skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right, this method only works for specific set of languages, e.g same family languages.
I agree somewhat. But you have to realize that developing and maintaining software is incredibly expensive and time consuming. I, for example, hate Android for spying on me all the time, but I realize that developing such a complicated operating system takes a lot of effort and Google isn't doing this out of altruism.
A very large portion of people still claim that there is no problem, that's why this information needs to be keep being talked about even though it may seem like old news to some.
You missed a comment in between though.
Well, it appears someone received a bonus of $180,000 without releasing any code. Thanks again, kickscamter.
Some education isn't all that useful. I had a computer-something-related class in college where we were talking about how computers were getting faster.

Professor: If you think computers are fast now, it'll blow your mind that back in the 60s the NSA has computers running at 1000.

Me: 1000? You mean 1000 megahertz?

Professor: No, 1000.

Me: facepalm

I'm still paying off those student loans.
My son is 12, learned it over the past few months, as they had little to do for school. Started simple, with basically rendering some squished spheres and cubes, then followed a few YouTube video tutorials (desk with some random stuff on it). Next, he experimented with sculpting, but still has trouble with it. I was fascinated how he took an old photo of some ship, created the outline (extruded?) then added detail. Beats computer games :)

Edit: one recommendation is to avoid books. YouTube and documentation are great.
Are you talking about Warning Forever?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warning_Forever
1) Yes, you do.
2) No, you don't.
3) Depends.

2&3: I knew a guy, his father had sheep, plenty of them. He never bothered with Uni. He has been studying/training on seminars regarding agriculture, animal care, etc. He is set for life. He will never sit on a university theatre and keep notes. He does use technology (I remember how he was shocked when he discovered YouTube videos that exploded his mind and knowledge).

He picks up the phone and speaks to vets, he talks to agriculture specialists, he watches seminars, he gets better. He stays on top/ahead of things. He never spent 1 (pick your own currency) on University, housing, (Uni) books.

He stays in touch with his peers both in his country and abroad (he was taught English early on and how he sees the value of that investment).

I see him though being a guest lecturer in a Uni, to speak as a professional on this/his industry, speak on his part of the supply chain, what he would expect of "Education" to provide for him (his industry) in the future, what he would like to see people do for the promotion and progress of his industry. But pay for classes? Never.

So..
2 & 3 :)

Edit: typos
> Or is the only choice to alter my interpretation of the word "stable"? :-)

I'm not experienced enough to give you an answer, but a hearty "bravo" for recognizing this as an option. Too many do not.
Very interesting article. Thanks for sharing. I think it explains very well why software developed by large IT companies¹ that puts developers after developers for a few months on their clients projects are systematically very bad, to stay polite.

[1] I refer to what are called SSII (société de services en ingénierie informatique) in France.
I'm not saying that... i'm refering to the parent post:

> Until someone is convicted of a crime in America, they are presumed innocent. I don't see why that should change just because a suspect was killed before they could be tried. All police killings should be thoroughly investigated. The statistic that 99% of them do not lead to legal punishment is extremely suspicious.

The first part, suspect innocent until proven guilty (for the original crime, the one police got called for), and i see no point in going further with the trial for the original crime, if there is no point to be made (eg. trial for robbery, having the store owner come to court, proving was there a robbery, proving the suspect was the one robbing the store, etc.).

The shooting (so robber vs. police) part should of course be investigated.
But still away from Houdini which is the gold standard still.
Why is it so important to fantasise imaginary scenarios about your idol-of-hate rather than conjure up effective means by which things can improve in society?

Derangement syndrome is a reality. Not everything bad that happens is a result of the scary orange puppet. A lot of times, its mass ignorance that causes the worst ills in society.
Thank you, you're right. I would assume being in a war zone requires a completely different mindset to being a cop. One has a job of protecting and serving whilst the other has a job of completing the mission at all costs. To me, those two things require completely different mindsets.
Sounds closer to reinventing the penny auction (where did all those sites go?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidding_fee_auction
I am not sure if I can get behind this. Company invests work and money into a product, makes it free for the community and smaller businesses to use only to have people turn around and copy it and break the "you use my product for free and give me some publicity" contract. Something is ticking me off morally on this.
Ah, the 'spooky action at a distance' aspect. Doesn't much of that apply to data-binding in general though?
I don't think the author's objection is to thought experiments in principle but rather, to the way they are composed and used.

After all, a thought experiment that only holds true given an impossible premise would have no rhetorical power if we weren't willing to extrapolate our conclusions beyond the premise, to the possible. Which we are - that's why the trolley problem is taught to people who aren't railway signalmen.

