skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's mostly because this isn't true, though lots of people love to wax on about what they think is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions. I've heard all kinds of stuff like this over the years, such as "you can't fire a 50 cal at a human" etc.

The Geneva Convention says nothing in particular about hollowpoints, so the verbiage has an "interpretation" by DoD about the Rules of Land Warfare that skirts around the issue . See https://www.justsecurity.org/25200/dod-law-war-manual-return...

I know this because I carried hollowpoints while deployed in an anti-terrorism capacity.
Price gouging laws don't make sense:
https://fee.org/articles/the-crackdown-on-price-gouging-help...

[PDF] https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regu...
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No, it does not make sense for the Dean of Athletics to handle rape cases other than for them to kick out the athlete that has been convicted of rape by a court of law after an investigation by the police. An argument can be made as to whether those are University police or non-University police, but the investigation shouldn't be done by the Dean or any other administrator. If the Dean of Athletics has questions about federal regulations, that's what lawyers are for, which don't need to be in house administrators either.

A student's behaviour can generally get them kicked out of a university, despite not being convicted by a court of law. Just like you can be fired from your job, without a jury-of-twelve-peers conviction, if you've broken your employer's code of conduct.

So, no, the dean's job in this case is to not to simply grep through the list of state felons, and match them against the student roster. There's broader discretion in the kind of censure that private individuals need to apply, that does not begin and end at the courts.
We pretty much use a private blockchain for the very same purpose.

Its internal, only our systems have access, each user/customer is auto created an account on signup, we hold the private keys encrypted with the user's password so we can't access the key itself, keeps track of everything with 100% consistency.

1s block mining and raft consensus settings so pretty much instant and low resource utilization...and massively scalable.

Sorry to say but if I am in any type of fintech, I would never ever outsource keeping track of my customer's account balances and source of truth.
You would need to be unemployed to be able to receive this. And for some of this people this benefit has extinguised yet after a decade of economic war.

Moreover, not all works generate unemployment benefits. Many scientist's work for example would not qualify. Volunteers would not qualify also.
Has this not already replaced "serve and protect"?
I'm not sure. Plenty of people swim in waters where sharks are regularly observed. And still the attacks are low. And further, with many attacks, I think in particular great-whites, they back off after the first bite, which allows for much greater survivability. So the ratio of "shark contact" to "sharks win" is probably low. And if you also add in fishing for sharks (such as for fins) humans probably kill a lot more sharks than the other way around.
It doesn't have to be Jeff Bezos. At the start of the pandemic in the US there were plenty of stories of bad actors leveraging their credit to buy up high demands items (toilet paper, hand sanitizer, etc) all around their local area and selling it at a premium online.
And your statement is wiser because?

I've been taking vitamin d3 10K IU/day for 10 years and it has allowed my blood V-D3 levels to go from 12 ng/mL to ~50 which is within normal range. The NIH recommended dose has been going up over the last 2 decades starting at 400 IU and now 4,000 IU as we learn more and more about it's effectiveness.
Thank you and totally agree. I'm aiming to package up a GUI interface that would wrap these commands for this very purpose. Domain registration and site hosting (outside of git pages) automation are things I've also thought about. For now it's a WIP. Stay tuned.
The original RDA of 800 was designed to combat Rickets and has recently been thought to be significantly too low for folks in higher latitudes. Given the high number of variables perhaps simple RDA guidelines are not practical.

I take roughly 5k per day in the winter and it has helped a lot. See my other post for details.
So terraform is a higher-order, meta-Kubernetes. It's very rarely used, but who provisions the cluster itself? That's terraform.

So terraform creates the cluster, DNS and VPC. Then k8s runs pretty much everything.
Just respect "unsubscribe" as the subject of a mail as a request to unsubscribe. Add a List-Unsubscribe header with a mailto link, like

List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:list@host.com?subject=unsubscribe>

as per RFC-2369 and use the same mailto link inside the mail body. This is convenient, conventional and solves the problem you describe, while also allowing users to add feedback as they see fit in the body.

I don't see why you have to involve the web at all, but I can tell you that if I have to go through a bunch of bullshit when I want to unsubscribe I'll just mark it as spam instead. However appreciated and anticipated your newsletter is, you have to consider that most newsletter subscriptions are probably either accidental (failed to uncheck some box when signing up for something entirely different) or straight up unsolicited, and people like me will basically purge all their subscriptions without discrimination regularly as the crap builds up.
I just shared a few of my thoughts in response to the comment below
> It seems you're trying to emulate one of Linus's classic rants with that comment

If I were, I'd probably be courteous enough to link to it as the original author did.

