skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably better was for me to phrase is as "criminal negligence" I suppose.

But to me it's more like in the legal category of assisted suicide (which has clear intent to kill, but is charged as manslaughter): The person played an "assistive" role in ensuring that the circumstances for homicide came to pass, did not themselves make the decisions that led to the homicide.

In the case of assisted suicide, the actual perpetrator is the patient (whom, to my eyes, has committed to affront to justice) while, in this case, the actual perpetrator is the police officer.

In both cases, the "assistant" is culpable for some form of manslaughter, but not murder.
How is Greenland different from the little islands owned by France/UK in the Caribbean Sea?

US doesn't dream of touching them, sure, Denmark is not exactly UK/France, but still...
Well, if we allow everything down to municipal development and agricultural species diversity to be set by profitability and market factors, we are implicitly saying, "Fuck you, adopt my lifestyle" to everyone whose lifestyle doesn't generate high returns.
> CGO’18, February 24–28, 2018, Vienna, Austria

Is this a pre-publish?
Yeah, my first thought was "Anyone can summon cops to shoot me with just my address?". Should society get a CVE entry for that?

If there was a magic button in the world that killed someone every time it was pressed, I'd be much more concerned about getting rid of the button or enacting societal change to keep the button under protection than I would care about tracking down people that pressed the button. Sure, some degree of that is good to discourage it too, but if the button remains out in the open, easy to press, and pressed by more people than actually do get captured, then something isn't right.
The solution I have found is crowd sourced or expert recommendations from the following sources:

Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools book and website.
Metafilter
Reddit's Buy It For Life subreddit
Finehomebuilding's Tool Guide

I find I buy less stuff, but of much higher quality or utility in this way. Some times I get something at a cheap price which works really well, like my Kiwi knives. Other times I have to be educated into realizing why something costs what it does and why or why not it's worth the money. Usually the answer is that the price is right because the object lasts much longer than the cheapo alternative or that the cheap version has a health drawback.

Recent Examples:

Merkur Safety Razor vs cartridge disposables ($$$) (factor of 100 decrease in cost!)
Cast iron skillets vs Teflon pans ($$$)
Tempered glass (container/bakeware) vs disposable trays/soon-to-be-cracked stoneware. ($$$)
Induction cooking vs Gas (health)
Expensive meat vs cheap meat. (health)
Glycerin soap vs liquid soap/regular soap ($$$)

Here's a clear example. I buy a hard shave soap in a nice wooden bowl that costs $30. That's way more than a can of foam, but I've been using this for over four years now and it's only half used.

I don't do this with everything. I have a Silvercrest blender that has worked for a year, expected lifespan of three years I think, about $30 but buying a Vitamix or Blendtec at $500+ wouldn't 'pay me back' in a lifetime.

[waffle]

The China market isn't a problem if and only if it is understood by the consumer that they're getting disposables, so they should stock up and throw away more frequently. That requires money and space a lot of people do not have.

China production is immensely valuable for the bottom billions of the world who simply cannot plausibly afford West levels of wealth.

The rub is of course that you and I are getting lots of boxes with broken appliances/tools.
The problem is not that apps are usable without learning. The problem is that the "power user" features are removed instead of just hidden.

It is a great achievement that apps have sane defaults and dead-simple workflows for those who do not care to learn anything more complicated. It is a damn shame that those who want or need more power simply do not have access to it. More applications need an "expert mode".
Beautifully stated - this is a pithy remix of the exact thought that drove my comment.
Most of this I agree with. What I'm not clear on is what you consider to be the promising developments on the left in contrast to Leninism. Put a different way, Leninism may well have been a dead end but at least it proved capable of effecting drastic change. Trade unionism and other organizational models don't seem to have fared that well and keep getting co-opted to capitalist ends, at best resulting in a sort of labor aristocracy (itself a contested term).

I'm not a Bolshevik but I am a proponent of industrial unionism if that helps.
Not sure if this was due to a clash of personalities between Wilkins and Franklin or due to gender issues. Considering that there were many women active in British crystallography (Dorothy Hodgkin, Olga Kennard, Eleanor Dodgson, Kathleen Lonsdale, to name a few) I think it really was a personality issue, and the "white men" was unnecessary, even wrong.
FWIW, I'm hearing-impaired (though not deaf) and I'm reasonably certain that if I ever end up in a situation with cops pointing guns at me, for whatever reason, I will end up dead.

