skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another famous guitar effect example is the germanium "fuzz face" pedal, which are still in production today.

You can get an idea of this kind of fuzz sound in the song "Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum.
Qualified immunity is especially hurtful because it is the only recourse left when prosecutors decline to prosecute cases against police, the norm even in Floyd's case (only one out of four killers has been charged). Yes, it would be ideal of prosecutors prosecuted police properly or if we had an independent investigation/prosecutor for such cases but this is never the case, even when officials pretend it is. It's always cops investigating other cops and the same prosecutors that normally work closely with police and have clear conflicts of interest doing the prosecution. Activists want to get rid of qualified immunity because trying to reform the actual criminal investigation and prosecution is impossible. Also, the doctrine changes the actual law to make it the exact opposite of what was intended, effectively rewriting the law into its opposite. The focus on qualified immunity assumes there will be a miscarriage of criminal justice. That's almost always the case.
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I recommend to everyone that they read jurgen habermas' "The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere", we are eroding our ability to have rational communication. I won't say it's deliberate, but it feels that way.
"When the looting starts, the shooting starts" - quote from a segregationist who did some pretty despicable things.

"We have vicious dogs" - Who is this, Mr. Burns? "Release the hounds!"

"I'm wondering if we can't have some kind of MAGA-counterprotest here. MAGA-people like the black folk. They like African Americans. Maybe they can show up to counterprotest." - seriously? This is about as close to Cartman-esque chanting for a "race war".
Does "remote" include outside the US?
The article uses the term 'bitfd' which apparently means "burn it the fuck down".
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If you apply the appropriate Debian[1] or Ubuntu kernel patch sets, you can build .deb packages of your kernel and ensure that the appropriate kernel settings and integrations are set for your system.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/tree/master/debia...
A transformation happened a few years ago, it seems. It's like they got venture capital and became a hodge-podge of weird business ideas without a cohesive vision, rather than a classic icon library. The sales page disappoints, as if designed by a marketer, not a designer.

Rather than lament at length what Font Awesome has become, I thought I'd reflect on its beginnings.

Here's the very first version of their site, March 2012.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120309000714/http://fortawesom...

And the excited discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3672526
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> Tell that to people pursuing the American citizenship that were born in American territories like American Samoa or Puerto Rico

Now you’re doubling back on yourself. You’re the one who drew the distinction between the legal technicalities of citizenship and the more nebulous concept of “nationality”, and yet here you are pontificating about how the legal technicalities of citizenship apply to residents of US territories. What does American Samoa have to do with your implication that immigrants aren’t real Americans?
People always get up in arms about this, but as someone who has used Python as her daily driver for years it's really... never been this serious of an issue for me?

I have used virtualenv/venv and pip to install dependencies for years and years, since I was a teen hacking around with Python. Packaging files with setup.py doesn't really seem that hard. I've published a few packages on pypi for my own personal use and it's not been too frustrating.

A lot of the issues people have with Python packaging seem like they can get replaced with a couple shell aliases. Dependency hell with too many dependencies becomes unruly in any package manager I've tried.

Is the "silent majority" just productive with the status quo and getting work done with Python behind the scenes? Why is my experience apparently so atypical?
How many views does your book have on IA. Very curious to know if it's actually impacting your sales.
I would be shocked if that is effective (although I'm not an expert, so I'm open to being shocked).

Tracking someone who relocates without creating a new identity seems trivially easy even for unorganized crime. Facebook or Instagram alone makes a social engineering attempt easy. Then there are the sites that aggregate public record, which I would think could pick up on the move relatively quickly. Lexus Nexus has terrifying amounts of information on everyone.

This is without even moving into the realm of things that require organized crime. I would assume organized crime groups would have someone in the government paid off that could run a query through driver's license databases.

That seems more like security theater than actual security. It's also of note that organized crime exists outside the US, and other countries that do community policing don't seem to have the same level of concern.
The whole point of this press release is that they believe they've solved that particular problem.
> But that's just an extreme form of sortition IMHO, by "randomly choosing everyone"

I don't know, I think they're pretty different. The main point of sortition, the way I see it, is to pick a small subset of people to focus on a problem. You can't ask "everyone" to focus on every issue, it's way too much work. No one would be able to do anything else. Reducing the set of deciders to a manageable size, while being statistically representative of the whole, is the whole appeal.
> The idea behind qualified immunity is to protect government employees from nuisance suits over discretionary actions performed in their official capacity, excepting actions that violated local laws or civil rights. (Basically, it lets a human government employee make reasonable mistakes.)

