skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your source doesn't support your allegations.

> It’s illegal in Britain to report the details of some trials before they conclude

> Robinson was convicted of breaking that law last year

> He showed up with his cameraman again Friday — this time outside a restricted child-sex-abuse trial at Leeds Crown Court, for what he inaccurately announced was the verdict.

So not only was he not arrested for broadcasting generally (rather for breaking a law forbidding reporting on of trials before they conclude) but this trial was also not "public".
John Oliver on civil asset forfeiture, satirical but shockingly real:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
"Hopefully there are quite a few cops who dont follow the rules and subvert the system of organized theft"

There is no rule that says they have to do asset forfeiture. It's a choice. One of the biggest problems in the US is that laws are not very clear and clarification is left up to the courts.
1. Is there any evidence to suggest that, it is this just general internet paranoia that's every company everywhere is a scam?

2. That doesn't contradict anything I said above.
OP asked about an external data store service. Links on how to log in nodejs, PHP, Ruby frameworks are not relevant.
Politics is bad because of the choices on the ballots, not because of how they are counted.
There's still some out there (telnet), but mostly old Sysops, and Ansi/Ascii artists... It's not nearly the same as hitting local boards.
That's correct. At least it was the last time I chatted with the Mozilla folks about it and from a quick read of their current trademark policy.
> I can only imagine that it was implemented to fight the drug war.

No, actually it comes from English common law, and has been around a long, long time.

It has been abused in recent decades (using the drug war as an excuse), but it's far from a new thing.
If the only presented alternative to government is private corporations how is that not much worse?

The government indeed is authoritarian and people should recognise it - but at least due to historical factors the citizenry have some control over it and how it functions. For a private corporation the general public has no voice at all. You can vote in presidents and senators, you can't vote in CEOs or executives.

The more power you give to private corporations, the less power the citizenry has.

A good analogy would be prisons: government run prisons and the penal system in the US are horrific, designed to be racist and exploit the poor. But then you look at how private prisons are run and realise that they are even worse: they have a profit motive to lock up citizens.
See the paper's description: "Autophage Engines: Towards a Throttleable Solid Motor".

i.e. a small amount of extra complexity for a big new feature.
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Webflow's Ecommerce landing page uses Lottie Web, for example: https://webflow.com/ecommerce

> Let us know what you think of the intro hero animation. That was the part built in Lottie. [1]

From the tooltip on the page:

> This site was built entirely with Webflow — minus most of the hero introduction, which we built in After Effects and integrated on the page using Lottie. We wrote custom code to sync the Lottie playback with the Webflow IX2 animations in the hero, and uploaded the Lottie animation via a feature we’re testing internally to upload files (JS, SVG, etc) to Webflow sites.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16621314
> Baking in more spyware into Windows

Lost your argument as soon as you said "spyware". It's like calling everyone you disagree with a "terrorist".

> Taking more control away from computer users than ever before?

Like what?
Chrome implemented DNS over HTTPS only three months ago[1], and I don't believe it currently uses it by default (overriding the OS default DNS server choice) like Mozilla is planning to do. The initial IETF draft[2] lists authors from ICANN and Mozilla, not Google.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=799753

[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-doh-dns-over-https-01
> it is a system with little filtering, personally or institutionally, of the bad elements

Wrong. It is a system that explicitly filters out the good elements.

"US Court Ruling: You Can Be “Too Smart” to Be a Cop. Police department disqualifies anyone whose IQ is “too high" (https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-court-ruled-you-can-be-too-...)

"Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops"(https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...)
I don't know what a "private account" is; I was referring to vesting restrictions.
These things come and go throughout the world over time.

The occasional terrorist attack seems better than starting a world war that invited retaliatory firebombing and nuclear bombing.

USA is taking its turn at feeling the consequences of colonial imperialism.
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Ammonia and other nitrogen containing molecules are already in soils in varying quantities and are taken up by the roots like other nutrients.
I partially disagree with your statement that this is legal behavior by law enforcement.

It's one of those situations where IIRC the Supreme Court's relevant ruling from long ago was just plain wrong.

I think just about every sane adult agrees that this violates the Bill of Rights, regardless of any SCOTUS opinions to the contrary.
Enterprise versions are updated based on the admin policy.
>...You can't yell fire in a crowded theater.

Wrong.

https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...

>...The only difference is they've chosen to draw the line somewhere just offset from what you're used to. There's still a line in these here United States.

