skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t get it.
“5x smaller” and “0.2x the size” are the same.

Can you explain then what do you expect to be the meaning of “two times smaller”?
Three finger drag is also a killer feature for me, and unfortunately that very feature highlights a key difference in the way macOS and the Linux desktop are developed [1].

To get three-finger drag to work, you need a gesture right? So you report the issue to libinput. Libinput looks at it and says "well, this is more than just a gesture", and says "this should be implemented in the compositor". Now, this is desktop Linux, and now you need to get at least three compositor projects to agree that 1) yes it's their problem, it isn't a libinput problem and 2) to actually fix it in their compositor. Sigh. And what's more - this isn't even the end of the problem! This is just for dragging windows! Now you also need to get this for arbitrary drag and drop actions like moving text or stuff in your file manager, so now you also need fixes in your UI toolkits. There's at least two for that you'll need as well. Pile on top there that most maintainers in this web have never extensively used a Mac, and don't even understand why this is something people want in the first place. This kind of stuff is very hard to fix on the free desktop.

If the same discussion happens for macOS, at worst some manager who is the boss of both of the squabbling teams will get mad, tells them that the UX here is more important than your technical squabbles and orders them to sit down and fix it. To be clear: I completely understand how these layers of abstraction work on the free desktop, and this is much harder to fix. But I sure wish there was a stronger incentive for these abstraction layers to fix these cross cutting concerns.

I have some hopes pinned on recent progress for this [2].

[1]: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89999#c20

[2]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/29...
"Women have different lived experiences than men, and not acknowledging this would be a disservice to humanity."

Then later...

"The tech industry has a long way to go toward gender equality in the workplace. ... I want to see a world where men and women, who make up equal halves of humanity, also make up equal halves of leadership."

So she is doing a disservice to humanity by her logic.

She chose to have a child. She is not holding herself accountable for that decision. Men don't worry about this decision, and therefore have more of an obligation to take care of women.

Go on, continue thinking you can compete with men, who don't have this biological requirement. You will continue to lose, unless you forfeit the privilege of bearing a child, in which case you just became like a man.
This is true, but a senior at google is nothing like the median senior in the valley.

This is the problem with level.fyi; it's good information but too many people point at it and say "look how much software engineers make in the valley". This isn't even close to representative.

It's a bit like looking at biglaw salaries in NYC and saying "look how much lawyers make".
Literally convert Go code to Crystal code. I have not looked into Crystal enough to confirm it's features are a superset of Go's. For example, I saw that Kotlin w/ the advent of their coroutines, had most of Go's features so I wrote a transpiler[0] that got pretty far (can run all of this [0]). I abandoned the project because I have abandoned the JVM.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/go2k
1 - https://github.com/cretz/go2k/tree/master/compiler/src/test/...
You don't have to bring anyone in if they're unqualified, that is not required by any law I'm aware of. This whole thing smells fishy, both the company and/or this incident.
Interesting font. The presentation of this page looks pretty bad on a window that is ~1000px wide. Not sure why it was designed in a way that forced a single ratio.
IDK, what I saw was a several year old game running on the lowest settings and still stuttering a bit.
Ux Designer here... can confirm
Is it optimized for tablets? (surface)
I think it's worth looking at how Apple has gone about similar changes in the past.

It dips its toe in the water. It then eases an ankle in. It finally jumps in fully when it's ready to, and not before.

Along the way, the sort of developers who spend more time posting on Twitter and HN than actually developing complain about each of the first two steps being not enough, and when the third comes moan about "monopoly" this and "lock-in" that.

Apple isn't going to make everyone happy. And it doesn't care to. It brings what it feels its customers want. But it is rarely rushed to something because it's cool or trendy. Apple gets there when it is ready. The times when it has rushed, it's botched the job. So I'm OK with Apple's measured approach.

If what Apple offers you today in Safari isn't what you want, go Firefox.
You could just raise the salaries of translators to $150k to ensure they get a visa. Looking at h1b data it seems they are all employedin the medical field. What do doctors make and why? There’s a shortage of medical professionals. Since translators doesn’t requiring accreditation when you’ll get American workers who will switch into the role from different professions when you increase salary. Making h1bs salary ranked makes the market more efficient and helps adjust incomes in the employees benefit.
But do the devices running Android generally operate with the same requirements as the servers running RHEL?
You don't deserve the downvotes. Just because the technical measures used to protect the content are weak doesn't grant you the right to circumvent it. Hacker-types always seem have this fallacy of "if I can do it, I'm allowed to do it. I understand it -- we're all hackers because we get joy out of breaking technical locks and using things for purposes they weren't intended and rule-layering digital systems. But just because someone uses a cheap lock it doesn't mean you have the right to break it.

