jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Cops should not be allowed any power that is not available to every person, by virtue of their automatic eligibility for the county posse under authority of the sheriff, and for the state militia under authority of the governor.

Cops are supposed to be professionals, with keeping the civil order of their state and/or county and/or municipality as their full-time job, but the authority to arrest criminals historically extends from the sheriff of the county, to every person whom he or she may designate, either orally or in writing. If the sheriff asked for assistance from an ordinary person, and they effected an arrest, that was legally an official act of the sheriff. Similar extension-of-authority constructs exist for a municipal mayor/council, state governor, and federal president.

Without a preexisting order to assist, as one might have as a municipal cop or full-time county deputy, there is no official cover for an arrest, and the person making one would have personal liability, if they made a mistake. That privilege of immunity for mistakes made during establishment or maintenance of civil order is supposed to keep professional cops from being too fearful of civil liability lawsuit to do their jobs effectively. I would argue that they are now not fearful enough to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with their positions in the community, as part of it, simply being persons who have been given a standing order to assist the office of the president/governor/sheriff/mayor in their duty to keep civil order. They have now set themselves apart from the communities in which they live, behind the cordon of their thin blue lines, as adversaries to those whom they see as enemies of civil order.

As such, they have become blind to those occasions on which their actions are actually upsetting to the civil order. In other words, they get into some crazy bullshit legal arguments, and sometimes get away with it.

The privilege they enjoy is actually in having their personal actions taken as extensions of a higher lawful authority, rather than as their own.

It is established that the state has the authority to require that motor vehicle owners permanently affix a license plate to their vehicles, which remains the property of the state, and not remove it, and to return it to a designated authority on demand. But this is all written into public law. You can't just arbitrarily extend that power to some cop shop's magnetic GPS tracker. If you want it to be a crime to remove it, you have to write that into its own law. Otherwise, you have to follow the same law for theft (or unlawful conversion) as everyone else. And that opens up a reciprocal liability for putting your property on someone else's property without their authorization.

I suppose the opsec moral of the story is to drop found trackers onto the public road, or report it as lost property, instead of leaving it inside a locker. Putting a classified ad for lost property in the public notices section of the local paper for three consecutive weeks might have been a fun experiment in "fruit of the poisoned tree" lawyering.
I mean, it's a little more difficult than that. You need an expensive high powered laser only available at universities and precision calibration and timing equipment to fire and detect the return pulse.

It's not like you can just pull out a hobby telescope and be like "oh look, a tiny mirror next to an american flag"
I absolutely love the design! It's so new, so unique, and so bold where as I am not certain I'd be able to tell a ford a chevy and a ram apart without their logos
I scraped 10 million records from linkedin a few years ago from a single ip by using their search function. I got a list of the top 1000 first names and top 1000 last names and wrote a script to query all combinations and scrape the results.

This may or may not still work.
I might be biased, as I had to read every Go rant back then when writing a "How to complain about Go" article, and this is clearly the same narrative.

Author did a good job to hide it, but if you look closer you'll see indirect Go mentioning throughout the whole article:

- "“What do you mean, you think Go’s error handling is bad? It’s simple!”"

- How can we articulate a position more powerful than “syntax highlighting is juvenile?” <- refers to the Rob Pike's opinion about syntax highlight

- "Go’s error handling has become a meme,"

- "The creators of Go have said, sometimes in pejorative terms,1 that “average programmers” have difficulty understanding complex languages,"

- "It’s inflammatory, but the article “Why Go’s design is a disservice to intelligent programmers” is worth reading just for the quotes from Rob Pike."
Couldn’t agree more. I find the defense of Cohen here bewildering, and the fact that you are downvoted sad.

My take:

1)It is a failing of our public education system if hate speech is a problem.

2)There is a significant difference between targeted hate speech and generalized hate speech, also between speech in public and private.(not to say its ever a good quality)
2b) Private speech should never be controlled under any circumstance. It’s simply unethical.

3)Just because you deliver messages between people doesn’t mean you need to preform SIG/INT on it.
IE6, of course, only supports alpha transparency on 8bit
PNGs.

IE6 does not support alpha transparency, in this case it treats colos with alpha component as fully transparent i.e. PNG8 with alpha transparency is treated as with index transparency.
Coffee! Heyooo
This post on Hirelite gives great insight about your question: http://blog.hirelite.com/how-to-evaluate-a-non-technical-co-...

As a developer, I'd definitely found a company with someone who has those skills.
I like the idea. Right now you can only list out the technology behind a website, but it definitely sounds useful to be able to see the technology behind another technology. Also, it'd be possible to grab certain info from the github API like the default language, and maybe some other things.
There used to be (still is?) a business that did this for jeans. It's a neat idea.

