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> caucasian people don’t seem to have that stereotype as far as I can tell

Really? For mass shootings? They're overwhelming done by white people.
How is this post not off/topic per HN’s guidelines?
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Except, ya know, the lived experiences of ADHD sufferers like myself. I get zero euphoria from my meds.

The idea that you think people with ADHD are just normal people who have trouble focusing are missing it by a mile. Caffine makes me sleepy.
They're definitely no longer as scared of doing things anymore, but it is still hilarious to see the off-the-cuff stuff they come up with in the later seasons.

I find now they're more mature and aware of their influence. I watch mostly because it's just fun to watch them have a great time (you can tell they really enjoy their job and that makes it for me).
Agreed. Our startup is doing this in WebGL so these virtual worlds can connect to each other as a 3D spatial layer on top of our current World Wide Web.
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Hey, it's HN, if you're not up for super cringe perhaps you shouldn't be here? Or maybe you mean there should be a 7xx code for "This is super cringe"?
It looks like the free tier is just instructions on how to fill out the TXT records on the domain. The paid tier is supposed to add a level of privacy, so you probably need to delete the dns records you created and follow their directions. I assume they have some kind of independent lookup service.
Symbolic gestures are still statements of shared values, which is pretty surprising to even have in the US. So while, yes, it’s not substantive legislation that helps black people, we can still be happy this happened.
Weirdly aggressive? What's aggressive about it? The thin skin around here is ridiculous.
It was a bit cringe inducing to read that they were intentionally publishing articles purely on the basis of finding someone's appearance amusing.
But then why even mention it was a male at all?
I was talking about Australian voting, given the post to which I replied talked about Australian voting. Specifically, I was pointing out that in Australia, compulsory voting is great.

I don’t really know about the US’s ghoulish pantomime that is government, but at least here, the understanding that one can be fined for not voting comes with the societal expectation that the roadblocks to doing so will be cleared as much as possible by them, across the board, to everyone. That way, people who fail to vote fail to do so by their own choice and thus the fine is not farcical. Australia’s government understands and honours that.
I'm with you. I still use Classic Shell on Win10 and LXDE on Debian -- and I'm happy with both.

I wonder if you can still replace the entire shell on Windows? I haven't done that for over a decade.
Well _I_ liked it.
seems like they should restrict the use of debt-based (government emitted credit money) for the purpose stock market speculation.

or if they wanna keep the ability to take huge risks, there should be some way to force large financial entities to face the loses when they do risky things and fail as opposed to letting the "market" (i.e. the future taxpayer) pay the bills.

at the very least they should cut them off from "new money" (which is government emitted credit=debt-money) until they pay back in whole as opposed to just making even more "money" to dig a deeper hole for the future taxpayer to fill back up.

I'm reminded of filling up a hole by digging in other places to fill the original hole without ever realizing that you're actually in the ocean and thus you are just lowering the overall water level.
I think 759 is somewhat related.
NPR really isn't very balanced.

It's good, but not balanced.

There are very few places that are, and everyone is covering 'different things' it's like there is no accepted version of reality anymore.
I'm inclined to think so, at least for the subset of mass shootings that excludes gang/drug/domestic violence.

The contagiousness of suicide is backed up by research, and media coverage is a major risk factor (which even has an impact of the method that copycats use to commit suicide). Even if not all mass shooters are suicidal, intuitively it makes sense that there would be the same sort of viral effect.
My favorite kind of killer bug is the Heisenbug - a bug that changes its behavior depending on how you observe it. In the general case, it goes away as soon as you start to use a debugger or put logging statements into your code.

The most common bug of this sort involves race conditions and subtle corner cases wrt timing, in systems with independent asynchronous processes interacting in ways that are difficult or impossible to model using formal methods.
Server crashed (737-Max)
You finally explained what draws me to emacs. Except org-mode. I feel if I could make org-mode a part of my life I could accomplish anything.
This is why I still largely prefer name brand hotels. Stuff can still go wrong but having a manager to speak to backed by the rep of a major brand that needs to protect its image helps. Airbnb you’d think would be the same but there have been countless of articles like this and all seems well in their rep land anyway

And bizarrely pricing has largely converged anyway. Airbnb and name brand hotel often isn’t that far apart
In some states in the USA recently there's been legislation passed that makes it illegal to provide even water to people waiting to vote.

For us Australians, I suspect that invites a huge range of questions, including how long are people normally waiting that they need water, and why would a nominally capitalist society legislate against selling libations and comestibles under these very specific conditions.
> one party is steadfastly committed to keeping it that way, and the other party only vaguely recognizes how big of a problem it is.

