skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same in France, I still remember being young in Paris and seeing all metal trash cans disappear some time after the 1995 terrorist bombings [1] (which I feel not too many people outside of France remember).

I'm not sure if shrapnel projection avoidance was the number one reason in those instances since the bombs were already prepared with nuts and bolts as shrapnel but they definitely allowed large devices to be easily hidden in plain sight.

I can't remember how long it lasted but for what felt like decade most trash cans in Paris became metal circles with transparent plastic bags awkwardly hanging from them so the contents could be easily seen and it would be much harder (in theory) to hide a large explosive device in them. This resulted in a lot of mishaps with trash dropping all over the floor. Apparently it also worsened rat infestation since Paris' most recent trash can redesign focused on tackling this issue [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_France_bombings

[2]: https://www.cnews.fr/france/2019-06-02/paris-3600-nouvelles-...
I'm openly curious if even the creation of some kind of leadership team for human rights questions opens the company up to more liability by creating a paper trail that a prosecutor could point to.

What happens when the documented human rights decisions differ from US law (which has its own places where it's fallen on its face in the human rights department)? Or from the law of any country in which Google operates, for that matter?

(I agree this is a good idea in principle, but it's possible for good ideas to be bad to implement for liability reasons).
At least some of that (the nebulous obstruction of agency proceeding) relies or stems from the “lying” part.
Traditionally some corrections for the author:

>The Amiga 1000 could not boot by themselves, they had no ROM. The bootloader was on a floppy and you better not lose or damage it!

Amiga 1000 has bootloader (Kickstart loader) in ROM, chips U5N and U5P - two 256Kbit EPROMs/mask ROMs, 64KB in total. What it didnt have was firmware(Kickstart, like PC bios) or system(Workbench, like PC DOS/Windows) in ROM. You can see chips containing A1000 bootloader on the motherboard picture, its the two with stickers, right below two 8250 CIA chips https://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/media/download_...

You cant boot(load) without a bootloader. Trivia: Back in the day Bill Gates held a record of writing the shortest bootloader for Altair 8800, computer with nothing but LEDs for output and switches for input. You had to input said bootloader every single time you wanted to load something (like BASIC) from tape. 'Computer Notes Volume 1, Issue 6, 1975' Page Twenty-One, Author Bill Gates: “I’ve written a bootloader that only takes 13 bytes of keyed-in data, but anything smaller than 20 bytes isn’t easy to use.”. He was finally beat by one byte in 2017 http://just8bits.blogspot.com/2017/03/doing-it-in-less-than-...

>It was Commodore best selling product with an estimated 6 millions units shipped from 1987 to 1991

other than you know, C64 ;-) and thats not counting other products like Datasette Commodore 1530, shipped with every VIC-20 and C64.

>amiga_arch.svg

Chip RAM is not directly connected to CPU, its gated behind AGNUS https://www.pmsoft.nl/amiga/A500-block-diagram.jpg DBR signal is what switches CPU data bus access.
I think Agile is the heart of the problem. It is a cargo cult that brings predictability to software projects by ensuring that it's always a dumpster fire, that everyone's stressed, and that everything takes longer than estimated. Eating up "tickets" and crapping out code is not how you quickly deliver software to customers and iterate in the face of changing needs. It's so sad there are generations of developers being raised thinking "Agile" and playing absurd, time-wasting games with "issues" is how to build software. Agile is to the 2020s what the Bobs in "Office Space" was to 2000: "Trendy" corporate management absurdity and fury signifying nothing.

The alternative to Agile is Software Engineering, where you do important things like assess your requirements and capabilities, identify how to validate those requirements are functioning properly and support your business requirements, promote testing and QA to a first-class citizen. Most importantly to always have functioning software that is reasonably demonstrated to be correct. That way you release with confidence, people take pride in their work, and the product, team, and schedule all become quite pleasant.
You could probably create one yourself with a raspberry + camera, with added benefit you can mod it to make your own.
You can post as many examples as you want, there's still no way I'd participate in an activity like this.
I don't understand how this is possible. To accelerate the spaceship at 1g becomes more and more difficult as you approach the speed of light. That's the whole point of relativity. And yet the article says "the spaceship will approach the speed of light in the middle of its journey, as measured from the planet's frame of reference".
I've seen a few people online giving up jobs, retiring early because they make enough money trading or investing now. Deja vu all over again.
The point is, he committed serious enough offenses to get a ten year ban from running a public company in the US for a decade.