Who even cares about the copyright violation vs theft distinction at this point? They're offering access to their content for a price, they're not bothering with draconian DRM and so it's a dick move to just take it.
That's disingenuous. Police brutality almost always comes up in the context of BLM and in this specific case the article made it a racial issue. You can't do that and then say "why are we talking about race" when (the general) you started the conversation talking about race.
Been using cloudskew for sometime. Happy with it. Great support.
When I last worked in Python, I also didn't get much benefit, but I wasn't using either mypy or an IDE that warns on type errors. While obviously a different language, it wasn't until I worked with TypeScript in VSCode that I really came to appreciate static typing. And after a few years, I don't think I could go back to working without it.
Considering the fact that 99% of people murdered by police are getting a lot of airtime right now, I think we can say that the ratio is closer to 100:1.
You shoot 200 people with tasers, a few are going to die.

You get 200 people fired from their jobs and make it hard for them to get employment elsewhere, a few are going to kill themselves. (Or see if they can get revenge first.)
Looks like Vue.js to me.
Magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes Mexico
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not true. Th US and the Caribbean have a slaver and white supremacists culture that didn't exist in the UK.

https://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/

https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/...

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=WLovR6DgNFEC&oi=...

https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/brief-history-slavery-a...
"The number of deaths per day and hospitalized patients, however, has remained flat for weeks, down from their peaks in mid-April. That is beginning to change, as hospitalization levels creep back up. Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Monday that hospitalizations had increased 16% in the past two weeks."

I always thought, based on what I've read/heard, that one of the big reasons, maybe the biggest reason we're doing all this is to flatten the curb so hospitals don't get overwhelmed. For some reason headlines always seem to be number of cases or positive test results, and maybe then the number in the hospital is mentioned. The article does say "hospitalization and deaths are also believed to be a lagging indicator." so maybe that's why, but I don't get why (from what I've seen) hospitalizations don't seem to be all that important when reporting on COVID numbers in general. Could it be the people getting the virus now are less likely to end up in the hospital so that number won't keep going up to the point of causing trouble? Another headline on the site says "17+ students test positive for COVID-19 after beach trip".
Presenting a Challenge and Workshop in Efficient Open-Domain Question Answering
Several years ago two guys (who iirc were friends and there together) were at some industry conference and one whispered to the other a suggestive joke about dongles. A woman (who I believe was a complete stranger to both of them) was sitting a few rows back and heard them and posted on Twitter how these guys were horrible misogynists and etc and got the Twitter mob to attack them.
Yes, we are extending the option exercise windows for 10 years. For folks who haven't hit their 1-yr cliffs, we waived the cliffs and so they vested for the time they were at Dark.
> the repository languages used to be at the top center of the page

This is not an accessibility issue.

> The stars and other top bar links are off centered

This is not an accessibility issue.

> followers are now on the other side of the screen

This is not an accessibility issue.

You having different preferences has nothing to do with accessibility.
I think European police is about as brutal and vicious when suppressing dissent (like yellow vests or the Catalonia thing) but significantly less likely to just murder you for fun when you're just walking on the street.
> failing to put a value on human life in each relevant context is akin to saying there is no value to human life at all.

This is the crux of the problem with metric-based examination of nearly everything except physics.

It is not nearly akin to that. If anything, saying that you can have a metric that measures the value of human life is much more akin to saying there is no value to human life at all -- all of life is "haggling over the price" as it were.

Saying that it cannot be measured is just making an epistemological declaration of lack of knowledge. Not of the general form of "well, we just have to find the right variable and plug them in to the right formula" but of the form of "this is not well-suited to being reduced to a metric, as any such reduction will mask aspects of its value that are obvious but not easily measured".

To be clear on the dangers (as if the McKinsey-fication of "dump the pollution in pooristan" wasn't enough) the problem is that given an imperfect approximation to some theoretical perfect metric, we have absolutely no way of determining how imperfect it is. There's nothing to measure it against except other potential metrics. There's absolutely no concept of ground truth -- the universe will not correct you (as it will if you measure mass incorrectly when doing physics).
Bean bags should be renamed to lead bags... it would be more appropriate
We Shouldn’t be Scared by ‘Superintelligent A.I.’
Depressed, but not because of the virus. I'm disillusioned with tech. I don't want to write software anymore. I don't even want to look at a screen anymore. I'm doing the bare minimum to make sure I don't get fired, but most days even doing that is a struggle. When I get a notification on my phone, I want to take a hammer and smash my phone into pieces.

The only things keeping me sane at the moment are camping (which I've been doing every chance I get), yard-work, or sitting in my backyard and watching bees gather nectar.

