skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That word, inclusive, is taking on a totally differing meaning which is nearly the opposite of what it originally meant. The type of inclusivity it indicates leads to divisiveness, the splintering of society in a multitude of factions battling for a place on the agenda of inclusivity. The way to get a place generally lies in finding a common grievance and starting a drive for society to address it. Where statues were once meant to bind the people together through a shared history, these inclusive statues serve to split people into factions. Instead of realising that these monuments are not to be taken as literal examples of holiness but as symbols of some common cultural ancestry in time and space they will now be turned into egocentric billboards of the individual's personal mood of the day.

I suggest replacing all toppled statues with one of emperor Nero playing a harp while watching the city of Rome burn since that is what the evisceration of history will lead to. History, good and bad, is there to learn from. You can not glorify the good parts without criticising the bad parts, however:

You can not criticise the bad parts without at least acknowledging the good parts. Doing so is just as intellectually dishonest as doing the opposite.
It depends on what you want to do. It is not about picking one or another.

For the majority of software (I guess you are referring to web apps), simpler/GC/scripting languages like TypeScript or Go are better.

But, if you really need something low-level, then you need C, C++, Rust, Zig, etc. and there is no way around it.
Amazon New will be the worst name for a AWS product, since they announce TONS of products every year, nothing is really new.
Etsy’s iOS app now lets you preview art on your wall through augmented reality
It seems to me that a two letter email address would invite a disproportionate amount of spam.
I think voting for the right people is probably more effective.
Not OP - but the absurd prevalence of privately owned guns means that the police go into every interaction thinking that the person on the other side could be armed and could kill them on a whim. They're not even wrong about that. We have more privately owned guns than people of sufficient age to own them.

The police in other countries can take a much more relaxed attitude toward their interactions with the public because there's almost no chance of the person shooting them.
Huh? In what way? Nearly everything they "invented" has been around for years, and in some cases a decade.

They blasted Apple and Gmail for causing Inbox problems, but all their "solutions" are common ways we have always managed our inboxes.

https://mrtechimist.wordpress.com/2020/06/16/apples-email-an...
Would the Police have shot Brianna Taylor if her boyfriend wasn't shooting at the cops? Sure, no-knock warrants were a problem. But Kenneth Walker's gun didn't make the situation any better.

I'm not "victim blaming" Kenneth Walker or Brianna Taylor here. Its absolutely the cops fault for messing up the no-knock warrant. But in a country with 2nd amendment, cops have the difficult job of entering homes vs armed neutral parties.

In the UK, cops can go in with nothing but a baton and be fine, because the UK citizenry don't have as many guns as US citizens do.

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There's a huge and fundamental difference between UK cops and US cops if only because of the 2nd Amendment issue. Each encounter with the citizenry, even if they are neutral, can end up deadly due to our huge proliferation of guns.

That stress in of itself could be making our cops more trigger happy, because US Cops enter life-or-death situations in higher frequency than other countries.
This. I watch in disbelief as people totally disregard statistics in leu of mass hysteria. There are some 370MM interactions with police every year in the US and the overwhelming majority of them happen without incident. Moreover something like 8 "unarmed" black men died in 2019 vs 50 "unarmed" white men.

Those who disagree, tell me: the ratio of incarcerated males to females is something like 9:1. Similarly a far greater number of men die at the hands of police than women. Is the justice system biased against men?

And if we extend this myopic logic, is there a huge problem of racism in the black community? Because black on white crime (including violent crime) is something like 10x the rate of white on black crime. Is there a systemic problem with racism in the black community?

The entire country has gone insane.

Edit: if there's something wrong with my reasoning, please feel free to point it out. Silent downvotes only reinforce the stigma, yes, stigma that is now associated with the same rational inquiry that I'm paid to perform each day as a research scientist.

Edit 2: I can't find a source for the 370MM number and I suspect it was generous with the definition of interaction...here's another source that gives just shy of 70MM - still high enough that what's going on is blowing things way out of proportion. http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/pbtss11.pdf
Very similarly, I recommended Amplifi to my parents. They've had a couple issues with it, but that's due to a complicated bit of their new house more than Amplifi itself.

The house they just moved into had a strange audio LAN wired through the house when it was built. The audio LAN had a couple CAT-5E ports for "expansion" (presumably?) on each floor just about perfectly located for WiFi AP backhaul. So I worked with my parents on a plan to try three of Amplifi's routers rather than one AP and two "Satellites".

This seemed to work alright. The Amplifi phone app wasn't great about setting up a multi-AP mesh of that sort just yet (as opposed to the focused use case of one router/AP and several "satellites") and didn't always have the best experience (in navigation/details), but other than UX complaints, the system just works as expected.