> Linus has been known to use expletives others deem inappropriate when reviewing another human being's work - but since that's what you seem to be going for, you might as well commit to the bit.

I don't swear online :)

> The big difference between your comment and Linus's rants is that he's doing it when giving feedback that other people actually requested, rather than going off at some random person on the internet.

Sadly, I tend to do this far too often, and my goal is that it is not characterized as "going off at" people. I'm working on it.

> It seems your Linus impression is also a bit out-of-date, as he has publicly apologized for being a jerk in 2018.

See above. My audience is much smaller than Linus's, so it's likely that you may not have seen my apology for being a jerk in 2018.

> Although you've nailed the attitude there, I fear the real problem in your comment writing is that it's not backed by a solid knowledge of what you're writing about.

Actually, I happen to have already read the linked material, so I think I have a fairly decent background in Aphyr's writing.

> For example, it seems you wrote 80% of your comment before reading the entire article?

That is correct. You'll notice that I commented on the article's style early for reasons I explained in the comment itself: I didn't need to finish it to provide that feedback, and the thing I referenced itself gave me reason to pause reading. I withheld technical feedback until I finished.

> I've read better comments than this one before

I should hope so!

> I couldn't really tell what you were trying to achieve with it.

Provide constructive feedback to the author.

> consider not attempting that kind of comment at all, if you're not confident you can pull it off

Thanks, but I personally prefer to not shut down people who are trying to improve their writing.
EDIT: and as if to prove the point, I've been trolled by someone who really doesn't want a race to the top, they just want to have the same easy answer that everyone who ever grew up in the blue would have. I said more words, you said less. Congratulations on your victory my fellow piece of shit.

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Only the inwardly good ones are zen master ego busters. Everyone is a self-hating jerk sometimes. I don't think that's a great label for trolls anyways. Saying they all hate themselves is more masturbatory than true.

> The high-road leads to where we actually want to be.

Absolutely agree. What I'm doing right now is high-roading about the paradoxical nature of high-roading a troll. In this circumstance, the true high-road is the low-road, and the true low-road is the high-road. I'm saying you're low-roading by thinking something that obviously has not worked is suddenly going to start. You're taking an irrational but popular position. You'll win, but be wrong: low-roading.

All of the problems currently most difficult are ones which our intuition inherently fails at, this being one. Similarly, most heroes journeys end where they began just with a better perspective. Similarly, the easiest answer is often the best, but it usually takes trying everything else to understand why. These long-arc experience-driven positions are hard to achieve, and hard to understand, but correct: high-roading.

Right now is one of those cases where we have to re-learn tactics that seem savage, but with the benefit of knowing savagery is context sensitive.

In this battle there's a side that cares about being right, and there's a side that cares about winning. Trumps side can literally physically kick the asses of the side that cares about being right. Not only that, but they've got trolls that can get under their skin and make Liberals pout, and whine, and cry.

Liberals are largely more rational/correct about most things.

Personally, I believe that true leaders should be able to win a race to either bottom or top. They should be able to beat others physically, rationally, and emotionally. Trying to do this "fact-check" stuff is just liberals patting themselves on the back for being justifiably more rational. But that's not what matters now. What matters is that liberals should be better at trolling, and better at fist fighting because that is the only dominance that will create the change this world legitimately needs.

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In conclusion, just ban the POTUS and say it was for the lulz. As long as everyone knows you're not actually that dumb, it's the best possible strategy for dealing with trolls.
> These protests are at least partly drummed up by out of state agitators

This is a scary response. We saw, today, a black CNN reporter arrested by state police on live television. If that’s how an educated, gently-speaking, Constitutionally-protected member of the press is treated, there is a root issue festering. Blaming it on agitators deflects from introspection.

A big part of the problem is Minneapolis’s moderates have turned a blind eye to the problems in their police force for years. That civic neglect has consequences. Those consequences are coming home to roost.
I'm not going to defend that part of the statement, it was obviously wrong to anyone with more than 2 brain cells if interpreted literally. However the situation has rapidly declined to a state where I personally think the use of non-lethal force is justified, and lethal in the case of an imminent threat (ie. armed and threatening or literally firebomb in hand). A number of dwellings and business have been set on fire, in addition to the police precinct. These are individuals (and some large corporations) that are unrelated, and those taking advantage of the chaos and creating more should be punished appropriately. Obviously appropriate measures do not involve shooting people.
> Twitter is not a legally recognized method of presenting Official Statements

The Trump DOJ disagrees. Further, the ruling that he had to unblock people on Twitter established exactly that. He had to unblock people because he's making statements about government policy.

Therefore, them muting/hiding/blocking him is impeding access to official government statements.

