skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When conservatives say that they think the US is too "diverse" for such policies to work, take them at their word. They think that social democracy is fine as long as the benefits don't go to black or brown people. In fact, this was the essence the "grand bargain" that FDR struck to get the New Deal passed with reluctant support from southern Democrats - FDR was allowed to create redistributive programs so long minorities were systematically excluded from them (see Richard Rothstein's "The Color of Law" for examples on how this was achieved through federal housing policy). It's also the reason why the woman Reagan chose as the canonical example of the "welfare queen" (who herself is a fascinating character, see https://pictorial.jezebel.com/the-long-shadow-of-the-welfare...) was black.
Sure, but as there were no full payment discounts, full cash buyers subsidized my payment plan.
Nowhere on the level of Python 2 to 3 but every minor version upgrade of PHP breaks Drupal core (and some contrib as well) one way or another. It's OK, we love the new features :)
GitHub: All open-source developers anywhere are welcome
The solution to how egregious this defense is isn't to allow citizens to use it as well, it's to no longer allow cops to use.
A lot of things like older versions of Gradle (which at some point was a blocker to move to Java 9, but not now), Groovy (also fixed, but still has some warnings), which we use heavily for tests, several reflection-heavy frameworks (think dependency injection, annotation-processors etc), which to this day require some ugly hacks like --patch-module to "open" packages, JUnit tests (which also need the same hacks to work), even the location of resources loaded with class.getResource() had to be modified when modularizing a jar, so that resources go into the proper packages that are visible to the loader...

You seriously didn't suffer any of these?
> It's also clear that using GitHub for Tsunami Democràtic was a poor choice.

It created publicity for the movement.
He may not be a suspect, but it is troubling when someone befriends a known pedophile:

Mr. Gates started the relationship after Mr. Epstein was convicted of sex crimes.

from the NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...
Link should be changed to point to the issues page, otherwise people won't understand why this was posted: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issue...
> Usually very rich people have a strong incentive to hire private firms specialized in minimizing the impact of bad stuff like this, and doing so in a very discreet way.

I'd be interested in learning about what techniques they use, since they seem like something that ought to be countered.
What sort of attitude? Could you be more specific? Turning the pedestrian detection off in that specific area is defensive driving, I don't want to get rear-ended because someone maliciously triggers it.

I live in an extremely busy city full of scooters (of all kinds!) and drunk pedestrians, it's not possible to get far here without extreme care.
They used 40mm and tear gas grenades, shaped charges, and APCs. The police did their job, but the city should be paying for this. The city is the one at fault for not providing appropriate recompense.
Is the gas demand that elastic though?

On the other hand a fractured/weak Europe means higher gas prices, no medling in russian affairs, less pressure by russian citizens drooling over the fence with their eyes fixed on european stability and wellfare, free hand to do as Russia pleases in ex Soviet states and so on.
Ode to hackernews users:

I enjoy your poetry,

this verse you give away for free,

like all side projects, lovingly

creating content for newbs like me
> (including one who was named in Epstein’s will!)

Not just in his will but named as the executor of his will.
Ask HN: What are good cities around the world to work remote?
Dave Grohl: Don’t Underestimate the Power of Your Local Music Scene
Google Dex language simplifies array math for machine learning
Ok, we've put investors in the title in the way that the article does in its first sentence.
> NASA and its cost-plus contractors decided the RS-25 was the perfect engine for a disposable rocket

NASA did no such thing. They were ordered to use the engine by the Senate.

(When the Constellation program was canceled and the SLS program was created, Senate ordered NASA to pick solutions that "minimize contract cancellation costs". Not minimize total costs, minimize costs related to cancelling contracts. This of course means that the contractors you are already using can offer any solution they want, at any price they want, and so long as they are willing to waive the contract cancellation penalties as part of their package, you have to pick that solution.

They all offered a really expensive, really bad deal. I know several NASA engineers who quit in disgust because of this.)
DeepMind’s StarCraft 2 AI is now better than 99.8 percent of all human players
I, for one, would very much enjoy if posts about Python on HN didn't -- without exception -- contain threads about py2 vs py3.

We get it, some people are unhappy that py2 is deprecated. But whatever sympathy I might hold for that viewpoint is drowned out by the incessant and unproductive whining I keep seeing here.

Can we please move on now?
The Brooklyn Bridge started construction in 1869. The Bessemer Process for producing steel was the hot, new disruptive technology making large steel bridges feasible. Early mills attempting to use the Bessemer process routinely failed to make quality steel, so there was a level of distrust and high safety margins were well warranted.

