skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment seems charged with a lot of pre-existing emotion and I get that this may not be very helpful, but I have yet to see significant evidence that it's "not just low level crimes".

Similarly, the DA's current enforcement rate is not significantly different than before: https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/da-stat/ In fact, it's higher than it was in 2014. And since crime overall has dropped dramatically, it's hard to say that the DA has lead to any significant lawlessness until after the pandemic.

That doesn't mean you're wrong, that your lived experience of crime is invalid, or that the DA isn't "bad" in some way. Nor does it mean that the DA's methods "work" or that they prevent crime rather than increasing it in the long run.

But I have yet to see evidence of any significant harms on the aggregate, only individual anecdotes.

Personally, it seems like the concern over the DA is a moral panic.
> They stubbornly insist on dying and stubbornly refuse to sublime.

As a whole, yes. But individual Culture Minds have sublimed, and individual humans can choose to be stored until the Culture chooses to sublime as a whole. (I don’t think Banks ever explored a Culture human choosing to defect into a different society which was going to sublime; that could have been a neat sub-plot for The Hydrogen Sonata.)

That’s also what makes the Culture a place for storytelling, though. Lots of other civs have sublimed, the Culture seems to be the highest-level one that explicitly chooses to stay in the Real. I don’t think it’s so much Luddite as...a necessary function to make these stories possible and interesting.
Eliminating the Fairness Doctrine left only Pay to Play. Broadcast content moderation simply shifted further towards advertisers.

Instead of censorship, Capital simply hoarded all the bandwidth, starving alternative voices of attention.

How now are us newly ennobled modern highly educated professionals supposed to hear voices which no longer exist?

The hysterical bit is social media swiped the control away from advertisers. We've replaced your dreaded hereditary nobility with the mythical meritocracy.
Because when you point out the group that is MOST likely to be killed in a police encounter is Native Americans, you are branded a racist. https://lakota-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/Nativ...
Coding Is Addictive
I'm not so sure if Oliver is just pushing a left wing position. Certainly not to an Alex Jones level of deceptiveness, and to a much higher degree of public service.

When he explains how some shithead county sheriff starved an inmate to death or shows how one public defender is forced to take on 400 clients a year (I'm not being accurate here, though he is) then that's not a left wing position. Left vs right accusations just become excuses for inaction.
I'm seeing a much more nuanced and complete understanding of history out of children these days than what was taught to me is my point, in contrast to what you're saying.

Can you give some specific examples?
Wasn't the sting OP to protect an alleged pedophile (or almost) organized by project Veritas? I saw this on a rightwing media in France, so unless there is no honor among thieves, this must be close to the truth, no?
I do, the alternative being worse. You have always been requested proof of vaccination for some things like traveling or certain jobs.

Sure, there is some space for distopian hypothesis, but I do no believe them to be realistic issues.

My only complaint is how the EU decided to call them "green". That's the most absurdist greenwashing I have ever seen.
There is a great moderation tool for such a discussion: not to have it. I think my framing is helpful, because clearly you're not seeing what I'm seeing. Here are three comments I picked from the top five at the moment (so, almost at random); there are far worse ones:

> As an investor, of course I clam up. I spend my days looking at the world in terms of risk-adjusted returns and cost benefit analyses, so why would I take a human capital risk? My entire business is based on my reputation and I've seen what happens to the people who get comments like "not the best with Jews at conferences" ... I can count on two hands the number of Jews I would feel comfortable giving the exact same feedback to as I would a non-Jew.

> I appreciate the effort to think of a better word than antisemitism. My question is, is this even antisemitism at all? How many people can get publicly denounced as “antisemites” and have their life ruined because they didn’t speak carefully enough, before it is simply just “smart” rather than “antisemitic” to be extra careful with how you speak to Jews.

> Imagine what it's like being the intended target and not just "collateral damage". It's not a problem that non-Jews are nervous to be candid but it's a problem that Jews are feeling the secondary effects of that?
Charging for developer tooling is really hard.

Over-monetizing their dev tooling was a significant contributor to Microsoft's loss of dev mind-share over the last decade. Free software took over the world because any kid in their bedroom could download Linux/GCC/MySQL for free.

Want to work in .NET/MSVC? You just run into barriers (gimped "express" versions, no free documentation etc.) Yes this has changed now, but it's been a long time coming.
Of course, if they could read scores, they'd be more capable (and more employable) pianists for it, all else being equal.
Most atheists are agnostic.
The author literally calls it "the problem of men clamming up." Empathy or not, they're saying the problem is male behavior. This could be framed as "the problem of taking grievances to the mob" or "the problem of overattributing behavior" or anything that puts responsibility for change on some group other than men, but it does not. Whether they're to blame or not, men are the ones behaving incorrectly.
Lol. My SUNY school addressed this by suppressing the first three numbers.

