skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That I do agree with. A lot of other things would be trivial to contrive as well. I would not be surprised if the scenes of devastation we see in the media are far smaller in scale IRL, and we're just being shown the same smashed storefront from different angles to drive clicks.

But at the same time I think peaceful protesters would not burn police cars or loot, seeing how looting does absolutely nothing good whatsoever for their cause. They would especially not burn or loot minority businesses, churches, or low income housing complexes. Someone is very deliberately and efficiently pouring gasoline into this fire IMO, that much is pretty obvious by now.
I just checked and rents are down 30-50% in SF, but real estate hasn't moved (I would say it even went up)
> today's best practices

Speed has always been a good practice for as long as the web has existed. The specific metric changes, but the goal is the same. It's just that "simple" metrics are very easy to game.

An example of this is how they went from "First Paint" to "First Contentful Paint" to "Largest Contentful Paint". They're all trying to get at the same concept, which is when the page loads, but each iteration gets more precise and accurate. Realistically, as a webdev, if your site loads fast, it shouldn't matter which metric is used.
That's the average, I'm seeing 30-50% drop just by glancing on craigslist.
Everyone in this thread knows at least one such person.
> This is a misconception I hear from folks who never planned to own one but not from owners.

These crashes are direct examples of owners with the misconception.
The 2020 data there is interesting. It's less dramatic than it looks on that graph because they only have the numbers from the first quarter for 2020, but even extrapolating from the quarter to the year, it looks like "number of people shot to death by the police in the United States" has been more than cut in half by the coronavirus.
Painting everyone with that same brush is not constructive. There are systemic issues to be dealt with here, but that doesn't mean every cop in the system is a murderer waiting to happen.
Please don’t post misleading statistics, in this instance it is quite racist and you come across as a racist person.
I see a lot of hate against Twitter. A lot of it is probably justified.

Here's my small thread: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1267631457792479237

We're in Seattle. I went to go pick up my script from the local Walgreens. When we stepped out of the Uber, we were greeted with a freshly-shattered window and a freshly-closed Walgreens.

It's one thing to know "unrest is happening" in the abstract, but it's quite another to see it in person. So we walked through the business district and snapped some photos.

Business after business was boarded up, sometimes literally, sometimes with whatever they could use. Chairs, or shopping carts, for example.

More than that, the whole district had a remarkably different feel. Just a few months ago, it was humming and bustling with the usual energy of a semi-big city. Now it's like people are preparing for... well, nothing good.

I'm not sure there's another platform where you can tell a story like this, is there? Not with photos and text, anyway. Sure, I could put up a website and call it "My stroll through Seattle," but why? I suppose Imgur would work, but it doesn't really feel like a community to me. On Twitter you get a few "Be safe!" shoutouts from the people you know, at least.

I guess my point here is that Twitter doesn't need to be read-only. Go participate! You don't even have to post anything noteworthy.

The platform has also helped change my mind about some things. For example, it helps to consider the situation from the point of view of someone who's afraid to call 911. I was pretty far in the camp of "Let the police do their jobs" before this was pointed out.

A lot of VCs do good work on Twitter too. For example, Patrick Collison is starting to gather some info about which organizations might be effective in reducing police violence: https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1267516891330838528

pg donated $1M to coronavirus efforts, but unfortunately I can't find the tweet right now. It was quite something seeing someone drop $1M on a cause they care about, though. And I only heard about it indirectly, due to the front-line workers thanking pg for his donation.

It's true that there's a lot of hate on the platform, and a lot of sadness, and disinformation. But I wanted to try to highlight some positive aspects, for whatever it's worth.
Legislation would be preferred but won't happen. Mitch McConnell owns the Senate and any bills of this nature would never see the light of day.

Our experiment in democracy is throwing errors.
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And now that it is a recognized phenomenon, there are sure to be copycats
So why would it feel awkward/academic to use translated versions for I'm guessing common words in spanish such as pull?
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I agree and I'm sorry that the empathy needed to understand is sorely lacking here. Lives over property always.
I agree, I take issue with the guideline on its own, not that it was applied in this case. Although I think this could be better justification for the flagging of that comment:

>Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
The president cannot legally declare antifa a terrorist organization: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/31/trump-antifa-terror...
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Police should use the minimum violence necessary. But some people refuse to de-escalate.
This premise is factually true for both TypeScript and Flow. Please explain how you could come to any other conclusion.

