skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In September, California passed the law (S.B. 1421) described in the article, supposedly allowing access to records of police misconduct. It is restricted to certain circumstances, but should unambiguously allow for possession and publication, for example, of a list of officers who molested children (a sexual assault against a member of the public).

Other states, like New York (CRL 50-a), have laws preventing public access to records of police misconduct, going so far as to hold proceedings against officers in secret [0]. Even efforts to post an anonymized list of violations have been blocked [1].

We require that other professions (e.g. doctors, lawyers, financial advisors) have complete, public records of professional misconduct as a matter of public safety (or awareness at a minimum). However, the very people who walk around with what amounts to a license to kill [2] are not held to the same standard. In fact, officers may be granted additional rights, shielding them from interrogation techniques that would otherwise be applied to members of the public [3].

[0] https://law.yale.edu/mfia/case-disclosed/new-yorks-section-5...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/03/nyregion/police-disciplin...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/police-rarely-criminally-charge...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/04/24/...
In my experience, most European sites will/should consider 'English' as default/unset/unknown. So when in German,y, if the header says French, give French . If the header says English (US or UK), give German.
Luckily this is almost totally wrong.

Claims that education, or atheism, are cult-like or religion-like are common enough, but they require ignoring what an education actually means and instead assuming it's just deferring to a (different) bunch of books.

An education gives you critical thinking, the ability to rationally consider, deduce, conclude, the willingness to discover, to be wrong, etc.

I guess gp was describing someone who was eager to discover, but certainly lacked an understanding or developed abilities around critical thinking.
It's the celestial teapot.

You can't prove it's existence, but you can't disprove it either. Belief in it's existence is purely based on opinion, not fact.
Thanks, that makes sense. I rather suspect we eat a lot more dried basil in restaurant sauces than we realize.
Indeed he did. He didn't reveal that they routinely compel random CxOs to do so, though.
Here’s a fascinating vizualization of 6000 simulated D6 rolls - https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/au25nq/sim...
If it's specifically that value that's a problem then I'd suggest the following heuristic: Use geolocation if `Accept-Language` is `en-US`, otherwise respect the header.

Technical users in Switzerland/Japan/wherever who want to see English pages can set their header to "en-GB" or "en-AU" to avoid getting caught in the heuristic.

Edit: I'm sure it's much more complicated than that, of course- l10n isn't my job and I don't want to be this guy https://xkcd.com/1831/
IF is better because unlike fad diets, you aren't actually buying anything new, and the discipline to do the fasting (IMO) helps avoid overeating or unhealthy choices by default.

It is removing something whereas most of the other diets simply want to replace something.
If you've ever worked in the safety industry, it's not all that different. When it comes to safety features, compliance, and training, most companies take the same approach at meeting minimum legal requirements and passing liability wherever they can for cost savings. If they can cut corners and not hurt profit margins, they will gamble.

If businesses tend to ignore safety and gamble with respect to human life (in scenarios where it results in net cost savings), I have no remote disillusionment that they'll care about data security in cases human life isn't at risk (again, unless it's shown to reduce overall costs and convince management of that).
Yikes. I've never watched John Oliver before. His presentation is so cringey. It's hard to watch. I miss John Stewart.
I suppose that falls under "Part of being a good person is to recognize these deterministic effects and plan your life accordingly."

The type of "reshaping" you're referring to would go beyond willpower in a single moment. Probably something like cognitive behavioral therapy?
Thanks for sharing! Unfortunately Emacs came into my life after I grew up and left Houston, but if I ever find myself up 249 while on a visit I'll be sure to stop in.
(EDIT: When I was going through YC and my startup phase I would have automatically down-voted this post, too. Love you all.)

Skeptics: Of course there are many charlatans out there, but I'd love to understand how you justify dismissal of all non-local consciousness phenomena given that the CIA has been using Remote Viewing for decades and that anyone can learn to do it. Go prove it to yourself that it works and you'll taste the potential of consciousness and non-duality.

CIA's FOIA docs on Remote Viewing:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acia.gov+"remote+viewi...

Learn Remote Viewing:

https://www.google.com/search?q=learn+remote+viewing
Look into the CYP1A2 gene (which codes for the enzyme by the same name, which is responsible for metabolizing caffeine). People are different (which is why there are limits to large studies of general population) - for some people, caffeine might be helpful while for others it might be harmful. You might find this article on the topic interesting: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coffee-health-benefits_n_3881....
The mechanical rolling and computer vision is impressive, but wish he had noted if the results were statistically significant. Just a final touch to the article. At 100-150 rolls per face, my gut is saying no. I guess I'm going to have to whip up a couple loops in python after work to satisfy my curiosity.
The idea (and reality) is that government entities in democracy tend to follow the law.