Not quite: the other party is committed to keeping it that way, too, but is also content to let the first party be the fall-guy for its efforts.

The two parties both play for the same team. They're in a big club you might say, and we're not in it (apologies to Carlin for my poor rendition of his skit).
If I had a private company, I would put 0 emphasis on diversity and inclusion beyond "if you discriminate on the basis of sex or race, you are fired." I would, however, have Juneteenth off as a holiday.

So, please consider me a data point of 1 which does not fit your paradigm.
Maybe 799 - “why is this so important to you anyway”
Given X10's sort of prominent history in the home automation world and its relationship to a lot of reputable companies, I'm really curious what the story is of how X10 Inc itself went for such a sketchy advertising campaign. X10, the protocol, was heavily backed by major home technology companies like Ademco (now Honeywell), GE, NuTone, etc. X10 Inc is a direct descendant of BSR in Scotland, the original marketer of X10, and was founded by the same people.

It seems like it must have tarnished the X10 brand for the other manufacturers, although perhaps that explains why GE home security systems on the late end of the X10 era manage to describe the X10 features and functionality without ever once saying "X10"... although I more assume it's because they didn't necessarily want people to realize they could buy cheaper X10 devices at RadioShack, rather than through their alarm dealer.
The status code of the imagination.
"Whatever helps me pay off my student loans."
Do you have a reason to think AirBnB is doing anything less moral than existing hotel or motel chains? I would expect most operators to call the police and hire lawyers to ensure that their liability stays at 0, and not much else.

AirBnB is offering victims sometimes millions of dollars to settle claims, but they cannot force the victims to do anything. It turns out that as individual agents with free agency, the victims sometimes prefer to have millions of dollars.
I really like the idea of this. Some thoughts:

1. It's difficult for me to tell which spaces are open for play and which aren't -- the border is hard to parse. (Is that this cell's border, or the adjacent cell?) This isn't really an issue during placement, but it is an issue for signalling that a cell has been "captured," which is hard for me to tell.

2. Hexagon grid is absolutely the right call. :)

3. The influence mechanic is very opaque: it's very hard for me to predict what will happen next, which makes me feel like I'm playing a little "intuitively," instead of planning out my moves with intention. Some way to see "this is the current state and this will be the next state" would help with that, but I think as long as influence is a continuous quantity it's going to be difficult to visualize and predict.

4. Making the board itself hexagonal (ala Hexxagon) will give you an odd number of cells, preventing ties. Might also be nice to smooth out cell-strength discontinuities around the top and bottom edges.

5. Balancing the first-player advantage by making the first move a "weak stone" was very confusing to me, because an adjacent move by player two will "capture" my initial stone with a single stone of theirs. I didn't understand this until I saw your comment about it here. I think the pie rule would work well in this game, but it's hard for me to reason about since edge moves are offensively weaker but defensively stronger... I'm not sure how well it would shake out, if you haven't tried it already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_rule
If 8 of my dead great-grandparents vote for Mayor Daley, but I vote against, his 8-1 victory isn't democracy.
>This is exactly the problem here: Your neighbours or passerbys seeing your SSID is not much of a problem, but a total stranger anywhere in the world finding your address only by (B)SSID is a problem.

In what case would "a total stranger anywhere in the world" get a hold of your BSSID?
“Imagine that this returned successfully “
I prefer comments but yes. If something doesn't make sense, one of my first things to try is to check the `git blame` and see if there's anything recent (or close to when the bug reportedly appeared, such as between two versions). Sometimes the commit message tells me something but usually not, but just looking up the ticket number from the commit message on our issue tracker can be enough hint sometimes. Especially on our SaaS product, if a problem just popped up in Prod and especially if the bug seems both easy to reproduce and feels like "wasn't us" I'll make a quick guess on a 'known good version', try to reproduce and the `git bisect` to find the culprit. Not to blame but just to figure out what's wrong in a very easy way. Sometimes I can fix it easily from that or ping the person who made the boo boo and they will usually know how to fix it quickly.

In the context of regular development? I almost never do any of that.
I've seen people refactoring the code just to avoid writing a single line comment, like it's a dirty thing to do. After the refactor the new code is probably more readable, but not as good as it would have been with the comment.
Yeah I moved to Asia from Europe, and I dont think it's the lack of imagination that make us so slow, inefficient, unable to compete abroad etc. Or else here in China we'd still be cutting wood and milking cow: there's very little "imagination".