It looks like the US probably has the strongest free speech protections of any country in the world - that isn't a bad thing.
At the engine design phase, they care about a different number: chamber pressure.
Did amazon reviews get hacked?
Seen it in several products, but this one is especially odd: https://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Headsets-Wireless-Headphones-Lightweight/product-reviews/B07CQ1M3WZ/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_show_all_btm?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews it includes reviews for signal booster, a bronthosaurus phone holder, multiple reviews from the same person, and comments like "loved the tablecloth"
This account (or a bunch of similarly named numeric accounts) have been spamming HN with crap like this all week. Dunno why there's no way to flag an individual comment.
Norway isn't even in the EU.
In other words, the best system of government is a sham democracy where the public are mollified by frequent elections, but prevented from changing the status quo.
Thanks for clarifying. But if the card are, for example, ordered alphabetically ?

If they are ordered by, let say, revenue generated by the clients, does it applies ?

Those are open questions. I know I’m looking for hair on an egg, but, as IANAL, the gray zone is a little bit too wide for my full understanding.
As someone with lots of friends at LinkedIn (I used to work there), I can agree somewhat. But I also know that things can be screwed up in non-obvious ways to rank and file employees (Tumblr/Yahoo and Flickr/Yahoo as examples, which I sadly was there for both).
Author of Lottie Android here. The bodymovin to avd plugin is extremely beta and only supports a sublet of after effects features and none of the lottie features such as manually setting progress or dynamic properties.
I could see an IT department using these (misguidedly) for purely internal purposes: .cam .camera .coop .drive .equipment .institute .media .network .systems .wiki. These are now registered TLDs. You are begging for someone to misconfigure something if you use trivial TLD names internally.
> I got my start in FoxPro, worked some in VB6 and MFC/C++ and then worked in .NET WinForms and WPF which I still use on occasion to this day for things that simply work better on the desktop - mostly tools or applications that need to interface with hardware.

> When I think back on those days one thing that stands out to me is how easy and fast it was to develop functional UIs for these applications due to a plethora of pre-made components, easy to use visual tools that allow easy placement and visualization of content. And maybe more importantly a well defined underlying UI API that supported creation of common controls that addressed the most common use cases.

The sheer ugliness that is produced by .Net developers is astounding. The simplest most ridiculous thing is the sizing of buttons. The great simple thing of using something like bootstrap is that buttons are padded in nice proportions. The only options are text, S/M/L and some colour styles. But if you hand a developer a form designer tool they generate buttons 10x bigger dumped somewhere in the middle of the form.

The other WPF form that's been around wehre I work for 8 years has a peach coloured background... because the company logo is kind of orange.

Sticking to the rules that boostrap / material design give you produces quite nice looking and usable interfaces. But sticking to the rules of Windows UIs gives you at best usable but almost never nice looking.

Then of course there's the unholy curse of Java UIs...
> Your government currently arrests people for criticizing the government online

Citation needed - I have _never_ heard of this happening.

> covers up child-rape gangs

Mostly local government and the police, not central government (who organised an inquiry into it).

> mandates whether citizens should receive health care or die

For the NHS, _maybe_, and even then it is only limiting care on the very fringes. Nothing is stopping you going private.

> regardless of whether they have the money to pay for it in a foreign country

I assume you are referring to Ashya King, a child whom was moved from the country against medical advice (which is completely different to _you_ deciding to decline treatment--the decision is being made by the parents on behalf on the child). Furthermore, when the case was decided by the high court, it was ruled that the parents _did_ have the right to pursue that line of treatment:

> Having considered the evidence, I concluded that there was no reason to stand in the way of the parents’ proposal. In some cases, this court is faced with a dispute between medical authorities and parents who are insisting on a wholly unreasonable course of treatment, or withholding consent to an essential therapy for their child – for example, a blood transfusion. This is manifestly not such a case. The course of treatment proposed by Mr and Mrs King is entirely reasonable. [...] Both courses are reasonable and it is the parents who bear the heavy responsibility of making the decision. It is no business of this court, or any other public authority, to interfere with their decision.

https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/judg...

I don't see how that supports the notion that the government can mandate your treatment.
In the good old days the winner became president and the loser vice president. Maybe we should back to that. I would love a Trump/Clinton presidency.
Those free speech protections have been implicated in an ongoing series of terrorist murders, which is a bad thing.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2014/04/17/splc-report-n...