Trying to invent schemes to defend against the breakdown of the rule of law is sort of like buying insurance against the world ending.
I am in my early 30s. I am wondering if you've been able to do this while making a push for higher weights? I'm currently training to move from 1300 total to a 1500 total. Regarding burning calories I agree, I've felt in myself the calories are more to repair/heal after your workouts.

What benefits are there beside increased energy? I don't have a problem with my energy levels on my current regiment, I could do more exercise to burn more off.
As I said above, you're right in that we can't prove a negative. But it's not a claim outside of science. They make claims which can be tested. When tested, their claims fail. When you repeat that enough times, you have amassed an incredible amount of negative evidence. When the body of negative evidence becomes overwhelming, it's reasonable to conclude that thing likely does not exist.
I always search for negative information first. When using a search engine for a product I always append "sucks", "broken", etc.

Generally speaking three star reviews are the most informative to me.
How do you know one specific thing worked, and it wasn't something else?

Keep a journal.

Try to have an established routine, then try one and only one new thing at a time.

Do a lot of reading to try to develop a mental model to fit it into.
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It looks like that talk is from 2014. Ideas like that had been talked about for many years -- that is, moving all of computing to the browser.

July 2007:

Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/

JSLinux by Fabrice Bellard in 2011:

https://bellard.org/jslinux/

As far as I remember, the addition of Typed arrays to JavaScript made this feasible.

In typical Bellard fashion, he didn't really talk about it -- he just demonstrated it!
I think the debate is "you can only watch this if you have ATT 5G or ATT DSL." The latter is a literal government granted monopoly, I dont have the option to buy multiple DSL and multiple Cable subscriptions. The former is just so silly, to have major content be exclusive to a mobile provider. Do they honestly expect me to sign up for ATT and Verizon and Sprint/TMobile?

Should some of the government regulation, protecting ISPs from geographic competitors, include a social contract of sorts agreeing not to own content production? Or do you pass laws forcing them to resell the last mile to competitors at fair market rates?
In fact, you'd probably feel better longer on a pure hamburger diet than on a pure fasting diet.
Another potential reason is that the list would be a great starting point for somebody who was looking for a police officer to bribe.

I'm not saying that's sufficient justification, just spitballing ideas.
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Whatever it's doing, it's not writing the packages into the application directory.
I have read encyclopedias for fun since I was 5. Still reading something from Wikipedia out of context almost every day.

Encyclopedias (yes, the dusty paper versions) enabled my development; I would be a completely different person if I didn’t have one when I was a child.
That's a risk of any course of action (or inaction) a person undertakes. Following your doctors or the government's guidance is no different, just shifting responsibility, and comes with its own risks (e.g. read The Big Fat Surprise).

Pragmatically speaking, would you prefer a shorter life where you feel great, or a longer one where you just feel "OK"? What if we're talking one month? One year?
I think your comment is kinda funny. Reminds me of California, a lot of effort goes into to providing public services in languages people best understand[1]. Not the local language or the default language of country of origin. Someone from South America might not actually speak Spanish. They might speak Quechua for instance.

Brings up the point, 'internationalization' as a concept is utterly broken. People speak languages not countries. Also very likely that the non default language users may also be most in need.

Probably should be a list of falsehoods programmers think about language.

[1] Local school district I think at one time listed 43 languages.
termios issue. I installed this via pip in python 3.7 under windows 10 and got an error about the termios package not being available. But trying to install termios via pip reports that the package is not available.
Any suggestions?
Sure. But why take such a monster card?
One of my favorite aspects of the English language is that not only is it shameless about stealing other languages' words, but it seems to take it as a point of pride. It's a good feature to have if you want something global- it means that useful words will accumulate without regard to origin, which benefits everyone.
> they would not be non-public or novel information, but they would still be material information.

Well I attempted to address that. Do you think a tweet of "Tesla makes cars." would violate the agreement?

I'm not joking or being rhetorical when I ask that. The answer could be "yes", but in that case I feel like the agreement was written to be intentionally misleading because it should just say "any mention of Tesla".
I would love to see multi-terabyte servers in a netbook form-factor.
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I don't know what the ultimate solution is either, but it seems to me that internalizing more and more things into the development process is one of, if not the main part of growing as a developer. It's not even about being a specialist, just getting an intuition for design features that make it easier to implement i18n/l10n/a11y/security features correctly.

