skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those liberties are restricted, justly, when one violates a law. Setting aside the perfectly reasonable outrage at mass surveillance techniques, the ACLU seems to have a problem with any border enforcement, including the kind of temporary detainment that is a requirement for any kind of justice system to function!

Civil liberties do not include the right to enter another sovereign country without that country's consent, so yes, the liberty of free movement into and within a country is something that citizens and legal residents have that other people do not.

This is not a simple problem that lends itself well to the kind of pithy soundbites I complained about in the OP.
Having predators isn't an issue. There will be plenty, just there are so many locusts. So many that even after all the predators are filled to bursting, there won't be a noticeable drop in the numbers.
the Dyson AirBlade and similar? Yeah, and the hand holes are none too big either, and I'm sure people bump into the sides and those get gross too. Not a fan, they kinda squick me out a bit.

I guess in theory people have washed their hands by that point, but not everybody has washed them well enough. It's at least 20 seconds of solid rubbing, people, not just in and out of the water. The temperature doesn't matter, what matters is being under there for long enough the germs come off.
> Their stance on civil liberties has been pretty consistent.

Except the right to bear arms, of course.
Would such a thing have a positive side effect of effectively encouraging decentralized end-to-end encrypted technologies?
From that link, it seems like he is commenting far outside of his expertise in "behavioral interventions" to improve things like "medicare cost."

Don't trust anyone, just weigh their claims and their background. In this case, I have yet to see people with serious credentials in genomics make this claim (outside of the original scientists who published the paper relating it to HIV - IIT is impressive, but I don't really know how to assess their credentials writ large)
The metric system doesn't really have anything intrinsically better about it.

Sure the power of ten thing is convenient, but really that is just sticking to one unit and adding a prefix. You could call "thousandths of an inch" a "milli-inch" and it'd be about the same.

Fahrenheit is absolutely a more useful human-scale measurement than Celcius. The boiling point of water is mostly irrelevant to everyday life. At that point you might as well just do things in Kelvin.

Perhaps the usefulness of Fahrenheit is only a thing when you live in a continental climate though.

100F is about as hot as it's going to get here in Iowa.

Similarly, 0F means that it's the depths of winter. Anything above 0F is pretty manageable. When you start going below 0F you're getting into "real cold" territory.

Point being, Fahrenheit is a scale that matches well to the climate extremes (at least around here), which I think is a significant advantage for it.

As to the rest of it, a meter is basically a yard. A liter is basically a quart. A kilogram is just two pounds. Not really that difficult.
Go look at the kernel source RPM for RHEL 6 or 7. The amount of backporting they do to keep the kernel version string from incrementing is insane.
I don't think that the author of the parent comment has some "i don't believe the system" sentiment, tinfoil hat style.

For example, I definitely trust CDC (the US one). However, I am vary of trusting Chinese authorities and agencies when it comes to this issue, as they have shown before that they are willing to go to extreme lengths to hide the truth when revealing it casts a bad light or reveals some info. I have no strong opinion on the true source of the virus, as there isn't simply enough info and time to do a proper investigation by CDC, but it is easily imaginable how much the reputation of China will get damaged if it gets discovered that the virus was born out of one of their labs.
That's more hyperbole. You're putting a lot of responsibility on some simple tools. Programming language design complexity came first and not as a result of yacc or lex.
How so?

To be clear, I definitely don't agree with most of what is said on Voat, and I'm not really familiar with Gab.
Which is the end-goal of the far left.
I agree with you. I think a lot of the recent desire, especially in Silicon Valley / San Francisco, surrounding zen buddhism, meditation, yoga, and other "ancient" traditions and practices stems from a feeling that your mind is being invaded by some aspects of modernity. We're not quite sure what to do, but maybe some of these older texts had some answers? Nothing absolute, but maybe something that can help you contend with this current onslaught / ambush in every corner and crevice of your mind. I'm feeling more and more everyday that I want to do nothing but retreat to older books, older music, and some older traditions.
There's some debate down-comments about whether this specific policy is quantitative easing, but we can go back to a broader view.

