddit or Medium not allow you to speak your mind? In what way?
Thanks! Mind sharing what kind of project?
>But public policy decisions affect everybody, so the criterion needs to be a lot stricter for how complete the information needs to be and how confident we need to be in our knowledge before we impose a public policy on everybody.

Again, your own logic destroys your argument.

We have made public policy decisions that heavily subsidize oil, cars, lowered air quality, etc.

These decisions affect everyone not just car drivers. These decisions were not based on complete information (in fact, we had very limited knowledge of global warming, air pollution, etc. when we made public policy decisions to favor air pollution).

>The idea that public "leaders" should be able to take calculated risks with everybody else's money (and lives) is, IMO, pernicious. This is exactly the mentality that has created so much mess in the world throughout history. No, "leaders" should not take calculated risks that affect everybody.

So why should Cletus who like to roll coal on Tesla drivers be able to take uncalculated risks that affect everybody?

I seriously think you don't understand what externalities are.
One problem with a safe deposit box is what happens if things go to hell at 2am? The bank isn't going to open for another 6 or 7 hours, and meanwhile you're sitting there with possibly business-destroying downtime.
I used to regularly watch staff at a grocery store i used to go to not give even one ounce of fucks as people would walk through the self checkouts with buggies full of groceries, not even pretend to go through and walk straight out of the store. Even the security guards would just shrug and not do anything.

That store must have lost thousands every day from that, but they're an insanely busy store and probably more than make up for it in sales.

Also, I remember when I worked at a grocery store, the policy was if you seen shoplifters you weren't supposed to approach them or do anything other than to just tell the manager. There were a few thefts from that place and this was before the days of self checkouts. I remember I seen a guy once stuff some things in his backpack, I told the assistant manager, he followed him around through the store, but in the end the guy just left and nothing really happened. He kept whatever he took.