skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you were at a video game company, would you shut it down after all the research that it causes violence?

It's all publication bias, but maybe in a post-Columbine witch hunt you'd end up in jail.
The two broken cameras must have been incompetent as well then. Not suggesting a conspiracy, but I wouldn't call it that anyway. Maybe it was just a crime.
Yup— "I feared for my life" is a pretty much ironclad get out of jail free card:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22feared+for+my+life%22+pol...
He also has the chance to be fit enough to bike regularly and to live in a place where it's feasible to do a lot of trips on bike, with shorter distances than what you'd find in the US
What happened when they were cell mates is pretty curious.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/16/epsteins-ex-cellmate-cleared...
That is my understanding too. Solaris had a flag for dldump (https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-0627/6j9vhfmop/inde...). Emacs moved to a portable dumper (maybe inspired from XEmacs)
This is bizarre logic. I can't even follow it.

The police destroyed the house. It's really that simple. Their reasons for doing that happen to include that they were chasing a suspect. So?
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/06/10/owner-of-home-destroy...

This article says that homeowner's was going to pay to rebuild, he wanted the city to pay for a longer term housing in the meantime while it was rebuilt.

So, its unclear what he is suing for exactly, except maybe some temporary living expenses.
"WinForms was just code" This conflates source text and product. Generated code was _output_ by the WinForms WYSIWYG editor, but the tool stored the layout source in a native project file format.
I am not at all familiar with this situation, but these quotes

> but I understand why so many Catalonians are angry and protest for

and

> But I also understand what different police forces are facing

gives the impression the police may be paying the price for some politicians' bad decisions.
Do you have any constructive criticism?
Was anybody else in the building when the police were destroying it?

If there were (which I don't think is the case from the article), were they in more danger from the suspect or the police?
Says who? He was hung with a bed sheet.
Just to play devil's advocate:

The guy involved led the police on a high-speed carchase, and fired his gun at them from the garage of the home when they arrived. He definitely posed a threat, both to police and innocent people around him (from the car chase, etc)

As it was, the siege took 19 hours. It could easily have taken days or weeks to starve him out if the family had emergency rations stocked up (i.e. winter power blackouts, etc). How many police officers would have to have camped out to make sure he didn't escape? What would that do to people who might otherwise have needed those police officers elsewhere in the city?

To be clear, I don't know that I find any of those arguments convincing or sufficient justification. He had homeowner's insurance, and the city offered to cover the deductible and provide rental assistance. Nothing will be enough to make up for irreplaceable items, trauma or time lost. Hindsight is 20/20, but in the moment, would it really have been the right call to tie up the police and SWAT for a week or more when they might be needed elsewhere?
You don't have to call it terrorism. Vandalism, reckless endangerment, malicious mischief... there are a bunch of different laws that apply.
I assume that you are assuming it will work exactly as expected.

Now that I've said that explicitly... how reasonable of an assumption does that sound?
Unless there’s a real and needed benefit, why complicate it?

I’ve seen clever code that was 300% faster, half the lines, completely unreadable, and called once per session, for a total the time of 10ms in a workflow that was minutes long.

No amount of commenting could justify it.
Show HN: Bitcoin Transaction Monitor – transactions plotted by feerate and time
Why does launch count matter?
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>91% of the people of catalonia voted for the current spanish constitution back 1978,

Many of these people are dead. There was no alternative to this constitution as it happened in a very unstable climate after the death of the dictator, where the constitution was seen as the one way to stabilize the country and advance towards a democracy.

>This crisis has been provoked by irresponsable politicians that have taken shortcuts clearly out of the law

These "irresponsible" politicians exhausted all avenues and did what they did because they had no alternative left to actually act on what their constituents, the people who voted for them, put them in place for.