In 2019, the US government spent about $400B on debt interest payments. The overall money supply (M2) grew by $900B, about 6.2%. Constant-dollar GDP growth is ~2.3%, and inflation is ~2.9% so that's about $145B of paper monetary growth not backed by assets or general decline in purchasing power. (Sorta. Maybe. The US can implicitly share in growth not reflected in GDP, which complicates all of this immensely.) Assuming that's fair shorthand, how do we make up the gap? In 2008, the paper 'value' of a whole bunch of physical assets (homes) diminished, closing the difference at the expense of homeowners and investors (and the USG).

We could see something like that again: private equity and credit card debt look like plausible options, and student loan debt may be "nondischargeable" but that doesn't stop people from defaulting or dying indebted. The USG could theoretically fail to pay its debts in full; that would only require a Greece-style 'haircut' rather than an outright default, but it's still basically out of the question. If investors arrange to not lose the full debt, various rearrangements (bailout + taxes, diminished public services, bankrupt pensions, etc.) could make up the difference by passing the damage to non-investors. Perhaps we could see a major US bond shareholder wiped out without transfer of the debt? I'm not actually sure what happens to those bonds when the bondholders are embargoed or cease to exist in sufficiently-unstable situations. Fascinatingly, a student loan collapse could be partially covered by university bankruptcies: since the value of a degree greatly exceeds the summed value of four years of courses, students are functionally investors betting on the continued existence of their school. (As ITT Tech students found out to their detriment.)

Or, of course, we could see inflation and value growth outpace M2 growth a few times and cancel it all out without any dramatic shift. People aren't in a hurry to call this in, and offsetting it doesn't even require the US to run a surplus.
You claim that 1) they won't have to be vaccinated because they can get tested, 2) they don't get tested because of class stratification, but 3) you present no solution to class stratification. And then you claim that it isn't a reasonable point to say that they would be forced to be vaccinated!

You... um... rather failed to put together a coherent argument there. Or if you did, I failed to follow it...
Yeah the whole thing is basically a shitshow. The majority of the French administration was against the deal as well as many other countries but the president at the time forced the deal to go through.
We must be careful when using microbiological metaphors to propose solutions for macro social problems; such language has often been used to justify genocide (i.e.: "hygenic cleansing of parasites"). Besides, what we're talking about here is more akin to autoimmune disfunction, and not healthy immune function.
Phone Users’ Privacy Violated as Locations Shared, FCC Says
That page says at the top that locusts are grasshoppers.

"Locusts are a collection of certain species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming phase."

They are grasshoppers that have decided to change behaviour and physical characteristics for some reason. They used to be considered different species.
Also on The Register: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/31/icann_dot_org_sale/
Plenty of things are being peer reviewed properly with this outbreak. But you can't take preprints in biology as any more holy writ than you can the occasional post on arXiv where someone claims to have come up with a complete unified model for physics, or solved a previously intractable problem.
Reminds me of a book that you might find interesting: "The First 20 Hours"
Stop voting to protect the status quo. Stop being a NIMBY and let more housing be built, even if it hurts yor house price. Confront climate change, even if it means giving up your car, your diet, your annual holidays, the way we plan and build infrastructure and cities.

Vote to give younger people a fighting chance against rampant house price growth, rising tuition costs, weak wage growth, rising health care costs. Take ownership for the state of the world and commit to helping people beyond your family lines.

Vote for progress, not against it like many boomers I know
A large number of what we believe are the primary cases have exposure to said market.
perhaps such emergency VMs can be allowed special tagging by the OS to remove all doubt

i am all in favor of 100% true positives on blocking all spammers and getting all real emergency calls through
a policy choice can't be objectively right

A policy choice is the linkage of a fact to a particular goal; while few policy choices are so simple as to admit of a binary choice, you can certainly rank them on a gradient.

