skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the latest public update on this is the following quote from "Welcome Meet Qt (Qt Virtual Tech Con 2020):

> Yes, of course Qt will remain open-source. I don't think anybody in our company is making any claims other than that and... let's be very practical: the only way we're going to have a big ecosystem going forward is to have open-source available. And we will have patch releases available for 5.15 until Qt 6.0 comes out and after that we will focus our efforts on 6.0. Having said that of course we will do the patch releases for our commercial only branch -- for our paying customers. But rest assured there's going to be a lot of different patch releases available for open-source and you'll always have the latest available. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioons0BMSvs
Well, I would not want to get into the car of someone with a driving habit of risking the live of 1000 people in the first place.
The real solution to this is to avoid situations where such choice must be made, by keeping safe distances and speed.
Good drivers do this naturally. AI must do this too.
Some use name expansion and it's intuitive: M for Michael, T for Thomas. Though properly covering latin alphabet with english phonetics can be challenging. What name should correspond to A? Arven?
Do they? How do we know?
> In the UK you know the police are going to respectfully arrest you and treat you well

I agree this will be the case most of the time, but it's worth pointing out this is not always the case.

The MET in particular are rather infamous for their level of institutionalised racism, which while undoubtedly better than it used to be, still leaves much to be considered.

Anecdotally, I have family members in the police force in London and in Scotland. The ones in London like to regale others with tales of how much they enjoy donning their riot gear and using any excuse to batter people, especially if they are black. The ones in Scotland tell of how prisoners are routinely abused - usually at a "minor" level, such as slapping a prisoner for no reason, but in one indicent a prisoner's head was smashed off a radiator.
I keep thinking that I wish I had a university education. It wasn't on the cards for me at the time.

But now I live in relative comfort, and I would have to stop working and generating an income. I have savings that could tide me over but when the choice is a home for a future family or a university degree with questionable worth it's a tough ask.

I can't imagine having dependents and going back to work.

Of course everyone is going to chime in and say that you don't need to do university full time, but, you do. Notwithstanding the mental exhaustion that comes with our jobs but also I believe it to be unlikely that you'd be able to get into the right mindset to be creative, social and learning deeply.

I sincerely believe that university is a thing that you can only do at a certain point in your life, and I'm passed that point.
If you have so many wishes, maybe it wasnt the right tool.
I wonder whether there's a membership size threshold where, after crossing that tipping point, the community implicitly looses some degree of transparency whatever the moderation rules are. At some point the increasing impact each decisions have will skew the potential motivations of members and moderators. Intent become very difficult to judge meaning the degree of transparency decreases.

I've seen so many comments from people about the changing nature of some online communities as they grow. Perhaps capping memberships could curb the increasing politicisation of user behaviour and the weight of any individual action would be limited as a result.
big spaceships should be skyscapers instead of boats so thrust works as gravity.

looks nice though!
> In the UK you know the police are going to respectfully arrest you and treat you well,

UK police are racist and they subject black people to disproportionate use of police powers.
Really? Plenty of American liberals think that America is one of the worst countries on earth.
why have engines at all in that case? :)
But if the shooting itself was justified (infront of the court, jury, or whatever other method of proving justification they implement, and you consider to be fair), because (eg.) the suspect started shooting at the police first, what does it matter, if the suspect really robbed that store, or if he started shooting due to some other reason?
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This. I want to write texts on a German keyboard and code on an American one. I've put "alt gr" on caps lock, which kinda makes the pain of 3rd layer curly braces bearable, but every time I reinstall my machine I need to figure out where to set this up. 80% of the time I get the wrong angle bracket. Custom layout keyboard could also keep Z and Y in either place.
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Off topic: I consider the '-' in my comment scores to be the forum equivalent of a dueling scar. People who won't refute downvote.

Oddly enough, while attempting to say another country does (in a single particular instance, not even overall) something better than the US, only gets downvotes to negative, when I actually attempt to defend the US (some of my best friends are Americans!), the whole tree gets flagged.

In US social mores, is it considered uppity to mention that other countries and other people exist?

On topic:
https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/chmVn/3/
12 uses (not necessarily deadly) of a gun in 2018 would be what, 480, scaled to US population?
In the last 20 years, police snipers have had to kill once.
That would be twice per year for the US.
I'm taking the degree apprenticeship route (19 yo). From a purely educational point of view, there wasn't much University could teach me that I wasn't prepared to learn on my own, so making money and shipping real stuff is far more valuable for me. Of course, this highly depends on the individual.

There is also downsides, like the fact it is a job at the end of the day, and that comes with politics as well as technical challenges.

