skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In effect, in the U.S. one risks punishment by the state for criticizing the police and there is recourse against such punishment.

He won at trial. If cops ever do it again he can point to the trial as clear prior evidence.

This is about being arrested in the first place for something the cops think is illegal, but isn't. It's not about criticizing the police.

This is also why he lost at the supreme court - the case was NOT about criticizing/parodying the police, it was about police conduct if they think something is illegal.

I feel like a lot of people aren't realizing this distinction and making this case into something it is not.
IMO none of OP's points are the one thing really wrong with (dev/tech) hiring.

The absolutely grueling, pointless, insane interviews processes are the lion's share of problems in this field. To the point that its an industry of its own, with Leetcode and the likes. Its pathetic, inefficient and just in terrible taste.
> But it isn’t about the plagiarism. It’s confirmation that the institution only cares about empty platitudes while not really doing anything else to help their students. And if they’re not helpful, why does their job exist?

You're kind of missing the point:

1. Institutional practices/beliefs about plagiarism will influence its behavior in other areas.

2. "Empty platitudes," are often necessary, as a social lubricant. People aren't robots. Sometimes you can't do anything, but also you can't say nothing.

3. I very much doubt the university administration only exists to send out these messages, so you can't reasonably question if their job should exist based on this narrow episode.
> I'm plenty happy living my life as I see fit

Then why would you imagine parents tell their kids that life is "fucking horrible", instead of telling them that life is "plenty happy"? Like, everything you describe, you have or will go through as well, and apparently you don't find it to be "shit. Absolute shit".
In Indonesia the Carter administration provided aid and weapons to the Suharto government even after evidence of atrocities in East Timor and many other atrocities had come to light.

In El Salvador the Carter administration provided funding to the Revolutionary Government Junta who were also responsible for numerous atrocities.

The Carter administration also provided support for the Guatemalan military government including using Israel to provide them with weapons and military aid in defiance of the embargoes passed by congress. His administration even provided training for their security forces at clandestine sites in Chile and Argentina.
I think adding water would be more effective.
6th and 7th grade are pretty brutal developmental years. You get a lot more autonomy but also spend a lot of time grappling with who you are and what your identity is, particularly in monoculture suburbia.
> I believe this has to do with managers being required to constantly estimate cost, time, and ROI with precision, minimizing risk.

Well, they think they're minimizing risk, but at best they're just minimizing uncertainty, and the result is predictably low productivity.
p=h/λ

https://pressbooks.online.ucf.edu/phy2053bc/chapter/photon-m....

Edit - mislead by Google, corrected.
We were up until one former military dictator assumed Presidency in a democratic election in 2015, and all the progress has been erased, plus more.
Makes me wonder if any factions of the US government is working in cahoots with cartels.
Which most people would agree - smoking in public is not a personal activity; but this debate raged on throughout the 90s and early 00s. The secondary effect is on the healthcare system some time after the fact, which is the same for sugar, alcohol, smoking...where it is a new generation that is funding the care.

I don't mean to distract from the main point, but sugar is not an innocent example, especially when lobbying happened to use sugar in favour of fat.
I agree with you but I'd imagine new tech like chatgpt won't interject in a user's interactions with facebook and instagram as it does with google where I ask my AI for something vs. search for it in google.
I was recently an owner of a Merced-Benz commercial van, and the software was by far the worst part of that whole experience.

It had obvious race-condition type bugs when it came to the user interface layer, but most frustrating was its tendency to succumb to some kind of memory leak on long drives where the entire head unit would just lock up and crash to a black screen after 6-7 hours of being turned on. Because the vehicle kept the computer system "warm" for up to 30 minutes or so to avoid doing a full (and slow) bootup process every time you stopped for fuel, this was a real problem on long trips and couldn't always be solved by power cycling the vehicle.

Had a dealer try to update it twice, which didn't seem to meaningfully impact the system stability at all.

