skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm well aware of the nuance of 'COPS' but those issues don't remotely rise to the need for cancellation. There is quite a lot of 'reality' that comes through even the producers lens, and that's worth something. It's the original 'reality TV'.

And as for 30 Rock: they were obviously not doing 'Blackface' - they were using the notion of Blackface as a comedic device.

'Blackface' is a vaudevillian concept of dressing up as Black people in order to mock them. In 30 Rock, the device was used only by idiotic characters doing stupid and embarrassing things. If anything, they were embellishing the obvious social principle that 'Blackface is bad'.

That people misconstrue 'doing Blackface' with 'mocking Blackface' is quite literally at the heart of the problem of the 'mob mentality' - and that's not even getting into the more complicated issue of whether 'dressing up as someone of possibly another race' is even wrong or immoral in the first place.

And of course, sometimes jokes are a little off - that's comedy and it's ok. In what world do we start banning gags for this reason?

Blackface was obviously wrong 10 years ago and nothing has changed. It's still wrong.

What has changed is the fascism and power of the Twitter mob's ability to deny any kind of context.

Edit: I should add that 'Banning 30 Rock' is not 'catching up with popular interest' - this is misconstruing the opinion of the mob (or your opinion) with the opinion of 'most people'.

Nobody cares about 30 Rocks antics but a few people on the fringes with outsized voices. Network and Ad execs are fearful of said voices - and that's mostly it.

We all live in 'thought bubbles', it's worth walking down the street and looking around, because it's immediately clear that 'most people' are not 'like us'.

If you were to show 100 random episodes of comedy, with a few 30 Rocks sprinkled in, to a 100 Americans, I don't believe a single person would initiate an objection to any of it, let alone 30 Rock.

I'll go further: not even those people who even noticed the cheekiness of the comedy thought to themselves that they ought not to publish it. Not even most of the press writing about it - they're just following the themes and narratives of the hour because that's what they do. It's being pulled because some people (a very small group) are looking for reasons to be outraged and in a hyper-sensitive moment, nobody, but nobody wants to 'disagree' with said outraged person.
If you fly on British Airways, their passenger identity
page has a menu that includes titles: Lord, Lady, Dame, etc.
Of course, you must use this power for good ...
Umm let's see what the SCOTUS said [1] : ... a State decision in an adjudication “in which religious hostility on the part of the State itself” is a factor violates the "State’s obligation of religious neutrality" under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution...The Commission compared Phillips' religious beliefs to defense of slavery or the Holocaust. Kennedy found such comparisons "inappropriate for a Commission charged with the solemn responsibility of fair and neutral enforcement of Colorado’s anti-discrimination law"...

So first of all, SCOTUS "avoided ruling broadly on the intersection of anti-discrimination laws and rights to free exercise"[2]. Second of all, you chose to bring this example up and comment on my understanding without having done your due diligence and understanding the issue properly. Oh the irony!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...
That’s like saying criticizing Nazi Germany doesn’t matter because the kaiser was maybe antisemetic during WW1 too. There’s no morality because maybe someone else was bad too.

Its rank whataboutism. We can evaluate morality from not great, to bad, to really really bad. We can make judgments about individual situations on their merits. The “merits” of the confederacy are really really bad!

Also you’re nutpicking[1] - distractingly from the central facts by finding the most extreme , nuttiest examples of an ideology l

[1]https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nutpicking
Advertisers just go to where the eye balls are at. Facebook has a good moat but places like reddit and twitter don't. There are already clones for both twitter and reddit. Some communities have left reddit and started their own standalone communities. Often times these communities are so tight-knit that most of the users leave the original platform completely. Same story for twitter. People are moving to a new platform called parler.
> but you just don't know it because Japan is 99+% Japanese with <1% being ethnic minorities.

Racism is discussed on Japanese SNS quite often. There are also frequent demonstrations both for racism and against racism. I think the reason people don't really know because it's wasn't actively reported, even on Japanese media.

Additionally, there are 2.93 millions foreigners in Japan [0]. Japan population is 127 millions. That's already 2.3%, and not even counting Ainu and Ryukyuans. It's not large, but it's much larger than <1% you claimed.

[0]: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13256541
Swastika is yet another example of "western universalism", it has a relatively recent negative connotation in Europe & US.

Whereas for Asians, native Americans & for much of the ancient world it has entirely different meanings.
I think Go is pretty well known for being easy to read so I'm not sure what exactly you find hard to read. Duplicated code is not inherently unreadable. Code shouldn't be abstracted away and be made "reusable" before it's been duplicated once anyways. I also believe that the amount of additional code duplication created by the lack of expressive language features is overestimated.

The examples you give doesn't seem to be specific to Go? In Go the error checks are, as most point quickly out, very explicit and often just err != nil checks. Not sure how they can be confusing, albeit repetitive.

