skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the point... Nobody is seriously considering getting rid of the police. Calling it that is a fearmongering technique from the political right.

Biden doesn't even support the defund the police movement [1] which is the real goal of most of these protests. If you look beyond the media's reality distortion bubble, the defund the police movement is about diversifying how we respond to crises, not getting rid of the police as some claim.

[1] https://www.factcheck.org/2020/07/trumps-false-recurring-cla...
What this article doesn't tell you is that this is only historical practice among people making deals with their own money--entrepreneurs--or higher-up executives or partners in a law firm etc.

As someone who works for a living for someone else, you are doing yourself no favors by getting drunk around your peers or bosses. As an employee you are trading your labor for money. You aren't necessarily going to be putting anything at stake personally, so whether or not there exists trust between you and your peers matters very little (regardless of MBAisms or management platitudes about teams). As an employee, getting drunk around your peers or being around drunk peers can only lead to negative consequences. The facade people put up is good. You don't want to know what's behind that; you didn't pick these people, you're not marrying these people, you're working with them on a temporary basis then moving on. Also, employees shouldn't talk about politics or religion at work for the same reason.
> even if it's technologically 2 years behind cheaper Samsung S20 (except chip performance

Examples?
It's not my area, but I read Google's AI blog and they seem to be doing machine learning research that ends up in its phones, such as various camera improvements and offline Google Translate.

It seems like it's the sort of thing you do when you can, but often it comes as a second phase after getting it to work in the data center.

I didn't see anything in this article that was obviously unique to Apple.
Of course I make fun of it. It's the only way to cope with this kind of stuff after being exposed to it for decades. It's cranks in physics, they don't take the trouble to really look up anything by doing actual work, they just know that everything's wrong. It's all there: dark matter doesn't exist, the universe isn't expanding, the big bang is a lie, string theory is bogus, quantum mechanics is incomplete and/or we don't understand it. The list used to include that Einstein was wrong and Special Relativity was false, luckily that's becoming rather unfashionable nowadays.

I'm sorry, but there's a pattern here. Whatever kind of scientific topic that drives "common sense" folks out of their comfort zone has to be wrong, because well, it has to be. It doesn't matter that there are actual measurements and heaps of relevant technical literature full of excellent reasons for this or that theory (I mentioned a few). Whatever the people working in a field find convincing just can't be right because after having spent a few hours trying to fit the headlines to what they think they know about reality, they just can tell it can't be and that's that. Well, saying that something is wrong in science isn't enough, you have to include your convincing reasons for it or else your proposition turns out to be as valuable as saying that gremlins did it (but less fun).

It's been a while now that new pieces of knowledge in physics fit over the old ones. That's because data exist and it's the result of measurements, not subjective numbers, so new theories can't disagree quantitatively with the confirmed predictions of the old ones. The anomalous magnetic moment of the electron won't change the day we find the mythical theory of everything (if such a thing exists), and the mythical theory of everything will have to include within itself a scenario in which plain QED first and then the full-blown SM happens, otherwise it's unlikely that you could predict its value to such an amazing degree. Again, there are technical reasons for this that you can find in texts about effective theories.

To be honest and IMO true and false belong more in mathematics than they do in science. Newton's gravitation theory isn't false, it's a good approximation to a better theory that won't be false either if we come up with something even better. About true theories as in involving the things in themselves, I don't think we're doing that after Kant.
AirBnB would still get crushed like most other American companies when they face strong local competitors even if they have full support from CCP. These companies are usually terrible at localization and what works in America won't just work in China. Doesn't mean it's not possible for them to succeed, LinkedIn for example, did fairly well in China so far.

AirBnB moved server to China because their website would be terribly slow if not, they need local joint ventures or otherwise they would have little idea in how to navigate in Chinese market. Of course they need a Chinese name, how else would you expect users to know what "Airbnb" is? Nobody would remember. They can change their name to a series of numbers and that would still work better than "Airbnb"
I was just telling a friend about a post I had read about buying cheap tools to start out. I couldn't find it at all googling, and the HN search didn't work. I saw this post, searched "cheap tools quality", and immediately found it. Tnank you!

The post in question: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/07/25/worst-tool-for-the...
Here are the ridiculous tweets from Netflix promoting this nonsense: https://twitter.com/NetflixFilm/status/1291439319245234177?s...

At this point, they are mocking us. It’s incredible what bs you can churn out when everyone is scared to criticize you, lest they be canceled for being “transphobic”.
Then that's rather pretty shitty of rest of us. The rest of us should just have someone's "No" and bugger off.
I've often been shocked by how conservative an unprofitable/stagnant growth startups will be with engineering time. I've seen growing teams locked in incremental product/platform investment with no major new customer features in the roadmap.