Considering that about 30% of the student body seemed to be from Islip, it was pretty trivial to guess the first three.
Its subjective. Personally, I don't think it's reasonable to become upset by a single comment, made with good intentions, as happened in the story, certainly not upset enough to want professional consequences for the other party.

Even a single comment made with ill intent I don't think would push me all the way to pursuing professional recourse, not without me trying to 'fix' things on my own first.
Edit: sorry I meant 'Calvinism' as Germanic, not 'Methodist'.
If they approached me, I would have been a happy 16th participant.
My apologies, I should have made clear that my post wasn't directed at the article.

> Wasn't most "legitimate discussion" already happening in private already?

Probably, but I think there was still much more interesting discussion going on publicly in years past. It's anecdotal but I've definitely seen a huge spike in how many of my colleagues are retreating entirely to private communities and most of them never make public comments anymore. That's disappointing to me because I think there's a lot of value in having these discussions in the open with respected and accomplished names attached. It also gives a level of perceived accessibility that I think is important.
I maintain my own Unsplash collection here: https://unsplash.com/collections/998309/stellar-photos
Having been through army basic training, I can confirm this is not an attitude unique to school teachers. To be fair, discipline and self control is incredibly valuable even if it’s not the be all and end all.
>The lab leak theory really is a conspiracy theory, because it requires the scientists at WIV to have discovered a virus that they didn't tell anyone about, including their close collaborators abroad, for them to have secretly isolated it, for it to have escaped from a highly secure laboratory, and then for them to have covered it up. You can assert that all these things happened, but there's precisely zero evidence for it.

This is a generally informative and helpful comment, but I think there's a flaw in this argument. If WIV isolates viruses (from samples), there could be the possibility that a virus escapes before it is isolated and sequenced, or that the virus is not successfully isolated and sequenced but escapes and infects somebody. We do not need to suggest that they had preexisting records of SARS-CoV-2, which I would agree is clearly beyond reasonable speculation.
Should also mention that the site you linked pops up scammy chat requests. Gonna have to disinfect my computer with fire now.
It absolutely had to do with Fox News by way of Rush Limbaugh. The fairness doctrine applied to broadcast radio as well as television, and the next year after its abolition, the Rush Limbaugh Show began airing. His meteoric rise over the next couple years demonstrated a large market for conservative media, which motivated Murdoch's and Ailes's approach in founding Fox.
I'm still a subscriber there actually. The guy behind it is going strong and keeps trying new things. Would highly recommend if you like his style.
Some companies will care. Some won't. I mentioned something like this to mine and they upgraded the build server in response.

For Jetbrains products, if you enjoy them you can use your personal license commercially. Your company just can't pay for it or reimburse you for it. This is the route I go because I use their products for personal projects too. For me it's a no brainer at $150/year for their all-products option (...for the 3rd year, 1st is $250, 2nd is $200).
> Senior developers with 20 years of experience do not "believe" in debuggers, IDEs or writing tests.

Speak for yourself. I've been paying for my own developer tooling for 25+ years.
How much would it change your belief that this is false equivalency if you thought that the protest against police brutality was also based on a lie? There's a good argument to be made that it was.
12-page 'old web' detailed story of the tower, with lots of images:

https://www.sanjose.com/underbelly/unbelly/Sanjose/Tower/tow...
Deriving Keys from Chords in Music
From that page: "do you even really need to read music to become a good jazz musician? It seems like everyone tells you to NOT rely on it anyways if you're just starting out,and to transcribe every sound you've ever heard in your life."

(Jazz musician here) I found the OP's "I’ve never learned to play sheet music, and have no interest in it" strange - because for me, being able to write music is far more useful than just to be able to read it. (Although reading is super-useful also, whatever the genre.) I hear something I like in the street, or in my head, or on a recording - I write it down! the notes, rhythms, harmonies. How do you do that if you can't "read music"?

Not to mention transcribing, i.e. writing out tunes and improvisations. When they're more than a certain speed, learning from just playing along with it becomes impossible, and you really have to write it down first before you start to play it.
If my calculations are correct taking a strong cup of coffee (very strong actually), will burn 6 grams more fat per sustained hour of training.

And still we don't know if total energy output was the same, because coffee can be a stimulant so may drive you to work harder.
Nope. If you watch the latest rounds of Fauci, he is still recommending masks to people who have had the jab, and in fact to people who have had Covid and recovered.
If he believes you can still transmit after these, then I'm going to side with him.
To those who would argue its political pandering. Which party? He's advised 7 presidents, and was put in his role by Reagan.

