skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be an agnostic on the subject of global warming, but I think it's reasonable to believe there's an upward trend.

I also think it's reasonable to believe that activist groups are still exaggerating projections and the efficacy of whatever flavor of the month solution they're currently pushing.

Here's what should be happening instead:

I'd like to see activists making actual proposals with realistic assessments of the costs and benefits so that we can make rational judgments with respect to public resources that we're being asked to allocate to their causes.

Is that too much to ask?

Regardless, mocking conservatives and moderates who want a more careful accounting from the hysterical activists is what caused me to flag this post.
The approaches are dramatically different, though - this implementation seeks to discover and re-write the game logic from the outside in (black box), using reverse-engineering to understand things like the assets file formats. OpenRCT2 started as a direct translation of RCT from the original assembler into C (via Hex-Rays) and builds on the original game engine verbatim.
On APIs, PSD2 http://psd2.it/ will be a game-changer for the European banking industry. Over the past 3 years all banks have been scrambling making their customers' data JSONable.

And they've been doing this as a general-case, as systems tend to be global with local characteristics and lots of glue rather than a decade back when they were disparate and lacking glue.

So when, Singapore for example, decides it wants PSD2 too (good example test case r.e. stringent data protection from regulator and competitive market) they can roll-out quickly.
Tried that one, but I do actually want widgets and a home screen.
Perhaps you downloaded one of the two ARM versions of Kodi. Maybe try the x86 one from here?

http://mirrors.kodi.tv/releases/android/x86/
> Something that I haven't seen much comment on is that the fact this call was false is somewhat irrelevant to the failure of the police here.

Agreed: this is the real takeaway. The phone call is a distraction.
In Sign of Resistance, Chinese Balk at Using Apps to Snitch on Neighbors
You can trade BTC/LTC and BTC/ETH as well, though, and all of the cryptocurrencies can move into/out of them at will. There are steps they could take to ensure liquidity in USD, but they're relatively expensive.

I, personally, prefer to keep my dollars in dollars and in an FDIC insured account.
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Does anyone have a link to a good replacement resource for the 2nd source? The link is broken.

[2] EE376C Lecture Notes: Universal Schemes in Information Theory: http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee376c/lecturenotes/intro_lect...
Well, apparently they still do summary executions in Germany:

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/polizist-erschiesst-mann-e...

https://www.innsalzach24.de/innsalzach/region-burghausen/bur...

Don't run away from German cops, they can legally shoot you!
I go out of my way to come up with particularly ridiculous answers to these questions in cases where I know someone might eventually want me to answer them over the phone.

Birth city: Octopus Mainframe Z7X
Is it though? I think it's not the actually-just-a-coincidence type of 'irony' from her song, but rather actual 'verbal irony', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony#Verbal_irony.
The US ceded control of Philippines and the Marshall Islands (and some other Pacific islands).
1Password allows you to generate word based passswords instead of random strings. I do this because it’s much easier to type manually if I’m logging into a system where I can’t copy paste from 1P
Plex is nice, but it requires a server with content. In addition to the tons more plugins for Kodi, it can play media directly from a network share without any media server running. This is a big benefit for client only networks.
Most people that police encounter (like the victim in this story) are not suspects. They are just people. It's actually part of the problem that (many) police consider "not-police" to all be suspects when on a call.
To me, it’s not really about innocence, or value of life, but something more like consent and agency. A cop, like a soldier, signs up for a job that they know is mortally risky. So it’s not that an innocent cop’s life is worth less than an innocent civilian’s life, but that a cop’s life is willingly offered for (what is supposed to be) the greater good.

The idea that protecting the innocent is more important than punishing the guilty is the basis of the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard of evidence used in criminal trial, and in an ideal world, we would be able to hold cops to the same standard. If they had any doubt that pulling the trigger was the right thing to do, they would not. Unfortunately, in these situations there’s really no time for deliberation.
Having had US police (unjustifiably IMO) aim guns at me[1] and having lived in a third world country, I'll take the US hands down any day.

Police violence is an issue but way overblown for most people -- violence from other citizens far outweighs the police risk.

Compare to third world countries where you can easily be murdered in broad daylight surrounded by people, over a few hundred bucks, and the murderers face very little chance of being caught, let alone convicted.

Of course the best solution is to move to a country with great demographics equalling no crime or police violence, but those are becoming hard to find.