Wikipedia has a list of bridge failures curated by inexplicable means. As I scan from the 1800s into the 1900s I see failures of iron bridges, but it isn't until 1907 (a lifetime of engineering after the Brooklyn Bridge) that I see a steel bridge fail during normal conditions, and that is during construction. (Not having a support washed out or a being struck by a steamer.)
DNA Database Containing Data from 23andMe and Ancestry Is Vulnerable to Attack
Sure, two cameras failing at the same time right before he incident seems very suspicious. But is that the case? Seems more likely both cameras were broken and had been for a long time and were never fixed.

How many other cameras in the facility were broken?

If cameras are broken, how would you ever learn that they are broken? Perhaps it would require an important event like a suicide to occur so that you would need to review the tapes and discover the broken cameras.
Indeed, if a democratic and free country with the rule of law can act like this, what are you expecting from authoritarian regimes?
I love poetry, but think this advice is slightly off. A better way to get un-stuck is free-writing. Just write whatever comes to mind without stopping. If you hesitate, just write "I don't know what to write" - anything to keep writing.

If you can sustain this for twenty minutes, you are now immune to writer's block. You know you can always write. This shifts the question to what to write. You find you can sculpt these chains of drivel. Eventually you start to generate real ideas again.

Even if you never use the things you write in this way, it can be hugely freeing to the mind as you set aside the other things that were distracting you by putting them onto the page and are then clear to focus again on the problem at hand.

This comes from the Artist's Way, which advocates doing this daily as the primary activity of the book / workshop.
There was also that little skirmish at Thermopylae that helped grow the legend.
Not sure that's such a black and white situation without knowing all the facts.

Regardless, the reaction from amazon by stopping communication and auto-stealing the money doesn't feel 100% legit either.

I think the OP will need to craft letter from lawyer to awaken some human behind amazon corp brick wall.
I never see a shortage of cops anywhere due to a lack of people applying. The idea that they're going to flee to other cities because we don't allow them to blow up houses and murder people with impunity is ridiculous. If we need higher compensation to adjust for not having a shoot-first-ask-questions-later policy then I'm fine with that. We need cops to stop being murderers.
Can't you just ignore those comments?
Nice thought and all, but this is bootstraps stuff. The point is that there is no collaborative, collective space in which to do this sort of writing.

Of course almost anyone can get a domain and start chucking up Markdown files. The question is how to get anyone to see that and interact with it.
Why should a state be able to stop me from doing whatever I want with my own time? It's my decision to do things with a group of others, not the government's.
What kind of breakdown do you see between monthly and yearly subscriptions?
>The only reason Sparta lasted as long as it did was because it was a valueless minor city-state not worth the effort of conquering until the point that conquering and absorbing it was so effortless that it was done almost as an afterthought.

Yeah, that's not even wrong.

Sparta was an important city-state, and survived centuries without being pushed around like others, even larger had. They also bossed lesser city-states around, and of course defeated Athens itself, while also being important for the defense against Persian invasions.

No city-state at the time (of which were dozens) would consider Sparta a "valueless minor city-state". The very opposite is true.

The rest of the comment (or rather, all of it) is irrelevant drivel, more a rant about modern day gun-freaks and rednecks and US issues, than about historical Sparta.
Their poor issue tracker

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issue...

after they published this:

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v781-free-uyghur-edition/
The Odyssey of Asynchronous JavaScript
1. Please let's not start name-calling. The fact that you disagree with my beliefs does not necessarily make them or anything I say uneducated.

2. The fact that a judge was the one who ordered the limiting of freedom does not make it any less limiting.

3. Censoring an entire platform because it was used for evil purposes (I haven't personally confirmed that this is the case) is easily within the definition of limiting freedom of expression.
Real-world measurements: structured-lattices and supersingular isogenies in TLS
It's not really that big a deal in my experience. We switched to the Corretto[1] distribution of the OpenJDK from Amazon and it was seamless.

If you want newer versions of the JDK, you can get them directly from Oracle[2] still, or from alternatives like AdoptOpenJDK[3].

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/

[2]: https://jdk.java.net/13/

[3]: https://adoptopenjdk.net
The old versions of modules are available, if you don't happen to have the exact same code present.

Core modules are all I would worry about, but I'm pretty sure those are held to the same standard as far as backwards compatibility.

One or two modules might have been ejected from core or moved into core, but those should be easily found on CPAN as well.

In the end, getting something working from scratch on a newer Perl that has a lot of CPAN dependencies (as opposed to just updating Perl) might be a little annoying in that you have to track down all the module versions, but it's far from impossible, or even all that hard.

For example, the CGI module[1], which was a core module but historically seen as fairly bad (at least as of now, and at least in some of its uses, it supported a wide set of use cases), it was removed from core and housed on CPAN. If you follow the link provided and check the past versions (dropdown as part of the module path and name), you'll see there are many versions shown, possibly every public version, and going back to 1998 for CPAN, and 1995 for 1995 for the BackPAN. Each of those is visible as an item with it's documentation at the time and the module available to download and use. You can also access the CPAN testing matrix[2], and if you dig around you can actually find the results for some tests back in 1999.[3]

If I was responsible for getting some old Perl app to run on a more modern system, I would by much more worried about the OS changing in a complex way than I would about getting the Perl code to run again as expected. Which is to say, I wouldn't be worried much at all.