Given you are still a carrier (according to Fauci), what would the passport server?
Defamation only applies when the lie is causing harm to a specific person. It's just a special case of lying. As far as I'm aware, there's no existing law in the US that would penalize lies (from the media or otherwise) in general.

I don't see this as a particularly problematic idea. Assuming a high burden of proof, why shouldn't a deliberate hoax from a news organization be treated as a kind of fraud or "malpractice"?

An alternate implementation would be for the FCC to regulate this and unilaterally issue fines for broadcasting fake news, but that seems ripe for abuse and more against the spirit of 1A.

Instead, I like the idea that anyone (either the state or a private citizen) could sue any news outlet for publication of a hoax; not necessarily claiming any direct or personal harm caused, but just to defend the principle of truth. The process would be as fair as possible — requiring evidence of willful intent to the standards of a court of law, allowing appeals all the way up to the Supreme Court, etc. — but in return the consequences would actually have teeth. Offhand, I'd say fines roughly comparable to securities fraud and a journalistic equivalent of disbarment for individuals responsible.
>made statements that could subject him to harassment

Not sure what said statements were, but as described, that is not at all a reason to ban someone. On the internet, legitimate criticism very frequently leads to harassment. That is not at all the fault of the critic, and as long as they didn't intend to cause harassment, it's no reason to ban them.
That's why I said try it yourself... It's no good for serious use. Here's the first search result:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9341254/reconnect-socat-...
I think readers of your comment should visit your profile, click through to your blog and Twitter where you spent most of the past half-year repeating conspiracy theories about dead people voting in Michigan, then come back here and give you a hearty downvote.
Is anyone else having difficulty viewing this on firefox? I'm getting a HSTS error.
If you are a woman you can easily counter this behavior by labelling it and saying that you don't have a porcelain skin. Bonuspoints if you laugh about a guy giving you super bad feedback and how this did not bother you.

Putting people at ease around you (especially customers) is a critical entrepreneurial skill.

You can't blame people for being cautious when a lot of people are buying into victim-narratives and convinced to act against their "oppressors".
You said “if I say something like this, there is no room for attack/misinterpretation”. I showed you how such a statement can be easily attacked/misinterpreted - and I can do that because I’ve been in enough conversations like those to know that this mindset is relatively popular.

You are free to not believe me and continue to live your life as you were, I honestly don’t care. Take my statements as anecdata and move on. Just don’t come crying to me when you’re cancelled because of some “fact-based” statement.
You should at least entertain the idea that you might be the one who is wrong in that interaction. I googled your exact quote and it looks like it’s 100% true not some right wing conspiracy. Even if you are going to try and bend over backward and claim that’s not what coco cola intended, the literal fact is they require their employees to take a training and in that training they are told to be less white. That makes your quote above literally a true thing that happened. I can see why he would be angry at you for trying to pretend the literal facts in front of his face are not true.
Agreed. I also want to like submodules but every encounter with them has been an awkward confusing mess.

They're fine if they are completely hidden from human interaction and used in a programmatic way, but the human interface with the concept seems to always be so awkward.
Everybody hates git submodules.
On a somewhat related note...

Does anyone have a source for good Terminal backgrounds?
Terminal backgrounds differ from Desktop backgrounds in that they need to allow easy reading of text - so Desktop backgrounds aren't suitable for this ...
Its treating people different based on gender. It depends very much on semantics whether you call that sexism. It is certainly not the form of sexism that people these days are most worried about.
Does that actually happen on Facebook? I've seen it happen on Twitter multiple times, and across countries, but I don't associate Facebook with raids and targeted harassment.

It feels like Twitter's user base is much more radical, and the focus of the product on instant public messaging might add fuel, while Facebook's group system generally limits the spread and seems to be more geared towards asynchronous sharing (+messenger, but that's more of a chat, not public).
There is also no VC money in this. Even mature areas like static code analysis are a dead water.

There will be a renaissance in tooling, once AGI is realized ;)
Do you mean a software developer that’s 30+ years old or a software developer who has been in the industry for 30+ years?
This is actually an apt comparison because the vast majority of people who associated with, enabled, and co-conspired with Epstein haven't suffered any consequences either.
Not sure what you mean by “no free documentation” but even when I worked there we just used MSDN’s free online website like everyone else. VS did cost $$ but not sure it was overpriced, I’m still less productive on Linux than I was with the real VS (code is nice but not the same). I’d pay for a Linux version in a heartbeat.

The real reason Linux took over is Windows just didn’t make a good server. Even if you looked past the bloated footprint, licensing was a nightmare just to figure out what you needed to buy let alone the licensing costs themselves.

