jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If bad behavior is common in the police force, but the majority of officers aren't badly behaved, wouldn't a sign of success be if police officers quit en masse? The only real reason turning over the entire police force is a scary prospect is that de-ba'athification resulted in ISIS.

I absolutely deny that resignation of the vast majority of police officers would result in a significant loss of useful institutional knowledge or talent. These are rotten institutions from the top down which is what really enforces the no-snitching culture. People above you will destroy you for snitching, and pull strings for you when you don't.

The people above are also the ones whose "blessings" are listened to. Low-level cops don't get to speak for themselves, we only listen to people who achieve in a culture that rewards bad behavior. It's how we handle everything, not just police.
Is your child's bedroom semi-public?
I've been inspired by fitness instructors doing workouts dvd and I still think fondly of them while I can't remember any of my high school professors.

I see a lot of people going crazy after YouTube content creators so I'm sure it's viable for education as well.
And they knew about the issue for over 5 years...
why do you need javascript to output a list of links?

i don't think you can claim it's "hacker news of" if it rejects nojs users.

hn is fully functional without js, btw. you can read, vote, post, reply, and use all parts of the site.
A "tactical retreat" has always been a thing, but 2021 brought us the new concept of a "tactical selfie".

God help us all.
Technically they can't spy on US citizens without a warrant. Practically: Lol.
CHAZ was awful, a complete failure for everyone involved. Police escalated during protests, then when it got too hot, they pulled a LA Riots style retreat. Protesters became violent and undercut the moral fiber of their message, going from patriots to criminals very quickly.

My understanding was the police decided to withdraw from the area due to the intensity. It looks like the Seattle people rejected law enforcement, but weren't trying to overthrow the government.

Not all violence is equal. Overthrowing the US federal government because you didn't win is very different than CHAZ. Both can be disgusting while acknowledging that FEDERAL INSURRECTION AND ATTACKING DEMOCRACY IS WORSE THAN CHAZ.
For staffers, sure. But it's a better-than-even-odds bet that if senators and representatives raise a stink about how secure laptops are hard to use, they get special treatment.

Did you see the picture of Pelosi's desktop monitor? Pelosi was on the House floor at the time, wasn't she? Why wasn't there even a screen lock?
Funny how literally the same thing happened with Oculus acquisition by Facebook.
> I don't understand why we couldn't have closed the borders

This was literally the most opposed aspect of Trump's presidency.

I suspect one element that hasn't been touched by Democrats is admitting that absolute control of the border is something they want but would look like complete hypocrites admitting.
So just switching from (first v) to (nth v) offers a 5x speedup? I wonder why they opted for the lazy API for first.
The point is regulating them is very specifically society stating "your property rights do not overrule the factors that led to this regulation." Which is the argument being made as worthy of consideration. Regulation that makes such coercion possible starts out as an argument like the one here. Saying these companies ought not to be able to censor people in a certain context despite their property rights isn't saying they should be arrested or something, it's saying we ought to regulate them.
Bikes are stolen all the time in Beijing. I got a pair of rollerblades because of that.
SPARC is maintained by SPARC International, so Oracle doesn't have too much to say about that.

However, Intel isn't part of that group (at least according to the website), and that doesn't fit their MO when adopting external technology.
I think a slight change in approach is needed. In a lot of cases, your network had a hard outer perimeter which was treated as unbreakable, and within that was considered 'trusted'.

I think we're now finding that doesn't scale very well as it only takes one hole and it's broken. It's better to treat the network as some level of 'untrusted' and protect your servers/computers better as individual units accordingly.
Thanks for that site! As a beginning computer vision dabbler, I found it easy to read and with well-written explanations. It gave me a useful place to get started with the basic algorithms and their OpenCV implementations.
Oh God no. Definitely not. I hated installers that put icons in the Quick Launch toolbar without asking, but pinned icons are even worse since it's not always immediately clear which programs are running.
Why is it important? I'm very outgoing and people would consider me a social person. I also have a lot of friends. The thing is that I don't enjoy it. I see most social gatherings as a waste of time and prefer being home alone working on my projects.
Depends on the culture of the workplace if this will work. If they have many developers, who really underestimate but always end up over the deadline all the time. Then you give an estimate thats double, your gonna look bad even if your dead on. And they're going to try to push that estimate down.