I wondered where the conservatism came from given that at a business level the status quo was failure. This seems like a plausible explanation.
Your statement about in shuffles for general n is false. Consider that an in shuffle on n cards is identical to an out shuffle on the middle n of n+2 cards.

Also, the statement in the article is for a random riffle, not a perfect one. Any deck which has only been perfectly riffled is entirely determined.
Generally speaking ... If the false positive rate is low enough and the costs of performing the test aren’t prohibitive... running the test multiple times makes sense regardless of how precise or sensitive it is.

an example with math... if false negative is 75%, but false positive is 0%, then you just run the test multiple times to increase confidence in the results.
I’m not sure how you’re treating the opposite sex to be considered “creepy” by approaching them, but it’s definitely something to be concerned about.

Anyway get your drinking rituals away from me, I don’t want to bond with my coworkers, especially not at the workplace. I consider it creepy to even conflate a paid relationship with anything personal.

If I make friends with my coworkers, that’s certainly not the business of my boss, or their employer, or really anyone.
So here is couple of things, not a complete list, I would expect working for an US company:

- 5 weeks paid vacation per year(6-7 if we skip regional holidays)

- 13th month salary (that is independent from other bonuses)

- Paid overtime the minute it goes above the agreed upon working hours. 1.5x pay for night or weekend work.

- Maximum hours per week the must not be exceeded.

- Protection from the employer wanting to constantly monitor me, do drug, medical, lie detector test and such nonsense.

- Co-Paid pension, health. disability, unemployment etc. insurances

- Minimum contract termination notice periods and unjust termination protection

- Paid sick and paternal leave

- That other employees, who might not happen to have a as sought after job and thus negotiation power as me get largely the same basic benefits as me nonetheless.

I'd never work for an US company for a 100k given all the stuff I'd have to compensate.
> I guess the pro-tip is to always have non-alcoholic beverages at a gathering.

Alas you may find that those offered contain sugar and/or gluten ...
I found this curious when I lived in the UK. People didn't seem keen on talking to strangers at a coffee shop, but were at the pub. I had a date once that declined dinner with me as too serious but offered getting drinks instead. It was really confusing, but it seemed having drinks was a requirement for establish new social connections. I inquired if people thought that this was true and healthy for relationships, and it seemed the consensus was "yes, it's true; no, it's probably not healty, but it's not gonna change". It seemed very odd for it to be a social culture requirement.

Then moving to Southeast Asia where the social events centered more on the food than the booze gave me a place where I felt more comfortable. There's no 'stiff upper lip', and strangers at lunch or in teh market are as jovial and friendly as those I'd met at the pub a few times I went.
> Lots of evidence now that aerosol covid is a major risk with prolonged exposure.

I've been hearing people say "just wear a mask," but considering aerosol risk, they probably aren't effective enough for anything prolonged and indoors.
Fascinating article. Both the creator and the audience can have their own interpretations of the same story. I think Lilly’s is pretty easily defensible and makes a lot of sense.
What experiments? None of the proposals for policing reform have been implemented. The only thing we've seen are the police refusing to respond to calls and do their job in a political move. Nobody asked for that and none of the serious reform proposals consider anything like that.

It's possible to have a world where the police do their job and are accountable when they commit horrible acts as we've seen over the past few months. Talking about the subject as if we can either have the police and look the other way at their abuse, or get rid of them completely is a terrible false dichotomy.
Then maybe people shouldn’t ask why if they don’t want to hear the answer. I think it’s a rude question to ask so I don’t really have any pity for someone who finds themselves bored with the response.
JK Rowling seems like she’ll take any credit that people want to ascribe to her.

The idea that the Wachowski sisters intended this meaning based on their experience but were overruled by the suits feels more legit based on who they are in the world.
this isn't some fan fiction or whatever this is literally the director of the movie. why do you think she's lying?
Alright, that was the only thing I could thing of that would cause my confusion here. I viewed it simply as 'it's False to say all eggplants are fruits' but I guess the author's intention was 'because people consider eggplants to be culinarily a vegetable, saying all eggplants are fruits is False'.

It's an interesting addition to the disgusting about meaning in linguistics, but according to formal logic as used by linguistics, is the eggplant example even correct? It seems as though no matter what, 'an eggplant is a fruit' is True, and perhaps there is a different logical notation to imply it could be considered otherwise depending on context.
Subordinates always have a certain measure of power over their superiors. Sometimes idiots come back to the office with a gun because they're mad they got fired. However, when the US Constitutional system is working as it was intended to by its framers, Congress is the preeminent branch, precisely because it requires a great degree of consensus to exercise that power, unlike the other two branches. The bicameral legislature really is a great design.

