skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sentence further proves his point...

> 99% of killings by police from 2013-2019 have not resulted in officers being charged with a crime.

If someone wrote...

> "1099 patients died after being treated by cardiologists in Nevada. Thus far, 99% of them have not yet faced any charges."

While "technically correct" it is obviously intended to deceive the reader.
Sure, bans such as the board dedicated to support the current US president is "due to demographic".
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I can second this, the Sparta articles are one of the finest debunking of a pop culture myth that I have ever encountered.
I like this idea. Voting is just one way, and leaving should definitely not be taken off the table, nor does mentioning that it's always an option imply that you're encouraging people not to vote. You're making up way too much stuff about what the poster actually meant. In particular as they said "if that so upsets you" so obviously not just as a first step but if they literally can't stomach it - you definitely can live in the country if you don't love anything about it, but you also can leave if it's too much. "Voting with your feet." Or are you saying the Jews were absolutely wrong to leave pre-Nazi Germany (while it was still a democracy) because they should have stayed and voted their way out of the problems?
The language, Processing, comes to mind. https://processing.org/
Criminals should fear justice.
The police is NOT the judge and jury. The police responsibility is to bring someone, alive, in front of a judge, with proof of wrongdoing.
It is called separation of duties.
A Kubernetes Horror Story: The tale of too many clusters
Nowhere in that statement was "I" stated or implied. The actor can be anything you want - a group, the state as an apparatus, a quantum-triggered death box, etc.
It's a monolith in terms of ideology and content, they face no challenges in terms of managing tensions within its community of users.
> That's why everyone should subscribe to at least two subreddits they don't agree with.

Certain subs will automatically ban you if you ever participate in another sub mods of the former sub do not like. r_offmychest will automatically ban you at the first comment for instance.

This very thing does prevent good faith people from participating in subs that are antagonistic.

It's against reddit rules but admins do no care. Admins do not care about brigading either (a sub encouraging the harassment of another sub or person), unless some specific subs/users are victim. r_ch* p* tr* ph* * s* regularly engaged in the bullying of users and subs until they attacked the wrong person and got quarantined.

I don't care what the rules are, only that they are enforced very differently depending on who violates them and who is the victim.
At what, exactly? The President's announcements?

I think I'll stick to those parts of the world where opposing Fascism is legal.
I would argue this is precisely the impression they’re trying to manufacture. There’s a vast and stark difference between the Reddit of today and the Reddit of 2016. The viewpoints of tens or hundreds of millions of people have been systematically removed from the site in the last 4 or so years in one of the most aggressive and vast campaigns of censorship and manipulation I’ve ever personally seen on the internet.
As someone who has interviewed applicants in Africa, I would double down on this. There are certain universities that may signal quality (e.g. University of Cape Town), but a lot of universities seem to have graduates that do well in spite of them.

I have lost track of the number of candidates I interviewed (and voted to hire!) who couldn't answer questions about their completed coursework, but could give in depth rundowns of the inner workings of something like embedded system software because of their extra curricular work.

After a while, I could notice trends from universities that were actually teaching their students incorrect information, providing the negative dividends you were talking about.

It's sad and frustrating. In an African context I think you're spot on that self taught candidates have often used their time more effectively.
Lots of subreddits will ban you if you post on a subreddit they don’t like..

Past totally apolitical random subs like /ski it is just silly. Reading stuff right now going on about US protests I can easily see how anyone with 2 brain cells can write a bot that will creat posts driving certain agenda. If you have few hundred minimum wage posters on staff and some tools it should be really trivial to creat a lot of shit
On that note, I rather like this list: https://web.cs.dal.ca/~jamie/Words/alphabet.html

AURAL

BDELLIUM

CUE

DJINN

And it gets worse!
I was able to get very cheap deals at renown companies with high quality service and also had to use expensive deals at very shitty ones.

With massive rental cars franchising you never know. Rental car is always a potential problem and should be treated as such.

Hence, the main property you should be looking for is how does the rental company manage problems. Starting from the rental garage (when you point to some issue like worn out tires) and throughout the road.
Also it means you should make some trial and errors.
I think problems tend to arise from the following...

- The clamour over "HOW" something is built, will most certainly shape 'WHAT' is built

- After "WHAT" is delivered, it's existence is then found to conflict with "WHY" in someway (missing features, design made to fit the tooling, people implementing ideas they feel is right for the user, etc)

Two years later, you're re-writing vast portions of the originally defined "WHAT", based on a renewed declaration of "WHY".

By this time, the engineering team will have new and innovative ideas related to "HOW", even though the "WHY" never changed...