But why shouldn't all people be protected from nuisance suits over reasonable mistakes?
I think perhaps you're putting uneven amounts of weight on violence depending on who is participating in it. My understanding of the protests is that it (at least partially) is currently serving as a response to the accepted police's monopoly on violence.

I see in another of your posts you said something to the effect of "If (protests) become violent, don't be surprised when (the police) respond with violence."

This solidly frames the protesters as the sole provocateurs and the police as solidly the ones that are backed into a corner. It's almost as if your argument relies on ignoring the literal murder of George Floyd when looking at the timeline of events.

To paraphrase a joke I saw a while ago, "If a police officer were kneeling on my neck, I would simply vote that officer out of office." It's patent nonsense meant for amusement, but the line of reasoning is similar to what you can construct out of specially selected MLK quotes or whatever.
Could you be more specific? Which adversaries? What are they doing? What do you expect them to do next? And how do you think that relates to the riots, or to this bill?
> ...why did we allow so many unprofitable companies IPO? When did losing money become acceptable and the new normal for publicly traded companies?

Huh?

In a market nobody's "allowing" things or not, people simply choose to purchase/invest or not. Losing money has always been acceptable in every business ever because businesses require investment and investment takes time (months, years, decades) to pay off.

Why shouldn't you allow an unprofitable company to IPO? He's arguing that I should be prevented from buying shares in Uber or Yelp no matter how badly I want to? That's incredibly presumptuous of him to think he knows better how I ought to invest my money than I do.

> Here’s to a new generation of entrepreneurs who prioritize building sustainable businesses.

Nobody would be investing money in these companies if they didn't think there was a good chance of them becoming sustainable long term. Obviously, the board of Uber is doing their best to make it a sustainable business. (You may disagree that it's sustainable, but that's business -- you can disagree about everything.)

Essentially, the author appears to be anti-investment, which is basically anti-economic growth broadly.

Bizarre.
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Wow. That is a really complicated way of thinking about it.

Icahn had nothing to do with "loading the company with debt"...again, he didn't have a controlling stake, he didn't have a majority on the Board (iirc)...the reason they used a lot of debt is because they own a lot of vehicles (the majority of their debt is secured). The reason he came to the company wasn't financial structure (that does occur but very rarely...again, most investors don't want to lose all their money...this isn't a hard point requiring maths) but chronic mismanagement and huge market share loss. He didn't increase volatility (every other company in the sector uses the same kind of debt).

No activist investor acquires a company so that they can do related-party transactions. Again, they often don't have a controlling stake. Icahn owns about $50bn worth of businesses, it would not surprise me if one of his companies does business with Hertz...but there is no way that he can control this.

Btw, if you are an activist and you acquire a reputation for doing things that hurt other shareholders (related-party transactions would be an example) then you will lose your ability to run these campaigns overnight. Activist investing is based on appealing to other shareholders and being able to make changes that produce results.

Again, all of these errors seem to arise out of not really understanding how companies work (unsurprising given your confused take).

I don't understand your point about: it is in the company's interest to go for "guaranteed growth"...no growth is guaranteed, you aren't buying a washing machine...and if a VC goes for growth that isn't profitable, they lose everything. Again, this isn't confusing.

The point that you appear to be referring to, but didn't quite get, is that VCs often aren't aligned with companies because they often don't care whether they succeed or fail. Investors have everything at stake. VCs just have an option on that stake. That doesn't really apply here. Icahn has all of his own money invested.
40 million people in the U.S. are unemployed right now and are not likely to buy a new car.
Oh, I still I'm starting to get it.

Is it if you have a large dataset locally stored (eg. in JS memory) that receives constant updates from a server? Are there any example apps that have this architecture?
What should you do till the police don't come and who will help you out till you get the insurance payout which is not a guarantee.
You know something I am surprised isn't being brought up is the failed Accenture infrastructure rebuild

https://www.theregister.com/2019/04/23/hertz_accenture_lawsu...

not so much the money aspect of this, but instead worth knowing that Hertz had massively eol ready digital infrastructure in need of being replaced.

One has to wonder if this failure created a disruption to business cadence that put them in a particularly weakened state facing these times.
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> That people use it does not make it a public platform.

This is literally the definition of the word public.
Lets say you want to build a deck. You put together the plans, take them to the planning commission, and they rightfully reject it for being structually unsound.

Qualified immunity is what prevents you from personally suing each member of the planning commission to pressure them in to reversing their decision. Think of it like the legal system throwing an exception, we aren't even going to consider this because your beef is with the city not an individual employee.

Police have qualified immunity because otherwise they would face personal lawsuits every time they wrote a rich guy a speeding ticket, or a convicted murderer has nothing better to do but get his law degree in prison.

In my opinion, qualified immunity is _not_ the problem. If an officer does something in their official capacity that is wrong, it is up to the department and the DA to deal with. Just like if the hypothetical planning commission did something illegal. Unfortunately police unions prevent that from being a viable option.
What I don't understand is why lenders keep funding debt for the companies when they are just going to declare bankruptcy. You would think creditors would get wise to the scam.
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Maybe it's related to overhead (benefits, contract law, payroll, taxes, etc). Speaking from experience, all that stuff becomes more complicated when you're doing it cross-border.
I'd guess that most used car sales are to people who already owned a car rather than first time car owners. Given less usage and an economic downturn people are going to be more likely to just keep their existing car for longer. And households with two cars won't bother replacing one even if it breaks beyond repair.
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Virtually any business can eventually be profitable by operating at a loss until their competitors go out of business. Once the competition is gone profit is easy.
Essentially: the situation only exists in the contrived world of ethicists, so the problem may be important for ethicists to solve but isn't important for AV engineers to solve.

It's like asking a parent the question, "If both your kids were falling off a cliff at the exact same time and you could only save one of them, which one would you save." The parents says "well whichever one is closer to me." The ethicist says "No they are the exact same distance from you, with the one near your non-dominant arm exactly the amount closer to you to cancel out the advantage of your dominant arm." Well, Okay. It's a stressful question to be asked and to try to answer, but the answer in the actual real world is that the situation doesn't actually exist, and even if you were to replay the universe 5 quintillion times until the situation came up, the flesh and blood parent would panic in the moment and save neither one. So ethicists can debate the situation ad infinitum and entertain themselves doing so, but the situation only exists in the contrived world, so the answer doesn't matter.
As a French this is infuriating.

Brexit will have an impact on us and the UK. Fine. Now get out and the one who is most interested will be back with negotiations.

I fully understand that there will be impacts. As of now it looks like two old persons who are making their live miserable, but in the name of some vague conventions do not want to divorce.
Check your lease, but at least on my leases, it says that it only goes month to month if you pay the rent and the landlord accepts. If you don't pay the rent, the lease just ends.

It's certainly a nice courtesy to let them know if you're leaving, but at least in California, it isn't required by law.
They’ve already eliminated the offline installers and said they’re only for commercial licensees now.

So this isn’t just rumors.
>""We had to build the fabrication facility in our lab to precisely carve the three-dimensional waveguides through the glass, a process called femtosecond laser writing," said Sebabrata Mukherjee, a postdoctoral researcher at Penn State and first author of the paper. "The ability to write three-dimensional waveguides is crucial to making the device topological, a property that is confirmed experimentally by observing the 'protected' one-way flow of light along the edge of the device."

Through a process called the "Kerr effect," the properties of the glass are changed due to the presence of the intense laser light. This change in the glass mediates an interaction between the many photons, which usually do not interact, propagating through the array. As the power was increased, the light collapsed into a beam that didn't spread out (i.e., diffract), but rather rotated in spirals."

This article is now in my Top 10 all-time favorites on HN.

Why? There's a lot to unpack here.

This article needs to be re-read (by me at least!) numerous times in the future, because there's a lot that potentially has to do with optical/photon lithography, nanotechnology, waveguides, analagous phenomena in physics (i.e., electrons, photons), and a whole lot more... a treasure trove of goodies, to phrase it one way!
Webscript: A Better Syntax for Creating DOM Elements in JavaScript
> K-pop-themed submissions apparently flooded in after a Twitter user urged K-pop fans to "download the app and send all your fancams" in order to "make their jobs as hard as possible" ...
I'm a big fan of Zeroconf / MDNS / Avahi / Bonjour (it has many names due to the differing packages that can be used for it across platforms). It's a great way to make any type of service discoverable, whether it's a web service, or what have you. Having had used something like Eureka from Netflix I think mdns is way simpler, especially on Linux, if you can install Avahi all you need to do is write an XML file to a directory and you're broadcasting a service immediately.
Qualified immunity is actually just protecting from lawsuits. No relation to criminal prosecution.

It seems anti-common law. The common law requires the ability to generate new precedents.
Publishers sue Internet Archive over scanning of books
Only if you have the same pocketbook. See the Herbalife short squeeze for how many zeros it takes and how many years it can last. There's a reason they call market manipulation "billionaire's poker".