skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am just wondering when power starts to become misused from the legal point of view

That is indeed a good question, and one of the reasons why e.g. Amnesty has been telling Germany the second time in a row that we need an external (to the police) oversight of the police, because police oversight by the police hasn't been working very well, since they simply always say it was necessary force given the circumstances.

> You mentioned that they increased the sentence to 3 years. Sure, when?

The sentence was not increased, the bar for the "very serious case" sentence was lowered. E.g. one part of StGB 113 read before:

* Whoever carries a weapon or dangerous item with the intent to use it against a police offer.

The last part was simply removed in 2017 [0]. It now reads as:

* Whoever carries a weapon or dangerous item.

Nowhere is defined what a "dangerous item" might be, so essentially, in the current legal state, if you carry an Umbrella to a demonstration that could be a problem.

[0] (German, sorry): https://www.buzer.de/gesetz/6165/al61066-0.htm

Edit: It should also be mentioned that these cases are most often parole cases. This does not change the fact, though, that having been sentenced with such an offense will inevitably have a very serious impact on your life and employability, and lowering the bar for being sentenced with such an offense can have a serious chilling effect on people being willing to participate in political demonstrations, which I personally believe are an important part of democracy.
Does Google really need .google?

They don't, but why not get it if it's available?

I find these new TLDs to be abhorrent, but if they exist, why not own one if you can?
Also not my experience. In fact I moved from Chrome to Firefox because I preferred the Firefox UI.

I was almost pulled back by Chrome's "translate page" option. It's near indispensable when holidaying overseas. But then I discovered I could install ublock origin on Android Firefox. The difference is literally spectacular. You use less data - but data caps are so big now that doesn't matter so much. It's not just the fast page load, although that is nice. It's the fact that screen real estate is precious on mobile. It's the different between regularly having to scroll to see the page you clicked on, and not.
That is mutual under the "open skies" policy. But they don't like Russian presence in Venezuela and they certainly didn't like Soviet nukes in Cuba, even as they had U.S. ones in Turkey that the Soviets were supposed to tolerate.

Now, China is competitor number 1, so I don't think they would, (unless China agreed to do the same at its borders). And is not like Iran is not tolerating countless U.S. military bases around its borders, I just suspect they're at the edge of their seats, expecting an attack and sending an armed drone to their border doesn't seem too friendly.

The U.S. also knows that Russian planes flying are not there to bomb them, whereas the Iranians are hearing constant rhetoric that the U.S. is just about to bomb them.
This is true! Running extension JS on every request is a big performance penalty and rule based blocking is much better.
If you ask me? There is no way without proper preparation. It’s a wide area and it requires hundreds of policemen. So from this point of view, this is the usual “let’s put tape over the holes, and let’s hope the water doesn’t leak”. It’s like releasing software without testing it first, it can work....maybe not :)

So probably by hitting a bit they were trying to achieve fear so that people would not go further? No idea, for me what they did is not violent. At least that’s not how I define abuse of power, but maybe because I come from a country where policemen really do abuse power.
Reddit is testing paid monthly membership on a per subreddit basis
You can use Chrome (or Chromium) for development and Firefox for regular browsing. Is that a big deal?
That is not a good answer. It's perfectly possible for computers to boot in a fraction of a second.

The argument that computers need to go from a useless state S0 to a useful state S1 and that takes a long time is just bullshit. The question is, how close can you bring S0 to S1. This is a question of optimization. What happens is that S1 is different for different computer configurations, and processing needs to happen. Then the question becomes, how much effort do software companies spend optimizing that processing? The answer is "as much as they feel that they need to."

Computer boot times have been constant over many years because performance gains enable companies to add more features. As long as the boot time stays within tolerable bounds for the typical user, there is no need to optimize further. But there are tons of other computer systems in the world (particularly embedded) that must boot instantly, and they do so.
Nah.

But that reminds me of the SMBC comic from 2012 (when SOPA was being discussed), about how India invented the number zero and so by ad absurdum of 'IP belongs to content creators', "owns" half of all digital data.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-08-29
BeeVoo
Quiet subs are essentially mobile minefields. If the battlegroup runs over it, yeah, it's going to have a bad day. But it's unlikely to do so unless you have some chokepoint to make the battlegroup run over it. And that's the thing with the exercises where it's been useful: it's been in relatively small areas, so they can just sit and wait for the carrier to come by.
Everywhere I have ever worked has a 30 day email retention policy. This would never change message to message. It’s a regulatory issue and you have no reason to retain messages longer than the minimum so you’re better off enforcing it at the server level.
Yes, that was a real shame - I have wanted something like MeeGo ever since.