But the "WHY" has been forced to move on a great deal, because the "WHAT" made the original declaration of "WHY" look misguided. Although it wasn't.

Tbh, the "HOW" is extremely hard, which is why this is such a common state of affairs...

Not sure if that makes any sense, but that was fun to write!
No. You cannot pronounce a graphic standard's acronym in a way that might confuse it with my peanut butter.
Reddit is global so its censorship makes it a poor choice for any group that doesn't support the narrative.
React: We're After You ◕ ◡ ◕
Same goes for Indian developers. Always faced rejection for full remote as well as visa sponsored positions. Maybe Indian tech service companies have made our reputation so bad that even good developers get neglected.
I'm not saying "it could be worse." I'm saying, "it's not as bad as it appears."

Police brutality nationwide is not as bad as is being represented (despite the most recent case being a tragedy), and the reason people are comfortable protesting is because COVID-19 failed to meet apocalyptic expectations.

Not to mention we have an election coming up, and there's a lot of people who have a vested interest in making things appear worse than they are.

I don't support warrantless browser history requests, but it won't be too long until a generation who grew up with computers is actually in the legislature. It's a very solvable problem, and not in the same ballpark as protests in big cities or COVID-19.
The US is not even close to totalitarian. Even China, a far more repressive state, is not totalitarian. Totalitarian governments are those that are so authoritarian that they control just about all aspects of life of the residents. Only Eritrea and North Korea fit the bill in today's world.

Yes, OP has a point, but his characterisation of the US is not accurate.
The truth is never indefensible - especially when inconvenient.
Indeed, I love The News Quiz though I still miss Sandy, the new host is great but not a match.
Also worth noting that accounts created after the start of the event were barred from participating.
I'm an American expat, and even I don't want to visit the US anymore.
US citizens are also becoming tired of it and choosing to live abroad. Perhaps one day the US might move towards some of the original foundational values of classical liberalism. Until that time there are incentives for those with the means to opt-out of all of the nonsense.
> The statistics show that the murders of unarmed people of color at the hands of police officers is disproportionately higher than that of the white people.

The statistics show all kinds of things. It would show the same for men vs women, young vs old, it would even show the same poor urban areas vs rich suburbs.

It's unfortunate, but also clear that certain demographics simply present a higher threat. Perhaps the police should be blind to age, race, neighbourhood and gender, but in reality that's not going to happen. It's a survival instinct we all have and if you pretend you feel less threatened when a group of young men walk pass you in a rough area compared to an elderly couple in the suburbs, then you're lying.

What you really need to be asking is whether these stats are a product of the increased threat young black men pose to the police or whether this is simply straight up racism. But the fact these statistics are not comparable to other minority ethnic groups living in the US, nor to black women, you have to question if racism is the best explanation of the data. Indeed if it is racism, it seems to be a very unusual type of racism which has prejudice specifically for young, male, poor, and of course, black individuals.
From the inside, the rest of the world looks like either anarchy or arbitrary despotism. Do you care what Americans think of you? That's how Americans feel about your opinion. It's just simply irrelevant.
Could be automated emails to prospective candidates to fill their backlog of potential candidates
Social media isn't about sharing or exposing truth - it is about the contagion of emotions.
True. Media coverage of these protests has been basically a blackout. We've heard almost nothing.

C'mon. Of course they shouldn't have been arrested, but it's not some systemic suppression.
>That's why everyone should subscribe to at least two subreddits they don't agree with.

So the solution to reddit's partisan and out of touch politics is to consume more of it, but make sure that you have a good cross section of dumb viewpoints?

I have a better suggestion: find political insight literally anywhere other than reddit. It's a naive place with all the perspective and context of a 15 year old first discovering the world and trying to express opinions about it.
Well, they're all good rules, but nobody is going to remember them in the form of a cluttered bulleted list.

Jack Ganssle is quoted repeatedly - his blog has a lot of good war stories that illustrate many of these points in much greater detail.

http://www.ganssle.com/blog/index.html
Funny thing is that no website will live on forever, so, in some way, every website fate is just to self destruct at some point.
Crime statistics. And then compare them to police brutality statistics to see if the outrage is warranted.

Also, opposing fascism is still legal here. We do actually have legally enshrined freedom of speech.
Yes and it's also a really cool human experience
> For example, Charlie (pronounced char-lee or shar-lee) could be confused with barley, Karlie, hardly, Shirley, etc.

