skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the only distinction that matters though. Investigators are assigned to specific crimes. Their job is gathering evidence, not enforcing laws.

The point to needing to identify police is that without that rule and the accountability that comes with it the "police" become just another gang on the streets. None of that is relevant to investigatory law enforcement.

Obviously both kinds of anonymity can be abused, but only one has an easy and obvious solution.

Seriously: no one sane thinks that riot cops should be operating in street clothes and refusing to identify themselves. This whole subthread is a ridiculous digression.
Are you new here?
All of those measures are in place in Oakland. Still corralled protestors into a confined space and tear gassed them for over ten minutes while preventing them from running. I guess that's not on the list though.
In Spanish, most of the excesive literal translations happened 50 or 100 years ago, so they're part of the language now. Noboby blinks when somebody says "my name is" translated word by word. It used to be extremely unnatural.

Sometimes I enable English subtitles keeping the dubbed Spanish audio and it's often well done. There is very talented people working on the translations, giving the right tone to conversations.
Germany and France are republics. And democracies. That's a lazy argument to make.
> the only thing people actually care about is money

Although I do care about money, I also support my government and my local police force, and would be happy and proud if my work could be used to make their efforts more efficient as well as more open, transparent, and fair. I don't agree with everything my government does, and I believe that there are bad cops that need to be corrected, but don't presume to speak for me.
Is there a Dr in the house? Am I reading this correctly as if you improve your sleep you could possibly (I don't know the correct word to use here) improve? reduce? the plaque buildup in your arteries?
Founders – how do you identify and listen to your potential users/communities?
Trying to apply the "don't build hoping for interest" motto. Before conducting user interviews (via Mom tests), I wanted to start listening to specific communities online. How do you do that yourself?
It's a witch-hunt, plain and simple. Of course the police needs reform, demilitarization, higher standards, more accountability, and better educational requirements.

How you get any of those things by demonizing the police and making it a left-vs-right political issue is beyond me.
I don't moderate r/science, but I do help moderate a pretty big sub that is unrelated to politics that similarly tries with varying success to be polite and on topic

There's a lot of bot and other obvious spam that we catch with programmatic moderation

The vast majority of comments we manually remove fall into one of four categories:

* Stuff that is just random off topic, nothing to do with the sub

* Stuff we redirect to another sub (politics, relationships, etc)

* Stuff that is scammy, or straight up soliciting

* Stuff that is outright insulting ad hominems. The bad end of this category makes you lose faith in humanity, so you kinda have to turn off your soul when moderating.

So if I had to guess, a good chunk of those deleted r/science comments aren't just "scientific opion with no basis" or "flat earth!", but also things closer the form " \\\\ you \\\\ing \\\\, your \\\\ing mother too, I hope you all \\\\ing burn in hell you \\\\ \\\\\* \\\\\*".
Re phonetics, this may not be your goal but I was thinking about it from the standpoint of potential wide-scale usage. In that scenario, you would want phonetics for handling foreign words, or for literally discussing phonetics if nothing else. I didn't see on the page how you handle narrative, but I can imagine handing phonetic descriptions the same way. Maybe "forward" goes in a circular pattern rather than "linear"? You already have sequences like that in the distributive construct.
To be fair: that doesn't mean social media has any relevance, just that some people on both sides think it does.
Yup. I vaguely recall having to include something like this for a site I built years ago. I didn't code the filter myself, but I remember the feature request that usernames and passwords be filtered based on a profanity list. Users weren't blocked, they would just get "you can't do that" response. The passwords were inspected in memory as part of the request process after HTTPS decryption and before running through the digest function and sent to the DB.
With the small caveat that this is scale dependent. I can assure you that there absolutely are projects that require components. (If you prefer a different model, you can assign a different bug tracker for each component - but that makes collective metrics harder)

I agree that ultimately (and quickly) the bug needs to land with a single person, but the component matters in the routing step before that. Because you'll have frontline triage who can only vaguely figure out where the bug goes, second-line triage might get the team right, and then the team needs to decide where it goes.

Yes, that's a lot of overhead. Unless you have 1000+ people working on your software, you won't need it. Up to ~100 people, you can probably assign fairly directly, depending on the range of problems the code base spans.