But MeeGo wasn't a mainstream OS.
If I had a dollar for every business that was killed by a buggier competitor, I bet I’d have a lot more dollars than if I got one for every time a business was killed by bugs.

People will put up with a lot of nonsense for a product that does what they want.
This is following to the quote mentioned above:

This value exceeds the number that have died in Fukushima prefecture directly from the earthquake and tsunami.[21] "Disaster-related deaths" are deaths attributed to disasters and are not caused by direct physical trauma, but does not distinguish between people displaced by the nuclear disaster compared to the earthquake / tsunami. As of year 2016, among those deaths, 1368 have been listed as "related to the nuclear power plant" according to media analysis.[22] Reports have pointed out that many of these deaths may have been caused by the evacuation period being too long, and that residents could have been allowed to return to their homes earlier in order to reduce the total related death toll.[23]

[23] is http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-... and is referencing this section, most likely:

By October 2012, over 1000 disaster-related deaths that were not due to radiation-induced damage or to the earthquake or to the tsunami had been identified by the Reconstruction Agency < http://www.reconstruction.go.jp/english/>, based on data for areas evacuated for no other reason than the nuclear accident. About 90% of deaths were for persons above 66 years of age. Of these, about 70% occurred within the first three months of the evacuations. (A similar number of deaths occurred among evacuees from tsunami- and earthquake-affected prefectures. These figures are additional to the 19,000 that died in the actual tsunami.)

The premature deaths reported in 2012 were mainly related to the following: (1) somatic effects and spiritual fatigue brought on by having to reside in shelters; (2) Transfer trauma – the mental or physical burden of the forced move from their homes for fragile individuals; and (3) delays in obtaining needed medical support because of the enormous destruction caused by the earthquake and tsunami. However, the radiation levels in most of the evacuated areas were not greater than the natural radiation levels in high background areas elsewhere in the world where no adverse health effect is evident, so maintaining the evacuation beyond a precautionary few days was evidently the main disaster in relation to human fatalities.
Google Confirms Creepy New Privacy Problem
The risk profile of climate change is sadly getting more and more clear.
Also, there's `firefox -P <profile>`.
Sponsoring. So you count USA as participant in the Yemen war, in the Gaza blockade and in the illegal occupation of Palestine? They're sponsoring Israel and Saudi Arabia and supplying them with money and weapons.
>>> Why now? What’s true about the world that nobody else figured out yet?

I have three ideas I am working on and the one i like best is ... not passing that test :-(
Is that "how fast", or "how much"? It makes sense that nuclear is massive amounts of energy compared to anything else.
No, under Open Skies the flights are over the national territory. This is not the same as non-negoitated probing flights along the border over international waters. These happen regularly.
Note that the JCPOA is not a treaty. The President cannot unilaterally withdraw from a treaty, subject to any withdrawal requirements of the treaty itself. Same goes for the Paris Climate Accord, which was never put forward as a treaty in the US.
Why do you care what it's named? Set it as the default search engine, and just type your query in the address bar and you'll get the results. In fact whatever you typed in duckduckgo's search field can be typed directly in the browser address bar (including switches like !g or !im)

Or if you use it frequently, just type 'd' and it'll be the first result.

As for the name, I call it DDG, which is also what I call David de Gea :-)
Brendan Eich is against LGBT rights. For this reason I will never use Brave.

Here's the first link from a search https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/9tsg2h/i_didnt_...
>...the more software you need to initialise the slower it is...

Of course, part of that initialisation is self-tests, harkening back to the O.G. POST[0] days.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-on_self-test
> Chrome is free software,

Chrome might be provided without cost but it is certainly not free software. It is proprietary.
Show HN: PW Reset FLow only after 5 months?
“Citron is currently writing a model statute that would address wrongful impersonation and cover some deepfake content.”

Existing libel laws would cover this, no?
I didn't know "operator pending mode" was a thing, so I definitely don't use Esc to leave it.

For visual mode, apparently I just press v again. (I had to try it and see if I was subconsciously triggering Esc).

I had already weened myself off the Esc key, so the touchbar isn't that big a deal for me (though, i dont really ever use it). The terrible keyboard reliability is much worse, ugh.
A reminder of how Freedom is often a very flimsy thing in even in First world democratic countries.
oh i thought it was actual search term
What Can We Do About the Growing E-Waste Problem?
But then the questions are, why does it need to initialize? Why doesn't it start in an initialized state, what factors make it impossible to determine that initialized state beforehand and storing it? How close can we get?
Californian farmers were also very interested in booting japanese farmers out and taking over their land.

Not just because it was good land, but because japanese family farms were very efficient and proficient "truck farms" (growing cash crops like strawberries, peppers, beans, gourds, … for markets and restaurants): californian japanese farms had almost 10% of that market before the removal order, and their farms were worth ~$250/acre on average, versus ~$40 US average.

