skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Trump's phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" is an unattributed quote of Walter Headley, Miami's police chief in 1967. It was a threat to citizens who were upset that police had terrorized a black teenager by holding him over a bridge.' (https://twitter.com/mattsheffield/status/1266246092393336838)
There's no shortage of capital floating around, though. In fact, the surplus of capital is probably what caused an investment this bad in the first place. There is no shortage of funding for good ideas. The shortage is in the idea space.
Spotify is very public about the huge role that their recommendations play in listening behaviors. Sources are everywhere for anyone not too lazy to lift a finger.
You tell me, he quite literally says the military is with him and ready to shoot when people start looting.

Please tell me how I am inverting the situation? Or should I use your translation book to make sense of his tweets?
This seems like a dubious foundation for Twitter to start with. If Trump controls the National Guard there is a definite public interest in knowing when he is likely to deploy the National Guard. It'd be headline news after the fact; it should be telegraphed beforehand.

Trump might be bluffing, but Twitter can't possibly know.
I said this in another comment, but similarly to this, check out Redux Toolkit (https://redux-toolkit.js.org), the `slices` feature changed my view on Redux entirely. Basically you can have a per-feature slice of functionality rather than having actions, reducers, and constants spread around your code. It's analogous to what hooks did, encapsulating similar functionality.
Russian government use external enemy to shift attention from internal problems. All state owned media attention is on Chechnya, Abkhazia, Crimea. "The might of the russian troops"... Tsarism never ended, it just shifts masks.
Am I the only one with a list of over 1000 ideas that would all become billion dollar companies if I just had the time to do them all?
Nice Fake Anti 5G USB-Stick
Perhaps you spend too much time around violent people?

The phrase is the equivalent of “reaping what you sow”.
I find it clever that Twitter is not deleting the tweets, but simply adding their opinions about it.

I don't know if you can call "censure" when your messages are still visible to the public, but the "editor-that-is-not-really-an-editor-but-sort-of" simply adds a banner saying "yeah, sure, right."

I can't wait for Trump to protest the flagging, and Twitter to respond that "flagging tweets while letting them visible" is just expressing their free speech. Surely Trump supporters are all in favor of free speech in a free country, right ?
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i found most of it horrible. norway's didn't make me feel too sick.
This isn't really accurate. VCs would much rather get paid 20+% carry than 2% management fees (and raising a follow-on fund would be quite difficult if you failed to make returns and publicly blew most of your fund on a boondoggle like Magic Leap).
If Twitter sucess to fight for the truth without exposing bias they will be the most remarkable heroes of the 2001 century and could begin a whole change of behavior of websites regarding fake news and hate speech
Wouldn't they cause violence?
> Russia has no shortage of top-notch democracies next door

Correct, but none with a Slavic majority. Similar with China. Lots of democracies. None with mostly Han Chinese.

The threat to both comes from the disabling of their argument that democracy doesn’t work for “their” people. It’s difficult for Russia to define a set of people that encompasses its population but excludes Ukrainians. Same for Beijing with respect to Hong Kong and Taiwan.
For anyone who doesn't want to click, Twitter quarantined (you can click "view" to see it, however engagement is disabled) a Presidential tweet in which he calls on a mayor to "get a city under control", threatened to send in the national guard, said the military is behind the governor, and said that if there is difficulty they will assume control. His specific reference to violence occurred at the end the tweet, which he ended saying "Any difficulty, and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!"
> How can a license be incompatible with only the latter then?

Your parent comment said no such thing. It says, that you need GPL v3 to be compatible with Apache 2. "Or later" clause on GPL 2-licensed project offers you a way to re-license the project under GPL v3.
Integrating Qt Events into Actix and Rust
Sending police to stop violence is "glorifying violence"? How exactly?
Twitter was 'kind of' dying before Trump. Now its a pretty nice place with people to follow (Some sort of network effect?). But its too far from being open, requires phone number, lacks 'RSS' and etc.

