skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we use APC's, grenades, and 40 mm rounds

This is why I have a big problem with giving US police forces ex-military and subsidized military gear. It's already bad enough they give themselves military rank. Now we give them Bearcats and tactical gear. At some point they're going to treat their constituents as an insurgency.
And yet almost no one chooses to write new Fortran code for applications. We rely on a few ancient critical widely used libraries like BLAS, accessed from non-Fortran programs.
All for what, maybe $40-60 in 1 shirt and 1 belt? 19 hours of police OT, paying for all their toys, this ongoing legal battle. Insanity
That is the entire Grover Norquist argument in a nutshell, and I call bullshit.
Most people are not involved enough in legislature to have any meaningful input into whether taxes will rise or not, so they are eating the complexity cost with no benefit.
Sure, people in general should be more involved in their government, bit that is a totally different issue.
I think it is more likely that people are confused by the currwnt tax laws and forms, so they aren't clear on what their tax obligations really are.
Why are they going after the police? It's the home intruder that should pay for the damages.
If he's anything like me he won't stay "retired" for long. The longest I lasted without anything coding-related to do is 9 months.
This is prime example of what insurance should cover 100% no questions asked with no premium increase. These circumstances are way out of a homeowners' control, maybe this guy should look into suing his own insurance company.
There is a high probability the guy stealing a few dollars of clothes from a friggin' Walmart doesn't have much money to take.
The HULK will be happy to hear this.
Armed suspects walking around in Walmarts have committed mass murders recently, guessing that might be informing the response to situations like this.

You can't have safety and leniency for armed robbers. The suspect was at fault 100%, they committed robbery, had a deadly weapon, and fled the police. Had they not done any of those things, this would not have happened.
Constitution reform is the only way and yet lots of people keep pointing to other things, this is the reason we are stuck in this situation now. That road is long and requires actual politics, what they have done is taking a shortcut to nowhere.
Yes, I wrote Transend PC and also the PrtScFX program that generated those screenshots. Thanks for the kind words!

Just for fun I dug up the old PrtScFX source code and posted it for any interested historians:

https://github.com/geary/PrtScFX
That may be 25% of all hangings, but I imagine the rate would be lower for hangings occurred by a 6ft tall person off a 6ft tall bed post.
Death penalty as a deterrent may generally be true, but I do believe it would be more effective against white collar executives who often have an obsession with building their private legacies. The thought of an early death as consequence of cheating to reach the top would cause some to consider a slightly more legal/ethical path on their climb.
The "reasonable person" standard [0] is deeply interwoven into our legal infrastructure. Yet as you say, courts/judges seem deeply reluctant to apply this standard to the police (there may be selection bias at play; we don't hear about the instances where unreasonable police actions are held to account).

As a relatively new homeowner, I'm wondering if there's some sort of insurance I can buy for this sort of thing. (I wish I were joking.) Greenwood Village, where this took place, is less than an hour's drive from me, and isn't even a "bad part of town"; just a regular middle-class south Denver suburb.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_person
If I understand it correctly, it's more of a Copy-on-Read/Write, and as opposed to fork, it's only one-sided: read/write is only detected and results in a copy on the unfork side; if the original process changes memory, it doesn't result in a copy as nothing is monitoring this (the userfaultfd only monitors the unfork side).
According to the article, the city did offer $5k for rent assistance and insurance deductible coverage... not sure if that was before or after the court proceedings got underway.
This is the problem with conspiracy theories... Avoidable accidents and conspiracy theories have the same fact pattern, which is an overlap of failure modes that should have been preventable but weren't prevented.

Was the Titanic disaster a tragic accident borne of negligence... or a conspiracy to assassinate John Jacob Astor and make it look like an accident? A lot had to go wrong to make an unsinkable ship sink. Who paid off the watchmen that evening? Why was the captain going so fast? And did one of Astor's rivals gain a contract to sell the steel that... etc., etc.

Occam's razor is important to keep handy, and Occam's razor here should be factoring in that American prisons are designed-by-committee-and-cruelty shit that have needed a massive overhaul for decades.
1) That assumes complexity not accounted for in cost, weight, or deployability. It's one thing to deploy a bunch of dumb disks. It's entirely another to deploy trillions of steerable drones. It's several orders of magnitude beyond what was suggested.

2) It sort of misses the point- that might address the known-unknowns of the primary effect (solar radiation hitting Earth). It does nothing to address unknown-unknowns or even secondary or tertiary effects.

The mere presence of the shields might block solar wind, distort Earth's magnetic field, reflect / refocus cosmic radiation, amplify affect of solar flares, interfere with radio or satellite communication...

We just don't know. And the stakes are too big, even compared to worst case global warming.

The bigger the potential impact a project has, the better prepared you should be to undo or mitigate it, before it causes problems worse than the ones it's meant to fix. I don't see that here.
Homeowners insurance does not cover police destruction. Because there was nothing accidental about it.