I researched this 4 years ago, and since then Typescript has added the `--checkJs` option, but it still you to run a separate process to run the check, which seems to certainly fall under the category of "... otherwise preprocessing the code". And that's an edge case. If you've got TS installed, your almost certainly transpiling. Type guards are typecasting, just renamed to make you sound smarter.

Flow requires a transpiler (https://flow.org/en/docs/install/) and advocates the use of background process. Again, this solidly fits the above premise.

These are enormously complex solution to a problem that can be resolved without transpiling by using 6 small functions and a sensible naming convention. Certainly there are many cases where that makes a lot of sense.

I've developed lots of mission-critical JS that is very widely distributed and there are no type errors despite not using Flow or TS.
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Yes, but when the radar sees a particularly reflective bit of road, suggesting something other than flat pavement, the least it can do is alert the driver. False alarms are an annoyance but a small price to pay. Even my tiny garmin dashcam has a basic collision alarm feature when it sees an object growing in size.
I've had that happen to me and I told them that I would move if they increase the price. I really didn't want to move, but I'm also too proud to let someone up my rent like that. It worked, they didn't increase the rent.
They do. I used that "feature" by accident recently. I think one of the accounts was a shopping account, the other started as an AWS account. Both accounts have the same name, same billing address, same credit card.

I think the logical next step is to give them the same password and see how bad my foot hurts afterwsrd.
Police are praised as heros and, when you count the pension, make 5x more money than the typical immunology PhD student (without whom we would likely literally be entering a new multi-century dark age).

Lots of people do hard society-critical jobs that take an emotional/physical toll at wages far below that of a typical officer. Only one of those occupations has a serious violence problem.

I can’t even imagine a world where there are protests in the streets asking immunology PhD students who have no pension and make 19K a year with a college degree to stop killing people. And there will never, ever be a parade for those folks.

Stop excusing police. They are paid better than most for the job they do, even if most of that comp is back-loaded.
I’m going to be the guy in this thread who says that censorship is scary. Bots need to be stopped, and politically inflammatory fake news needs to be flagged and corrected... but we don’t get to say what we want unless people we hate/fear also get to say what they want.
Some may be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_bloc

"When we smash a window, we aim to destroy the thin veneer of legitimacy that surrounds private property rights …"

https://www.occupy.com/article/unmasking-black-bloc-who-they...

"The Black Bloc always defend the demonstrations when the police come here."

"The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement."
We have always been at war with antifa. 1984
I think one of the main goals of disinformation is to make us dehumanize others. To believe that they are super powerful evil beings or good but weak beings.

So I think one of the best strategies is to remember that we are all humans who ultimately have no idea what we're doing. We are powerful and weak, and mostly hurting other people because we hurt ourselves.

At least believing this seems to help me, maybe it will help some of y'all.
I've found that police use the word "hinky" to describe something suspiciously strange. I've never heard the word used by anybody else.
You say violence is violence, yet I bet you have no problem with criminals being put in jail, i.e. their freedoms being violently removed from them.

The state should have the monopoly on violence. Then, instead of everyone doing violence, we have certain, appointed people given the responsibility who can then be trained and monitored. This is part and parcel of the Rule of Law. Certainly, this system isn't perfect. But you only have to live in a country or region without Rule of Law to know that it's much preferable to improve the system, than to abandon it.

Yup, and I have the receipts to prove it: my motorcycle was vandalized in Oakland during the protests. A small price to pay for unsung voices being heard

Are you going to speak for the elderly woman who was beaten by a 2x4, or her husband who was beaten when he came to protect her? Are you going to speak for the independent owner of the vintage clothing store in LA who was preparing to re-open and had his windows smashed and his inventory stolen?

Can you determine who will pay, and what "price" they will pay?

Have you ever criticized someone for their callous opinions on these matters, because it doesn't affect them so much? Well, perhaps the tenor of your opinion is connected to your not being affected so much.

Your circumstances just happen to afford you that privilege.
This only works if your router arranges this through its DHCP server, and even then only if everything on your network uses DHCP and the DNS server supplied by it. This is not widely the case, and with devices that roam across wifi networks it's likely not even true for your devices. mDNS provides peer-to-peer discovery that does not require any supporting network infrastructure.
Phew. Just updated to 13.5. Good to know I'm good on the jailbreak front.
Well, space tourists are likely going more for the 100km view and the zero-g experience, which is present for a few minutes on a sub-orbital trip. Given that you can't get this experience anywhere else, a few minutes is better than nothing.

