jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
- Eliminate police unions (get teachers unions too as they also cover up some serious crimes against children and have even more means to prevent it ever being published)

- Eliminate pay to union members by the government while performing union duties; they actually require the state pay members salaries and bonus money will performing many union duties, go look it up.

- Eliminate law enforcement officer bill of rights" (LEOBOR) style legislation

- Require all misconduct records any public employee to be published and easily and freely queried

- All investigations must not reveal who is filing the complaint nor witnesses to the officer or anyone not in the investigation, releasing this information should be a Federal offense

- Cities, State, and localities, must be liable even if the officer is off duty and the misconduct includes use of their issued firearm or other accouterments

- Qualified Immunity language must be modified to remove clearly established clause (QI started as a carve out from Civil Rights law but clearly has expanded)

- With regards to QI and civil suits. At no time if a government agency or member pays out can they include the qualifier boilerplate language that explicitly denies that the municipality or the officer accept any blame for the incident."

- three strikes and your out requirement with no future employment by any similar agency in the country. three strikes rule not to be used with any loss of life misconduct. That is one and out if not resulting in criminal prosecution

You are not going to get anywhere while public sector unions exist for public employees. Even if you somehow managed to rid yourself of the police union the others would simply be used to pressure politicians.

I am all for banning public sector unions from expending any money on political activity under the idea that they are spending public money to do so.
fancyzones is pretty good but it's more like fixed layouts that you can change to, where as i3wm and other twms let you change the layout on the fly making them a bit more flexible.
Yes! I came to mention this tradition exists in Alaska as well, you beat me to it :) That’s a good article. We visited Alaska for the first time last year. I was hoping to go the the fair and see these monsters, but it was unfortunately canceled because of COVID.
I’m wondering if bootstrapping from WebAssembly would make sense someday, under the assumption that everyone has a browser? (Though a stand-alone interpreter is preferable.)
Funny because when I read the article I thought "he's in the US on a metered expensive connection".

1 Gb... 3 Gb... not much of a difference for my internet pipe.
Every state has their own public records law that allows for requests similar to FOIA.
This is whataboutism.

There is no way Apple's own development process was so wasteful as the waste they will bring to the millions of their own users.

If anything, the moment a company notices waste it goes towards reducing it.
I think the trope is it "takes money away" from the other students.
Numerous cases had their merits scrutinized and soundly rejected, such as the one against Wisconsin Election Commission.

Moreover you aren't entitled to have your "evidence" heard when you're invoking non-existent legal rights (such as one state overturning the results of another state, or asking a state legislature to decide instead of letting the votes stand), and no one should take the word of random person in a comment thread over the collective consensus of 60+ cases rejecting every legal theory Trump's team put forward.

There's a basic pattern with all of this. Someone insists Trump had a legitimate grievance, it leads down an obscure rabbit hole of tangled facts and interpretations that, when investigated, turns out to be a series of confusions, basic misundertandings, insane theories of law fundamentally incompatible with Democracy, and in some cases willful misrepresentation of the facts.

Trump's legal team was largely incompetent, and invoked non-existent legal rights and authorities to challenge valid election results, and were appropriately dismissed.
Or it could be they just worked really hard or prioritised or what do I know.

But I agree privilege is vastly overused.
ASK's preferences organization could use some work. What you want is in the ‘select theme’ screen: press the gear, then see ‘keys height factor’.
In SG, some government services are big users of WhatsApp. For instance, I was recently placed in 14 days quarantine (stay home notice) after arriving from overseas. All contact with the department of immigration / border protection was via WhatsApp during those two weeks. They would also call us to do control samples at random hours to check that we are in the hotel room.

It’s very convenient of the government to do this, but I do find it a bit dubious at time to mix provision of essential services with FBs marketing tracking. The same with government websites that use Google Analytics, I’m not always sure they should be mixed without thinking properly through the privacy considerations first.
Like everything, depends on your definition of success.

If we consider it a speculative investment, then, sure, at this point in time, BTC looks like a solid investment! BTC investments have funded a number of my vacations :D

But, if we consider BTC a form of currency, I would say it is a total failure given its wild fluctuations in value.

Curious what others think? Want to change my mind!
>I thought the riots were about the abuse inflicted upon George Floyd.

