skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all due respect, I'm not sure the BI graphs are great support for the thesis. All of the economic ones are essentially the same: if you're poor, you have less savings, are less likely to be employed, less likely to be CEO, less likely to have health insurance, and so on. They're expected to be correlated, so in some sense they are not as informative as a whole as one might guess from the large amount of them. It's also not clear that this has anything to do with racism, economists would point to a whole load of confounders which mags like BI tend to skip over.

The one I found interesting was marijuana, where at least we have two measurements of the same thing, smoking up and getting caught with the stuff. That could be expanded on, as there's a thesis out there that police focus their resources unreasonably on black people.

A really good study that investigated this would be something like the essays in Steven Levitt's books. A load of numbers, a load of potential explanations, dig into the numbers and every explanation falls (eg if abortions reduced crime it would be correlated across other datasets, ie countries) except for one or two.

At the moment my leaning is actually with you, but mainly from anecdotal evidence. Almost every trip I've had to America has has this weird race-vibe to it at some point. I go to a wedding, and everyone is 95% a minority race. I go to a comedy night, comedian jokes about my race. I hear someone talking, I somehow know what colour they are before I see them. So something about the society has race coded into it.

And then of course there are these horrendous incidents that we hear about every now and again, where some poor black man has been shot by police. I'm sure far more have simply been mistreated, because just by it coming up in conversation with other people, it turns out one of them witnessed such a beating.

But what we need is proper statistical evidence. The BI charts you've got there would be torn apart by an economist in a second.
I think your comment just proves the parent's point
DUDE. They got root.

If this was a computer system, then they managed to leverage lobbying until they were able to move enough pieces to be able to turn money into real systemic changes, and at this point they've reached the top. They've also reached the bottom in the sense that if this was a pure democracy, they'd still get majority vote through manipulating non-experts.

The government is a system, and you're a "hacker." Honestly, how much further could the wealthy escalate their privileges?

P.S. Go vote anyways.
Starve:

... transitive verb
a: to kill with hunger
b: to deprive of nourishment
c: to cause to capitulate by or as if by depriving of nourishment

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/starve
Your intuition is correct. A comment a few levels down cites some studies, but basically:

More heat -> Bigger temperature differentials -> More potential energy in the atmosphere -> Bigger storms + more wind -> More lightening.

This has been predicted by climate scientists for decades.

I first heard about it in the late ‘90s, but people have unearthed studies that predicted this in the 70s, and perhaps earlier.
HN is an echo chamber on anything Facebook related. Everyone here is patting themselves on the back
Yes, Hacker News is a lot better than Facebook, I think. Here, the crowd seems to skew extremely libertarian and contrarian and really, really, really, really, really kneejerk hates JavaScript, but on Facebook I was regularly seeing hate speech and conspiracy theories.

I do think one is worse than the other.
You made a compelling argument. I tend to think of those interactions as if they were one to one as opposed to the megaphone provided by social media.

I am not am in agreement, but I will sleep on it.
It does prevent confusion! It prevents confusion about who Microsoft thinks owns my computer once I install their OS.
Here's an update from Payoneer issued just now https://blog.payoneer.com/exclusive/wirecard-prepaid-card-up...
From all causes? Covid number is lower

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Fortunately, hearing damage is a function of both pressure and time, so your hearing can survive loud bangs as long as they are very brief.
Yes but I've been in a situation trying to debug CUPS because it was corrupting fonts, and urgently needed a print out of something. So, pick your poison...
It has made everyone, if not smarter then, better informed.

We are in a "eternal September". It will pass (not literally eternal)

I would not go back. It is brilliant
> Why was Twitter included in this?

Have you ever been on Twitter? It's not exactly where you go to look for inspirations for best human behavior, compassion and inclusiveness.
Areas with BLM actions have not seen an increase in rates of infection.

https://www.popsci.com/story/health/black-lives-matter-prote...
I understand what you're getting at. It's like you're trying to put out a fire in your kitchen when your whole house is on fire. It would work if you could get it all done at once but not when you try to do it piecemeal.
We could have both. Opt in social networks with real ids for serious stuff and entertainment Social media Free for all Slike we have now for uhhh entertainment.
I have to say, living in NYC I'm pretty thankful for the quarantine requirement from anyone coming in from outside the tri-state area. I like to at least think we're on the downswing, although who really knows.

It's not like anyone will listen anyway, but it's a nice thought...
I say that as a software dev in the business for over a decade. Couldn’t it be that the ThinkPad crowd is a smaller bubble? At least the ones with a SIM card.
We don't have a "representative democracy," we have an oligarchy.

Our representation was lobbied away, like, 2 decades ago. Now they're just mocking us.