And performance. For the love of all that is pretty, do remember to internalize how to write non-wasteful code.
> Plenty of bodybuilders do fasting, especially intermittent fasting.

I know that they do IF, but do we have examples of bodybuilders that do 3+ day regular fasts? I'm not aware of any. IF can simply be a neat way to calorically reduce, but legitimate multi-day fasting is another beast entirely.
If you paid for a service, but got an investment, that's not exactly on the up-and-up. If that money is then used to try to work towards what they've sold you as currently available, that's not exactly a Ponzi scheme, but it does share quite a few similarities.

IMO, equating it to betting at the track isn't very accurate. Most people that bet at the track know they are taking on risk of no return, and what they gain for that is increased payout. Where's the knowledge here that you might not get what you paid for? What's the benefit of taking on this risk? Is it still betting if you buy something at a store and the shopkeeper turns around and puts the money into a slot machine before you've been given what you paid for and before know what's going on?
This sounds vaguely plausible, but do you have anything backing that up? Unproven theories are a dime a dozen.
Its probably worth reading about Rockefeller and some of the reasons we began to enforce anti-trust laws in the first place.

What we want in this country is not solely a free market, but a competitive one. Huge corporations often find themselves in the position of improving profit not by offering better products, but by snuffing out their competitors. Often nefariously.

Rockefeller didn't just establish a great supply chain for his oil refineries, he began making railroad companies charge other refineries more than his company. Then he bought the railroads and made the process even easier. He was literally making Standard Oil the only game in town. Anti-competition is not in our best interest as Americans.

And I'm not saying content providers are going to employ the same tactics as Rockefeller did, but its not hard to see how if you controlled a substantial amount of capital in the entertainment industry, maybe you can blacklist actors who decide to go do a show on Netflix. Or pay a director a few extra million just to stop working with HBO. We, as both consumers and free marketeers, do not want this behavior.
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funny instead how in the west we come full circle to use yeast to create that taste, so that the product label can claim 'no glutammate added'

this italian video goes to some length into it, and it has english subs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-HDL2g4HYk
This is a brilliant piece of political propaganda. I honestly salute you for getting it to the top of this comment section.
I don't think I would use any package that makes this classic mistake in 2019. Web services need to be at least vaguely secure and this destroys all my confidence of that.
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How much weight do you lose? Is your local climate dry or humid?
I am not super strict with when I eat, make sure I get enough. But I agree that my lifts suffer more if I haven't given myself enough rest or time between workouts - that's a bigger detriment to lifting.
The facts of the case say, all by themselves.

It requires attention by the people applying the rules to recognize the facts, but paying attention is the reason to have people in the loop. Any machine can be corrupted.
This is also not true.

I have a great deal of experience, and I've seen that you can generate final sale for some non-brand obscure SaaS platform (so no branding effect here at all) for like $30 per sale in Facebook, $90 in a good independent ad-tech platform, and $600 in a bad platform.

Facebook still totally kicks ass and absolutely can make money for you if your SaaS brings you $100 in a first year. (100-30=70 in incremental profit for you). Hell, even really good ad-tech platform (yes, they exist) can make you money, though less so (100-90=10 in a first year). Shitty platforms are money sink, though
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You know it's always a concern, but context is everything.

> small little one-off apps that might need _some_ backend functionality

The security implications of serving a static website vs. a dynamic application that processes payment and queries the database are two different beasts
I’m consistently amazed by what the Hack Club team is able to accomplish – amazing launch!
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I'm not talking about an intellectual understanding, I'm talking about emotional understanding. Sympathy is intellectual understanding (i.e., recognition), but is not emotional understanding.
> https://www.lifehack.org/389060/how-much-muscle-mass-can-you...

It looks like you can lost a fair amount of muscle mass, and that you lose the most muscle mass early, so 1 21 day fast would be better for you than 3 7 day.
I haven't read the article. But wanted to add to what you said.

While you mention Christianity (specifically catholicism) and its influence on modern American criminal / prison system, I personally believe that the American criminal system is more influenced by the Islamic Sharia system when it comes to punishment.

Under the Islamic Sharia system, the laws are very harsh - you steal and your hand is cut off, you rape someone and you are stoned to death, you commit adultery and you are publicly lashed and so on.

