skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oof, that footnote:

> It’s 2020, but reliably compiling software from source, on different computer setups, is still an unsolved problem. There are no good ways to manage different versions of compilers, different versions of libraries needed to compile the main program etc.

I wonder how much stuff like this has to do with python's popularity. When I have opaque issues like "libaslkdjfasf.so is angry with you and/or out to lunch and/or not doing expected things," it's the most frustrating part of programming. I'd pay devops people infinite money to not have to deal with installation/setup issues anymore.
A break in posting to twitter isn't going to stop progress.
> It worked so well—earning him 18% a year in dividends, on average—that he eventually poured $800,000 into the investments, called leveraged exchange-traded notes, or ETNs. When the coronavirus pandemic hit, he lost almost every penny.

Plain gambling.
Flipping houses is also speculative, as those who have lost money doing so can attest to. If you spend a lot of time/money flipping a house only to have the market tank or you just chose a bad area, then no one buys and all that "value" is lost in wasted resources.

Buying stock by definition is purchasing the right to participate in a company's future profits. That's the reward for taking a risk on the company, and the primary metric by which "who can use it effectively" is determined. It isn't and has never been some board of financial justices trying to figure out how reallocate capital out of altruism, otherwise hedge funds and active traders would all be non-profits.

There isn't an obviously correct way to do this, it depends on one's objectives. Financially illiterate employees contributing to their 401ks have different needs than hedge funds who have different needs than people trying to build wealth for non-retirement time horizons in taxable accounts who have different needs than people saving in HSAs and 529 accounts who have different needs than Pension funds, among many other users of the market. It's up to the investor to determine their needs, not be coddled by some nameless, faceless system that only permits the lowest common denominator of participation.

On a more philosophical note, systems where people can't fail are systems I've experienced professionally (working for companies with political/economic moats so vast they can fail repeatably and not be punished). All it produces in my experience is complacent dead weight and rules to maintain said dead weight that unite to stifle the progress of those who wish to perform or make progress. The systems become benign tumors at best.

Now granted there should be some safety nets in place, not everyone can be or wants to be a high performer, but that doesn't mean we should make every room with padded walls. People who throw money into the market without the slightest bit of research should be punished for their lack of planning, same way people who jump off a roof without thinking are punished by injury.
No, that example is precisely on point.

Qualified immunity applies precisely because they didn't do anything illegal (based on the limited facts of the hypo). If they did something illegal, then qualified immunity would not apply.
Not a lawyer but maybe there’s a few possible reasons:

Standing: without a reason that looks remotely viable, a court might just throw it out without requiring a defence.

Risk: big companies have legal departments on hand to make your life hell for even trying.

Reward: smaller companies don’t have enough money to be worth your time to sue. Even if you’re trying to “send a message” the first attempt is so expensive for no gain, it’s not worth your while.

Government departments tend to fall into a bad middle ground. There’s enough money to be worth fighting over but they’re not always fantastically well equipped to defend it (or at least they’re perceived as such).
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Also guns. Big jump in their stocks today.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/gun-stocks-surge-past-broader-m...
Direct link to online version (as I had to click on three different links to get to it): https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/
I agree completely. I left an early github issue open with some examples. It just isn't my forte. I've worked with frontend guys who were mostly CSS ninja's and we never relied on framework mechanisms beyond applying some classes etc. I just lack the base knowledge to know what the expectation is here. I know Svelte has a very impressive system. I could look at doing something similar with Solid just not sure where to start.
If you apply this criterion consistently, nobody would be allowed to protest anything
Non-violent protesters were getting killed by Hong Kong's police in broad daylight for the last few months. Were the Rust people not aware of them?
Can you imagine Pepper Spray is illegal in NYC? It’s better than a gun because it’s non-lethal in the vast majority of cases, so you won’t need to hesitate, plus you don’t have to aim so much, can hit multiple assailants.

I advocate pepper spray for all instead of guns.
Did your boss ask you to police hn against negative apple feedback?
I will assume good faith in your comment. I don't think you were "fed lies" or that there's some soros deep state conspiracy going on.

That being said, the approval rate for the court is pretty shocking. If this isn't a rubber stamp court, I don't know what is. Their approval rate on 41,000+ warrants in 40+ years is 99.97%.

I don't think the notion that each of those 41,000+ warrants were air tight, or wouldn't be rejected by other normal (read: public, transparent, democratic) courts, passes the smell test.

I would be curious to know what the approval rate for regular search/arrest warrants is too.
> I think that passing data should mean passing the ability to update it.

I'm pressing this up triangle as hard as I can, but sadly it still lets me upvote this only once.
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This is the same attempt at plausible deniability of Republican institutional racism since the Nixon Southern Strategy as clearly, undeniably, articulated by its inventor.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwa...