I'd again make the decision (over University) in a heartbeat.
You are not paid to go the university in Denmark. You are awarded credits by the government, and it is up to you to do something sensible with those credits. Don't waste them on needless courses! Learn that which will yield you (and the Danish government) the greatest benefits throughout the rest of your life.
"Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten."
This is conflating the selection and treatment effects. The difference in earnings between people who would be admitted to a Master’s programme if they applied and those who actually apply and graduate is going to be far smaller than the difference between a random Bachelor’s holder and a random Master’s holder.
Your comment is exactly why I find these topics difficult - responses come back disproportionally emotional and as you put it "hostile" in relation to (what I believe to be) a pretty neutral comment.

For one - I believe there is never sufficient justification for "onsite execution". I don't see how looking at convictions vs. arrests changes anything about that? We could compare it to convictions if you'd like - the gap might be even larger I believe.

My main point was that I hypothesise most of these issues are in fact due to income inequality more than anything else. It's still a huge issue - but a whole other issue - why that income inequality gap might be larger within the black population in the US.

Crime rate vs. number of persons killed is something that I find a lot more comfortable accepting then just blindly comparing the relations to the total population. It would be just as easy for me to question your detachment from reality or the lack of self-awareness.
Just in case somebody thinks that European minimalism started with Apple or Braun or whatever: it started much earlier in the 1910s latest, with Neues Bauen, De Stijl, Bauhaus etc. I'm a bit of a fan of these movements and the things they produced.
Depends on the profession. Generally if the goal is to be a qualified medical / legal professional, it is required to get a university degree from either medical school / law school respectively. Researcher? Maybe, Maybe not. But I won't be surprised if many research positions will ask for a degree.

Software Developer? Not really. FAANMG SWE Job? I won't risk it if I'm not famous with 10K other people applying.
I'm not sure if that's a valid point... i was always under the impression, that most of the violence in "violent cities" is due to violent gang, and that gang members are armed because they have to deal with other criminals/gangs (eg. if you sell drugs, to protect yourself and your drugs from being stolen, or to have "leverage" when racketeering, fighthing for "teritory", etc).
There's also a weird flip side to all these downsides. Once you establish yourself as competent there is this kind of threshold effect where not having a university degree can suddenly start causing people to actually take you more seriously. This kind of countersignalling effect seems to be common when you do non-traditional things.

I'm not sure this is a real thing unless you're, say, Richard Branson. I also can't really imagine many circumstances in which you're doing something non-traditional and you can't just pretend you don't have a degree by neglecting to mention it... and if you've already reached a level of "significance" in a non-traditional thing where someone might actually check, well, you've probably already done better than most.
I think it depends a lot on where you are in the world. In my country where access to education is paid for by the government, and the state pays you $850 a month to study for 5 years once reach educations beyond “High School”, work places kind of expect you to have a degree. You can’t even really be a sales person at a supermarket if you haven’t spent a few years getting a degree, or are under the age of 18 (less pay). Crafty professions takes you through a mix of bookish education and apprenticeship for 4 years, but they too lead to a degree.

Programming is one of the few fields, that isn’t packing boxes of frozen fish, where a career without a degree is possible here, and even on that field time is running out for people without degrees because so many young people have been getting them for the past decade.

But that is my country, here you’d be absolutely crazy (or perhaps challenged in some way) to not finish an education.
Zurkerburg has been sucking up to politician whose political base and operatives are antisemites.

Just pointing out this is something with lot of bad historical precedent.
Oh for sure! You can't ignore the fact that having a degree is great to fall back on.

But as you go closer towards research those people start falling off.
The comment you are replying to is asserting that the prevalence of guns mean that guns are more likely to appear/be used in a violent crime, not that they increase violent crime. Your "wrong" is not justified by your evidence.
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Shopfiy intern?
Congrats from Russia! That was awesome.
The definition of the state as the "monopoly on violence" only works if you think that states inherently have the right to their power. America, on the other hand, believes that the government gets its power from the people and the people have the right to take away that power if it is misused. In effect, Americans have contractually given the state the essential powers of violence but still keep the means to take that power back. That's why Americans have had the right to firearms before the United States even existed.
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The purpose of the GNU system is to give users the freedom that proprietary software takes away from its users. Proprietary operating systems (like other proprietary programs) are an injustice, and we aim for a world in which they do not exist.