Of course, it helps if your goal is clearly definable and you maintain awareness of consistency. Otherwise, a goal of, say, improving life expectancy might be satisfied by a eugenics policy which made unpersons of those with medical conditions that would lower life expectancy.
> Yes, I am aware of the fact that local variables are resolved statically

That's the one that comes to my mind yes. I'd bet that there are others, but couldn't list them to you now.

> do they have to be resolved during parsing?

I guess not in practice?

But why are we doing this to ourselves, right? These parsing tools work great! (As long as you only do half do the job you were trying to do and then sort of hack it back together afterward.)
Fortunately, the inch is defined as 0.0254 meter exactly. So we have consistency for the really important units.
I wouldn't know... I didn't go...
The part about not going to the moon that always baffles me, is when I start asking questions like "Were the Saturn Rockets fake? were the satellites launched fake? Do you believe the ISS is currently being faked? the Space Shuttle? Any of the SpaceX stuff that is currently happening?" and they believe that stuff is real.

If that's all real, then why couldn't they land on the moon?
Respectfully speaking, I don't think we need to get anywhere near some weird "reality is relative" argument here.

Just say it's not useful to you because you can't use it. No need to say it doesn't exist, even if it just doesn't exist "for you."

(As an aside, I think a lot of societal problems in the world today have roots in relativism and such -- so it's a bit of a bugbear.)
This has been shown to be a problem. I hate them.
Keybase, now with more spam than ever
Ah, got it! I think that's a great example.
It's not even funny that the UK had this; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_blood_scandal_in_...
> I also have conversations with random people in my life, explaining what I’m doing and what I’m thinking to them. When I have an inner monologue, I don’t think of it as talking to “myself”, but rather the imagined presence of some friend or family member. I have no idea how normal this is.

Also do this. Very rarely to "myself", nearly always someone else.
Technically, that wasn't a Telegram issue. Telegram supports 2FA with an user-configured password. Dallagnol & co weren't using it. They were thus vulnerable to voice mail hijacking, SMS hijacking, and other carrier-based attacks.

I agree Telegram's UX could be better but the app isn't to blame if technologically illiterate users are relying on it to circulate high profile confidential info.
You can move freely among EU countries, not just Schengen countries. Schengen isn't just a subset of EU countries -- it's many EU countries and some non-EU countries, and it's to do with a lack of border checks rather than the basic freedom of movement right.
Wouldn't it make sense to roll-call different sub-groups independently?
If anyone doesn't think the AG is serious, read the document request / questions at the end. Someone on the tech side is giving advice :)
Why don't people eat the locusts? I mean... good protein, right?
Infectious Disease epidemiologists.
OpenWRT remote code execution via MITM due to bug in package manager
Is the voting booth not direct enough for you?
We had to ban the IP block for an entire university due to troublemakers, but the problem is that one of our regulars was from the same U. One of us happened to know about such a forwarding service, so we gave him the address after a strict warning and promise that he'd behave himself.

He was having a rough time, and nobody wanted to be the one to tell him he was going to be kicked by association, so it was lucky we had a workaround.
The earliest version of this program on the GNU FTP is v 2.5 from 2003, so it definitely predates the trend of all web apps... it may even predate the web going back to 1.0.
How is that relevant to this thread in which I am saying that the parsing/lexing as described in the link is very outdated? Maybe you should start a separate discussion.
Totally agree. Software is just starting to scratch the surface of other industries.