But the Sharia also allows the victim (or their relatives) to forgive the perpetrator (with or without some compensation, usually money) in the spirit of Islam.

The American criminal legal system is modelled similarly - the punishments for most crimes are absurd - for e.g. US courts sometimes award absurd punishments of 200 years of jail time. Like the Sharia system, once punishments is awarded and carried out the system ensures you end up broken (in spirit, if not physically).

Where as in a Sharia system the victim decides on being compassionate or a "fair" compensation in lieu of a lesser punishment, in the US system this power is held with the government. And this is used as a bargaining chip to make "deals" with the accused (note that I don't say the guilty, as sometimes even the innocent make such deals afraid of the harsher punishment if they were to lose the trial).

(From what I have read, some of the founding fathers of the US were admirers of the Islamic empire and their political and legal system influenced by Islam).
Hypothesis: being around crummy adults leads both to lots of sugar and to bad behavior.
That's because people have hands and throats, weapons and weaknesses. You simply can't stop a killer operating at an animal level unless it's stopped while in progress. Stopping organized killing beforehand is however quite feasible, and society does have some responsibilities there.
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"I like pizza" is an opinion. "I can read your thoughts" is a factual claim. We can test factual claims.
> falsely updating the canary to be acting in bad faith. I would consider it to be morally negative. I consider it to be of the same kind as the other examples I gave of acting in bad faith.

Except that in the case of the canary, there might be the very real threat of violence or jail time for you or your loved ones.

If it were me, I can see a world where I would do things I think are morally negative if it keeps me and my loves ones alive and out of jail, and I think many other people are the same.
Sleeping extra and skipping breakfast before I go to work/school is fasting. Which my dad, friends, and myself have been doing throughout our entire life since maybe grade school.

I'm trying to figure out why calling it intermittent fasting versus skipping breakfast all of sudden makes it almost controversial and a hot topic.
FCT/UNL, back in the mid 90's.

Smalltalk, Concurrent Pascal, Oberon, Concurrent C, ML, Eiffel, *Lisp, Algol, Ada, and many more on the library section available to Master/Phd students.
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I'm sure this exists, but it's probably about time we had a GUI you can put in front of a Postgres/MySQL server in a similar way to Access forms, as a kind of hybrid between niche app and off the shelf.
Doing it != success
But that is basically useless for almost everyone.
Playing with curl, it looks like docs.microsoft.com is just using Accept-Language. Is your browser not set to English?
And printers. Although in the linked story the exploit already existed and the guy who did the printing sounds like basically a script-kiddie.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/30/18119576/pewdiepie-print...
It's not a fad. It has been practiced for thousands of years in religious contexts and was a natural part of life before it was done intentionally. If you think this is based on "a handful of flawed or limited studies" then you need to look again. There is an abundance of solid research on the topic https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20534972
The US uses a median figure for per capita income statistics. So this increase isn't attributable to the top end.

It is true that relatively more money has gone to higher earners. As evidenced by the ratio of mean to median increasing over that time period.

I'm not really sure what you mean by a generic worker.
This is one of those "remarkable claims require remarkable evidence" situations. If you're being genuine and seriously want the world to take notice, have you asked anyone to study the effects of a week-long dehydration in which you claim to have more energy by the end? Medical researchers would jump at the chance.
I was thinking that 14/10 sounded too generous to get the benefits of fasting usually talked about - turns out there's a difference between men and women where because of hormones women are recommended longer eating windows (starting at 14/10) than men (16/8).
https://9to5google.com/2019/02/15/google-chrome-detect-incog...
We cannot choose "equality of opportunity" OVER "productivity/economic output", because then we will go broke. After that there is no choice left whatsoever.

IMO we don't need "equality of opportunity" what we need instead is to make sure that those with the least amount of opportunity still have a lot of it. So much of it that they can move on and do so on a path that is to their liking.

> but it behooves us to get on the same page so we don't feel conflicted.

We can feel conflicted, that in itself is not problematic. Why should it be?
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Even the 1 star negative reviews are faked. Sellers pay users to leave negative reviews to competitors.

EDIT: Funny how completely broken and anti-customer the Amazon review system is given that the #1 leadership principle at Amazon [1] is the following:

"Customer Obsession - Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers."

Just goes to show how these things are always BS.

[1] https://www.aboutamazon.com/working-at-amazon/our-leadership...
people can't have it both ways!
Intent and spirit of the law matter more than the difference between action and inaction.