Edit I'm responding to the point about using a loudspeaker, in case that wasn't clear.
I haven't read it but apparently Cory Doctorow wrote a YA novel about this kind of scenario.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Win
Unfortunately, calling this homicide requires acknowledging the fact that calling the police on someone is likely to result in them getting killed. And however obvious that fact may be, it's probably not something that the justice system (of which the police are a part) will be willing to acknowledge.
If it were up to me I'd shut down the postal service. Everything I get in the mail could come digitally (such as bills), not at all (freaking junk mail), or via Fed Ex/UPS/Joe's Courier Service (anything someone really, really thinks I need to have physically and wants to pay for).

I hate dealing with paper. I especially hate it when it is redundant. Hate it with a passion.
Bingo. I think the delusion will persist if Coinbase lists it which is and has been the current rumor in the trader circles I frequent. I'd lose a bit of respect for CB if they did but it will certainly make them a lot of money because $2.00 is so cheap!
The car has no future in high density cities like London anyway. London needs its roads for buses and taxis, maybe bicycle infrastructure, not car commuters.
Interesting.

So, to decode you would start with the unoptimized model and decode the first batch. You then train using that first batch to get a better model and use your improved model to decode the next batch.

Okay, that makes sense; thanks for the response!
The jobs disappear, and then we train people for new jobs. We won’t protect jobs. But we will protect workers

That says it all, doesn't it? In the USA, if you lose your job, it is somehow your responsibility to retrain yourself, which is infeasible in many cases.

This is an excellent example of where "economism", mindless adherence to Econ 101 principles, fails catastrophically as a system for reasoning about the real world.
The first version of your post said that lithium ion batteries were toxic in production and disposal (both claims entirely false). You've now changed the entire comment to CO2 output for battery production (even though battery production will continue to decline in CO2 impact as grid energy sources continue to tilt towards renewables).

> Therefore, the study has calculated that a fossil fuel vehicle can currently drive for more than eight years before it reaches the same environmental impact of a Tesla. For the Nissan Leaf, with its smaller capacity battery, this figure comes in at three years.

Both Teslas and Leafs will be on the road beyond the eight and three years you quoted, putting their production at a net positive even before the above mentioned improvements take place.
Any idea why all their phones are out of stock? (Are there more on the way???)
The comparison isn't what happens to someone's job when they're facing a complaint relating to that job, but what happens to their job when they're facing criminal charges. Garrity basically sounds like institutional corruption whereby the (administrative face of) the police to avoid asking questions that could help the (criminal-prosecuting face of) the police. At any other job, the internal investigation would demand answers to questions that would criminally implicate you (under pain of firing), and the police wouldn't agree to close their investigation due to the administrative inquiry beginning!

Also, these separate serial investigations seem like a powerful incentive to brush over the criminal inquiry as quick as possible - figuring wrongdoing can still be punished by the second investigation, and also not wanting to delay it.
Toilet paper usage can be significantly reduced by adoption of bidet and washlets.
9.8 m/s^2 need not be assumed. As long as you have a calibration standard, any scale can be calibrated correctly in any gravitational field.

If you care about absolute masses at the ~percent scale or better, calibration is requisite.
This.

Get multiple sources of income:

Real estate rentals, consulting, bitcoin mining, etc.

Most people know me as a "software engineering consultant" but little do they know that my passion is being a landlord/real estate investor and counting money.
Couldn't agree more. It's like saying that Boone's farm and Screaming Eagle Cab are both 'just wine'.
Unlike Scotland, Greenland is not part of the EU. The correct way to think of it is not as a part of Denmark but as a separate country under the same queen. Similar to the Dutch Caribbean territories or the British Channel islands.
Do they really have a process in place to check if addresses are on a 'do not SWAT list' before sending in the cops? How is such a list maintained and verified? Who approves changes to it? How long do addresses stay on it and what's the process for removing them?

There is no such thing as a 'do not SWAT' list, and there is no such process in place.
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Agreed. People too quickly forget it's called Bootstrap for a reason. Perfect? No of course not. But it also doesn't claim to be any more than what it is.
Do you have any citations for this claim?

Brian Krebs did just this, visiting the local police to inform them of the potential for a swatting attack.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/the-world-has-no-room-fo...

Then when he was later SWATted:

"One of the officers asked if it was okay to enter my house, and I said sure. Then an officer who was dressed more like a supervisor approached me and asked if I was the guy who had filed a police report about this eventuality about six months earlier."

For all we know it could have saved his life.
Well-written. Heartbreaking.
>2) Get more info from the caller.

They did

https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/946896354529435650
That $16 billion figure is bullshit. Even if there was zero fraud most of that money would have been "lost" anyway.
> The irs is only recently getting around to finishing audits that involve these creative structures.