80% of workplaces are like that.

I think its the incentives of billable hours that does this. They want low estimates, so they can win the work at all costs. They have to do it because other companies also underestimate. That or they think pressure motivates developers, but it really results in terrible code.

I personally advocate using accurate estimates, then applying a discount if you have to.
I'm the only dev (or person with any IT-related responsibilities) at a workplace full of very smart people, and I've noticed this repeatedly. They see a task as being monumental ("We have to do the same task for 3000 people/articles/etc.!") and are surprised when I point out that a computer would take just a second or two to do all of the work. These are for tasks that are obviously repetitive.

This is more the kind of "literacy" that I want: the knowledge to know what is possible, even if the skills of actually accomplishing the task aren't taught. It astounds me how much time people waste because they don't know how to recognize when something is a good candidate for automation.

Of course, part of it could be that some people are afraid of automating themselves out of a job...
I think they're agreeing with you. There's no obvious reason this should be considered fair use.

Last time I checked, Archive.org also host ROMs of various copyrighted Nintendo games. Nintendo are famously litigious so I'm not sure how long that is likely to continue.
It doesn't really matter if the votes were legitimate or not. Just by changing to postal voting you alter the demographics of the voting base in ways which can change the outcome.
Having consulted to scores of public sector projects, the institutions are artifacts of their incentives. See the Gervais Principle for example dynamics.

An internal GovCoin would technically work very well, as unincorporated project billings and budgets aren't real money inside large organizations. The main question is, for who? It would obviate layers of management in organizations whose main purpose is to generate layers of management. The only time real money gets exchanged is during settlement with outside vendors, otherwise, it's fiat funny money run through multiple inconsistent departmental ledgers.

Imagine it working inside a university, and then expand that to government ministries, as they're organized in essentially the same way. They don't want a means of exchange based on consumer need or desire, they want to decide based on narrative discussions.
> Thanks for the ad hominem attack. FYI, I have no google stock, never worked for google, have never contributed to a google open source project. If they’re supposed to be paying me for pointing out common sense on this thread ... they’re late on their payment.

If this is true (I doubt it) it is even sadder
I think the norms of message boards and the norms of journalism have literally nothing to do with each other, and you can't learn anything about one by analyzing the other.
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Maybe whatever group benefits from the gluten free trend?
Also, maybe the soy and corn industries?
> Even cooler if they had this in pro cycling.

They started with on-bike cameras last season. Not streamed yet, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE97iUvSHk0
looks like mostly illegal uploads:

Frutiger LT Std Bold was removed from our database. You can read author's message below.

Message from the owner. Please download legally from official font's website. Thanks.
> It didn't work, but had it work it would have set a dangerous precedent for any properties that could make a similar claim.

Why do you say it didn't work? From what I've read, the court has ruled in his favor so far.
This is my first technical post, so I'd like to hear from you what you think of it. Good points? bad points? Any feedback is appreciated
When you write "They are transitioning to a whole new OS" I assume you mean "They are transitioning to a different OS" because the different OS is QNX and it has been around for decades (so it's not a "new OS").
The "universal" in unicode went from meaning "you can represent any modern language in it" to "you can translate any encoding in it without loss of information AND any character you could possibily want to have in a font will have it's codepoint".

And so now you have precomposed accented characters and combining diacriticals, presentation forms for arabic characters, precomposed ligatures, double width latin characters (that look better with CJK characters), icons for chess pieces, emoticons and control characters (including several different spaces and newline characters).

Actually supporting all of unicode is a massive undertaking, and if you start using lesser known features of unicode you will find plenty of bugs everywhere.
I'd venture to say that for most people 10 designs is more than they'll ever use. You could pay $19 once and use the service forever (because you can just delete your old designs if you ever hit the limit). At least that was my reasoning for choosing a SaaS model, which I admit has flaws too.

One idea that someone mentioned was to buy usage time.

You pay $19 and get access to the tool for a month.
Or you pay $99 and get access for a year.

That way if you only use it periodically you're not locked into a recurring plan. It's ghetto SaaS, but a few folks said they'd prefer it.
hey, thanks. I don't do much artistic creation outside of the silly sketches anymore so they are essentially priceless to me. Cheers though :>
Truth is - UNIX/C and clones run the world :)
"Meet <insert product name here>".... "introducing <insert product name here>", cue artsy and friendly music and lots of people having fun.