Then there were multiple other, non-head-unit related glitches like the lane assist and cruise control features being incompatible with the state of Nevada (if the system fails to detect any other vehicles for a period of more than about 90 minutes, it assumes that there is a sensor fault, and refuses to operate [1]. Unfortunately it is quite easy to spend hours on the road alone in many southwestern US states, triggering this failsafe mode)

Suffice it to say that I am very skeptical of any software coming from Mercedes these days.

[1] https://www.winnieowners.com/forums/f265/2019-sprinter-cruis...
> an employee-centric company was revolutionary at the time

In the world of major software corporations, perhaps, but it's not like it was unknown elsewhere.
South africa profited like many others, from the cold-war, when the us propped up the "border" wall states (germany,austria, italy, turkey, south-korea and japan). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namibia#Independence

With the wind down of the cold war, all that stopped and the ANC, which was on the loosing side of the cold-war ideologically, had to pivot, while all support was cut. It did not go very well, but they also were delt a lousy hand to start with.

Social Rebel groups seem to have a tendency to facilitate the rise of gangsters, profiteers and sadists to power, once they are victorious. Think of stalin, a little ruthless gangster, who basically ran the sovjet union like a gang kept in eternal turmoil and panic.
So you read it here instead of there, and everyone else gets to read it twice. Cool.
I desperately want to make a Theranos joke here, but I'm not sure we should put up with even a tiny drop of that sort of snark.
Parenting is by far the most difficult, stressful thing I've ever undertaken. My kids are mostly not too difficult, but they're very different nonetheless. My son is Mr. Compliant and is exactly the kind of kid that makes people think they must be rockstar parents. My daughter, on the other hand, routinely makes me feel like an ineffectual failure at parenting. I love her more than anything in the world, but she might well be costing me a few years of lifespan :).

One major problem, at least from my perspective, is managing the transfer of responsibility as a child progresses from toddler to adult. It's not like you throw them the keys at 18 and say 'good luck!'. So there is ongoing give-and-take, rules, negotiations, and extending trust. My kids are 10 and 12, which is an exciting time for sure. Puberty is a wild ride whether you're the victim or not :)

Haven't let her get a smartphone yet, but this is an ongoing battle. Because when she says 'but all my friends do!' she's not lying. I have to temper my fears and try to remember what it's like to be a kid. As an adult I had largely forgotten what it was like in middle school.
Agreed, but what’s the alternative though? Just going full Amish on them until they’re 18? 25? Look at all the Baby Boomers and older Gen X’ers that got on the Internet in the past ten years and instantly had their brains rotted despite decades of life experience. Should there be some kind of emotional intelligence test everyone has to pass to earn their internet license?

This is why I think that taking steps to keep kids off social media is delaying the inevitable. Just as there’s no safe age to start smoking, there’s no truly safe age to start using social media as it currently exists. So either we accept the negative aspects of these platforms’ existence, or we remediate them.
I may not be using the term feminism accurately, but what I mean is that men were told that any progress made for women would also be beneficial for them. While I fully support gender equality and fairness, it doesn't seem like these advancements have actually helped men. It appears to be a zero-sum scenario.
> I was this way for a few years.

Out of curiosity, what changed?
I wouldn't worry about it too much. Every girl goes through that, they're called your formative years for a reason. The start of HS is basically a reset where you go from chasing whatever fancy catches your attention shamelessly-ish to consciously developing an identity filtered through the social pressures of wanting to fit in. It starts to wane around 17 when we start feeling confident enough to be ourselves, but on purpose this time around. She'll be fine.
At stake is not the free speech, but the qualified immunity concept (something made up by SCOTUS 50-60 years ago).
Atlassian nailed this. So has Vercel - do one thing perfectly.
At my kid's school the target is no phones until 8th grade. It seems many people adhere to the guidance, but that is only based on what we see casually, and we'll see how it looks over the next few years. Some 3rd/4th graders have smart watches which allow comms but not meaningful apps. Not sure it is a great compromise for my family, but interesting to see what results other folks find as we all navigate it.
Laws are often written to draw bright lines where one does not necessarily exist naturally. In the case of platform versus publisher, I think one does exist naturally, but it applies separately to each piece of content. A newspaper acts as a publisher with regard to its articles, but a platform when its CMS accepts comments.