However, my parents then discovered that there were "hidden" components also wired to the Audio LAN somewhere between the primary Audio LAN router and the "expansion ports", which meant that some of the system's speakers stopped operating. (It would have been great to have a wiring diagram of the whole LAN. We did a lot of trial and error discovery on this.)

So my parents decided to "turn off" the backhaul by reconnecting it to the Audio LAN. There was angsty confusion that they "broke" the WiFi because they ignored/forgot my explicit instructions to disconnect the router's WAN cables on the house ports that were now again Audio LAN ports. As I had expected, once disconnected from the confusing (to people and devices alike) Audio LAN, the Amplifi Routers straightened themselves out and switched to a more traditional bridged mode ("wireless backhaul") as if they were mere "satellites".

According to the math I did, my parents paid a lot less for that experiment with all Amplifi routers than if they'd tried it with "full" routers of any of the other brands we'd comparison shopped (and none of them seemed to offer an ala carte buying experience similar to Amplifi's section of Amazon), though obviously more than if they'd bought only one router and two satellites of any of the other brands in the first place. The extra LAN port on the Amplifi router is still critical to them on one of the floors (a home office VOIP system that "requires" a wired connection) and they couldn't easily swap at least one of the routers for a Satellite anyway.

Other than the crazy backhaul experiment confusion, my parents haven't had any problems. I don't think we could have ran that experiment with any of the other brands. My parents seem happy with the purchase and the quality of their WiFi on all three floors, which was the important thing for them, and I get the feeling they were happy with the price despite "over-paying" a tad due to the experiment.
Then why don't all those people who hate this country just leave? If it's really that simple?
If a publicly traded company is not doing well, the CEO gets canned and no one bats an eye. If one department is not doing well, it's very common to just fire a bunch of people or get rid of the department completely.

The idea of "dismantling of police" does not mean we do not offer protection. It just means that the current organization "police" is not providing the services it's customers want. Years of "tweaking" the police orgs have failed to provide results. It's time to create a new way to protect citizens.
Doesn't show what?
You do not want to ever use the stock cooler on the 3900X, it does work but at the cost of high fan RPM cool it and you'll want to stab your ears out from the fans ramping up and down cyclically every 15 seconds from the aggressive PBO bumps that translate to immediate temperature spikes and CPU fan ramp ups. You want some of the larger heatsinks available like the Dark Rock Pro which can suck up the heat without needing to spin up fans.
My favourite one is a CMS, which stands for Crematorium Management System.
Any app in particular?
You're effectively claiming the following: if two people who both "look like CEOs" (setting aside exactly what that means for now) walk into a meeting with you, you know one of them is indeed the CEO, and one is white and one is black, you are going to assume that it's not a sign of even subconscious racism to assume that the white person is the CEO because the population of the country is mostly white.

So. One immediate problem, from statistics alone, is that the people you are meeting with are not drawn from a random sampling of the population. There is clearly a 50% chance that one of those two unknown people is the CEO. (If it were 3 people, a 33.33% chance, 4 people a 25% chance, and so on.) So I don't think your reasoning is sound.

Also, the end result of your argument is "the black person in this group isn't likely to be the CEO because they are black," and, well. I get that you're trying to arrive there through what you think is pure mathematics, but it is nonetheless the kind of conclusion that I believe the kids call "problematic."
If the country wasn't so awash with guns, perhaps the police might not be quite so nervous and trigger-happy.
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So many tests it's not even funny. A huge chunk of tests in dynamic/softly typed languages just end up being input/output validations where in a strongly typed language you don't bother since you know the compiler would refuse to compile it.
Not so. Nothing fresh about it.

https://mrtechimist.wordpress.com/2020/06/16/apples-email-an...
I mean, wearing a body cam all the time is an overkill. That being said, your link does not prove that. The number of people killed by the police is just the tip of the iceberg. There would be an order of magnitude more people being seriously harmed (paralyzed, blinded, etc.) by the police than killed. There would be an order of magnitude more people mildly harmed (bruises, cuts, chipped tooth, etc.) than than seriously harmed.

By the time you get to incidents like police's violent arrest of SNL's Jay Pharoah [0], complete with knee on the neck (fortunately not long enough to kill him), you have potentially hundreds of thousands of people being affected and treated like this every year.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV5KpbUPeSU
> Wifi doesn't seem to have this latency problem.

Wifi is one of the best things you can do to add unreliability and latency.
infrared radiation is just photons...
It doesn't work pure GPU for transcoding between formats. You can do h264 to h264, but not h264 to h265, which can be done with other software if the hardware supports it.
I think software ecosystems are currently infested by corporate interests. I feel kinda funny for saying this. It sounds like some kinds of left-wing politics. But software has become increasingly consolidated. There're 5-10 companies in the US that drive most of its development. They even picked up the most popular open source projects. When you're part of an ecosystem, your objective is to work the system. Making software has lower priority.