I'm a bit surprised by the amount of down votes my reply has received given that this is a pretty common sentiment among very experienced devs within the game dev industry.
>The other way to think about how to steel man the idea would be to think about how the government measures its success which is most likely by whether or not those in power keep staying in power?

The same is true for Google or any corporation, their success is primarily measured by their stock price, not by how well they achieve their ideals
> but boy, do they find other ways to do it as certain church members' families can attest.

Your argument is that, if society was more tolerant of bigots and their symbols, then Dylan Roof might not have murdered nine people? History indicates otherwise: the US was a lot more tolerant of racism in the past and there was a lot more violence.
I can confidently say that I am happy. Everybody close to me thinks that I was born happy and positive but they couldn't be more wrong. Achieving a permanent state of happiness took years of active mental exercises. Since I don't have any credible psychology background, nobody listens to my suggestions in real life. I doubt anybody would take me seriously here as well, but... all I have is time so this will help someone find their own path to happiness.

The first exercise I did in my pursuit of happiness was to understand what it means to be a happy person.

1. (At night) Would a happy person reach for the bottle of scotch? Why would he?

2. Knowing what I know about animal farming, would a happy person enjoy eating meat as much as currently am?

3. Would a happy person be as frustrated as I am with an under performing co-worker?

Once I had an idea of what a happy 'me' would do, I started going down a journey of self reflection. Why am I doing the things a happy me wouldn't do?

The whole journey helps me gain a higher resolution into my feelings and once my mind and my feelings are aligned, the negative feelings went away. My ability to empathize (initially I did not even know what that was) was no longer suppressed. Nowadays, negative feelings are rare, but every negative feeling and pain I feel is an opportunity to align my feelings and my logic.

I believe this: You will never be happy following someone's else's happy path.

You will be happy once you find the courage to confront your demons, reflect, and understand yourself better. Our minds does good job at hiding you from finding these demons, so a big part of the journey is finding and identifying them.
> but more importantly avoid these hard-learned patterns later.

Depends, I’ve known people who have gone through similar experiences and still poo-poo all those “unnecessarily bloated” solutions like a proper database.
>I once ran a large online forum and set up a word filter to replace certain phrases with "fluffy bunnies" and other absurdities. It did a remarkable job of improving discourse once the foul-mouthed types realized their hateful messages were being massaged.

Really? When I've seen this done, all that happens is you end up the 'approved' word. Everyone knows what it means though. So I guess if all you care about is the word itself, and not the meaning of it, it does work great. In reality if every instance of 'shit' is replaced with 'barnacle', if I call you a 'barnacle head' on said forum, we both know what I'm saying.
Slavery was not the primary factor of conflict in the Civil War. Both Union and Confederate states owned slaves and engaged in slave trade. Conflating the Confederate flag with racism or white supremacy is a popular, but historically ignorant viewpoint.
Heh, I wonder how many Germans will get hit by this. Because here, the confederate flag can imply you are a racist, but it can also mean that you are someone who likes country and truckers and has little to no knowledge of US history.

We get many confused Americans on Reddit’s /r/Germany asking what’s up with all the confederate flags they see.
So do people find Wikidata that impressive? Here's what Wikidata says about Earth, an item that is number 2 in the ID list, and also on their front page as an example of incredible data.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2

I struggle to find anything interesting on this page. It is apparently a "topic of geography", whatever that means as a statement. It has a WordLift URL. It is an instance of an inner planet.

The first perhaps verifiable, solid fact, that Earth has a diameter of "12,742 kilometre", is immediately suspect. There is no clarifying remark, not even a note, that Earth is not any uniform shape and cannot have a single value as its diameter.

This is my problem with SPARQL, with "data bases", in that sense. Data alone is useless without a context or a framework in which it can be truly understood. Facts like this can have multiple values depending on exactly what you're measuring, or what you're using the measurement for.

And this on the page for Earth, an example that is used on their front page, and has the ID of 2. It is the second item to ever be created in Wikidata, after Q1, "Universe", and yet everything on it is useless.
A lot of philosophy and "wisdom" is in telling people what they should do and probably already try to do without giving them the tools to do it.

A wise person realizes it is silly to tell someone "Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want" without giving them real tools to address their feelings.
I didn't say it was a particularly original idea. :)
I hate this kind of argument - of course the parties care mainly about their own power - they are literally political parties. Obama's policy was quite different from Bush's in many ways (domestically especially) and similar in other ways (say wrt the Middle East). The Democratic party also did not have control of both house and Senate for more than 2 years. During those 2 years the ACA was passed.

What are you getting at? Do you believe that because both parties care first about power means they are equally bad? Or even close?
This is them displaying high status among their peer group.

