skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facts taken out of context can obviously be racist.

> Aboriginal people just commit more crime

More crime than who?

More crime than "Normal" people?

Or, More crime than all other groups with the same economic opportunieis?

More crime than groups with the same health issues? More crime than other people who go blind from trachoma and trichiasis despite it no longer being a public health problem in any other developed country in the world? [0]

More crime than other people who have had their children systematically stolen?

More crime than other people who have been racially abused in public, while playing a game of football?

I mean, come on, you're a smart cookie. You can't accept a claim that "aboriginal people commit more crime" unless you compare it to some equivalent group. Aboriginal and non-aboriginal people are not remotely equivalent, because aboriginal people have been systematically denied the freedom, health outcomes and economic opportunities available to almost any other group in Australia.

[0] https://healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/learn/health-topics/eye-hea...
Observer bias arguably. If they are working from home, rather hard to meet them.
> We can see that 6.2% of junior doctors are black, but only 3.5% of consultants are black. Where did all those juniors go?

If 3% of the population is black, then having 3.5% of consultants being black means they're still overrepresented! Regression to the mean is the most likely explanation.
Of course. My comment was to share some math around the claim that the company would save the $20K in the first two months, nothing about the long-term.
If you're talking about scale, then yes police violence in Western Europe isn't comparable to the US. Saying there's no problem seems like almost wilful ignorance though.
State of Prototyping in 2020
I agree with you but I think we are already starting to face the same problems now.
Translation: Its time to raise salary for our non programming staffs
Sales taxes generally go up in states with low income taxes fwiw.
I'm from the Caribbean and I can attest to this. We're always baffled at the neuroticism of America's obsession with identity politics and tribalism, especially as it relates to race and culture.

In my country for example we have six distinct races/ethnicities, from indigenous to post-colonial. When either has a celebration or period of cultural remembrance, we openly dress, cook, and celebrate in the same manner. The concept of "cultural appropriation" is nothing but hubris in our minds.

Perhaps we're more fundamentally bonded due to our shared "fragmented" heritage, as V.S. Naipaul frequently expounded upon. Perhaps we're just not victims of inept ideological monoliths that are perpetrated by a radical left and radical right as it is in the US (along with the forced illusion of binary if not zero-sum choices).

Either way, we understand that racism is inescapable in some small measure but we try our best not to elevate it above reason and certainly not above national unity (or pride for that matter). Caribbean people are both welcoming of foreign cultures and curious in our exploration of the same. We wouldn't, couldn't, have it any other way.
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People here are disagreeing with you, but I actually think you're exactly right about most modern economies: too many people and too few jobs leads to all sorts of social issues from wealth inequality to excessive hours to crazy house prices.
Your final paragraph is what I would think of.

Your opening paragraph seems to commit the same mistake the original commenter was lamenting: you're defining racism purely through a US lens and asking if the same is present in Poland. The framing of that question isn't valid.
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You've cherry picked two names out of the eleven mentioned in the quote, and in both cases the facts as to what led to the deaths that you call "violent criminals on the receiving end of justifiable responses" are in dispute and you have chosen to present them in a way that is not truthful about what is known.

For example, your characterisation of events leading to the death of Arbery is written to suggest he broke into someone's home, where fact he entered an open construction site. To quote the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52623151:

> Around the time of the incident, a number of emergency calls were made, CBS News has reported. In one, a neighbour said a black man was seen at a home under construction. When asked if the man was breaking in, the caller replied "No, it's all open, it's under construction."

> The owner of the home that was under construction told CNN that, while his CCTV captured four short clips of a man that appeared to be Mr Arbery "trespassing" on his properly on 23 February, he had not reported any crime to the police.

> "I don't want it to be put out and misused and misinterpreted for people to think that I had accused Mr Arbery of stealing or robbery, because I never did," he said.

> A lawyer for the homeowner later said its their belief that Mr Arbery had been looking for water. Security footage shows he was not the only person to enter the construction site - children from the neighbourhood were also filmed playing at the site.
Me too but it's not as good as google reader
Museums constantly have borrowed items on display - borrowed as in not stolen. I'm aware this is a more common practice the more modern arts you're displaying but still. I'm sure an institution of such prestige as the British Museum could find ways to arrange temporary exhibitions of like everything (I'm tempted to make silly parallels to the handling of Brexit negotiations but I will better stop here)
One more essential data point, liquor is way cheaper in CA than the midwest.
You're right. I should've said the most vocal americans
Right now there seems to be a cap of 99 tokens per person for each auction, which will clamp the effect rich players have on the weightings (to the point of it being much closer to an average). They may remove that in the future of course.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24658738
I saw it in (I think, it wa sa while ago):

Posters in the airport
Museums
Tour Guides
Random conversations

So some touristic and some just random like airport and people
> Singleton isn't bad if it is used only for reading the data. Mutable global state is the problem.