But the systems are built differently, usually turned specifically to succeed fast and loud at the cost of individual comfort. For instance, where I come from in France, you would keep a useless, even toxic, employee for months for fear of the firing trial, but where I am now we can all be dismissed arbitrarily with a month notice, and that makes the hiring very different: people have a strict behavior feedback loop, where they need to change to stay somewhere, companies have no pressure on lowering hiring because of legal issues, employees can always always find better.

This turns a population of mild puppies into a fastly rotating workforce cross pollinating at light speed and I admit I think Europe can never win against people who built such systems. It's just not the same game anymore.
The cultural icon of a developer workspace these days is a Macbook Pro in a coffee shop.
The “leaders in editing software” are arguably Avid’s Media Composer, Adobe Premiere pro, and Apple’s Final Cut Pro X, none of which have free versions.

The free version of Da Vinci Resolve was released back when it was still a color-correction tool, before it started adding meaningful editing capabilities. So, no, I don’t think Shotcut is relevant.
The fact it’s apparently NOT political is a (perhaps) surprising “new phenomenon”
> During my job search, I'd do my best to get the decision-maker on a call. This could be a co-founder or eng manager or an outsourced recruiter. If there was good rapport on the screener, and I felt like I could be vulnerable to them, I'd mention it like "hey by the way, I don't want to waste your time with this... I won't be able to pass a background check."

> ...

> I never would bother with sending a resume to HR or an internal recruiter. They see 100s of resumes and if I were to put "hey I'm a felon so don't waste your time unless you're chill" on it, I'd get put into the pile I wouldn't want to be in.

I'd like to ask how you do this - is it just through friends and networking? I'm not a felon, but I left the workforce for 2 years for no particular reason (I was a bit burnt out, and I had a lot of money in the bank), and when I started looking again, I found it impossible to get past HR. I look like a felon pretty much, and I've come to the conclusion that a guy who doesn't work for 2-3 years whose references are all good looks like he's hiding something. I know that I have better luck with technical people (HR people evaluate what they can evaluate - which is a gap in my employment, not my tech chops.)

How are you getting inside, where people treat you like a person instead of a checklist?
After his best friend an co-star, Ryan Dunn, died in a gnarly drunk driving accident, Bam spun into a deep and dark depression. He’s never fully recovered.
Product designer here. I just spent the past few hours fine-tuning some visual details in our Figma component library. Now I need to file tickets for each change and work with our frontend developers to make sure the updated Figma details get properly mapped over to React.

I've grown numb to the friction, but I think this Utopia demo just reset my pain tolerance. Going back to manually mapping designs from Figma mocks to React components feels so dated. Almost like those PSD2HTML websites of the early 2000s.

The market absolutely needs a product like this.
This is an extremely cynical take on antitrust law. Unjustifiably cynical, at least for now.

Granted, America has done such a piss-poor job of actually enforcing antitrust laws already on the books that it's hard not to read into this enforcement now as the end result of someone refusing to play ball.
Ei-ichi Negishi, Nobel-winning chemist who made ‘art in a test tube,’ dies at 85
Who would you have expected to vote "nay?"
778 - not everyone approves
I wish it had a web browser. Didn't see many updates from them about it.
>That’ll be much healthier for democracy.

Are you sure about that? This past election wasn't exactly very healthy.

Be careful with removing all the pageantry around elections. Symbolism is very important and singular day election days play into that. So does filling in a paper ballot, and going to a polling place with your fellow citizens.

Imagine you created an app, wherein you enter your preference (Dem or GOP) and the app goes and proceeds to vote for you automatically anytime there's an election. Would that improve democracy or alienate people from it?
Well, they broke up IBM and Microsoft, didn't they?
> Now that I'm a misdemeanor(er?)

The proper word is misdemeanant. ;)
Rapes, robberies, burglaries and lots of other bad things happen at Hotel chains too. They just have a structured management and PR department to do a better job of keeping it under wraps.
Hate crimes are already a redundancy over the fact that the underlying crimes are already crimes. Hate crimes against Asians, doubly so. You already can't assault somebody. We don't need laws that say that you can't assault somebody on the basis of their race, and we definitely don't need laws saying that you can't assault somebody because they're Asian.
Trial reveals federal agents falsely accused a professor born in China of spying
Right before the pandemic, I was shopping at Best Buy, and saw HP 32" monitors on sale, cheap. (The old 2K, not 4k)

Phoned home to check with the Misses, and she said no, get 2 of them, one for yourself, and one for sproutlet.

Having a nice big screen really helped during the quarantine after getting sick, and the time after.

It doesn't really matter what your "computer" is, be it an old Mac Pro tower, or an HP laptop, the Monitor, real Keyboard and Mouse are what make a desktop these days. The old beige box is optional now, the rest isn't.
That's a particularly bad offense for a software engineer. Wouldn't want to be in a meeting having to explain why I hired them if they mishandled data/access again.
Ah, you're right, I may have misread their post, if it was made tongue-in-cheek. I'm not one to assume all conspiracy theories are false, but I took their comment at face value, and I think this one is past being "theory".
i would tend to agree, but depends on scale. It's often easier and cheaper to house 10-15 people at an Airbnb than it is at a brand-name hotel.
You joke, but there are hidden costs to limited competition even if the full effects of the efficiency due to vertical integration and economies of scale is passed to consumers in the form of reduced prices.

The efficiency from vertical integration come from global optimizations that aren't possible for separate organizations. The negative side of that is that there is less interest in finding new ways of using each of the components and finding reusing pieces of the infrastructure.

While these optimizations are economically positive in the short term they can delay innovation that would otherwise occur.

Take a look at Google - they had a cloud before "Cloud computing" was a thing. But when they built it, it was so tightly integrated that it didn't occur to them to sell the Cloud infrastructure (after all, it wasn't the "product", it was the process).

It took someone coming in later and building a less tightly coupled system for their applications to realize that it could be a product on it's own. Sand now Google is playing catch up as they have to undo all the shortcuts they developed that only work in their system.

It's worse today with all the content moving to walled gardens. Unlike when Google started, content is increasingly being locked away. The only way to search Facebook is to use Facebook search (or get Facebook's permission).

At the very least these tech giants should be forced to offer the same APIs they use themselves. Expose the natural gaps within the integrated stack for others to build off of. That should push things so that interoperability would be at least possible.
Student debt is often used also in Japan (but very low APR < 1%)
And the additional note would be that later, when I had extensive direct contact with someone COVID positive, I had minor symptoms lasting two or three days. Which at least somewhat suggests I had an immune response of someone who had it.
Margin debt, shadow margin, taking loans against property in SF and buying stocks, ...

As Warren Buffett said: 'You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out.' When margin calls start coming in, someday, those with huge leverage will be slaughtered. Those with cash buy stocks cents per dollar.
Deep Dive into Asynchronous JavaScript
Earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27513938
Does Linux want to be as popular as Windows or as popular as Mac? Nobody has to check whether their hardware is designed for Windows.
Yeah. I'm sorry your parents didn't know better. I've seen a bunch of young people being given the horrible advice by their parents of talking to the police, which is a huge no-no in the United States.
Uhhh... no. Like that's not at all how stimulants affect people with ADHD. If you need me to waste 6 straight hours of my life stuffing wedding invitations I'll skip taking my meds that day. Stimulants help me have focus when I am physically unable and let me direct it at at what I want to be doing instead of it being outside my control.

Like it doesn't make you happy. That's silly. If the only issue with me doing menial tasks was that it made me unhappy I would be so much better off because at least I would be able to do the task.
Yea. Europe seems to be taking a strong stance on things from a human pov but I can’t help but feel that’s a sure way to lose in the world that is coming.

The only thing better than data is big data. Yet gdpr etc is basically the opposite

Worse yet the same applies to the US. Think US will lose against the Chinese model too. Not as badly as Europe given the sketchy shit US big players are allowed to do but that’s still a far cry from the collect everything model the US is up against
Well, technically speaking, depending on the exact terms of reference for "mass shooting", white people (... men ... mass shootings by women are rare) are slightly under-represented as mass shooters vs. their proportion of the population.
Respect from nation's institutions? Do you mean the equality under the law already shared by all citizens?
This is a clear case of unintended consequences? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences

If you care about this, the burden is on you to make sure the signal does not go outside of your house or to make our wifi work in private mode (probably easiest solution). Google is simply taking advantage of what is essentially public information, they are doing it at scale and this should not be problematic at all.

We need to understand that when we live in a technologically advanced civilization (sufficiently advanced as to have Google cars driving around) there are some things we will have to give up as a part of enabling the technologically advanced environment that we chose to live in.

What we would have a problem with is not collecting then, but the way it is being used. A reasonable way to handle this for Google would be: rather than having a SSID opt out, have ad-tech opt-in as in 'we can optimize our ads based on your detected wifi location, would you like that?' Meaning: yes, it's fine that you collect publicly available information at scale, but if you want to use it for me (or against me, depending on your view), you have to ask me. Otherwise it would be violating my right to privacy.
The people running the monopolies are nothing like the vast majority of "computer nerds" in the industry working under them.
I basically agree with this.

But to me it feels more like "I'm using those fancy words I don't care about because I think that's what you want and how I can lure you".

It is totally disrespectful to the intelligence of it's users.