But the site design is cheesy, to put it nicely.
Shouldn't this be flagged for using "rockstar", just on general principles? :-)
this was awesome! 701! woooo
You need to design processes that protect against human errors and laziness.

If an error by a intern causes massive damage, its a failure in corporate security.
Yes we do, keep millions for our customers too; Bitcoin company here. :)
It's kind of funny, but on one hand, that statement is probably the best thing a libertarian reader could imagine hearing from Yellen. That's how I read it at first, and was thinking, "wow, that's pretty radical for the government to intentionally take itself out". Yet, upon second reading, I think the intention was probably more to cast Bitcoin as a wild-west, do-at-your-own-risk, good-luck-to-ya type of asset to work with. I think the message was meant more for banks and investors. The real subtext being, "if you lose your shirt, get defrauded, or there's large scale tampering, don't come crying to the Fed".
Probably, yes.

Although with invokedynamic, the JVM's object system ends up being remarkably close to that of a dynamic language. This is best seen in JRuby.
Unfortunately not. :( I'm a California resident -- although living temporarily in Maryland for the project -- and have gotten the same reports of technical problems.

To give some background, 36 states use the federal marketplace, and 14 built their own. Covered California is run by the state of California, with an independent contracting company, codebase, set of servers, etc.

We do have some ideas about how to improve that situation over the long term, but those will take time to bear fruit.
No, that isn't a viable strategy. This Hacker News thread is evidence that transparency of some kind exists, and that public scrutiny is completely, 100% inconsequential for the elite.
Very fresh (16h old at the time I wrote this comment).
In a similar vein, JT Nimoy has an illuminating writeup on her work for Tron Legacy's "futuristic hacker interfaces": https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/tron-legacy-effects-...
I think Google censoring search results because they linked to competitors such as Bing and DuckDuckGo would be a closer analogy. The dictation of applications based on the information they contain is the underlying issue here.
That metaphor would make sense only if the only place you could by Coke was at the Coke company store. I'm fairly sure there are lots of places that sell both Pepsi tee shirts as well as Coke products.

Let us side load apps, and we'll stop bitching about Apple store practices.
That investing time and effort into the skills necessary to build things with technology is a waste because within a couple of years it will all be outsourced to third world countries and there will be no jobs left in this area for people in first world countries. I should develop my interpersonal skills, design and creative arts ability with a view to becoming a translator between large corporate insensibility and those that will have to actually get things done for them in the future in aforementioned third world countries.

This was not 100% terrible advice, because it did make me actually look outside the sphere of science and technology into areas I was before utterly uninterested in and considered to be faintly grimy. However in retrospect the premise is utterly flawed and there would have been much, much better ways to expand my interpersonal skills without feeling guilty about being passionate about technology and actually getting things done with it myself.

I got this advice in 2002. As long as I actually considered it useful, my life has been worse, as soon as I gave up on it, my life immediately got immensely better.
> a bunch of Ph.D. that just want to put buoys and launch satellites to measure everything.

I'm not really understanding here. "measuring everything" is how science is performed. Are you for or against "science?"
Tbh, if your company relies on this software, I would also make sure that it cannot just vanish - and thats the most efftive solution. Artifacts can disappear from the internet and you don't know if the downloaded stuff is still the same as before. Especially, if you look outside of the maven ecosystem, but even there you have to rely on apache and their partners. An outage can mean that you cannot deploy critical bugfixes to your platform.
If all scientists were apolitical and resisted any outside influence it wouldn't be much of a problem. But reality is that many aren't and it takes a lot of effort to identify who is and who isn't.

>The trouble is that nothing like enough of this behaviour (checking, falsifying) goes on - because it doesn't make a career.

Yep, this is another part of the problem.
I'm currently reading all your old posts on factor. It's so sad that it seems almost dead, it's incredibly good and mind bending. Have you lost interest for this language ?
+1 on terminal.com. Love it.
Software is a fashion industry.
Interesting to see that they mention loving the hot code reloading/upgrades, but also that they don't use the OTP release/upgrade functionality.

I wonder what their process is.. Just coping over new .beams and loading them is fine for functional changes only, but you need a system to run code-upgrade hooks if you want to change the state being passed around.
Crap, I downvoted your comment in error - I meant to upvote it.

Any time HN wants to remove the 'feature' that prevents users from changing votes, that would be great.
So, having been through all this, do you still want to work for this company? The way you got passed off to a "marketing guy" doesn't seem right.

