skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> does not do your case any favors

I'm not making a case. I'm describing the state of the reddit culture. Whether you believe it or not, is incidental.

> The site owners don't ban users based on race and gender which is the claim I responded to.

Your statements were broader than that. Revisionism aside, you can get banned for voting on a post, and there are lots of rules (written and unwritten by each community) that can get you banned from the subreddit or reddit as a whole. Making statements about YOUR gender (or a number of other attributes) can also get you banned. Here, I'll do a google search for you (since you can't be bothered) for subreddit bans, to start you off:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=subredd...

You aren't informed enough to be discussing this and it's not worth rehashing.
The National Guard is not a police force. It's a military organization. Calling them in for crowd control should be an absolute last resort.

Yes, I realize the NG has MP units, but they don't have any super-powers or training that regular riot units in the police do not.
> I am now seriously considering avoiding U.S. schools altogether and applying for top business schools in Europe such as LBS and INSEAD.

Why did you not do that in the first place? I'm legitimately asking because I want to leave the US for Europe or Australia / New Zealand. I'm a US citizen having immigrated here at an early age. I've dreamed of leaving the US for years now, so I like to understand what draws so many people here still compared to the other options?
Dear Jeff Bezos:

Amazon is great and all, but instead can you rebuild all of America to be denser walkable cities, with a great public rail system?

Signed, Hacker News
The Software-Defined Power Grid Is Here
H1B is an excuse for companies to pay employees less, and treat them worse.
If we agree with that and agree that is some rough proxy for criminality why wouldn't we expect about 10 times as much police violence against Black people?

Caveat lector: If we agree.

I don't agree with this idea that the statistics of criminality in the black community is a proxy for anything, and more that it is a result of multiple compounding issues that snowballed throughout generations of peoples bringing us to where we are today. In your mind what is this a proxy for? I'd like to hear this notion unpacked.

Those questions are varied and nuanced and their answers are equally varied and nuanced, and against the backdrop of exactly how certain members of the constabulary execute (pun most certainly and deliberately intended) violence in response to violence are people like me trying to desperately point at as this the topic we want to discuss when we say "Black Lives Matter", yet time and time again we have to stop and have the "black people commit more crimes" discussion with people who are focused on the math of crimes committed while black at the expense of just about any other valid variable in the equation.

So if we take the "black people commit more crimes" framework on its face, does that mean they deserve to die for all of them? Did Sandra Bland really need to be shot because she didn't want to put out a cigarette at a traffic stop or could the officer have written her the moving citation she probably actually deserved, and gone about his policing elsewhere?[0] Did Eric Garner need asphyxiation for a civil citation when he was stopped for selling illegal cigarettes? Did George Floyd need to have a knee on his neck for nearly 10 minutes for a counterfeit $20?

I challenge us all to think beyond just "well they committed a crime" and start asking some hard goddamn questions about what we're saying if that's going to be the response to critical theories of criminal justice-because many (not all) of the names commonly shouted out in discussion about police brutality committed petty offenses that should have received citations but instead received death sentences; highlighting a severely disproportionate view of policing scofflaws that breaks "well they broke the law" down into "contempt of cop"[1].

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[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/2...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_cop
I'm glad to hear that! The style is very popular in the drawn maps I've seen. I haven't been interested in maps for long and don't pay too much attention to digital map programs. I associate the style with Dyson, as that what I've heard other people do. I first saw you tweeting about the program after I saw Dyson's tweet and the Dungeon Scrawl site says the development began on May 8th, which is why I thought the timeline looked a little suspect. I'm happy to hear that's not the case.
Why doesn't Crystal use more than 100% CPU like Go does if the server has 8 cores? Why didn't both languages max out the cores? Is it because the params to WRK was within what one core could handle in Crystal?
What an act of megalovania.
Ok, maybe this doesn't apply to most clients, but I think op still has a point. If there are at least some email clients with the word "mail" in their name and at least some torrent clients with the name torrent in their name why shouldn't riot use the word "matrix" inside it's name? It's not that they must, but like op said it would make things clearer, in my opinion something like MatrixChat would be OK.
Super excited to rethink the data engineering on cloud using Spark!!
The focus on multi-touch gestures is missing the forest for the trees.

If you look at the all of the next highest rated "features" they are not features but bugs. The reason that mac touchpads are so nice to use has _nothing_ to do with multitouch and everything to do with palm rejection, filtering, etc. It is a hard problem, analogous to and more difficult than writing multicopter flight control software. Having looked at the trackpad code, and fixing (in a very hacky way) some of the issues I was having, I have zero expectation that Linux laptops will get a mac like experience in the next couple years. Like all problems, it isn't a technical it is political.