There's a risk there are arguments we think are convincing us because they have isolated a pure abstraction - but actually it's the false dilemma in the premise that convinced us, while the argument distracted us.
In high school I made a little game with a similar feel. It showed a tower of stones, same for everyone online. To add a stone you needed to hold mouse for about 7 seconds. There was also a massive red button to collapse the tower. The record was about 350 stones placed.
What percentage of sessions do you see going through turn?
When you can walk into a supermarket and buy a machine gun off the shelf, I would agree with you. If you take the guns off everybody though, this changes completely. All of a sudden you don't need a lethal weapon and instead can start carrying none lethal weapons. That's a whole different debate though
I've heard it often in both British and Italian media to explain why their figures are higher than neighbouring countries, using the same exact reason: we (did) count suspected cases as confirmed.

Not saying you're wrong, just pointing out the fact that all these figures have huge margins of errors and we'll know the true extend of it when we'll be way past it.
>a male-dominated IBM/Google monoculture

I don't see why "male-dominated" should be a problem. Statistically, I would even probably have more shared interests with them.
Most of the time, the complaint is that black people are being killed by police disproportionally. It's not often explicitly said what they are killed disproportionally to, but it is usually implied as compared to demographics. This chart says a black man is 3x more likely to be killed by police than a white man.

The uncomfortable fact is that black people also commit a disproportionate amount of the crime in the USA.

I was curious to see whether these police killings are disproportionate to the amount of crime being committed. Is a black criminal 3x more likely to get killed than a white criminal?

Digging into the numbers, on this database there were 3,379 killings of white people by police, and 1,945 black people. In 2018 there were 589k property crimes committed by white people, vs. 264k by black people. [1]

For each black crime, there were 2.2 white crimes.

For each black killing, there were 1.7 white killings.

So, yes, the data does support that black crime leads to a disproportionate amount of killings at the hand of the police, even accounting for higher rates of crime. A black criminal is 30% more likely to die at the hands of the police than a white criminal. Not 3x, however.

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/252486/number-of-propert...

EDIT: dead comment below points to some other statistics from the FBI: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

If we look at the rates of violent crime categories only (murder, robbery, and aggravated assault), the data actually indicates that a greater proportion of these crimes are committed by black perpetrators.

There are 1.6 white perpetrators of aggravated assault per black perpetrator, 0.8 white robbers per black robber, and 0.85 white murderers per black murderer.

This suggest that in this category, the police killings are actually disproportionate in that more white people are killed by police than the rates of violent crime committed would warrant.
find <dir> -name <pattern> | xargs rm

Test it with just the "find" first as you experiment with <pattern>
How does mediasoup compare Pion project in terms advantages, performance and effort to build a simple conference app? Why I choose one over the other?
No copyright date appears in this document, but it was apparently published before 1963 (since it lists a U.S. address that uses a postal zone rather than a ZIP code).

Sylvania's 1N34 diode became available in 1946[1], so the document may date from as early as then.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode#Solid-state_diodes
Are US companies afraid of hiring contractors from Eastern Europe?
Hi,

Are US companies afraid of hiring contractors from Eastern Europe?

I'm a dev from Poland with 8 years of commercial experience. I worked for US companies, visited the US a couple of times. I am a skilled developer and I rarely see my CV is rejected by recruiters - I had an opportunity to work on some cool stuff that draws people attention.

I noticed companies that are looking for remote devs are not interested in inviting me for an interview. I assumed the problem is my CV, experience or skills I possess. A few days ago I spoke with a less experienced friend from Germany I worked with and he said he has no problems at all with getting into the first interview.

I started to wonder, maybe it is not me but the place where I live?
There are many reasons for this... In the UK ordinary police don't carry firearms, this naturally reduces number of people shot :)

But there are many things that could be improved by changing training, guidelines and accountability.

In Denmark it's a use-of-force to draw a weapon or even more your hand into position to draw (or even signaling the ability to do so). Such events have to be counted, and officers held accountable.

In the US police often draw or move hand into position as routine procedure on a traffic stop.

You are right, it can't be fixed purely through police training and policies, but you could make inroads.
I wish people stopped using disparaging terms, especially in titles.

I skimmed through the presentation and initially felt overwhelmed by the amount of heavy linear algebra going on in there. Now, that's not a criticism of the document itself – there's probably no way around that – but if I were to give up because of failing to understand the content, the corollary would be "I'm not even an idiot", and that really doesn't help anyone.

