skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... you can live on this if you and your spouse both have perfect health until the very very end. There is a 50% chance one of you will develop a serious health problem that is expensive but not fatal. You will need $3 million to deal with that.
Except, as mentioned in the article in a few places (including the second paragraph), the contract allegedly contains a "Termination for Convenience" clause, which should have allowed the PD to cancel the contract and not have to pay the $4,000/year fee. But nobody knew that.

So the real story here is that "...between turnover within the police department and a trusting approach to its relationship with the company, neither the IT department, which handles payments for recurring annual technology costs in the City of Fontana, nor the police department had actually consulted the specific terms of the agreement until contacted for this article."

I've lost count of the number of times I've seen parties sit down and disagree about a business deal without having ever read the contract they've both signed. Any time I go to a meeting to discuss a relationship that's governed by contract I read the contract ahead of time, and often I'm the only one in the room who has. It can be a lot of fun to inform someone who's trying to renegotiate a better deal that they've been in violation of their own terms and conditions for years. "And you want us to give more up when you haven't even kept your end of the bargain?" I can see the Taboola ad now: "One mom's weird trick to prevail in negotiations..."

It sounds like the PD isn't getting their money's worth with Axon, and the citizens of Fontana aren't getting their money's worth with the PD or city officials. If the title should change, it is "City officials careless with contracts; Axon also terrible to deal with."
This seems like a sensationalist title and article. It seems like this police department entered a contract with Axon and now wants to sever the contract partway to save costs. But they've already entered a business contract with the other entity here, so that's on the police department. The actual email from the Axon employee also seems standard and professional. What's the issue here?
He was arrested in 2014, so possibly true however it's common for US to do this for high level carders https://www.wired.com/2010/07/maksik-lured-to-arrest/
By the time Darwin published his findings the church didn’t have enough power to suppress him as they could do a few hundred years earlier.
The safety requirements are one of the design decisions that have to be made, not a separate thing that exists outside design space.
> Uber charged $1500 to my debut card a few months ago. There's literally nobody you can call about it.

If you're in the U.S., I would think your state's Attorney General. It's potentially either theft or fraud, I would think.

Or if your A.G. won't pursue it, go after Uber in small-claims court. Not only are you likely to recoup your lost money, but you'd cause them some pain and/or lawyer fees.
IIRC, the update was over HTTPS, just the "check for new version" call was to HTTP.
Singapore fake news law polices chats and online platforms
You can have something to ferment before you're growing it yourself: take the fruits (or whatever) growing in nature.
Circles exist in nature. You can deny it, but it isn't true.

Now go with your atomic imperfections and external influences and take a nap, because it must be exhausting to be so repellent.
Memcached – Part II: The Volatile Benefit of Persistent Memory
But can you watch Netflix?
> when we push down a "bump" of complexity in one place, seventeen bumps at least as large can crop up elsewhere.

I think you've taken the metaphor about a waterbed and design advice a bit too literally. :)

When you push complexity down in one area and it pops up in another, there's no guarantee that it's of the same overall magnitude, as it would be in a real waterbed. Sometimes it's larger, and sometimes it's smaller.

The same idea applies to whether we should all write assembly or use a higher level language to accomplish our computing needs. We push down the complexity of knowing exactly what the processor is doing at any one moment for a easier to manage overall view of what we want to accomplish. Overall, the net effect is a lessening of complexity for most people, but for those that want or need to know exactly what is going on, there more complexity. Still, overall I think the net effect is less complexity for most people, vastly outweighing the time and effort a few put into figuring out why something isn't as expected.

On the other end of the spectrum, using a dynamically typed scripting language might save people a lot of time initially, or when prototyping, or on smaller programs, but as those programs become larger, the lack of constraints (which provide a small but immediate complexity hurdle) can build up and overwhelm a large project that might otherwise had an easier time if some more constraints were required along the way.