Trackpad software and cut and paste are the two largest detractors for desktop Linux.
Accepting sponsorships like this is not non-profit. You still have to report it as income and pay taxes on it.
1. Mitigating harm is not ignoring the problem.

2. Reforms don't work. The SPD has been under federal sanction, and has been the target of numerous reform plans for the past two decades. Nothing sticks. The department is institutionally incapable of reform or accountability.

3. Given #2, it is currently being ignored at great expense. Police are the highest-paid public servants. Police departments consume the overwhelming majority of municipal tax revenue.

Why would you hire a cop for a six figure salary, to have them spend most of their time deal with social worker problems, when social workers are already capable of doing that job, for a third the pay? Why do you have that same cop cruise around, issuing parking tickets, when you could have a bylaw officer do the same thing, for a third the pay?
Interestingly, while you can't be donated money in Finland people can certainly and rather freely give gifts to another person. It's even tax-free as long as gifts from one person remain under 4000€ for any consecutive three years.

Surely gettings lots of monetary gifts from foreign friends would probably not hold during a tax audit (they'd accuse you of trying to evade taxes unless you could provide a plausible reason why all these people would be sending you gifts) but it's an interesting counter-example nevertheless.
I started my little company on it about 18 months ago. It's a single server running the main app and processing 7 figures of revenue.

My biggest gripes would be major API changes (like the JSON mapping), but that's expected with a young language and better in the long run.

Another problem is compilation time and compilation memory. waiting a couple of seconds every time i make a change during development sucks, but not a big deal. I've had my deployment server fail deployment a couple times because it ran out of memory when compiling.

A solution to compilation times is to split up your app when it gets huge, so that you have smaller apps to compile.

I don't use many external dependencies, not even for the http server. The stdlib is very good. I would probably be using OCaml instead if the stdlib were as modern and clean as Crystal.
Several protestors have had an eye shot out by US police in the last 2.5 weeks, it's time for an eye-for-an-eye law for police (or anyone) that use these weapons on protestors.

There is no excuse that someone could shoot someone's eye out and then not be required to replace it.
Companies already pay for background checks etc... Applying for an H1B is not free.
Perhaps, we should wave this magic wand to make you order less stuff? No tech can save us unless we start to consume less. Also, we should care less about optimising our time which we are likely to waste anyway on netflix and co.
If you read the comments in this forum, you will immediately see how he gets support for these myopic actions. Everything from reneging from international treaties and institutions to long term policies that have been shown to benefit the country are axed for short term political gain at the polls. And the people, even on this forum, are duped by it.
> They could pay taxes

It's false to claim that Amazon doesn't pay their taxes. Amazon pays taxes on profits according to the tax law, just like every other company. Amazon employees pay taxes on their paychecks, just like every other company's employees. Amazon's customers pay taxes on their purchases, just like customers of every other company's customers. Amazon generates a lot of tax revenue.

> and we could, as a nation, decide how best to coordinate efforts to fight climate change

Like I said: Amazon's climate change actions are not mutually exclusive with government initiatives to combat climate change.

It's a false dichotomy, not to mention specious argument, to suggest that Amazon's $2B investment in climate change is somehow preventing the government from also investing in climate change intitiatives.
Awesome initiative!
I worked as a contractor in 1099 for years. It was exactly the same as W2, except I had to pay estimated taxes 4 times a year. I didn't get to choose hours, direction, who to work with.

I think you're confusing it with personal projects.
So does this mean no windows VMs?
> While some folks eagerly await true parallelism, which I THINK was here already and then revoked temporarily,

It is there, but not enabled by default. You need to add -Dpreview_mt to the command line to enable it.
JWST covers different wavelengths than Hubble, which is a meaningful difference as far as telescopes go. The proposed LUVOIR or HABEX telescopes would be the successors to Hubble.
Is there anyway you can use a different kernel? The kernel is really easily replaceable in other distros. I don't know much about RHEL.
I've considered NYT a propaganda rag ever since they marketed the attack on Iraq. Just because Trump is saying something does not mean it is false - a large part of how he gained such a following is from tapping into a lot of real frustrations that people have. Consolidated mainstream media in the US is the equivalent of state media in the USSR - they're both mouthpieces of the ruling power structure. The US just airs competing factions which creates an illusion of vibrancy.