I'm the only one making a salary in my household which supports my wife and kids. We have health issues also, so must have health insurance. With the price of housing and groceries continuing to skyrocket - and one of my kids approaching college age soon - it only re-enforces the idea that I have to stay in this occupation for much longer. I want a simple work-to-live not live-to-work life on some acreage, but I'm trapped in this suburban life-style.
By "disproportionate" I was comparing to the general population as a baseline. You are right that it doesn't imply bias. See this other topic for a breakdown:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23578103

Regardless, even if it is purely due to bias, it doesn't really justify the difference in fear between "carefree" and "won't go outside".
That was my reaction as well.

He's selling courses using a freemium model.

The software is the inbound content.
Totally agree.

> If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character.
If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home.
If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations.
When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world.

- Confucious
> This does not necessarily imply that there is racial bias by the police, however.

A 2010 NY State report on police-on-police shootings, studying them nationally, found clear evidence of racial bias being a factor in suh shootings.

But I'm sure that either racial bias has been eliminated in the last decade or it somehow doesn't effect police interactions with people who aren’t unrecognized police officers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/nyregion/27shoot.html?aut...
> Using real names isn't to "drive clicks" and "appease advertisers." It's to add credibility to a story.

If the NYT actually thinks they need to use the real name of the author of Slate Star Codex to add credibility to a story about the blog, they're delusional.

I think it's much more likely that they simply don't care about the valid personal concerns of people they write about.
(We detached this large subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23610880)
Can you edit the title to say "Slingcode: personal computing platform in a single html file". I think that would make the purpose of Slingcode clearer to more people.
I think there's a good case to be made that most well-designed fonts, particularly for body text, still cost money. It takes a lot of time and effort to design a good body font. Having said that, the word "still" in my first sentence is doing a lot of work. :) I think over the last... oh, let's say 15 years, free fonts (both in the freedom and beer sense of "free") have really stepped up their game, and there's an increasing number of great ones out there.

Having said that, though, if you're an organization looking for subtle branding through typography, you aren't gonna go for any font, commercial or otherwise, that's in wide use. For Goldman Sachs, the cost isn't the point -- it's not like they couldn't afford to license any font they wanted in perpetuity. The branding is.
I can confirm this is false. I have MacOS Big Sur on my MacBook Pro 2017, and it identifies as 11.0.
If you look at the FBI statistics, most White people will be killed by Whites. You are more likely to be killed by people you know.
How confident are you that your numbers are accurate, given that police self-report their numbers?

For instance, I've been reading lately that black men have been found hanging from trees by nooses in California recently, and that the deaths were ruled suicide. Do you believe that these deaths were suicide?
Mean salary isn't a very useful number if the distribution isn't close to normal; Without all the data it's hard to be sure - but that plausibly seems to be the case for SV salaries. Certainly matches my personal networks experience (sample biased as that may be).

Where did you get that 110k figure, by the way? That sounds very high for me for a median across all US software. Maybe California specific?
The latter. Basically the missing $2b of cash equals the sum total of all the net income the company claimed to have earned over its entire history (which was the basis for its $27b market cap at its peak). As for why, who knows, they probably would have gone under during the financial crisis in 2008 and lost their jobs if they hadn’t cooked the books. Then once you start doing that you’re on a treadmill to keep it going, similar to the Madoff fraud. And in the meantime, the CEO gets to be the big man of the German tech scene and enjoy the perks of being a billionaire on paper. It must have been pretty stressful though, that’s for sure! These kind of people have some way of compartmentalizing things so they can function on a day to day basis.
I know this is about the coming MacOS 11.0, but Catalina was the end of OS X for me, and the end of Macs in general for me. I will not be migrating from Mojave to Catalina, and will use my current generation of Macs until they are obsolete, while finally making the transition to Linux. Mac and I had a good run, but I'm clearly no longer the target demographic and their corporate goals aren't aligned with mine as a customer any more.
It seems strange that Crystal would not utilize more than 100% of the CPU in the HTTP benchmark given that it ran on an 8-core machine and with fibers should be able to split the load across multiple cores. What explanation is there for that? Also, it's impressive that while using one third of the CPU Crystal outperformed the Go HTTP server on throughput.
Kinda ironic that they talk about the legibility of the numbers but the page they are presented in is quite hard to read: https://i.imgur.com/DItuHiL.png
I actually found that most of the police in China are not particularly scary. I'm sure they can mess up your day if they wanted to, but the day to day officers are unarmed, not particularly physically imposing (lots of normal looking men and women). They wear a sort of light blue office collared shirt.