1: https://metacpan.org/release/CGI

2: http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=CGI+4.44

3: http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=CGI%202.55
Y'all are terrible techno-utopians if you stop at the consumer having limited access to stuff for a certain time.... the utopian ideal is everything in one place, forever.

Personally I've dusted off my bittorrent seedbox...

Or; as a consumer, why should I care about these things? Just give me my damn TV shows, screw your licensing BS
Robert Bly did a collection of haiku with essays accompanying them that's good.
But compensation is not the only motivator. And in a more equitable society (eg one where illness doesn't threaten total financial ruin), it would be less important.
I think all cops are bastards and I don't sympathize with them. I just want a rule of law along with accountability. I'm not of the opinion we need to use overt force when pursuing, but we need to pursue.
Yes. They weren't the only force active, but they were the one that made the news for outrageous misuse of violence.
Thank you! I'm surprised your comment even needed to be made, but some people really do walk around with the mentality that, "The law/textbooks say things are supposed to happen this way, therefore, that is definitely how they are being carried out, and in good faith. These commenters must simply be uninformed and in need of some citations."
Plus down voting to censor truth rather responding or acknowledging the fact the home was insured and the Police paid the insurance deductible.
A lot of hate for skeumorphism comes from using ux that resemble or preserve obsolete physical objects. Like floppy disks, corded desk phones, flip phones or analog clocks.

Buttons are great. We still press lots of them every day.
> I never see a shortage of cops anywhere due to a lack of people applying.

There are different grades of Police Officers. You want the college-educated, criminal law graduates in your city. That's how you get fair-cops. This pool is smaller than you'd expect.

There are PLENTY of high-school thugs who want to be Police Officers. But its very short-sighted to base your police force primarily on that pool of applicants.

> If we need higher compensation to adjust for not having a shoot-first-ask-questions-later policy then I'm fine with that.

Its not just compensation. Its perceived safety, and other issues. A college-educated cop might be willing to take $50,000 / year if they only have to patrol safe neighborhoods in suburbia, but the same cop will need to be paid $70,000+ to patrol a dangerous ghetto (which happens to be the areas which most need a fair, well-educated officer).

Bonus points: safe neighborhoods in suburbia also want officers to patrol their gated communities. "Rent a cop" services provide ample opportunity for overtime with very low risk. The ghettos simply don't have the money to offer this opportunity.

That's why I'm saying that there are too many small police departments out in Suburbia: taking away the good officers from the areas that truly need them.
Agreed. For more modern ones, Dessa and Kate Tempest are also really great.
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Ah, sure I forgot this one. Dunno, I thought C with better strings and libs would go a long way without going full c++/go/nim/rust/zig.
Pretty big fallacy bro. Its not in the top 10 most deadly jobs in America. "Danger" is a relative term. If a squad of 20 soldiers get in a gunfight every day over 3 months, and none of them die, was their job less dangerous than the 20 guys who work in an office, where Jerry was killed by a vending machine tipping over?

The FBI tracks Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA)[1]. There are around 540,000 police officers in the US, and about 58,000 recorded assault. Now, there are lies, damn lies, and statistics. Some of those assaults are undoubtedly some Kelly Thomas type BS where the cops beat the crap out of a guy and got blood on their uniforms and counted it as assault. There are also likely assaults that don't get listed/reported. E.g. a man who just murdered someone is running from the cops, car chase ensues. 10+ cop cars behind the suspect, who starts shooting at officers. This did not get recorded as 10 assaults, though 10 cops were shot at.

Also keep in mind that these statistics are of all reporting agencies. Every Mayberry town with 100 citizens, 1 sheriff, and 1 deputy. Every command staff and supervisor who are effectively just managers with a badge. The cops who do entirely admin work and don't wear their vest anymore. The High Tech Crimes guys who don't respond to calls, but do computer forensic analysis in pedophile cases. These are all less likely to be assaulted than the cop doing a solo patrol, responding to calls.

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[1]1https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka
that's obfuscating the real point. Moderators are doing curation on behalf of the company, not simply using a platform to interact with other people.

All reasonable people understand the difference.
What a mess. It looks like a mix of government propagandists and anti-government activists.

The lead dev of Notepad++ does this political stuff a lot and should understand what the results will be. I guess that's what he's decided to do with his time.
How about a device that pedestrians could optionally carry that would broadcast their presence to all vehicles
My bad, I think I was responding to another comment.
C# didn't either, it was introduced in C#/.NET 2.0. As I've understood it, Java chose type erasure to stay backwards compatible with older JDK versions, whereas .NET instead chose to break compatibility with 1.x and force dependents to target 2.0.
Do you think these low tech security cameras are hooked up to Pager Duty or something so their crack team of IT pros staffed 24x7 can jump into action and fix them?