No one tool or paradigm is perfect for every task, and we should not expect one to be. We don't usually commute in dump trucks, and we don't usually haul lots of debris in compact cars. I see no reason why it should be any different for programming languages. Sometimes all you need is a 10 line bash script, and given that information, I doubt there's a huge level of complexity that's going to rear its head later because I didn't write it in some lower level language.
So the complaint is that this Red Hat product is best for Red Hat's paying customers, and that if you want to use Red Hat's products without being a paying customer, you not only have to use the community edition's packages, but you may as well start with the community edition's base image? Am I understanding that right?
Well since we're all here, can you expand on what you mean by ad hominem? It's a classical term of course and I know the literal meaning, but at times find it slippery to pin down, and (same thing) people have subtly different interpretations.
I use a mid 2009 Core 2 Duo. I replaced the battery on it ~6 months ago. I also installed Mojave on it, and with the exception of a weird quirk where apps that do not live in the Dock do not disappear from it when you close the app, it runs fine.

It is essentially a Hackintosh, albeit a legal one, as the hardware is Apple hardware.

I do dev work on it, though it is ruby and/or javascript, not a lot of true compiling happening. But it works well.

I'd love it to be officially supported, but I mean you have to draw the line somewhere.

Edit: I forgot to mention the SSD I put in it, or the RAM I maxed out. (I did the upgrade work, I was not about to pay the premium for Apple to do it.)
And when VW offered to buy back the defective product they declined.
Why is the top Texas blended (state + local + federal) capital gains tax rate 25%, despite the federal top rate being 23.8% and Texas having no state capital gains rate? This seems consistent across all no capital gains tax states, so it can't be a local rate, right?
http://www.hemsleyandhemsley.com/assets/Screen-Shot-2014-04-...
Holy crap, no kidding. Between NextDoor and /r/SeattleWA, compared to my own experience, I'm beginning to think that I live in one of The Orville's split universes. According to those forums, there are lawless hordes of vagrant gangs roaming the streets, dumping bags of used syringes onto little old ladies in walkers while stealing their bikes and running over children with RVs.

Meanwhile, I (a person with no car so I walk and bus everywhere since my neighborhood isn't cool enough to get light rail...ever) barely see any of what they describe. Yes, there are a handful of tents around freeway onramps. Yes, the trash looks a little unsightly. Yes, I wish it wasn't there. But I've not once been attacked and I rarely see a syringe or even a hint of what looks like poop (statistically, it's probably dog poop given the scourge of terrible owners of dogs in this city).

So I'm not discounting that something happens sometimes, but damn, not on the level that the screaming hysterics seem to think it does.
But even then, it's not immoral to talk about the very real tradeoffs involving the search and rescue personnel and resources that could be devoted to doing other things, and this indeed comes up when someone is doing something particularly dangerous in the mountains and ends up requiring a spectacular rescue. These rescues are always followed by arguments about who should bear the cost and what should happen if people can't pay. And surely nobody has the obligation to go into the mountains to save someone who was knowingly taking the risk. We live in a world where search and rescue already exists, so it seems natural and obvious to say that they should try and save everyone they can, but are they responsible for a death if they save so many people in a week and decide they can't go out again?

In my prior post, I wasn't trying to suggest that we should willy-nilly leave people to die, just that we don't live in a world of infinite resources and that I don't personally believe it's horribly immoral to let people make choices even when those choices can have terrible consequences, assuming they know the risks.
FCC blocks China Mobile from operating in U.S. over national security concerns
That was in 2018, for 700+K vehicles (Mercedes C-Class, Vito and GLC) .

They were caught again this April, with the same defeat device hidden in the GLK models.

>The country's vehicle regulator has begun a formal investigation after discovering a new device in the company's Mercedes-Benz model GLK 220 CDI, the Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported.

https://www.dw.com/en/daimler-new-emissions-cheating-softwar...

How criminal…
Completely agree. I switched full time to a Pixelbook from Mac after getting frustrated with the new Macbooks (hate the touchbar, and a Macbook with a stuck key is basically an unusable computer).

