skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Raises/promotions are 2 different things. Most of my promotions come from "I started at $x/yr and in order to make $x+10%/yr or $x+20%/yr, we need to satisfy the corporate job title system and bump you up to a different, higher title to support the payscale range we want to pay you". Responsibilities kind of shift but overall I just code. I don't manage anybody and can't speak to what that's like. That's a whole different ball of asskissing/who do you know/luck of the draw situation in my eyes.

I work remote and I get raises (and eventually promotions based on the brackets) because I am a "force". I drive delivery. I follow up. I mentor. I advise. I listen. I go cross-team. I delegate. I keep an eye on who is doing what/who is good at what. I call out broken processes and come up with solutions/alternatives. I escalate to proper management. I turn stuff around quickly. I write good/clean/maintainable code. I review quickly + fairly. I turn requirements into production worthy code. I meet milestones. I work well with management. I think of alternatives to problems/blockers. I know who to go to for what.

I can be given a concept/idea/project with very loose/very little detail about it. Then I can go suss out the details from whoever the reporter is (nothing is ever as perfect as... you have a user story and it's entirely thought out and it fits perfectly into the software ecosystem we have today). Then, I write it, get it tested/reviewed, get it deployed. They cross it off of the roadmap, inform clients about it, and I look good because I owned it end-to-end (with respect to product team, analyst team, design team, QA team, etc.)

I produce (near) the most so I get paid (near) the most (in terms of what my company is willing to pay engineers). Do I make chump change compared to the people making $500k-$2m at FB/NFLX/APPL/MSFT/GOOG? 100%. But... I don't work there and I can't speak for what it is like to work there. I can't imagine getting granted double/triple my salary in stock options for being a good coder. Maybe I'de be at an intern's level there. All I know is, past 3 companies I've worked for, I've gotten $10k/yr raises every year because I just deliver and try to be as much of a pleasure to work with as possible. Every time I was a pain in the ass standing up for either what I believed in or how I thought things should be, it didn't work out in my favor. So, don't be a pain in the ass. Be the "goto" guy to get stuff done.
The UK has an interesting post-hoc approach where the code is open source but only after release, with the git history squashed.

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23107553
You forget that Facebook is not for friends only. Millions of groups of common interest exist as well as communities formed around pages and personalities.
I've had occasions where the self checkout has had an issue after scanning something and the staff come over and login and do something and you carry on. It might only be when you check the receipt later at home that you realise that those carrots or whatever that caused problems were just voided off the bill/never scanned at all but were allowed to be bagged so actually you didn't pay for them.

Often the staff look like they are on autopilot and aren't reading anything and just going through their shift on muscle memory so I imagine this happens a lot. Is it stealing if you tried to pay but the staff did something on the machine and it didn't charge you? I don't know.
I've seen cars engulfed in flames I'd say a dozen or more times (alas, the first time I drove into Houston) and it would be more, except I've only lived in large cities 15 out of my 43 years.
Multiple people have replied with evidence in this thread.

I don’t know your view on the matter, but somehow I doubt that seeing videos will do anything to change your view on the matter anyway. I say this because in a thread about police brutality, you cherry-pick an argument counter to what videos have already shown.

I do hope the continuing videos showcasing police brutality, during protests OF police brutality, do something to convince people that it is a very real problem.
It’s alright, concurrent reads should not be a problem at least. Most drivers implement some features to make it easier.
Does that work for DRM encryption keys? I think sony went after a few people who leaked either the blu-ray encryption keys, or the signing keys for one of their consoles.
I don’t doubt that your goals are noble, but a lot (most) of misinformation is from well intentioned people positing their biases over objectivity. You will be contributing to misinformation if your goal is to induce a personal bias and you wish to suppress disclosure of your goals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivity_(science)
But they promised they wouldn't do this! /s
I don't believe any computer-illiterate people use Windows. Tablets and phones have completely replaced PCs in ordinary people's lives, with macbooks serving for the tiny percentage of tasks that need a keyboard. Anyone trying to use Windows as a "normal person" quickly runs into a bunch of random issues and edge cases, e.g. I recently realised that my microphone doesn't work right because I was plugging it into a USB3 port instead of a USB2 one. Microsoft drivers, everyone. You have nVidia drivers leaving all their previous versions installed on every update requiring use of a third party tool to clean your constantly growing C drive. You have just random driver crashes from random device manufacturers. You have at least two different control panels for every thing. And on and on. It is nearly impossible to use Windows unless you're a power user and know its workings, or have someone else administer your PC and only run MSOffice and Outlook.