Trump peddled a racist lie and conspiracy theory for five years, before he was even in politics. Birtherism. And before that, the Central Park Five. And before that the federal lawsuit against him and his dad for discrimination in housing. It's not plausibly deniable. And this is the same thing.
This article is well written. Great job!
> In acknowledgement that taking a stand against police brutality is more important than sharing tech knowledge, this account will pause tweeting until further notice. Feel free to email the core team at: core@rust-lang.org.

-- @rustlang
Hey xapata, thanks for pointing this out.

Any chance you could give me some reference so I can fix it in the original article?
>Those other 3 officers (and the entire department) need to have skin in the game in that situation.

Lot of arm chair cops here today.

Did you read the autopsy report? He died because of drug overdose in his system and his heart condition. Nothing about lack of oxygen. But we want to charge the cops no matter what. In addition to no obeying officers and resisting the arrest.

Go ask the innocent individuals who have lost their life's hard work in riots because there are no cops protecting innocent people, as they have been told to stand down.

Do facts matter? Or just mob mentality?
as we said, presumably your mono repo imports external dependencies, right? its not all developed internally.

this just becomes another external dependency to be managed, albeit one you have more control of its actual release schedule

if this item depends on many other things that are also internal projects that you don't want to release, you will have to abstract them out and make the implementations pluggable with a working implementation that is part of the OSS side.
It is really cool to see people go to such great lengths to recover lost software projects.

I wonder about what other interesting failed products from this time will later be found important enough to attempt to piece together and display to people in the future.

Perhaps an app that was prescient in its intent or the career of one of their makers seen as remarkable in some way that their digital detritus is dug up and placed under glass.
are you serious in your reply? because claiming german unions didn't fight every step of the way is absurd.

Unions and other left winged organisations played a major role in german history. Germany was the first country with a state supported pension and healthcare system. The SPD has been in power for a majority of germany's post-ww2 history together with CDU in the grand coalition and the average greek does not have the same net wealth as the average german.
Tesla Model 3 Drives into Overturned Truck in Apparent Autopilot Failure
Seems like a loophole ripe for abuse.
Sounds great. In the U.S. I wouldn't be surprised to see such a group develop a shared identity with the regular police and become corrupt, but maybe it's worth a try.
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of termination or intent to move-out as required by paragraph 35 (Move-Out Notice).

Mine is pretty clear that it's an automatic rollover, but fair -- every state (and lease!) is different.

> If you don't pay the rent, the lease just ends.

Oof, sounds like a nice way to end up with a bad mark against you nonetheless.
In the US, libraries buy the books, etc., they lend, or pay for license agreements for digital media.
> Uber, for example, could probably lay off 80% of its engineering staff and turn profitable if it was truly necessary.

A lot of people say these things, but:

We don’t know if that’s true. If they turn off the hype and marketing juice and stop spending more money acquiring customers than the revenue they accrue, do we know that they’ll become profitable?

We really need something more specific than, “just lay off all the expensive tech workers and bam, instant profitability.”

What we need is a specific plan, that we then go over with a fine-tooth comb looking for unintended consequences that could bite our “rightsizing” plan in the ass.

Many a company has set out to cut costs and drive towrds profitability, but very few make it. Honestly, very few make it. Most of the time, when a CEO sets out to make a systemically unprofitable company profitable, they end up in Chapter 11.

It’s really, REALLY hard to pull off, and it’s not for lack of trying or inexperience on the part of management. It turns out that for most companies, the right way to become profitable is to grow your revenues, not cut your costs by 80+.

JM2C.
On what platform will the further notice be given?
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>Not being US resident or citizen I wonder if this is the effect of the gun availability

Almost no effect. I live in a state where over 2/3 of people own guns (usually multiple guns) and we have one of the lowest murder rates in America and a very low rate of police killing.
The issue is that they are “put on notice” for extremely precise things and it can usually be argued that technically the new case is very slightly different to the old case and so qualified immunity applies again.
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Would you prefer that individual programmers be sued (instead of their employers) and have to defend themselves when apps/programs crash due to bugs?

Because that's basically what you're saying you want.

And anyways, if the DMV agent was acting in their capacity as a DMV employee and following established procedure, the DMV would end up paying their legal costs and settlements against the employee anyways...but without getting a say in the defense against the underlying lawsuit.
Does "common carrier" describe any social media website? All social media sites, besides choosing what content to allow, make many decisions about what to promote. (These decisions are usually made algorithmically, but not exclusively, and the choice of what algorithms to use and how to tune them is still very opinionated.) The common carrier rules seem intended for companies like phone providers and ISPs that don't make any decisions about what people should use on the platform. In comparison, social media sites seem like more open versions of newspapers and TV stations.
This is not surprising at all. After seeing rampant violent/opportunist theft and destruction of property in my city, as well as threats from antifa to invade neighborhoods and give people "what they deserve", I am not surprised at all to see self defense on top of people's minds. I've seen online that many towns have citizens showing up with firearms to defend their neighbors and local businesses. I applaud them for the courage, and think it reflects the sentiment that politicians and police forces have failed to take the necessary actions to put an end to rioting with conviction. It is well past the time for them to use more forceful measures, if peaceful methods do not work.

I'll take it a step further and say that this situation is exactly why the 2nd amendment matters and why citizens need access to handguns/shotguns/semiautomatic rifles, in case a violent mob shows up. I am glad to have that right, should my property or loved ones be threatened.
As a kid, I was disappointed in how dirty the space shuttle was on visit to Cape Canaveral.

In young mind I expected this beautiful, gleaming massiv white shuttle. Instead, the real shuttle was dirty, dingy, all the tiles and body panels looked like they were randomly replaced, which makes sense as it had years and years of use.
Which two Mac drive options are only 1.5GB apart?
Facebook employees stage virtual walkout in protest of company’s stance
FocusWriter?
I currently don't have one, so…no? I do usually try to keep Hacker News clean of low-quality comments, though, which is fairly distinct from "negative apple feedback".
>Are 99.7% of cases ~really~ ironclad?

>> I agree that this is too low and is a sign of rubber stamp-iness, but what would be the right rejection rate to make you feel more comfortable about the FISA process?
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Only if its found on the moon by some guy called Perry ;-)
That would cause lawyers to avoid cases like the plague unless they’re airtight. In truth, if the opposition is big enough, they’d probably avoid it in case they end up disbarred.

I could see a strategy here being to make the case seem invalid (by some definition) as the defence, essentially playing the man and not the ball.
This "feelings" complaint is a major dog whistle you know.

The fact is, the relationship between unprivileged communities is such that:

- Crime rates to not reflect actual community grievances

- Community members do not want to rely on police even if they would like to bring in some sort of neutral authority / arbitrator to a dispute.

- The portion of would-be crime where the would-be victim is happy for the police presence is incredibly low.

- The portion of actual crime where the actual victim is sad for the police absence is incredibly low.

So it doesn't even matter if the statistics show the police kill extra in proportion to the neighborhoods the patrol and that in turn is proportional to the crime rate, because you haven't Baysianed deep enough to find the cycle. As exemplified by the latter two points, there is no way to find any value for the police as they currently with a democratic basis, and as such they must be defunded and replaced with something else.
While you're right on those accounts, it does have some disadvantages - it tends to fill a room, and has a much higher chance of catching bystanders, so you can't use without any forethought. That being said, you also don't kill them when that happens.
> Were QI eliminated, you can bet the bulk of cases would be deep-pockets corporate interests suing individual government officials

See: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-13-mn-861-st...
Wouldn't this be a State law anyway, not a Federal law?
Awesome I think so too. I love exploring this space in general. It's really interesting to see how you can model problems this way. Reactivity isn't a solution to a single problem but a way of modelling any problem

Solid actually can work runtime only too but I do put most of my effort on the compiler since I can use it to overcome most of the classic shortcomings of the reactive approach performance wise (and DX wise) with a bit of consideration.
> citizens need semiautomatic rifles

How many do you plan to shoot?
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Both are rampant. Laws don't matter when the choice is protecting yourself, or being legal.
NYC's laws regarding self-defense are absolute trash.
Especially if you have to deploy to production and you want fast, reproducible builds, or you don't want to run a bunch of tests for things that haven't changed.
Finally, someone with a sensible opinion on this situation, other than the routine "read headline" write a bashful comment attacking large corporation without understanding the core issue (which obviously is getting mob downvoted without actually attempting to understand the scope of the issue). And as a matter of fact, manifests have been used by other package managers before, so since when did Kevian have a monopoly over this idea? It is remarkable how this has blown up and one-sided the narrative has been. MSFT, probably due to confidentiality, cannot divulge the outcome of the interview. Perhaps, he was extremely hard to communicate with in person with very strong views that don't mesh well in a MSFT team environment? Who knows, but just blindly listening the Kevian is disingenuous at most and dangerous.
People sometimes ask me about this because "I'm the tech guy", and surely it would be good to have the tech experts set the regulations. To this my response is:

Would you like banking regulations set by bankers?
Except storage is soldered on. Storage juggling should be automated with an additional volume IMHO, because installing a new OS or point release shouldn't be a massive, manual hassle. On iOS, a USB2Go device should be usable... but ideally, it would have enough reserved space for all possible updates.
This is happening a bit in Seattle too. I was able to negotiate a _decrease_ in rent after several years of 9% increases. 10% is the max allowed increase in Seattle if I understand the rules correctly.
Some tips:

* Use Cloudflare to front your site, this will help deal with attacks. It is worth paying for as well (but can be free).

* Use the "protect my privacy" options when registering a domain. Use a new account at the domain registrar that is only for that.

* Use a host that will protect you. NearlyFreeSpeech.net is good in this regard.

* If you incorporate as a non-profit or work with one you can apply to get the protection of Project Shield from Google

* Work with others. CopWatch comes to mind.

* Explore similar things to get ideas. USAFacts (by Steve Ballmer) comes to mind as a good comparable.