skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why this is a semi-joke. It's a serious proposal for incentivizing the police union to police themselves. Police misconduct rarely has consequences that impact police themselves. This is a step in correcting this incentive misalignment.
Why would anyone be a second-mover if the first-mover lost the case? There's still no precedent to build off of.
Show HN: I parsed the entire en.wikipedia for events, time and location
I concur!

Stop coddling these people. Fire them, or they should quit.
According to Wikipedia

Legislation = Legislation (or statutory law) is law which has been promulgated (or "enacted") by a legislature or other governing body or the process of making it

Qualified Immunity = Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine in United States federal law

Legal doctrine = A legal doctrine is a framework, set of rules, procedural steps, or test, often established through precedent in the common law, through which judgments can be determined in a given legal case

So it's a bit of a grey area, but I think the greater point stands that this is how court cases are decided vs. a law in the traditional sense that people think about laws.
FireBeyond said:

>>> You do not have the right to either a forum (Facebook) or an audience.

You said:

>> I’d rather find a world where humans do have that right than stay in the ruins of this one.

"Right to an audience" is part of what was being discussed. That part I was disagreeing with you on.

Now,

> I’m the one who’s entitled to be able to hear them

I agree with that in principle. In practice, that winds up compelling someone (some company) to carry their speech. That part I have a hard time agreeing with.
"My landlord hasn't lowered rent, but to incentivize us to stay he replaced our washing machine and upgraded some stuff around the property."

So what he should have been doing anyway. Amazing.
Hi HN,

When browsing wikipedia, sometimes I find myself asking the question, "when this was happening, what else happened around the same time/location?" After debating whether this was actually useful and researching how it could be implemented, I finally set out to build this tool that allows you to browse and search (almost) all dated events on en.wikipedia. Given an event, it also shows you what was happening closeby, in spacetime.

I don't know how people will use it. I don't even know if anyone will find this useful. But I enjoyed building it.
There is a fake Lincoln quote that, even though it's fake, aged surprisingly well in the last 140 years that it has been circulated:

> "Corporations have been enthroned.

> An era of corruption will follow and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed."
Agreed all around.

The sooner we can put this data/historical records atop decentralized solutions, the better.
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> Why does this exist?

Because someone wrote it and wanted to share it. That's reason enough.
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It doesn't even matter whether the copyright owner likes it or knows about it or not. Selling a used book is legal.
I don't get the logic. When executing a warrent is the 4th amendment the only law that must be followed? If I murder someone while executing a warrent, is it unclear whether I broke the law, because the court has never declared that murder violates the 4th amendment?
Unless a matter is blatantly criminal the advice from the army of lawyers is usually just one of many factors taken into account when assessing the risk/reward. It's rare for management to ignore the advice of counsel completely but it's definitely not unusual for executives to have a higher risk tolerance than the attorneys.
At work we replace an obsolete diode in part of a circuit in front of a high gain amplifier. The new equivalent diode came in a glass package unlike the old one. It caused a bit of head scratching to figure out why the circuit wasn't behaving as it should and also appeared to be acting as a human proximity detector.
I’m sure those bar associations and prosecutor’s associations have been as hard at work on that as the cop in The Big Lebowski was on the car theft.
I don't think it's affecting sales of my book, but that's beside the point.

Copyright is about more than sales. It's about the author having the right to determine who gets to distribute and profit from their creative works.

That's why you'll hear about authors and their estates turning down seemingly lucrative deals, such as movie adaptations. If the copyright holder doesn't want their work to be used in that way, they get to say no.

And the Internet Archive's "we presume you've said yes unless you opt out" system flies in the face of those protections.
https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/01/apple-releases-ios-13-5...

and for macOs https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211215
What? Does the fence itself vibrate and reproduce the sound? Or do you need to complete the circuit using the fence as the detector?
I thought the effort behind this book died, given the lack of one for Debian 9. This was always an excellent resource for me in the Debian 6-8 days, and I'm glad to see it back!

Nitpick: the cover still says "Debian Jessie"
Equity holders stand to lose everything if the company goes south, so if there's so much debt that the future of the company is at risk, there's something call "cost of financial distress" that reduces the value of holding that stock
No, that's the point of Constitutionally limited government, which is an orthogonal feature to representative vs. direct democracy.
Ugh, went back to HN to post the same comment.