Also it would be pretty amusing for the Supreme Court to attempt to rule that impeaching a Justice is unlawful. I'd love to see the creative "interpretation" in that ruling.
That would be consistent with it originating somewhere now submerged, then carried by the refugees to wherever they fetched up.

I was astonished to learn that wheat was farmed in China for thousands of years before they took up rice.
What? The creators of the movie are making a statement about their film. Are you saying they’re lying?
My mom retired a couple years ago from the hospital in town and gets a pension from that. I agree that people with pensions have a completely different outlook on money than those without.

My dad was a member of the steelworker's union for 25 years and then they closed down the plant he worked at and moved the production line to Mexico. He got to train his replacements. Then he delivered propane for a couple years, and ended up getting a job at Cargill on a line that made eggs for McDonald's breakfast burritos and Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches.

He worked there for 5 or 6 years, finally scored a nice job as the custodian at the rec center in town and planned to ride that out until retirement.

Shortly after his 57th birthday he started acting funny and was diagnosed with Glioblastoma [1], probably better known as "that cancer John McCain had". Died a year and a half later.

I don't think either or us is really adding much to the original conversation, but I am enjoying swapping stories nonetheless. Hopefully some of the bystanders are as well...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glioblastoma
Fair points, and I agree this mindset is probably a good one to have.

But the document in question is not a training document for the purpose of curtailing employee complacency and remaining vigilant in the face of competition. It's a document specifically discussing ways to avoid anti-trust regulators. That's an important distinction.

If employees already believed it because of their internal training, there'd be no need to "remind" them what not to say.
What am I supposed to take away? Some other former employee (who is broke, was fired and is trying to get his job back at Tesla) claims the problems were not that bad (Does he have expertise in batteries?). He makes a bunch of other unfounded allegations about Tripp claiming about getting paid (Musk in his deposition testified that there was no actual evidence for that allegation). The entire testimony reads like incoherent rambling.
Authors lie about their work all the time. A work stands on its own. Author statements, especially after the fact, are evidence. But because their reputations and public personas are uniquely tied to the work, they should be treated very skeptically. Especially if they concern a new political issue that more or less didn’t exist at the time the work came out. She is a transwoman best known for creating the Matrix, back when she was a man. She has plenty of reason to lie.

Also, the theory and “evidence” is just patently absurd. Read those tweets for yourself.
TLDR;

It is now four months since the start of the pandemic, and I haven’t seen a single covid patient in over a month. When I do test someone because they have a cough or a fever, the test invariably comes back negative. At the peak three months back, a hundred people were dying a day of covid in Sweden, a country with a population of ten million. We are now down to around five people dying per day in the whole country, and that number continues to drop. Since people generally die around three weeks after infection, that means virtually no-one is getting infected any more.
>>>This is a classic white liberal issue of "I support the ideas but not the way to them" that has been around for centuries.

"The white liberal is the worst enemy to America, and the worst enemy to the black man....The white liberal aren’t white people who are for independence, who are moral and ethical in their thinking. They are just a faction of white people that are jockeying for power. The same as the white conservative is a faction of white people that are jockeying for power. They are fighting each other for power and prestige, and the one that is the football in the game is the Negro..." - Malcom X

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8869214-the-white-liberal-i...
So what? You can be charged or sued directly in federal court.
V for Vendetta

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
Just seeing patterns where there aren’t any. In a free-association mood, I suppose.
> The way we fought the bureaucracy was to build networks of people whose goals were aligned and whose skill sets or resources were compatible.

During my stint in a bureaucractic organisation I always considered this types of people as a huge part of the problem.

Instead of being candid about what they wanted, open to dialog, and making the whole system better, they forced through ideas that aligned with their own world view via back channels.

This meant that instead of getting the best outcomes, we got the ideas pushed by people who had longest tenure or were the most political.
I need a keyboard shortcut expert to help me out with something specific in Safari.

If I type a term into the URL bar, the bottom list of suggestions is for 'Bookmarks and History'. If arrow down to select one of these, it places it in the URL bar, but the only text I can edit here is the title of the page, I can't actually edit the URL. Is there a way to make the URL here editable without actually visiting the page first? I could just press enter then Command-L to edit it, but I'm looking for a way to append the URL first.
I think a lot of people have underrated the benefits Apple reaps in this area from being so far ahead in chip design and controlling their hardware. As regards to successfully productizing ML I’ve recently become convinced that Apple has been more successful at it than Google so far. Translation was already well within Google’s wheelhouse and they had been doing it for years, and their work with cameras is going to inevitably be hindered by the fact that they can’t depend on certain specs the way Apple can. I suspect the Pixel exists at least partially to prove that they understand those benefits.
Just like in real life, the post transition sequels are disappointing.
Unless the President is willing to commute your sentence or pardon you, the FBI can still take you down.
This is 102 pages, what's the core argument?