The beauty of the phonetic alphabet is that there's nothing else on the phonetic alphabet that can be confused with "Charlie" regardless of how a non-English speaker pronounces it. If everyone is using the same phonetic alphabet, then the confused entity learns that "Sharlie/Shirley/hardly" stands in for "C."
Interesting read.
I read an article years ago about early humans in Europe who did indeed hibernate or slept a few months of the year when it was very cold and no food.
College would have alleviated it for four years during college. I’m not convinced that the job market transforms quickly to absorb twice as many people in jobs we think of today as “college required”.

I’m not sure what the correlation between income (or other life outcomes) is between “attended college” vs “would typically have chosen college but took another route” but I suspect it’s a lot smaller than between that latter group and the “was never even considering college” group.

It’s not clear for an individual who “should” attend college how important the decision to actually attend is. I seem to recall studies that suggested there was a much stronger correlation between applying to Harvard than there was between that and attending Harvard.
It is due to systematic rule breaking even after multiple warnings. If you break the rules of HN you get banned after a while. And if there were sub-HNs here and one would take almost all the moderation time it wouldn't exist for long.

Also, if it is about a board usually called "TD" that one is quarantined, not banned.
> with many people saying that if a platform wants to enjoy the immunity granted under sec 230 they need to be neutral, failure to do so means they lose that Sec 230 Immunity.

Who's saying that? That's very much not what section 230 says. And as a change to the law to do this would eliminate all social networks (along with newspaper comment sections and similar) it is highly unlikely to ever go anywhere.
> Out of curiosity - do you have a background in this kind of thing (linguistics), or its just an interest topic for you?

I love languages. Each one is beautiful and endearing and ugly and infuriating in its own way. I really love English, because it’s my native tongue and I know the most about it, but I love studying languages in general. One thing I have found is that the more one knows about many languages the less likely one is to go off half-cocked about perceived problems in one’s own.

I did study a little bit formally, but I also love computers and there’re a lot more career opportunities in software development than in philology or etymology, so that’s where I focused.
Absolutely. I’m just going through it with my 9yo at the moment (we’re both learning at the same time). We’re using the Blender Guru donut tutorial series. It’s pretty long, but by just doing a little each night you get through it quickly enough. It’s child friendly and he’s got a good dose of humour that keeps my ones engaged.

https://youtu.be/TPrnSACiTJ4
In theory, maybe. In practice, your UI thread very rarely has to do the kind of heavy lifting that would block it so badly you actually have problems.

I have encountered this -- for example parsing very large incoming JSON payloads -- but very rarely. And if you really need to mitigate it, there are webworkers.
You assume someone else cares about your travel plans, but the American public does not beyond certain regions that are making some limited tourist bucks. Your actual opinion is actually not important to Americans. Please understand this point.
why are you asking loaded questions?
My experiences with programmers that have more than 30 years on the job fall into 1 of 2 categories...

1. Constant complaining about the state of things(too much memory, too complicated, back in my day, blah, blah, blah). Why do I have to learn git?, containers?, on, and on, and on. VMs are just fine, what's wrong with java 1.4?, ... exhausting . These programmers probably sucked when they had 5 years of experience and continue to suck today. Crossed arms, learned helplessness level 99.

2. Crazy life long learners that have ridden one technology wave after another for decades on end. When something new comes out they are on it like flies on picnic food.

It's my greatest, most sincere hope that I have the energy, temperament to become the latter.
So half the country is antisemitic, and Trump supporting Israel is as well?
Keep this garbage on Reddit & Twitter please.
> As a visa holder, I've thought long and hard over whether I should post political comments or photos from protests on social media.

You should consider using Tor. It was first and foremost designed for this very purpose.
Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments
Also no recaptcha on the form, so I guess at some point the spam bots of this world will keep this running.
>And would we imagine a society of capable, educated, useful people is not preferable to a society of ignorant unskilled people?

Have you been involved much in hiring? I suspect if you had it would disabuse you of the notion that university is effective at producing "capable, educated, useful people".
What articles of the Constitution does the visa system contradict?
> there's nothing in git commits or the code itself that forces wrapping at 80 characters

Very clever leaving out the third component here that does force it.

> Email clients certainly can wrap text at longer line lengths if configured to do so.

Assuming someone hasn't banally pre hard-wrapped the text.

> I don't try to do any serious development on my mobile.

Who said anything about serious development, you basically can't even check a patch out on mobile without some major hassle. Plus you also ignored the general accessibility problems.

> If you're referring to hard wrapping, you're probably going to have to deal with that for most source code anyway no matter what line length.

Source code can be displayed using a code viewer, nicely, it works. Comments can be displayed using a text viewer, using text fonts, nicely, it works. Non-HTML e-mail conflates the two, the resulting amalgam is vomit-inducing.

