skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He keeps failing at doing so, and the cops say "Can't do anything, he hasn't actually thrown somebody off".

How does that play out such that they can't get him on some type of assault / harassment? Is he politely asking these women if they would like to be thrown off the overpass and politely walking off when they demur?
> Sounds to me like they have a superior product.

Groups in Telegram are not encrypted. And now its shown that it also reveals phone numbers, and this is not a feature.

Whatsapp shows phone numbers by default, so it wouldn't be a criticism of whatsapp.
We are frustrated with asynchronous communication for remote teams
Money laundering is the problem, not Hong Kong emigrants. Mainland China does not allow dual citizenship, this is why many Chinese living in Canada do not apply for Canadian citizenship, but instead stay as permanent resident or visa student to launder money.

https://business.financialpost.com/real-estate/billions-in-d...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pro-china-de...
Be careful that you do not want to deny their whole existence in return.

The example given was a gay person who encounters someone (a Muslim, say) who thinks they should be sentenced to death. But if the gay person decides in response that Islam should be eradicated, that's (at a minimum) cultural genocide.

Note well: I am not an apologist for Islam. I consider their theology to be wrong. But in opposing them, don't become them.
I have a swamp cooler in Reno NV, and on 95+ days if I leave it on all day on max the house will be 60-70 degrees. It works so well I rarely run it on max settings as it just gets too cold. Of course there are some draw backs like swelling due to the humidity, and if there is smoke in the air I can't run it.
Strong opinions should be carefully considered and have compelling reasons behind them. They shouldn't be extreme just for the sake of it.

I say this as someone who happily uses Flask at work.
How? Junkies and other folks who throw needles on the street when there’s a trash can like 5 feet away will actually make appointments to stop at these consumption sites? Who pays for this? The city of Seattle makes a mess because of their extremist policies of not enforcing laws so let’s raise taxes to make up for it?
And me thinking I already was able to do that with Word on NT 4.0 and Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
But that's the ultimate problem to solve. Build dense cities, and people will (a) want to live there and (b) will want to use transit and (c) transit will make the most sense. The city density issue is one completely controlled by the government. Developers are incentivized to produce high-density housing, because it yields more money. Cities don't want it.
Fine by me but can I point out before you leave that your points keep wandering. First it's "trillions" of dollars, when challenged, you say I know nothing of the history and state what just about anyone knows, that the CIA has attempted to assassinate Castro.

I don't even know what point you're trying to make here. Cuba does not have a world-class medical industry, it's not a better place to live than the US, people do not flee the US to live in Cuba.

Do I think the embargoes should end? Yes. Do I think the US interfered with Cuba's politics? Yes. Am I going to play a weird shell game with where I try to figure out what point you're trying to make? No. Cuba's a hellhole, we didn't make it that way, Castro was more than capable of doing that all by himself. He certainly was capable of resisting hundreds of assassination attempts, if indeed Escalante's 638 number referred to actual attempts.
I had a really mind bending conversation with someone a while ago that actually liked this kind of work. They where supported by their significant other and no job they could take would really change the couples standard of living.

It’s competition is daytime soaps not a 9-5 jobs. It’s still flexible and a little extra spending money makes themselves feel better.
"Still, it shocks many Americans to see no criminal penalty for using drugs illegally"

It only shocks Boomers. Their only answer to 'crime' was to keep making laws harsher until all the jail cells were full. Then to build more jail cells.

There's no need to have criminal penalties for drug use in the first place. What we want less of isn't drug use, it's the anti-social behaviors and health issues that often stem from drug use. Look at the other comments here - no one is upset with the mere ingestion of substances, they are complaining about the behaviors they see on the streets. Behaviors that impact the rest of use negatively. And we all know that a lot of that behavior has nothing to do with drug use in the first place. But it's a lot harder to deal with the behavior issue because then you're dealing with things like mental health issues and large-scale economic issues, on top of drug abuse.

It's so much easier to just use drugs as a scapegoat and start locking people up. Like the Boomers did! But we know that doing so is monumentally stupid and ineffective so we need a different way. Props to Seattle for trying a different way, but just as we've seen here in SF, these half-assed measures do as much to encourage anti-social behavior as they do to mitigate it. I think these West Coast cities being besieged by the nice-weather homelessness epidemic (and associated drug use) are going to have to come up with something a little tougher than what they've found the political will for so far. But we also have to acknowledge that we can't, won't and never should return to the idiotic War on Drugs.
It was much easier to move somewhere in the 19th century if you had the money.