I wish he moved to Mastodon. Decentralized, open source. It only needs users
> “Around 46% of Spaniards are still at work at 6pm, and 10% are still there at 9pm,” says Berbel. “So they are not having a good time, they are working.”

Reminds me when I moved from the UK to Germany (and later Switzerland) and was blown away, in the German office I worked in, how they worked less hours (most people strictly 8am to 4pm) and were at least a factor of 5 times more productive than anything I'd experienced in the UK.

The typical "average working day" I witnessed in a number of UK companies in London (I was an IT freelancer back in the mid-to-late 90's) went like...

- Arrive 9am-ish (depending on the Tube)

- Drink coffee, talk about football, what was on TV last night and whatever funny thing happened at the pub last night and basically almost no work until...

- 12 noon... time to get something done for an hour before lunch

- Lunch for 1 - 1.5 hours... some people already drinking their first beer

- Get back from lunch, pretend to work while being half asleep from a large lunch

- 4pm something's on fire... big crisis! Gotta be fixed NOW

- 8-9pm... fire now extinguished. Leave to the pub with colleagues

That's slanted toward an IT department but from what was basically 12 hours of being at work in some work, there was probably only 4-5 hours of productivity.

The key difference I witnessed in Germany was people went to work to work, not to socialise, and were actually getting more done in less time. There was also a bias towards being pro-active over being re-active, which meant less fire-fighting, which in turn meant time could be better managed.
This sounds like a lot of envy. They made a lot of money conning people legally. Live with it.
This cuts both ways.

The resources were allocated to something fairly innocuous, rather than to something potentially detrimental.
Too busy bragging about their pet language on HN, instead of off proving their point with it.
Puerto Rico can become a US State anytime it wants just by holding a referendum and getting a majority vote. They have repeatedly chosen not to, probably because they hold full uS citizenship, can live, work and travel freely to the states without a passport and overall hold all the rights of a US state with none of the tax obligations. If anything they are in a privileged position. That covers 3.5 million out of the approx 4 million residents of US territories.

EDIT: For the idiots downvoting. I know that Puerto Rico held referendums, I lived there for a while and I know a lot of people in government. The most recent referendum was massively boycotted and got extremely low turn out. Because of this many politicians in Puerto Rico consider it invalid. Bottom line, way too many rich politicians in Puerto Rico benefit from the lack of taxes and oversight to allow statehood. If they want statehood they have to actually put together a delegation to handle the transition which they have NOT done yet.
On the other hand, cash is very cheap at the moment and there is an enormous amount washing around looking for opportunity. It’s not insane to try a few high-risk high-reward gambles.

(Although maybe it is insane not to pull the plug once deceptive communication from the senior leadership becomes apparent).
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Isn't this what latexmk does for you?

I don't use things like bibtext so I don't know how it handles that, but latexmk works perfectly for normal use cases, and ensures that you never have to run it more times than you need to.
There was hubbub to do this when Trump was going to be elected and they prevented it.
You could say that none of it was "wasted", people earned their salary there (I assume) and learned something, that led to consumption and investments elsewhere.

Unless someone literally burnt the money, it did some good.

Then again, yea, $2.4B is just ridiculous, wonder what Jeri Ellsworth and Tilt5 (https://www.tiltfive.com) could have done with those resources...
Well BL 23 says HK will enact (on its own) a law to prevent sedition, treason against PRC. The comprehensiveness of such measures is where the present debate lies, and has since before the handover.

Recall that this was attempted prior to the handover and the PRC thought it insufficient. Sufficiency is in the eye of the beholder, and relative to the norms of each society, no?

The US has laws to prevent sedition and treason, but they are nowhere near what the PRC finds appropriate for their own country. HK’s cultural expectations are somewhat closer to the occidental norms than the expectations of China proper, it would seem.