The exiting of the atmosphere is part of the view [1], but it works in concert with the altitude. Trampolines, as far as I am aware, are incapable of propelling one to an altitude that provides such incredible views :)

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1...
> There are huge swathes of America which aren't within a mile of mass transit.

> What you need is to get rid of zoning density restrictions.

Most of those places were built for and are still dominated by the votes of people who don't want more density and transit options, for a variety of reasons, some reasonable, and others based in the nation's sordid racial history.

I don't agree with those people, but until the settled, voting population inhabiting those vast swathes gets significantly younger and more pro-transit and density, I don't see what you call for happening soon.
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I am not sure that per-capita is the right metric. I would prefer to look at it by police encounter or by crime or something like that.

This is slightly old but has some interesting data on killings by race: https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/race-and-hom...

In these graphs you can see that total number of killings for white on white or black on black is roughly the same despite the 15% number you quoted.

Edit: fix autocorrect typo
Try to name one processor with an upward-growing stack... I bet most people who are otherwise familiar with this material can't.

(I'm not saying you're wrong --- I personally know two ;-)
> Mistakes are common but most mistakes aren't fatal.

And by choosing to drive a car, you are dramatically raising the odds that any mistake you make is fatal (not necessarily to you).

While my personal experience on the matter is thankfully limited, I strongly suspect that the vast majority of vehicular-pedestrian accidents are mostly (or entirely) the fault of the driver, where the pedestrian started an action where it was safe to do so and the driver rapidly caused it to become unsafe before the pedestrian could react.
And apparently the union head has a history of complaints against him, one for wearing a "white power" patch: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.insider.com/president-minne...
I'm Russian and Georgian native speaker.

Short answer to your question is "NO", but I would not bother writing it, if not the long answer I really want to share.

While languages I speak are not similar at all, I see the same behavior among my colleagues, whatever their native language is. They use IT specific English words mixed into their native language.

What is even more interesting, is that these English words do not replace native words, but become domain specific language.

So, for instance, for Georgian.

Task is "ამოცანა" (amotsana)

Done is "დამთავრებული" (damt'avrebuli)

So one and the same person will tell you ამოცანა დავამთავრე (amostana davamt'avre) when speaking about some task in general, but when it's about task in Jira, it becomes "ტასკი დავდანე" ([task]i dav[done]e)

For Russian it's almost the same.

Fixing is "исправлять" (ispravliat) or "чинить" (chinit)

Bug is "ошибка" (oshibka)

But nobody is "исправляет ошибки" (ispravliaet oshibki) when it's about IT. Living person would say "фиксить баги" ([fix]it [bug]i). But nobody would say "фиксить" (fixit) about a car.

You may notice that English words grow suffixes and prefixed to adopt to grammar of another language. It's not the language you may find in books, but it is how people around me communicate.
Swede here. Never felt hindered by Swedish but with very few exceptions domain-specific terms will be English words (resulting in beautiful Swenglish/svengelska).

“Najs refactor, men kan du rebasa dina commits innan vi mergar till masterbranchen?”

(Written documentation, commit messages etc will always be in English though)

I saw your post on the same topic on Kodapor and I think it’s just a matter of you having had way more exposure in CS through English and therefore being more fluent in English in those contexts. There’s nothing in the Swedish language that would make it less powerful than English, as long as you’re willing to borrow vocabulary. The medical field has been doing this with latin for ages - loads of Latin words but nobody’s actually speaking Latin.

There are a few words that still feel natural to translate: Kompilator (compiler), kluster (cluster), minne (memory), binär (binary), etc. But for the most part it just feels forced and confusing to resist mixing in foreign words.
Of course you’re right. It’s why people-police statements are constantly pointing out how these guys “put their life in the line every day” in reference to the dangerous criminals out there (while ignoring that most crimes are non-violent offenses, or at least offense that don’t involve a gun). The 2A people want the government to fear its citizen’s (in their mind this somehow prevents tyranny) and then complain when the state responds to violence with fear and violence.