Its essentially impossible to move to another 1st world country without years (or decades) of process + usually a highly valued university degree these days
Not if you design it so that optional functionality can be toggled in runtime config. Nginx's optional modules never get loaded into memory if you don't include them in your config.
Anecdotally, Seattle PD has been more aggressive about going after dealers in the last few months. This has led to more turf wars between gangs and a spike in gun violence in parts of the city as they fight to fill the power vacuum. Not great, but it does indicate that the police have put a dent in the distribution network.
> Mercurial has better hooks in place. If a company (such as Google or Facebook) wants to change the behavior of an action, they can override or hook into a specific spot in the code and change how things work. So I could create an extension that completely changes some aspect of how Mercurial works without needing to fork it (unlike Git, where Microsoft had to release a fork of it to support their file system change).

The file system changes were extremely low level and likely couldn't have been handled with extension hooks in Hg either (some of it, from what I read of it, would be more like the equivalent of changing the Python standard library, specifically the OS and file-system-specific bits, underneath Hg than changes to Hg or its extensions). It was also a relatively short-lived fork as it did merge upstream.

> It had better windows support than Git did for a long time. I believe it is still better because you don't rely on MinGW or some other Linux abstraction layer (though it uses python).

Since Microsoft has taken an active role in git development, and especially since the Windows team itself switched to git, the official Git for Windows install and support for that install has been really good. While git will likely always need some bits of Linux abstraction because how much of it's "high level" is written in Bash shell scripts and random bits of awk / sed / perl, it certainly seems that the low level stuff is less reliant on Linux abstraction than ever and is increasingly cross-platform-intended C. (Just about every major performance boost across the board has usually included rewriting to directly cross-platform code.)

Python will always generally be "simpler/stabler cross-platform" for Mercurial, but git has done a remarkable job at catching up on the cross-platform space over the years.
Wars can also be ended by surrender, which Vancouver BC did. I understand Seattle’s approach has been similar: Grant de facto immunity to homeless people committing petty crime, stop all police enforcement of drug laws, and shame everyone who dares to complain.
From Harold McGee's fabulously scientific book On Food and Cooking[0]:

"Hearts of palm are the growing stem tips of various palm trees, especially the South American peach palm Bactris gasipaes, which readily resprouts after its tip is cut....[Harvesting] hearts of other palms often results in the wasteful death of the entire tree."

(emphasis mine)

[0]https://books.google.com/books?id=bKVCtH4AjwgC&lpg=PA316&vq=...
> the problem is that the city center isn't allowed to expand or increase in density,

This I totally agree with
Google itself is pretty political, just look at their Doodles. So, this will be interesting to watch.
When people say things like this, I do have to wonder if they've ever lived in a city before. Seattle's crime rate, like most American cities, has been steadily declining since the 1980s.

There is just a certain amount of crime and drug use that will always exist in the big city. No amount of 'tough on crime' policing will make it go away.
Great points. There are plenty of areas to discuss politics, and at work doesn't have to be one of them.

I've studiously avoided talking to anybody at work about politics, as it usually only serves to anger people if you don't agree. I've had a successful career of doing that.
No argument on that. I just don't quite believe that the "west created it", I guess it's possible that it was willful and meant to prove the communist utopian ideal...
> There are climates in which AC is essential and even the most advanced thermal and airflow design can not replace conditioning.

Essential? You mean these climates were completely uninhabited before the invention of AC?
Shortly before the memo, there were stories and comments in HN about problems inside Google.

I vaguely remember a story about someone in HR getting fired because they didn't pull a white male out of the running for a job. (The details are too fuzzy at this point.)
"Increasingly there is global recognition that drugs are better addressed as a health challenge than as a law enforcement issue."

That's pretty rad.
Airbnb 30% Growth in Q1
A big part of practical security is usability. It's hard enough getting most people to adopt Signal or other encrypted messaging services. If they couldn't "just send a message to a number" it would be that much more difficult. The tradeoff seems worth it in this case.
As the other poster said - ability to do it doesn't mean it works really well.

From my 96 year old grandfather: We planned to replace every piece of plaster in the wall in 10 years, and we kept hardwood floors because we could throw the rugs away and sand the floors down when the mold started to get bad.

That's wasteful and time intensive. No thanks.
I just had one the other day. We present a simple problem, in two parts (reduce a list to one of its elements, with some simple criteria). I watched a person thrash around for slightly over an hour on the first part, and at no point did they come close to a working solution, or even one that made sense.

In Ruby it’s a one-liner. It gets kind of soul-crushing doing this week after week.
Please cite how Seattle's policy of not locking people up to rot in prison is extremist.

You had a viable argument right up until that point!