> Almost 100 people were murdered over the last five years by registered users of Stormfront, the largest racist Web forum in the world, according to a report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
It's a big company and hard to blame an individual for mistakes. But they totally missed out on being the mobile OS of the future under him. And they ended up getting a late, slow start to cloud computing (minus SAAS).
Nicky Case has a really good interactive article explaining why "better voting" systems aren't as simple as that: http://ncase.me/ballot/
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They might have made money under Ballmer, but he was also responsible for Windows 8, Windows Phone and restricting open source within the company.
And yet, how many utility poles and wires do you want in front of your house? I don't think we really want anything other than a monopoly doing our distribution.

It would be much better for the perception if there were a clean split in the business of the utilities where the distribution monopoly does just distribution and nothing else. But I'm not sure if that would actually solve any real problems.
This is just a modern newfangled manifestation of a problem artists have always had.

Well, the "independent artist" directly selling to the market place is a fairly new thing in the scheme of things, originally artists had patrons, then galleries and art dealers set fashion. Youtube lets a wide variety of people sell directly to the world and this creates an intensification of the precariousness earlier artists felt.

The artist in the modern world is imagined as someone turning a hobby and a dream into a profession but profession artist derives originally from artisans of the middle ages or other time, individuals skilled by no means concerned with "art for art's sake" (coined by Théophile Gautier in the 19th century).

Of course, it should be noted that during the evolution of the modern artist, artists' skills increased but simultaneously the artist sold more their sensibility and "themselves" rather than simply selling their skillfully produced products.
>Everyone who goes through high school is fairly deeply familiar with polynomial equations.

A high schooler is not nearly familiar enough with polynomials to understand the group theory component of Galois Theory. The central observation of Galois theory is that, in certain circumstances, it is possible to permute values without affecting the correctness of any polynomial (with coefficients in a certain field).

For example, suppose you have two unknown values, A and B, and knew that the following polynomial equations held:

A + B = 0
AB = 1
A^2 = -1
B^2 = -1

There are two possibilities: A=i and B=-i or A=-i and B=i.

Further, no matter what polynomials (with rational coefficients) I give you, it is impossible to distinguish these two possibilities. The group in this case is all the possible ways of permuting A and B which do not effect any polynomials (with rational coefficients). There is a lot of work involved in actually developing the theory I summarized above.

EDIT:

Perhaps more damning for using this approach to teaching group theory is that it is, in general, difficult to actually compute what the Galois group is for a given polynomial.
Well, it's criminal, and it's organized.

Classic quote from Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
I believe it's the fact that Amazon mixes the reviews of variations of a product. And sellers adding whole different products as variation of others. It's a mess.

From a Reddit discussion today
"Amazon reviews are almost worthless to me at this point, because they merge together reviews not only for variations of a product and completely different sellers but also for completely different products in a similar product line. It affects everything from tea leaves to laptops."
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/8nlanp/amazon_n...
Much more sane than the phys.org write-up. The advantage of this isn't "would consume its own structure during ascent" (what does that even mean??), it's that this would have the simplicity, cost, and storability of a solid rocket with the throttleability of a liquid rocket.

(Side note: Great caption on figure 5. "Second firing. The engine was extinguished by an explosion at 142s.")
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One can also run pre-bridges for the snowflake transport by just having some JS code run in a browser's tab (requires WebRTC to be enabled): https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Snowflake
Minus a few gigs of ram
The precise distribution of outcomes is not actually all that important for just figuring out whether the research is valuable. Alignment research would be valuable if it moved a 1% probability mass from worst-possible-world to human-extinction, a 1% probability mass from human-extinction to human-survival, or a 1% probability mass from human-survival to human-flourishing. As long as you can convince yourself that there is a probability of things being far from optimal in some sense at some time in a way that funding research now could nontrivially affect, you have a justification.

Remember that people were created by evolution, and evolution is dumb. Nonetheless, the returns on moderate deltas in intelligence are very strongly selected for, and major changes have happened with small perturbations in evolutionary history. This gradient is so sharp that the same species that produces perfectly healthy 80 IQ individuals also produces Feynman and Euler, the latter so mathematically productive that the Wikipedia page listing things named after him says that "In an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler."

Note that necessarily society develops as soon as intelligence reaches the point at which is is achievable, not with some evolutionarily significant delay, so you cannot judge the gradient by looking at the cap on intelligence of existing species; we are the necessarily the smartest, because we are first. Rather, you have to look at those behind us, and there it seems the gradient is extremely steep; our closest intellectual competitors can not so much as write a single coherent sentence.