Ah yes the old "i can only remember 1 event at a time" defense
Having a rotating "dev on call" (weekly, maybe) could work well as long as there is good enough telemetry for any problems that might occur that would allow any dev on the list to at least triage problems that arise. Sorry about the length of that last sentence.

It would also encourage devs to have an idea of how every section of the product works, not just their specific window into it :)

Combine that with enforcing non-work time and it _should_ be cool as long as your company isn't trying to take advantage of you. I don't have Slack installed on my phone because I've learned that any problems with my code are either a) not serious enough to get me to work at 9pm (i.e. it can wait until morning), or b) serious enough to warrant an actual phone call (because let's face it, I could be out in the yard, out grocery shopping, etc. and not able to use a computer and read Slack or email messages conveniently).

Startups in particular can sometimes take advantage of employee's willingness to be available 24/7 by expecting _all_ employees to be available 24/7, but that should definitely be voluntary.
Signal's backup is different than what Telegram provides, based on what I read on their webiste: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...

On Telegram, login on a new device and you can see your all messages automatically. On Signal, you seems to need to perform it manually, and your history will lost forever if you phone are lost or broken.

I think the first kind of "backup" is what most people would expect, because it is convenient. But to provide this convenience, it can't be full E2E, so Telegram supports secret chat when you need max security if you are willing to sacrifice convenience.
When I say evil I mean morally wrong.
we need an blinding flash of technological innovation to illuminate this century, not dissimilar to last centurys mushroom cloud.
And this is why Mux is awesome.
It's greek to me, implies you don't speak greek, there is no negative prejudice applied to the greek people or their language.

Chinese whispers the name of a game that information is lost/changed/confused (aka Telephone) as so helpfully pointed out above comes from the idea that Chinese are deliberately confusing and unintelligible.

I was merely pointing it out to raise awareness... and tried to do so without crediting any malice to the OP.
It's certainly better than going insolvent, but it also implies that you company has failed to reach the usual hockey-stick growth targets and that your IP is "worthless" enough to be bought as overhead for hiring someone. So, while not a total failure, it's really not a compliment.
> The huge obstacle in the author’s story was country of birth.

At least much more so than gender or race will be going forward :)
Yeah Elon and Seth MacFarlane are touted as big examples. But basically every celebrity has had this done.

A lot of men get plastic surgery too.
I agree and the security guarantee makes the other trade offs worth it
"there is a market that closely fits your product"

For there to be PMF, the product and the market must at the very least have found each other. Otherwise it's just a cool product that no one knows about.
If it's 1B /3yr for just News in Australia this is going to set a bad precedent with other countries going to want to rush legislation through and come knocking for a share of FB's profit.

Although I can see why they've folded, starting to see a trend where my FB friends are posting more infrequently so FB needs to something to fill up content to keep people's feeds current and them a reason to return.

Would've thought it would be cheaper for them to fund their own "News organization" reporting news from outside of Australia, which if successful I'd expect to would dissuade other countries from following suit.
Do her initials happen to be AK, from Nashville? If so, I know exactly who you are talking about. She used to come to a meetup that I organize for teaching beginners Ruby on Rails before she moved to Baltimore. She's fantastic.

Also, if we are talking about the same person, I will say that the quality of people coming out of the program that she attended is really high. One of my co-organizers is also a graduate, has a little over one year of real experience now, and he is way more knowledgeable than I would expect of someone of similar experience. I had another graduate working for me for a few months, and he was able to hit the ground running.
"I hope, I deeply hope, that the computing power of mobile devices increases to the point that we see another PC-like shift toward decentralization. When every mobile phone can hold terabytes of storage, when networking links are > 1Gb/s between phones, will we move away from carriers running the show, and move back toward giving users control again?"

I hope the industry will find the right path between the horrors of the closed ecosystems on one side and the horror of the JS-is-actually-not-bad-since-we-have-no-choice "open" Web.
appreciate the suggestion and I'm also going to look into it. I too live in Zagreb and work mostly for US companies. Perhaps we'll one day bump into each other at Tkalčićeva when they let us out again.