Edit: Thanks for the bot downvotes! Going from +2 to -1 in the span of a minute on two separate comments is a bit of a red flag :P
Yep, any western company that thinks the Chinese government is going to allow them to have a large market share in China long term is straight up delusional (or thinking so short term they don't care at all)

Company after company has been raided for IP and forced out of China, stop falling for the siren song.
The article mentions how it's difficult to reallocate the money saved on the court/prison system to the public health needs. Imagine what could be done if the same amount of money going towards imprisoning someone was instead spent on social services. Instead its easier for our politicians to stay "rah-rah" on punitive action.
Sounds just like SF, and it's a large part of the reason I want to leave the west coast entirely and go somewhere with more sane policies.
So this is a stick, but where's the carrot?

All these countries that are complaining about the burning forest - why don't they pony up some cash and pay Brazil not to burn it down?

If the Amazon is the "lungs of the world" then surely between all the countries of the world (or, just a few, or just one rich one) we could make it worth their while to keep the forest intact.
There have been quite a few extensions in this space:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10266334/add-on-to-copy-...

https://github.com/Dalimil/Web-Design-Pirate
I nearly bought a book in Audible last week, but hesitated because something seemed off with the reviews[0]. After a little digging I realised ALL the reviewers had only reviewed this book and another about Keto. And looking on Amazon for the same author "G.S. Hook" I noticed one of the books had reviews which while all unique, were basically all following the same template containing the same exact phrases[1].

I spoke with customer service and gave them specific examples to investigate. They didn't care in the slightest. It's made me realise that their reviews cannot be trusted. "Verified purchase" means nothing. I always chose Amazon over eBay and AliExpress because I thought it was worth the slightly higher prices to have peace of mind that the reviews were policed and what I would receive was genuine and safe. But that's clearly no longer the case.

[0] https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Communication-Skills-Training-T...

(The reviewers have since reviewed other books. But you'll still see the same pattern of the same books being reviewed.)

[1]
https://www.amazon.com/COMMUNICATION-MARRIAGE-effective-comm...

(One recurring phrase "which made her realize she had a problem too"
All Linux distros handle these things differently. Some build in every feature under the sun, some try to modularize and build 30 related packages, some strip it down to minimal dependencies. It depends on the package, the maintainer, and the distro.

It is often necessary to build custom packages if you want functionality which isn't core to the original software (perl and lua aren't necessary to run nginx core). If you work with the package maintainer, you may find a way to have the distro build the extra functionality as optional packages.
Wasm vs. PNaCl Performance Benchmark
That isn't inherently true in the city center. If you have the population density to run subways every ten minutes that aren't subject to traffic jams, you can get from one part of the city center to another faster on a subway than in a car. But that only works if both of your endpoints are on a subway line, which requires more people to live in the city center than they currently do.
Saw mill workers in northern Sweden had similar clauses. “No more than 50% of the salary is to be payed out in salmon.”
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So that's why it return the value of last expression!
Everyone does.
I like The Needling's tag line, Seattle's only Real Fake News.
Brazilians chose him to represent them and negotiate trade deals. He refused to meet France's foreign affairs minister and had a haircut instead. I guess these are the consequences and one thing leads to another. At least the EU is acting more like a block this time, rather than being in disagreement. Why give Brazil aid from EU taxpayer money to fight deforestation if they're not interested? We could take his advice and use those funds to plant trees in Europe instead.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/world/t...
Check out the Kosmos-2251/Iridium-33 collision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision
A trick for getting by the paywall is to click the "stop" button on the browser before the page fully loads.
It’s only war if both sides are actively fighting. Seattle ended the war on drugs.
JavaScript Video Chat Package
What does confiscating an addict's heroin accomplish? As far as I can tell, all you've done is make a desperate addict far more desperate than they were a moment ago. The situation is only made worse.
At the expense of being practically unusable for most people. It's a trade off.

EDIT: This proposal also suffers from a bootstrapping problem. You have to already have a secure channel to communicate the ids.
Valve changes bug bounty program after rejecting bugs
> What non-drug user would want to live in a town where someone shooting heroin in public is not removed from the street? I know I wouldn't.

It really depends on the broader systematic picture.

If drug addicts fear consequences to the point of arming themselves and attacking strangers to avoid arrest and maintain supply, that's bad.

If they're able to demonstrate victimless crime, get their gear confiscated and force to keep it to themselves in their own homes or ask for help from the community without threat of incarceration, that's good.

So we really have to look at how it plays out in reality. It's not enough to make a black or white decision based on a hypothetical scenario. Furthermore, we need to consider the impact of judgement by police and rehab operators. Familiarity with the individuals and difficult-to-quantify details of each scenario may make the decision between admonishment, incarceration and forced rehab.

That said, these don't have to be ambiguous clouds of blurry judgement. We can prototype decision trees and debate about them.
Flip through our latest look book.

Check it out button leads to 404.