Go vote anyways.
Information in the Light of Media. What's Manipulation and What's Overreaction
I like plantUML, I really do. but I think more people will be attracted by it, if they improve design and colors, so it looks modern out of box without any hacking
Did they mention who exactly?
Show HN: Side Project for Drone Flyers
Your internet is way more censored that ours and Putin is planning on making his own great firewall.

>Putin Signs 'Russian Internet Law' To Disconnect Russia From The World Wide Web
> The secretive government agency planting 'cyanide bombs' across the US

There's some sort of secret organisation putting arsenic packages around cities as well.

Might be attempts from the illuminati to kill off the homeless or your pet dogs or something, it's hard to know.

Any old kid could pick one up and eat them, nothing is registered on any web sites of locations.
Uh, I'm confused. The PS4 has been cracked. Jailbreaks exist. And yes, they enable piracy. But like any console that is still being actively supported/updated by the manufacturer, it requires a certain firmware version (or below).
I’m curious about the supposed memory advantages of dynamic linking: on average how many different executables share each page of memory? What about when memory is in high demand? How high does that average become? What is the probability that a page of a shared library is already in memory (cache or otherwise) when it needs to be loaded, and in particular the probability that it is there because another program loaded it).

My guess is that apart from eg libc, the average is pretty low (ie 1 for the pages that aren’t free).
> Here is some statistical evidence for systemic racism

None of those charts appear to be controlled for confounders. Doing that correctly is hard, but not doing it at all is ridiculous. It allows you to "prove" that many engineering schools (with majority-white admissions boards) are racist against white people in favor of Asians, or that "racism" exists to the benefit of first generation African immigrants who by many metrics are better off than the US population average.

> I think social proof, despite not being actual proof, is more powerful than you folks would like to believe it is.

It can be effective in convincing people on political issues, but that's pure tribalism. It's anti-science, because it "works" independent of whether there is any truth in the assertion or not.
It's not an echo chamber for "for hate speech and mis-information".
I'm actually an android user, but okay.
Huge fan of making utilities out of the most successful services as a default modus operandi.
Micronaut supports Kotlin coroutines since 1.3.

You're mostly stuck to Rx outside Kotlin, tho.
Putting the emphasis on UML is a bit misleading actually (even though it is literally in the name of the tool). I use it for basically any kind of ad hoc diagramming. Essentially, an equivalent of Markdown for PowerPoint charts if that makes sense. A few quick lines in text that look mostly like what they come out as in the diagram and you have a very nice representation of a workflow etc.
Official statement: https://www.unileverusa.com/news/news-and-features/2020/driv...

> Given our Responsibility Framework and the polarized atmosphere in the U.S., we have decided that starting now through at least the end of the year, we will not run brand advertising in social media newsfeed platforms Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in the U.S.

> We will maintain our total planned media investment in the U.S. by shifting to other media.
when I was living in an AT&T building

The dystopian future is here.
The person you replied to deserves for you to reread their comment if you think they are "approvingly replying".
Cute, but on my iPad I can only operate one antenna at a time.
> whether to camp under trees (and get killed by a falling branch) or by camping in a clear field (and get struck by lightening)

Camping under trees also increases your likelihood of being struck by lightning when there's a thunderstorm.
I've long suspected that part of the problem is that we don't yet have the right mathematics. The math we do have allows very accurate predictions ... it's right in that sense ... and some (clouded) insight.

Epicycles did work for the solar system. But the modern solution was much simpler.
Appeals Court Revives Record Labels’ Lawsuit Against YouTube Rippers
Ask HN: Switching schools to Georgia Tech worth it?
I am considering leaving my current Masters of CS program at a lower ranking school to attend GT OMSCS.

How important is a degree from a top CS school in regards to getting a job at a FAANG company?

Should I just stay at my current school and practice leetcode every day until I graduate instead?

My bachelors and work experience are not relevant.
If you don't pay fines, if you don't pay the government-deemed-appropriate deductions on your paycheck, you will be arrested.

You will be jailed for whatever you want to want to call it -- contempt of court, tax fraud, whatever, but EOD, if you don't pay the cash, you end up in jail. And putting you in jail (if you do not wish to comply) will be armed police.

I don't understand how this is complicated.
Yes, it should be a dumb platform if anonymity is not possible in any way. So if you want to have a FB account, you need to provide everything that makes it possible to identify you in physical space.

If anonymity is required then it should be a heavily moderated platform.

I guess these two are the only feasible options.
What I find so strange is that while I am no supporter of the military complex in the US, all of my ire is directed at the civilian oversight and not the military itself.

The military generals wanted to close bases that it didn’t need and that they thought was wasteful - the government wouldn’t close them because of the job loss.

The military leaders have said one of the biggest threats to our democracy is our ballooning national debt - I can’t find a quote from a general but you will find plenty of pro-military sites that agree. But yet the civilian government ignores the threat.