(disclaimer: Please don't take this as some endorsement of Trump. Even though some of his claims are right, he apparently isn't so much opposed to that corruption as an outsider looking into get in on the action. Also after being elected, most presidents tone down the divisive pandering)
Julia is quite strong in these areas and there is this as a strategy -

https://github.com/Taaitaaiger/jlrs
if you live in a city for several years and settle in, form friendships, hobbies, and maybe relationships

I suddenly find myself wondering if the path to reform for H1B could be short duration combine with some kind of fast-track naturalization. Does it even make sense for the transactional H1B to be so long term?

If the H1B led to rapid naturalization, it would naturally curtail use of H1B over time, as the US population of individuals suited for the job would be growing ipso facto.
Given that he lives somewhere around Buffalo, NY, the cost of living is about twice as much[1] to maintain his standard of living in SV, so I would say he's doing pretty well, and he gets to do what he loves!

1: https://www.nerdwallet.com/cost-of-living-calculator/compare...
Proprietary rent seekers injecting themselves into paying for services so they can creme 5-20% off the top of all the money movement.

Its basically the same thing credit cards do, but are more egregious because they also try to platform the creators. So you integrate them into one proprietary space you wholly control and can thus dominate industries by managing the purse.

Its what almost every successful business nowadays does. Capture an audience and then shake down whatever they are coming to your platform for while holding the market ransom. Facebook and Google do this with advertisers, app / game stores with their 30% cuts, etc.
I'm a former die-hard calorie counter.
I don't trust the nation to coordinate tying shoes much less fighting climate change. Our federal system is broken and our populace is generally ignorant on scientific matters relying on it to bring sweeping changes at this point in time would be a critical misstep.

I think the best think individuals can do at the moment is vote to bring in new blood on both sides of the aisle, subsequently vote reform on local levels and for education reform then wait a decade or two and then vote to reform our federal systems.

In the meantime backing long term thinking companies and boycotting bad acting companies because the private sector is going to have to shoulder the fight until we fix the government.
In the meantime
Seems like even Arch maintains it's own kernel. Not uncommon for distros to do it at all.
The fact that all of these comments are disagreeing with you is concerning. Are most people this confused in their day-to-day lives? If I ever discovered I had a misunderstanding of that magnitude, I would be shocked and appalled.
Wow, amount of discrimination in the comments here reminds of facebook political discussions.

It's basically "I've once worked for a company with H1B, and it was a scam. Ergo all H1Bs are scam, should be eliminated ASAP, and they should go back to their own country!". Sadly, progressives and tolerance ends when it's touching your wallet.
A group of us built the open source website https://climatescape.org for exactly this purpose. You can browse by sector and technology.
Dungeonscrawl is definitely inspired by Dyson.

Here are some tweets by the maker:

https://twitter.com/probabletrain/status/1259172635776294912...
https://twitter.com/probabletrain/status/1258821040937013248...
> Doctors vs Software Engineers are very interesting case studies in my eyes.

Actually, this is a great example. By restricting medical professionals, medical wages went high. Great for them!

But for the rest of America, this SUCKS. Medical expenses are through the roof, care cannot be had without selling all your money and often, specialist shortages mean appointments can be had only 3 months later. The lack of liquidity of healthcare professionals has made American healthcare the WORST in the developed world.

And this is in cities. Healthcare in rural America is pathetic.

Thanks for bringing to the fore how America has forever destroyed lives for the rest by trying to advantage the few.
My comment: "I disagree that nobody would care if they capitalised 'white' but not 'black'."

The style guide in question: "why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’)"

Your comment: "You’re quoting to a reply that replies to a link with a style guide that does exactly that. Reading comprehension must be so hard."

Yes, it must.
I don't think the stock options would be public, since it's discretionary at most companies, and varies from person to person. Anecdotal as it is, from my experience at Microsoft the stock sign-on and annual bonus don't correlate with visa status.
The "rule" being that the vast majority of unexplained results are due to experimental error or noise.
The existence of a few famous examples that were indeed new science, narrows the statement from "all unexplained results" to just "the vast majority".
I hope this helps dissolve the network effects that gives an unfair advantage to the US and keeps the largest tech hubs there. We rest-of-the-worlders would like to partake also.

What say you Musk? You already have Canadian citizenship, with the ice caps melting, it's not even that cold up here anymore.
I agree with you, actually. But we have to be honest about the intent of the H1B program if we want to fix it.

