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> From the perspective of someone who is not living in a large city I think you are primarily talking about the properties of large cities, not about assimilation in general...

No, I am talking about assimilation. I'm only concerned with the end product of the immigration. I'm not opposed to large-scale urban multiculturalism on some spiritual basis, I'm opposed to it because I don't believe it produces an actual desirable outcome. It sounds like you've just spoken to my point: That in large cities immigrant populations do not assimilate to the host culture because of the availability of said enclaves. If you're the one immigrant in a village of 100, you may need to make a bigger effort to assimilate into the host community. This is true. Your post seems to agree with me on the point that many immigrants favour large cities because there is less obligation to integrate with the host culture.

> However, what you seem to fail to grasp is that what you are seeing isn't actually the native culture of these people...

I fail to see the significance of this. I have my own doubts as to its accuracy. True or not, I still don't see the relevance. One possible way of interpreting your post would be that this is their attempt at assimilating into the host culture. If immigrant populations in large cities forming racial enclaves and ghettos that exclude the host culture is the best possible outcome, then why are we obliged to believe this multicultural experiment is a good thing?

FYI: I am an immigrant myself, having come to this country as a child.

There is a very clear difference between "Arrested for disagreeing with Donald Trump" and "Arrested for participation in an illegal act". You know what the difference is. Everyone knows China's crackdown on dissidents is entirely different from people participating in the riot getting arrested by Federal agents in unmarked cars.

Here's technology that certainly couldn't possibly be misused to infringe upon civil liberties...

That's exactly who I'm seeding.

I'm using WebTorrent Desktop to seed PeerTube videos. I'm really glad I can do this to help support my favorite content creators.

I don't even have the rep to downvote comments.

Yes. Surely it's about Chapo. I'd certainly not call them as 'greedy' or 'unprincipled' as the people they criticise. However I'll not waste this opportunity to call them bland, effete and ignorant.

This is the real answer right here.

I'm absolutely convinced that the world would be a better, smarter, more civil place if Twitter simply didn't exist at all. The tragedy for me is that whoever hacked Twitter wasted the opportunity to do something that permanently maimed the platform.

It's worth noting that Linus Torvalds does not write life-critical software. Take his opinions with a pinch of salt. He's made some of the most incredibly valuable contributions to computing, however this does not make him an authority on all things programming. He's anything but infallible.

Not a single one of the claims in your post is factually correct.

I don't think so.

Despite its ubiquity, the Linux kernel is not actually the golden standard for safety or performance. Not even for code quality. Ada remains the language of choice in areas where safety is actually crucial. Rust isn't going to take it's spot either.

> It's impossible to disable with software.

> iSeeYou ( 2008 )

Which is it?

Why would any of these suggestions be better than the following?

    dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=1M

"So far, I haven't received any swirl pictures from the outside world. I find this hard to believe that we are the only ones enjoying this activity."

Hard to believe, isn't it...

I feel my interpretation differs at:

> "...I don't see any ethical obligation to use "unbiased" datasets for pure research or tinkering with models..."

I don't think his comment was addressing the larger ethical discussion at all. I didn't interpret it as a discussion of ethical responsibilities, rather a strictly technical, matter-of-fact statement about the nature of ML training.

Please don't interpret my comment as an attack on yours, it was more pointing out I interpreted his statement differently.

That's not what I got from LeCun's comment. I read it more like:

LeCun - "ML is biased when datasets are biased. It's not the responsibility of researchers to ensure that ML is used responsibly in all cases, but the responsibility of the engineers of a particular implementation who need to use the correct models for the task at hand."

This is absolutely brilliant. Thank you.

It might be due to a local wildfire.

https://www.bbc.com/weather/features/53014423

Can you provide a source for this claim that Soros employed nuclear physicists? After spending a few minutes searching online I can find no evidence of such a thing happening.

I hope you're able to work through the issues you feel that you have and enjoy a happy life. Being single at 31 isn't terribly unusual in 2020, nor is it a terminal condition. There are plenty of other single people out there to work with.

> ...the issue is that society gives up on them before they even have a choice...