Frankly, I think the expectation was (and for some people still may be) that China would become a more socialized (pardon the pun) citizen of the globe by 2047, rather than the angry and aggressive economic rescue dog they’re turning out to be, and so the threat of HK takeover by a repressive, totalitarian regime would have been moot. Sadly it’s not looking like China will normalize in this sense prior to the JD expiring, and in fact, China has explicitly stated that they disregard the binding nature of the JD, calling it a mere “historic document”, despite its contemporaneous binding nature.
An unattributed quote?
The Fall of Luckin Coffee: A Network of Fake Buyers and a Fictitious Employee
We have placed a public interest notice on Tweet from Donald Trump
Send all of the middle east into meltdown, as militants foment biblical anarchy, engage in AK-47 raids, snipe tanks with RPG attacks and indirect fire, and oh right, the beheadings, but woah, woah, woah.

Trumpy say pee pee and poo poo, and that's a no no.
Have you looked up the context of that quote? Here is where that quote originated from Miami Police Chief Walter Headley. It’s very clear the implication is the use of law enforcement and police brutality.

“In declaring war on 'young hoodlums, from 15 to 21, who have taken advantage of the civil rights campaign,' Headley said, 'we don’t mind being accused of police brutality.'

'They haven’t seen anything, yet.'

Headley said Miami hasn't been troubled with racial disturbances and looting because he let the word filter down, 'When the looting starts, the shooting starts.'"

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19671228.2.19&e=--...
The goal should not be to eradicate the mosquitos, but to eradicate Plasmodium, and then even just the ones (most) responsible (if you can call an unicellular organism responsible) for malaria.

Also, ‘only’ about 40 of 460 Anopheles species commonly transmit malaria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anopheles). We should target those, leaving the others around.
As important as openssl is for many projects I find the engineering quality of it to be lackluster. My project is still on an older version and I wanted to upgrade. I tried to build approximately 7 versions for windows using msvs 2017 and msvs 2019. None even build but fail with compiler errors or linker errors!

On Linux if I go to system provided 1.2.x openssl version and try to build against that my code breaks with thousands of mysterious errors about undefined types (in openssl headers).

I mean Openssl solves a big problem but from engineering perspective the library is one giant problem. And I haven't even remarked on the horrible API design yet.
Shenandoah JDK15 status: not experimental anymore
You should definitely put that up as a blog post somewhere, it is very valuable information, both for researchers and random enthusiasts alike. The emotional modality of it adds important information too :).
We are talking about HCQ. Perhaps its use is strange in the US, but in India its commonly prescribed for malaria (and also lupus, arthritis). My entire extended family (ex-military) has taken HCQ at one point of time or another. No ill-effects for millions of people. Heavy dosages should be avoided of-course.
At some point reputation is on the line I would guess. The whole credit system and all.
Try copying across a line break. You'll notice that the spaces between the words are missing when you paste it.
> Puerto Rico has voted repeatedly to not become an official US state.

That's not true. Look at the results from the 2012 and 2017 referendums:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Puerto_Rican_status_refer...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Puerto_Rican_status_refer...

> The option is available to them anytime they want it.

That is not true either. None of these referendums have triggered a change of status.
Sigh. Really.

The tweets didn’t offer “sending in the police” it threatened to send the military in. Which isn’t the police.

Word matter. The fact I’m m reading this comment here is sad.
Qoute: "In the Fall of 2017 I'd done a ton of freelancing on the (garbage) website Upwork. Upwork is a bit of a grind. User's can search for a skill they'd like to freelance in ( Cisco Networking, Python programming, Painting Dogs, whatever) and apply for job's via proposals. The crappy thing about Upwork is that once a job is posted, the heat is on to apply. The longer you let the job sit, the more likely that other freelancers will apply for it and get the work. Being early was an extreme advantage, even if you are the best.