One more thing to add is that they just added the ability for Linux apps to output audio in the latest stable release, so don't think recording would be too far away, although that has greater security issues of course.
One of our favorite ST: The Next Generation episodes aired 31 years ago
> The US public has been subsidizing pharmaceutical research for the entire world with these inflated prices and hopefully that changes soon.

This is what some people refuse to acknowledge when they mock the US for having such high prices. If US prices drop over night to match RoW pharma companies are not just going to go quietly into that good night, there will be consequences. Most likely, a lowering of US prices will result in a rise everywhere else, so enjoy your low prices while they last. It’s time for Americans to put America first.
Right, I'm also talking about professional conferences...

I don't have the bandwidth to try and explain why attending a professional conference as a non-presenter isn't work but sitting all day watching Youtube at your office is for out-of-state tax purposes.

I will say this: of the literally hundreds of millions of people that have attended professional conferences in CA as non-presenters, the CA FTB has never tried to tax them. If that's not sufficient evidence for you to accept what I'm saying, nothing is short of you hiring a tax lawyer to explain it to you in detail.
> If you want to support several different expressions you need to create a new column each time

Yes and no. Generated columns in MySQL can optionally be "virtual". An indexed virtual column is functionally identical to an index on an expression.

> Additionally, an ALTER TABLE blocks access to the table.

It depends substantially on the specific ALTER and version of MySQL. Many ALTERs do not block access to the table in modern MySQL; some are even instantaneous.

> But MySQL doesn't support indexing the complete JSON value for arbitrary queries. You can only index specific expressions by creating a computed column with that expression and indexing that.

What's the difference, functionally speaking? (Asking honestly, not being snarky -- I may not understand what you are saying / what the equivalent postgres feature is?)
James O'Keefe had a few former Twitter engineers caught on camera talking about "unwritten rules" and shadowbans for certain points of view. Sadly given his record, he could film an actual alien invasion and people wouldn't believe it until the planet was destroyed.

Probably doesn't meet the standard for whistleblowing though, since it's just censorship by a private company.
Mums are on NASA’s list of top air-purifying plants.
Let’s hope that something really comes out of this. From previous Republican healthcare attempts I have my doubts but maybe they will do the right thing this time.
3x and .5x in US taxes are pretty hefty exaggerations, but I agree, financially you're better off working in the US. that being said, im moving to the UK for a year or two with the intent of traveling a lot through Europe, so there are other considerations that may sway your decisions :)
What responsibility?
Related: Texas has had positive net migration for that entire decade. Also related: rich people retiring to a low tax state wasn't invented by young techies.
I see the word "empire" bandied about when discussing this subject a lot, and I'm never really sure what people mean by it. I mean, sure on the face of it you're correct, an "empire" according to various dictionaries is just an expansive amount of territory under a single rule, but it doesn't seem like that's what anyone really means when they say it. Otherwise, why aren't most countries empires? They have an "expansive" amount of territory by some definition. Or what about the EU? China? Russia?

What seems especially confusing to me is that "empire" has a very specific negative connotation but it's rarely out and out said what people who say "empire" actually think the US's crime is. I could imagine it to mean the way we treated Native Americans, but it doesn't seem like that's actually what's being talked about most of the time. Furthermore if we're talking just about global economic and cultural influence, that's voluntary(?) so the connotation meant doesn't work there.

What's the real deal here? What are we actually talking about?

And just to be clear I'm very much against US interventionalism but that doesn't constitute an empire... Or does it?

Also, openly destroying people for disagreeing with the "American Way Of Life" isn't something I've seen before. Are your referring to the Cold War, or stuff with the Middle East?
What makes you think it's unlikely?