The SEC is unlikely to have gone after him just because he didn't act sufficiently Japanese.
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Why do you need an additional nest camera if you already have a CC camera system with ethernet cameras? (Genuinely curious, because I have neither of those)
As someone who lives in Massachusetts, I can wholeheartedly agree. The MA governor just banned vapes for 6 weeks or so then the legislature created some new laws and a hefty 75% tax. They banned menthol cigarettes and flavored vape juice. We are literally right where we started but with a bigger tax on vaping products.

Now we can have a menthol cigarette and flavored vape black market. So much "progress"...

Edit: I don't vape so I have no personal skin in the game just willing to call out politicians.
> > And if there's no fence, isn't it just public land that it's OK to walk on?

> Why would it be?

This isn't the culture in the US, but in some parts of the world, the default assumption is that land is accessible unless it's fenced or otherwise marked. There are some politeness norms like not walking right up to someone's house in the woods, but generally in i.e. Norway, if it's outside, you're probably allowed to be there.

The culture in the US seems to come from capitalism being such a part of our culture. Every resource, including land, is viewed as a commodity. Even many of our publicly-owned land which is ostensibly intended for public use, such as state and national parks, has entry fees.
The ways around it were unbelievably ingenius: "medicinal" whiskey, boats 3 miles offshore, irish rabbis who distributed sacramental wine to their "congregations", the concentrated grape extract shipped (with a packet of yeast) to NYC from California.

It may have been the first law widely mocked and ignored since the anti-smuggling laws of the 1700s.
We won't know until the bushfire season ends. There are people who've lost their homes, are in dire straits and need support.

But the raw numbers are not doing the same sort of damage as a 10% increase in general energy costs. So far it has been 1,516 homes. Australia will have something like 5,000,000 homes. That is bad, but entirely tolerable averaged over the continent - we build about that many homes in a month or two. The damage is a small % of GDP contained to one year.

We need to improve our bushfire management & crisis response, but there is no need to do anything rash.
VR hardware is awful. It's bulky, uncomfortable, and annoying.

Until VR headsets are as light and unobtrusive as a pair of ordinary glasses, VR will never become mainstream.

Even ordinary glasses are unacceptable to many people for aesthetic reasons, despite being much lighter, less obtrusive, more comfortable, and more convenient than VR headsets, which look even geekier than glasses.
> I don't think engineers use frameworks because they think it makes them look cool.

They don't. They use frameworks because it reduces the cost of production. Unfortunately, they accomplish this at the cost of the user experience.
Looks like - It's a nodejs app with socket.io & webrtc.
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Was just about to say this but cmd-f'ed for it first... :)

Kitboga is great. His tone is not too aggressive or caustic like some other scambaiters. And he is extremely funny. I mean brilliantly funny..

He livestreams on https://twitch.tv/kitboga at least 4 times a week generally...
Safer cars how? Cars are just as safe in NA where we rack up the pedestrian deaths.

The two ton vehicle slamming into a pedestrian at medium speeds will probably kill them.

The only way to solve this problem is to lower speeds or remove the car from the road.
I did wonder, but when I insisted, hung up, and called back, the next CS rep saw the call in their CRM and knew exactly what they wanted to discuss with me. So it's unlikely.

Honestly I think I'd rather had have it be a scam, at that point :/
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Thanks, that looks like a great resource!
I'd argue that the incessant beeping that all modern vehicles do when you don't wear your seat belt has more effect on enforcing seat belt usage than the threat of a ticket.
The tuple notation is one of those places where the obvious way is a distraction. A non-empty tuple doesn't need the ()s - it's the "," which makes the tuple! The following two are equivalent:

x = 1,
x = (1,)

so are the following three:

y = 1, 2, 3
y = 1, 2, 3,
y = (1, 2, 3)

Of course, then there's no way to express the empty tuple using commas, which is where () comes in.
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The rule for games is that you have 16ms (for a 60Hz monitor) to process all input and draw the next frame. That's a decent rule for everything related to user input. And since there are high refresh-rate monitors, and it's a web app and not a game using 100% CPU & GPU, just assume 4-5ms for a nicer number. If you take longer than that to respond to user input on your lowest-capability supported configuration, you've got a bug.