Similarly, there are reasons why you don't want to do task breakdowns for everything in the bug tracker. Global refactorings are a good candidate to skip that, because you will do that across teams, piece by piece, and tracking them in a bug tracker is not necessary. We got spreadsheets for that ;)

Same goes for priority - sometimes you do need it. That zero-day you're fixing is a "drop everything else" bug. And really, the "flow" is just nine different priorities. (God, let me never work on something that has nine different priorities ;)

So, "season to taste". But there are definitely lots of good ideas in there. If there was just ONE I could enforce across all projects I ever work on, it'd be "Close the damn bugs if you're not going to work on it" - issue hygiene is incredibly important.
I do wish these broader debates were clearer and more nuanced. I get the strong impression that certain participants are not only deliberately trying to prevent this sort of nuance altogether. I'm not sure why anyone with a genuine interest in solving these problems would behave this way.
They tear gassed my campus back when we won the national championship in football. People at bars would hide in the bathrooms from the gas, and it still would reach them inside.
That sounds like you’re saying that it’s a waste of time to ever try to change anything because, well, “history.”

Feel free to disabuse me of my misconception if I misunderstand. But it sounds an awful lot like what some people say when you try to call out racist cops: “We’re just scapegoating someone for saying aloud what all the police are thinking. It’s a waste of time.”
4chan is unmoderated, reddit is heavily moderated. how on earth are they 2 sides of the same coin?

nowadays, it seems like anything unmoderated starts going right. it used to be the opposite.

mildly OT - the only thing they have in common is that they are infiltrated by bots which just serve to amplify the extreme discourse. there are some interesting bot-bait threads on 4chan where people communicate text via obfuscated text images, but bait bots with text replies (i.e. "hillary bad pizzagate"). the bot replies then become obvious because they reply to the bait text which is off-subject, but the real people reply to the text images with obfuscated text images. the bots were right wing extremist and comprised maybe 60% of the replies.

i saw someone had an interesting idea to make a "deep fried" image board or plugin, where text replies are posted as obfuscated images which are unreadable by bots, so people can more easily distinguish bot replies from human. i imagine discourse would improve considerably.
https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram

https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop
> black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers.

If we are going into this statistics: using your terminology, how much less likely that a “black American” will commit a crime that causes arrest (or a police interaction) than a “white American“?
I wonder why he hasn't used his freedom of speech to make the text of his pamphlet freely available on his own website, instead of depending on a publisher to carry it.

Granted, it would be harder to monetize this speech, that way. He'd have to find a payment provider, take payments directly, et cetera. But I don't see why those ancillaries should detract from upholding a principle that clearly means so much to him.
> they could not avoid it despite their best efforts

I think we're making the same point, but I don't disagree. I think this is what I'm getting at. A CEO who cannot raise and is at 5 months of cash left has a) effectively gotten a vote of no confidence from their existing investor base, or b) they are not asking because then they are delaying the inevitable and eventually impossible to ignore conclusion a). Not being able to avoid low cashflow despite your best efforts is a failing on the CEO's role. The CEO is the last line of defense in terms of responsibility, and fundraising is supposed to be one of their core competencies and responsibilities. It's why the job is not for everyone.
but everything is cleanly tagged under /r/conspiracy ?
There a physiological reason for that. Look at the resource requirements for the brain relative to the rest of the body.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain#Metabolism

As mental health deteriorates the consumption of resources required by the brain can fall out of rhythm to the detriment of the rest of the body.
You seem pretty out of touch and sound like a crazed lunatic. They moved platforms to stop being censored and only maintain the subreddit so it cannot be taken by another moderator and manipulated.

Bye bye.
”Remember what the official word was...masks don’t work, but save them for health workers.”

Three things:

One, nobody’s recommendations have changed with regard to “saving” masks: you should not be using medical-grade equipment, such as N95 masks or surgical masks. There is a shortage, and hospitals need it more.

Two, the CDC changed recommendations. The WHO still says they’re necessary only if you’re sick or caring for someone who is sick. Recommendations vary wildly by country, and there is far from consensus.

Three, the science is far from clear on the effectiveness of masks for the general public. At this point, it’s become
more religion than science:

https://www.oralhealthgroup.com/features/face-masks-dont-wor...

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commenta...

(pre-emptive rebuttal: the WHO report which came out last week was a meta-review, and was very clear that there is no significant evidence supporting the use of non-medical masks for the general public. The review freely mixed source-control and PPE studies, which is questionable, at best. It showed that there may be a small effect if people wear medical equipment...the effect was actually about the same as for eye protection.