Stumping for the "victory garden" was a direct consequence of the internment order, and tens of millions worth of truck crops unexpectedly missing from the market.
Yes, those are mostly from the evacuation, not from the nuclear plant.

https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-cher...

> In the case of Fukushima, although 40-50 people experienced physical injury or radiation burns at the nuclear facility, the number of direct deaths from the incident are quoted to be zero. However, mortality from radiation exposure was not the only threat to human health: it's estimated that around 1,600 people died as a result of evacuation procedures and stress-induced factors. This figure ranges between 1,000-1,600 deaths from evacuation (the evacuation of populations affected by the earthquake and tsunami at the time can make sole attribution to the nuclear disaster challenging). Stress-induced deaths affected mostly older people; more than 90 percent of mortality occurred in individuals over the age of 66.
They're probably talking about the other feature: choose/write the domain name in the search bar, press Tab, and if you have previously visited the site, and it implements the OpenSearch "standard", the search bar sends your input to the chosen site instead of the default search engine (Google or whatever).
It's not exactly the same though... I have clients where we access a Google account, which has access to Google services... it's like synching a whole Google eco system. Everything is staked on the Chrome login - Gmail, Analytics, Tag manager, password synch...

It could be undone, but those frackers at Google make it so easy. And so much is built off of Gmail as the mail service.
OS/2

Linux on the desktop

Maybe FreeBSD, but the demon didn’t help. At the time WM, kde and openstep were popular, but like almost everything, it’s an open source copy of a commercial product. So there will never ever be innovation from that field.

BeOS with its beautiful c++ appkit and uikit
I do not trust Antifa’s ability to identify who is a Nazi and who is not. The fact that they are violent makes this a big problem.
Nokia and AMBER formulate Battery with same size but 2.5x capacity
So: Why is processing a sorted array faster than processing an unsorted array?
Ten Component Commandments
> the tech environment sometimes attracts young people and the more experienced professionals are being left behind

Why exclude the older and inexperienced?
No, Your Kid Isn't Growing Horns Because of Cellphone Use – Techdirt
Firefox on macOS – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (2017)
I didn’t know what ‘tab to search’, for people like me this is the simple explaination I found:

> For example, whether it's YouTube, Amazon, Wikipedia, or any other site with its own search function, all I have to do is start typing "yout," Chrome will automatically fill it out to youtube.com with an option to press Tab to automatically start searching youtube from the address bar.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1177556

The workaround in firefox is described in the above page, and basically pre-saving sites as bookmarked search engines.
It is certainly less than the jobs being created when using reneweable energies. "Jobs" would be a great argument in favour of reneweables, all environmental reasons aside.
There are a number of reasons:

1. Hardware

Hardware is a big problem for boot times. Most hardware is poorly standardized, or not standardized at all, or doesn't even follow the standards, or tries to be backwards compatible with older hardware, or is just plain buggy. This means that the initialization code has to poll and retry and work around a whole bunch of things just in case the hardware happens to be slow in responding or gives a weird response. This is the main reason why POST is so godawful slow, and why the initial linux boot sequence takes so long. Apple hardware can boot quicker because they control what hardware is in the machine and can optimize their initialization code for it.

2. Software

The operating system stack is HUGE. There's a LOT of state that needs to be initialized, and most of it is not very efficient (we tend to optimize the runtime operation vs the startup operation of a software package). You absolutely could cut the software component of an OS boot sequence by an order of magnitude, but the development costs would be massive, and the gains pathetic in terms of the work-over-time the machine will do over its lifespan.

3. Protocols

A large number of the protocols we use for inter-process and inter-device communication have poorly designed latency characteristics. Either they are too chatty (requiring multiple messages back and forth to do a task), or have ill-defined timeouts (requiring clients to wait longer than they should), or ambiguous states, or some poorly built implementation has become the de facto standard. This is an area I'm personally tackling.

