jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
IANAL, but one possibility that comes to mind is that these examples are specifically chosen to limit liability. For example, if they banned Trump today based on comments he made a month ago, then someone could sue twitter for allowing speech they themselves admitted caused violence.
> Part of me agrees with you that there is no point at this point and it'll just anger his base.

At this point: What's the difference?

They're convinced democrats are blood-drinking satan-worshipping pedophiles, and that the election was fraudulent because the ghost of Hugo Chavez activated The Algorithm on the Dominion machines which moved votes from Trump to Biden through a server in Germany and a satellite in Italy.

> Anyone left can't really get any more riled up.

Exactly.

The president incited a violent insurrectionist mob to storm the Capitol, forcing the lawfully elected government representatives to flee and postpone their duty. He refused to call in the national guard to secure the Capitol, and published a video saying he loves the rioters instead.

And then people are arguing that you shouldn't go ahead with impeachment because of political calculations that it might fail.

What is the thing for if not exactly this?!?
"Let’s not use the violent insurrection at the Capitol to downplay other violent episodes."

Why what's the second closest they got to wiping out our government?
I wonder why Kris Kobach keeps coming home empty handed from his fishing trips
> Entirely different situation. The reason that people need to talk with the legislature is because those are the people’s representatives.

Totally different, were it not for the fact the president is also the Chief of State: The chief public representative of a country.

Besides, even if this wasn't the case, humor me and suppose it was (which it actually is), would you then conclude that the president should simply be accessible at will by 300 million Americans? It makes absolutely no sense.

Just because something is publicly accessible doesn't mean you throw all reason out the window. Plenty of national parks are simultaneously open to everyone, as well as require registration and some basic ground rules to entrance. Similarly, it's entirely uncontroversial to argue that accessing the capitol is freely available to all, but there will be some minimum security checks, and some areas (e.g. private offices or places holding confidential data) are off-limits. Virtually all democracies have no problem separating visitor's areas from private working offices, and implementing appropriate controls in both.

The notion that the speaker of the house's laptop could be casually stolen by people without heavy equipment walking in is a joke, pure and simple. Claiming it has something to do with the fact she's a representative thereby implying her laptop should just be freely accessible instead of secured by some basic measures, as some (not you) have done in this thread, makes no sense if you ask me.
It is a normal convention in Europe (or at least parts of it).
No, they stormed the capital because they've been fed a steady diet of lies and misinformation. Appeasing them does nothing but insulates them in their fantasy bubble. It's time for them to return to reality.
For what it's worth, location services work fine in MicroG, at least for any app I've tried. MicroG presents the same API as the "real" Google version, and lets the user choose which backends to use for things like network-based location.
There is a point, since there will be diminishing returns, but you miss the concept of complementary training.

For instance, it is afaik hard to become a good chess player without reading a bit about opening theory and reading about old matches. It is hard to become good at graphics programming without some math. And so on.
I only read the post to see what would incur such a comment. And perhaps its even worse than you say...

There are no ideas in that "article" at all. It's a complaint list, and it's not even clear what the complaint is about. The only positive comparison is to the "moral" lives of rural Indians, Hondurans, and Somalians -- who are known to be some of the poorest people in the world and living under great suffering. This fact is not conveyed by the author but rather conveniently overlooked.

Blame me for thinking correlation equals causation in this case, but the prima facie evidence is overwhelming that democratic societies which encourage a free market and free speech do have better standards of living for their citizens. Despotism and totalitarian rulemaking from above, including rules about speech, have proven again and again to lead to desperate poverty and economic ruin. Free speech and free business go together, hand-in-hand.

I would not, for a second, want the US to become like China or Russia where the state decides which speech must (and, obviously, what must not) be carried by publishers, media, and artists. But freedom of speech goes both ways. In other words, every person and every business must also have the right to not speak if they choose not to, as illustrated in the XKCD comic. A newspaper or website is not compelled to address the latest lunatic cause or non-scientific theory, nor to give it coverage. The owners of that media, as free individuals, must choose which speech they want to hold up and convey and which they deny or ignore.
Any example videos of the effect?
Ah yes, they are both very nice structures that would have taken some good engineering at the time. I wonder what would have been used as the impermeable water barrier - puddle clay or similar?
Which ones are you interested in? Most of them are already available as bulk downloads.
> Thinness is not an issue, since sugar is not off limits.

Paleo eating excludes refined sugars completely, and asks you to reduce fruit. Meat and veg, nuts and seeds, some fruit, no grains, no dairy.

