skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In legal cases, it often happens that the first person to be accused of violating a new regulation often gets a slap on the wrist.

For example, if a brand new tax regulation is vague, the first person accused of violating that regulation has a drastically reduced penalty, or just a warning. Along with that, the judge writes a clarification so there can be no mistakes the next time. The clarification sends a clear message to the community that the next person accused will not get a break.

Perhaps, based on third or fourth party accounts, Monica was repeatedly asked to use specific pronouns in a moderators-only chat. If that is true, she may have driven one or more moderators away from participating there, and violated the existing CoC.

However, even if all those accusations against Monica are true, since there is no established procedure for removing a moderator, it would seem that the "judge(s)" in the new process to remove or re-instate Monica could walk a very fine line. The judge(s) could declare Monica guilty of those offenses, but give her a lenient sentence. Perhaps re-instated, but under probation or double-secret-probation.

I hope David Fullerton and his coworkers have the wisdom to consider this course of action.
No he cannot

Sure he can. Google bailed on China once. Apple certainly has the money and talent to do the same.

He would be immediately removed at CEO and replaced with someone who played ball.

Would he? Why do you assume that this would be bad for it share price, or that the majority of shareholders would be against it?
> doesn't care about the physical and financial wellbeing of its workers is a business we are better off without

I think this is a very simplistic view.

I don't know enough about this particular case with GE, but sometimes layoffs are absolutely required for a business to continue existing, especially when the economic cycle dips a bit low. This is almost an absolute for smaller businesses.

For these cases, what do you suggest? Close the doors, laying off all workers, or lay off some, allowing the rest of the workers to continue their employment?

Something like "Sorry, you're all out of work because we don't want to lay off some of you" seems a bit self destructive, with a much more negative result.
Unfortunately no but it would be highly interesting to read!
> But the question is, from an adversary perspective, does your victim have it disabled?

Does it even matter? Extrapolating from that quote: a submitted sample could make abusive network requests against the victim (from MSFT's network, which is "trusted"), as well as network requests back to the attacker's server for control and/or data collection.
I've personally written a (somewhat hacky but simple) setup for multiplexing high-throughput job queues for a Rails app across multiple Redis instances because our chosen job framework at the time relied a lot on Lua operations on large sets in Redis, and these could easily result in 100% CPU utilization for the Redis process.

We picked the job queue framework long before we started moving tens of thousands of jobs a second through it with a later feature, and probably exceeded its design constraints - in that instance we effectively were using Redis + jobs as a pauseable and throttleable write buffer for MySQL.

With major tooling changes we likely could have come up with something a lot more elegant, I'm not longer with that company, but our plan was always to get rid of the need for that system to hit MySQL at all, which would eliminate a lot of our need to control throughput with our Redis buffer. Of course, doing that would have taken a lot more time and effort, and in our case doing "the simplest possible thing that would work reliably and serve our customers" meant that we probably could have used a faster Redis instead of multiplexing requests and workers across multiple Redis instances on the same hardware.

Sometimes an "improved" version of a tool you're already using can be really useful, if you find yourself in a bind and the alternative is major architectural changes.
I said this further up the thread, but I'd rather have a raspberry pi, some screen cribbed from a smartphone, and some flash sticks.

Why plan for less than the raspberry pi level?
Been using both designer and photo for about 2 years, to replace Photoshop mainly. While mostly great, some features are missing for vectors which makes layers broken down into tiny bits instead of groups.

The only way to solve it is to open the file in illustrator and save it as an .ai file to fix it. I've been told it works in Corel draw as well.
Thanks for the clarification, I hadn't seen that before. Although I don't think the distinction changes the point I made.
I am not shocked. Local real estate agents won't show the houses to a client.
Tim Cook has enough money that he doesn't need to work anymore. It's not like he's a wage ape pounding code in a cubicle all day.
Nooo don't make zsh the default shell. Wtf is Apple doing?

I don't have an issue if people want to use/download zsh, but making it the OS default is a huge mistake! From the zsh docs themselves:

"Broadly, bash has paid more attention to standards compliancy (i.e. POSIX) for longer, and has so far avoided the more abstruse interactive features (programmable completion, etc.) that zsh has." ~http://zsh.sourceforge.net/FAQ/zshfaq02.html#l14

Don't make a less-standards compliant shell the default! Bash is one of the few programs I can rely on between all my different devices.
Here's an example of some of the early research on methane detection from space (using SCIAMACHY, which has enough sensitivity to detect but not to localize well):

https://www.pnas.org/content/113/35/9734

As documented in the paper, these space-based observations were later followed up by very high-spatial-resolution (1-3 m) airborne spectroscopic observations that revealed hundreds of sources in the Four Corners region of the US.