For the people in the back.

AMERICAN HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE DOES NOT COVER YOU IN CASE OF POLICE ACTIVITY!
No one was held at gunpoint. The article even says the guy took a nap. They could just wait.
I studied literature as well [granted, did not matriculate] but precisely because I fell in love with literature and poetry (already having been involved in music) in high school.

Did you ever read any Canadian poetry?

Some of our more celebrated poets were a little more literal, or prosaic, or largely storytellers. A prime example is Al Purdy (here performed by both himself reading, and in a dramatic presentation by Gord Downie [RIP]. Hopefully this is easily digestible as a sampling over pointing you to pages with words on them):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKeczB3wrg
Python 2 (the OP topic) from 2000 still works too.

Running code is the easy part. Writing it is the hard part.

And if running on a VM is your standard, my old DOS programs still run on DOSBox :-)
React Hook for Modals
> "HyperSpace Pays its Users to Find and Share the Best Content on the Web."

From the "Well... that was that..." post: [0]

> "...shame all of a sudden they've run out of money."

That's an idea that will give you a negative bank balance from the start and is also chronically unprofitable.

No wonder.

[0] - https://hyperspace.app/post/5db98d36329df6001049cee5
Exactly.

Recall an NYT article[1] on the topic.

It describes how police chiefs will make a spectacle out of their newly purchased tanks or whatever, even bringing them to schools for kids to check out.

Best quote was from a police chief who hadn't been swept up in the mania for military gear and vehicles:

“I go to schools,” he said. “But I bring ‘Green Eggs and Ham.’”

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/us/war-gear-flows-to-poli...
Jesus... Looks like a bomb went off and imploded all windows and doors in the house.
I think they probably could sue him for damages in civil court, but the problem is that (as I understand it) it is not possible to compel someone to pay. You can garnish wages, seize property, etc., but if you're stealing ~$10 of belts do you think you have $400k laying around?

The second part of this is that it indemnifies the police of their actions, shifting the cost of their recklessness. You pay in taxes to give them APCs, and then you pay again when they blow things up with those APCs you bought them.
This should be the insurance company's problem. Also, they should have filed in the criminal case with the State judge for the damages who probably would have granted them.
Bad steel in the Brooklyn Bridge was caught by Robeling before it was too late. The scandal brought down the Tweed Ring.[1]

[1] https://erenow.net/common/the-great-bridge-the-epic-story-of...
According to the ITC, only 11.9% of the world has "Fixed broadband" aka wired internet. 30.1% in developed nations. There's a big gap, especially when the world catches up in a few years.
Shop-lifted shirts started the whole fiasco. However, the suspect was stopped for questioning, then attempted to run over the questioning officer while fleeing, then broke into and barricaded himself within an occupied home.

That said, damaging the home to the point that it was condemned still seems like a bit much. Probably would have been easier to turn off the water and power, then blast Nickelback until the suspect gave himself up.
You may or may not be aware, but code poetry[1] is a thing. Black Perl[2] is probably the most iconic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_poetry

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl
The new Tela Icon theme pack might be just what you need
They only flew each Shuttle an average of 34 times, with months of refurbishing between flights. SpaceX wants to fly each engine hundreds or even thousands of times, with turnaround less than a day.
Not in the US. The police just have to claim they felt threatened. And property damage is just as bad if you've now made a person homeless and bankrupted them through no fault of their own. The judge was wrong here. The government cannot just take property and provide no recompense. This is effectively the same as eminent domain.
Mitxela's Project Concepts
"goes home"...he didn't think about that. Presumably the guy whose home that he blew up, isn't part of the "community" because he has no home to go to.
There's a very real chance they denied the claim. Government action is often excluded from insurance claims.
Gotta use those machine guns and armored personnel carriers for something...
You can absolutely do that in some very specific kinds of jobs, I've seen it first hand in public offices.
Probably not, because it is not an "accident".

My dwelling policy actually says: We insure for accidental direct physical loss to the property

Interestingly, the article describes the incident as "a quasi-war zone" which is specifically not covered: We do not insure under any coverage for any loss which would not have occurred in the absence of one or more of the following excluded events: e. War, including any undeclared war, civil war, insurrection, rebellion, revolution, warlike act by a military force or military personnel, destruction or seizure or use for a military purpose, and including any consequence of any of these. Discharge of a nuclear weapon shall be deemed a warlike act even if accidental.
-Not in the US, but my insurance policy explicitly states that it does not cover damage caused by a government entity doing its work.

I am not concerned, though, as in my jurisdiction (Norway) the authorities would be required to compensate me for any loss incurred.