> A week won't do it on the diet change,

Totally agree here. And switching from a traditional high-carb, low-fat diet to paleo leads to 2 or 3 weeks of feeling like crap. We're 5 weeks into our Paleo Challenge at the gym I own, and most people are feeling like a million bucks. We do our best to impress upon them that the first 2-3 weeks will be difficult.
I don't think the analogy is all that far off. After noting these two recent cases happened after in two different cases police officers were convincted on the basis of civilian video:

"When the police act as though cameras were the equivalent of guns pointed at them, there is a sense in which they are correct. Cameras have become the most effective weapon that ordinary people have to protect against and to expose police abuse. And the police want it to stop."

I also can't help but notice that all three states are anti-gun, Illinois and Massachusetts viciously so. Illinois, which for the benefit of the police revised their wiretapping law to make it crystal clear also absolutely forbids all civilian concealed carry (Wisconsin is the only other state with a total ban). The other two states are technically "may issue", with Maryland effectively never issue and Massachusetts at the whim of the local police chief.

These states don't want you carrying a gun and they're making clear they don't want you carrying and using a camera.
> There's no way in hell I would apply for a job that wanted me to pay to apply. Totally bogus.

Me neither. It screams SCAM at me. It'd be illegal in the UK, as well.
I suggest really really looking into Lyme Disease. I've had a friend who suffered from basically all the same symptoms and that is what it came down to. The fact that you tested positive once says a lot. It is a really horrible disease that can sometimes lead to other chronic illnesses. The fatigue is a ringer for it.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/index.htm
We're working on something very related to what you're asking for. Will have a prototype up in about 1 month. Email me if you're interested in a beta code.
My favourite part was the use of (graphite-like?) counters to monitor changes and make implicit assertions about relationships in the system (ie if we push that metric down, that metric will go up by same amount)

It's a really useful trick to stop yourself believing that the systems works the way you think it does just because you think it.
I guess you don't maintain [legacy] C++ code. Occasionally I have to.
This company does the little things right, and people notice. I think faster internet + smartphones are necessary but not sufficient in explaining Instacart's success.

I live in a place with an entrance not visible from the street. The first time I ordered, I directed the shopper over the phone. Every subsequent shopper has found the entrance without a problem. I assume the shoppers share accurate notes. Literally every other delivery I get requires a phone call and directions. These little things make a huge difference, and are where similar companies with the same potential technology fall short.

Congrats to the team. Well deserved.
The author was looking for help to develop a minimal battery of tests that any new implementation should have to pass, but there were no voluntaries. Anyway, I think that becoming BSD can help to gather more souls.
http://www.flickfilosopher.com/wptest/wp-content/uploads/201...
I made it to sound the way I like ;) but you may or may not agree with my taste.. If you click the Icon and choose Sound Engine, you can choose one of 6 different virtualization engines.

Also, please tell me if there's easy that I could do to improve the app :)
Here is a pre-permission utility that supports (almost) all of the permission types on iOS:

https://github.com/jlaws/JLPermissions

pod "JLPermissions/Calendar"
pod "JLPermissions/Camera"
pod "JLPermissions/Contacts"
pod "JLPermissions/Facebook"
pod "JLPermissions/Health"
pod "JLPermissions/Location"
pod "JLPermissions/Microphone"
pod "JLPermissions/Notification"
pod "JLPermissions/Photos"
pod "JLPermissions/Reminders"
pod "JLPermissions/Twitter"
I don't think I'd consider any other city in the Bay Area a major US city. Maybe it's just California then? I've literally never seen this on the east coast, mid-west or south.
It doesn't seem to make much of a difference, does it?
You're spot on. It's going to be hard and difficult.

The complete breakdown in privacy described in 'The Light of Other Worlds' really changed my worldview. I am and will remain to be a proponent of personal privacy, but the world isn't going to respect that. We need to seriously start considering taking back some of our power. Example: UK CCTV footage, that should be public domain. The knowledge of those that access the footage, public domain too. Then include public education about the dangers of performing activities in the public. That someone might use the footage to steal your credit card shouldn't be a reason to hide this data. That someone could stalk another individual through the network isn't an excuse to hand over the data to the government.
Yes because it's hard until it isn't whereas the other way around it's a bunch of green neophytes all thumbs
That Onion headline rubs me the wrong way... Just because a problem is unique to a country doesn't make that problem easily preventable.
No way -- you're still standing so you must be one of us
What is this? A Benny Hill show or Hacker News?
Myanmar is insanely beautiful country. I visited it back in 2008 when military junta was still in power. I have not been to Mrauk U, but spent few days near Sittwe, and also visited Bagan, Yangon, Mandalay, and Kyaiktiyo Pagoda. Not sure about now but back then there were absolutely no ways to use the payment cards so I carried around a thick stack of dirty 1000 kyat banknotes.
So seeing as you say the distinction is not so clear, how about you provide some examples?