The only new papers with new, non-review data on masks since the beginning of the year are Leung, et al., which was statistically insignificant for all but one experiment, which was barely significant, and based on <10 data points. The other paper was about separating cages of hamsters with surgical mask material, which while interesting, is not a paper about masks.)
our even worse if you browser is closed and you have to open it and load 30+ tabs just to send a message on signal
This opinion bothers me. TD was always an explicitly pro-Trump subreddit. You expect anti-Trump content to be modded or removed. The modus operandi of /r/politics is much more nefarious. It is branded as a general politics-related subreddit but content that doesn't fit the left-leaning narrative is removed for ambiguous reasons.
Hmm yeah that does sound like a permanent change in the second link doesn't it? Too bad, I was really rooting for their plan.
I don't like reddit because discussion is always influenced by what needs to be said in order to be more popular. If reddit got rid of usernames and karma then I think it would be ideal.
Yes. It's very common, especially in publishing and media circles. It's also in the dictionary that's built-in to macOS.
It is ridiculous to assume that one group making mistakes is always operating in good faith, while another group making mistakes is always operating in bad faith. It is even more ridiculous to censor one group because of this assumption.
Well no. I actually support peaceful protest. But you cannot in good faith argue that people who are protesting the lock downs don't care about killing grandma then, turn around and say that protesting police brutality is fine, since killing grandma would still be a brutal act of evil and you cannot do an intrinsic evil thing to bring about a good.
How do you develop a worldview where the grotesquely status quo mainstream of Reddit is considered "far-left"?
The construction of a Map is abstract in Clojure. The concrete type of Map you get is not something you specify. This isn't related to the HAMT per say.

So what I mean is Clojure will use an array backed map when you ask it to construct a small map, and it will give you a HAMT backed map when the map is large.

This is true as well as you add elements to a map, Clojure might automatically promote the map from an array map to a HAMT as its size grows.
No, normal pepper spray at point blank, about an inch from her face, from a police officer arresting her.
You have a point but it doesn’t make anything he said any less true.
This is the most logical, sensible comment in the thread. Jira is the most flexible system for workflow management in existence. The fact that it is extensible is "a feature, not a bug."

I don't see really see anyone stating obvious truths about bad developers & software engineers (as shocking as it may be to read on HN that there are, in fact, objectively bad developers & software engineers with high-paying jobs at companies whose names you know.)

- they are more interested in making a new thing instead of fixing a broken thing they released

- they often can't remember how they built the last new thing

- that's because they aren't interested in building & documenting a fully working thing with test code from the start

- they aren't interested in data structures or architecture built to be easily maintained or in making scale part of their designs

- they despise being told to fix bugs because it is much easier to write code than it is to read it

I believe some organizations implement Jira thinking it is going to solve their cultural problems. This is magical thinking.

I am so tired of hearing about how terrible Jira is from developers.

It's usually the case that where Jira isn't working it has to do with the way it's configured (e.g., giving too many people access to set priority, setting too many priorities, setting too many components, using components in illogical ways, no one actively managing & grooming queues...)

To implement Jira successfully probably requires more work & effort to get it right than to not use it at all. The point of it is not to eliminate the work of issue tracking. It is to organize the workflow management of moving incredibly complex information from one person to the next. It's pretty great at this if you know how to use it.
I as a frontend developer think that tables simply are not made for a portrait mobile phone. Needs a different UI concept, e.g. cards in a vertical list. That way it is possible to show all info at the same time, while only having to scroll one direction. Tables which exceed the window width and height are terrible to use.

Tables are naturally wide while phones are naturally narrow. Why try to make it fit? Reminds me of the kid which tries to cram a star shaped piece of wood through a round hole.
There’s more to life than owning a home as soon as possible.
Human activity leaves a chemical footprint in soils
Minneapolis city Council has a current measure to disband the police department, and do new departments to carry the duties of the police - social workers for health and wellness checks, security for events, animal handling... And to only use the armed response units when life or property is at risk and deadly force may be required.
What's wrong with waiting a few months to vote out Trump fairly? If you believe in Democracy and majority rule. The other side has a right to organize and communicate online.
Attempts at censorship seem to be backfiring, and people have a long memory of these things.

Since Trump has been in office, there have been several attempts at getting rid of him which do not involve people voting him out in a direct democratic way.

1. Accuse him of being a Russian asset and a traitor from day one.

2. Impeach him based on dubious claims *supported by only one side, again accuse him of being a Traitor.

3. Organized mob attacks on the White house, to the point where he needed to hide in a bunker.

4. Riot, burn churches and synagogues and businesses.

5. Try to change the rules of voting next election to mail in ballots. Which are less secure than voting in person.
If people can wait in line in a grocery store, why can't they wait in line to vote. I don't get it.

6. Performative news coverage, where the anchors and journalists give a performance. Ask questions that can be answered without Trump even being there.

7. Organized censorship online.

The US hasn't had a clean slate of new politicians in a very long time. So I hope it will come. Just through democratic means, and without blood shed. And a free internet.
Can you please provide a quote from the book in question?
You are correct, and that was the case in Colorado as well. I think that the difference here is that a state in the USA is ideally small enough for this to still kind of work.