1: Turns out if you report (online with no followup) one of your licence plates as having fallen off your $300 car, cops might do a "felony takedown" on you, your 100 lbs wife, and 1 year old daughter. This apparently includes aiming handguns at your head while giving instructions like "lift your shirt up from the top".
There are laws in some countries where the contractual notice period is not applicable if you haven't served enough time with the company. As always consult a lawyer before doing anything in this situation.
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First paragraph got my upvote. Then I got to this part:

> Many of the bad escalation of force policies and training are because a huge amount of these guys get cross trained by Israelis...and I'm just going to let the implications of that sink in.

Wait what?
> I trust that the Linux kernel is relatively low on CVEs that let TCP packets from a remote machine overwrite kernel memory.

You know, you say that...

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/29/137
* GridCoin offers comparatively low payout for the electricity required; you're not making money, you're just getting a discount on a research donation.

* GridCoin is highly inflationary and there's no inbuilt means of curtailing the supply.
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Not to be technically correct, but electric heat is 100% efficient.
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Millions of Europeans were murdered by their governments within living memory, with records of similar atrocities going back hundreds of years.

Just because there's a temporary lull doesn't mean that the problem has gone away permanently, yo.
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Lots of part-time jobs in Japan
"It worked in Australia."

And it didn't work in Mexico, Honduras, or Nicaragua, all of which have more in common with the United States than Australia does, and all of which have a) strict gun control laws and b) breathtakingly high murder rates.
I'm probably younger than you are - I don't really remember the 80s nor much of anything in the 90s - and I have probably done half of the things on your list on paper within the last year. Some of those are by choice and some are by necessity. This doesn't invalidate your point but I think that you will be surprised in a decade or two just how much stuff is actually still done on paper.

Electronic statements are particularly nasty because the bank might make records older than 24 or 36 months inaccessible and then charge you to retrieve them unless you thought ahead to download your statement PDF each month. Not that that has stopped me from going paperless for day-to-day things but I am rather fond of collecting and filing tax forms on paper.
I have been bogged by this for a long time. I would spend hours jumping from twitter to HN with some TV Shows inbetween. So I decided to take charge by deleting twitter, only going through HN in the night and watching TV only on the weekends. I couldn't ditch HN, I have become a better programmer because of it(I even tried HN subscription programs but those seem to select articles based popularity...I am not one for that). Regardless I will still suggest that anyone having this issues first detach completely. It took a lot of time and discipline to get used to the new schedule.
Best line in this article:

Then there’s the State Bank of India’s vertiginous “What is the website that you rarely visit?” which reads like a Zen koan whose purpose is to make you reflect on the unknowability of the answer.

(Although, I think it could actually be a decent one for some people; you could probably mentally associate it with a specific site and have a decent chance of remembering in the future. Not as good as random answers stored in a password manager, but better than most security questions.)
I really, really wish there was more discussion of this. This is something that is very present in my life and the lives of people I have worked with, but nobody talks about it.

The two things that really stick out for me are the existential implications of taking a pill that rewires your brain, and the inevitable intersection of that with one's career choices.
A couple years ago I created a little Wordpress site so I could write my replies to the same questions that deniers always bring up:

https://2cco2.wordpress.com

What the Internet really needs is a community version of this. Perhaps on Github?
UK armed police shot and killed and unarmed, innocent man in 2005. Nobody was charged or had to justify their actions in court. It happens far less often but when the situation does arise, it's not obvious British police are better trained and react better. What does work is the policy of restricting both firearms ownership and the number of armed police.
Creator of 'Super Mario' on why he tries not to hire gamers to work at Nintendo
>While it's extremely unlikely that OP would have any kind of injury at the hands of police in the U.S.

Illegitimate violence from the state (the police) is actually common enough that I have seen it many times in my life; and I am a White, law-abiding person who makes a point to stay out of trouble.

I feel extremely safe and have always had friendly encounters with police in both Europe and East Asia.

Note the official stats don't include scenarios such as the ones around Gary Webb or Ian Murdock. We won't ever know what really happened, but they're extremely suspicious.
Sure real people live there, and selling it to the US wouldn’t change that. Real people live in many US territories. Life for a resident probably wouldn't change all that much under US rule.

It’s a huge amount of land, but most of it is covered in kilometer-thick glaciers. It’s not really all that usable; plus its strategic location in the North Atlantic shipping lanes makes it a liability in the event of war. Even if the US and Denmark have a falling out, an aggressive American military would likely make Greenland its first target.

In any case, the US gets what it wants for free; the Danes seem happy with the current arrangement, so it’s water under the bridge. This is a pretty convincing pragmatic argument, but pragmatism goes out the window when national pride is involved.
If the person you want to get rid of has been there for 5 years, and knows certain systems in and out it may not be so easy to replace them.