0ms is great, 4ms is very good, 16ms is minimally acceptable, 20ms needs improvement (you're skipping frames), 200ms is bad (it's visible!), 500ms is ridiculous and should have been showing a progress bar or something.

Responding to input doesn't necessarily mean being done with processing, it just means showing a response.
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This post makes me think that it was a foolhardy decision to drive a rental car on my last visit to Japan. It's very easy to make mistakes driving on the side of the road you're not used to. Who knows what could have happened if a policeman saw me fail to give right of way or something like that...
I don't get this. You acknowledge that they have right of way. You have apparently had plenty of time to stop and have done so. Yet you insist on honking at them as if they did something wrong?
The point is that there would be additional ways to stop their speech through legal means.

>Just give a concrete example, do it!

As said elsewhere: you can't prove a negative. Asking for concrete examples on this topic is like asking for a concrete example about an epidemic that a food safety law prevented. You wouldn't claim that we don't need food safety laws just because you couldn't give us concrete examples of epidemics that were prevented due to that food safety law, would you?
I'd call it ironic, although I'd find it difficult to define what sort of irony is used. Something to do with it having a dramatic self-referential twist. Maybe this is a US/UK difference in meaning? (I'm from the UK)
Saw this mentioned in a recent article about an Instragrammer who claims to be the youngest woman to visit every country.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-13/ingenious...

> You can—and should—hold two passports from the same country, simultaneously.

...

> You just need to show written evidence of your conflicting flights, with your name on the reservation. And remember: You can book refundable tickets as proof of travel, show them at the passport office, and then cancel them later. Then you’ll have one handy for any future travel traffic jams.
There‘s no such thing as „minor“ offense in some legal systems, so it’s better to check the law which applies in this specific case.
You're definitely right about social presence being the key but I think combining it with the other strengths of VR will be what produces a killer app. 3D space and unlimited space by themselves may not win out but sharing those spaces with other people is a huge multiplier. Conferencing comes to mind where you could have the Twitch of business/industry conferences so instead of attending a small handful during a year you would be able to organize and attend spur of the moment conferences focused on a recent development or regular get togethers for professionals to network and share ideas. Also, we may be able to do most work on a 2D plane but we collaborate more effectively in the physical world, instead of endless email threads, Slack chaos and video calls it would be much more effective to sit in a virtual room together talking, working, and sharing information the same way we would hash things out in real life but without the requirement of being in the same office or finding a suitable location. Personally I think education will be the big winner, VR already provides all the necessities of a classroom and offers to add a lot more value by having interactive components and keeping the social dynamic of attending lectures and study groups in person all while making the facilities cheaper and wider reaching.
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> Even with socioeconomic value on human life in the $10M range I don’t think it is economically beneficial to the city center.

This is a psycho statement honestly reevaluate your values.
Peter Schiff finally says nice things about Bitcoin
> Reuters on Thursday quoted sources close to Mr Ghosn as saying he decided to flee after finding out his trial had been delayed until April 2021.

If I'm on his jury for charges related to fleeing I'd tend to give him a pass for this reason. Justice delayed is justice denied.
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Is that rue of all "Americans" (U.S. citizens) or is it just specific kins off places, like some suburbs? I have seen plenty of footage of people walking around large US cities. And what about rural places? Surely theree's nothing stopping people from taking long walks on the countryside if they live out in the boondocks, etc?
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> The first member of each group should now display the card so that the small group can see the identifying word. During the next three minutes, the remaining group members are to take turns expressing stereotypical remarks about the category of persons named by that sign. The remarks do not necessarily need to be reflective of opinions held by the group members but may reflect things they may have heard or seen growing up in your family, at school, at work, or in the media.

Guess what we used to call this kind of thing:

"...the session is held, ostensibly, to benefit the target, by eliminating all traces of […] reactionary thinking. […]s resisted this at first, because […] conflicted with the […] concept of saving face, but […]s became commonplace at […] meetings during the […]'s due to public popularity"