The military has plenty of weapon programs that it would love to mothball. But again, Senators are worried about job loss and they keep making weapons and selling them to foreign governments.

The government can spend billions on weapons that the military doesn’t need and private contractors but won’t equip soldiers with what they need.

There have been plenty of stories about how the civilian government has recently put soldiers health in danger for photo ops and exposing them to Covid unnecessarily. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/magazine/navy-captain-cro...)
Note that some brands under Unilever (like Ben & Jerry's) had already stopped their Facebook ad spend. Unilever is also only pausing advertising on these platforms in the US.
Obviously these are not just black and white issues. There are lots of nuance here. However, I stand by the word of law being the overarching governing principle.

Let me ask you a question. What if the big 3 grocery stores in town decided not to sell you groceries unless you stop doing an activity they consider distasteful but is otherwise legal? Would you still be OK with it?
I honestly can't say I know if moving to opt-in would change police forces. I'd guess that military provisions of the GI Bill and training towards some tradecraft also help make the decision to leave easier. I wonder if there is something along those lines that could sweeten the deal to get people both in and out with less friction.

Just riffing now, let's say you add benefits the police officer can use after a term (versus only retirement type benefits that incentivize staying in) and some means of assistance into a new occupational field within the first term. It would seem the force also gets the added benefits of (1) more and a wider range of recruits, (2) workers who hate it have incentive to leave or at least don't feel/aren't trapped, and (3) just guessing, but I imagine the cost of the whole force goes down. Between a drop in average time in service of police officers due to more dropping out and fewer staying to retirement, the cost of the whole police force would drop. The new benefits' costs are an offset, though.

Edit: I wonder how an ROTC-type program would do. Make the rule police officers need a degree. That gets the level of officer up. The department pays for the four year degree and perhaps some living stipend, but you commit to an equal number of years on the force. As an office approaching end of that first term, you're making some new-ish public worker pay despite having a good Bachelor's degree (and no student loan debt). That gives incentive to leave.

Having to graduate first is a definite pro for the department, but it does run into problems if the recruit student fails a class, doesn't graduate, etc. Not sure how you deal with that. Maybe they work a lower level job
for the department while in school to help offset that.
This could be one of the reasons why

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/12/675359781/americas-growing-co...

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national-politics/the-...

It will only get worse.

I wonder if AI and robotics will need to be used in the future assuming that the police shortage trend continues or gets even worse?
My problem with Surface is the lack of apps that properly support a stylus. I don't like OneNote for a number of reasons and there are no decent alternatives. Also, from the stories I've heard, QC on Surface Pros is abysmal, as is support from MS.
You're right, but I think it actually reinforces the OP's point.

How do you make the adamantly noncompliant comply? You can ask nicely, you can threaten, you can stomp your feet, and if that doesn't work...then what?
If you want BASIC as a scripting language, and VB isn't the answer, then you can get the remarkably capable BBC BASIC for many platforms for not much money at http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic.html.

A couple of years ago I got an software exception request (regulated industry...don't ask) from a developer who wanted permission to use this. No one had any idea what to make of it, so it bubbled up to me. Turns out the developer was British, started out on BBC BASIC, and even though nothing in the app was BASIC, he'd written an amazingly comprehensive testing scaffold in it. I granted the request on the condition that they train at least 2 other devs to maintain it. It was impressive enough I bought my own copy and used it for various scripting tasks on Windows until PowerShell became what the cool kids used.
You betcha! I live in the East bay and Sonic gigabit fiber to the house delivers 1Gb/s up and down. No data caps. $62 per month includes taxes, fees, and a VOIP phone line. Dynamic IP address, but you can't have everything.
Thanks for linking, dev here. Yes, perfectly usable for automation!
> At no point was there ever a threat of force from Beto, especially not with armed police.

"In that case, I think that there would be a visit by law enforcement to recover that firearm and to make sure that it is purchased, bought back, so that it cannot be potentially used against somebody else," O'Rourke told the Morning Joe co-hosts. [1]

I certainly wouldn't expect we'd be sending unarmed law enforcement to a recalcitrant gun owner's home to force him to surrender his firearms.

https://www.newsweek.com/beto-orourke-gun-buyback-assault-we...
This would've been very useful in my college days. A 300-person lecture plus a professor with horrible chalk handwriting who didn't host any TA sections was not conducive to learning.
To be fair, you're not really supposed to be shipping a full system in a docker image if you can help it; you're supposed to layer your application over the smallest base that will support it (whether that's scratch, distroless, alpine, or a minimal debian base). Of course, I'll be the first to agree that "supposed to" and reality have little in common; if I had a dollar for every time I've seen a final image that still included the whole compiler chain...
I have no idea what your point is. The monopoly of violence stands behind literally every law on the books. Going down the rabbit hole on the particular example of fines is missing the forest for the trees. If you have an issue with the monopoly on violence being behind ultimately behind the government fines, then you have an issue with organized society itself.