The linked paper has a nice video of such a leak. The rates follow a very heavy-tailed distribution, meaning that a few big leaks dominate the total, at least for now.

There are also complex time-dependent signatures associated with leaks depending on the source - gas pipelines vs. suboptimally-operated landfills. There's room in the observing system for ground, air, and space-based measurements.
OR... maybe the engineer doesn't give two sh*ts about politics and just wanted to give the task done and move on to something else. Not everyone cares about what is political or going on in the world. I'm glad you have this holy than thou attitude, but most could care less.
Comic book cartography – A collection of maps and diagrams
Show HN: Managed UniFi Controller Hosting
Is it a security improvement? Is it just less hassle to keep updating all the 32-bit stuff? What does Apple or the users gain from removing 32-bit?
Good example why apps or games "in the cloud" is not a good idea. There is Photoshop portable, plus CS6 suite still works offline.
What's the possibility of implementing this in combination with a luxury rate adjustment that takes something like median values for product categories and then scales rates as you move above or below that?

Because it would seem to me that consumption of low-income earners will trend toward below-the-median while consumption of the wealthy will trend toward above-the-median, giving you an additional handle to make this taxation progressive.
There are parts of US history where terrible things happened. It's important to acknowledge that, and be compassionate towards those it has affected.

However, now that the US exists, it does a lot of good for many, many people. As a first generation immigrant, I'm glad that I was able to come here, as I think conditions are much better than my country of origin.

That being said, am I complicit in everything bad that has happened here simply because I'm living here now? What amount of reparations are appropriate for me to give, considering neither I nor my ancestors likely had any involvement with any of those things.

Can any amount of money even make up for what happened?
> And getting rid of preferential treatment of capital gains would risk departing from what’s become an international consensus.

I think we need a better reason than "because everyone is doing it" here.
The Origin and History of Apache Arrow (2018)
This article is based on a survey of experts that was conducted in May 2018 [0]. Many of those experts cited monetary policy, and the Fed did indeed raise rates three times over the remainder of 2018. However, the Fed has subsequently cut rates twice. In other words, this is outdated and shouldn't have been submitted.

[0] http://zillow.mediaroom.com/2018-05-22-Experts-Predict-Next-...
Perfect candidate for primality testing!
https://www.mersenne.org/various/math.php#lucas-lehmer
a more important question is what happens when it's exposed to water, either through flooding or a leaky building.
In the event of a sufficiently large collapse, I don't want to survive it. That is NOT to be misinterpreted to mean that I have any intention to do myself or anyone else any harm. I am quite happy with my life now, but in the event of a major collapse, I would rather not live to see it. My spouse feels similarly.
It seems strange to issue an executive order that would cover ... Photoshop or something.

I could see a given country limiting some specific things but something so broad, I don't know what value that is.
The energy supply chain is also in turn dependent on a bunch of microcontrollers (and also macrocontrollers, if there's such a word), all the way from power plants to distribution networks. So if we want to keep those running, we'll need to make sure we have the ability to repair/replace that hardware, too.
Pair Locking Your iPhone with Configurator 2
The US has also never recognized Taiwan as being part of the PRC. I'm not even sure why you're bringing this up in relation to the parent's comment.
Commerce Clause allows Congress to preempt state law when acting within it's bounds, sure. Executive agencies (including “independent” ones) don't have that power except through Congress exercising its own preemptive power, which this court does not find Congress did in a way which covers this particular FCC action.
I just want this to be cheap enough so that we can archive and re-create no-longer manufactured chips.
They would see the "© 1982" on a chip and although it would be incredibly futuristic (35+ years in the future!), would at least know it was likely to be created by humans. Whether they could work out how on earth you place such incredibly tiny components onto a sliver of silicon is interesting. If the person taking the computer back in time mentioned the word "photolithography" I suspect they would have been able to make a pretty good guess.
Autonomous early detection of eye disease in childhood photographs
The FOSS community is about hobbyist recreational programming for FUN.

If you want to kill the FUN you introduce COCs, you guilt trip people of a certain gender and race (white male) for simply existing and you create artificial drama via divide and conquer like the current Stallman campagn. Congratulations, mission accomplished, the fun has been eradicated.

Inviting the corporate world into FOSS was a grave mistake. The FOSS community should generally exclude everybody who is not fun. Inclusiveness has proven itself to be counterproductive.
> I wonder if this OS update will result in a spike of Word upgrade purchases.

Unless you use some of the very special features of Word, or you're in a profession that requires Word docs specifically, Pages is a very good substitute. It can even open old Word docs (and new ones too).