It strikes me as unsurprising that Russia would be willing to trade someone who was once a PR coup (but is now mostly irrelevant) for someone who is currently politically very connected. Snowden's asylum has always been on the sufferance of the Russian government.
What brand do you recommend then, one that does not deceive or lie about their cars' emissions?
If this[0] is what you're talking about, my wife and I also really want it to be a thing! (EDIT: If it's not, would you mind posting a link?)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_I.D._Buzz
Doesn't that boil down though to: "You may as well do the right thing because you are going to be punished either way."

Compared to the alternative of protecting the engineer, that seems like a rather dystopian way to encourage doing the right thing.
> There's no reason they couldn't do something similar/more modern with an iPhone and not have a security risk.

Of course there's a security risk. The security model of both the Macs and the iPhones have significantly improved. The hardware security models make this a difficult engineering task - and a dangerous one.
Analysis Services, Integration Services, Clustered Index
Like the banks. They own both parties.
> which is truly genius

It's not nothing new to give out free hardware and charge for service, but way you phrased it, if you aren't allowed to spin-up your own servers, it is a lie and it is not free.
Watching Santa Clarita Diet on Fedora as I type this. Just requires Chrome.
It makes it hard to determine details of the body shapes from candid photos.
The Ocean Cleanup
>alphabet seems to be have the self driving software advantage

Can you elaborate?
> 128 bytes = 256 hexadecimal digits. Totally feasible to enter manually...

This looks like a job for QR codes!
Okay probably a dumb question but why can't they just have an automatic redirect from the path style to the virtual hosted ones under the hood? People get both options up front while they can work with the one they like.
Running linux in a vm is not running linux. It's still locked down hardware with proprietary drivers. Google can forget about my support.

EDIT: s/container/vm/
Work in financial services, know people who were whistleblowers (2008 GFC), all entirely accurate. Your career is effectively over after you become a whistleblower, so the reward must be very high.
Yeah, that's kind of my point as well. The title makes it sound like they tried to get out of a deal and Axon threatened them. The reality is they dropped the ball and when they contacted Axon a couple years later the rep they talked to probably gave them information based on their understanding of the deal, but was just incorrect.

It's likely that rep was just used to more recent deals whose contracts did contain language like that.
...Which sounds like a management problem.
Where exactly in my post I asked for government restricting free association? It sounds like you just wanted to post this particular talking point and couldn't find a place with more relevance.

What do I want?

I want large payment service providers to have clear and universally enforced rules that pertain only to services they provide, stick to those rules when deciding whom to ban, provide exact reasons for their decision and have a process of redress. It's pretty obvious that PayPal fails at this, miserably, even if you can point out some individual cases where they might be "in the right".

I also want posters who act like corporate cheerleaders here to provide independently observable criteria for whatever bans they "approve". Increasingly often I see astounding hypocrisy when the same person cheers for banning of one organization and against banning another, even though both are banned for the exact same behavior.
A $3300 difference is a huge difference on a per capita basis. It's literally a 30% increase in tax burden on a per capita basis.
Video of the talk:

Linux for Chromebooks, (A.K.A Crostini): Secure Development

presented by Sudha Broslawsky, Tom Buckley, and Dylan Reid at Google I/O 2019

https://youtu.be/pRlh8LX4kQI

Some technical details:

* Container: Crostini (default is Debian 9)

* Guest: Termina VM: LXD [1], Linux Kernel

* Host: CrOS: crosvm, Linux Kernel

Drivers are run in "minijails" to minimize exposure.

Files are shared from container to OS via 9P [2]. Google is calling theirs "9S"

Edit: I think this in-depth document may be up to date: "Running Custom Containers Under Chrome OS" https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/c...