One of the biggest mistakes a company can make is keeping a toxic employee around because of their domain knowledge. The company I mentioned that I worked for for 9 years made that mistake. The employee had plenty of domain knowledge but was toxic, insubordinate, and displayed a poor work ethic. I know they had to be glad when that employee left on his own accord.

That employee was me. I look back on those days in horror.
It's important, for society, to ensure the cop never kills again.

Unfortunately firing him is not enough -- he will almost immediately be able to get another job carrying a badge and a gun unless he has a criminal record.
I think he should face some jail time or community service or something. We give these punishments for crimes of much more innocent nature. Taking someone's life is pretty much one of the worst things a human can do.
This might not be very helpful if you are looking for specific texts to be read, but it might be worth trying to find human spoken texts (audio books and so on). Even some medium articles have spoken copies, if I remember correctly.
Yeah, picking something reasonable but extremely unlikely and false, then entering it into the pw manager, seems ideal.
We should figure out good uses for them before they turn into a yuppie bar with condos on top.
I don't get what most of your comment has to do with getting doxxed. Are you saying that gamers spend a lot of time on the internet, and doxxing is a thing that happens on the internet, so they get doxxed more frequently?
Thanks for the explanation! __user and sparse seem to be almost exactly the kinds of tools I had in mind, with the caveat that __user would be the default for a pointer argument to a syscall, so that it wouldn't need to be specified.

I'm not sure I understand what interface you're referring to that was "unsafe" and subsequently "used in an unsafe manner". What is the "unsafe interface" here that was being used in an unsafe manner? It seems to me that the problem was that the pointer was not marked as __user? Which is awful, because shouldn't __user be the implicit default behavior for a pointer argument to a syscall? Why should the default behavior be the unsafe one you pretty much never want?
I've only had a couple of longer term jobs, but at both employers, I noticed that the lowest level workers had a comprehensive oral history of every firing and interesting HR incident that had ever occurred, like an Icelandic saga. And of course it was told from their point of view. So you have to be aware that every firing will be remembered, you will never handle it perfectly, and you don't control the story. A firing has to be worth that price. That's a high bar.
Don't worry, to a first approximation we can say that no firefighter on a fireground has ever had to make that calculation. It's semi-handy to know in terms of things like this:

5" supply hose holds about a gallon per foot of water when charged, and water weighs just a little more than 8 lbs per gallon, so a charged 100' section of 5" supply hose weighs over 800 lbs. So make sure you have the hose where you want it before charging it, because it's damn hard to move afterwards and the like.

In terms of doing math on the fireground, at least in a structural fire scenario (wildland firefighting has some other concerns) the single biggest one is usually flow-rate. That is, a crew has stretched a 200' pre-connected 2" attack line, and wants to go in flowing 200 gpm to attack the fire. As the engineer, what pressure do you configure on that discharge to give them their 200 gpm? Here's the kicker though... almost nobody sits there thinking "Well, the friction loss per foot of 2" hose at 200 gpm is x, multiply x by 200, assume a desired pressure of 100 psi at the nozzle, blah, blah, blah.". No, instead somebody precomputed the common configurations, wrote them on an index card, laminated it, and taped it to the pump panel. Plus the engineer probably has the really common ones memorized anyway, and/or has figured out a heuristic that's "good enough".
>especially in a country where the use of alternative distribution channels is actively prosecuted.

What country is that? I don't think they bother with the prosecution in North Korea.
> The performance of most electric cars is abysmal

The Leaf is the only car I have driven where the wife has said, "owe! stop doing that! my eyeballs hurt!"

I sense you may be bullshitting us.
The most frustrating problem for me is "top performers" who are very technically knowledgeable, so seen as stars by their direct managers, but have zero interest in any solutions that they don't directly design themselves, and little interest in taking feedback or admitting that their internal mental roadmap isn't 100% perfect.

How do you get to be a "top performer" if you aren't willing to learn? In the context that I'm in now as the lead developer, I am sure that I'm the top developer. But as a lead developer, I'm the most inexperienced leader in my entire company and I'm constantly learning what being a leader means.
BMO in Canada is the same, but six characters. And although you can use alphanumeric characters, it automatically doubles as a phone banking password, so (at least at one point) they were all translated into characters 2-9 in their system. So even online, you could log in with the phone digit equivalent of your exactly 6 digit password.
What banks should really do instead of just using passwords or 2-factor authentication is to use client TLS certificates in addition to the standard username and password.