Everything you say about the situation being very critical/worrisome in the US is true IMO. What I see as a problem is how smaller less powerful places here in Europe ideologically appropriate the problems of those they are "ruled by" and look up to. As a kid I spent some years in Austria and every time there were news about something happening in Germany the same things got debated as being a problem in Austria to the point where it was ridiculous. Like a strange me-too complex (it comes in many shapes and sizes often justified but also sometimes not). I see this as a huge problem since much of what is an issue in the US isn't one over here etc.
Honestly, I think it's a dedication to competence and good engineering. Say what you like about Apple, but they try damn hard to make everything "just works" (often at the expense of interoperability and maintainability). People complain about all sorts of flaws, but the outrage comes from an underlying expectation that Apple products should be flawless. Apple users yell bloody murder when their phone loses signal when held a certain way; Windows users lose their work to a spontaneous reboot, and sigh and move on with their day.

When you can convince people that all they have to do is buy in to your system and everything will be fine, that gets you religious levels of dedication. And of course the people who buy in are deeply invested in their not-easily-reversed decision, so they market you for free!
They aren't covered here in Sweden either and there are apparently less then a 1000 actual guide dogs that are covered. But that does not stop people from trying to bring their support dogs in. At least we have official "guide dog blankets" and the training facilities hands out identification cards so the real ones are easy to spot.

My experience (of 1) is also that guide dog owners are mostly reasonable, willing to come to a compromise that works for everyone and have very well behaved dogs. The woman I helped was more then happy to take a window table right next to the terrace door and let her dog stay right outside the window.

"Support dog"-owners (the handful I've met) are in my experience pretty unreasonable and unpleasant to deal with, have a "customer is always right"-attitude and their dogs are pretty universally badly behaved. I've had a group of seven try to argue that one guy in a wheelchair needed his support dog inside the restaurant while the dog was pulling on his leech and jumping on me.

Other dog owners i Sweden are also pretty nice to deal with. They usually keep their dog tied outside, in the car (with the backdoor open if they have crates) or ask if they can bring their dog through the restaurant to the terrace and eat outside (even if it is cold).
Not related to the rather insightful content of this article: for a long time I have had mixed feelings about the visualizations of datasets per US state in a single figure using a rectangular or hexagonal grid. I have recently started getting used to some of these plots in the NYTimes and can locate the states rather quickly, even if their location doesn't agree with my mental model of where the state is in a map. Anyone knows of an R or python package for making the plots in the way shown in this article?
45% is the top rate. 42% kicks in 57k income. 45% at 274k. You're right that the effective rate might be less for $100k, but not much. The curve is quite steep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Germany#/media/Fil...
That's actually a lot. The Netherlands is a very densely populated area (one of the most dense in the world) and only a few percent of its land is actually city. Much of it is farmland or water. The housing shortages only exist in dense clusters of populations where arguably there is not even any land shortage; just artificial scarcity in the form of not having permission to build on that land. High rise buildings are controversial in a lot of places.

That's true in Amsterdam, and it's true in San Francisco. And it's true in Berlin where I currently live. Plenty of space to build cheap apartments on but it's controversial in all three to do so. So, this is a nice solution/workaround for this artificial scarcity. I imagine the Bay would be suitable for living on. But of course most of it is protected nature. That's a much more valid concern than the notion that there's not enough water.

I actually looked into what it would take to put a housing boat in the Spree (river that runs through Berlin). People actually do that and you can get some decent value for money! Obviously it won't scale before local authorities put a stop to that (to preserve the local artificially scarcity and locked up wealth). But it's an interesting loophole if you are a bit entrepreneurial. No expensive land needed to build on. Easy access to reasonably fashionable parts of town. Etc. All you need is a boat and permission to dock it somewhere. As long as that permission is still easy to get, it's a valid thing to pursue.
I think if that was ever said by a core member, it was stated as a goal, not a for sure thing. I believe I've only ever heard it as speculation / wishful thinking.
This seems to be more reliable. The obfuscated name and other info matched my own number.
Can some explain why I always get cult like vibes from the rust community?
Apparently not.

"• Under federal law, the use of radar or laser speed detectors is illegal in all commercial vehicles over 10,000 pounds.

• Radar detectors are illegal to use in any vehicle in the District of Columbia.

• Radar detectors are illegal to use in any vehicle in the state of Virginia.