To improve the use of proprietary systems is a misguided goal. Our aim, rather, is to eliminate them. We include support for some proprietary systems in GNU Emacs in the hope that running Emacs on them will give users a taste of freedom and thus lead them to free themselves.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html
Apple 13in MacBook Pro review 2020: going out on a high?
I would cut half of it. The best things I learned in college (CS) were economics, finance and statistics, it helped me a lot when I got a job as IT analyst in a sales team in a big company, being able to understand the work, purpose and environment and become a valuable contributor , not that geek that was speaking a different language nobody understood.

What I would add to college curriculum today is a good project management course, up to PMP level; also for CS, an equivalent of ITIL foundation.

For CS the biggest gap I see in fresh graduates are testing and performance and a more solid foundation on RDBMS: even in the era of NO-SQL and HADOOP the starting point is still understanding RDBMS.
>6x more black guys killed than white? That does not mean anything. What if there are x12 more black guys committing a crime?

this is adressed on the page, where it is noted that the rate of black people murdered does not correlate with crime rates in that area.

>99% cases of no accountability? This assumes that all the suspects were innocent old ladies.

Its an interesting number at least because it shows that regardless of what cops actually do, the justice system rarely/never holds them accountable for it. Perhaps you could say that 99% of the times that cops kill someone its "justified" but that number is very, very unlikely to be up there.

Regardless, I think this is more than simply sensationalism and presents some very interesting facts on a topic that is very relevant today.
Clearly this is a fallacy of false equivalence (and follows the general pattern of “whataboutism” which, if I remember correctly, goes all the way back to the USSR goading the USA about lynchings and protests against attempts at integration and opposition to the Civil Rights movement way back in the ‘50s and ‘60s), but it does definitely underscore how a failure to confront these protests in a manner that is free from risk of reproach is damaging the USA’s image as a haven for democracy worldwide (which to be honest, is pretty tarnished anyway).

To be fair, to me (as a foreign observer) it seems that two distinct things are going on and are being conflated by design: on the one hand one has righteous and peaceful protesters, and on the other one has opportunistic vandals who are taking advantage of the latter to cloak themselves with legitimacy or at least anonymity. The police are responding predominantly to the rioters, not the protesters, but the problem is that they cannot really distinguish between the two. Combine that with the evident militarisation of police forces in the USA and what seems to be some extraordinarily bad decision-making at higher levels and poor impulse control of some individuals at the lower level of law enforcement, and one has an explosive mix that is rife for display on the social networks that are broadcasting live worldwide.
If the suspect started shooting at police first, he is guilty of attempted murder, since intentionally shooting someone with a gun implies intent to kill. It's not necessary to obfuscate the issue with "justified shooting" which inevitably gets biased by the officer's subjective fears, biases, and paranoia. If I wrote down rules on a piece of paper in my house stating cases in which I could shoot other people, you wouldn't give a damn about my use of force policies if I killed someone because I feared for my life. Why should we do that for police departments? Their use of force policies are arbitrary and not legally binding. It shouldn't matter one bit if a police department allows their officers to shoot a detained driver if he quickly reaches into his glove compartment. Murder is murder regardless of the bureaucratic justification.
"How QuarkXPress became a mere afterthought in publishing"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7360076

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/quark...

It is interesting to see once dominant software get sidelined. WordStar gave way to WordPerfect which gave way to Word.
That post is not true, check https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-and-open-source
Here's something to make procedurally generated gas giants: https://github.com/smcameron/gaseous-giganticus

Here's a skybox generator: http://wwwtyro.github.io/space-3d/
What a load of nonsense.
Police are in the front line against violent criminals and need to be respected and supported.
This childish graphic is highly offensive and should be removed.
Should be slowly morphing between different faces, maybe 10 minutes or so per transition. Should be fairly unsettling to watch! :D
If you want low-level video routing functionality without the added layer of room-like logic, i.e. something that handles WebRTC and then tells you "now, here is your incoming video flow, do whatever you want with it", you might want to check out Kurento.

However our WebRTC stack has the minimum of congestion control features (plain REMB, no simulcast), and it doesn't implement SVC or newer toys like insertable streams, nor does it completely abstract you from the grunt work that WebRTC leaves up to the user (like signaling, setting up a TURN server, or having a minimum of understanding about ICE in order to troubleshoot when problems arise).
> If you have the option to go and you want to advance on your career, then there’s almost zero reasons to not go.

The entire point of the article was that if you have something better to do than university and good reason to believe you can actually do it you might at least consider it. Also, three to four years of foregone earnings are a powerful reason not to go to university if you’re already capable of earning a living in your chosen field. That is very far from zero reasons, especially when you consider the professional development you can fit into those years if that’s something you value.

> Yes, there are some exceptions but in most places and for most people a degree is what matters, not how many commits you do have in your side projects in github.