But we have a whole set of other measures - fines, penalties, negotiations, loss of benefits - and institutions to enforce them before ever calling upon the actual violence provided by the monopoly for a reason: so that most common societal infractions never need to escalate to the point of violence.
None of the recent firmware have been cracked.
Daily covid hospitalizations have doubled over the past month in Texas.

https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/tmc-daily-new-covid-...
I didn't say they were perfectly distinguishable. You have reasons simple ratios don't result in physical waveform attributes relevant to music. I posit you should just really think about that for like five seconds. Otherwise I don't know what to tell you. Look up Pythagoras or maybe what a wave is or something.
This is an argument that I think too often goes unexamined. Yes, the state obviously depends on a monopoly on violence to sustain itself, but that monopoly alone is not sufficient. After all, in order for the state to exercise violence, individual people need to agree to exert violence on the state’s behalf. The authority to deploy violence in a culturally sanctioned manner can’t come from violence itself. For people to agree that the state has the sole right to deploy violence, there must be a more fundamental source of legitimacy.

For example, you could argue that the murder of the Gracchi was the beginning of the end for the Roman republic: once it became clear that the government was no longer playing by the rules and might really did make right, the republic’s legitimacy was fatally weakened. Before long you get a generation of civil war and the end of the republic.
You can easily see the answer to this question when you try to write (and copmpile, and package, and use as a library in another software) in C any of the examples written in higher-level dynamic languages (Clojure, in my case, or Python, Julia, etc. if you prefer that).

Compare the number of LOC or any other metric. Once you have high-level access to underlying algorithms (implemented in whatever native technology, but hidden), it is much, much, simpler to work at high-level.
"The internet has shown that most people are very very stupid."

A extremely elitist and arrogant comment. Where is your evidence?
Thanks for sharing, dev here. It's an unofficial tool, but fully featured for sure. Supports link shortening or QR code generation as well.
I know that it needs time as well, but as the pressure goes up the time might become so short that you could get hearing damage from just that momentary bang. Especially if if's so loud that they describe it with words I would not know to apply to any sound. Hence my question.
Pretty sure that was on the front page a reddit just a few days ago.
> behavior that happens to be broken along racial and class lines

A huge coincidence.
There's probably a good explanation, but let me ask the question: why do we need to have men cutting hard road surfaces?

If a city extends their subway network, they dont demolish all buildings on top, lay the tracks, and then rebuild. They do it without any major interference to the surface. Similarly for mountain tunnels, you dont start by demolishing a mile of rock. We just dig the tunnel.

Couldn't someone invent a robot to dig fibre tunnels? Then we wouldnt need to bother any shop owners or neighbours with noise and inconvenience?
Actually, black people use drugs at slightly lower rates than whites. This is common knowledge or should be. Here's 3 of the top 6 google links for "illicit drug use by race":

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377408/

https://www.hamiltonproject.org/charts/rates_of_drug_use_and...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004723521...
Hm a lot of good points for me to think about here.
Lybia too the result of foreign interference. Europe and USA
That's a good question. Lets say that we're mostly ok with the manifestation of moderation acted out by dang et al here at HN, and less positive about the moderation in other places like FB/reddit.

Given that as a backdrop, how would you characterize the important variables that affect the relative perception of these moderation approaches?

I'll start: 1. Well articulated rules/ethic. 2. Transparent moderation actions. 3. Few "hard lines": dang may step in to remind people of the rules as they approach the line. The precedence of rules is flexible and depends on the context.
> The ratio is tilted heavily in favor of abusers

This has been my personal experience, but I don't know of any statistics that capture this, so I don't think we can make that conclusion at this moment.

However, from my time in the Marine Corps, which also attracts some people who are amoral dominators, I can say it very much depends on the culture. The Corps pushes personal accountability and camaraderie very strongly in its culture. I witnessed people who were professed racists change in just a few months to accepting all skin colors, people who were completely self-centered narcissists turn into strong team players. It didn't work all the time, and wasn't uniform across the service, but a strong, zero tolerance culture can mold people into it.

> There is a third category beyond abusers and "law upholders": those who stand by and do nothing, thereby enabling the abusers and silently endorsing their behavior.

When I listed categories, I should have made it more clear that it's really a spectrum with opposing values on either end. People who stand by and do nothing would lie more towards the middle, not having a strong enough valuation of justice to step in and stop it, but not a strong enough desire for power abuse to join in. A random person on the street could have a strong sense of justice but still not condone police brutality by standing idly, but I think you are right that a police officer is responsible for violence by not attempting to circumvent it; stopping violence like that is the REASON they have special legal protections.