Outside of big cities it gets even more lax. You just see police officers hanging out like regular people. I once saw an old guy get into an argument with the cops that looked like an argument between two people, not between "officer and civilian". In the US that wouldn't happen, the officer would feel slighted and probably arrest that guy, or the guy would never dare to talk back to a police officer in the first place.

But to your point I suspect the military police is very brutal.
OS X (the name) is gone for a while, it was replaced by macOS. The numbering change now is inconsequential.
wait, how do you find readmes easier now?

They used to be full width no matter how wide your window was (I put to 1/2 for browser). Now they only occupy 70% of that space. So I just lost 30% of my readme width to empty space. This is just terrible UX
Not to disagree with the post in general, but at a thousand/year shot and killed by the police in US, they probably are one of the most dangerous threat

For comparison in Italy in 2019 there have been 3 people killed by the police, and people have - rightfully IMO - complained every single time.

In US more than 1k (1040 to be precise) died shot by cops

If we compare the population, there should have been at least 180 victims of police gunning in Italy

That's clearly unacceptable.

Or, from another angle, it means that criminality in US is so much worse than the average EU country that it's ok to kill so many people in the name of safety.
This is disingenuous and only possible if you ignore the multiple other anti-immigrant changes the Trump administration has made.
Additionally, JIT would need a special entitlement to be able to change a page of memory from writable to executable. This is a little dangerous from a security perspective, and even Apple only grants it to apps the specifically need it.
The tax & divided definitely seems like an ideal solution, but we can't waste another twenty years trying to convince voters to institute it. Carbon tax & dividend proposals have gone nowhere for twenty years now. Even in Washington, the latest attempt lost by almost 70% against.
The numpy support is super impressive, thanks for the great write-up!
> and not fall afoul of anti-trust laws.

Well, it seems easy enough. Just don't call yourself a union.. call yourself a "standards body" and organize the way ANSI and ISO do.
yup, this is a Jira move, GitHub sounds like it's on it's way down fast
A little weird that the top nav in a repo is flush left instead of using auto margins and a max-width like the rest of the page under the nav.
Content Is the Hero
There is a database of police shootings. You can look up a representative sample of cases.
Marginal tax rates can be misleading, especially because (as the linked article itself states) they apply to different levels of income.

Effective tax rates provide a clearer picture. Let's take one example.

I plugged in $200k (CAD 270k, admittedly quite high for Ontario) of income to a California[1] and Ontario[2] tax calculator.

For California, I used the following: "Filing status - Single, 401k deductions - $19k". Effective tax rate: 30%.

For Ontario, I assumed CAD 26.5k in RRSP deductions. Effective tax rate: 35%.

> cost of real estate/rent in Toronto or Vancouver is not significantly cheaper than SF

Buying isn't cheaper. Renting is still significantly cheaper (at least by 1/3).

> salaries are lower

This is true.

> cost of living expenses...are higher

Cellphones and internet, yes. Everything else (yes, even milk and dairy products if you shop at Costco) is comparable to US prices.

> you're still going to want to carry supplemental health insurance

Most employers provide this. And vision/dental is far cheaper than paying for everything.

I'm not saying you'll end up with more money if you live in Canada. I just want to point out that many of the fears of "higher taxes" and "higher CoL" may be a bit overblown.

1. https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator

2. https://simpletax.ca/calculator
Mixer Streamers Respond with Tears, Outrage, Anger After Mixer’s Closure
It didn't have stock iPad RAM, it had 16GB of RAM. More details on it here: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/22/apple-developer-t...
And that's common IT management right there. The group that is being audited for bad behavior gets no say over the audit process, and no say over giving or rescinding access to the audit trail. But when it comes to police, we put cameras on them to shut up the peasants, but we ensure nothing will change by making sure the department has control over the incriminating data.
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Lots of brands sell things with prices only justifiable by the branding and associated prestige.

The authors tactic of paywalling things behind a "donation" seems legally much more dubious.
Forgive me for the repetition you are about to see, I'm attempting to apply a bit of formality to the reasoning in question:

The Scott who posts at slatestarcodex.com is the Scott who is scott@slatestarcodex.com.

Therefore, the material Scott when attempting to pin down Scott in the context of slatestarcodex is scott@slatestarcodex.com.

Human X out in meat space could or could not be Scott, but that much is immaterial, as scott@slatestarcodex.com has been shown to be directly linked to Scott Alexander the blogger as a means of contacting him.

Thus I ask: what better proof could one have that scott@slatestarcodex.com is Scott Alexander, author of slatestarcodex?
The National Guard is a military force. They aren't trained for non-lethal combat and quite frankly shouldn't be, that's not their job. Even if they WERE, it takes DAYS to get a unit online and ready to operate, that's not an acceptable timeline for a scenario in which Police would need to use non-lethal force.