The IRS has been auditing these structures for years, and they completed many audits a decade ago. If I recall correctly, they issued the Coordinated Issue Paper (which addressed these foreign IP transfers and cost-sharing agreements) in 2007.
For context to other readers, Negitivefrags is talking about Path of Exile[0] and seems to be downplaying the success GGG has achieved in the last few years. The regular release of compelling content has driven PoE into a great position as the market leader for ARPGs.

One thing they didn't mention is that the regular release cycle lets you mess up and recover. For example, the Essence league(a 3 month batch of content) was underwhelming for most players. However, the Breach league following that regrew any goodwill that might've been lost.

[0] https://pathofexile.com
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I think you will be right, until there is another oil price shock. Then people will flip quickly, as electricity comes from domestic sources.
> Taxes on weed in CA are going to be very high, ~20%. This may drive black market sales.

The last I heard was that those with a prescription wouldn't have to pay the tax, and since it's so easy to get a prescription, at least ATM, I would imagine that would be the first avenue before the black market (heck, I would even say that getting it from friends who grow their own would be a gray market angle that would probably happen before getting it from the black market suppliers).

But I don't know if there have been any changes in the law during this past year regarding taxation for medical patients.
I am terrified to live in the US. The acceptance of illegitimate aggression is absurd.

The sanctity of saving innocent lives from state abuses is a hard fought lesson of history that we should not take lightly. Any time the state abuses this there should be serious consequences. Not a civil lawsuit paid out by taxpayer money.
I took OPs point to be more about the intensity of the behavior rather than that it exists at all. We shouldn't limit the goal to the eradication of it, when the mere reduction of it would still help a lot. If the CoD community is "amplified" in some sense, then it by definition means that it is possible for them to improve it.
>Unfortunately, calling this homicide requires acknowledging the fact that calling the police on someone is likely to result in them getting killed.

Telling the police someone has murdered several people and is armed and has taken hostages is likely to result in SWAT responding with potentially deadly force, because that's what they're supposed to do.

That's not at all equivalent to a proof that "calling the police on someone is likely to result in them getting killed."

I understand the anti-police contingent in these threads tends to be strong, and the feeling is often justifiable, but let's not pretend what happened here is a typical police response, even in the US.
Hi, sorry about the delay. I don't know what you mean, 'he means the phonetic alphabet'. I say the first syllable to rhyme with 'bun'. That's surely fairly standard (non-US) English. It's mysterious to me that that's not one of your alternatives.
Plenty of people that had no intention to kill someone end up in jail for homicide after they do something that they didn't believe was going to kill the other party. SWATing wouldn't be a threat if there wasn't some (small) chance that someone gets hurt. Kind of like how pushing someone at a bar doesn't always end in death, but when the guy you push hits his head on a barstool on the way down and cracks his skull open, it's homicide.
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That fatal police shootings, regardless of justification, are homicide is uncontroversial. It's somewhat more controversial to characterized a false report leading to a fatal shooting as a homicide by the reporting party, because of the necessary intervening acts in the chain of causality.

OTOH, some codes specifically address false reports of emergencies producing death, avoiding any need to address indirect homicide.
The author of this article is obviously a programmer who spends much of his time engaged in programmer status games showing off how smart he is. What he doesn't understand is what it's like for the people who do the vast, vast bulk of computing: ordinary working-class folks found in the cubicle farms and factory floors of the world. Their jobs are simple: enter new purchase orders or inventory shipments, type up letters, etc. They don't need a powerful tool, and if they have to do much learning then they can't be as productive as quickly. Apple and Microsoft are building software for this crowd because it is -- by far -- the biggest potential market for computers, and their software has vastly expanded the set of people who might become computer users -- or even programmers. Easy-to-use software has benefits for programmers and other knowledge workers too: less of a cognitive burden means more of your brain can focus on performing the task instead of wrestling with the tool. This is why Emacs is doomed to failure: IDEs are simply far better at onboarding people towards programming, and those people tend to stick with what they know rsther than struggle with an ancient, confusing UI. (Vim appears to have been spared for hipster-cred reasons.)
> I'm actually of the mind that it makes sense to intentionally subject 911 to incorrect information (like we do with the TSA) in order to audit and pentest it.

This is a good example of moral hazard. The risk is born not by the first responders, but by the people they affect.
..which would be, what?
And people fucking hated it.
You're arguing against yourself. They do put all caught pedophiles in jail, and it's extremely safe for children to roam the streets from a pedophile point of view (but very risky from a car accident point of view).
> really, in almost all cases in the US, "assault officers", and we should separate the two concepts, stop hiring new assault officers, and start hiring a new class of less-armed police officers

The reason that cops are so nasty in the us is because there are so many guns. It's a different environment than other Western countries, and calls for different police tactics.