If the title were "A guide to SVMs", it would be just as descriptive, while avoiding calling people names.
I recently had to make this decision. It was a tough decision but in the end I made my own curriculum based off of the syllabus of the bootcamp I was accepted to. I’m already disciplined at self study and been remote working happily for years so a self-bootcamp works for me. It depends greatly on your brother’s learning style and current life situation.

Also, I decided that online bootcamps at the price of offline is not worth it.

And these articles really helped me made the decision:

To learn more about bootcamps
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coding-bootcamp-handbook/

To help me make a long term decision
https://fs.blog/2014/02/decision-journal/

Bootcamp ROI calculator
https://www.coursereport.com/blog/calculate-coding-bootcamp-...

I also talked to a lot of alumni of the coding bootcamp I was considering and talked to other people online including those who self-studied and currently had a development job.
"Justified shooting" in American merely means that the police followed the protocols of his police department, which often say "shoot if you feel threatened". The rules of police departments should not in themselves be a shield from criminal liability. If cops shoot someone who was not guilty of a crime, they should be punished, much in the same way that if you or I shoot and kill an innocent person, we should be punished.
You can do this in UK, where weapons look like this: https://twitter.com/mpsregentspark/status/974645778558980096

But in places with criminals being heavily armed, having unarmed police, just makes the police more vulnerable.
I work on a team with a portfolio of ~30 separate features and 5 people. I’ve almost never been in conflicts with my teammates’ values or aesthetic sensibilities, since we can almost never afford to have two people working on the same thing. If I’m working on someone else’s code it’s usually because they’ve left, so I’m free to change it to my liking. When we do surge several people to a project, there’s still one owner who calls the tune on design, style, etc. so just not much debate about it. It’s their house; the extra contributors are just passing through.

We always do code review, so no one goes too far off the reservation, but you accept diffs that are acceptable in their own context; values disagreements are nonblocking.
Linux user tries Windows 10
Nothing that cool but did stuff interfacing with hand readers and touch devices in 2002 when that was a new thing.
Great. Now I want to figure out a way of building an asymmetric locomotive to break the notation’s underlying assumptions (and have odd numbers).
> In many cases, does University just function as a waiting room in which young people can mature?

And the opposite is true. If I were 18 now, I'd probably go to university. Back in the day, I had my reasons not to go, and when the time came to reconsider it (mid 20s), it felt much harder to justify.
> Can you imagine how these protesters would be treated if most of them were carrying a rifle?

Branded as a terrorist organization so that use of extreme and possibly military force could be justified?
> Never, ever, ever, claim that another country does something better than the US.

Dear child, nobody is claiming that any police force in the whole world is better than the US police force - in killing unarmed, black people. The US police is std::exceptionally good at this.
I agree. I’m just asserting that the point made by Stallman about there not being enough computational capacity in the milliseconds before a crash to compute the trolly problem is a straw man.
Great article. I'm sure that there are plenty of people here who went to university and also run a successful company. If any of you see this comment:

If you could change the way the university tech you, what you would do?
I think the freedom to pursue intellectual curiosity is a thing which universities offer almost unconditional unlike jobs. This is a perk that not a lot of jobs in the real world offers. Almost nowhere else in a person's life are you given such an opportunity to invest in ones interests.

But I'm biased towards going to uni, since I live in Denmark where I get paid monthly for going to university.
I am 18 year old, I'm already working as a developer, and they have offered me a very nice full time job offer. I have been thinking about whether or not to go to university for most of the past year.

In the end, I did choose to go to university. I will be working part-time to pay about 90% of it (including housing) which means I'll have practically no debt. The main reason for me to go, was that I don't want to de a developer for the rest of my life. I think that having a degree will make a eventual career switch a lot easier.
Moving 18 years of this personal blog from Wordpress to Hugo
Statistically, people with master earn more and it's easier to get a job (other options are: you get aquihired, have a shit of money; your parents have lot of great connections etc.)
I scanned everything pushed to dockerhub for a few weeks but didn’t find too much interesting stuff showing up
> But unless we have evidence to the contrary, we can assume that the shareholders are broadly risk-neutral. Especially since lots of shareholding these days is via widely diversified index funds

Except there are low and high risk index funds as well. Just because you're invested through a passive index fund, doesn't mean you're risk-neutral.
Wrong. The rate of gun ownership is not the primary predictor of the murder rate in America. I live in a state where over two thirds of people own guns, but the murder rate (and police killing rate) is very low.
You can usually find these sorts of stories in vulnerability writeups. Perhaps not as detailed as this one but it's definitely a category of blog.
But my thesis is that the criminals are heavily armed because they know that the police are violent. If the police were less violent, the criminals may see less need to arm themselves.