Even good dev tools can’t make up for a bad platform.
I've worked as a senior network admin for some very large organizations. Safe to say I understand TCP.
Even animals have some ability to control their basic instincts; dogs can be trained to hold a treat right on their nose until a command is given.
Especially since US and European labs have had a lot of accidents that risked viruses escaping the lab.

I really don't have any reason to believe or disbelieve it came from a lab. But that possibility certainly is not crazy.
If there's some event, you can often find a video of it. When you compare the video to whatever "the media" says, and you quickly notice that they don't match up. Either "the media" is lying or the event is not clear-cut and there are multiple valid interpretations.

This only has to happen once for you to stop trusting "the media".
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I find your comparison rather dubious and far-fetched.

That aside, it's not because there is a higher diversity of sources at more diverse scales tosay that the answer is not to look at what worked in the past. Or to simply throw one's hands in the air.

It is not because small ISPs, tech companies, etc. exist that the large conglomerates that impact our daily lives should be left untouched and unregulated. Same goes with news, or masquerades of news.

A good start for instance would to untie news media from the profit motive. NPR exists, the French Radio Publique exists, etc. and they output great content, independently more often than not. It shows that public investment into newsmaking is worthwhile and has often a better quality to it. News reporting should be seen as of public interest, and treated as such rather than as a commodity. Breaking news conglomerates should also be explored.
I disagree pretty strongly, but obviously your experience is your own. If you are going into a hotly contested investment process, are you going to get away with asking for big uncomfortable changes? Probably not as you'll lose the round.

If you are already invested? I find it's pretty easy as I really am only looking to back people who are open-minded, receptive and coachable in the first place as I hope I am. One of the most common criticisms I make is that someone backed the wrong head of sales, head of growth, etc. and folks almost always hear me out because I can be quantifiable (sales metrics) and bring a solution (someone better).
If the program was written to manipulate LLVM bitcode instead of Java bytecode it would have fared even worse.

It would be interesting to know the specifics of the syntactic incompatibilities in the Java 1.4 program, since Java is usually extremely conservative when it comes to syntactic changes.
caffeine, aspirin, and ephedra - while ephedra is banned, this combo has been long known for fat burning properties. it is unsuprising that strong coffee also works.
My beef is with the relentless pestering. I don’t need to be told on a daily basis about the limited-time offer that I haven’t accepted.
> Here is an idea, what about being paid in the exact amount that one is willing to pay for their tooling.

A better idea: what if all companies had to pay for all the software they expect to make money using, right down to the metal? No leeching off linux for you. Also no gcc, llvm, postgresql, mysql, python, ruby...

When people try introducing proprietary software into the FOSS ecosystem, I find it equally "incredible" how little they acknowledge that most of their piddly 10k lines of "magic" depends on the tens of millions of lines of code underneath being written by people who decided to take the other path.

It sounds like you're better off out of FOSS, but I can guarantee your job is propped up by its existence, almost no matter what you do.
Author is 100% correct with his assessment.

I don't see a single coherent argument against in this comment section, just incredulity trying to defend itself. Real dynamics at play here.

We're still a ways off from realizing what's going on but I'm happy to see others articulating what the code can only describe.
sorry i'm a newb in this space (getting into fpga dev through chisel): is this basically ltspice? or is it more powerful? i'm guessing it's more powerful because you can specify asics using vhdl/verilog and you can also export the entire circuit (netlist?) to vhdl/verilog. basically i'm wondering if i can use this to start to understand verilog/vhdl since it could function is a graphical frontend. i'm also wondering if there's more mature tool for that same purpose.
Here are some escape cases, from both West and East:

https://armscontrolcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Esc...
Because the author doesn't know of an actual solution. Sometimes that happens. Most catch-22 situations really don't have a good solution without some external force (in this case the mob) being removed / mitigated.
I find this view interesting, I have a close friend (not in tech) that also doesn't want to work with women.

My own view is that I have no problem working with women (though there are some women I would refuse to work with or be around in a social setting b/c of the risk). I suspect I don't mind because I've had a positive experience working in a research lab were the PI was a female, as well as one of the research assistants that I closely worked with: I did one aspect of hardware/software, she did the other.
No.

The BSL-4 high-security lab was 7 miles away.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/04/01/covid-19-bioweapon/
Hey, that's me flying the drone!

There was absolutely no heat damage. I assume it's because we were in the heat for such a short time, and the air temperature was below freezing that day. Also, the drone flies pretty fast. Regardless, I was genuinely surprised that there was no damage.

If you like the linked video, you should see how it looked a night: instagram.com/icelandaerials