A publisher selects or whitelists content. A platform does not, but may moderate or blacklist content. Of course, mathematically those can achieve the same result, but laws are not mathematical formulas. The intent and effects matter.

I'm aware some of the proposals to update platform immunity are intended as political leverage. I oppose those.
>But we're still talking like $170/month

Rounding error for most companies.

>The extra cost is a bit of Linux sys admin which can be fully automated

You are overweighting hard dollar costs and underweighting the value of engineering time. Maybe you're the worlds greatest devops/platform engineer/sysadmin and once you wire up everything in under 5 minutes it will never need maintenance ever again but for most everyone else speeding up image builds by using a service that someone else thinks about and does maintenance on is absolutely worth it for $170/mo.
Whether or not you agree with his methodology this is perfectly in line with both tyranical rule and with desperate CEOs: Motivate by putting heads on the block (and further reducing headcount for failure). The replacement has substantial motivation to succeed.
I miss the sodium lamps.

They were being transitioned out during my university years. First year all the lights on campus were that cool, single frequency yellow, by senior year there was just one, stuck in a lonely corner of campus, buzzing it's familiar call. I think the single emission spectra was a big part of the appeal. The complete lack of color left things somewhat eerie, but in a distinctly nonthreatening way. Just an alien peace.
Okay, but you’re objectively wrong in your second sentence. There were archaic humans (genus homo, specifically Homo habilis and then Homo erectus) about 2-3 million years ago. They used various tools, and as of ~1 million years ago (late erectus to early Homo heidelbergensis, the common ancestor of anatomically modern humans and the Neanderthals) were possibly using (a gestural?) language, likely fire, maybe even seafaring.

I am not that interested in the opinion of people insistent that humans won’t exist in the future (and calling those who disagree “delusional”) if those people have a flawed understanding of human existence in the past.
I've found my blog posts as an angsty teen from 2000->2002 thanks to LiveJournal still existing. They were definitely not worth being recorded, but it was a great wakeup call to the general idea that I was fairly mature back then.
I am assuming the "SMW3 cable" mentioned is SEA-ME-WE 3, which was mentioned multiple times in "Mother Earth Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson (1996, Wired) [0]. It was noted as a competitor to FLAG, the cable Stephenson was mainly following.

That seems like a very long lifespan.

[0]: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
which kind of packs takes ages. I don't have this issue. There is no could break with updates. It is they will be wiped by an update. Install packages with distrobox.
> We are an incredibly hardy species. We are clever. We find ways to survive in deserts, mountains, small islands, icey tundras and anything in between.

We’re that… so far.

But at the same time:

- our track record is short, only about 300kY, for comparison while not a specific species the dinosaurs lasted for around 175000kY, and were the dominant life form for 135000, until they were taken out by an asteroid, apex species did last for millions of years

- we’re actively moving our own environment out of spec with our survival capabilities, and as warm-blooded mammals it’s much easier to adapt to the cold than it is to the heat, 35 WBT is a hard limit (in fact it looks like it’s an over-estimate and 31 is closer, even for healthy young adults, but 35 WBT was a theorised estimate)

Drive to survive can only get you so far, you can have as much drive to survive as your average cockroach, that won’t save you from heat stroke any more than it’ll save you from drowning or a bullet wound.
Yuck:

> MB.OS is designed and developed in-house to retain full control

You better have some world class software engineers to pull this off, a LOT of them. And retain them. If not, you better go open source. You can still retain full control with open source.

Good software is the KEY to good cars, especially electric ones. Why are we inventing 100 different models of cars every year? What a waste of human potential.
I am a subscriber. And they lowered my price a few months ago. By something like 10%. I don’t remember seeing any WSJ headlines about that.
The climate change debate isn't just about the impact to humanity!