In the US a criminal needs to be ready to defend themselves to the death in any interaction with the police. In the UK, they don't.
You should have some experiences that move you out (even if temporarily) from the bubble you live in. University is a easy choice for that. If you have more experiences you will also have more ways to think about the world and more ways to deal with life and it's problems. My university experience in terms of learning could have been a lot better, but the experience as a whole and all the people I would not have met otherwise are still very valuable more than a decade after it ended.
I don't live in the US and I think the behavior of the police is rather... unsettling but even to me, this looks biased and sensationalist.

6x more black guys killed than white? That does not mean anything. What if there are x12 more black guys committing a crime?

"27 days without killing anybody" - if the country were to be 600M or 1B big, it would probably have just 1 day - it doesn't mean anything really.

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

Why do people mess up good ideas, with cheap sensationalism?
TSMC to reduce capex by $7B due to Huawei ban
I imagine tools like this would most likely come out of military companies such as Lockheed and Raytheon. Surprised to hear it coming out of Apple
I had in my teams people without any college degree or college dropouts, some gave up after one year and some close to graduation. They were good developers, the only difference I saw between college graduates and the other developers was that the college graduates were less flexible and tending to apply what they learned in college to the letter, even where it did not make sense. A few days ago I was talking to one of these people doing some informal code review, he found a very formally correct explanation for a constructor that had no value in that context, something like "it is a good practice to do it because in case X it can be used for y", where x and y were completely not applicable in that code.

As a recruiter I never looked too serious for credentials, knowing myself going through the college only for that piece of paper at the end, working full time and knowing a lot more from the job than what the other students learned. From my former class in college I think I am the only one practicing IT, the others too other directions, including one that was a quite successful music band leader.
I'm not sure it's so great when the listener doesn't know the NATO alphabet. A number of the words sound very similar to other english words, and some of the words are obscure.

For example, Charlie (pronounced char-lee or shar-lee) could be confused with barley, Karlie, hardly, Shirley, etc. Mike rhymes with dozens of words.

If you don't know the word 'sierra' you might be wondering, "was that fierra? Ciara? Tiara?"

I think using longer, simple words like,

Alphabet, Banana, Computer, Direction, Elephant, etc.

would be better for lay people. They're unambiguous and well-known.
This thing doesn’t fly as high as a bottle rocket. What makes building rockets hard not the avionics but economics and the good old rocket equation. A cool model is really solving a very different but still fun problem.
VirtualDOM is more of an implementation detail IMO.
What I love about React is for its declarative API and we can compose components easily.
>The strength the virus had two months ago is not the same strength it has today

If the virus had not mutated maybe it's that people have got some kind of immunity through low level eposure?
The Philosophy of Antifa
Stock worth $20k next year
Zimbabwe summons US envoy over Trump adviser’s ‘adversaries’ comment
They haven't really woken up yet.
100%. Everybody should be treated equally.
Yeah it depends on a lot of things. Maybe university isn't where your interests are, but you kinda need a degree and a job? I see lots of students whose life revolves around making it through courses and collecting ECTS points instead of really pursuing their interests..
Yup. I did extremely minor work on gtk, pygtk, and dynamic bindings, and agree with you regarding the alienation. It was especially hard with the attitudes on the mailing list.

Are you involved in any toolkit stuff these days?

EDIT: hahah i'm getting trashed for my "yeah...yeahh..." comment above. sorry I wasn't clear about my agreement. :D
Do you find the data at https://policeviolencereport.org/ any more convincing?

It uses similar data for 2017 and illustrates that 149 out of 1147 people killed by police during that year were unarmed (~12.9% of cases).

It also highlights some differences in the demographics of the people who suffered as a result of police violence; I mention that because it's relevant to these topics appearing on Hacker News currently.
>What if there are x12 more black guys committing a crime?

There's a difference between x12 black guys committing a crime and x12 black guys convicted of a crime.

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

Yes, America presumes innocence.
> of all crimes committed 26.9% were by black perpetrators. So in relation to that statistic

If you accept the possibility that police killings may be skewed by racism, why are you simply assuming that arrests (and therefore trials and convictions) are not?
I wonder if we're talking at cross-purposes here. While it is certainly useful to write abstractions of common algorithms and access patterns for data structures generically, any useful program ultimately has to deal with data of known types. Those might come from the domain model, or they might be implementation tools like file handles or database queries, but they are something specific, some concrete type that is relevant to the problem at hand.
What's an example of a company with an interesting vision for you?