Going from homepage to 404 is NOT GOOD
In the 80s people actually reported petty crime, and expected something to come out of it.
I would've categorized those people as type #2. People who constantly talk about totally irrelevant topics (no matter if political or not) I would've just regarded as "chatty".
Honestly, when we re-roof our home when the shingles go, we're putting on a white roof. I'm sure it will tank the resale value because it will be the only white roofed home in my county or even region, but the cost savings on cooling has to make up for that, to me.
Man Attacks Suleman, Adeboye, and Oyedepo
You don't see the ads, so you are blocking them and dilute the value of ads to begin with. Yes, it does waste your bandwidth.

> I figure at least 20% of the people browsing the web would have to use the extension for it to make any difference to the ad networks, and it's probably higher than 20%. That's never going to happen.

They have tried though:

https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html

So it means, they are worried about at least enough to bother.

Now, looking at my stats I just don't see as many clicks as before. So perhaps, Google just fixed their backend code to detect these clicks and moved on without triggering the Streisand Effect by fighting against this project publicly further.
First of all thanks for producing APSW and providing good documentation.

The problem for my case is that if I want to distribute anything with a Sqlite+JSON1 workflow I also have to host and distribute a version of sqlite3 or apsw with those flags enabled. If that's already done on Windows then great, but many people I'm sure (myself included) would like a cross-platform solution.

It would be great if we could use the Setuptools "extras" feature to select which flags we want enabled. Not sure what the technical requirements for that are.

Alternatively just having an "everything enabled" version of the package would i think be good for most people who dont need such fine control over their project dependencies. If anything, someone who cares so much about keeping the library minimal is probably in the minority and should be free to disable extensions as needed.
>A lot of the need for AC (and having lights on) is just really, really bad modern house design.

Agreed, but people also seem uninterested in simple techniques to work with what they've got. I live in MA, in an old house that doesn't have much in the way of modern energy efficiency but we get by without AC on all but the hottest days of the year by doing really simple things. Open windows at night. Close them in the morning. Pull the blinds down on windows that have sun exposure. You get the idea. The only serious retrofit we've done so far is have a contractor add cellulose insulation to the attic. On 90+ degree days the second floor will reach 80+ by the evening so then we turn on the AC if a window fan is unable to bring the temperature back down to something comfortable. In our climate AC should be the backup plan, not the primary cooling system.
They produce some great articles :3
To what extent the earth is warming is a scientific question, but what if anything should be done about it is certainly a political issue.
This is just a classic price discrimination strategy; nearly all retailers do it in some way. Starbucks drinks have a nearly identical marginal cost to them; but have wildly different prices. Software companies disable certain features (that already exist in the software) to sell a lower cost version of the same thing without hurting the margins with those who can pay more. Pharmaceutical companies will sell both a generic and name brand version of the exact same thing.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price_discrimination.as...
> even though it is much more accurate to say "lied through his teeth."

Making baseless assertions is not the same thing as lying.

Furthermore, the context makes it quite clear that Bolsonaro's comment means that he suspects that certain groups might be behind a problem because they have the motivation to react badly regarding Bolsonaro's reforms.

It might be nonsense but believing in silly things is not the same as lying.
One could say it incentivizes them to keep it at home, out of view of minors.
The back story is more complicated. They were advised that showing real homeless people would be disrespectful and equivalent to DOXing.
AdNauseum is the an act of protest and a tool at once.

Yes it compromises on privacy compared to just plain adblock. But if it hides all ads anyway, does it matter if nobody is making money off of you? The noise that the ad-clicking introduces must mess with your ad interest profile at least a little.
Pretty much every political position is considered "hate speech" by people on one side of an issue or the other. The term has been over used so much it's losing much of its meaning.

> I've always found it difficult to dissociate views vs actions when it comes to espoousing a hateful view.

Views: giving a speech arguing abortion should be illegal

Actions: blowing up an abortion clinic

I find it very troubling so many participants in this discussion having difficulty distinguishing between speech and action, and why they should not be treated as the same thing.
> Do you read all that code and evaluate the reputation of all dependencies?

Why of course. I do this for every piece of software on my computer, from the device drivers to the OS, I review every patch to firefox & chrome as well. /s

Running someone else's software inherently means extending them trust. This objection is especially confusing on a piece of software where you can actually inspect all the source if you like (unlike e.g. device drivers and OS code unless you run Gnu/Linux + all Free drivers, as few but RMS do).
Oh sorry, they actually can do something; in fact they've caught-and-released this guy three times before finally saying "Maybe he is dangerous": https://www.seattlepi.com/local/crime/article/Charge-Man-att...

But I'm not holding my breath for them to actually put him away, given their past decisions to not separate him from the public.
They exist and I have got them. But the frequency is about one per year. Wheres here in the US I now get about one per day.