4. Formats

We use a number of formats for the wrong kinds of things. Appending to a tgz file, for example, has horrendous time implications, especially as the archive size grows.
Every Democratic candidate feels about breaking up large tech companies
Ah, getting downvoted by the ignorant and mute. Another beautiful day at Y-combinator.
"Wirecutter staff put this to the test using a decommissioned Google Nest Cam Indoor device and found they could, indeed, view a "series of still images snapped every several seconds" on that cam. The cam in question had been signed up to a Nest Aware account and linked to a Wink smart-home hub. Even though the Nest instructions for factory resetting the device were followed and there was no access to the live stream using either the desktop or mobile app, nor indeed the Wink app as the camera was no longer online, things got creepy when the Wirecutter reporter created a new Nest account on a new Android device. "Going back to our Wink app," the report states, "we were also able to view a stream of still images from the Nest cam, despite it being associated with a new Nest account.""
actually I find the Dev tools of Firefox Better that Chrome. Far more intuitive
Using chrome exclusively as a devtool is also an option, no? Anything else I’ll do on Firefox including containerized Google, Twitter and Facebook (deleted my account but using to block Facebook from any activity online that might be using them).
One common thing is that the radio needs time for it's clock source to stabilize. To make them cheaper they usually use things like phase locked loops to take a lower frequency clock and multiply it up to the clock they need. This can take tens to thousands of milliseconds to bnot be bouncing around when first configuring the loop. And with modern radios, these loops get programed at run-time from the firmware because they need to be at a large range of frequencies. During this startup you can't transmit anything, because you'll transmit with another signal (the clock jitter) mixed in which adds noise, at best, and possibly even at a completely incorrect frequency which will result in fines or possibly jail time. The safe route is just to wait instead.

Receivers work similarly, using PLLs to downmix the signal they want, generally, and while they can begin trying to receive while waiting on it to stabilize, it's usually pointless because you'll just be getting unintelligible garbage from the noise or wrong frequency.
The problem is:

- new reactors would still produce nuclear waste we don't have a storage solution for

- no one can afford new reactors. Properly safe new reactors cost so much that they are not economically feasible.
> Could you tell me how you would have done it? To hold those protesters with a limited amount of policemen?

By not holding them. The right to protest outranks the right to property.
Plastic Macbook. Do you want one?
Hi guys, i got this idea that my current MBP retina 15" is really heavy and getting hot sometimes.

Would it be a good idea to custom design a case (display cover, keyboard enclosure and bottom case) to be 100% plastic?

I'd like one and i was wondering if you'd want one as well.
Well, if your country is much stronger, has no real possibility of being invaded, no real possibility of being bombed, and interns 2nd and 3rd generations of immigrants, maybe your country is just paranoid and racist.
There's a school of thought that you must only build things that solve a problem or ease a pain or fix someone's dissatisfaction.

This list seems very focused on that and seems to entirely miss asking questions like "is this cool or fun or entertaining"?
Things like this is what prevents capable inventors from taking the necessary risk to develop a truly innovative product. My wish is for there to be better legal protection for entrepreneurs bringing new products to the market, in order to encourage innovation and long difficult r+d work.

My heart sinks every time I hear a story of copycats profiting off of the work of someone or some company that sank tons of hours and dollars into developing a unique product - going up down left right backwards forwards upside down right side up headfirst ass backwards - just to find a solution, and then to have all that effort once you’ve found the answer, be pulled from right under your feet because someone can do it better now that the answer has been discovered (because you put the hours to discover it). That’s just ducking awful. I remember seeing [this](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...) about a simple product and it made me so furious. The reality is it’s happening everywhere.

China and Chinese culture of designer knockoffs and blatant copycatting needs to start playing fair and follow the same laws as everyone else if they expect to deal respectably in international markets.

I’m wondering if with things like even the font being the same, wether or not the act of copycatting even registers as an offense to the people who do this.

And to make it clear my stance isn’t against Chinese people, some of my favorite people in this world are Chinese, it’s against a government that condones and does little, or turns a blind eye when a company is doing the equivalent of removing padding from a boxing glove. If we can’t resolve something like this through verbal communication and legal action what other options do we have?
Like children, it needs two to have a sketchy deal.

If enough OEMs had decided to go their own way, the license deals would have been changed. However they saw it as convenient as well.

As counter example, Android OEMs couldn't care less for Google's roadmap and updates.

OS/2 was not an option for most consumers when I had to pay extra 500 euros on top of an already expensive 1500 euro 386SX computer, on a country where the minimum wage was around 300 euros after taxes. Naturally I converted the escudos into euros.

As for BeOS, the only thing I got from it was the R5 demo disk and the developer book that I eventually found out by accident on a technical library.

It wasn't really on sale over here.
> thanks to Poland and Czech Republic's love of coal

Do you really think that people in these countries _love_ burning coal? Does this attitude help solve the problem?

Poland does not have nuclear power plants, therefore it has a bigger problem with the reduction of CO2 emissions than other countries. In addition, Poland has no conditions to produce energy from wind and solar in the winter. Sometimes when I read such comments, I would like Poland to present a plan to buy nuclear power technology from Russia (RBMK-1000 reactors) and to put it along the western border, 50 km from Berlin.

PS. Please take into account that in Poland there was no industrial revolution and that is why over the last 150 years Western countries have emitted much more CO2 into the atmosphere.