Out of curiosity, what's your role in the space you're in now? Are you solving these data extraction problems?
Who am I to say that these two senators don't understand big politics, but here's my theory why the other 98 senators won't support the idea. Laws is a barrier between those who rule and those who obey. When the latter complain, the laws barrier diffuses their anger. The two senators find it too difficult to play this game and want to break this wall to rule the internet directly.
New planetarium show is like Google Earth for the universe
This is feasible if first responders and medical offices use SIP/VOIP providers who support SHAKEN/STIR.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/at-t-comcast-successfully-test...

https://transnexus.com/whitepapers/understanding-stir-shaken...
Thanks for this. I did not know about Dask! wow this looks great. Love the web-based task visualizations: https://distributed.dask.org/en/latest/web.html
They did actually - but while Obama was in office information about the program was far less public - here's a summary of events leading up to a Jan 13, 2016 lawsuit[1] and here's an article from early 2016 on a different lawsuit[2]. The ACLU has had a consistent stance as far as I'm aware - if you have some sources to indicate otherwise please do supply them.

And, not doing a thing because it wasn't done before is a whataboutism appeal that prevents us from improving our actions - it isn't a really logical argument except within the realm of US law and prior precedent.

1. https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/legal-docket/aclu-v-doj-stin...

2. https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/watchdog/article59...
It’s also cross platform as hell. Amazing at this stage of development.
DOJ afraid to go after big telecom
Where Australia’s Smoke Goes to Die
> Programming language design complexity came first and not as a result of yacc or lex.

I'm really not sure where you got the impression I was blaming Yacc or Lex for the complexity of the languages - I think you've imagined that.

The situation we're in in practice is that our language grammars are complex and are context-sensitive. So why are we trying to use context-free tools? It's madness - we're trying to hammer a nail using a screwdriver.
Exactly. I don't know much about the "Law of Attraction", but I imagine it's something that gets waved away by a lot of people. That might be for the better, I honestly don't know. A basic google search seems to mention a lot of "pure energy" and other things like that. I'm usually on the defensive when I read things like that.

But you're correct--the underlying aspect is appealing and true. You can't hit something unless you're aiming at it. You will undoubtedly have serendipitous moments in your life where you think, "Wow, this wonderful and unexpected thing happened!", but I imagine for anything long term those will be few and far between. It's hard to stumble your way into getting in shape or eating healthy. It's hard to stumble your way into a long and fulfilling career too, without a series of reflective steps along the way. Is luck a factor? Certainly. But just the mere act of aiming might help us get a lot closer than we would otherwise.

EDIT:

Even stumbling onto meeting your future wife, as the person commented in another comment, likely has a lot to do with thinking of things beforehand. Were you fit and healthy when you met her? Were you in the middle of a promising career or education? Did you take care of yourself? I'm not saying you woke up and said, "Today, I'll meet my wife!" But there were a series of things beforehand that facilitated it. Like the saying goes, "Luck is where preparation meets opportunity." Preparation is part of deciding what to pay attention to. If you consciously decide to be more open and friendly, then you might have more "coincidental" social moments. What changed? The universe, or you?
Worse yet, it's not like they're using internal canisters of compressed air. They're just sucking in whatever's floating around in the bathroom atmosphere and then blasting it onto your moist hands.

I hate those things.
Who do we trust to be the arbiters of extreme positions? I would consider the dismissal of using biological science to define male and female as an extreme position, and yet I could be banned from Twitter by saying as much.
> That's an incredibly polarizing statement, and one who makes it is immediately labeled as a bigot. Some go as far as to say such an individual is "denying trans people exist."

Great point. A huge part of the problem is language. Subtlety and nuance gets stripped away (especially online), so that everything you disagree with is an unconscionable violation. It's the language of clickbait.

I'm sure the idea is to break through the noise and mobilize people against perceived injustice, but all it does is make the noise that much louder.
There is no reason to believe there actually is two documents. It could just as well have been removed, either by accident or on purpose. I certainly trust Nils Melzer more than any police employee.