Is public healthcare one? Public education? Public housing? Worker co-ops?
Locally owned != federally run
Certificate Transparency has one glaring issue. The Merkel tree proofs can only prove a certificate is present (not that it is absent). The current proposal does not require "examiners" of the Merkle tree to be provided with the entire contents of the Merkle tree. This means blank check certificates can be issued to governments and companies, be validated and not be detected unless we catch their use in the act.

The whole idea of using a Merkle tree to "save energy" is a bit of a sham. The tree produced is imbalanced and will contain a chain of O(N) hashes to validate a certificate, which is the same cost as a signed block chain system (no proof of work).
> having problems finding light switches

On the other hand, all's good in the world when that's the problem requiring national attention!
You're talking about something different. The parent comment is about mutable default arguments are shared between all calls to that function [1], but you seem to be talking about functions defined in for loops all sharing a reference to the same variable [2].

[1] https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython#-beware-of-default...

[2] https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython#-loop-variables-le...

> In this example it's just a constant but this trick is often used with mutable defaults.

Your example doesn't work with mutable defaults. Ironically it falls into the trap the parent comment was referring to!

def main():
funcs = []
arg = []
for x in range(10)
arg.append(x)
def f(arg=arg):
return arg
funcs.append(f)
print(*[f() for f in funcs], sep="\n")
# result: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] printed 10 times

These functions will all return the same 10-element list. Instead you need to use `def f(arg=arg[:])` or `def f(arg=copy(arg))` (after from copy import copy).

> print([f(x) for f in funcs])

Just a typo but you meant print([f() for f in funcs])
I used to love apple desktop keyboards.

Then they went to the flat aluminum ones and I couldn't feel the keys. The concave keys were traded in for flat keys and I could no longer center my fingers and feel the edges of the keys.

So I hunted around and tried a bunch of keyboards. mechanical, mechanical knockoffs, clicky, smooth.

I ended up with a topre realforce rgb. Extremely solid keys. Very smooth throw, and adjustable activation point.

The other mechanical keys like cherry don't feel as solid. They wiggle side to side. The topre has a solid base and a cylindrical to guide the keys as they depress.

I didn't want rgb, but in the end I set it to single color dim and I can find the keys in a dark room, which is great.

Later I went back and tried my old apple keyboard and gah it felt like typing on bubble wrap. But I would not have known and I would have been happy if apple didn't change things around.
Do you have examples of such shortcuts? Apart from CTRL+C/X and CTRL+V I can't think of any useful?
Me too! I got stuck there because taxis weren't running to the airport due to snow. Had a rad time... everything was covered in snow, not a car on the road. Apparently the locals hadn't seen anything like it, so maybe a freak one. This was late 2000's, can't remember exactly when
There are a lot of questions to answer about masks. Who makes them, how many, what price they are sold for and who to? These question are political.

Early on in the pandemic, around April, selling masks for $7 was considered price gouging [0] and $1.27 was the politically fair price. The tech companies are already facing various government investigations for being greedy capitalists; I can very much see the wisdom of whoever decided to stay away from masks.

I'm watching with interest what happens to these small time mask makers. Their fate will influence the behaviour of people who anticipate the next crisis.

[0] https://theintercept.com/2020/04/01/coronavirus-3m-n95-masks...
We should remember that the certification processes for medical stuff are very long and extensive, yet even so a mask that allows 5% of air to leak round the edge of the mask will pass the certification!

Given that, I have no issues with using a fake mask. My manual fitting effort to reduce leakage around the mask will have far far more impact on health outcomes than the exact specifications of the way the ear straps go as required by high grade medical certifications...

It's time we de-emphasized product certifications and paperwork in favor of simply getting more products that mostly work into the hands of more people. Per dollar spent, far more people will have improved lives.
I’m extrapolating from my experiences, though I don’t think research disagrees with me here.

Here is the first one I could find: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.04.20053058v...

> We identified only a single outbreak in an outdoor environment, which involved two cases. The first salient feature of the 318 identified outbreaks that involved three or more cases is that they all occurred in indoor environments.

And another: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2020/09/10/202...

> A database of more than 20,000 cases (including the 7,324 Chinese cases) found 461 that were associated with transmission in completely outdoor environments — predominantly crowded events like markets and rallies. (emphasis mine)

Your points about attendant risks are probably true though. People will definitely congregate to drink beer and eat soup, and we’ll have another carnival on our hands :/
I've never had 'proper' RSI, but I solved all my wrist strain woes by simply placing the mouse smack bang in front of the space key, at a 270 degree angle, so moving the mouse to my left translates to the pointer moving up.

It gives my right hand a much better position, it's quick to switch between mouse and keyboard, and it gives my elbows room to rest on the table.

The only downside is that it requires a slightly deeper desk than having the mouse next to the keyboard, but you probably want space on the desk for your arms anyway.
You can deal with the GIL, it's not the death sentance some people think it is, I agree.