YOU see it as a low status marker because you're higher than them. Being able to look down on people is a sure sign of being higher relative status. It's one reason why we humans heartily enjoy it so much.
The GTA V dataset doesn't really have enough modes of variation, in my opinion.

To my knowledge, the best public attempt at this is represented by the OpenAI Rubik's Cube / Shadow Robotics dexterous hand demo. https://openai.com/blog/solving-rubiks-cube/
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07113

NVIDIA are also doing some interesting work in this area, but again, I'm not really sure they put enough different modes of variation into it. https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2018-04_Training-Dee....

CVEDIA also get really impressive results using similar techniques:- https://www.cvedia.com/
Wu also conceptualizes information systems/paradigms as a cycle, in which radio developed a lot like the Internet:

1. wild west days; diversity of both content and quality.

2. Winners emerge by both ruthlessness, inside dealing, AND winning on quality.

3. Their "quality" becomes a standard and a cashcow, and begins to stagnate as the formula is milked. At the same time, they continue to starve and/or absorb competitors, which has two negative effects: first, innovation slows or is actively suppressed. Second, (the key point in this context) as the industry centralizes, the few players (or player) remaining becomes a target for pressure groups. And they are all too willing to comply, because at this point they are either monopolies or near-monopolies and are eager to show the government and public (read: advertisers) that they are "serving the public interest", and shouldn't be regulated, investigated, and broken up. (The Hays Code was adopted "voluntarily" by the studios)
But you see the issue with that thought process right? You can imbue political meaning on anything that way, and ban arbitrary things. What if there is a (perhaps bogus) polemic, and your favorite singer is singled out as a racist/misogynist/communist/whatever, and the Bad People start blasting his songs at rallies? Are you supposed to stop listening to your favourite songs.

Come to your own conclusions, but mine is: fuck that - I'll be the judge of what is acceptable and what isn't, not some kind of thought mob.
Huge fan of Quik. I build https://terusama.com using modern development practices, and hit the point where _not_ supporting internet explorer was _not_ an option. We build software for the logistics industry, so freight brokers can schedule trucks at warehouses. Some people who need access to my scheduling website, were accessing our site through ancient Citrix VM's. "Just install chrome", wasn't even in the realm of possibility. If I make concessions to manually schedule appointments for these people, it's an incredibly slippery slope of making other concessions. Our value proposition of being entirely automated and saving people time also starts to lose its value.

Quik is insane, because I don't have to do anything, and am now compatible with Internet Explorer, in a secure way. Being able to take a modern web stack, and have, "IE compatibility" as a feature, is totally attractive to old-school enterprises, when that's your target clientele.
This is very much going off topic of the original point, as I figured it would, but it is well established jurisprudence in the US that the 2nd amendment doesn't mean that gun ownership is unrestricted. Just in the same way that the 1st amendment doesn't grant people unlimited freedom to slander or libel.
I've lived in both places. I'd be open to going back to lots of places in the Midwest. I'd only move back to the Sierra Nevada foothills in California (where there are still tedious hippies, but they're more my kind of tedious hippies).
He hasn't really lost anything. Even if he was planning to liquidate all of his stock right now, and assuming he could sell it all at the current market rate, what do you think could really be bought for $6 billion? They are just numbers at this level. He hasn't lost anything tangible.
But how is exactly junk food a marker of higher status than lentils and beans? I get the US is different culture, but here in Spain eating junk food is frowned upon and I'd say in most of Europe. I'm asking because when I read americans in the internet I get mixed signals, and I don't really know what to think.
What do VCs have to do with this? Amazon has been a public company for quite a while (since 1997, in fact).

Do you think Amazon "won" this market just by having more cash in the beginning?
The point is that a rebel fighting for slavery doesn’t have to be the defining identity of southerners. The Civil War is a sliver of time in history experienced by a specific branch of someone’s ancestry (if even that).
"Whereas COPS etc were more effective at ginning up public support for brutal policing."

This is hugely speculative, in fact, I would argue just the opposite: if anything, it shows how ugly, grinding, boring and hugely 'social' policing is, as opposed to anything physical. It's literally about dealing with really weird and sketchy people in difficult situations all day every day.
How did you decide to sell so soon rather than building it up further?

Is this the first one?
But are you counting the years the Confederate flag has spent after being adopted?

I think the fundamental argument here is this: clearly the Confederate flag has been spoiled -- the racists won out and now people associate the flag more with racists than Southern/rural pride.

What should happen? There are people who I think have a legitimate non-racist benign claim to the flag but they're now in the minority and being drowned out by racists. And the public discussion on the matter is an absolute shitshow because those people see the desire to ban the Confederate flag as a racist symbol as an attack on Southern culture/pride. Worse! We have people in this fight who actually are doing that because there is a very real anti-rural anti-Southern sentiment that exists in the US. And on the other side we have racists who are hiding behind Southern pride in an attempt to keep their symbol. Ugh.