Edit: Besides, Norwegian police prefer other tactics; they'd probably ask him to come out for a beer [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/22/world/hijacker-of-norwegi...
They offered $5000 toward the deductible and temporary housing. No mention of actual costs involved (like, how large was the total deductible, for instance). Given how long it takes to build a house, plus extra time + expense for demo & removal in this case, I'd expect $5000 to be a small part of just the temporary housing costs.
Would you recommend any English translations?
I've taken a bike daily for years, for one commute the alternative was walking, which took around twice longer. So between getting wet on a bike and spending a longer time walking and getting wet, it didn't change much. And once at school, clothing dried quickly enough that it wasn't much of a bother. Later, when I had switched my commute to bike + train, the other option was to take a bus, but I never did it, because I just couldn't stand to wait for the bus and risk missing my train and getting late to school/work.
Or maybe just ammonia.
Google workers sidestepping controversial Chrome tool sparks security worries
Flutter vs. React Native vs. Xamarin
How is someone going to pay from in jail?
Yet we have multiple versions of Java at work (8 and 11) because some (pretty large) third-party components don't support the newer versions yet. Plus for things that do work there are a bunch of irritating warnings and whatnot.

It's not "exceedingly good" at it, it's just alright. Go has done much better for us in this area.
XML is old hat. We should obviously be defining configurations using JSX now.
My guess is that he is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie

The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously".
Python allows imperative code with side effects in imported modules, as well as the "else" statement for "for" loops, so Python has never guaranteed obvious understandability.
Of course the state should reimburse the family, whether they have to by law or not (though if they don't your laws are fucking stupid).

How is this even a question? They can then later charge the perpetrator if they want to.

Your state is your community, and the police is its executive branch. When you destroy some individuals home while carrying out whatever duties you have, the entire community has a responsibility to reimburse that person.

When your representatives fail in such ways, you either change their minds, find better representatives, or you are complicit.

I'm not holding my breath though. I don't think anything will change.
Kinda overlooking that this guy had his home destroyed and condemned by the city after all this. Are you really saying "tough shit"?
So far as I'm aware homeowners insurance in almost all cases will not cover government action, just like it typically won't cover floods, ground movement, and various other things. Read your fine print. In all likelihood since the criminal did not cause the damage they will reject any claims.
Definitely land rise. Whether or not that tends to be bound as lateral and subductive regions are, triggering earthquakes, isn't clear. My thought is that the risk is probablyl low, though impacts at/near subduction zones might be pronounced through induced earthquakes. A rising landmass (generally the over-riding plate) would tend to reduce the load on the oceanic (under-riding) plate, and allow stresses to be released.

Those earthquakes can be massive (Mag 9 Richter in Indonesia, Japan, and Chile), and induce tsunamis. In which case global warming could make for some major seismic events, but only in regions with existing faults.

The possibility of increased vulcanism has also been raised.
I just used it to scrape some camera data from Adorama. Pretty, pretty good! I'll tinker with it more later today.
How windy is it where you live?
I've flown the Mavic Pro over the Pacific and Lake Michigan through what I would describe as a "healthy breeze". I think its max wind speed is approx 22mph, but can't find a reference for it.

I'd say rule of thumb is if you wouldn't want to eat a nice brunch in it, you don't want to fly in it.

edit: Pretty sure it uses GPS, compass, and gyro to stabilize itself relative to the wind.If gentle winds are causing it to drift too much, you might be having trouble with one of those. You might want to calibrate compass and make sure you're getting good GPS reception. I've found stabilization is not good in WiFi control mode either.
For more inspiration check out the rest of his page, especially his hardware[1] and software projects[2].

I'm not affiliated with him and recently discovered his channel on youtube[3]. But his homepage is just a sparkling land of great and funny things, I had to share it.

[1] https://mitxela.com/projects/hardware

[2] https://mitxela.com/projects/software

[3] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeEf90AEmmxaQs5BUkHqR3Q
Would like to see more balance in news stories. This is clearly an editorial masquerading as news. This was not a traditional eminent domain claim so not at all a surprise and the article does say that other courts ( I'm betting ba majority) have decided likewise so outcome is not a surprise. Maybe they have other grounds for a claim but eminent domain is not one of them. Official functions will also be protected under theory that law enforcement has to do their job to protect the public without fear of every bystander suiing. The solution is legislative, convince your elected representatives to fund compensation for these types of damage. Public shaming also goes a long way.Just don't have a usually unelected judge make it up and rewrite the eminent domain law.
I'm glad your comment got vouch-rescued, mtgx, so that I can tell you that you have been shadow-banned, and almost all of your comments, except those that are rescued by vouching, are invisible to almost all HN readers (except those of us who have the "showdead" setting turned on). It looks like the shadowban began about 90 days ago, after you left a very mildly disparaging comment related to John Carmack. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20582828

You were banned, but many others who say much more offensive things never get banned.
What if you and your family were being held hostage, how do the police know "they can just wait"? They don't even know if the guy is really allowed to be in the house. Also how long do the police wait, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month? How many millions is it worth to avoid damaging an armed criminals residence, especially when he can willingly walk out at any time and avoid all that damage.