TBH I would support throwing away H1B entirely and creating a much more permissive midskill/lowskill immigration visa whose intent is more in-line with the actual use of the H1B. But if you try to get there by reforming H1B, it's never going to work well. So, if we keep H1B, we need to start using it as intended. And then fight for another visa class. I'm just fundamentally skeptical that the H1B will ever not be abusive until we align the original intent and practice of the policy.
If you can get one then you can get the other, for any compression format that allows varying compression ratios.
David Heinemeier Hansson: 'Apple Has Approved Hey Without In-App Purchasing '
The Goldilocks Management Structure
If there's a class of Matrix clients, naming one of the Matrix is more confusing than not. Probably call it Spoon, or Kung-Fu (as in "I know Kung-Fu"), but probably not LotsOfGuns.
Same here. When I first saw that feature 2014 on my MBP back then I thought Linux will have that soon. Man was I wrong....But actually it should work, as I can e.g. tap 3 fingers on a link now here on a XPS to open it in a new tab.
Is the black person that gets into deadly altercations with the police an “average” black person?

Of the two incidents that have caused much civil unrest lately (enough to be heard of on this side of the Atlantic) there's been one walking catalogue of locally available illicit substances (per the autopsy), and another one passed out drunk driver, with both of course resisting arrest after it is inevitable (with one of them also trying to use a police weapon in the process). Could those be just about anybody? “Average”, really?
Are you implying that Amazon is not paying the taxes they're legally required to?

If not, then I don't think the problem is solved by saying they "could pay taxes" since they already are, but rather that the government could be levying more taxes on businesses like Amazon.
>Maybe Amazon is doing something similar?

Yep!

https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/environment/sustainab...

Disclaimer: Amazon employee, not speaking on behalf of the company, just posting a link to something I am aware of.
In my experience the random stuff I buy off of whatever $Auction_Site seems identical to what I buy from $Local_Vendor, but with no QA or packaging. The defect/failure rate is higher and it takes a lot more time to arrive, but the cost is significantly less.

It's possible that there are more counterfeits, but I don't think the stuff off of $Auction_Site is likely (>50% chance) to be a counterfeit just because it's from $Auction_Site.
On the level of black Americans? Probably not, no. Literal slavery is not the same level of oppression as discrimination.
Like this...?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre

I think it would qualify for lethal force.
Check out https://www.marcopolo.me/

It will even stream an in-progress video message to you as it's being recorded if you happen to be looking at the app then.
JetBrains makes an IDE and that is the default font in the IDE. So to be fair to them, at least theirs is a case where investing in a font has a direct effect on the product and business.
I agree with you, but keep in mind that those numbers represent the generation of the process node, rather than specific physical characteristics. Intel 10nm is roughly comparable to TSMC's 7nm.

The problem (in my non-insider view) is that Intel's 10nm just hasn't delivered. It was delayed substantially, and faced several problems even after rollout.
hn is particularly anti-immigration when it comes to h1b/immigrants "taking" tech jobs.

also a lot veiled xenophobia re: developers from poorer countries which is absolutely disgusting (and it's something that hits me particularly).
I wonder; if you had a list of donors, then you could be selling the privilege of getting your name on the list.
You'll probably also enjoy Nvidia's Denver architecture[1] (used in the Tegra processors) which JITs ARM bytecode into their own internal instruction set inside of the processor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver
Current wires aren't made of molecules? Sounds like a Monster Cable marketing plan.
> At any rate, I completely agree that there's nothing wrong with this initiative. Every bit potentially helps; I don't see this diverting resources from other efforts.

That was the point I was trying to make. Amazon's $2B investment isn't mutually exclusive with government efforts to combat climate change. It's additive.

The knee-jerk reactions to Amazon's climate initiatives from the HN comments are disappointing.
"If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted,... CO2 will need to be reduced ...to at most 350 ppm, but likely less than that - Hansen et al.(2008)" [1]

Neutral is not enough. So I hope they will be plowing large amounts of the fund into negative-emissions technologies. Either that or make large swathes of the planet into a disco ball.

[1] Young People's Burden: Requirement of Negative CO2 Emissions. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1609/1609.05878.pdf
Youth services director sent children to pedophiles, and himself, for 30 years
something which might help is sticking to regular meal times, sleep times, and wake times. it will help regulate your system
> If Gmail or Twitter can do it, so can you.

I don't have the resources or user base of Gmail or Twitter. Not even close.
And that’s infinitely more on-point than some relatively mild policy debates in the WSJ! The difference in those cases would be the foreign policy concerns vs a domestic debate, so there’s still some context to discuss, but the comment I’m replying to is blowing this out of proportion and also legitimizing Cotton’s op-Ed by comparing it the prior ones.