(Name and shame!)
On their network!
Which fork?
I understand the safety implications but as recording has become more common I've become more and more uncomfortable with taking ride share. I haven't been too bothered by private cameras owned by the drivers. Though I don't love it and am not talkative. I really hate the advertising ipads that some drivers hang on their seats that are clearly operated by sleezy merchants. Not just because they are bright and loud and not what I'm paying for but there's totally two cameras and microphones pointed right at me with correlative info and zero accountability.

Remember back in 2014 an Uber exec showed live data of a specific journalist he didn't care for[0]? The sort of things that people talk about in a ride share... With a system like that what sort of information harvesting and manipulation could you do? Stock trading? Political profiling? Blackmail? Even if the operation is actually about "safety" and there is oversight and most of the team is interested in upholding that there is about a 0% chance that someone in the department won't use it for seriously evil shit.

[0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johanabhuiyan/uber-is-i...
Ahhh, I guess the story was taken from the reddit posts talked about in the vice article posted below and perhaps spiced up a bit.

:(
No, I’m not. I lived in a house with a coal furnace in rural NY.
Yeah, this article had an odd progression. With the premise "How does a codec work?", it goes (Make a distinction between codec and container) -> (Discuss several codecs and their brief history and royalty scheme) -> (Use heavy industry jargon to discuss details that only someone who already gets compression could possibly understand).
It's in the title of this very submission =b
Design is much more than flat vs skeuoumorphic. In fact, this debate (despite its publicity) is of little concern to designers. We are often more focused on how things work, not just how they look. Also, usability (what NNG tests) is but one aspect of design (an important one nonetheless).

As a designer, I feel truly inspired by Apple’s UI even today. Google tries to get design but their company goals do not place user experience on as high a pedestal as Apple, and they are always a little behind.

My two cents.
I like that it has a very "DIY" aesthetic, almost like a custom vehicle, and there's nothing about the design that screams "I'm an EV!" unlike some of the other EVs out there. The square design would blend in with other vehicles from the 70s.

The simple dashboard (like a lot of custom cars, e.g. http://www.fastlanerodshop.com/George34ford/George34ford_das... ) with an actual analogue speedometer is nice too. I wonder if it's mechanically driven and thus wouldn't even need the truck to be "on" to work. Hopefully the whole vehicle is as serviceable as it looks --- the lack of any huge touchscreen is a good sign that there's probably not a DRM-encrusted computer controlling everything, although I doubt it has "true old-school" analog motor electronics either.
It can do away with NetworkManager or it can work with it. The integration with NM wasn't quite there in time for Debian Buster (which I use) but it was close and might be there now. They were working on it.

I have never used NetworkManager so can't comment intelligently on it. But I have it setup without it and it requires just a few config files. How many/how much config depends on how much you want to tweak things and how you want to organize things.

The main thing missing in the current stack is a nice interface for wifi. Using iwd for wifi has made things much better and if you don't mind CLI management it is quite nice.

For a bit more concrete of an example here is a gist I through up a while back describing replacing the old setup with a systemd based one.

https://gist.github.com/eikenb/1e9faeb8210e639e8caa69e9832db...
I lot of broadcast operations have a frequency that isn't in the broadcast band that they use to send their signal to a remote tower. Presumably if you point a stronger transmission at the receiver you can become the dominant signal. Or at least that's what I always thought. I would think you would have needed some inside information or otherwise have worked in the industry at the time to really pull this off? Maybe not, though.
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It's super hacky but this [0] bit of code I adapted from some other hacky code will let you export to MarkDown/HTML. No hope of getting the messages back on my phone, but at least I have an archive of messages and media.

[0] https://github.com/carderne/signal-export
I'm not an expert, but I believe the original "trusts" that spurred antitrust laws were so powerful that they were able to significantly influence government. As I understand it, this was (one of?) the motivation(s) for antitrust legislation.
$75,000 is far enough out of reach of the average person that I think I'm standing by my statement.
In my experience those are first legs on (cheaper) stopover flights.

If you fly between Denver and (anywhere on the coast) there is always some cheap option that stops over in Phoenix.

Perhaps it is the same with Seattle going east ...
When the Bitfinex’d posts came out in 2017, I found them fairly convincing. It seems likely there is something not quite right at Bitfinex and Tether. But I have yet to see any evidence that the scale of “not right” is so large as is frequently claimed. These critiques never seem to address the most parsimonious explanation for periods of increased Tether issuance, which is that they are driven by genuine demand for bitcoin, and much of that demand is routed via Tether.