How well would we respond if someone was killed because the police waited saying "We didn't want to damage the house, we figured he was just taking a nap or something."
He stole a shirt and a belt. Where's this $400k coming from?
Wow. That's quite the comment. Especially from someone easily traced. Are you sure you want to leave this up?
Interestingly, even if Emacs removes this I see Apple being forced to keep their hack in place as they're not likely to update their version of Emacs anytime soon…
Perhaps the machinery was already long corrupt, and so being in prison means being close to someone's grasp at all times.
Great, it's a toy! Seriously, with 249g, drone laws do not apply (start with 250g) and you can do whatever you want with it in public.
Nope, I had no idea that was actually in cigarettes. I heard it mentioned in the tainted THC cartridge articles, and it seemed like a good example of a thing that shouldn't be consumed.
Robert Maxwell has been accused of being a Mossad agent.
Ghislaine Maxwell was the daughter of Robert Maxwell. Upon his death, six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence services attended his funeral in Israel, while Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogized him and stated: “He has done more for Israel than can today be said."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell
It's always easier and sexier to build than maintain. All capital expense decisions are made at a point in time.

Sustained operations are hard unless you have growth, because flat budgets are cuts given inflation, etc. Given the choice between stocking the toilet paper or doing a preventative maintenance on the elevator that may impact your successor a few years from now, what do you choose?

The only times that facilities are run well is when there is a retired senior military nco in charge. Usually someone who was a chief of the boat in the Navy.
Thats my guess. The Mavic Air got pretty close to competing with the Spark, Mavic Mini looks like a clear replacement.
"The hamburger is a great example of “ugly simple”. You are purposely hiding the main structure that allows your users to move around your product freely behind an additional interaction. That is the opposite of simple."

The author appears to be confusing two forms of simplicity. The burger bar isn't there to simplify the number of user actions to navigate. It's there because navigation is not the main mode of interaction, rather a side-affair. Always showing that content actually increases the visual clutter and cognitive load placed on the user for ALL their interactions.
The suspect certainly has some responsibility. I would find him liable for loss of use while in the building / during investigation after, as a reasonable person would expect a building to be cleared for that. I don't think it's reasonable to expect the building to be destroyed because you're hiding in it, unless you're a sniper in a war zone. Gunshot damage, sure.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20973326:

"Fractures of the hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage in 25% of Thais who died of suicidal hanging were related with older ages and incomplete hanging but not related with location of the knot."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30015282:

"Altogether, we identified the following types of laryngohyoid fractures in 129 of 178 cases (72.5%): isolated fracture(s) to the thyroid cartilage in 60 cases (33.7%), combined thyrohyoid fractures in 41 cases (23.0%), isolated fracture(s) to the hyoid bone in 28 cases (15.7%), and no fractures to the cricoid cartilage or the cervical vertebrae."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13531...:

"There were a total of 40 cases of suicidal hanging with an age range of 17–74 years (average = 35 years; M:F = 33:7). Fractures of neck structures were identified in 19 cases (47.5%) and were more common in older victims and males. Nine victims had only thyroid cartilage fractures (22.5%), four victims had only fractures of the hyoid bone (10%), and six victims had fractures of both the hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage (15%)."
IMHO there's no strong connection between writing and speaking skills. A little bit of overlap, but not much.

There's probably a local Toastmasters near you to try. But I've never done one. I have given a few lectures and taught a bit.
> several smaller and successful subscription-based magazines: ... the economist, ...

Maybe I am misreading, but did you mean to imply that The Economist is a 'small' newspaper? It has been around since the 1840s.
Started as theft, moved up to attempted murder of a police officer. Use of force is justified. Not repairing the house is absolutely condemnation worthy. My local police department paid for a door broken in during a breach so it's not the same everywhere.
"Deeply horrifying"? Given the current situation, it sounds to me more like "cool, can we start doing it already?".
Yeah, outside of Lee Harvey Oswald this guy was the most important prisoner in the history of the USA. The fact that he just "suicided" in prison and we're all supposed to move on and share links about suicide awareness is utter nonsense.

If the corporate media doesn't get to the bottom of this then someone else will, it's just a matter of time. Everyone is so tired of being lied to by authority figures.
“Beating C” with 120 Lines of Rust: Wc
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/06/10/owner-of-home-destroy...

This says his homeowners will cover the cost to rebuild
I thought this was about the filemanager
They both require certain degrees of geo-engineering, even if the scopes are entirely different.

I find it amusing that people who think 2-4 degrees over decades is an insurmountable problem, but creating an entire hospitable atmosphere on another planet is doable.