This is the only additional information on this I could find: https://data.ddosecrets.com/file/Assange/Assange-Sthlm-polis...
From 2 days ago, over 300 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22175019
It's the interpretation of the second amendment by SCOTUS that has been inconsistent over time, not the ACLU's position. Collective/militia rights is a widespread interpretation of the second amendment (which the ACLU holds). Interpreting "right to bear arms" as unrestrained individual gun ownership is not the default position just because modern NRA advocacy says it is.
The very first sentence in the article says that locusts are a type of grasshopper.
Originating from a lab doesn't necessarily mean it is a weapon. Only that they have poor sterilization or something.
I think it's worth expanding your definitions, eg

trolls: people who say absurd or mean things for lulz
fools: people who truly believe absurd or mean things because they are naive or gullible
scammers: people who say absurd or mean things for profit, and may present as fools or absurdist trolls when challenged
> Maybe you should start a separate discussion.

I started this one!
I wouldn't be surprised that u.s. is behind the whole thing. Wilbur Ross admitted that coronavirus would be good for the US economy.
I got my start in animation releasing stuff at the same time as Mr Weebl, Joel Veitch and others. In fact my first ever animation was in a Joel Veitch cartoon on his website.
I remember releasing stuff onto Newgrounds and seeing the view counter tick up. It was super exciting.
> I don't know if I know the solution, but I know one thing that isn't the solution: silencing everyone who disagrees with you.

I found that ignoring people on IRC who would sprinkle any conversation with racist or misplaced remarks helped me quite a bit. Of course it only affects me, but even after polite attempts to steer the conversation it never changed. Same on Twitter, at some point there is one of me and many of them, the cost to engage is just too high.
Nothing will ever beat RegexBuddy when it comes to Regex tools. It is an entire IDE just for regex, and has been my not-so-secret weapon for a decade or more.
You're painting their position with a brush the size of a small planet. Here's their actual position, which is for Constitutionally-consistent gun regulations and against proposed gun regulations which raise civil liberties concerns: https://www.aclu.org/blog/civil-liberties/mobilization/aclus...
Do you believe the ACLU‘s other/typical cases to be uncontroversial, to not have much opposition?

The ACLU is rather consistent. It’s you who just happens to believe there are some people undeserving of civil liberties.

A civil liberties Organisation that only acts on behalf of groups enjoying broad sympathy is useless.
We already have ageism enshrined in our constitution with minimum ages. If that's OK, then we should have upper age limits as well.

The lack of an upper age limit is potentially far more damaging in the modern era than not having a lower age limit. People in the founding fathers' times didn't live into senility, if you made it to 60 you were doing pretty good and probably not going to make it for another 3 decades. We have had at least one definitely senile president in the last 30 years and the evidence strongly suggests our current one is suffering from dementia as well. The two leading Democratic presidential candidates are both 80+ years old and one of them is looking awfully senile in public too. Dementia is a serious threat to American democracy in the modern era.

The structure of the American political system means that the people most likely to make a successful run are the ones that have spent 30-40 years building political capital, and those are inherently the oldest among us. Without some form of check, you end up with rule by octogenarian which is where we are.

What's the average age of a Senator these days? 65 or so? And that is the most likely place a presidential campaign can be launched from. And you would want to be a senior senator to be able to beat out the other senators...
Getting real 40k Tyranid vibes
As I mentioned in another thread. I worked at a facilities department at university with an infectious disease research lab.

We had incidents where there were system failures eg. Air filtration.

It can just be a simple accident that the China government is covering up because they know their population would turn on them.
Seems shortsighted. There are categories of software where even corporate drones shouldn't worry about AGPL. The ThoughtWorks tech radar is a decent example: https://github.com/thoughtworks/build-your-own-radar

Maybe you modified it to use some new data source, and to display it for internal use. Say O365 as a custom data source. You aren't giving away any real secret sauce by sharing your modifications. Anything sensitive is probably the actual data, not the code.

The license warrants caution. But not an outright ban.
Either way, a water kettle is super useful, often surprisingly so.

Definitely a kitchen gadget I'd recommend to anyone.