On FF this usually means that the regexp uses `lookbehind`: https://caniuse.com/#feat=js-regexp-lookbehind
> plowing every dime made over costs into growth

Key difference! A lot of these grow fast companies don’t even cover costs.
I think zmurl.com allows for this. Or you could use Eventbrite. Or Acuity Scheduling, where I think you connect it through Zapier
The court would not discharge its duty to follow the law if it were to decline to correct earlier precedent on the basis that the legislature could at some point alter the law once again. In this case, the question is whether qualified immunity is a correct interpretation of the code or not. Whether or not Amash proposes to alter the law in such a way as to clearly change the law to preclude qualified immunity, the court should consider the cases before it on the basis of the law as it is (or will be, if Amash decided to remove qualified immunity with retrospective effect.)
A "petty battle against CloudFlare DNS users"? No. They require a standardized DNS extension in order for their services to operate properly, and CloudFlare is waging a petty battle against the standard.
Nope--they're taking units out of housing supply, demand remains the same, so prices adjust up.
Too bad the starships of the Honorverse weren't included in this. They have... interesting designs.
Even the police unions condemned it. It's literally the only thing we agree on, but certain people keep holding up this obviously false dichotomy that we can only care about this political violence or the Floyd murder.
Just occurred to me that a desalinization plant and sodium battery plant might be a good combination? Assuming brine could be used a source for sodium batteries being manufactured, it could be a good solution for all of the undesired byproducts of the desalination process.
I mean, possibly? What's considered the gold standard in package management these days?

I use yarn for managing javascript dependencies and do a lot of work with Cargo too. The community seems to love both these tools outside of slow compile and install times.
QI is a supreme court created concept and it would be best if they handled it.
>..., but the law must have been originally put in place for a reason.

The changes that got us here today do come in the late 60s, while the country was dismantling Jim Crow. I can't help but think this was used as a bulwark to ensure that even if the law of equality was enforced, social "customs" in policing could ensure that it was a moot point.
This is timely! I installed Wireshark last night for fun and have been looking at traffic on my network. There's quite a bit from mDNS, which is all new to me.
Well, i mostly agree with you but want to point out one fine distinction which is that you can still sue the government for your rights being violated, but you can't sue the individual bureaucrat.

Put another way, if your local DMV agent is acting funny, you can still sue the DMV, even if you can't sue the agent directly, FWIU

Anyway, hopefully the SC will throw this all out in the coming weeks.
That's what I'm saying, is that they shouldn't. And that probably nobody should, because legal recourse is essential, even if it's open to abuse.
Show HN: SpaceX Countdown
Think 24/7 digital frame on the wall type thing that flips to the live stream one hour before launch and back to the countdown for the next mission. Critical feedback welcome!

Works on mobile but designed primarily for larger displays. For mobile (or anything with YouTube embed autoplay disabled) it displays the mission patch in the background instead of the NASA earth views loop.
That's actually a good remark. Dr. Zubrin argues that a full-sized version of Starship cannot land on the Moon unless it uses a landing pad, as it would create a large crater [1] and thus topple, and would also blow up the lunar rocks and dust in orbit [2], which would endanger any object orbiting the Moon (and Lunar dust is also quite corrosive).

One can speculate that's one of the reasons why the NASA proposal uses a mini-starship version.

[1] https://spacenews.com/op-ed-toward-a-coherent-artemis-plan/

[2] https://www.thespaceshow.com/show/11-feb-2020/broadcast-3459...
Twilio Box Spotify and Tech CEOs Speak Out Against Racism and Police Brutality
They were positive in April. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-netflix-reached-p...

Sustained profitability is a different hurdle.
> Uber, for example, could probably lay off 80% of its engineering staff and turn profitable if it was truly necessary. This would be stupid, because then they can't build new products (and thus compete) but they are default-alive [1].

Do you have a citation for that bold assertion or want to prove it?

[EDIT: The linked chart shows Uber losing 8.5 billion in FY 2019. This 80% figure implies approximately 10 billion in engineering salaries, or 10k engineers making 1 million a year.]
There is also a shared commitment to a project that you get working in close physical proximity. Your colleagues are more likely to be motivated to help you or achieve something difficult when everyone is working on a project together.
This story makes me recall Hertz $32M Accenture website services bill. https://www.henricodolfing.com/2019/10/case-study-hertz-acce...
Is exactly the point I'm making.
> If you're suing them directly for their decision, then surely that just wouldn't be a valid lawsuit

The commenter is saying that the fact that this isn't a valid lawsuit is what is meant by qualified immunity, I believe.
It's interesting to read the original verdict and the dissent:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pierson_v._Ray/Opinion_of_the...

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pierson_v._Ray/Dissent_Dougla...

Apparently the relevant issue at the time was not police officers' immunity, but complete judicial immunity even at extreme cases. Once the latter was established, it was necessary to give officers immunity for executing possible later found to be unlawful orders. Which later expanded to almost total immunity for officers based on similar arguments used to provide total immunity to judges.
I think the idea was that the government is a big target and it hurts everyone when it is the subject of nuisance suits. Whereas an individual is less likely to be targeted.
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Hm, it's strange. The website is just static html, so i think it's a problem at Now.sh.
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The original claim was that stock buybacks are a contributor to the problem. I said they're simply an alternative to dividends, which are not as vilified perhaps due to being older.