If it’s read-only, you can just declare it as a constant. No need to add a state management library.
The military has some advanced technologies to fight new diseases. It wouldn't surprise me if they get used here.

https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-02-06a
Basically the marbles were stolen decades ago, and the argument was that Greece was in no shape to hold them, so England was protecting them. Now we have the Acropolis museum, that argument doesn't hold so well any more.
No it’s not a straw man. It’s literally the specific complaint I was initially responding to in GP.
> but that doesn't mean we don't have racism

Absolutely right!

We do have racism.

But "systemic racism" is on a whole another level in US.

It's in the system means "you can be shot and killed just because you are of some ethnicity" by those that sworn to protect and serve.

I'm scared only thinking about it. I would live in constant fear.

Plus, it is true that Europe society is not racism free, it is also true that US society is not racism free as well.

At least in Europe we don' t have to fight against police racism on the same scale.

p.s.: my reference to the police brutality is linked to what's said in the article

"to be black is to live in perpetual terror of being murdered by the state. But Britain is not America"
You want the meaning of sandboxed in flatpak changed, and for it not include access to the home dir? That seems fair. But with the current UI, I think most people expect that a video player can open video files in their home directory.
In my opinion, the end of cheap fossil fuels necessitates we'll look like either Japan or Africa, and I know which of those I'd prefer. Shrinking GDP or shrinking GDP per person may seem like a difficult call for a country's leader, but as a citizen it's a rather obvious choice.
Probably between city, state, and federal just under 50% total.
Bad math, 110k in federal taxes and 15k in FICA (social security, Medicare, Medicaid).

https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes
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Neat, Hacker Noon is using Descript's Lyrebird AI to create robot hosted podcasts.
Thirding. Very good.
That is exactly how the economy works.

Demand and supply. Oversupply in labor results directly in diminishing incomes and the ability of employers to be extremely picky about who to hire (e.g. like you said nobody over 30).
Post Office scandal: Postmasters celebrate victory against convictions
It's so trivial to cherry-pick or rebase and merge such a commit if you understand enough of git to use it properly with branches and stuff. If the commit message is suitably worded it saves time too.

There are software projects out there, even highly used ones, that only use Github to mirror their SVN repository (or some other yesteryear source code system). For those maintainers these PRs do take up more time than they contribute though.
There's another discussion a similar kind above, but I think the Open Source community, Twitter, this place, Reddit, and even the likes of 4Chan, have proven that very able people will happily make exceptional contributions to various areas of knowledge, for a seemingly intangible incentive.

What's more, with Facebook attached, this will probably be the most prominent predication market yet known... Tbh, it would have been more on brand for Twitter to do this, but it's still very cool. I think the volume and kudos associated with the scale the brand name will bring, will make this one of the more successful products of it's type, in terms of results.
Take a look at rssmix

Roll your own.
Did you know that Rammstein is named after Ramstein, the biggest US military base in Germany?
"Solidarity" is a big thing in my country, even on the centre right, yet we still get high marks (9+) from the Economist's Democracy Index.

Wang fo kowmang unte kowmang fo wang.

Bonus clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qaA6FdAUsk (imposing the writers' inaccurate views about agriculture on us)
The article is about contexts for racism differing between countries. It’s not about saying “x country is super racist.”
The USA has a similar level of taxation (when not higher) than European countries, so I would argue America's freedom is basically free speech and right to own weapons. You're slaves like the rest of us here in Europe and the government allows you to keep some of the profits you make.

Everything you mentioned is the result of badly spent public money:
- Ridiculous spending on politics causing society polarization
- Army overspending and warmongering
- Poor education leading to people making poor choices (and live the wasteful lives you described)
- Inflated cost of health care because of insurance companies lobbying the government
- Terrible public transport

You're not free but 200 years ago you were the closest thing to free we had in the world.

It's sad to see that the minarchist experiment of the USA failed over time: the USA is the largest employer in the world and spends 13bln per day.