1950 human population 2.5 billion,
1977 human population 4 billion,
2023 human population 8+ billion

so in 20 / 30 years 16 billion?
Thank you for the very kind comments! It would be really cool to do something like ctr with what we have with Depot today. Did you have a part you really enjoyed with it that would be a must have for you?
Hello, I am Cortana, would you like to play Bejeweled?

Sorry, that isn't fair, but still I think they were less obnoxious back in the Windows 3.1 days.
Even chatgpt knows.

(prompt:) what does it mean to parent?

To parent means to raise and nurture a child from infancy to adulthood,
providing them with love, care, guidance, and support as they grow and
develop. Parenting involves a wide range of responsibilities and
activities, including providing for a child's physical needs, such as
food, shelter, and medical care, as well as their emotional and
psychological needs, such as love, affection, and encouragement.

Effective parenting also involves setting boundaries and rules, providing
discipline when necessary, and teaching children important life skills,
such as communication, problem-solving, and decision-making. As children
grow and mature, parents often adjust their parenting style to meet their
children's changing needs and help them develop into independent and
responsible adults.
Or possibly a more programmatic Synfig.
>Offering flexible upgrades

do you want to buy the headlights DLC ($0.9 first month, then $29.9)? Y/n
> The economy didn't get better for everyone, in fact inequality rose starkly

What is your source for this "fact"? There were no drastic changes in Gini coefficient in the USA.

Also, I'm pretty sure suicide rate was also increasing in wealthy households.

> How about climate anxiety/eco-anxiety?

Do you really believe teenage girls have "climate anxiety"? Is there anything that indicates people suddenly became more aware of climate change in 2012? (the only spike Google Trends has is around 2007).
>It is just surprising to see a conviction on this alone.

Maybe someone got a promotion out of it? Maybe? Haha. I'm sure someone was promoted.
And quasars are, if I remember correctly, just galaxies whose central black holes are ingesting large amounts of gas. The accretion disks that form in orbit are simply massive and form giant light years long jets that shoot out from both poles. Active galactic nucleus.
Interesting idea. Although the cops might claim they did not believe the billboards were accurate.
I'd say it's a firm "probably": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traffi....
More progressive propaganda thinly packaged as journalism. Humans are animals, and nature has selected us to survive again and again. For crying outloud, we've made it to outer space, one of the most hostile environments for life forms, and we're pushing to go further.

The spread of the "humans suck, we're so awful" rhetoric in the left-wing media really puts a bad taste in my mouth.
Right. Archaic humans that existed 1 million years ago are still recognizable very much as humans and had many of our current capabilities in nascent form.
I've always wondered why headlines are limited to 80 chars but comment lines on wide screens aren't wrapped until > 200 characters.
Mennonite with a cell phone:

https://youtu.be/Pt_XU4W4DBA?t=858
I tried Tinder (and Hinge) as an average looking guy and found it to be dehumanizing. I rarely got matches, the matches I got usually didn't respond to my messages, and even when they did I could tell they weren't invested in the interaction. I've got a great job, a decent face, I work out, I've got friends, family, hobbies, and passions. I genuinely like myself; I'm satisfied with my life and my personal development. But I'm not in the top n% of attractiveness, so nobody cared.

I know the solution is to focus on in-person dating and building genuine connections with people in the real world, but I've had no success with that either. I asked my friends if they knew anyone they could set me up with, but nobody did. My job and my hobbies are male dominated. Every activity in my area (a large US tech hub) that I've tried is male dominated except for yoga. Maybe things will change as I get older (I'm in my early twenties), but if things continue as they are now it will take a minor miracle for me to find a relationship before I die. I just feel so lost, I don't know what to do.

Maybe this is oversharing, but I just wanted to get it out there. Thanks for reading.
I have won a couple of t-shirts in Google code Jam and got to the third round once.