That management takes too much of the pie is a different issue, one that I agree with.
Um.. Clarence Thomas doesn't like it either. In his opinion on Zigler v Abbasi, Justice Thomas says:

> Because our analysis is no longer grounded in the common-law backdrop against which Congress enacted the 1871 Act, we are no longer engaged in “interpret[ing] the intent of Congress in enacting” the Act. Our qualified immunity precedents instead represent precisely the sort of “freewheeling policy choice[s]” that we have previously disclaimed the power to make. Rehberg v. Paulk, 566 U. S. 356, 363 (2012) (internal quotation marks omitted).

>

> … Until we shift the focus of our inquiry to whether immunity existed at common law, we will continue to substitute our own policy preferences for the mandates of Congress. In an appropriate case, we should reconsider our qualified immunity jurisprudence.
so much code to do such simple things. honestly i don't see the benefit in this at all.
Yes I just wish microsoft hadn't complicated it with LLMNR.

All sorts of things use mDNS now (chromecast, spotify, printers, thermostats). And finally windows will start to support mDNS so hopefully we can finally settle on one good autodiscovery protocol and get rid of the horror that is SSDP.
It's the same for me, I need some moderate physical activity in order to "switch gears" between two tasks. Or talking about something unrelated with someone for a few minutes.
I usually get up from my desk and walk around the block. For me just walking around the office is usually not enough.
It would tell me that it doesn't have to do with graphics, and that it probably has to do with networking. That's a whole lot more than is made clear as it is.
Fantastically stupid. Hard to top the total bullshit artistry at work here.

Nothing is accomplished with a paper like this. No one benefits from the production of a 150+ pages of babble like this.

The only people that can tell you anything about fictitious space ships are the people that made them. This is just some asshole applying post-hoc rationalization to trash spewed from a Hollywood organelle. None of this is genuine analysis, but fluff scattered across a PDF.
I have a theory on this.

I think the next leg of the downturn will start once people actually figure out that the economy has been completed hollowed out all the money printing. At that point, of all the tech giants, Facebook is the most likely to collapse because their only moat is to collect even more of your data or acquire companies who do the same. Given that their "moonshot" cryptocurrency project was (thankfully) basically dead on arrival, they now don't have nearly as many tentacles into our lives as the other tech giants.

Now, imagine being the only social network where the President of the USA is allowed to write whatever he wants. That's a sure-shot bailout package isn't it?
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You might enjoy this, IIRC it came up on HN a while ago: https://nobsgames.stavros.io/help/
Definitely agree with thoughtful hardware design. Simple things like good placement of test points to attach scopes on relevant signals is extremely helpful.
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Fortunately, there is no Uber for airlines, making them much less susceptible to the kind of secular trends Hertz was facing pre-COVID-19.
> But there will always be unnecessary deaths in law enforcement situations.

The goal is to bring that number as close to zero as possible.
Oh, totally agree. But it also seems to have a lot more problems than it did two years ago.
My understanding is archive.org makes a scan of a copy they possess, and implement a checkout system. Only one person can view a scan at a time.

When the plaintiffs state:

> “Without any license or any payment to authors or publishers, Internet Archive scans print books, uploads these illegally scanned books to its servers, and distributes verbatim digital copies of the books in whole via public-facing websites,” according to papers filed Monday in federal court Monday in New York. “With just a few clicks, any Internet-connected user can download complete digital copies of in-copyright books.”

that can be re-stated with respect to a public library which only has second-hand books. In that case, the library paid nothing to the authors or publisher, and they redistribute physical copies of the books in whole via public-accessible buildings. With just a few pen strokes, anyone in the district can obtain a complete copy of in-copyright books.

Which means I have little sympathy for the quoted complaint.

What archive.org does sounds like time-shifting. I wonder if that will be part of their defense.
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I can recall in 1998 I was studying in Germany, taking a semester break from my CS studies. For the fun of it, I checked out the books being used by the CS program - all the textbooks were in English, and I then learned that in that program, most of the classes themselves were conducted in English as well. I know since then that English has become common in courses in many universities in Germany, but at the time it was just a sign of things to come. As other commenters have expressed - it's a vocabulary problem. If there isn't an accepted translation into another language, than the English term will stand (assuming it is the originating language for the concept).
> If Congress is considering legislation to change QI then the Supreme Court has little reason to take up these cases

No, because the current state of the law still matters. In fact, it might matter even more if there are legislative proposals pending.
Sortition was an indelible feature of Athenian democracy but it was not its decisive characteristic. That would be that the assembly was sovereign, and that it was not representative. Any citizen could participate in any given meeting of the assembly, make speeches and vote directly on the issues. The discussion here assumes sortition to select a representative body. Sortition in Athens was for bureaucratic office and for juries, not for the assembly.
Widely-shared responsibility and widely-shared credit don't have a great track record for accomplishing amazing and bold things.
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