It's extremely hard to make money being an independent software developer. There's a lot of noise and money in the market. It's hard to compete with marketing from big companies. You have to work for a corporation or a startup with funding. You have to be part of an ecosystem. When you are accepted to a program like YC, you win an entry to an ecosystem.

Can you be a software artisan nowadays? Can a small team develop and sell software without having an ecosystem behind it? I've seen some examples of this, like Ruby on Rails, 37signals. But they are rare exceptions.

I'm currently working on an open source project. Let's see how long I can be independent for. Check out my project :)

https://github.com/vidalab/vida
When you are accused of a crime where do you typically go to defend yourself?
> There are some 370MM interactions with police every year in the US and the overwhelming majority of them happen without incident.

And this is totally baffling for someone outside the US where crime rates are lower, people are almost never armed and civil liberties aren't so great. The police seem to be doing an amazing job in the USA overall and rare occurrences are being blown way out of proportion.
Deadly force is just the most extreme of many problems with the police. Consider the hierarchy of problems: deadly force is a subset of police brutality, which is a subset criminal police behavior/lies, all of which are encouraged by a system that rarely punishes bad cops.
Part of the ethos of free speech is that those who think your comment is absurd can say so. On HN, the downvote button is one way that people say so.

Now, it's a pretty poor way to do so, because it conveys only one bit of information. Still, it is within the site guidelines that "downvote to disagree" is legitimate.
If I understood the data correctly, African Americans are pulled over more, then after being pulled over they are killed at the same rate as other groups.

That still implies they are killed at a higher rate. The population we're concerned about isn't "people who have already been pulled over".
Then there's the Godfather of Robot Combat, Mark Pauline, founder of Survival Research Laboratories.

http://www.srl.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pauline

>Pauline founded SRL in 1978 and it is considered the premier practitioner of "industrial performing arts", and the forerunner of large scale machine performance. SRL is known for producing the most dangerous shows on earth. Although acknowledged as a major influence on popular competitions pitting remote-controlled robots and machines against each other, such as BattleBots and Robot Wars, Pauline shies away from rules-bound competition preferring a more anarchic approach. Machines are liberated and re-configured away from the functions they were originally meant to perform.

https://books.google.nl/books?id=AI1sDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT54&lpg=PT...

>"With the character of outlaw underground robot maker Slick Henry, William Gibson has immortalized artist Mark Pauline in the novel MONA LISA OVERDRIVE." -Thinking Like a Machine: An Artists Journey into Robotics

https://books.google.nl/books?id=_riKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT158&lpg=P...

>"Pauline builds engines of destruction. He is the founder and director of Survival Research Laboratories, a loosely knit organization which, since 1979, has been perfecting a heavy metal theater of cruelty-scary, stupefyingly loud events in which remote-controlled weaponry, computer-directed robots, and reanimated roadkill do battle in the murk of smoke, flames, and greasy fumes." -Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJFmGu28HVQ

>Survival Research Laboratories Live at the Extreme Futurist Festival, LA, California, Dec 22, 2012. This is the public YouTube debut of this documentary, four years in the making. It chronicles the planning, pre-production, and performance of a full Survival Research Labs show, captured by nineteen cameras.

https://www.youtube.com/user/survivalresearchlabs/videos

>(lots more disturbing content in SRL's video list)
Doesn't the "POC" term promote the idea that "people of color" have some sort of shared interests? Yet, is that always true?

Person A is an upper-middle class Indian. They study software engineering at university in India. They immigrate to the United States and get a job working as a software engineer in Silicon Valley.

Person B is a working class African-American. Nobody in their family has ever been to university. They work in a service job and live in the suburbs of Atlanta.

What do A and B actually have in common? It seems to me, probably not very much. Their life experiences are very different. A lives a much more privileged life than B. Probably, A actually has more in common with, and more commonality of interests, with their Caucasian American colleagues than with B. Given that, doesn't labelling them both as "POC" obscure more than it reveals?

It also completely ignores the problem that India has with anti-African racism and violence, see e.g – https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/24/the-harsh-reality-of-be... – something of which person A may of course be personally entirely innocent, but then again maybe not. If anything, I think the term "POC" is deeply Western-centric (and even US-centric), and presumes that racism and racial conflict is always whites-against-everyone else, when in the wider world it often isn't. (Africans in India, Uighurs and Tibetans in China–and, I think the case of China shows, trying to blame European colonialism for non-Western racism doesn't always work. Or, again, consider how Japan treated Koreans.)