Hopefully the next experiment won't make the same mistake.
> arbitrary-size array lookup is not actually constant, but only amortised constant.

Array lookup operations are constant time. You don't need to grow an array while reading from it. Append operations in a vector are O(n) but amortized constant time.

Hash tables work the same way - they have amortized constant time when inserting, but they should have constant time for reads when using a good hash function.

That said, technically we still classify hash table reads and writes as O(n). Big-O notation defines an upper bound on time, not the average time. And the upper bound on hash table reads and writes is O(n) if you have a terrible hash function (or carefully crafted inputs).

This is not useful knowledge though, because hash tables are usually fast in practice. If you're trying to figure out how something performs in practice (like the "isVowel" function in the blog post), the tool to reach for is a benchmark. Guess how a benchmark result will come out before you see the result, and over time you'll build an intuition for these things.
Sorry for repost - with link

http://www.rssmix.com/
This. If some idiot wants to put chorizo on their paella and eat the result, valencians will not really be offended, they will be slightly amused, if anything. Next thing, americans will want to forbid any kind of "fusion" cooking.
Seeing the result of a modified history expansion is (or was) kind of a desired feature, so it's built-in just like the ability to escape stuff with :q

$ # here be quote ' " chars

(use :p to print but not execute)
$ :!q:p
'# here be quote '\'' " chars'

(use :s to modify – no :q here because we modify the already quoted text !!, unquoted is now !-2)
$ !:s/be/are/:p
'# here are quote '\'' " chars'
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Depends. Are we talking about people who know what O(n) means? Parent comment explained it very well - "n" is typically your input size (or if it's not, you need to clearly define what it is). "n" is unlikely to ever be "number of vowels in the English alphabet" because that's a constant, that doesn't change at all when input changes.

O(n) is meaningless if we don't say anything about "n", so no, 'iterating an array" is not necessarily O(n) - it's only so when the array has a size proportional with the input.

Or, to put it differently: yes "array.includes" is not O(1) in common discussions, because typically we discuss the complexity of method `includes` as relative to the size of the array; but a program/algorithm that contains an invocation of `array.includes` does not automatically have complexity that is linear or worse - it can very well be logarithmic or constant. For example, looking up a value in a hashtable where the keys are strings is considered to be constant time, even though you need to iterate over the key in order to obtain its hashcode (i.e. the algorithm that takes a string and produces a hashcode is O(n) where n is the length of the string).
I've traveled a fair bit, and every part of Japan that I've been to feels like I've timed-traveled 20 years into a better future [compared to anywhere else I've been].

Yet there seems to be a fairly constant negative economic narrative about Japan (and this narrative seems to be decades old). What's the deal? Are my observations superficial, or are economists just annoyed that Japan doesn't fit their world-view (low growth must equal disaster).
"Don't hate the player, hate the game"
That's intentional (as hombre_fatal points out) but not with quite as derisive an implication as yours.

The point is not for the guest to get super deep into their specific area of expertise for an uninterrupted hour. It's specifically, by design, a conversation with a layman.
> There is no such thing in general as "too many people for the economy".

Sure there is. If nothing else, at some point you have more people than can be physically fed with the available land.

Each additional person uses up a certain amount of resources. If the marginal resource gain of adding another worker is smaller than that; then economically there are too many people. There is no principle saying that cannot happen.
Games Playing with Computers (1972)
So Malthus was in a sense right, as the “too many people” issue has showed up constantly since he wrote his stuff. And before anyone comes and tells me that “he was wrong because the Earth can sustain 8-9 billion humans, like it does right now”, I’ll say that there’s no way Earth’s actual ecosystem can sustain a major part of that population regularly eating beef, or regularly flying, or having scattered individual houses instead of buildings with tens or more flats each etc.
It was closed, damnit!
There's a theory that this focus on identity politics is encouraged by elites, as a way of distracting people from class politics. I'm not convinced it's true, in that it's a deliberate strategy, but i imagine they're pretty pleased that it's happening.
Their population will drop. Each couple only has something like 1.2 kids. Lack of people to pay down their debts will be the long term problem.
That’s awesome. I learned more about DNA in 5 mins than all my biology classes.
I skimmed through the document but I didn't understand if the model is local. That would be nice. If that's the case I guess it will also define a format for models.
As a drive-by contributor to plenty of projects it raises the bar uncomfortably high though. A PR I can rebase and rework based on feedback that can be given right there on the line of code it pertains to. Easy as pie with GitLab or GitHub. Really bothersome with mailing-lists, and excruciatingly painful if they don't even use a modern DVCS like git.
> Changing the date without changing the code significantly is arguably fraudulent.