And the fact people want this is in no way unrelated to what happened to the Estatut d'Autonomia, which defines the relationship between Catalonia and Spain. The current version of the document was written in Catalonia, revised and cut several times until Spain was OK with it, then voted in a referendum in Catalonia and put into effect, only to be cut down dramatically shortly after by the constitutional court, acting on the behalf of a Spanish nationalist political party which gets almost no votes at all in Catalonia. This was perceived as a massive insult to Catalan people.

Not only the situation was not repaired, but Spain's attacks on Catalonia's self government continued. This is the main reason why independence took a hold, perceived as the only option going forward.

>and we also need to keep in mind half of the people from or living in Catalonia do not want to split from Spain.

I have to ask for the source of this data. Certainly not a referendum, nor an election. At best, some newspaper poll.

My 2¢.
Is there a risc-v chip on the market which includes Bluetooth?
Exactly. Why doesn't the police dept carry insurance for _exactly this_? Yes it will be expensive, but it's a leveraged bet that allows them to do what they need to but have some consequences for doing things they don't.

There has to be some reasonable standard that can be applied to their behavior. If they used their tank to bulldoze a block of houses looking for some guy hiding in one of them ("how were we supposed to know which one he was in?"), would we expect that to be just OK? Sounds like this ruling says "yes". There are no checks on this behavior.
I think you meant "secession". A really small minority is actually revolting, thankfully. Lots of pro-independence people are protesting peacefully. There's also the other side that don't want to hear anything about seceding that are just looking at these events unfold pretty worried.
There's lots of good music made in the past, but I still read music review sites that review recently released music.
Also flooding is not covered in the vast majority of home owners polices.
How do you know what his style is?

You have no idea what gets Bill Gates off.
>If your primary goal is the survival of the human race, you shouldn't moralize.

Could you expound on that a bit? The assertion alone doesn't parse.
He actually didn't say it was definitely murder, he said suicide was ruled the cause too quickly and they should have waited on DNA testing.
"25-50mg" is shorthand for "mg/ml"

The liquid in Juul pods is actually 59mg/ml. There's 0.7ml of the stuff in there, so the total pod nicotine content is about 41mg.

With roughly 200 puffs per pod, that comes out to 0.2mg per puff.
Yeah, I would be surprised if Epstein had any sort of drop if it was suicide. It's not like he had the means to tie a rope to a fan and kicked the bucket. If he did do it, it would be very ad hoc.
They garnish his wages in and out of jail for the rest of his life. Yes, it's unlikely they'll ever receive full restitution but he's the one who should pay, not the police.

Is your argument that because the perpetrator is unable to pay, someone else (the police) should?
The friction is that people don't like changing thngs that work, and a lot of Python 3 is backported from future

People migrate when the allure of Python 3 outweighs the hassle of juggling 2 versions. Naturally, people who grew up on Python 2 are more hesitant than people who started later on Python 3.
No, but I'm asking what the alternative is given that he committed armed robbery, then fired on police. Do they just wait, given that they don't know who or what is inside just to avoid property damage? How would you feel if someone's family was killed while the police were "waiting to avoid hurting the house". Also bear in mind that while the suspect is shooting at the cops, he could have walked out anytime. At the store, during the drive, after the first bullet, the first tear gas canister, etc. He also waited this whole time, and then wants to have the damage paid for.
Hmm we can also launch space solar panels with cheap launchers and beam this power back to earth.
Agreed - I was on the same path, from cigarettes to juul, and never had the emotional attachment to the juul that I did to cigarettes. Cigarettes were cruising down the road with the windows down on a sunny day, the juul was just a nicotine delivery system.

On the other hand, because I could suckle the juul indoors I think I wound up way more fearsomely addicted to nicotine than I ever had been while smoking. I was constantly hand to mouth with it. Obviously your mileage may vary, but trying to quit the juul cold turkey drove me just as nuts as quitting cigarettes.

What’s worked for me so far is the patch. It tapers you off while totally eliminating the craving-hit-craving cycle that made me feel like I was always on edge and couldn’t do anything useful unless I had the juul (or a smoke) available.
In the old country, there is a concept of krysha, which technically refers to protection paid to government for protection ( not unlike mafia ), but, for example, in Russia, referred to money paid for protection to the security apparatus.

I find it difficult to believe Epstein had no protectors. Natually, now nonone really knew the guy.
> Tsunami Democràtic explicitly rejects violent action

This must be sarcasm. Yeah, they reject violent action at the same time that explicitly provide all the necessary logistic support for violent action, like telling people where is the police in real time, (the same policemen and policewomen that are ambushed later), they also slowly introduce and train naive youngsters in the exciting world of crime and urban war, baby steps, and send people to burn the streets, lose their eyes and (with a little luck) die for the cause and create the long desired martyrs that will come some day.

Snakes with butterfly wings and speaking softly are still snakes.
> They could have "sieged" the house and waited for him to come out when he ran out of food.

Both 2nd amendment activists and anti-gun people make the same mistake here: the physical presence of a gun changes everything. Guns favor the offense, not the defense.

The solution is always the same: if the opponent has a weapon, you bring bigger weapons to subjugate them. APCs will allow you to move forward without risk of getting shot at, while heavy weapons like grenades and rocket-launchers destroy the cover and concealment of the defender.

The first step is recognizing the root of the problem. The handgun. Remove the gun, and the heavy-weapons wouldn't have been necessary. But as long as the general citizenry has access to firearms, it is necessary to give bigger and better weapons to law enforcement.

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Consider this: how would YOU form a perimeter around the house safely and effectively? An APC is the natural weapon: thick plate to provide immunity to small-weapons like handguns. If the local police only has one APC however, that's not enough to form an effective perimeter: you can only cover one side of the house.

So you put men around the house, and hope that they don't get shot. And those men remain at risk throughout the duration of the siege. Thick body-armor doesn't protect the head, and it still gets hurt to get shot at.
Usually Bluetooth modules are add-on peripherals, unless I'm mistaken.
If moths had eyes, would they be happier?
How do they know they're not dead?
Cavemen hunting for food
But not before they style the hair on their head
What would last longer in dinosaur times?
A blind man didn't stand a chance
Not with all them rocks about
I'd rather be a blind moth
- Karl Pilkington
Also he shot at the police, that's pretty much going to mean they have to assume you could kill them or someone else. You really think you can not only steal, then lead a car chase, then lock yourself in a house, then shoot at the cops, and expect them to just wait hoping you don't kill someone or yourself or them to avoid property damage? And then, if they kick in your door (or after 19 hours destroy your house), you want them to pay for it, when you could have avoided or ended the situation at any time?
To be really fair, how many applications from around 2000 actually had all of that stuff you're describing.

I know that it was built into a lot of the default application toolkits at the time, but my recollection is that not every application supported everything. Sometimes the things that were supported didn't actually work very well and what actually happened was a bit of a surprise.
Update your iPhone 5 before November 3rd to keep email, web, and GPS working
The top selling check-point inhibitors ie "immunotherapy", Keytruda and Opdivo, were not found by anything remotely resembling 'engineering'. It was a traditional lab science and drug discovery. If anything those two drugs have expanded their lead commercially, with no other PD1 drug approaching it. None of the top 10 selling Abs are drug-conjugated. CAR-T is struggling mightily in the clinic - it is the opposite of "scalable" due to the personalized nature, and has a terrible side-effect profile.

TCRs are far from 'engineered' in any real sense, highly dependent on patient MHC and the specific neo-antigen, with no one able to rationally design from scratch a TCR.

Synbio's challenge is not necessarily engineering a genome faster. It's that no one knows what to make, per se. What should we print? We don't know how to design proteins or enzymes. Designing assays to measure a good vs bad design is often the rate-limiting step.
Just because he's unable to pay restitution doesn't mean they should get paid from the police. He's the bad actor here, not the police. He's the one that caused the damage by illegally breaking into their home and not surrendering.

Restitution should come from the one causing the harm, not the ones trying to protect the public from harm.
The entire situation of a "high-speed chase" followed by such a stand-off for shoplifting a shirt seems ridiculous to me. I don't want to defend the shoplifter here, but the reality is that these kind of chases and stand-offs come with real risk of injury and death to innocents. The police should be wiser than pursue at all costs for such petty crimes.
I don't care about your fantasy. The reality is insane overreaction to a guy who stole $20 worth of clothes. Walmart writes this into their bottom line. You know what should've happened? Nothing.
He supposedly tried to kill himself 18 days prior, and he was a witness who could potentially spill the beans on a bunch of wealthy kid fucks (and whoever had blackmail against them, if Epstein wasn't the ultimate top of this pedo pyramid). Yes, not monitoring the arrested billionaire pedophile who had been fucking kids with other billionaires and political figures who control the country, right after a first "suicide" attempt is made, seems sketch as fuck. If they're not complicit in whatever happened, the TLAs would have had an obvious interest in monitoring that cell. Does the federal government not care about knowing if a foreign power has videos of a former President (and quite possibly a sitting one, though we don't have flight records) raping kids, or is the federal government incapable of monitoring a man in prison? I was expecting Epstein to die before trial, but I was still surpised by how brazen it was. This is the most obvious American deepstate murder since Michael Hastings.
> You can update your phone wirelessly or through your computer before November 3rd...If you don’t have the update installed by November 3rd, though, Apple says over-the-air updates and iCloud backup will also no longer work, since the GPS issue affects iCloud. If that happens, you would need to back up and restore your phone using a computer.
I'd like to see the risk assessment: There's huge kinetic impact risk in landing a big rocket from orbit near a city.
I do a lot in the shell, but not with interactive programs.
Nautilus was good when they started but at some point they seemed to switch to the sort of frothy, inspirational pop-science-as-spiritualism dreck that belongs in Newsweek or Fox News, but with a tiny bit more depth
>There's literally 0 evidence presented in the article to suggest the arrest was political

There's this:

>The arrest warrant was five months old. According to an individual familiar with the case, the warrant for Blumenthal’s arrest was initially rejected. Strangely, this false charge was revived months later without the defendant’s knowledge.

Sadly there's no court documents or police records to back up this claim.
The PS4 Has Outsold the Original PlayStation and the Wii
You Choose
At the British Library (2017)
>can take down

How?

Collecting and disposing of 16 trillion objects is no small feat, before you consider fuel and energy to get there and back (or there and away).
XML vs JSON (vs code) devolves into bike-shedding because it positions the discussion in the wrong place. Developing layout in plaintext, rather than a WYSIWYG editor, is a priori impedance-mismatched.
I was in Shanghai few years ago and was surprised that our guide was pretty anti-party. Not sure if what he wrote is legit but it seems very dystopian
Moths do have eyes - they are very important to their survival and behaviour.
Yes, apologies just having fun. At first glance, I thought it looked like Linux Alternatives.
> They could also charge spanish Microsoft executives with disobedience, contempt or something similar.

Unlikely, as the local executives likely didn't make this decision and don't have control over it. Guilt by association (employer) is not legal, even in Spain.
San Francisco builders have a lot of experience in beefing up structural support in existing buildings. All but 20 of the unreinforced masonry buildings in San Francisco were reinforced by 2014. Unfortunately nine of them are at SF General Hospital.
Yeah. Jef Raskin pointed out that we use "intuitive" to mean "familiar" (in IT.) The computer mouse seems so "intuitive" today, but when he first handed a mouse to someone else, an architect IIRC, to use she turned it upside down and tried to use it like a little trackball. ("The Humane Interface")
Is your argument really just “there are poor people in the world so we need to force these people to be extorted by the ncaa”? You provide lots of context that less fortunate people exist, but none actually explaining why this particular profession needs to be forced to give the revenue they generate to coaches and athletic directors like they currently do.
> imagine being able to shave 10% off a nation's photovoltaic power

While shutting down 90% of the agriculture output and completely messing with local climate.
Technologies for Non-Programmers
I found this gem (pun intended) only after having an issue with original awesome http.rb gem not being able to talk http2. Happy httpx user ever since. Ping me if you decide to start accepting donations/support payments.
"However, if one class of bugs is responsible for 80% of breaches, isn't it worth investigating to see what you can do about that one class of bug?"

Fires become bigger and bigger the more fuel they accumulate. Security vulnerabilities lack this attribute.

Arguably, the best solution wouldn't be to try to extinguish the sources of ignition, but greatly increase them so that it's just something that happens all the time. (Another thing they definitely don't share in common with security vulnerabilities.) Of course, the best solution is to hop in a suitably tricked-out De Lorean and start that policy a hundred years ago.

The steady-state of this plan is probably pretty nice. However, getting there from here is a real problem. But I'm not sure there's any way around that problem anymore. That's another part of what I mean by "there's already a fire, it just isn't burning yet"; trying to pretend that there's some solution that doesn't involve fire is just fooling oneself. It's only a question of when, not if.

If California could be trusted to do something useful with the time, enough so that they get meaningfully ahead of the still-accumulating fuel, "buying time" would be a viable option, but I see very little evidence that anything useful is being done. Links solicited to the contrary; I haven't gone looking. But if the solution is just "try to never ever spark anything and thus The Problem Is Solved!", yeah, that's not a solution. It does nothing to stop the fire-in-waiting from getting bigger.
I feel like this would probably be somewhere in the next phase of ~AI to generate video based on a Wikipedia page or at least a copy of Wikipedia which is highly annotated with video links.
Especially when it sure seems like they had a good or superior alternative. If the situation/area was sufficiently under control that advancing with siege equipment didn't involve excessive risk of harm to officers or of the suspect escaping in the commotion, then staying put and holding the perimeter was at least as safe and would have kept him contained, surely. No mention that they believed he had anyone else in there with him or anything, so why on Earth did they choose to assault the house?
The court acknowledged that this may seem “unfair,” but when police have to protect the public, they can’t be “burdened with the condition” that they compensate whoever is damaged by their actions along the way.

Incredible. A stranger can barricade themselves inside your property, the police can blow your property to bits trying to get to the stranger, and the owner of the property is on the hook.

The court's ruling that the Takings Clause doesn't apply because it's not an exercise of eminent domain is utter nonsense. There's no such requirement in the 5th Amendment that the government needs to label their use of private property "eminent domain" to be responsible for compensation for it. All it says is "public use". If this ruling is allowed to stand, this isn't America anymore.
Yeah, economically it would be likely a disaster without quick integration into the EU on a higher level. That's another topic, why can't the EU sort them out?

Or why can't they rejoin with Spain after trying and failing? I don't think that people would deal with a failure like that, they'd vote to rejoin, and the bond would be stronger afterwards.

I think their movement wouldn't have gotten that much steam with a legal possibility to secede though.

I'm interested in the mass psychology behind it, why Spain and their politicians think that it's a good idea to point out that the constitution of Spain and their unitarian aspects are untouchable.
Good post. I hope they do release the statistics of how often cameras fail at that facility. Two cameras failing in the same time widow feels very unlikely to me unless they're using some really bad ones, which won't surprise me. Would still like to know how that happened.
That is 100% not the case. In addition to being factually wrong, it suggests a totally ahistorical view of social policy development. Social policy in the EU and US/UK are nothing alike, they have completely different aims because the history/context is just totally different.

To be totally clear: I have studied this topic (I studied econ/policy at PG level) and no research I have ever read has suggested this. Google comparative social policy research.

I understand that if you get your knowledge from misinformed politicians who haven't studied the issue but believe it will solve all their country's problems...yes, that distinction is not clear. If you actually read books though, it is quite wrong.