After googling around a bit, I found that Upwork had no way for user's to get alerts on new jobs, even though many user's requested it. "Hmmm, I thought, a market need". There were, though, countless forum posts and low-quality YouTube videos explaining how to set up alerts via IFTTT and Upwork's RSS feeds feature. "

As a long time Upwork freelancer (12 years now) - short answer would be that you're not cut for freelancer's market. Long answer is harder to stomach, so skip next paragraph:

1 - Being early is disadvantage actually. Being early means your bid gets dumped in job poster's email along with the others. You want to be 1st (hard to be and you'll never have the guarantee even with a fast notification) or let it sit for 24 hours.

2 - Rant about not having notifications then answering yourself about using RSS. If RSS is hard for you to make it work then I'll have to wonder about the rest of your skills as programmer. Personally I didn't like any RSS feed apps out there so I wrote my own, customized to my needs. You could've done the same, instead you made a Saas out of it thinking you'll strike gold.
No, it’s not. They actually voted to become an official US state: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Puerto_Rican_status_ref...

Besides, they are already U.S. citizens by right, they don’t need to vote on anything. They are just denied full constitutional rights because reasons. It’s a disgrace and we all know it.
There's a reason he got elected, and it isn't because of some minority group in the US.
you can actually use it today - there is a plugin for it which adds Web MIDI API to Firefox - https://jazz-soft.net/download/web-midi/

I have tried some Web MIDI demos (and online CSound IDE) this way.
If those "people" started looting my property i would have very much liked for someone to shoot them
I'm someone who loves vim, and uses it every day, but I'll admit there are a couple things that are a pain (especially to learn). Coming to mind right now is buffer management. I've been able to patch over it with plugins (wintabs is great), but that's not really the best solution, usually.
> You tell me, he quite literally says the military is with him and ready to shoot when people start looting.

He didn't literally say that. The National Guard would be acting in a role very similar to the police when there is rioting.
Twitter's problem is that Trump wants to pick a fight, and there's no good way to avoid it.

Trump's base is not on Twitter. Fact checking tweets provides more grist for the outrage mill, and the media which his base consumes amplifies the conflict and not the substance. So the tweets will get worse and worse.

It's impossible to give Twitter good advice, it's a horrible position to be in.
But there is an opportunity cost attached to it. Such a large sum of capital, on other hands could have created real value. This created none.
Twitter policy:

"We start from a position of assuming that people do not intend to violate our Rules. Unless a violation is so egregious that we must immediately suspend an account, we first try to educate people about our Rules and give them a chance to correct their behavior. We show the violator the offending Tweet(s), explain which Rule was broken, and require them to remove the content before they can Tweet again. If someone repeatedly violates our Rules then our enforcement actions become stronger. This includes requiring violators to remove the Tweet(s) and taking additional actions like verifying account ownership and/or temporarily limiting their ability to Tweet for a set period of time. If someone continues to violate Rules beyond that point then their account may be permanently suspended."

Somewhere a counter was just incremented. It's going to be amusing if Twitter management simply lets the automated system do its thing. At some point, after warnings, the standard 48-hour suspension will trigger. Twitter management can simply simply say "it is our policy not to comment on enforcement actions".

They've suspended the accounts of prominent people many times before.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions
They are allowed to police things that are against their TOS. They just aren't allowed to be biased.
Just judging by what you’re saying here you’re nothing but a moron yourself.
That would be really funny.

Imagine all the devs and supporters of Mastodon trying hard to come up with a pretext why it is okay to block him from the network via technical changes.
Now divide total number of blocks by 30 years and you get 1 multi ton block being laid every 9 minutes.

The current theories are joke, this numbers don’t add up. Don’t be afraid to challenge the “academic” theories, as you see, there is no math behind them.
Oh just great. The american left should stop pushing people away by acting like spoiled babies.

The idea that twitter's actions are going to lead to anything good is terribly misguided. The idea that acting out your collective trump derangement syndrome is helping is even more misguided.
Can you all please listen the thing fully before complaining ?
The president does not have the authority to call in the National Guard to perform law enforcement in a state — that is the governor’s decision:

https://kstp.com/news/minnesota-national-guard-activated-to-...