One year I was competing from my honey moon.

I was never really good but it was one of the competitions I have greatly enjoyed.
Especially when one could still run the code locally and submit solutions in any language possible.

There were pepole who made an effort to solve every problem is different language.

I haven't competed last 5 or so years, but I will shed a tear for Google Code Jam.
I gave this a go in ios app and couldn’t find it. Not saying that your info is wrong, there’s a ton of settings and i am not very familiar with the app - but maybe this this info is not for ios app?

And obviously i think, it weird that one would even need a setting to disable a deliberate anti-consumer feature.
Awful president, very pleasant ex-president.

This is the guy who ushered in the neoliberal era; the guy they stuck in to suppress the left of the Democratic party, the first successful anti-McGovern candidate (whose slightly left-of-neocon positions were blamed for the loss of the previous election.) Carter left office as a failure, partially due to behind the scenes manipulation of the Iran situation by the Reagan campaign, but mostly due to the fact that there was no positive case to be made for his presidency either.

Carter was the bridge from the New Deal to Clintonism (with a brief stroll through the Party's destruction of the Rainbow Coalition), where the parties only ever differ on a handful of wedge issues. A merger that destroyed Democratic political dominance in the US, it didn't save it.

He should be celebrated for his post-presidency e.g. his work for Habitat for Humanity and for Palestinian rights. But Democrats should stop trying to retcon him. I expect the effort to increase after he is dead, since he will have lost the ability to remind them that he's been opposed to their policies on the Israeli occupation. I could swear he was getting bipartisan-ly smeared as an anti-Semite just 15 or so years ago.
China’s LEO push looms over Western expansion efforts
I added a $200 CarPlay radio to our old Honda and it blows away every factory nav unit for usability (and sounds adequate). At this point, I’m only buying a car that has, or can easily have added, wireless CarPlay.
I’d be surprised if this isn’t just another Android fork.
Thanks for the follow up. Definitely checking up the demo. All the best to your endeavours!
I’m also horrified by the trend to put more and more of the meters into the UI. My Ford has done the booting thing before on a highway as well as once it flipped the screen horizontally until it was shut down and started again. I can’t imagine the quality is any better for the display components that will replace speedometers and such
Truck battery swaps in Australia. Not automated but it works:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/29/swap-...
This applies to other things as well.

I was involved in one phase of picking submittals for a conference recently and there were no small number of submittals where basically one person sent in a half-dozen or more generic submissions, possibly with a sentence tacked on to make it relevant to this specific conference.

I'm a big fan of conferences limiting the number of submittals or at least throwing enough hoops in the way of shotgunning a bunch of generic proposals to discourage the practice.

(Basically, more submittals mean that the conference committee is going to end up being more random evaluating submittals against each other.)
This is a fascinating legal theory. We've know for years that "you are paying for it with your data"; if governments can collect VAT on this transaction, it changes the economics of so many businesses.
The high expectation drivel fed by parents is something that in that context is something that the millennials needed to overcome. That, however, is only part of the story.

Setting aside the expectations of "you are special and can be anything you want to be" from parents there is also the "the world around you is crafted to a degree that previous generations didn't deal with."

Recognizing that part of it is also important. If you compare yourself to influencers and expect to be able to live a life like them, you will likely be unhappy. Correspondingly, if you compare yourself to the crafted image of your peers all the time, you may feel that you're not doing as well as they are.

That part isn't a millennial issue but rather a "everyone who uses social media to compare or boast about their current social situations."
Roe v Wade was passed in 1973 and they just overturned it. Yes SCOTUS has a majority one way for now, but things change.
Sorry, your package only allows you to turn the volume up to 45%, would you like to upgrade?
There's a startup that combines a 2 week FreeStyle sensor with some blood tests, online courses and other things aimed at improving your diet.

https://joinzoe.com/

Now that I know how little the sensor costs, I would say that's definitely the better option...