That said, Smart Screen is a useful feature, I do want to know if the program I downloaded was not signed by the developer. What I would like from it however is that it should show up on every install with either "This program is signed by Malbolge Inc." or "This program does not have a signature" (in bold on bright red background with big exclamation marks border); "Do you wish to install?". Every installer gets this popup, nobody is spared. For the unsigned case, maybe require two clicks - a checkbox and a button. Because I always want to know who signed the installer, just in case I downloaded a compromised installer signed by a certificate different from what I expect. It also makes the unsigned installer popup less scary in comparison, though it must be kept visually distinct from the signed installer popup. For individual portable programs that are not installed, you will also have a "do not ask again" checkbox. Again, this will pop up for every program at least once.
Sergei Krikalev
Forgive me, I'm still not understanding. Increasing my income from $101k to $233k would net me $4k after taxes? Isn't that a marginal tax rate of 97%? I have to imagine there would be some kind of economic fallout from that. It would likely cause huge declines in government revenue as people try and hide as much income as possible or high earners move overseas.
Have you seen dozens or hundreds of videos of civilians acting inappropriately?

If a “woman of color” was seen starting a fire, would you be comfortable saying things like “black women start fires”? I sure hope not. Even if you had dozens of examples, it would still be wrong to make such a statement.
This might surprise you but I don't vote democrat
I've been toying with removing all of my content, unfriending the vast majority of acquaintances and unfollowing family who post garbage. Then don't feed the zuck machine by posting, liking memes, or regular checking. Disable all notifications from communities.

Basically try to keep to "business and meaningful contact only" rather than engage with the time-sinks. Make it work for me. (The Intention firefox extension has been super helpful as well.)
> That's why this should just stop

So they should stop (discontinue) every measure that can be bypassed by an outfit with this kind of money? That doesn't leave many measures, if any. And it lowers the bar for a successful attack to someone with a couple of hours to spare. SmartScreen prompts are just like any HTTP error in a browser. The cert certifies an identity, that's it. It doesn't magically clean any malware inside, that you know the identity, or that you have to trust it.

> it hurts without helping

It helps me verify that the software I use comes from the developer I expected. It may not be a catch-all but I find value in this.

Don't forget, your door lock can be opened in seconds and the person it inconveniences is mostly you, especially if you lock your keys inside. Your argument would be far more convincing if you took no precautions whatsoever because someone with millions to spend can bypass them.
Hmm but I am looking for something more specific, say links or names of actual courses that are good to learn and good to show to employers
FWIW, that's just my own amateurish rendering of the points. The data itself that the Street View API provides is just an array of 3d points.
I don't care for Calibri and I wish Segoe were the default in Word.
#1 is very much the case right now as well. With the lockdown, many people I know started to use social networks for more than just showing off or pushing a message. They finally began to socialize and support each other.
The video of George that started all this has 4 cops in it. The 3 cops that allowed him to kneel on georg's neck for 7 minutes are not being charged with anything at all. The one female cop even remarks that George should be moved to be on his side, then when she's ignored, doesn't bring it up again. Why should they police each other when nothing happens when they dont
Interesting, on any radio enthusiast forum there are countless warnings about how if you do something like this the feds will be knocking on your door almost immediately. I guess that’s just urban legend to discourage lazy bad guys?
Please Please Please offer some GOOD alternatives to Facebook.
Now is the time to come together and replace Facebook with a free decentralised alternative.

If you want to switch away from other surveillance capitalist software like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or WhatsApp here's a list [0]

[0] https://switching.software/
I disagree. There were millions of people socializing on many different platforms for years before anything like Facebook was created.
They are excellent fonts. Neither is default across platforms though, nor are they serif fonts...

For a sans serif, default font, I like Palatino. Classic, nice open counters.
For long-form text, my eyes are now persuaded that only TeX Gyre Pagella and very close relatives -- Palatino, Palladio -- will do.

Luckily I can usually arrange for that.
I would say the police have shown amazing restraint and discipline. And where they have been violations, they have been quickly dealt with.
With the exception of D.C last night.
This was a problem already a few years ago.

I was working for mid-level corp writing a C# Windows program that would be used by a few hundred people tops.

Even after going through the signing process, there were still false positives from some major anti-virus vendors.

I had to submit and resubmit to multiple vendors to get the program off the false-positives. Some smaller vendors still triggered.

Microsoft Defender was one of those that I had trouble with even after the signing.

So if you write software for a smaller audience you are going to get screwed.
The hyperbole of this is almost incomprehensible. The absurdity of this latest "controversy" - Zuck not wrapping some form of token and meaningless censorship around a single Trump tweet - is proof that this isn't about Trump. Hell, all this did was give Trump more exposure. No, it's clear that this is about breaking Zuck for political purposes, and taking control of Facebook for a single "side." Not one person genuinely cares about this dumb Trump tweet, this is just trying to tip over Zuck once and for all and get him to be full-on Dorsey.