• Radar detectors are illegal to use in any vehicle while on any military installation."

https://k40.com/are-radar-detectors-illegal/
The reason the cars are going to come fast is because the economic incentives are insane. If people are able to get over their irrational fears in this case they stand to gain back a ton of time, money, space, etc, quickly and directly. Not to mention that the smart money knows this and is starting to gear up for the transition already.

edit: Also, the latest model S update does what you describe, it has lane change assist and follow during cruise control, maintaining a certain distance from the car in front of you.
He also pioneered XP while working on C3, a project shutdown in 99. As I recall the customer representative quit through burnout and stress and couldn't be replaced.

Look, most of us dig agile, but all you really need is the four tenets of the agile manifesto.

When someone says agile, consider the source, the best practitioners aren't publishing books, they are producing working systems every day.

I used to work at a company, let's call it Beutche Dank, I was part of a program that has spent millions of euro developing specifications, that amounted to little more than power point presentations. One of the Business analysts, nice chap, says to me, "Your going to deliver this using Agile right?". He didn't realize that they had already compromised the delivery, but they had followed every instruction of the 'agile consultant' they had hired, they just forgot to include the people that really add value, the development team. You either understand this stuff or you don't.

We need project managers, but they should not outnumber the engineers, we need engineering managers but they better be engineers. If you have directors of technical programs who are not technical, get rid of them.

It is the guys and gals writing the code that are of the most value to you, make everyone who deems themselves above these people justify themselves.

OK enough orthogonal ranting, got to go write me some tests, oops I mean compile my code.
Absolutely. The English should have kicked the Scots and Northern Irish loose a long time ago. Hell, they missed their chance last year.
I don't believe it is, history has this repeated this playbook over and over, from horse power, steam power, electric power - labour intensive repetitive works have been slowly replaced by automation for hundreds of years now - driving is just the next in a long list.

My personal long-term view (beyond just automated cars) is that we will automate away millions of jobs - but that's fantastic as it probably doesn't make sense for everyone to work anyway, a basic income guarantee can allow people to live lives with much more time for leisure, creativity and enjoyment.
One word... Pacemaker. Many people trust their lives to software running on their pacemaker. What is your real point here?
That may be the excuse, but it isn't much of a reason. Google's got the clout to get rid of problems like that. They just didn't deem it worth the expense.
Yeah it lost my ideas notebook... very hard to trust it after that.
very interesting that it supports osx as there are so few modern apple computers that have any way of using an rs232 port, I think the last macbook pro with an express card slot was released in 2011. perhaps a usb to rs232 is used.
If you haven't seen http://regexr.com, you're missing out...
Gold is certainly more popular in India then the western world but most married people are walking around wearing a wedding ring and id guess the majority of those are gold?

Gold also has very practical industrial applications which give it value, like you say most of the value boils down to scarcity but it is both desirable as a status symbol and for functional applications
It's because there is no great trackpad support outside the Mac. But there is good GPU support. So it seems, getting great trackpad support IS rocket science currently, for whatever reason. (I also wonder, what is going on there? I guess people on the other platforms just don't care about this detail, otherwise they would be on the Mac anyway).
Before I ever paid DO a cent, I made significant use of a lot of their incredible documentation on setting up various servers, setting up your confide correctly, etc.
Hoooly shit, this is a terrifying and awful idea.
> And it bypasses the big problem of having to use your phone number

To the vast majority of people this is a feature, not a problem. You sign up to WhatsApp by installing the app, that's pretty much it. Once it's installed, you can message anyone else you have a phone number who happens to have the app.

You also don't need a username for Amazon, Google or booking a flight, and you certainly don't need to try to find out what someone else's username is before you can message them on WhatsApp.
I am in my early 30s and after 10 years I still mostly love the job. I've dipped my toes towards management at one point and quickly felt overwhelmed and out of my depth, and realized I'm much happier when coding or discussing technical problems, explaining solutions and so on. It just feels like more useful, fulffiling work to me than updating reports, discussing timelines, people allocation etc.

Just giving my own perspective, not claiming anyone else's is wrong.
Indeed. What is often ascribed to organizations or systems is often just a human tendency.

Communism or capitalism, you see human faults in both.
It’s not our data, it’s Google’s. They are looking at this as a third party to their data and don’t want us granting access to the data we give them.

I think this all falls down to information and data not really being ownable in a physical sense, so it’s just different legal structures and company policies.
Depends on the design, I don't see how one would print the design in the link I posted elsewhere in vase mode - even if it could be made to work, it would be a lot harder for no real purpose.
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