I haven't tried Sidecar yet because the iPad is on my wife's iCloud account since she's the primary user and I'm not sure how to make it work across iCloud accounts, or if you even can. She uses it so much I can't get my hands on it!
This is a legitimate question. Even in developing countries that have much higher average income, paviating software is still super prevalent in commercial companies.
There very likely were thousands of stars in the paths of the jets as they passed through the galactic bulge at the center of the galaxy. Our galaxy gets thicker in the galactic center and the bulge is 3000+ light years thick and contains an estimated 10 million stars.
Apple uses the concept of fat binaries, where single binary contains code segments for several architectures. Optional support would mean basically two versions of the entire operating system: one supporting only 64 bit, and the second supporting both, 32 and 64 bits.

Linux solves it differently, it uses separate binaries for separate architectures. You can install the libraries into separate paths, have separate dynamic loader and everything works. Apple has no such option.
This is missing what the graph is trying to convey.

Playing with the y-axis in this case, doesn't change the shape of the data. It only makes the graph more readable. For example, would you start the y-axis on a graph of global temperature at –273.15°C (absolute zero)?

Second, why should the graph use evenly sized groups? The whole point is to show an outlier in tax data among a small group of people. Using evenly sized groups obscures this point. If a graph of global temperature only displayed in increments of 1000 years, it would likewise obscure the recent impact of human industry on temperature.

Finally, as the article notes, the graph is of actual taxes paid not historical taxes.

If there is any legitimate criticism, it's that the graph probably should have been a bar graph instead so the "top 400" (likely for ergonomics) is less jarring. Also, just saying that the numbers are known for inaccuracy? This is a lazy statement that needs to be backed up.
You went to the effort of forking Redis but didn’t bother to fix the glaring lack of TLS support?

What is the fucking point of a replicated KV store if the connections between nodes aren’t encrypted.
My ~7 year old Sansa Clip+ is still going. Soon after buying it, I was fed up with it scanning everything when I turned it on. When I loaded Rockbox on it, and it was able to reliably go from off to playing music in 2 seconds, I knew it was a keeper! (That's a killer app right there!) I use it just about every day when commuting. I bought another one for my dad about 3 years ago, but he doesn't use it, so I intend to ask for it after mine dies. (Who knows how long that will be. These things are built like old Nokia phones.)
little of column A, little of column B; probably.
No offense taken!

I'm relatively new to technical writing and the discussion from all of these comments (yours included) has been really helpful for guiding how I write future posts.

HN is (in my experience) a lot more cynical and straightforward than other places[1]. It's something I've learned to appreciate and also take it with a grain of salt.

1 = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
did they fix the detection of external displays so they no longer randomly swap order?
Wow. That is the strangest thing that I've read ion a while.

Are employers allowed to take the location of prospective employees' residences into account when deciding to hire or not?

If I lived across the country, would the employer have to pay for daily plane tickets?
This is a huge aside, but the most disturbing part of your response is the bit about governments. Governments are _supposed_ to be responsible to the people. Responding to external pressure is literally their job. They should be respected when they are responsive to the people. They only need to "enforce their power through force" when they are not responsive to the people.
I think you're looking for guarantees in the social world.

There are no such guarantees (much as there are no guarantees in the tech space... That, say, your favorite language today won't be obsolete in five years and therefore diminish the value of all the time and effort you invested in memorizing its quirks). There are some useful heuristics, such as "try and be a good person, minimize your judgement of others, avoid speculating on things that other people have concrete experience with." Also, be informed about the latest social media culture; Proposition 8 was huge in California (and around the U.S.) and it should have been self-evident to Eich that supporting it was a bad call (I'm a lot less forgiving of Eich than some people are, because it's real hard for me to see his behavior and interpret it as anything other than "He put money behind his convictions and mis-estimated how much political power homosexual people and their allies had in his company to hold him accountable to putting money behind his convictions," which isn't exactly a stellar review of his behavior).

We in tech seem to like to believe that the technical world is above politics. It's not; technology serves people, so politics is, of course, part of the story. Politics is just what happens when people interact.
It can be a backronym and the official name at the same time. Your assertions are all true but your logic is faulty.
The problem is can we measure and who measures what is harmful or uncomfortable. I am sure if it was just an opinion he would have shared with a group of people and then leaked would have had a similar effect. I do not agree with the guy opinion but I dislike when social media mobs put pressure on organization to fire people.
> The FOSS community is about hobbyist recreational programming for FUN.

No, it was never exclusively about that, and it's become less dominantly about that over time.

> Inviting the corporate world into FOSS was a grave mistake.

The nature of “free” and “open source” is you don't get to choose who to invite.
Like other in this thread I have been thinking about this problem on and off for a while. I think that many of the comments stating that the Z80 is probably not the best choice are right (I know nothing about the Z80) and would like to extend some of their thinking.

The primary design requirement for a stand alone computer system in a post-* world is simplicity, maintainability, and debugability. It must be possible for a single user to do _everything_ in situ. There are very few existing systems that meet all three of these criteria across the whole hardward-firmware-software stack, and modern technology companies are actively moving away from this.

At all levels this requires extensive and open documentation and implementations, and ideally a real standard.

The hardware level would probably need a complete rethink, and if you want good peripheral support (e.g. to be able to try to access whatever data device you come across) then you need a solution that doesn't require a subsystem kernel maintainer for everything, or you just give up on that. A potential 4th requirement here could be a large supply of parts since in most scenarios it is extremely unlikely
that anyone will be able to get a fab working again for hundreds or thousands of years. Maybe radiation hardened large feature size ICs or something like that. The alternative would be a zillion RPis (with some alternate data storage interface) so that
hopefully some of them survive and continue to work after 100s of years, but this seems like a much riskier bet than trying to actually engineer something to survive for a very long time. Above the IC level the ability for someone to replace parts without special tooling beyond maybe a soldering iron also seems like it is probably also important.

At the software level there are two existing systems that might serve, one of the Smalltalks, or one of the lisps (my bias says common lisp, despite the warts). Assembly and C are just not a big enough lever for a single individual, and other things like Java seem to have been intentionally engineered to deprive individual users of power. The objective here is not to be fast, the objective is to retain access to computation at all so that the knowledge of how to work with such systems is not lost. Also at the software level the requirements pretty much preclude things like browsers that are so monstrously complex that there no hope than an individual could ever hope to maintain a legacy artifact (or probably even compile one of the monsters) for interpreting modern web documents.

I do not think that we can expect the current incentive structure around software and hardware to accidentally create something that can meet these requirements. If anything it is going in the other direction as large corporations can employ technology that can _only_ be maintained by large engineering teams. We are putting little computers in everything, but they are useless to anyone in a world without a network.
Two centuries ago, University of Virginia students abused enslaved servants
I found this FAQ [1]. According to my reading of it, VOCs and formaldehyde are not a problem.

[1] https://research.cnr.ncsu.edu/blogs/clt-panels/home/
Thalidomide Babies and the Company That Was Responsible for Them
Well, it makes things easier for (many) tourists. Trying to hold the characters for a novel script in my head is tremendously more difficult than holding the letters for a new language that use Latin characters.
That's why you pair it with a UBI, as the poster above said - if you add in more than the average cost of taxes on the UBI among people making less than, say, $150,000, it becomes significantly more progressive, even if they spend the entirety of the UBI.
What Mac / config are you using ?
Street by Street, Amsterdam Is Cutting Cars Out of the Picture
That seems like a huge improvement, especially in countries or areas without as much infrastructure or disaster scenarios.
We have it in Redis 6, ETA for RC1 is end of year. However we did it the right way with a socket abstraction layer, one of the reasons it took so long.
Ah yes my music! You mean songs that have been overwritten by whatever match they decide is close enough (in some cases). Or you mean my music, that I've listened two maybe 200 times each. Or do you mean my music, that the artists themselves gave to me.

I don't much care for your argument, even if you're legally correct.

This would be less of an issue if the way people actually acquired music was still by buying the album, but that's not the case in the vast majority of people's experiences.
My experience with unions has been that the engineer wouldn't be fired and they would swap out someone willing to do it in exchange for some concession.
yeah, an interesting thought experiment would be a scenario where one could stop, but not reverse aging. The people young enough would probably stop at their prime, with the upper part of the society (those past their prime) being stuck in their respective age.

I would look at life very, very differently if I would know that I would have a significant longer life-span. I would just chill and live more in the moment and not worry about time so much (I worry about time quite a lot right now, probably because a chapter in my life just (a day ago!) ended).
I agree for hardware; we need to etch the instructions into a stone tablet; for powering up and rooting an android phone.
Some of the phones are water resistant; shame the batteries will likely kill most of them.
Reminds me of the story about the NSA contractor who had pirated Office on their laptop, and when Kaspersky AV predictably collected a sample of the virus-infected keygen to its servers, the US tried to spin it as "Russian data exfiltration".
Yes --- the post explicitly states that deterministic execution is a prerequisite.

SLOG is CP from CAP, so indeed suffers from unavailability in the event of a network partition.
Looks like there were several precedents and regulatory opinions here covering this exact issue, and the 9th Circuit disagreed with them. SC reversed the 9th circuit to maintain consistency.

Want change? Get Congress to change the law, because the law, as written now, permits this.
Saturn overtakes Jupiter as host to most moons in solar system
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)

16GB RAM

1TB SSD (3rd party upgrade)
The infernal rise of Luxembourg housing prices
Pixelmator is pretty great.