In some countries the publishing date is what counts, and they define publishing for websites as when the site was viewed.
These pithy rules and sayings make for clickbait.
But nobody seems to give good examples of when they said no to focus.

VCs like to brag about the "deals they missed" just to remind you that they were in the room where it happened, but then left the room.
> Finding the right balance point can be difficult. The dividing lines between cultural appreciation, cultural mixing, cultural appropriation, and cultural subjugation, while sometimes obvious & clear are often much more subjective

In my opinion, this hypersensitivity was turned into a weapon to shame people who have no ill-will. Compounded with Twitter bandwagoning, it’s downright dangerous, and now people are self-censoring anything to avoid censure
Search is really only the main driver of traffic for national sites.

Local and niche coverage get traffic though a mix of social, newsletter subscribers, referrals, and direct visitors.
So, Snaps are bad, Flatpak is bad. What's good?
I never used a system with flatpak, but when I read sandboxed I expect the maximum permission to be read-only access to my home directory or something like android where it asks for additional permissions.
After reading through the tweets, it seems that plane is very special and contains launch codes for nukes. If the president would be harmed or in general the security at the white house unable to operate, this plane takes over. A precaution, it seems, in case somebody wants to attack the USA. But as I understood it, starting the plane is more of a signal for defense readiness conditions (DEFCON) and helps signaling other planes and stations to be aware. It's pretty interesting IMHO that the plane started before the president announced it on twitter or anything, giving a solid hint that something is very off in DC.
Most of that income difference is tied up in the costs to buy a home. I find the arguments on this topic to be fairly silly.

If I moved from NYC to St Louis I could take my rent payment and go buy a house. I’ve upgraded but my housing expenses are the same. Then if I wanted to move back to NYC I would need to double or triple my income to purchase something relatively equivalent. Or I could just move back into my old apartment.

The actual costs on the ground for most people are going to be way more similar than these COLA calculators will show. People won’t live their exact same lives with the exact same luxuries.

The biggest actual difference is taxes.

However, the big downside and risk here is that you’ll be living in St Louis with an SF salary. You will not find a similar salary in St Louis. If you want to quit your job and maintain your standard of living you’re left with some tough choices.
For effective sandboxing you have to integrate something like capability passing and delegated access. For example, opening a file with drag-and-drop should allow access to that file, and the File > Open menu should do the sandbox equivalent of a hypercall to open a privileged file browser widget.
You are the product.
I’ve lived in japan and believe me, what you see as a tourist does not translate into reality. Japan in general is about 10 years behind the western world and in some places even more. Sure, tourist facing areas and central tokyo are pretty nice, but that’s not the reality in most places.
> In a way, it's even worse: because America sets the tone of discourse and frames racism as white vs black,

This. In Denmark the biggest minority is the Muslim minority, but we have still had big Black Lives Matter demonstrations with only a slight Middle Eastern twist.
Another way to look at it: If A is a constant array and part of the program - and not an input, A.includes(x) is just a shorthand for a switch-case statement.
A while ago there was a post of a Newyorker story about a French art thief. I really enjoyed reading it. In case somone missed it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18855717

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/14/the-french-bur...
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The question is whether monetary damages should be sought on top of compliance.
Great article and so true
Digital Euro [pdf]
What Roller Coaster Tycoon brought to the table, and makes it shine even years later, is not the theme park simulation but rather what the title promises: the roller coasters.

The game comes with quite complete roller coaster (and some other rides) designer tools, which not only let you build the entire track from scratch, but also includes a simulation of vertical and lateral acceleration and g-forces along the track. It also has a appeal system for the rides, which is directly linked to the ride simulated operation parameters (plus some theming bonuses).

Designing rides is what (for me) takes most of the playing time and I judge every later entry in the amusement park entry by its roller coaster design tools.
“It was difficult for sub-postmasters to challenge errors because they were unable to access information about the software to do so.” What a nightmare.
array.includes(x) is really a function includes(array, x), and this is O(n,1).
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Glad that no offence was taken, my intent was to throw spot light on the root comment where it is easy to generalize on any human community. We all need to restrain ourselves from that urge. I don't mind it being flagged either, it does happen when perspectives are not fully understood either side.