When you’re 40 no one but bureaucrats is going to give a crap what university you went to, compared to your actual accomplishments. If all you’ve got is side projects on GitHub no one will care whether you went to Oxford or University of Southern Florida or dropped out of high school. Actual accomplishments
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I've never done any 3D modelling, how feasible is it for a programmer to approach it purely via scripting? Im very familiar with Python, and this script doesn't look too complex.
For 3D sculpting there are lots of specialized apps which make the process reasonably close to actual clay modeling, commercial and free alike. Here is a WebGL-based one made by Stéphane Ginier: https://stephaneginier.com/sculptgl/

A tiny 3D modeling tool that also includes this sculpting technique is Art of Illusion: http://artofillusion.org/
I've looked around a little bit and I simply cannot find any evidence that police violence is on the decline. A cursory look at a graph of police killings over the last few years shows, if anything, a slight increase (https://www.vox.com/2020/5/31/21276004/4-charts-anger-police... - first graph).

I can only speculate about what your exact argument is: I'm guessing that what you're saying is that, surely, today's police are behaving better than the police in, say, the civil rights movement era (I couldn't find any data on that but I'm willing to accept that much for the sake of argument). And I think you infer from that that police violence is downward trending and that therefore, we should just let matters run their course: any upset to the delicate improvement might plunge us in the other direction.

But your inference is incorrect. You're looking at a function over time, see that this function was (probably) higher at some point in the past than it is now, and conclude from that that the function is still trending downwards. Essentially your argument seems to be based on the entirely unjustified assumption that the function has to be monotonically decreasing.

But if you don't assume monotonicity (and you really shouldn't), then function values in the far past don't give you any information about the derivative of the function at t=now. And the derivative at t=now seems to be (ever so slightly) positive, not negative as you imply. In which case, evidently, things are not improving on their own.
Unseen – No last seen no blue tick
XFCE is where I landed and it works well for me. I'm really thankful for the people that work on those efforts.
Speaking of random SF book covers: https://thrilling-tales.webomator.com/derange-o-lab/pulp-o-m...
> Maybe criminals in the US carry and use guns because they fear violence from the police?

Criminals SHOULD fear the police, they are the ones committing crimes in the first place. Jesus Christ what is wrong with people.
> We should start by repealing the 2nd amendment

How should people protect their houses/shops when armed criminals try to rob your place?
You're missing my point and Oculus Quest is sold out worldwide too you realize.
I'm a senior in high school and decided to.
I started a startup and got invited for a YC interview(got rejected) and am onto another startup which is raising soon.

Despite how much success/failure/I learn I endure, college name matters... a lot. I snuck into Nuro's open house last year and found they exclusively invited Harvard/Stanford/MIT students (I can say this because I was a minor at the time of signing their NDAs)

College name matters, especially when you're starting out (which can impact where you evenetually end up... whether its working for a startup or working at a cool VC firm) In fact most of the time, the people who've said: "don't go to college" are the same people who go to Cornell, UPenn, and Stanford and probably don't realize how much of a network/presitgie gives them to get them where they are now.
It certainly feels one sided.

Since 2018, more police officers have been killed by blacks than the other way around. Blacks are substantially overrepresented in murders of police officers. [0]

This is not to say that there isn't a problem with police violence, ridiculous militarisation after 9/11 or the way police are being trained, because there is. But those one-sided takes aren't helping.

[0] https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1266926255082999810?s=20
You said: "in 2016[1] of all crimes committed 26.9% were by black perpetrators"

This is a wholly inaccurate summary of the link you provided, and even if it were an accurate summary does not justify the fact that black people are being killed by police in disproportionately higher numbers.

The link you provided is an irrelevant distraction which contributes nothing to the issues surrounding police violence. What is neutral about that? And why would you even have an interest in being neutral about ending human lives?
Did 18th century cannons have gun shields?
Yes, before it is too late (eventually nobody will know what the old internet was like).
> "Police killed 1,099 people in 2019", which to me implies, that it shows cases where police killed that many innocent people/killed without any real reason.

I cant figure out why would you assumed either first or second. The actual sentence is clear, killed people.

But also, guilt is not valid reason for police to kill someone. Guilty people should be sentenced by court and death sentence should be treated carefully. The person have to be active threat and no other way possible. "He was guilty, therefor it is ok to kill him" does not cut it.
At least to see what's on offer. It's ok to drop out if you have proof that you are actually smarter than most of your classmates and you are really friggin sure what you are doing.
Long term - definitely! But to get space manufacturing started in the short term, lowering the launch costs is the best bet.