There is ample evidence of the sketchiness of the people behind Bitfinex. But there is also a simple explanation for the behavior of bitcoin and Tether in 202 that involves no conspiracies. Many hodlers bought during the March crash because they saw it as an opportunity to buy at a discount (I am one of these people). The crash coincided with events that should drive up the price of bitcoin over the longer term. Specifically, the creation of trillions of new dollars and what many saw as a new era of much looser monetary and fiscal policy. The idea that demand for hard currencies is increased is totally consistent with this.

Compared to 2017, I now believe there is a smaller chance of total tether insolvency and a larger chance of significant but not catastrophic shenanigans.
>> Really should be billed on a combination of peak utilization and total consumption.

Why?

>> Having the ability to download at 1Gibps for a few minutes a day is a lot less strain than downloading 24x7 at 1Gibps

It's not a strain on the hardware, its that the ISPs have to give you a dedicated pipe, which is what they're already selling.

>> Such complex billing models are pretty common with electrical utilities

That's false. For example, you do not get billed by how large your water pipe is, only how much water you use.
That's a bit unfair. If there's a time window then people will short, which will then force a short squeeze and instead of collapsing it will balloon more.

The share price is already reflecting that people thought it would have collapsed last year.
It's not appointment of blame, it's appointment of cause, which is fundamental if you're trying to solve for the _problem_.
Remember the discussion about Manifest V3, eliminating webRequest API [1] which results in Adblockers being thrown out of the Chrome ecosystem?

Guess what the state is, now, 1 year later ... the declarativeWebRequest API is still on hold; and it's not supported outside of Beta Channel, and there are no plans to move it to stable. [2] Its documentation still states the same as it did half a year ago:

"Note: this API is currently on hold, without concrete plans to move to stable. Use the chrome.declarativeWebRequest API to intercept, block, or modify requests in-flight."

... which effectively means that there's no way to block or modify request/response headers in Manifest V3, which is essential for Adblockers because they tend to override the Content-Security-Policy and remove headers like "Cookie" or "Set-Cookie" etc.

And now we have the Chrome Web Store moving ahead with the Manifest V3 rollout. [3]

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/webRe...

[2] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/decla...

[3] https://blog.chromium.org/2020/12/manifest-v3-now-available-...
They are talking about in situations where the password is so strong it cannot be bruteforced.
Yes, it can be used against you. I agree it is a "slippery slope" type of law.
Plus there's the problem that smart contracts cannot be easily modified if they are found to be buggy and that one can always reverse engineer them, because they're distributed to everyone.

These two together have already caused lots of damage https://hackernoon.com/yes-this-kid-really-just-deleted-150-... and they make most real-world uses impossible.

It is pretty much impossible to sell anything digital with smart contracts, because due to the source code being accessible to everyone you can always figure out the password, key, or secret URL to whatever is being sold. Without paying for it.
> The personal information being ‘protected’ is not his property.

The information being protected isn’t the pictures. It’s everything else on the PC.

Though I guess in this case it’s about providing information in his head?
What if I say something less hateful but still negative about Cloudflare? What if I run a website like 8chan?
Thank you for sharing the write up.

I think the model you are describing, has parallels with Yaron Minksy's Data Driven UIs, incrementally

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3xX37RGJKE

Perhaps if you could review the above (if you have not done already), additional ideas/data points might help with your formalization effort.
People certainly enjoy magic eye books and the like.

Defect would imply it's a negative trait. A lot of mental quirks are probably just irrelevant from an evolutionary point of view.
Not knowing anything about this topic, I’m curious about why this comment is downvoted.
> I think it's accepted that neurons which interact exhibit increased axon growth between themselves.

hebbian learning seems real, but also incomplete. As normally stated it’s a positive feedback loop — if that’s all that was going on, we would be incapable of change.

There are a number of non-hebbian learning paradigms (e.g., volume learning) that seem true too.
Isn't that choosing to be part of the problem then?
He discussed that on the Corecursive podcast episode [0].

> Why not a parser generator

IIRC it was about "minimising magic" - showing what's actually involved in native code. Bob Nystrom makes the same decision in "Crafting Interpreters [1]. Quoting [2]:

"Many other language books and language implementations use tools like Lex and Yacc, “compiler-compilers” to automatically generate some of the source files for an implementation from some higher level description. There are pros and cons to tools like those, and strong opinions—some might say religious convictions—on both sides.

We will abstain from using them here. I want to ensure there are no dark corners where magic and confusion can hide, so we’ll write everything by hand. As you’ll see, it’s not as bad as it sounds and it means you really will understand each line of code and how both interpreters work."

[0] https://corecursive.com/037-thorsten-ball-compilers/

[1] https://craftinginterpreters.com/

[2] https://craftinginterpreters.com/introduction.html#the-code