I left Facebook five years ago but it certainly wasn't about Zuck or Facebook. I hate to break it to you guys but at the end of the day, Facebook is just people. Get upset all you want but you're really just getting upset at other people for whatever reason. Facebook isn't the problem, human nature is.
https://twitter.com/The_Norse_Man/status/1267914072885989383... National Guard putting down their shields.
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13250949
The value of your long-held coins will be almost nothing if the network is vulnerable to double spend.

The potential losses are huge (especially for exchanges etc.) from double spend attacks, and the value of a cryptocurrency is very much dependent on users' confidence in its resistance to attacks.
This is a law suit over Google Analytics and JavaScript based tracking, not browser based tracking in Incognito mode.
> The IP lobby overreached when they got life of author + 70 years / 120 years corporate copyright monopolies passed into law.

I agree, but I don’t see why that automatically makes the recent modifications (that brought on the lawsuit) by IA morally right.

Even if some works should already be in the public domain and are not yet, the IA modification was also taking money away from relatively recent works.
>Women didn’t shoot cops in the back of the head, burn down city hall, steal and loot stores

In what timeline are you talking about? Women's Suffrage definitely had protests turn violent. Here[1] is source about documenting this violence, and I went through the trouble of finding a source published 2 years ago in order to counter any narrative that it's "convenient" for today's issues. History has a way of whitewashing and romanticizing what were difficult fights for rights.

Large protests turn violent, and I'm not surprised that, with record unemployment as well, that looting is being amplified as well.

Besides, in any case, it's long established that peaceful protests don't even work. A man can't even kneel during a sports game without his protest being diminished.

[1] https://www.bl.uk/votes-for-women/articles/suffragettes-viol...
I haven't dug in far enough to be confident in this, but I think they basically just did a straight one-to-one replacement nix->guile? Which is certainly better than creating a whole one-off language just for the purpose, but is still tied to the one language, requires you to wrap your head around a hole different mental model and programming environment, and importantly to me, uses a language that I'm not familiar with in a paradigm that I don't frequently touch. I mean, I'm barely a programmer, let alone a LISPer; I can write Arch PKGBUILDs and Alpine's APKBUILDs and BSD port/package Makefiles, but the moment that creating a package requires using any significant amount of a real, non-trivial programming language, complete with local idioms, I'm going to get stuck really quickly. A lot of my frustration with nix is that everything is a special case. There's no way to "configure && make install"; you have to use some special nix module that knows how to handle autoools/cmake/whatever. And I understand why this is really great as long as you're doing something expected, but the first package I tried to write didn't fit into any of the obvious patterns so I was stuck in the deep end with no obvious way to just write the three shell commands that I needed to actually build the package.
$3.50 / mo - Amazon Lightsail with mostly automatic wordpress setup.
Spending minutes on these tasks on hardware like this is pretty silly. awk is fine if these are just one-off scripts where development time is the priority, otherwise you're wasting tons of compute time.

Querying things like these on such a small dataset should take seconds, not minutes.
Why, indeed.

It's almost like people just don't want to know the CFR of this thing... Why wouldn't you want to know the CFR, in exquisite detail, down to groups refined by as many distinguishing details as you can possibly measure? But, surprise! You simply cannot know the CFR of Covid-19 without statistically valid immunity studies of the general population. Which nobody is doing! Just ... crazy.

Its stunningly clear that outcomes for this disease are wildly variable. For some, its extremely risky, for other groups, its not even a passing thought!

And yet, here we are -- global, carte-blanche "quarantining", to "flatten the curve" -- that big, ill-defined "curve" that means sudden death to our civilization if we get near it!

And yet, here I sit in a community with virtually empty hospitals, but almost no progress toward herd immunity. But, with an undercurrent of well-distributed carriers -- because nobody is interested in testing the general population (for either infection or immunity). And, we're starting to "open up". Heaven help the elderly and immune-compromised -- they are just toast.

In 2-3 weeks, a brutal "second wave" is just ... guaranteed. And, it'll be presented as a "surprise"! Who could have possibly predicted it! By golly, we'll have to really put the hammer down, this time!

I pray that this bungled, too-terrible-to-be-an-accident response to Covid-19 comes home to roost on those who should have known better. But, the truth won't be coming out from the criminally complicit "media". If only we had any "Journalists" to expose this thing! But, big-media is on the gravy-train of the politicians (here in Canada, at least), so there's no hope of that.