But this guy actually DOES try to argue it's a _positive_ somehow! He really is claiming it's all unicorns and rainbows, he doesn't mention _any_ negative to it, he says it doesn't effect concurrency at all, look at generators and deferreds that proves it (not true, a misdirection), he even tries to say it's a positive, the "GIL is a performance optimization for most use cases of Python, and a development ease optimization for virtually all CPython code. The GIL makes it much easier to use OS threads"

I think either this is an intellectually dishonest argument meant to confuse less-technical people, or the guy doesn't understand what he's talking about.

And I still think python is probably fine for 'enterprise', although as always it depends on what you're doing with it!
Bait-cars work fine.
From what I understand and what I've read on Axe-Fx II emulation, it emulated the circuit components of the amps, including analogue ones, to emulate the signal processing. If that is true, I can see how some aspects of emulation could be worse, but a drastic difference in dynamics doesn't seem possible. I also own Axe-FX II, and can't tell the difference between it and the real amps, in any regard.
Nice. Judging by that tuque, he might be a Canadian. So it's gonna cost ya about $0.98.
Full disclosure: We have a competing product to GA.
You are making the same error that the lern_too_spel was pointing out. Japan is not anime and otaku -- that is just the part of the culture that has been exported successfully. The typical Japanese person hasn't exchanged normal human interaction in favor of simulacra.
Location: Ankara/Turkey

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: python, django, django-rest-framework, celery, dramatiq, reactjs, next.js, gatsby, redux, redux-saga

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oWH6Xt3JmtJUNhGhtc0bqOxq7E...

Email: gokhan@gokhansari.me

I got my hands dirty with all backend, frontend and devops, too. Currently running WebGazer (https://www.webgazer.io). I am interested in a position in which both I can add value and improve myself.
At the minimum it is sexual battery [1] and sexual imposition [2] and it could be argued that it was gross sexual imposition [3]. Ohio doesn't even use the phrase "sexual assault" in its laws about sex offenses [4]. The point is, quibbling about terminology is silly. Any reasonable human being understands what the author of the blog post is getting at. She was touched in a sexual way without her consent, without any foreknowledge of the event, and under some duress. Whatever you want to term the event is irrelevant.

[1] http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/2907.03

[2] http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/2907.06

[3] http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/2907.05

[4] http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/2907
why on earth?
This is destined to result in poor deliverability for them in perpetuity due to a step change in volume combined with spam complaints. I would not do this. (I run a profitable ad-suppoted daily email list.)
I think the problem is that the 'pat down' is the most ineffective security measure used in the airport. The real reason for the pat down is actually to find drugs concealed on a persons body.

Why on earth do they believe they'll find a razor blade on a persons body? They don't, because they're not looking for weapons because every real weapon known to man is detectable from a metal detector, and the majority of improvised weapons still use metal detectable parts.

Considering I've walked through a metal detector with literally a fistful of change and it hasn't gone off, I question the usability of all airport screening. I frequently have like $10 in small change on me.
Except, of course, when they do:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10244637/Ukip-...
You can get toxic shock from the newest honey as well. All you have to do is be a newborn (up until about one year). http://wholesomebabyfood.momtastic.com/infantbotulismhoney.h...
In the past (not sure about now) the Django docs (and thus, I have to assume, the devs) were somewhat against automated migrations. The rationale was that the developer should understand his or her data models and do migrations manually to avoid problems caused by mistakes made by the migration machinery. Obviously this attitude has changed, perhaps because of the success of South and the fact that most people would rather have the process automated, even if it causes occasional weirdness.
You're not following the logic because you're using a global perspective, while I'm using a local perspective, based on self-interest. I'm not arguing for or against nuclear power, except to say that the acute effects of a potential meltdown lead to a lot of NIMBY folks.
So is this slated for 1.7 now? Or is it still on track for 1.6?
That true, though I'll note it's only "safe" in the context of the reactor, not the whole ship.
This article is full of hyperbole and exaggerations. I downloaded the latest filezilla with the offer-installer "malware" and scanned it with Avira free antivirus, and MS Security Essentials. Both of them reported no problem.

I then was able to install filezilla without the offer-installer just by not clicking on the checkmark. After the installation, my VM ran normally, no pop-ups, no changed homepage in firefox or IE.

People that write this drivel make the open source community look like a bunch of nutjob, hippy zealots with no grasp of reality. Ads pay the bills and sadly some open source developers have mouths to feed.
Won't this show up in a balance sheet somewhere for the companies?
I think the mindset and "branding" is close enough that it would be a win for Apple. I mean their cash stockpile is ridiculous.
It’s tap to pay almost everywhere in the Netherlands. Apple Pay works like charm.