It'd be better if you actually explained your position or made your point in addition to just commenting links.
As the pandemic hastens a cyberpunk future, hackers put democracy at risk
plus all of those UI frameworks totally suck in one way or another
If you think its nonsense have the guts to argue why its nonsense. If its bs like you say it is, it shouldn't be difficult to argue based on the text of the movie that it is so.
There’s also this:

FREE and natively supported and part of Twitter domain itself, on my feed?!

https://tweetdeck.twitter.com
I feel like they’re burying the lede, so here it is:

https://tweetdeck.twitter.com
It's like when you call the police over a noise complaint and don't expect them to roll up guns blazing.
That's true for pretty much any large country. Do you really think some middle family in Xiamen really gives a shit about American politics?

Do you think that a 55 year old farmer in Ohio, USA gives a damn about the the rest of the world?

People are just getting by for the most part.
I happen to be excluded from your "we" ;) We would like it if people didn't do this, but it happens and it doesn't help us to be annoying. Especially in cases where people don't realize that they're prying being sanctimonious in response can come off as being unreasonably smug.
And more importantly now known for creating nothing good since she adopted feminine fashion.
I don't know if the USA is representative of the rest of the world in this regard but, with respect to drinking, American adults fall into deciles that surprised me[1]. Roughly 40% consumed almost no alcohol in the week before being surveyed, 40% were low-to-moderate drinkers, 10% averaged about two drinks per day, and 10% holy shit that's a lot of booze.

[1] https://kottke.org/plus/misc/images/drinking-rate-usa.jpg
Before she transitioned. You wouldn't refer to a gay person before they came out as straight, right?
>The reality is that there is a real advantage in working in person.

it depends what their goals are. having worked in-office and remote for the same company, it's way easier to get shit done in the office. at least if you're reasonably extroverted/persuasive/bold. there are so many times I was able to walk up to someone's desk and spend ten minutes to save multiple weeks of protocol and runaround. partly because it's easier to apply pressure, but also partly because communicating face-to-face is so much higher bandwidth. but if you're remote you're easier to ignore, and a lot of office workers are very good at ignoring people who want to create more work for them

but the flip side is it's way easier for remote workers to fade into the background and hardly do anything. a skilled developer can emulate a mediocre developer while working a fraction of the hours. a skilled manipulator can "work" a fraction of the hours managing expectations and barely produce much of anything. plenty of people will figure out how to automate their jobs and just never tell anyone

there's this idea that remote will benefit introvert/aspie types because it's so word-focused. you have few face-to-face conversations but you write tons and tons. but really, apsie types will produce reams of literal-minded descriptive and often very helpful documentation and discussion, while people-people types will manipulate their image to appear very legibly valuable and come out ahead more often than not

my honest opinion for awhile is that remote is going to a massive efficieny drain on big tech companies and startups doing stuff that's easy to phone in like webdev/saas/whatever, such that if you founded a small committed colo team you could probably outcompete them in whatever domain you want even without any special edge
You're falling for a strawman.

Spend some time looking at the nuanced proposals for policing reform that go by the name "defund the police" and I am guessing that you agree with them a lot more than you think you do.
Her evidence: she wrote and directed the film and is explaining her experience and intentions into the art she created.

Yours: ... people lie sometimes?

Why are you a more authoritative expert on this topic? If you don’t feel you are, can you point to someone who is that agrees with you (producers, actors, etc)?

If you can’t, why does this artist explaining their artistic vision feel like something you need to disparage?
This issue definitely existed in 1999
“At this point, they are mocking us.”

It certainly comes across that way. It’s impossible to credit that whoever is writing these tweets believes this stuff.

For example:

“For years, fans of THE MATRIX have discussed the film through a trans lens.”

No, they haven’t.
It's summarized here: https://twitter.com/enn_nafnlaus/status/1220153971668549637

I don't like to speculate. I would rather others form their own opinion.
Being rude to people who are rude (especially in cases that they don't realize that they are being rude) generally sours relationships, unfortunately.
Try this combined with lists to get chronological feeds that stick and stay stuck.

https://tweetdeck.twitter.com

As for the rest of your comment, the personal is political. Twitter is personal. HN, for example, is much more of a water cooler type beat.