It’s almost as if the American gun lobby wants both sides to need lots of guns and bullets for some reason...
I would make the exact same argument but with completely the opposite conclusion. Just use type casting which is self documenting and easily maintained. How can using Typescript be considered somehow less complex?
By the same token, can we please stop calling "police" all the people bashing in heads, punching journalists, planting evidence, instigating violence? They are not police, they are violent thugs. Protesters should use any means at their disposal to protect their own lives from violent thugs.
> I now laugh at how worked up everyone gets, and all the play acting and rival factions involved. Its almost like an iq test, where you pass if you dont play the game.

Isn't that social media in general? I admit I got sucked in this weekend (I don't have an account) and it was... alarming to say the least as it coincided with an amazing successful mission and milestone by SpaceX and subsequently one of the more darker sides of what people flagrantly toss around as 'Anarchy:' to be clear, wanton violence and looting have nothing to do with the ideals and principals upheld by Anarchism that has spanned millennia.

Instead what we've seen is the failure of all Nation State's to respond adequately to it's populace demands after having been violently disenfranchised, marginalized and subjugated to such a degree that protests rapidly turn to riots when the Police use the violent tactics that have been upheld as the norm to maintain order.

Personally, I thought this weekend was a vastly missed opportunity for the entire Human Species to get some much needed Perspective and come together and realize what we can accomplish when we collaborate. I'm still pretty down because of it, if I'm honest.
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They will not listen just because a couple thousand people break windows and light things on fire. They will instead tell us there is no choice but to make this more of a police state.

The only thing that may work is to get everyone to use their voice. Historically, probably only a tiny fraction of the population have used their voice. The vast majority of us need to stop being silent.
Which two, and what's the installed base for those two processors?
I think this is true of any “answering engine” in an ideal world. In an ideal world, it would act as a function and return a single output for any input, because any particular question should ideally only have a single correct answer.
I meant on distros not on OP's example.

> systemd wasn't forced on anyone. If you're an "unwilling user", use a distribution that doesn't use systemd! But systemd does support socket activation, which is the exact feature you're claiming doesn't exist!

It was forced on existing users. If someone gives you the choice between moving to a different house or accepting something and staying where you are, if you don't like that thing you just got forced out of your house,if you accept that thing you were forced into accepting it. If someone puts a gun to your head and asks for your money, the fact that you can chose to die does not mean your money was not taken from you by force when you opt to live.

I did not claim socket activation does not exist, I even mentiones dbus as a way. I said it was not being used, services are just left running. Even GPG has a service that just idles.
> Unpopular opinion: Anything that promotes (directly or indirectly) less driver engagement with driving should just be banned from civilian roads.

I take it you turn off your phone and the car radio when driving, and also tell all of your passengers they must also turn off their phones and maintain strict silence.
I can't actually tell which one you're trying to say is more important right now. The case for "riots are the bigger problem right now" being that there is a whole lot more rioting and looting happening right now than there usually is, whereas the amount of police violence is currently significantly below the typical level (as a result of the coronavirus and everyone staying inside, but still).
That seems like common knowledge, but I suspect that actual veracity depends on who counts as brown-skinned. (And rather than split that hare, I wish we could work more on universal uplift.)
> Google should be applauded if they make these wasteful developers suffer monetarily until they shape up.

So you want Google to use their dominant position to force webmasters into a new paradigm that probably(?) benefits Google more than today's status quo? And when people start yelling for antitrust provisions, will you still back Google?
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> We need to be able to vote for individual decisions instead of people

What about this: for most decisions, people elect their representative, and don't directly participate. The representative votes on decisions in gov't, but their vote is weighted by the number of people they represent (let's call this V).

However, if there is an issue that a person deems important to participate in, then that person gets to directly vote for said issue. Then, the elected representative's vote _for that issue_ drops by 1, and thus their vote only weights V-1.

Hence, by this method, most people who don't give a shit can continue not to, and allow their electoral representative to make decisions on their behalf. But direct democracy is available for those who care enough.
like this? I want to ask them but I feel bad for asking... At the same time my place is grossly overpriced...
> This works pretty well in Switzerland.

Democracy that works in a country of 8.6 million does not scale up to work for a country of 330 million.
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Regardless of the effectiveness of peaceful protests over the past 20 years, violent ones are even less likely to see change. Those already on the fence or against the issue will just use it as an opportunity to dismiss it all as thugs interested in chaos, no matter that the majority are peaceful.