I think the term BIPOC is potentially problematic in that it presents African-American and Native American interests as being more aligned than maybe they actually are. What is the foundational story of US history? The New York Times' 1619 Project presents it as being the Atlantic slave trade. Why that, and not the dispossession of Native Americans? Many African-Americans (and even many Caucasian Americans) seem to want to privilege the African-American narrative over the Native American narrative. Are Native Americans okay with that? I'm sure at least some are not. But lumping them together as "BIPOC" serves to obscure, even erase, these tensions.

(Throwaway because, I hope people can appreciate my comments are an attempt to approach these issues thoughtfully, but in today's climate one has to be very careful what one says.)
I mean...you can extrapolate this line of thinking to any piece of technology...
You can, it's possible to address "missing values" with a default construct. Example:

int x = default; // x becomes zero
T x = default; // x becomes whatever the default value for struct is
Why Hey when you can just use Apple mail?
That's strange. They work for me on Firefox Preview
Those on the right may punish. But those on the left have the megaphone right now, and if you're worried about publicity and how it affects your brand, you're worried about the opinion of those with the megaphone.
I would like to see a Professional Personal Data Engineer license similar to becoming a PE in other engineering fields that would specifically qualify an engineer to build systems that contain PII.

Then if you have a data breach you can investigate and potentially pull the license and assign personal liability similar to if a bridge fell over.
Please check some civilized countries with "undesirable regulations" and "governing bodies" which puts in checks for authority misuses.
With respect and goodwill (appreciate that you actually seem to be coming to the comments to learn), it's very hard to read your comment in that way when you say things like:

> Society pretending that there is massive racism when there isn't is itself structural racism

I'm not sure where is best to start here because there are so many things that have to go into actually believing that, and so many combinations, but there are tons of resources floating around so I truly do encourage you to seek those out.

A basic starting point list beyond police brutality: public school funding systems, household wealth inequality and lack of reparations + exponential investment growth, medical treatment differences (go look up the guides for black people in the US to get proper medical treatment from a doctor), the prison industrial complex, the criminalization of drugs in the US + its history, crack vs powder cocaine sentencing laws, parole laws

If you prefer movie format: 13th, I Am Not Your Negro, The House I Live In

> I am saying that the level of racism is low

This sums up why your comment go downvoted so far. The social media world is overflowing with resources showing the opposite right now with extensive evidence and research. It has always been there but it has never been more accessible.
Citing mdo, https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/6342#issuecomment-115... : "We haven't seen anyone using submenus in meaningful ways and the code necessary to make them work well is just too much overhead. Submenus just don't have much of a place on the web right now, especially the mobile web."

This is very opinionated.
I tend to agree, but then I wonder what we would call language server protocol additions to editors like Emacs/Vim. Or even Visual Studio Code, for that matter.
It is critical to get a primary care physician you bond with, or at least can build some rapport with. My late father was a cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon, but then decided to go back to school (while teaching) to get his boards in internal medicine. He had two motivations: one was not to be the Old Surgeon that has to have his privileges revoked, and the other was his evolving relationship with the world, largely facilitated by SSRIs. His journey from surgery to internist over many years gave him what I think was a pretty good insight into the human condition.

As an internist and primary care physician, he had one patient who presented with back pain and was loaded on opiates, wanting refills plus more dope. He talked with her for almost an hour (a unique privilege most don't have in today's healthcare system, and likely none will going forward) and ended up sending her home with an SSRI and a note to check back in a little while. A few weeks later she was calling the clinic's owner raving about how she felt so much better, her back didn't hurt anymore, etc. I'm not writing that to say SSRIs > opiates, just to say in her situation he correctly identified her pain was due to depression. You don't get there unless you have rapport with your doc and the time to talk with them.

The point is that you have to find a doc you like and one that can spend time with you. Unfortunately I don't know of a good way of doing that. I'd hook you up but my dad passed some years ago. I'd love to hear people's ideas on finding someone like him — I need a doc, too.
Alternative to 2: No one should have guns
ImageMagick's convert is much friendlier than ffmpeg:

convert image.png image.jpg

Does what it's suppose to and it's as simple as possible. Sure, you can get really fancy with resizing proportions but easy stuff should be easy.
This is categorically false. People can and have prevailed with a self-defense defense against killing police officers who failed to identify themselves as police.

Also, Indiana for example explicitly legalizes home defense against "public servants"[1].

[1] https://codes.findlaw.com/in/title-35-criminal-law-and-proce...
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2016 Man shoots three cops during no-knock raid and is found not guilty because they did not identify themselves as cops.

https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/eye-on-government/texas-man-f...