I get that all this stuff works really well in marketing products, but its getting really stale.
Yes, and we (CloudFlare) offer different caching based on cookies.
Along these lines:

Two pictures of the same location in Kabul, Afghanistan. The first one was taken 40 years ago:

http://kuvaton.com/kuvei/kabul_1970_then_now_2010.jpg

Also:
http://kabulaus.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/darulaman-then-a...
I'd prefer to start a startup which has a 0% chance of returning anything at all to my investors, because I'd prefer to not have any investors. :-)
It's actually both. A game of chance is one is which outcomes are mostly/strongly based on...chance. A game of skill is one in which skill is an influencer on the results. Poker is both.
>Ah, not to talk down Mr. Jobs but over in Europe regulation has meant that cellphones were carrier-independent devices years before the appearance of the iPhone. That's partly how Nokia's brand got to be so strong.

And this is the way that it should be - but it doesn't happen without sensible consumer protection laws.
Let's let James Galbraith answer that:

What is the nature of the danger? The only possible answer is that this larger deficit would cause a rise in the interest rate. Well, if the markets thought that was a serious risk, the rate on 20-year treasury bonds wouldn't be 4 percent and change now. If the markets thought that the interest rate would be forced up by funding difficulties 10 year from now, it would show up in the 20-year rate. That rate has actually been coming down in the wake of the European crisis.

If there's a better place to keep wealth than US Treasury securities, nobody seems to know what it is.
Is any of that data available to the general public?
To be a little more clear though (from the Nature article):
"Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) are a bizarre quantum phase of matter. "

I can email people the copy if they want, I won't post it though.
"Look, in this game you can shoot people on the face as long as you don't wear any swastikas or call people 'fags' becaus then that would be wrong."

You're not going to turn off any customers by having shooting in shooters. That's less true for swastikas and slurs.
(pure conjecture warning)

Perhaps, but I tend to believe the data, as we depend more and more on the 'cloud' won't be tied to physical mediums (or particular physical mediums) and instead be towed along as technology and the mediums improve.

100 terabytes of information now will likely be absurdly easy to store 100 years from now, and we don't lose what we have now because data centers will just upgrade and move the data to better storage platforms as they are invented and deployed.

Athropology of the future may not include digging up hard drives in garbage dumps. Instead you just run the latest google search.
Heh, that's my video! Thanks for the shoutout.

Galaxy has the other approaches too, you can see a Tongue Fountain over in Beach Bowl Galaxy.

https://noclip.website/#smg/HeavenlyBeachGalaxy;ShareData=AA...

A few of the effects also have variants of the "Wormy Fountains" style, most notably in the Warp Pod code. Their particle system lets them do those sorts of "Stripe Particles" as they call them, as well.

https://twitter.com/JasperRLZ/status/1241799758907236355
After this current crisis is contained the world governments should mandate a mandatory work-from-home 6 week period starting each new year.

This would allow for an annual 'Earth Reset' and the effect of which might just be enough to turn things around, or hell, maybe even reverse course. It's remarkable how quickly nature has rebounded during all this.
It's quite possible that certain area of the Julia ecosystem are not not mature enough. The situation continues to improve quickly as far as I can tell.

Rather than rewriting code in Python, we took an approach of using PyCall. It turns out that the overhead of calling Python is very small... at least not to an extent that I had to worry about. For my production system, we used this strategy to access Oracle and Apache Kafka. The code still looks very clean as the calls to the Python packages are just like normal Julia function calls.
And write book reviews explaining why the world will suffer a lot less if only more plebs will fall in line with your view of what is best for them.
If they have not been officially tested, how do you know they are infected? It's not enough to have symptoms; I myself had several symptoms about a month ago, but they didn't test me because they were not enough symptoms and I didn't have a travel history to mainland China, so then I still don't know if I was actually infected or it was just a flu.
since you seem to be from Germany, do you now a good recipe of a Genetztes (Bauernbrot)?
I feel like you said that it's not from a lack of focus, and then described all the things that prevent you from focusing.
An Adviser to Italy’s Minister of Health reports, "The way in which we code deaths in our country is very generous in the sense that all the people who die in hospitals with the coronavirus are deemed to be dying of the coronavirus.