Unless guns are removed from the equation somebody is going to die. Either use a heavy handed police force, and civilians will die, or use a police force with a lighter touch and police will die.
Are you married? Have kids? Good luck with one car.

If you don’t, you won’t be living in an urban environment when you do, because you’ll want your kids to have a good education. You also won’t have money to waste on Uber.
A pound of force is defined [1, 2] as 4.448222 N . No gravity necessary (but the IPK is, until the upcoming redefinition of the SI).

Yes, that definition was reached using a notion of "standard gravity", but once fixed, it is nothing but a number.

[1] https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/pdf/sp811.pdf
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(force)
You could argue that it’s not that drivers don’t care for good steering feedback, but most drivers never get to experience good steering feedback and therefore don’t know what it is and how much it improves the driving experience. It’s kind of a Catch 22.
I think to an American the switch seems hard, but to say a British person or even Scandinavian person the switch seems rather easy. Caring about being energy efficient is backed into their culture. Far less use of dryers, laws around usage of heating systems, country wide recycling and reduce waste initiative, majority smaller fuel efficient cars, the list goes on and they still have their problems. Countries like these making the switch to more electric cars would help drive a lot of the global market.
I think you're part right. But it's only not recognized by those who need to recognize it the most ;)
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Oh no, I don't have anything against the website. It worked 100% of the times I tried in less than one second and it responds well to every lighthouse audit for performance except render-blocking tags. Also the books look amazing.

But the point was all about the look of the site and the defense was that it should behave like an old-time simple barebones website because it looks like one. This is not true.

This website waits to parse a JavaScript file that adds like 5 lines to the bottom of the page. It looks and behaves... unconventionally.
Perhaps I misread the post. I thought there were several points about putting your team first.

I've found that this can mean doing grunt work or it can mean reducing siloed information by having them do grunt work. This is to say that helping the team, helping grow yourself, and helping to ship product are not mutually exclusive from each other.
The GOP largely reversed course because of the obvious reason: their voters have changed their minds about marijuana over the last two decades. Opinion polls among GOP voters from the early 1990s to now, tell that story.

It's the same reason the GOP is gradually shifting its mindset on how to deal with opioid addiction (incarceration vs treatment, decriminalization, lessened criminalization, etc). GOP voting districts are getting hammered by it. It has become personal. It's likely everyone living in a GOP-dominated area, knows someone who is dealing with or has dealt with opioid addiction. There are now millions of opioid addicts in GOP voting districts in a given five year time span.
I hadn't heard that. I googled 'ira ireland authenticating bomb threat' and found this short read...

http://articles.latimes.com/1997-04-19/news/mn-50393_1_code-...

I thought it was interesting to find the information via a 20 year old online newspaper article, instead of a link to Wikipedia or some more recent rehash of the information presented in the article.
OK thanks :-)
Because virtually all previous forms of media are still in (limited) use, so paper is unlikely to be an exception.
There's absolutely no way updating a few dozen apps takes 6 hours because of the OS. It's the classic flash degradation symptom. My Nexus 10 is the same. It didn't get slow after the updates, it progressively slower over a couple of years.
Both California and Illinois mandate by law rentals allowing you to install a charger (at your cost). Other states have similar legislation pending.
FYI - This is why it's called Bootstrap. Why do people insist on knocking it for what it is. It's like whining about water being wet.
This is very sad and unfortunate. The police need to be held accountable in all situations like this. The police should have scouted the area before & make an assessment. I hope they find the person responsible for calling the police.
Any system probably is better than no system in this case.

Still, there's the fundamental problem with paper-based system that when you design an indexing system you have to correctly anticipate how people will use the system for the foreseeable future (i.e. until the next reorganization).

It's much easier to find scientific books and papers online than by using IR systems in university libraries designed for exactly that purpose by librarians, whose entire profession is built on organising information. The reason for this isn't that those librarians don't know how to do their job. It's that information stored on paper alone (i.e. without a digital representation) can't be easily searched for.
how silly it is that I have to wait for the coolant in the car to warm up before the heater starts blowing hot

[EDIT: extended quote to full clause]

Dude. The overnight LOW in SF Downtown was 49F, and I doubt anywhere in the Bay Area proper even hit 40F.

You need not wait longer than 15 seconds or so to put 'er in gear and go. This isn't Buffalo.
I took that to mean the style was out of the box consistent; that while not unique and perfect you have to work pretty hard to muck it up.
I think original fans grew up had children and had them watch old Star Wars films to get them interested.

These new films are focused on the younger generation as older characters die and pass the torch to younger characters.