skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>All for what, maybe $40-60 in 1 shirt and 1 belt?

No the use of force was in response to the guy opening fire on the police.
Yeah, but can it really be good if you can't load the motherfuckingwebsite because your IT department blocked the website because it has a dirty word in it?
https://web.archive.org/web/20191030102751/https://github.co...

A pretty funny suggestion. I notice a lot of anti China copypasta spam in the issues also.
I’m a full time scala developer and have had basically no problems taking longer than a day to in moving to the LTS releases of 9+.

It’s probably pretty helpful that the scala ecosystem doesn’t depend much on non-well trodden parts of the JDK
Yes, thanks. My brain refuses to see typos and I just read back what I intended to write.
Standing up for causes in which you believe is a good use of time.
-I don't know how the cameras were installed, but it wouldn't surprise me if the explanation was simply that they were on the same mains circuit - only to have that trip for some reason or the other.

Heck, possibly they were dumping their video onto a recorder in the prison guards' personnel room. Right next to the water boiler. With only one socket within easy reach. Go figure.

(The latter example not being as far-fetched as it may seem; our workshop pager system went down several times a day for this very reason until we cajoled an electrician into fitting another outlet...)
> That's just how democracy works, else I can just secede if I don't like the result of the elections.

What's wrong with self-determination?
What you have linked to is the consolidated Facebook Ads platform, but they started running ads known as Facebook Flyers around April of 2004. Revenue was $382,000 in 2004.
This is a really good comparison and one I'm going to use going forward. Thank you.
The issues page is https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issue.... Spam started 16 hours ago with issue #6286. The issue count stands at #7480 at the moment. ~1200 issues in 16 hours!
This was great until the bit about medicine. Medicine has made huge, tremendous progress in the past 30 years. And there are still many serendipitous discoveries happening that lead to new drugs. I mean jesus for the first time ever, a company is going to put up a drug for approval to treat alzheimers.

Let's not lump medicine in with physics, please. Medicine has always been skeptical of theories without data and, while maybe facing issues, they aren't the same as physics.

Its ironic that a physicist, criticizing others physicists, make a common mistake that all physicists make: over simplification and acting like everything is just like physics with slight modifications.
Black Perl is a thing of beauty and genius.
"alternative vote" is the term the UK ended up using for instant-runoff voting when it had a referendum a few years back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vot...
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Nothing can be "everything to everyone". People are different. No point in trying to conquer the world.
He's lucky then.
>issue is that he ran from cops, which is a pretty serious crime.

That isn't the issue either (that he ran from cops), the issue is that he began shooting his gun at the cops.
They don't need to do human transport off the bat. I'm sure there's tons (literally) of package delivery to space that can be done to prove out the payload delivery and reliability.
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If I was a lead dev of a widely used program there is definitely power in my position to be the voice of demographics I believe are being silenced.

Although I wonder if the logistics means that China cannot use Notepad++'s latest release? (Admittedly, I think the release just adds it in...)
I would even shorten the imperative and say: “Feeling stuck? Write”

Writing is amazing, and one of the best changes in my life was introduced by systematically writing things down that I did, experienced, felt. This can be a poem, a two page essay, a letter never meant to be sent, a simple protocol of the things I did, a word, a drawing whatever.

Important is that it has to do with the mood and what you did.

This especially helped me when I went through a hard time and started to think more and more negatively about certain things that happened, because I could go back and get an instant reminder about the whole depth and nuance of these situations rather than negatively or positively mutating their memory based on mood alone.

In a way, writing can help you become really really honest with yourself and stops you from buying into your own hype (as long as you write to yourself and not to others).
Armed robbery probably doesn't count as non-violent.
Another environmental factor is the end of Moore's Law. As single-core performance plateaus, we'll probably see more "bare-metal" native languages like Rust and Zig for applications that don't have the latency budget for higher-level dynamic languages with runtimes. We also see languages with good concurrency support like Erlang and Go become popular as applications need to become more multi-threaded to use multiple cores effectively.
what is the point of animated transitions in charts?
Well, it's not unique to China.

Authoritarianism is rising all around the world. Turns out there's lots of people in current majority populations that really feel threatened when minorities start getting rights, and their anxiety about having to compete in a meritocracy means they will throw democracy under the bus as long as they can keep their majority status.
>Would you rather choose a company that doesn't comply with local laws?

Absolutely. Companies and the individuals who make up companies should not comply with unethical laws just as people at large should not comply with unethical laws. Ethics stands above the law.
I feel not having anything on a runnable state from System 3 or AOS doesn't do proper justice to Oberon.

Those versions were already quite close to something like NeXT, but with Oberon variants.

Nowadays what is left are random ISOs that don't always boot properly on VMs and it isn't easy to compile the those OSes, even with some source still floating around on Github.

EDIT: Some System 3 and AOS links from here might still be useable, https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon#System_Variants
Sorry you experienced that. I understand you intimately for all the good that does. I've been both provider and patient and know how wrong it all is here. I have been done with this country for a long time, but every attempt to stabilize elsewhere was ruined by the damage done to me here as I cannot independently meet the requirements. Some sick irony. Taking away someone's health, in a pay to play society without safety nets, is mostly a death sentence. If I had a way out of here back to Europe that was sustainable I'd take it but the clock is running out on me. Other people are always the one dictating if I get to live or not and I have lost all agency. Opting out of it all is the only power I have left and if I am not careful even that will be denied and more trouble added. The same system that won't help to live will forcibly prevent you from saying "no more". Ah but for an accident of geographical birth. Wrong place and wrong time. I hope you can at least get back to the EU and have a better chance...if that's possible for you. But I also know damage done travels with us as well.
And yet we waste a trillion dollars a year on the military...
This ruling is only on the Takings Clause question: whether the police actions violated the constitutional prohibition against the government taking private property for public use without adequate compensation. Here, the 10th Circuit affirmed the trial court ruling that the Takings Clause did not apply. That decision seems reasonable because this case is not like other Takings clause cases, for a variety of reasons.

The defendants may still be liable under negligence or some other theory. But this ruling doesn’t address those possibilities.
The author is talking about the crisis of a particular subfield of physics, i.e. particle physics.

Other subfields are thriving (AMO, quantum information) and maybe it’s just time to accept the relevance of different subfields changes with time.
> For the last several months, Guido and Sushma have been meeting once a week to talk about all things programming. But Sushma says the biggest takeaways were not just about how to do things, but how to become more confident and learn how to figure things out on your own.

The part about Guido personally mentoring women engineers is, despite his (obvious) technical contributions, the most impressive part about his Dropbox tenure to me. The article mentions him leading by example and it's inspiring to see someone of that stature and level of accomplishment willing to spend time with individuals. It's one thing to talk about fostering a welcoming community, it's quite another to offer up his time so generously when he could be doing "higher leverage" things with regards to diversity.
I think you are looking for COBOL.
Looks like the Issues page is being filled with messages from supporters and detractors alike. https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issue...

Edit: Pull Requests too: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pulls
>I run a forum and there's no shortage of people who would happily volunteer for a mod role.

There's no shortage of people who want to be rulers of a community. Of those, it is always hard to find the ones who are actually fit for that purpose.
I believe, according to a drone flyer friend, that the 250g limit applies here too. Just don't fly it near any airports.
Why can't a library be IP?
Not exactly new : https://twitter.com/Notepad_plus/status/673818785674080256
Agreed. I never said it was bad. Just that he will have to clean up the mess.
Yeah, I guess with very thin shades reflection is the only way, maybe if those were thicker and good heat conductors, you could shape them like very wide triangles and radiate the heat just a couple of degrees to the side, still protecting the Earth, but experiencing a lot less net force.

If station keeping is needed, I would think you would want to make the shades as big as possible.
You are correct, but at this point in time, we have to ask: "What ideology?" -- Ideologically most systems are the same: Cleptocratic oligarchies. They might have local flavours here and there -- communist, authoritarian, market-liberal, social-democratic -- but basically they are the same.
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I'm actually kind of appalled that you think a handgun justifies not only arming police departments with military surplus, but also the use of them.

Unlike in a military conflict where the combatants are actively trying to create casualties in enemy forces and all the horrors that entails, the police have a lot more things to consider. That's why in a high speed chase police tend to back off and track the suspect from the air rather than endanger the public more. However, by your logic if they knew the suspect had a handgun they would be justified in using a surplus drone or gunship to just destroy the vehicle with little regard to anything else.

Force escalation is not defensible for civilians, why on earth is it acceptable for the police?
Yes. I can't download the installer as well.
Well, taking volunteer commits to Gitlab just as an example:

- Degree of Control Exercised

Gitlab has the final say over every pull request, on what issues they'll consider pull requests for. Gitlab has a code of conduct and can ban contributors that violate that code. Gitlab prioritizes and labels issues that they want volunteers to look at. Seems equivalent to Stack Exchange's moderation queue.

- Profit, Loss, and Investment

Gitlab is a for-profit company. Open Source contributions get rolled up into their for-profit enterprise offerings.

- Skill and Independent Initiative

Fixing issues requires a great deal of specialized skill with the codebase, some of which is codebase specific and not generalizable. Individuals can choose to participate (similarly to Stack Exchange), but individuals are not free to pursue any project they want. Participation means following Gitlab's design process and looking at issue labels.

Similarly to Stack Exchange moderation queue, Gitlab hands me a list of issues that are ready for development and I pick out the issues that I want to work on.

- Permanence of Relationship

Volunteer developers to Open Source projects often form long-term relationships with the projects they contribute to. An answer on the main post links to a 2009 guidance letter that calls out for a for-profit nursing home as being in violation of the law for bringing in volunteers to help with events.[0]

With that letter as context, it's not clear to me whether or not permanence requires an explicit contract, or just an understanding that the activity or event is not a rare, one-off occurrence.

- Integral Part of Business

Developing software is an integral part of Gitlab's core business.

It's true that volunteers don't do all of Gitlab's development, but is that a defense? If I was illegally exploiting employees by classifying them as volunteers, I couldn't just say, "but I only did it to a few of them." As far as I can see, the law doesn't say, "you can classify up to 10% of your core employees as unpaid volunteers."

IANAL, I'm only here because I'm curious about any aspects of the law I'm missing.

[0]: https://www.labor.ny.gov/legal/counsel/pdf/Volunteers-Intern...
I think you’re underestimating the dev if you think he didn’t know what could happen.
Catalan are not majority of Spain. They cannot themselves change the constitution, yet they do not want to stay in Spain. So it's a fake "way." The majority should not be allowed to bully the minority.
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It was kind of funny there was a company a few years ago that occupied some prime Market St. retail space in SF that sold "Dutch Bikes". Dutch bikes are pretty huge and make no sense in SF which has, you know, hills. They didn't last long.
I agree the city should pay.

The 40mm grenades ARE the tear gas, or baton rounds (for breaching windows/doors). If they were dropping HE/Frag in those windows, the story would be WAY different.

The shaped charges are used for breaching. Assault favors the defender. A gunman in a room knows the cops are coming in through the door or the window. He just has to wait to see, and shoot. The entry team likely does not know what room the bad guy is in, and if they dont, they dont know where in the room, and if they do, they still have to go through the tiny door way, get eyes on him, assess the threat, determine if they need to shoot, and handle whatever threat exists.

Even if you know exactly where he is, flash bangs aren't magic, and that entry is still a gamble of life. The best thing you can do to increase your odds is to make a new door.

Or maybe some redneck decided he already pulled out his detcord and didnt want to put it back up. IDK.
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The real reason this is a less than ideal solution is that, even assuming it works perfectly, and even with other forms of cooling, increased atmospheric carbon concentrations still contribute to ocean acidification and other chemical effects.

But you're right that The Climate Change Movement™ dismisses these things out of hand. This is because it is only incidentally about combating climate change. It is primarily about giving more power to approved politicians and bureaucracies. This is also why we have made no almost progress on the underlying issues. We were never meant to.
Moralizing about the imperfect behavior of people during a crisis is essentially bikeshedding.

It makes me wonder about the people doing the moralizing: do they really care to contribute to the solution, or are they grinding their own personal axe about the behavior of others?
Are you saying our "best and brightest" are too greedy to [want to] govern [well]? That seems self-contradictory to me.
Considering the registration requirement in the UK is to register all drones above 250g in weight this one seems to have been designed as a loophole.

As it weight 249g you don't have to register with the CAA and as long as you keep it under 400ft altitude and within 150ft from other people and private property you can fly it anywhere where there isn't a local limitation and it's not restricted airspace.

In places where there are limitations e.g. London and other big cities you can fly it on private property.

Please note that in the UK the entity that manages a park or other public spaces can impose its own restrictions e.g. you can't fly drones in Alexandra Palace despite Barnet Council not having a wide ban on drones.

For the most part don't be an idiot the police doesn't enforce these rules for the most part outside westminster where the cops do chase down drone flyers especially around the tourist spots since you aren't allowed to fly anything within 150m of a congested area which is pretty much any spot in central london.
>What happened with the Estatut should not be a carte blanche to secede

Nobody took a "carte blanche" to secede. The succession of pro-independence governments were put in there by voters. These governments exhausted all possible avenues with the spanish goverment, which refused to even talk about the topic.

Catalan people were then asked explicitly whether they wanted it, in the referendum that's famous for the violence of the spanish police that were sent to prevent it. And even after that, the Catalan government tried again and again to establish dialogue with Spain, to no avail.

Spain then went on to suspend catalan government, put everybody they could in jail, and to force an election in Catalonia. An election from which yet another pro-independence government was formed.

And to date, Spain has refused any and all dialogue, and the politicians in Jail have been given a judgement that most people in Catalonia cannot agree with, by a trial that independent international observers found outrageously biased and unfair.

This is why we are where we are. The people have taken to the streets because that's what's left.
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who would want him dead that badly, and have the resources to carry it out?

Perhaps someone who flew on the Lolita Express 27 times? Or a close relative?
> Humans can build walls 1km high or more without much difficulty

The tallest structure in the world is 0.83km high. The second tallest is 0.63km, and most of the structures in the 0.6km height range are guyed masts and not free-standing structures.

At that height, the only effective structures are tubular systems and guyed systems, to resist the lateral loads of wind at altitude. Turning that into a wall is going to be difficult, especially one that is designed to resist the massive forces of the pressure wave with rocket launch.
The morals of these employees aren't at question here. The problem is that Facebook, a private company not answerable to anyone, get to decide who is naughty and who isn't, while being a monopoly on online communications.
My point is more that nothing that much out of the ordinary for American jails happened here.

This argument holds water if we're talking about an ordinary prisoner, but we aren't. Careers were at stake -- and reportedly have been lost -- over this one in particular.

It made no sense not to give Epstein 24/7 supervision, with everything from (competent) guards outside his cell to dedicated IR cameras looking into it. Nobody is entitled to privacy in prison, so why was it voluntarily given?
There is alot going on in physics besides things directly related to the standard model. Running out of important things to study is of no concern. As a random example check out the microscopy work by recent nobel prize winner Eric Betzig.

I think people fail to appreciate the many frontiers that exist in just understanding how matter interracts with itself. The past was exciting because we got to discover new building blocks, but that only provides information on the periphery of whats going on. We know all sorts of stuff about the proton, but put it in a nucleus with a few dozen other nucleons and its a whole different story. All sorts of virtual particles are exchanged, its really complicated, and there literally arent any models that can predict the properties of the nucleus purely from first principles. There are important conceptual and computational innovations happening continuously to make progress on hundreds of problems just like this.
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Article says the police threw grenades into every room trying to flush the shoplifter out.
Actually particle physics is doing just fine, the crisis is within a subfield of particle physics, fundamental beyond-standard-model particle physics.
I'm not sure I buy that "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" line. People are tribal and will fight tooth and nail to defend their tribe's beliefs, no matter how little it applies to themselves. People know they will never be rich. Almost everyone knows that. I think it's more accurate to say that Americans have poor education in civics and finance, and cling to near-religious dogma as a result.
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And I know people are like, "Well, just follow the rules!", and they should... some people fly drones stupidly.

BUT - it's worth pointing out that if you live in some cities like Boston, that it is nearly impossible to fly a drone in city limits. Or Cambridge. Or Somerville. Check out the maps on Skyvector; it's 70/SFC, until you're in Watertown, parts of Quincy of north of Lynn. The FAA says to call the tower for permission; and I've spoken to the tower at Logan, and they said the FAA told them to not grant anyone permission (this was 2 years ago admittedly).

So having a little micro drone that you can fly 30 ft in the air around your house legally since it's under the weight limit? Pretty neat.
"compete in a meritocracy"

You're clearly behind on the times. Nobody wants meritocracy. People want what they consider fair and that's usually a leg up over everyone around them. Big 4 have started giving points for diversity when hiring. This is the new normal.
What? Is this actually serious? You want non-programmers to use git and emacs?! This is so out of touch with reality it's funny. Here's an actual list of equivalent things for real non-programmers:

Version control: Dropbox

Filesystem: Who cares? This has zero relevance to a non-programmer.

Cryptography: SFTP with the friendly client of your choice for file transfers. SSH in a GUI like iTerm 2 if you're getting advanced and need remote secure control

Text Editor: Sublime

OS: Mac

Shell: Get a cheat sheet for Terminal

Anonymous Browsing: Firefox + uBlock Origin + Privacy badger + maybe Ghostery

Private Communication: Signal

Programming: Python
It seems like a pretty reasonable default to prevent people from flying in no-fly zones or impose height limits next to airports I think. As that’s security related and not some artificial limitation so they can up sell something else I don’t see anything wrong with that.