Further, once they mute/hide/block some of his tweets, they're presenting some but not all.

They would probably be safer to allow all or none. This middle ground is editorial control over government statements which is a bizarre middle ground.. imagine a major announcement or policy change not being reported? Or actively being quashed?
I'm 100% in favor of the protestors' cause, but if you want probable cause, burning down a police station, housing unit, and nearby businesses certainly qualifies.
I would imagine that accounts of "important" people are handled personally rather than by automated algorithm. As Jack Dorsey points out in this[0] Joe Rogan podcast, the reported tweets by public or algorithm are manually checked at some point.

Approx. 4000 employees of Twitter all around the world. Every day 100k (edit: 100M) tweets are sent. The reports of tweets that violate the platform policy are (reported by public) enter a queue. These are then inspected by personnel hired by Twitter (number varies proportionally to the scale reports in the queue).

The personnel then go through a series of steps to take an action such as making you verify again, delete those tweets, suspending the account, or in the last resort ban the user permanently.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCBRHOg3PQ
What is this bug? I've been using Mail on Catalina for the last 6 months and haven't noticed any problems.
But they all choose to do that, so that's the actual outcome of the legislation.

I don't understand why I keep seeing this argument. We all have to deal with cookie dickbars regardless of whether or not your armchair lawyer argument is technically correct. If this is what the law does in practice, and the behavior is generally seen as compliant, then it's a dumb law.
> only applies in circumstances where supply is fixed

After SARS, something like COVID-19 was foreseeable to the professionals. But when a retailer knows they can't raise prices during any emergency, they can't justify investment to prepare for the next emergency. We've optimized out spare capacity we actually needed.
Not in /Letter from a Birmingham Jail/ (1963), but he would later go on to state the following (1967):

"Let me say as I've always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially destructive and self-defeating. ... But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity. And so in a real sense our nation's summers of riots are caused by our nation's winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again."
That's great. And, I love that the examples all specify /home/ubuntu as the home directory, so the author is clearly using Linux. This is really cool.
Conservatives are too busy playing victim on social media to be worried about how African Americans are unfairly targeted and killed by police. They're mad that the President isn't allowed to encourage it.
Or, hear me out, the "delayed" arrests are so they don't make mistakes that would result in a mistrial because they don't want you to jump up and yell "they intentionally violated their rights so the judge would throw the case out".
Taylor Swift Chides Trump on Twitter, over Looting Comment
Ditto re 10K. I've been taking Vitamin D3 10K IU/day for 10 years and it has allowed my blood V-D3 levels to go from 12 ng/mL to ~50 which is within normal range. The NIH recommended dose has been going up over the last 2 decades starting at 400 IU and now 4,000 IU as we learn more and more about it's effectiveness.

Re lux with full body exposure. I was under the impression it's an hour per day to get 15-20 IU? Either way it means exposing legs, hands and face to the sun which most people rarely do on a daily basis.
Your pushback against the HN downvoter cowards, especially when you've questioned the status quo and planted a seed of dissent against the grain, is quite appreciated by this particular HN user.

Honestly, I find the dialogue here toxic and coarse, and I'm sure I'm a part of that, too. Ideally I'd just delete my account, and never come back... But HN won't allow me to delete my account, so, in spite, I'll keep coming back.
This reminds me of a meetup I attended last fall, they were talking about the Spectre/Meltdown issues. I asked the presenters if anything in chip manufacturing/verification processes had changed as a result of that and they seemed surprised.

To me, when a software bug shows up in a critical system, that means you actually have a logistics bug. Airplane control software should not be allowed to have bugs. CPUs should not be allowed to have bugs. And OS's should not be allowed to crash (looking at you Microsoft).

When one of these things happens, in my opinion the correct response is _not_ to just release fixes and workarounds and then say "we'll try really hard to not let it happen again." You do that, sure. But the first time you see airplane software malfunction, that means you need to change the way the software is written and released so that the whole class of issues will not ever happen again. You don't stop at a public apology, you don't fire the person that unintentionally wrote the bug. If you have to hire mathematicians to formally prove the critical paths of the software, you do that. If it costs 10x more to release bug-free software, oh well, you do that.

All of these corporate people thinking they can save money by spending less on quality are extremely naive. You can do a financial analysis of this, but they're doing it wrong. Did you ever consider what the cost of a whole generation just not trusting air travel at all would be?
And in particular, sixteen ADC instructions in four chains shouldn't run any slower than sixteen ADD instructions (assuming four execution ports and a large enough reorder buffer), but a: Haswell sucks, and b: even on properly-designed CPUs, making parallelization easier is almost always some kind of win, because general-purpose CPUs always have dispatch overhead.
Perhaps your police should stop accidentally killing persons of colour then. Flying military drones over the city isn't going to de-escalate the situation. Properly punishing police brutality is.
I'd say it's down to two things. First is the sheer amount of work they're putting into standardization. They just ripped out some pretty deep internal dependencies to create a new storage interface. They have an actual standards body overseen by the Linux Foundation. So I agree with the blog post there.