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/05/599895184/why-president-trump...
Do you know why they do that? I understand for ads (maybe your ads are shown at their property, so they get a cut). But what's with Firebase/Google Play?
But since there is a VM anyways, It is fair to expect library sandboxing.
This kind of fraud benefits Facebook's competitors in the ad space by increasing the cost per customer acquired.

If someone clicks, signs up, and never pays, the conversion rate on the ad looks worse, and Facebook's targeting looks less valuable.
I think you’re misunderstanding the purpose of pop music nowadays. People are not sitting down in front of a hi-fi to listen to this music. It’s background audio for when they’re driving or texting or both, or a catchy bit of background for a TikTok video. It needs to have a beat that slaps, and not too much discernible verbal content which could interfere with other verbal tasks like sending a text.
Not really, because people could change the action on their PR and have it run. Unless you've got a fork based workflow internally.
So I guess that makes residents of Kashmir eligible?
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/glorification... doesn't seem to have 'unequivocally' anywhere.

I am not in favor of looters, but note that
https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-19-15.pdf
emphasizes the necessity of graduated response.
I presume state militia units share the doctrine (Figure 2.1) that lethal response is only called for in the face of an armed threat, and that it must be the minimum response necessary.

(found by googling four words: national guard crowd control; 2nd page of results)
That's it, he's definitely moving to Gab now.
I think it's because the generated text will generally follow a reasonable "structure", it's "framed" relatively well and you (as a person) will recognize those patterns quickly. There's plenty of "glue" used throughout the text. Those are all patterns which we pick up very quickly, and we're used to seeing them in "real text".

Exampels from the comment above include using things like: "A year ago", "made headlines", "Now, it's the {event}, and {name} is at it again. But this time, ...", "{name} was not impressed", "You know, I feel like, I feel like you could have ...", "I don't know if... but...".

Those are all very common in those "online celebrity magazine" type texts...

It's only when you actually read into the stuff that's in-between, you'll come to see it's pretty much a load of nonsense. But that takes a bit more time and slower reading.
They would probably had to literally burn up $2.4B with nothing to show frankly. It did some good in the sense handing out money to people I guess ?
Rofl. The last startup I worked for had "very positive momentum towards closing key strategic enterprise partnerships" from the day I joined to the day we went down like the Hindenburg.
That's funny because the actual value proposition of using Balsamiq to create apps is that they themselves are intentionally rough. So it looks like the founders used Balsamiq to create and pitch Balsamiq. Very cool example of dogfooding.
> Yeah, time for that racist bullshit to end.

Probably more of an economic decision than one based in racism.

> You're either a full and free citizen of the empire or not

The British empire was disbanded, so there's nobody really to take your quarrel up with.

> special classes of citizenship based on race and geography

> are an abomination to all lovers of freedom and justice.

Again, you're assuming it's based in race and geography. It seems more like the motivation was based in economics.
Sending police to shoot at protester is "glorifying violence". As a reference, that's the approach that Assad took in Syria back in 2011.
Taiwan Welcomes Those Resisting China in Face of Rising Pressure
That's a fair point. I'm not defending Trump's tweet, but it seems defining violence glorification is arbitrary. It would be funny if Twitter adds a rule that says you can be an organization whose whole purpose is to make devices that kill people as long as you don't glorify making devices that kill people.
> It is merely informative.

That's the problem.

When facts/information doesn't align with one's agenda, some people have a terrible habit of trying to have it hidden/banned/removed/etc.

You would think in hackernews of all places, we'd upvote the comment to see exactly what trump wrote so that we can decide for ourselves when it was "glorifying violence". Sadly, many here don't want that to happen.
No thanks, its getting old, also not fun anymore, every year the same blabla, wanna 'waste' your time? At least do it with that :)

https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf