skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> cars would get rifled through every ~2 months or so

As a Brazilian, wow, that's a high crime area. People here voted a crazy wannabe dictator into the presidency because he promised to fix places that were less bad than this.

Anyway, yes, random stop & frisk probably makes things worse, not better.
The US had a fairly rich history of shooting rioters too. After Kent State there was enough backlash to at least prefer "nonviolent" methods, but I don't doubt they'd fire again if conditions get much worse.

edit because of Kent State, not after. Almost immediately after they still fired 460 shots at protesters in Jackson State.
Do 70mm rockets count?

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/local/article/Local-police-...

But really, there's little difference between a lot of civilian and light military aircraft. The Bell 206 that your local news station probably flies around was developed as a military helicopter.
> they found a set of roman dice for a game

mono-polis?
No I'm not, but I did reference it.
> Everyone has a breaking point - republicans were about to riot over wearing a mask to protect their families; these people are rioting over being murdered and ignored.

There was a republican protest over COVID where there was mass theft, looting, and arson?
Yes but ironically Twitter tags Trump tweets about election fraud just after another report of a letter carrier tampering with mail in ballots. There are numerous stories that don't get attention about problems with mail in voting because access media doesn't want a certain narrative.

At the same time, Twitter doesn't tag a Trump tweet about Joe Scarborough alleging an affair and murder of an intern/co-worker which is all wild speculation and completely inappropriate.

It's all obvious politics at this point, and everyone simply screams their sides' talking points.

I don't like the executive branch legislating, that is what the Congress is supposed to do. But far too long have tech companies straddled the line between publisher or platform, (soft censoring it's users/clients which i have a problem with instead of just removing them from the platform which i think is well within their rights).

Hopefully this opens up all these companies who editorialize their users content to class action and other legal opinions and actions. At the very least maybe the courts and the Congress will weigh in and we can get most of these grey areas removed. We might have less options for social media and news agencies and some might even be completely destroyed. Likewise, i think a lot of users will be removed and or deplatformed. But these are all costs we need to bear to finally get peace on the web.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply.

The overall trend is that justice and respect for human dignity has steadily, undeniably, increased over the last several hundred years. Therefore, generally speaking, I would say that yes, a modern 30-something has more "decency" than one of 50, 75 or 100 years ago.

To be totally clear, I don't fault my grandparents or other people that are products of these eras. They aren't necessarily bad people. And certainly, the measure of "common decency" would, of course, be different then.

I just can't wrap my head around longing for a time when society was more constrained/repressive/intolerant. Yes, there are things I think were better in the past, but they are the exception.

(side note: this is not to say I don't think political correctness can go too far, it certainly can. There are exceptions to everything).
So am I, my friend.
We were promised change when a Minneapolis policeman killed a tourist three years ago. If the good citizens of Minneapolis has insisted that there be change, today there wouldn't be problems.
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Harms the community... that they do not have a voice in. That is oppressing them with violence & murder.

I'm usually very critical of protests that involve torching things, but this is different from, say, Occupy Wall Street getting violent.
I lean towards closures having primacy. FTR, I learned OOP way before I'd ever heard of functional programming.

My reasoning is based on two things: Firstly, objects have identity and this is a superfluous notion for most cases. Functions just "do things" to their inputs and return the result. Secondly, OOP is fundamentally predicated on the notion of mutation[0], but I think that is totally antithetical to local reasoning (chunking). The latter may just be a preference, but IME it seems to bear out. Mutation seems to be a consequence of the focus on identity, now that I think about it after writing that footnote.

> I couldn't really understand the idea that they were fundamentally new compared to objects (in fairness this was only put forth by a few people)

Just a historical note: First-class functions were invented waaaaay before OOP was a gleam in somebody's eye.

[0] The only non-mutating OOP system I know of is O'Camls version of OOP, but it's not very popular because it's just... unnecessary. It also does away with "identity", now that I think about it.
I've been using https://github.com/clemensg/xnu to look through the releases and there's definitely been an uptick recently (although that particular repo was suddenly updated after I made an issue).
I think Dr. Dre is a sensible human being who's able to distinguish between art that he made 30 years ago and his current hypothetical circumstance, in which he would presumably act w/ the the dignity, prestige and responsibility of the office.
It would make far more sense to take the costs out of the police pension pot, either the city pot (if it's a systematic problem) or the individual pot (if it's a "bad apple")
> context: I built/manage my company's Airflow platform. Everything is managed on k8s

My team is running Airflow on a single node but we're slowly outgrowing this setup. We're considering running jobs on k8s.

Curious what's your setup like? Is your cluster of a fixed size or does it scale with the load?
I understand why one wouldn't necessarily target users who just need a contact form for noncommercial use. However, you could have a business product that allows for team access to forms + support that offsets the cost of the super low cost personal accounts that can't share forms or form results or use support. The actual computational resources required by personal users is likely to be minuscule, especially for something as simple as a form to email service.

> It’s not worth building a business for unprofitable customers in general.

I mean, Uber seems to be doing reasonably well.
> i mean, these kinds of simple CS201 algorithms are still at the core of a lot of things that definitely count as AI by any reasonable definition.

X is a component of Y does not imply X is Y.

I use lots of nails to build a house. A nail is not a house.
I am not really sure how I feel about this. Yes, charging $1000 for a Nintendo Switch is insane, but who will buy it? I guess the same process goes for ticket scalpers too who resell tickets on insane markups trying to snag people desperate enough to get it. I think as long as it doesn't affect cleaning supplies and similar items then I am okay with it, despite it being extremely slimy.
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There's often also explicit human voice boosters too.
Are you seriously saying that 49% of US voters are white supremacists? This is one of the most absurd conspiracy theories I have ever heard.
The drone is also controlled remotely and thus has more of a disconnect between the “pilot” and the subject. The police helicopter has a human element to/in it so the pilot would feel more responsibility for the destruction they caused if it were right in front of their eyes.
Off-topic nit: I think you mean "arbitrage", the practice of buying something where it's cheap and selling it where it's expensive. "Arbitration" is a method of resolving disputes by having a neutral third party decide what the correct outcome is.
What might some valid sources of data for this be? Perhaps comparisons of Simple English Wikipedia to the standard English Wikipedia? We'd need a side-by-side comparison of condensed information and a fluffed up piece.
That would need a dramatic change in the legal system. Either making the losing side pay the other side's legal fees, or increasing the amount of punitive damages that a judge can award. Both of these are non-trivial changes to get through congress, and have numerous side effects.
Legacy finance tech - investment banks, hedge funds, etc.

Contractors arguably make more than FTEs. If your spouse is a FTE somewhere that gives health insurance, then it can be even more lucrative.

Some of my coworkers in London have told me it can be considered stupid (from a monetary perspective) not to be a contractor in the UK if you're working as a SWE at a bank/hedgefund. However from what I understand, tax laws have changed recently and this is no longer the case.

Contractors at Google and other tech companies are apparently treated as second class citizenry, but my observation at finance companies is that this is usually not the case.
I take issue with the "substantial number" claim.

Where are the studies that actually show it is a substantial number? Where's the peer-reviewed replication of those studies? How do those studies account for the "Lizardman constant" (https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...)?

Maybe I'm unique, but I'd guess many of the downvoters have similar complaints.
Interesting, it's a BS in liberal arts but offers CS as a field of study? Seems odd.
What they are saying is that even in regards to OSS it wouldn't matter because China has such a disregard for non-Chinese law (and the citizens have blatant disregard for even some Chinese law) and property that they will just outright steal it or otherwise break any law that inconveniences them to just use the software anyway.
The worst effect the GDPR had was on offline bureaucracy. "Data protection" has become the go-to excuse for blocking every single goddamn thing.
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I think a lot of what you're describing ties in with the general lack of "third places" in the US. College is basically one giant third place, and that community experience is hard to find elsewhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
> This is a temporary glitch where view counts weren’t showing for any tags pre-upload. In search, you could always see view counts and once uploaded the hashtags worked normally. You just couldn’t see the view numbers pre-upload

https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1266350609319579648
Those settlements are usually paid by the taxpayer, not the officers.
Frankly no, we tried to to everything in kotlin and it was insane how slow it is comparing to JS. You literally parse 1kb JSON for 100ms+.

Kotlin JS is not fast either since it is not that optimal for browsers and have all runtime checks for types so just doing something like: a * b + c will yield three typeof invocations.
> property crime deserves loss of life.

This is not an isolated incidence of property crime. This is utter destruction more akin to waging a total war against a particular district of Minneapolis. It's a form of terrorism.

Property -- in the form of business and services -- is essential to life. There is no absolute distinction between the two, despite what some pretend. These people are breaking property in their own community and then expect investors or the very government they're protesting to step back in and rebuild.
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We wouldn't be here at all if the police were allowed to address this properly. It either wouldn't have escalated, or they'd be overwhelmed and the army would have had to have been called in to assist. I don't understand why this is so complicated. People pay taxes to be protected from such violence. It's the reason we're told to shut up and go to Somalia when we complain about taxes. But when it comes down to it, nothing happens. Local acts of terrorism and people are left to defend themselves, possibly without the capability to own a firearm too.
It is bad because the value of human life (even people you don't like) is infinitely greater than material goods. A looted store can be repared, restocked, rebuilt. A dead human stays dead forever and yields a mountain of grief around him. They are not comparable at all.
"Certain conditions continue to exist in our society, which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots. 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. Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention." --Martin Luther King.

"The Flag is drenched with our blood, because so many of our ancestors was killed because we have never accepted slavery. We had to live on it, but we never wanted it. So we know the flag is drenched with our blood. So what the young people are saying now - give us a chance to be young men [...] we know this country was built on the black backs of black people across this country and if we don't have it you ain't going to have it either cos we going to tear it up. That's what they saying. And people ought to understand that. I don't see why they don't understand it. All across this country, they know what they've done to us." --Mrs Fannie Lou Hamer

"The Governor of Michigan should give a little, and put out the fire. These are very good people, but they are angry. They want their lives back again, safely! See them, talk to them, make a deal" --Donald Trump, on white rioters

"...These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won't let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!" --Donald Trump, on black rioters.

"Before I get to that, how would you define somebody who puts a cat where he is and takes all the money out of the ghetto where he makes it? Who is looting whom? Grabbing off the TV set? He doesn't really want the TV set. He's saying screw you. It's just judgment, by the way, on the value of the TV set. He doesn't want it. He wants to let you know he's there. The question I'm trying to raise is a very serious question. The mass media-television and all the major news agencies-endlessly use that word "looter." On television you always see black hands reaching in, you know. And so the American public concludes that these savages are trying to steal everything from us, And no one has seriously tried to get where the trouble is. After all, you're accusing a captive population who has been robbed of everything of looting. I think it's obscene." --James Baldwin 1968
> way to check if everybody perceives color in the same way

Forget color, how do you know that anyone even exists? ;)

Psychs can certainly increase feelings of solipsism, but they can also make you more accepting of a relative view reality if you allow yourself to process it.
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A "lead indicator" is a standard feature of most games even remotely similar to a fighter sim. You get a box on the HUD that tells you where to shoot to guarantee a hit if the target won't change its velocity vector in between you firing and the projectile reaching it.

I assume the same thing exists on real combat planes now.

(Of course these are next to useless in space combat sims, as in most games ships maneuver like fighter planes with zero inertia. They're also useless in real air combat these days, as everything is done with missiles from beyond visual range. But sure looked nice on Top Gun.)
Just put up a quick post: https://thepwner224.wordpress.com/2020/05/29/led-status/. A bit unorganized and not really edited; I haven't slept in a long time and just wanted to fill my notebook and also write this down before I forgot any details.

My first design was supposed to be around $70 and make 8k lumens, but was useless because I couldn't get away with the cheap thermal management I thought I could get away with. My second prototype which I just did was $105 and was supposed to make 13.5k lumens, but even after much planning it seems the thermal performance is inadequate. The third one will be $145 and will make 18k lumens, and I believe it will actually be able to work at max power without overheating. Luckily the lumen output is increasing too along with these price increases so they're not really price increases.

But I have to say, it's totally worth it. While it's not stable at 100%, I did run it at that for a bit and my initial reaction was 'this is a second sun.' In my workspace which went from 300 to 1500 lux it really made a difference in perception. I spent most of the time with sunglasses and still being blinded while trying to take temperature measurements, but at the end I stopped and just turned it on and looked around, and everything looked lit in a way it just hadn't before.
Don't know what drove them to say it is an early form of Hnefatafl, other than that both are games played on a board. Hnefatafl games (there are several [1]) are pure strategy open information games using different pieces with different moves. This discovery is of a game played with dice and apparently identical pieces. There are no pictures of the board. so I can only speculate about it, but my guess would be this game is probably a race game, perhaps a distant relative of backgammon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafl_games
You're talking about parser generators... the article is about parser combinators. Fully agreed that parser generators are often very limited and often require hacks to do anything non-trivial.

(IME MegaParsec basically solves most of the issues.)
^ Exhibit #1, typical progressive elitism, moderated with a carefully thought last word as to signal the rest of the group he is not actually a bad person.
Using one during development and one during production is indeed a valid use case, but most people simply don't get anywhere close to that level of need.

Let me be very clear: I like Askama and have submitted pull requests to the project in the past. For a new project where I need templates, I value the speed of reflected changes over compiling more stuff into the binary.

There are also certain classes of problems with Askama that you can avoid with something like Tera - e.g, with Askama, if your global layout relies on a value passed in to the rendering context, you'll need to shove that value on every Template struct.

Furthermore, most people will hit bottlenecks in other areas of their application long before templating becomes the issue (i.e, this was the same in Django-land too - templating via cached compiled Django or Jinja2 templates is almost never an issue). Askama is overkill until you need it.

My recommendation, having built projects with both, is thus: build with Tera initially, and swap out hot paths to Askama down the road as they both use the same syntax (roughly) so it's not too difficult to convert one to the other.

In a perfect world the projects would be merged, and you can use the Tera aspect in dev and get Askama in production for free... but that's easier said than done.
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An agent of the government's justice system executed a man without due process just the other day.
If you steal a TV, yeah honestly. There's a difference between stealing food or money to feed yourself or provide for your family and stealing luxury goods. I have lots of sympathy for the former, very little for the latter. The latter is a form of terrorism meant to intimidate businesses many of whose owners are likely members of your own community.

I don't understand the modern desire to excuse theft. Theft is a form of terrorism; it is not okay, and is really high up there on the list of serious crimes that damage society.
When I say that the climate disaster disproportionately affects poorer area I’m not saying that natural disaster will target poorer countries. Take a forest fire for example, if it burns through an area with a bunch of holiday houses for rich people—while it sucks—the owners won’t be harmed significantly, they’ll be able to collect on insurance and build the houses again. Now if it burns through a poor neighborhood, most of people living there will now become homeless. When the dust cloud blows over a nearby city, the wealthy residence can seek refuge in their far away holiday houses, while the poorer residence are forced to breath the pollution and develop lung diseases which they can’t afford to be treated for. The same applies to flooding, drought, etc. You seem to agree with this, so I don’t see your point. Polluters make money by making the world a more inhospitable for people other then them self.

Aside: Now Lets talk about the word “polluters”. I’m using the word “polluters” in the context of climate change. You know fair well which pollution I’m talking about, there is no need to spin the debate. I use the word polluters because it has a just strong negative connotation. “Greenhouse gas emitters” doesn’t cut it the same way. Polluters deserve to be called on what kind of people they are and the harm they are doing.

Aside 2: When I say “polluters” and “means of pollution” I’m specifically talking about major polluters and industrial level means of pollution respectively (that one is on me, I wasn’t clear enough). Unless you are a CEO of a major fossil fuel company you are not the problem. You might even drive those giant pickup trucks on city streets, take 15 air trips a year and eat a meal of meat 14 times a week. You are still not the problem, the people who sold you the truck, persuaded you to take these air trips, and subsidized you meat are.

Now to the problem of climate justice being out of touch with reality—which is now the main point of this debate–you can’t just point to silly clickbaity articles to prove your point. First of all, their point may be valid even though their headlines look silly, just because a rhetoric is cliché, it doesn’t make it wrong. Secondly, even if all or most of them are wrong, that still doesn’t disprove the point that ethical issues are closely tight to the climate disaster. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

The reality is that the climate disaster is being caused by a handful of criminally negligent people, and the harm they are causing affects people other then them self. Mentioning this fact does in no way shy away from the reality of the situation, hiding it does.
This is incorrect. Section 230 does protect certain entities. It removes liability from certain types of content.

A website that contains both first party and third party content has section 230 protection on the third party content, but none on the first party content. There is no legal basis for the idea of "publisher" as different from "platform". If a website makes a modification to a specific piece of content, they may lose section 230 protections over that particular piece of content, but they retain it on all other 3rd party content.

The FCC cannot change the requirements to gain "platform protection" because there are none, because section 230 applies to content (like a tweet), not entities (like "Twitter").