The second reason is also about standards, but using them more assertively. Docker had way more attention and activity until 2016 when Kubernetes published the Container Runtime Interface. By limiting the Docker features they would use, they leveled the playing field between Docker and other runtimes, making Docker much less exciting. Now, new isolation features are implemented down at the runc level and new management features tend to target Kubernetes because it works just as well with any CRI-compliant runtime. Developing for Docker feels like being locked in.
"What cron jobs does this app run?"

Open cron.yaml and see. With schedule. Self documented.

Amazing. Every time. Even when some as my k8s battle wounds are still healing (or permanently scarred). See other replies for more info.
Not only does it actually pass the sniff test, but allowing price gouging creates a market incentive for people to hoard supplies until they think prices are at their highest, then try to sell their stock for maximum price: https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2020/mar/14/...

Hoarding artificially drives up the prices and keeps emergency supplies out of the hands of those who need it most.

When you disallow price gouging, you remove one of the worst incentives for hoarding of critical supplies. You still get some people who think anti-price-gouging laws don't apply to them, or who have never heard of such laws, but that doesn't mean allowing price gouging would improve the situation by any means. On the contrary, more people would hoard for longer, because they see the available supply constricting even faster (due to more people hoarding), driving prices even higher, making their own hoard of supplies seem even more likely to be their ticket to wealth, and if it's perfectly legal, nothing is going to rain on their early retirement.

In the above case of someone hoarding 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer, they ended up donating the entire stock to avoid being fined for price gouging, which seems like an example of the system working correctly to disincentivize hoarding during an emergency: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/hand-sanitizer-matt-co...
How does that line of thinking work with something like baby formula? If I have a hungry baby now, what good does it do me if I have to wait two weeks because I'm priced out of baby formula today?

In emergency situations we pretty much already know what peoples needs generally are. We don't need price as a market mechanism to know people need access to food water etc.

Additionally, price gouging is sending artificial pricing signals. The rise in price is not the result of organic demand but people taking advantage of a short term supply constraint, so if I'm a manufacturer/distributor I can't react to this rise in prices the same way I would in a normally functioning economy. I may not even be able to.
When the 50% you're talking about was notorious for calling people snowflakes and betas, yes I do believe they are more prone to advocate for violence, racism, and hate speech.
What if they are but just don’t feel like it?
> But let's be real, we saw a 182 unit multi story low income housing unit burn down to ash (the blaze was enormous).

This was a housing development that had some low-income units, but the majority were "market-price."
as a sys-admin, I like k8s because it solves sys-admin problems in a standardized way. Things like, safe rolling deploys, consolidated logging, liveness and readiness probes, etc. And yes, also because it's repeatable. It takes all the boring tasks of my job and let's me focus on more meaningful work, like dashboards and monitoring.
I have another step between 1 and 2: send a mail to the abuse contact of their AS. You can do it either manually, or with a tool like https://www.spamcop.net/ . Sometimes it works (but rarely).
I'm not indicting the entire West. I'm indicting certain people in the West that post silly almost conspiracy style stuff against obvious solutions to a deadly disease. There's an obvious balance here, and it's not on the 'we don't know how but something might happen' side. How about we all stop posting on HN? After all, posting might change magnetic fields which might change a butterfly's path which could cause a deadly hurricane?

P.S. We knew even at the time DDT was poisonous to life, and that draining swamps kills ecosystems. What changed wasn't so much our knowledge, but the situation (the West had gotten rid of many deadly diseases by that time, mosquitoes had started to develop resistance).
>This is just not true, and is a false dichotomy. Moderation is hard.

It's absolutely true, and has absolutely nothing to do with moderation "being hard". As someone who absolutely opposes Trump, but also absolutely opposes our many wars and global bombings, I'm horrified on a daily basis (and have been since 2009 when I joined Twitter) by open calls for violence against a wide variety of countries from Syria to Venezuela to Iran. When has Twitter ever suspended anyone (let alone a public figure, or even Trump himself, who has called for violence against other countries many times) a single time for openly calling for violence against the people of any of the countries? The answer is never. Its beyond absurd, bordering on delusional, to pretend that Twitter's actions here weren't nakedly political and have absolutely nothing to do with a standard against, "fomenting violence".