skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Either way that low-end estimate still seems to be quite a large number. It does make you think how many violent crimes may have been avoided because of brandishing a firearm in self-defense. It's unfortunate that it is hard to get accurate data on this.

What are the trade offs though?

> 5. Firearms are used far more often to intimidate than in self-defense

> Using data from a national random-digit-dial telephone survey conducted under the direction of the Harvard Injury Control Center, we examined the extent and nature of offensive gun use. We found that firearms are used far more often to frighten and intimidate than they are used in self-defense. All reported cases of criminal gun use, as well as many of the so-called self-defense gun uses, appear to be socially undesirable.

> Hemenway, David; Azrael, Deborah. The relative frequency of offensive and defensive gun use: Results of a national survey. Violence and Victims. 2000; 15:257-272.

* https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-thr...
This was actually the subject of a recent Supreme Court case where states were found immune unless Congress finds an issue and adjusts the laws.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/supreme-court-ru...
Emoji don't erase people. Erasing people is a very strong word and should be reserved for serious use.
The nation the put together the underground railroad can't chip in for some bus tickets and U-Haul rentals?
It's actually worse than that. It isn't blocked because of the sender or recipient, but because of the content. That would be like the postal service reading your mail and deciding that because of an address in the text of a letter, it shouldn't be delivered.
If they can shoot the men trying to rape them maybe they won’t have to?
Intent does matter but it’s only half the picture. The impact is the other half. If you don’t intend to run over someone with your car, but you do, you still get in trouble (assuming their intent want to get run over). You need to be more careful because your actions (even unintentional ones) impact others.

From the post, they say that they have a conversation with anyone that’s the subject of a complaint at which point if you express some interest and concern about the impact you’re having on the community, your intentions will probably be respected more than if you just want to focus 100% on your intent, impact be damned.
You don't pull a gun unless you intend to use it. The law recognizes this. If you pull the gun with justified intent, and you end up not having to use it, that's just a happy circumstance. This has happened to me.
I just saw this in another thread but: "label, not remove" is a better philosophy. I want to receive every message addressed to me.

Enable me to be the judge and get out of the way.
I know NYPD had guns with really heavy triggers, far past anything reasonable. Lighter triggers (not really light, standard) and red dot optics would probably help a lot.
Funny I replied to you saying that you’re false about the mask statement and HN censored me! Real free speech platform you guys have here. The irony considering what I was replying to!!
No, I'd just be filtering it client-side -- which is the only way it should work in the first place.

Providers should be legally prohibited from intercepting and dropping messages.
Also covered by Reason (whose reporting on Zayner was likewise censored),

https://reason.com/2021/06/16/why-did-youtube-remove-this-re... ("Why Did YouTube Remove This Reason Video?")

edit: Here's a complete transcript of the censored material, post by Eugene Volokh

https://reason.com/volokh/2021/06/17/youtube-removes-march-2...
> They will use anything (e.g. a microaggression, a usually inadvertent tiny slight) to justify cancelling someone.

Are there any examples of this happening in a prominent open source project? The debate over COCs is a few years old at this point, so if this type of abuse were a common problem I'd imagine there'd be some major examples right now. (I freely admit there may indeed be some, and I'm just not aware.)
Yes you never want to hit your cap. At some of my older jobs people would be like oh crap I gotta take two weeks off starting next week. I much rather have defined PTO. My last role and current role are "unlimited PTO" I take about 4-5 weeks off with out issue. But you are taking a risk for sure going to company with "unlimited PTO".
The more the collective situation worsen, the worst all individual cases go. You're advocating a vicious cycle, or I can't see a possible equilibrium.
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It really depends on what you love doing. Do you know how to swim? It's a useful skill to have, not to mention a fun cardio exercise. If you spend an hour or two every day, you can actually make pretty good progress on learning how to swim.
Partially true.

"On Nov. 11, 1938, the German minister of the interior issued "Regulations Against Jews Possession of Weapons." Not only were Jews forbidden to own guns and ammunition, they couldn’t own "truncheons or stabbing weapons."

In addition to the restrictions, Ellerbrock said the Nazis had already been raiding Jewish homes and seizing weapons.

"The gun policy of the Nazis can hardly be compared to the democratic procedures of gun regulations by law," Ellerbrock told us. "It was a kind of special administrative practice (Sonderrecht), which treated people in different ways according to their political opinion or according to ‘racial identity’ in Nazi terms.""[0].

[0] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/oct/26/ben-carson...
> And the idea that physically weaker people (often women) can defend themselves against the strong.

> Does this idea work? Surprisingly well.

Does it?

> 11. Self-defense gun use is rare and not more effective at preventing injury than other protective actions

> Victims use guns in less than 1% of contact crimes, and women never use guns to protect themselves against sexual assault (in more than 300 cases). Victims using a gun were no less likely to be injured after taking protective action than victims using other forms of protective action. Compared to other protective actions, the National Crime Victimization Surveys provide little evidence that self-defense gun use is uniquely beneficial in reducing the likelihood of injury or property loss.

> This article helps provide accurate information concerning self-defense gun use. It shows that many of the claims about the benefits of gun ownership are largely myths.

> Hemenway D, Solnick SJ. The epidemiology of self-defense gun use: Evidence from the National Crime Victimization Surveys 2007-2011. Preventive Medicine. 2015; 79: 22-27.

* https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-thr...
Doesn't this address inadvertent slights and micro aggressions?
I read what you wrote which is why I replied saying calling it “privilege” is a weird way of phrasing what is essentially “user research” or “due diligence”. How is the “privilege” and “lived experience” framing helpful? Nobody would care if the solution was good. All that matters is the solution itself, not who came up with it. But of course, one is more likely to come up with a good solution if they do good user research first. I think “laziness” is a better descriptor.

By the way, I mentioned psychologists the second time not as a repeat example to curing cancer, but as an example of something which is more about “lived experience” of people, yet is still cured by people without the “lived experience”. You literally mentioned anxiety in your example, so I brought it up that people cure it all the time without suffering from it themselves.
> What if I made something that you like to do illegal?

Pointless red herring. For any law, we can find someone that doesn't like it. Building an argument about police powers from that is building on quicksand.

Unless you mean to do away with law, and the concept of crime in general.
Of course, no one has ever felt to be the intolerant one in the story.
Even when I've won, suing people sucked.

When a company goes bankrupt, there's no money.

And no matter how much I can kid myself "it's not the money, it's the principle", it's the money.

So absent other information, if someone says their job is going away it's quite possible the job is going away because the company is out of money.

One of the things people do when their business is running out of money is they stop paying the obligations the company incurs. This doesn't mean the company stops incurring obligations.

The only blood that will come from squeezing a stone will be from your own cut hands.
We don’t have to consider ridiculous extremes. We need to consider our philosophy, mores and ethics to inform laws.

We don’t say, it’s illegal to commit theft, well, unless you’re the government or the judge, then it’s okay because we know you must have good intentions.
Unfortunately the poor will also pay more for the climate change the diesel causes, and are more likely to be affected by the crap air.

The rich always make sure they never pay for anything. That’s why they’re rich.
Thanks for the advice; not hacked, but I have "resurrected" many WP sites that have been (including my wife's non-profit). Just running on an EC2 micro instance, but I tried adding "site:" and received "No such domain". Actually, I think it's because I haven't enabled "HTTPS" yet! That's on my to-do along with migrating off EC2-Classic to VPC...
I do not know what your comment is exactly meant to imply, but the biggest hurdle in moving is cost of housing, which usually requires proof of income to secure.
A little bit harsh "punishes". It's a cool search engine.
Excel really is the/my last hold-out for Windows. Excel for web is not adequate. Maybe it's better that way for MS/windows, otherwise there are no reasons to stay with windows except it being a habit. For my private use I'll try changing to Linux with Steam Deck.
The PTO is unclear in my opinion. There may be something depending on what's written in the contract and what jurisdiction he is in. There's way too little information to judge.
Fair point, I refined the phrasing a bit.

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I was working at Formation.ai in SF when my wife was diagnosed with stage 3b breast cancer. Formation had an "unlimited PTO" policy and didn't even bat an eye at letting me take all the time I needed to care for my wife and family during that extremely difficult time. I still had some responsibilities but they were not time sensitive and rather minimal. The company never asked for any formal count of my time off or anything like that. It was simply "oh my gosh, we are so sorry - you take all the time you need and if there's anything else we can help with just let us know."

I'm very, very thankful that I happened to be working for them when all of this happened - I was very lucky.
Hey! We're actually polishing up a PR that'll add documentation and finalize the versioning API, it should be merged in this weekend. Would you be up for a quick chat with someone on our team? It would be interesting to get your feedback and see what else we're missing to be a drop-in replacement to opendistro, join our slack if so. We'll dm you :) https://join.slack.com/t/featureform-community/shared_invite...
No cyrillic or hiragana suport :-(
Maybe we should rethink that system then, because making such decisions on emotions likely won't lead to the best outcome for buyers
Germany: 14 months paid parental leave (“Elterngeld”), with max of 12 used by one parent, at 2/3 of average net from previous year, capped at 1800 EUR/mo, paid via the employment office. Months can be distributed as desired through first three years of child’s life. Outside of paid parental leave, either or both parents can opt to take unpaid leave, or work 15-30 hours/week (pay prorated, of course) until the kid is 3 - all of this is collectively called “Elternzeit”. My husband used his first Elterngeld month right after our kid was born, and is using his second now as I start back to work. It’s excellent, and everyone deserves this.

“Mutterschutz” is why I was put on paid leave six weeks before the due date, and forbidden to return any less than eight weeks after birth - that’s paid at a rate close to previous net and if there is a cap, it’s higher than my nice (by German, not US tech hub, standards) IT salary. Paid out of federal taxes, administered by employers.
Somewhat related where states were found to be immune if they infringe copyrights unless Congress finds an issue and rewrites the laws to allow private lawsuits against the states.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/supreme-court-ru...
Well, this is kinda like complimentary condiments or whatever. Technically you are allowed to abuse it to the wazoo, but in practice it just means "Take a reasonable amount, we're not stingy". There obviously is an unspoken "we're all grown ups here" type of social contract in these sorts of things. Abusing it is going to come at the cost of the commons, and in the GP's case it did cost them the perk, so being angry at the abuser seems justified.

One of my co-workers a few years ago decided to go to Japan for 3 months, but that didn't fly with my company and it ended up being mostly an unpaid sabbatical (despite the unlimited PTO policy). 3 months later, the guy extended his stay and let us know he wasn't coming back. There were no hard rules anywhere in sight, but the way this played out seems perfectly reasonable to me.
I will never forget characteristic screen loading method. A 256x192 resolution, 16384 - beginning of video memory, 6144 bytes of B&W pixel data in 3 blocks and 768 bytes for 8*2 color palette. Those visuals and numbers are imprinted in my memory...

Two people who changed my life forever - Sir Clive Sinclair and my Father who'd been bold enough to invest in Timex 2048 despite price and difficulties of life behind an iron curtain.

Thank you. Both of you.
I'm not 100% sure. I guess you could ask them, but I have been impressed with the ingenuity of scammers.

It may be as basic as getting you to open an infected document, of some kind. We tend to exchange a lot of stuff, when we do employment negotiations. I'd think an engineering manager, at a sensitive level, would be a juicy target. I've had any number of LinkedIn attempts to get at me, through offers of employment, basic networking, and attempts to get me to employ (I have a title as a CEO of a couple of 1-person companies, so I get a lot of these types of attempts).

My favorite ones, are the "attractive young women" that want to "link up" with me. I'll bet a lot of folks fall for that.
>If you tolerate intolerance (regardless of intent)

So should people tolerate people who don't tolerate the intolerant? And should other people tolerate them?

I feel like Mr. Garrison's take on it sums it up really well. Tolerating someone doesn't mean you like them or support their views. It just means you have to live with them. And you kind of do, or you have to be willing to remove them from society by any means necessary. And at that point, you're kind of worse than the intolerant people so long as they aren't actively trying to remove people from society by any means necessary.

I guess it all depends on how you define intolerant. When I hear the word I take it as "refuses to tolerate and will not allow coexistence". If that's the case, and that form of intolerance is what cannot be tolerated, then it's a full-circle mind fuck that makes no sense unless you put yourself on a pedestal where you're brand of intolerance is the only intolerance that must be tolerated.

And yeah, I don't think that kind of intolerance should be tolerated, however I don't think it's as common as people make it seem, and I feel like people conflate too many things with the genocidal form of intolerance than they do with someone who might think something is morally wrong but doesn't actually do anything about it. For instance, I know some religious people think being gay is morally wrong but they don't care what people do or if they can get married. I think they're morally wrong for having those beliefs but so long as they don't violate the rights of gay ppl I don't see why it matters. I mean, I can judge them as much as they can judge me.
I winced when you started the comparison with Brazil and Mexico. Those countries may be New World, but anybody who's visited Mexico knows not to go random places alone.

In other words, if Brazil and Mexico are our points of comparison, we're... not in a situation I'd want to be in, to put it diplomatically. Reddit's running joke is that every gunfight happened in Brazil. In fact, I often wonder if most of the gunfight videos actually do come from Brazil.
Even ignoring this study, there's the fact that sometimes we get sad and having a simple suicide mechanism laying around your home makes you dramatically more likely to kill yourself[1].

> Men who own handguns are eight times more likely to die of gun suicides than men who don’t own handguns, and women who own handguns are 35 times more likely than women who don’t.

I don't understand why the pro-gun crowd flails around trying to justify it. Just say you like guns, it's okay. Nobody is coming to take them (unless the recent Texas 'one weird trick to defeat the Constitution with civil lawsuits' plays out to its logical conclusion and we get states allowing anyone to sue anyone involved in a firearm sale).

[1] https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/06/handgun-owner...
> I'm sure if more developers asked to work this way large corps would be happy to accommodate them.

Oh, yes the penny pincers in accounting will just love the fact that their budget calculations for the next year will entirely consist of statements like "whatever our 1000 code monkeys feel like working even if it exceeds the amount you are willing to pay if they get into 'the zone', best case you wont have to pay them at all because none showed up".
In Australia where Atlassian is headquartered there is a govt body names Fair Work Australia where you can complain if you believe your workplace rights are violated. They will try to work with the company and can take them to a quasi judicial body called Fair Work Commission. Next step up is Federal Courts.
But how will the roads be maintained when no taxes are collected?

You would tax the charging stations, much like the way the gas stations have a gas tax. I would also expect most semi's to have their own charging stations that could have a different tax. Also with charging stations you have the serial number of the car so you know how much it weighs. At a gasoline pump I can pay cash and you don't know what car fueled up.
China already passed the US in number of scientific articles published per year
I don't think so. Many other countries have strong central governments and more than two political parties. I think the way they make that work is that parties generally don't amass majority power, but they form coalitions in order to gain control.

My take on it is that our voting system is what leads to two parties. Something that allows people to vote their conscience rather than having to strategically vote for the lesser of two evils, like ranked-choice voting or approval voting, could allow more parties to win representation at the national level.
> Google Desktop Search RIP or FileLocator Pro

I don't use such apps, not because I don't like them, but because these days I just don't trust them to not surreptitiously send an index of my system to them.

I wrote my own file search programs. It's not hard, just a few lines of code. I use them every day.
Oh, that's not true. I lived in a town, briefly fortunately, where the folks did, in fact, know they were intolerant when they ran off black families that dared to move in through various harassment tactics (horribly, mostly directed at the children since the adults had thicker skin). They just didn't care.
Interesting. Kids in many countries throughout the middle east and northern Africa have essentially unrestricted access to firearms, including shit you can't buy in most US states, but your "Draw a Muhammad" litmus test wouldn't fly. What does this indicate?

Let's burn the American flag instead. How's that gonna go in rural counties of the US? Will it be safe, or will the response be armed?
I completely agree. Outside of these toy examples, there really is no way to know the complete truth. But I don't think we should give up on doing the best we can to recover as much context as possible, and we certainly shouldn't fall into some sort of epistemic learned helplessness and try to make all judgements from a position of zero knowledge.
Really depends on the company and in big companies it depends on your team. My very first job out college had vacation and sick time. You could take your vacation at any time no questions asked. It was really nice but they paid less than everybody else. But the work life balance was much better. You saw a lot of people with families come and work there and take paycut. It was interesting seemed work well for them.
I sincerely doubt the average first world government has what it takes to sacrifice its comfortable bureaucracy and inspire even a tiny fraction of 330,000,000 citizens to fight back against tyranny.

That’s why federal legislators freaked out when a few thousand pissed off voters simply walked into the Capitol without permission - and without weapons. Every one of those mostly peaceful demonstrators represented a thousand equally angry, and well-armed, citizens not visible on security cameras.
I never liked this hypothesis. The way I see it, we're returning to a "dynamic complex system" view from a brief infatuation with computing, and I'm not even really convinced the naive computing analogies were present anywhere else than in popular science and K-12 education. I'm having trouble imagining serious scientists believing there's a discrete, digital logic present in what's clearly an analog system built out of feedback loops - a conceptual framework that dates to the beginning of the 20th century if not earlier.
This pope pushing for just about anything will cause more Catholics to outright reject it than to embrace it.
The concept of micro aggressions is based on teaching people to feel harmed by inadvertent slights
The fact that crypto gained any traction at all is a testament to how broken the current system was. The original selling points of crypto were privacy, inflation-resistance, and decentralisation, and that was enough to reach a small critical mass of true believers to provide a minimum level of liquidity. But that's not why crypto got mainstream traction.

After that, the reason people actually used crypto was because Bitcoin was absolutely the easiest solution to send X amount of money to random person Y in an arbitrary jurisdiction in an hour or so. It's been getting better, but there are still circumstances where crypto is the easiest solution, even if you are operating entirely within the confines of the law. If your situation involves a border and small amounts of money? The chances are pretty damn good.

None of this contradicts the fact that crypto is pretty terrible as of now, but that only makes the point more compelling. People are willing to put up with all the terribleness because it fills a genuine need. This forum if nowhere else should know that terrible product with ludicrous success means something.

To head off the inevitable "the only use for crypto is speculation", I would like people making this argument to explain why, out of all the things you can speculate on, crypto is the one consuming more electricity than entire nations and still going strong after a decade of ludicrous growth. Your argument should be specific to crypto and not predict that, say, weed stocks will have a $2tn market cap if you try to apply the same argument.
Aren't these up to the manager to approve?

A different manager can make a completely different experience in a single company. A rule of thumb when things blow out of proportion is that the manager is quite likely to have been a catalyst.