Independent journalists need to step up, somehow run the gauntlet of our controlled Internet media outlets (say something contrary to WHO -- ban-hammer!), and expose this thing!

Fortunately, evidence-based reality cannot be suppressed forever!
Not to mention it improves their well being exactly because they are better off relative to the people who are not getting UBI.

I forget what the conjecture is called in economics that UBI would essentially all be captured by rent and housing prices.

I don't have to think about it very long to see how obvious that is.
I would be interested in reading more about how you prevent web designers from changing the page's font. I used about:config on Firefox to stop fonts from downloading, but that made it hard for me to use github.com and one or 2 other sites because those sites use a font to render icons that are essential parts of the UI.
An alternative to mainstream media, at least?
Removing notifications and moving the icon to a folder on the 4th page of your home screen is pretty helpful as a first step too
IANAL, but AFAIK there is no exception for employees. The employee still holds the copyright, but there is usually a clause in the employment contract that gives the employer "unrestricted usage rights" for any copyrightable product of the employee.

Especially software developers should read those parts of their employment contracts carefully, as they may be overly broad and sometimes accompanied by weird clauses regarding their OSS work.
If you're just holding coins you're "safe" in the sense that you will get to keep your account balance.

However, if the network is unstable, then that balance will lose value in real terms or even become worthless.
He is being raked over the coals by the LA Police Commission right now. Garcetti is nowhere to be seen today.
First of all they should say that they are not related to any of the looters, that anyone even throwing trash on the streets is against protesters. Use every opportunity to show how peaceful the protesters are. Not gather at nights as at nights there is a higher chance for confusing situation to arise that give opening to police to apply force. Instead of negative chants like fuck the police use positive chants like join us, or police is ours.

Police knows how to deal with force, the goal of the protest should be to not give it any opportunity to apply the force, so that even the people who are against protesters can't find a way to justify police actions.

It may be too late for applying this tactic now, but if it was applied earlier it would make the protest much more successful. At least that's what happened in Armenia few years ago, when after many years of unsuccessful violent protests, non-violent protest brought a real change.
> The parameter space is immense

This. This. This.

I've seen claims that the number of parameters in the Imperial College agent-based model was c.a. 400. Perhaps it was 40.

Compare to a quadratic or quartic fit to some log-lin data. If you have to represent your ratio of poorly-constrained model parameters (40 or 400) to apparently necessary parameters (say 4) _using Big-O notation_, then science has arguably left the premises.
Today I did some Googling and found this startling comparison:

NYPD annual Budget: 6 billion dollars
Mexican military budget: 7 billion

It's no surprise that the police at these protests look like they're ready to take on a well-armed drug cartel. They are.
>I think people have forgotten this doesn't need to mean your first step is pulling out the batons.

When and where did this happen? The first step is verbally telling people to clear the area.

>If you tell a journalist they are under arrest, they will always comply. They won't fight back. So yes, still cops' fault.

Given the fact that the police are always outnumbered in these situations, and vehicles, jails and officers have limited capacity, arresting everyone who doesn't comply is impossible. So they are first asked to leave. If they don't they are pushed out of the area by force.

If reporters are too close to the police line that is pushing people they will get pushed along with everyone else. Breaking the line weakens it and hampers the police's efforts.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic?

If not do a Google image search for 'american police officer' - almost every image has a different uniform colour, cut, insignia in it.

Dark blue, light blue, white, brown, black, grey, purple, yellow, green. It's every colour under the sun!

Two police officers:

https://static.trendscatchers.io/uploads/2019/01/bear34-uk.j...

https://writersforensicsblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/chi...

I think there's almost literally nothing consistent between these two uniforms (badge?)

> with a badge and utility belt

That's also what mall security guards wear in the US though.
This is why I gave up on Chrome and Android even though I loved both products.

I don't know if this complaint is valid and what the exact scope is. However, since switching to Safari and iPhone, I no longer constantly need to be on the alert about my privacy.

I strongly believe that Google's business model will always push them to exploit my privacy if there is an extra buck to be made.
OpenStreetCam itself isn’t quite closed-source: it is on Github. But the app was built on top of Facebook tools, which many people will not want on their phones. See the notorious outstanding Github issue [0]. At least OSC’s hard dependency on Google Play Services appears to have been removed, though – last time I looked into installing Mapillary, it still would not run on a bare Android like LineageOS.

[0] https://github.com/openstreetcam/android/issues/8
No, if you take the wrong 3 vitamins then your just harmed yourself by not taking the correct 3 or 2 or 5.

Nicotine patches also have been said to help.

Every study like this distracts from other studies, so it needs to be pushing towards correct.