[1] from Canonical, see https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9P_(protocol)
Time to nationalise by the Council of European Union and rename it into Bundeswagen, because it is no more an automobile for folks.
Pete Freitag @pfreitag Java and CFML

Chris Fritz @chrisvfritz Vue core team

Sebastien Chopin @atinux Nuxt founder

Marcia Villalba @mavi888uy Serverless evangelist

Steven Larrick @slarrick Civic coding

Jerry Paffendorf @wello Founder Loveland Tech (mapping the world) - Detroit
That's under the "I don't think Facebook is without flaws, by the way"
It wasn’t produced by extremists; it was created by Facebook. In a clever bit of self-promotion, the social media giant takes a year of a user’s content and auto-generates a celebratory video. In this case, the user called himself “Abdel-Rahim Moussa, the Caliphate.”

See, this sort of "do it for you" activity is what I-personally-talk about when I talk about how I'd probably appreciate and use social media more if we went back to the Myspace style of social media platforms.

i.e. I get to interact with the people I add/follow on my terms. No notifications telling me to go like what someone posted, no trending tickers trying to get me to care about what everyone else cares about, no 'feeds' full of inferences and deductions about what I might "like". No posts injected in front of my eyeballs based on the RNG value multiplied by the square-root of how many times I hovered over an Amazon ad for a pair of Nike running shows last tuesday...no automated videos that scan my profile and remind me "hey, member when you posted this? Wanna look at it again?"

In fact, how's LiveJournal these days? I might unironically go back to LiveJournal and try taking as many people kicking and screaming with me.

(that last bit you should take with a superfluous, sardonic pinch of salt and sarcasm).
Scaling a Pandas ETL Job to 600GB
Here's a non-healthcare example. Christmas trees are the source of many house fires. Should the fire department refuse to come to a house fire caused by a Christmas tree since putting one up is purely decoration and has no other function?
You could simply play a message of your voice that says "My number is 555-123-4444 please get me immediately off your list - press 7 to confirm". They will hang up and the dialer will call again. And again.
What about your data? That generally takes a lot longer, and a lot of people don't back up their stuff as much as they should.

To me, that is one of the single largest value adds of being in the Google ecosystem on this one- peace of mind.
If it's as advertised, it would be a pretty compelling purchase. How light is the typical Chromebook these days?
The conventional explanation blames WW2 wage controls for creating the benefit as a differentiator.

The more cynical among us suffer it as cost of satisfying capital by way of employee job lock, particularly when coupled with the soon-to-return preexisting condition exclusions, and even though the locks disincentivize entrepreneurship and other sorts of beneficial risk tasking.
This is garbage reporting, surprising for Rolling Stone.

The so-called "subsidies" are an attempt to put a price tag on the externalities of carbon emissions. The story says the "subsidies" don't appear on any budget. Well, duh, you idiot who wrote this, that's because no money changed hands! No money = not a subsidy.

This smells like another BS story from the nuke industry. Some shill posts this kind of crap here nearly every day.

Oil is cheap. It works. It has raised the standard of living of billions of people. Oil improves every aspect of our life from food supply and medicine to transportation and housing. Without fossil fuels the world would return to the pre-industrial era. If someone personally wants to live that way, be my guest, but stop trying to convince everyone else to.
Switched to Windows from Linux on my work laptop 6 months ago. First-class support for Zoom, Office, screen-sharing, presenting, etc. is good. General terminal-based development is not fantastic, but WSL made it possible at all. I can run all but my most Linux-specific programs (e.g. dependent on procfs).

Aside from not have some Linux pseudo-filesystems the bigger issue has been the speed of file operations. I dread having to run `dep ensure` and `yarn install`.

Why not just Hyper-V? Every few weeks I try to figure out how to set up a static IP but I cannot for the life of me. So it takes 1-2 minutes every time I want to reconnect because not only does it get a dynamic IP by default, it is reset every day or so. Need to go into the VM via Hyper-V, get the current IP address, reset /etc/hosts within WSL, reset /etc/hosts within Windows, SSH into VM within WSL. It drives me nuts.

Really looking forward to WSL2 for faster file operations and being able to run all my programs.
You're free to donate them money so they can do that.
Indians know, or atleast knew till a few decades ago, that garlic and onion are medicines.
They have known for centuries. I have no idea about Italians and Greeks.