The bank can advertise instructions on how to generate a certificate signing request, have you bring it in when you open an account, have the bank issue you a client certificate and have them give you instructions on how to import it into your web browser. The bank can also tell you to do this for each device you plan to use to access your online account(s).
> 1: Turns out if you report,...

Wait, what? That's the kind of statement that just begs for a followup. Did they say what they thought was going on to justify that response?
Working pro bono is quite a bit different than the cancerous scourge of spec / contest driven work.

Charities for example, might have a designer working pro bono. However, within that capacity, they are essentially working under the same constraints a designer on a team would. Many libre / open source projects don't have the funding nor structure to hire a designer.

Let it be clear, contests and speculative efforts are a toxic cesspool. Encouraging designers to integrate with a team, pro bono or otherwise, is a trend away from contests and speculative garbage.
I agree with @maxerickson, I'd bet that that number is approximately 0. The reasons people perish from fires rarely if ever have anything to do with a math mistake on something like this.
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I think a big compounding problem is the overall prevalence of guns. In most places domestic abusers aren't untrained gun nuts living in a macho wave-your-gun-whenever-you-want culture.

People can obviously do plenty of damage beating each-other with objects, slashing with kitchen knives, or whatever, but guns seem to lead especially often to escalation from shoving to instant death.

When police show up, if someone has a gun everything is a lot more difficult/dangerous.
>All these anti-Bolshevik treatises of late merely profit from the decay and ruin of Left-wing consciousness and culture that has taken place in the last century. The old Bolsheviks I once knew would have laughed at this "thesis". But who is around anymore to argue against it?

So are you saying the thesis is wrong, but you are not going to offer us any arguments as to why?
Of course the best solution is to move to a country with great demographics equalling no crime or police violence, but those are becoming hard to find.

Canada, The UK, Australia, New Zealand - those are the english speaking ones that meet your criteria. After that, most countries in the EU, Nordic countries, most countries in Asia would also be considered to have less crime and police violence than the US, while having comparable or superior social services and demographics (most but not all, countries in Asia - Duterte isn't making any friends recently).
OODA Loop = observe, orient, decide, and act

Pog = "Pogue is derogatory pejorative military slang for non-combat, staff, and other rear-echelon or support units" (in other words, REMF).

I would agree with your characterization of LEOs as cowards.
So many LEOs are bullies and thugs. Scratch the surface of a bully and you'll find a coward.
I understand that. It sounds like you're describing something similar to what the Google sre book calls "Toil", and I would say that the goal should be to eliminate that kind of work.

While that definition focuses tightly on ops, you can extend it to general swe-ing. A manual, mechanical refactor is probably toil. The eng-time it takes scales linearly with code size. It can and should be automated.

To respond to the specific example in your linked post, you automate the f out of the process and then have the same person do it, but now it takes them minutes instead of hours, or hours instead of weeks.

[1]: https://landing.google.com/sre/book/chapters/eliminating-toi...
I've observed that some engineers are competent, but too insecure to rely on anything but their own internal feedback.
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> Greenland is massive

It's not as big as you think.

Greenland's land area is 2.1 million sq. km about the size of Saudi Arabia. But looking at it on a map you'd think Greenland was nearly the size of Canada (~10 million sq. km).
This comment is overly dramatic and immature.
Gamers like to dox. Gamers hang out with other gamers, which increases their chance of being doxed.

That answers all questions save for one: Why do gamers dox? Because they have a lot of young males that see fucking someone over as a fun game.

This is all based on my personal experiences so make of it what you will.
Ptrace_do: A ptrace library for easy syscall injection in Linux
Something that has been on my mind for a while is how much efficiency is needed (and how far from that are we) to have a drone hold itself aloft on it's own solar power.

It's probably a bit tricky to get data on solar panel efficiency by weight.
Electric cars is not the differentiator. The attraction is self driving, and Tesla knows this and so they market that. That is really how they garnered the clout and leading the market.
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That's a pretty awesome diagram! I've never seen it all laid out in one place.

Reinforces the idea that when I used to do medicinal chemistry, I was just a cog in a very large machine!
Not only that but the perpetrator is crowing about it on YouTube and other social media. He was more concerned about having to change his Twitter name. Absolutely no remorse. I'd call it 1st degree murder nothing less.
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It's ridiculous that people who question anything about climate change are called 'climate change deniers,' on par with holocaust deniers. There are reasonable arguments to be made that climate models are inaccurate or may not make the predictions claimed. What percentage of climate change is caused by humans? How much can human beings do to reverse the climate? What is the cost to benefit ratio of those changes? There is too much variability in the answers to these questions to shame anyone who challenges the current orthodoxy.
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