> But, like I said, telling a group of people as an outsider that

Nah, this reply is given to even insiders that don't want to deal with that obsolete shit.

> they should drop the long standing process entirely which has been working well for them and go with something different isn't going to gain any real traction. This is regardless of the domain you're dealing with.

I can say my ten-year-old laptop "works so far", but is it good, no, not really. It's really a rather weak argument to resist even changing the tiniest things.

> if I have people at home streaming video while I try to use Slack or Github, they're essentially not usable

Fix your home network.

> but those things aren't relevant to text patches, email, or git.

You're still pretending that it was fast even with text patches, e-mails or git.

> simply don't recall having these issues with email or IRC (or even some of the other chat clients like ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, etc), and all of them worked perfectly fine over dial up and on machines that significantly less computation speed and available memory.

Yeah, you have other issues with IRC. Not to mention, no, they didn't "work perfectly over dial-up".

> It really depends on what you're using git for. If you're storing large binary files or very big mono-repos, then it's not the right tool to use.

It depends if you're using it or not. It's slow even on medium-sized repositories. Things don't happen in an instant like you pretend them to do.
TIP: The shortage of lithium is nowhere near as "catastrophic" as stockmarket people believe.

The shortage of cobalt is a by far bigger problem. It's basically 80% about Congo, and what happens there.

50% to 80% of global supply can evaporate overnight if something is happening there.
To be fair The_Donald was not really the champion of free speach themselves. They did absolutely everything they could to silence anyone who did not 110% agree with their views.

This post pretty much sums up T_D:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BannedFromThe_Donald/comments/6thno...
I also grabbed the data - the majority of them are in counties where guns are very hard to come by.

Of course, there is some bleed over from adjacent counties, but I'd suspect (guess) many of them are holding other types of weapons.
The Facebook issue seems to be that Trump (and other politicians world-wide?) are getting special treatment from moderation.

I think that Trump's "When the looting starts, the shooting starts" comment is not incitement to violence of the kind that is a crime; but it sure as hell is inappropriate for any popular politician, head of the government or Armed Forces commander; especially so for the POTUS to say. What I am saying is that I believe the comment could very well lead to bullets being fired without proper justification. As for whether it should be censored, and whether it must be censored; I don't know.
>The overwhelming majority of young people (and people overall, though not by nearly the same margin) are left leaning or very left

for some reason that phenomena only manifests itself on heavily moderated platforms.

on unmoderated (chans) or barely moderated (youtube) platforms, you get a much more diversity of thought.
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Why, because browser history isn't sensitive? Let's have yours then.

A police force with no accountability, the ability to pry into the details of your private life without a warrant, and the ability to incarcerate or even murder you without cause is basically what we used to call "secret police". I don't think it's alarmist to avoid countries with institutions like that.
Already being discussed here (10 hours ago, and with a lot more comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23375003
Converse anecdote: people constantly ask me what college I attended and what I majored in, nearly 15 years into my career. Senior jobs now are also strongly looking for advanced degrees on top of that. My experience has been that in the U.S., outside of software the importance of college is very high for most professional jobs.
> Looking from outside USA seems to be on a verge of a revolution

I imagine it's impossible to see an accurate picture of the US through the distorted lens of both the news media and social media.

We need better media tools.
I find that this is largely the American hacker community - European hackers, and especially Germans, tend to be incredibly supportive of people with the drive to learn. They also tend to expand their hacker mindset to things other than computers - wherever there's a complex system, they're critical of it, enjoy learning how it works, learning how to break it and bend it.
> Looking from outside USA seems to be on a verge of a revolution

I imagine it's impossible to see an accurate picture of the US through the distorted lens of both the news media and social media.

We need better media tools.

For most of us here - things are normal.
The technology of witnessing brutality
> Max is platform-dependent

It is also a rather closed ecosystem.

Audodesk, in the last 10 years, has systematically tried to wall off all their products so you are obliged to use nothing but.

If you need a proof, try to export a modern DXF file from e.g. AutoCad and import it into e.g. Blender.
> would you happen to have the paper proving that somewhere?

Actually no I don't, but here's the intuition. Consider what happens in the limit when the bandwidth goes to zero: the kernel collapses to a delta function, i.e. K(x_i, x_j)=1 when i=j and 0 otherwise. The kernel matrix approaches the identity. The optimal coefficients solving the quadratic program approach zero. The SVM predicts zero almost everywhere except in a smaller and smaller surrounding of the training points, where the prediction equals the label of that point.
> Every sensor is a temperature sensor. Some sensors measure other things as well.

Some components can become sensors under the right conditions. Example: Components becoming microphonic.

At high enough frequencies digital design becomes analogue design.