They were probably broken for years.
Actually lets do the opposite and avoid another 4 decades of not getting back to the moon because of risk averse bean counters arguing away any form of progress because it just might not work because of some irrational perceived risk. I mean fin redundancy?! That's not a thing other than in your head.

Getting to the moon was based on a mentality of doing things that are barely feasible but could plausibly be done. It had to get done because politics. Your argument is like velcro failing or ball points not working as advertised (too mention some of the lesser innovations from the early space programs). So FF-ing what. Test it and if it really is a problem, fix it. It's not like Aerodynamics are greenfield technology. Some of the people that got us to the moon field tested supersonic airplanes.

Spacex is cutting BS like this and is setting feasible targets that are hard and they are ticking them of at a really scarily insane rate. Reusing first stages? Routine. Dual booster landings? Sure; done, multiple times.

SpaceX is based on the notion that we've already been there & done that and we just need to get better at it. Where better is cheaper, faster, more efficiently. Starship is amazing in the sense that despite being ludicrously big and awesome it has no obvious reasons why it should not work because physics. Therefore the minor investment of even trying to figure out whether this works is a perfectly reasonable thing given the (pun alert) potentially astronomic rewards. And also in the sense of how rapidly it is coming together. We haven't seen this pace of innovation since we actually got to the moon the first time. Just the switch to steel alone is barely 12 months old. Yet the damn thing flew from A to B a few weeks ago and seems on track to run through test to the point where basically it's a production ready system of a scale not seen since the Saturn program four decades ago.

It's hard to not get excited about this "lets just get this thing done" mentality.
There was a time when I thought China would eventually open up and be more democratic like the rest of the world. I really thought it was inevitable.
Isn't that the problem though? That we call this normal. It's definitely not the case on other democracies around the world.
What do you mean? On the one hand DJI sell their downlinks separately (Lightbridge and DJI FPV) as standalone products. On the other hand there's a decent modding community for DJI gear:

https://dji.retroroms.info/howto/start
If we remember their thousands of interviews in european radios, tvs, local, national and international press, It seems he has granted much more opportunities to express their ideas freely than any of us. He definitely can talk. Can talk for hours about himself and his bizarre world. Can talk until you start thinking about suicide.

The fact that lots of people in Europe wouldn't touch him anymore with a fifty foot pole and that Canadians panicked this same week about the idea of receiving him in Canada, is probably related with the fact that he can talk, but is definitely unable to stop talking.
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I'm surprised we don't basically just have a rectangle at a 5 or 10 degree angle that's 100m wide to "sweep" the sky and deflect debris to a faster burnup trajectory. I guess keeping it stable from impacts would be annoying, but you could put a solar array on the back of it and use ion engines to stabilize it.

It might not even have to be that big considering how good mission control people are at calculating trajectories.
Sexy witch, nurse, Mr. Rogers? Inside sexy Halloween costume industrial complex
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It appears his site is being DDOSed, too; I'm getting the cloudflare, "Checking your browser". Can anyone else confirm?
I had to edit the headline to fit. Original is "Sexy witch. Sexy nurse. Sexy Mr. Rogers? Inside the sexy Halloween costume industrial complex."
Sparta was considered important way before they "beat Athens". And it has nothing to do with Plato either.
Is it for sure that GitHub did the translation? Not all of the gov't takedown notices have been translated to English. Perhaps the notice came both ways?
Wow, very cool! As others have pointed out, being under the weight limit set by the FAA is basically THE selling point.

Ethical question: are DJI the good guys here working within the rules set out of the FAA, or are they running afoul of the spirit but staying within the letter?
Historically teams (in the US) have been owned by a single person.

But today, a sports team acquisition involves a 10-figure transaction and possibly the construction of a stadium if there's a move, which could also be in the low 10-figures.

There are not that many individuals who can afford to buy a team by themselves. That's why they form ownership groups with a lead investor to be the "owner" face of the team (and sometimes, they'll get big names as minority stakeholders to give them legitimacy). An example of this is when an ownership group bought the Miami Marlins [1].

[1] https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/boston-red-sox/derek-jeter-...

One difference with sports teams is that some members of the ownership group do it for vanity/ego/pride as much as an investment opportunity. There's a lot of prestige in having ownership of a major sports franchise, not only because it's incredibly expensive but because the opportunity to purchase a stake is not common and the entire ownership group is subject to approval from all the other owners in the league. So you can't just buy a team, you have to be ok'd by all the other teams.
It doesn't matter how much work it is or whether it is important. What matters is whether or not the circumstances of the working arrangement qualify it legally as an employment.

AFAIK, Reddit doesn't organizationally require their community mods to do anything at all.