The probable conclusion is that human intelligence is more than sufficient to build effective general intelligence, and improvements to intelligence are likely extremely steep on the slope to superintelligence, even ignoring the nine orders of magnitude improvement you get for free by merely running in silicon.
That's because LA is one bigass suburb.
Well I totaly understand why he would do this. I once made an international wire transfer, because there was no other option, and the banks stripped me of 7% of the funds on fees, and completely retarded currency exhange rate.

For this guy, that would be a year of savings, which is not insignificant.

Also banks will not commit to any specific total fee amount. If you read their terms and conditions, they say that money could go via unspecified number of intermediaries, where any one of them can take a part of the money up to 5% each or some such.
I am a french speaking Belgian, google translate / DeepL lets me follow Flemish politics
Your first paragraph is gold. It succinctly summarizes some of the problems with reactions to science articles on HN - especially science articles in certain subject areas.
> There is a lot of work involved in actually developing the theory I summarized above.

Still, Galois had it licked by age 20, and was able to write it down the night before engaging in a deadly duel that took his life.
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Civil forfeiture is technically a legal action against your property, not you.

Since your property will not and cannot legally defend itself, it loses by default.
>Shame on you for spreading that fake news.

That's quite the argument!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I03IKr2TWDM

"It's part and parcel of living in a great global city..."

>Seems sensible to me.

You keep using that word...
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I would prefer if Apple would continue to focus on making my phone better. They really slipped up with their QA on recent iOS releases.
Would you prefer all users be allowed access to any neighborhood group they choose?
For reference, that's basically the case in Germany, introduced after remembering horrible bikeshedding in the 1920s.
This boogeyman of "pointless arguments" is so strange.

Other than on the internet, I've never experienced pointless bikeshed arguments. So long as within an organization you keep the same standards, what difference does it make? Everywhere I've worked does this and it's fine - and allows us to be break from patterns handed down to us from people doing a different job.
The modern day combustion engine is super reliable if maintained. You just have to maintain it.

I drove my last car to almost 300k miles and my current is at 240k miles. Of course there are major maintenance items but well worth it. When my car hit 200k I changed the timing belt, water pump, seals, etc. This is on a Lexus LS430. As expensive as it can get. Cost $1800. If I had a cheap car, it will be a $1000 job. Now you have to understand. Do I go get another car or spend $1800? Easy $1800. I'm at 40k more miles. What else have I changed? oil, brakes, tires. That's it. Nothing else!

Does it have issues? Meh. Navigation sometimes acts up and freezes which I suspect is the DVD but I can't be bothered. I use my cellphone in those rare moments I need it. Everything else works. All power seats, windows, heated seats, traction, etc And here's the kicker, it's a 2001. 17yrs old.

Most cars will hit 200k miles, some reliable ones like toyota, lexus, honda, will hit 300k easy with minimal maintenance. I rather spend $5k-$6k and add another 100k miles. :D
Perfect opportunity for a reusable web component that anyone could consume
This is a great start. Some lightweight features that would make this even more ideal (for me) would be:

- retina/3x support
- support for styled components extend feature (if can be made a lightweight implementation)
- maybe default max width of 100% on mobile?
- optional ability to overlay an empty full size block so the image cant easily be right clicked and saved
Does that not depend on you?
Personal account - well that's your personal account ending in maybe @outlook.com

Microsoft Work Account - Defined by your workplace. Ending in @workplace.com

Azure AD Account - Same as your work account, unless your workplace uses a different tenant account for Azure.

Github Account - Well they still need to support the older accounts.
>Part and parcel of living in a great global city is you’ve got to be prepared for these things,

Living in a city, you must be prepared for terror.

This is not how things should be.
In the long run there is never enough of any resource to go round. The population expands until there’s just barely enough, overshoots, collapses and then does it again and again or dies off. That’s the Malthusian trap.

The collapse of Y chromosome diversity around the transition to agriculture and civilisation is far from being exclusive to white or European culture. It happened in every human population that took up agriculture, to greater and lesser extent.

Violence is absolutely part of human nature. Serial killers are probably pathological but mass murder is definitely within normal human behaviour. The Mongols were less especially brutal than especially organised, ditto for the Nazis at a later date.

Kill everybody and take their land is more or less what happened to both the Neanderthals and the first H. Sapiens in Europe. Kill all the men is practically a humanitarian innovation.