I was able to learn useful skills on my own without the education system supporting me. No doubt, high school helped build a useful foundation for learning other useful things. I was teaching myself skills using freely ( or the next best thing ) available tools and resources online. American poverty in 2020 includes access to the internet. This is evident by the interaction of impoverished and low socio-economic status Americans on social media. They're not here debating the systemic causes of poverty on HN, they're consuming mind numbing media on worldstarhiphop. Before I was able to get internet access at home I used the local library, or at my high school. I won't dox myself by talking about my specific professional interests, save to say they were important enough to me that I devoted my own time to researching it. I refuse to believe that there are people in first-world countries who have no access to useful resources like this. YMMV, obviously. I didn't have anyone in my life who encouraged me to do X, I just felt X was cool and I really wanted to understand more. Most of the people I've met in my field are the same. I don't mean to project my own thoughts and experiences on to everyone. I feel that my natural inclinations were to learn, and all of the people I grew up with who were similarly gifted and inclined ended up escaping poverty in one form or another. You could probably count yourself among this cohort.

I can't account for why you think the way you do.

I had an early life typical of some of these places. My area was not as bad as the one you describe FYI. I made so many mistakes in my own early life that really set me back, some of which could potentially be attributed to the nihilistic attitude of my surroundings. As a result I'm perhaps more sympathetic to the downtrodden people of these areas than you might believe. That being said, my own success in life has made me slightly less sympathetic to these people than I used to be. I underwent a massive attitude change in my early 20s that changed my entire life. I stopped blaming other people for my problems and took responsibility for my life, it was like flicking a switch. All of a sudden everything in my life slowly began to function, I started to receive positive results from my actions. I understand that not everyone can become rich. You'll have greatly different results if instead of becoming a software engineer like I did you're just bagging groceries. That's always going to be the case though.

I truly understand that getting through to kids from broken homes can be difficult when their parents, like mine, have created such a hostile environment for their kids that they base their entire conceptual model of society on their broken home life. Having said that, there's no one out there telling people that getting hooked on hard drugs is a good idea, yet it still happens. These kids know what living a good life looks like. They make their own bad decisions. I really do believe in offering all the support we can to help at-risk children avert ruining their lives. They're not all going to be saved, no matter what you do. I feel like those who are capable, and interested, will always seek out better things for themselves eventually.

I grew up in a bad neighborhood and was the victim of violence on multiple occasions. I have what the academics call "lived experience". It wasn't any kind of weird fluke, it was exactly the kind of violence you would expect from this kind of area: Being attacked by groups of improverished youths, looking to rob and assault people for money and enjoyment. The things these privileged ACAB protesters believe are absolute nonsense. These kids were not out there assaulting people because the system had let them fall through the cracks. These were individuals who had purposefully eluded ever integrating themselves in the system. The gangs would act in their own self interest to the fullest extent until the police stopped them.

Very cool. A very clever exploit.

Does someone know the source for this? Is there a Wikileaks page available authenticating this? I can't find one.

I'm glad I'm not the only person who was baffled by this.

What part of it couldn't you comprehend? I understand what the article is saying. I'm talking about the dysfunctional Node.js ecosystem, which includes Typescript.

In response to your personal experience, I'll share my own: I switched from C++ to Java, to .net, to Node.js, to Typescript. Working on Node/TS I have never been on a team that wastes so much time fixing silly problems that a better language would simply not allow to happen in the first place. I have also never worked on a team that spends so much time dealing with issues in poorly written community packages, or arguing with package maintainers who could never in a million years pass a technical skills test at the company I work for.

At what point are people going to just admit that implementing applications in Javascript outside the browser is a poor idea? The ecosystem has been in this poor state for years. It's not like the ecosystem is getting worse. This is the best it's ever been, and it's still horrible. There's so many better, more mature alternatives with much better ecosystems: Python, Java, C#, Ruby, Go, Haskell, Perl... The list goes on.

For me this is a case of "too little, too late". I've been burned too much over the years by the Node ecosystem to risk investing any further interest in it now, even if it has marginally improved.

I have worked extensively with Typescript, which I consider to be the minimum viable solution within the Node ecosystem. Typescript shouldn't even be seen as a 'nice-to-have. It should be seen as a required remedy for some of the mistakes of a terribly engineered language. Javascript should never have been considered a serious language for back-end development. Node.js to me seems like someone's 'Frankenstein's monster'-esque experiment that escaped its captivity and wreaked wide-scale havoc on the surrounding world.