So everyone thinks everyone else is arguing in bad faith, nobody believes anything anyone else says, some of the people are actually lying and arguing in bad faith and we're all arguing against caricatures of our opponents.
My response to that is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23717398
I think this weekend is as good as any for people to take time and read the US Founding documents, because it seems like a lot of the philosophy the US was founded seems to be unclear to a lot of people. This article and a lot of comments seem to misunderstand the role and purpose of the US form of Federal Republic government. Its worth reading the lot chronologically IMO.

Declaration of Independence (1776): https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcrip...

Articles of Confederation (1781): https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/artconf.asp

US Constitution (1787):https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution

Federalist Papers (1787 - 1788): https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text

US Constitutional Amendments 1-12 (Bill of Rights) (1789): https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transc...
> isn't normal

You're right- creating a amazing, successful business that employs a ton of people isn't normal.

Just a friendly reminder that some people do deserve the money they've earning. Bezos is one of them
I came here six hours ago thinking my mom's Telia-connected Macbook Air was at risk. Turns out none of that is true. More active moderation, please.

Edit: Also: Why is all of the technical discussion on this topic at the bottom of the page?
You could spend some time researching what those people actually think and why they think it. Don't let others speak for them, find out for yourself.
This is the first time I've heard of that. I can just imagine being somewhere loud and giving the ok / perfect symbol to a friend across the room and then being called a racist.

Damn, that's scary.
I thought I was safe if I blocked all of the permissions these apps "require" like Contacts on Android.

I'm uninstalling this app from my phone now. This isn't acceptable!
George Washington was attacked heavily towards the end of his term, so I'm not sure that part is accurate.
A parent comment is calling Chrome/Blink as IE6, but for the is evident that is actually Apple (yes, the whole of Apple) the new IE6 force.

The IE6 concept i think is now something that transcends just the browser, because it describes very well a trick to maintain market dominance.

Once you get into a position of platform control, as Microsoft did in the IE6 days, together with Windows.. and note here how you have to circle around the whole platform, not just the browser to get the whole picture. To maintain your control, you keep others from telling what the next steps for that particular platform should be.

So its clear to me that its Apple with its OS market share that through Safari will try everything they can to stop the Web to become a competing platform to their "kits". And in their case, this strategy is more clear, when they dont let any other browser engine to be used except the one they control and will never let to become a competing platform to their own app kit.

Because they know that once developers create more multi-platform apps, their distinction as something different, unique and better starts to vanish.

They will play the card of security, and about how they are thinking in they users well-being (and this is whats Apple does best). And of course that "for the sake of security" will be also right, because more features means more ways to exploit. So this is a 'joker card' that they can always use to resort to some excuse their users will believe.

Chrome for instance also use a trick, but its the total reverse of 'IE6', they put in a lot of features, and with this 'platform bloat' its pretty hard for the others engines to follow, requiring a lot of engineering and money to keep playing this expensive and exhaustive game,

People complaining about Blink here, didn't see that other players let go the infernal mission to keep their web engines in sync with the "modern standards" that are mostly proposed by Google, and where almost only them have the
engineering and money resources to spend in this "platform bloat" game.
Dude, cook one day and use tuppers. I don't cook meals every day. Lentils, by the way, with enough water, are still tasty after fridge and microwave. It's pretty convenient.

I also do a salad with lettuce, tomato, boiled chicken dices, onion cut in small pieces, vinegar, olive oil and soy sauce (Kikkoman is good and cheap enough). You mix everything very well so that the sauce impregnates everything. After it's been in the fridge it tastes even better.

It's just a little imagination, you can make tasty dishes with very little money. And if you're a lazy guy in the kitchen like me, tupperware's a given.
This isn't bad. I'm surprised it's expensive now.

https://www.amazon.com/No-bullshit-guide-math-physics/dp/099...
In this specific comment, I am not discussing what are the dimensions along which discrimination is permitted vs the ones where it is not. I am simply pointing out to moksly (GP) that what individual people are allowed to do in their gardens is very different than what private businesses are allowed to do in the US.
Do you need to be relevant?
I tapered down from 2 cups down to zero a few years ago.

The secret was to switch to green tea during the transition and sip from it only when needed.

Eliminating the green tea was not an issue.
I was very lucky to see this place on my last trip to Seattle. I'm from Boston, where DEC, Wang, and Data General were part of local lore but I'm too young (32) to have ever seen a minicomputer in the real world.

I hope it stays afloat. It was such a fascinating experience for me.
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Hacker hijacks 23k misconfigured MongoDB databases; threatens to leak data
Here is the latest in a series of articles on WebAssembly. This one's on marshelling C libraries.