"On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity – many had two or three," he says.
How about making enough masks so healthy and sick can wear similar to countries like Taiwan.
Re your edit: I'd not have guessed that this undefined category would be so large, it would be very interesting to see a breakdown of this category on a timeline. My guess is that some of the bigger ones in there could be far easier to solve than cancer.
Perhaps the word "psychometry" would have been better. There isn't any psychometric test more stable than IQ.
I like to see what people are selling. Ads don't bother me. Always interested to see new products. Retargetting etc. bores me because I'm already familiar with the product. The pitches can be obnoxious. All in all it is never a big deal for me with display ads, I can just scroll away.
if anyone want to know about what sort of companies and persons are involved in the new generic TLD game, take a look at these links. One of the biggest, Donuts LLC, is part of the same group of people who tried to buy .org

http://domainincite.com/26198-breaking-failed-org-buyer-etho...

https://domainnamewire.com/2020/11/19/donuts-is-acquiring-af...

https://domainnamewire.com/2021/01/22/breaking-ethos-capital...

List of gTLDs run by Donuts: https://icannwiki.org/Donuts

Or you can just google "donuts abry acquisition dot org"

Or you can google "Ethos capital .org": https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=ethos+cap...

Or you can google "Fadi chehade ethos capital": https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=fadi+cheh...

In my personal opinion it's nothing but a bunch of rent-seekers, in the classical economics textbook sense of the word.
Google offers both options, though? It used to offer free - unlimited "high quality" photos, which they have now stopped (Still available to Pixels (till P4) for 3 years since the respective phone was launched)

You can choose to pay for storage and keep original quality uploads?
I didn't know that companies and institutions could create TLDs with their name, fully dedicated to them.

At this point, why not just accept any string of characters up to a certain lenght as a TLD? We've already lost the advantages of having fewer TLDs, no one can remember what is and isn't a TLD, so we have to assume that anything could be a TLD.

I don't realy agree with the proliferation of so many TLDs, but the damage is already done and the logical step forward is to let anytjing be a TLD.
Balancing risk, cost, and convenience is a better goal than eliminating risk at any cost and inconvenience.

Suppose I get a 75 line item order from Digi-Key. Is the delivery person expected to wait while I check the package contents against the manifest (a human-powered N*N operation)? Am I expected to drop whatever I’m doing to do 45 minutes of material receiving inspection on my doorstep? What weather conditions might make that untenable? If I come up short, should I inspect everything a second time to make sure I didn’t make a mistake?

Same for a 25-person team meal. Chris ordered “no peppers”, let’s make sure we find that one. Mary got extra cheese on hers. That must be this one...
There's also the issue of faulty menus on those delivery platforms. DeliveryHero for example appears to be using generic stock photos to illustrate the dishes, I presume based on keywords. The result is that your food very rarely looks like on the website.

Also, the support staff from those platforms obviously don't know how a dish is supposed to be, so they'll just apologize to the customer even if everything was correct.

In combination, the led to me one time accidentally report a dish as missing. I had ordered something called a "burger inspiration" and the picture on the website was a regular burger. But I received a soup instead. So I called to ask what happened. The support guy apologized, confirmed that it should have been a proper burger with bread and stuff, and offered to fix it. Later, another soup arrived. With a bit of research, I found a PDF of the restaurants in person menu and indeed the dish is supposed to be a soup. It's just that neither me nor DeliveryHero knew that...

I'm guessing there's little incentive for them to improve their online menu listings or to fix confusing images, because the restaurant, not them, will pay the price.
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I sense you've never worked in a suit & tie enterprise...

If you have backups, upgrade, access to monitoring tools, etc. 125$ / month is just 2 hours max of developer time.

That's a bargain and your standard Oracle admin should just feel threatened :-) (provided the company is willing to put its data on a server far away of its control room, which, I guess, doesn't happen so often :-))

so a bargain if you actually can make use of it...
Ah I did not realize that it's not on EBS (aws announced SSD EBS last June so I thought perhaps you guys jumped on that opportunity). What's the max # of connections? Does it scale with storage as well?
an alternative is to just hook up an old pc running ubuntu to a home router. Setup dynamic DNS and you have a full running server. I run my personal blog and email server from home and it works fine.