On the scale and regional cultural variation in the US, I'm not sure it works at that level. But I really don't know.
"Effectively banned" is not the same as banned, and it's these conspicuous half-measures toward /r/the_donald that resulted in criticism from Ellen Pao as noted above, among others.
>The same goes with Nike’s Kaepernick ad: greenlit because the corporation estimated that being on the right side of history would bring more value long-term.

This is extremely charitable to Nike, assuming that they internally had some meeting about correcting racial injustices or something and not that they decided to capitalize on a moment in the political zeitgeist. Even if the ad was hated it would have generated enormous free marketing for the company. I tend to agree that these companies will make economic decisions first, most of the time, but over the last couple years we've seen many companies explicitly intertwine the two - where making political statements as marketing is now common. I'd be very very skeptical that they have anything but dollar signs in their eyes.
Fascinating subject but the information density of this article falls short of my event horizon.
You're saying Reddit has that big of an influence on how people see and interact with the world as opposed to say Identity Politics which by its very nature puts different groups into direct conflict with each other and where "cancel culture" came from??
Driving aligned decisions in startups might be as simple as this
The fact that you'd describe Reddit as "center-right" currently is enough to tell me you're coming at this from a very different perspective than the average person.

I would say that Reddit began as libertarian, and is now far-left.
It's a serious question. I see virtually every "coach" as a scam artist who would be doing what they coach if they could. The few legitimate coaches out there are prohibitively expensive. Of course, that's just my take on it.
Then only subscribe to subreddits that you want to see. Like FB, most (not all) complaints could be solved by doing a few minutes of work to hide what you don't want to see.
Exactly this. In a similar situation I am aware of, a senior dev came in, found some measurable bottlenecks, convinced non-technical management that they could be fixed, and then fixed them. He is now the CTO.

They key here is to find problems with the current environment that can be tracked. Downtime, performance, bugs in prod, etc... If you can't find any measurable issues that management can relate to, then quite frankly, there isn't really any reason for management to invest in solutions to problems that don't exist.
I think REBL is actually more of Stuart Holloway's baby, isn't it? They're close, so maybe this isn't so clear.
It took me some time to have my RSS feed setup the way I want it, but it is such a fresh breath of air. A thing I noticed is that my opinion about a certain subject gets influenced a lot by the top comments, whether here or on Reddit. I sometimes even read the comments before reading the article. Having to read an article and giving myself enough time to form my own opinion without directly checking what the comments "want" me to believe was refreshing. But still, having comments is important to see something from a different angle, which is why I still browse HN and reddit.
This has interesting implications for political economy, given the emergence of suicide bombing as an equalizing strategy in asymmetric warfare. I was especially struck by one of the cited papers on self-destructive behavior among some social insects, which literally grow explosive organs on their bodies as they age: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/337/6093/436
Why though? Is there not a legitimate role for policing in a civil society? And if there is, don't they need to coordinate and collaborate just like any other organization?
You know? When you hire someone to manage some VPS or dedicated server in some DC, why not have them manage your own rack(s) connected via your own fiber on premise instead?

That is one thing i fail to understand, since it goes against the lore of decentralized, packet switching, nuke proof, and so on.

It may have been prohibitively expensive for many in the not so recent past, but it isn't anymore in more and more places. Even redundantly connected.

And to be honest, some pizzeria or hairdresser could be run from some NAS.

Just search for someFAANG is down on HN, to get a feel for the ripples it causes globally when they have a hiccup.

How is that different?
Or this one, which provides good info on whether to take the time to automate something: https://xkcd.com/1205/
I would not read it as a recipe but rather as a field guide to team dynamics - to give a better understanding of what may or may not be happening.
Hopefully this results in successful civil lawsuits against these individuals on the basis that qualified immunity does not extend to these individuals because they didn't follow ID laws.

It might not be the justice people want, but taking away people's money is the most effective means of instituting change in the USA. It's entirely the reason that company's try to eliminate our right to sue them.
In this age of social media I think this can't be stressed enough.
As someone that lives in Oakland, I don't see much of a difference in terms of quality of life between when the police were beating people or killing people at BART stations compared to the extended amount of time we've lacked a police chief and the police as a whole basically disappeared.

I'm white, so the interaction with society during the completely corrupt OPD wasn't really ever a concern for me. I expect plenty of black residents are much happier now than they were then. I don't see MORE crime now than before, and I don't expect the police to ever show up if I call.

So, disbanding the police force isn't necessarily going to equate to complete and total anarchy. Most people don't break the law because we want to exist within the social contract that's established. Police can help enforce that contract, but they're not strictly required.