skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will rapidly degenerate to "providing the capability to coordinate and control will be criminalized". Which basically means every means of net-based communication will become a potential minefield.

If I had to wager, an onerous law will be passed but simply unenforced in most cases, but kept on the books in order to be utilized as a "boutique" charge to allow prosecutors more leverage to try to cop a plea bargain Or compliance on a case by case basis. Much like possession of a firearm is used to amplify a crime even if the crime was committed without actively using or brandishing the firearm.

The rationale will be to prevent riots or inflammatory material from being able to propagate through communication channels; but even if the measure is successful, it just means that people really interested in causing mayhem will simply have the operational calculus shift toward "don't let them take me alive", which will yield a counterproductive result in terms of decreasing the appeal/frequency of violent extremist behavior. In fact, it'll make radicalizing even easier, as there will be even less chance for rational rebuttal, one, and two, it is far easier to look at a government clamping down on your ability to talk to other people and arrive at the conclusion that maybe they aren't the good guys.

Examples to support the measure will likely be the built In nature of delays in broadcasting allowing for the dumping of objectionable content in the radio and TV spheres.

Calling it now.
I'm curious - it's obvious what abuses of qualified immunity are driving this, but the law must have been originally put in place for a reason. Are there any examples where a police officer was shielded from prosecution for something that, if you or I did it would definitely be a crime, but that a reasonable person would say, "yes, this is a good application of qualified immunity"?
> Voting and democracy should not become a device to placate the dissatisfied masses into silence, make them lineup for ballot, to choose a lesser evil who, in most likelihood, will turn out to be a egotistical power-seeker.

What else should you expect when people are limited to only two political parties? It could be worse with only one political party.
There's just no procedure to implement police reforms nationally in the US right now; the police in each city are entirely independent, answerable only to their city government, and generally represent an important political bloc. In many cities, the reforms have happened and the general public doesn't really have a problem with the police. In others, there just hasn't been the political will to push meaningful reforms past the police union.
They were able to better manage their fleets. They also didn't increase their pricing like Hertz did when their debt was spiraling out of control which allowed them to take a lot of Hertz business.

You can see my three bullet points on the previous response on how they mismanaged their fleet.
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Optimizing for beginners is fine, but let's not act like it's "correct". It's a Python design choice, some people like it, but there are consequences to it. Like almost all language design choices, it's a trade off. Usually the trade-off for simple to learn is that it's restrictive to professionals and experts. For new users, teaching classes, and bringing amateurs onto an existing team, it works well. For a team where everyone has 5+ years of experience in Python, I imagine there will be some annoyances where they fell boxes in by the language. That's the trade off in action.

An example of a langauge at the extreme other end of the spectrum would probably be APL. It's indecipherable gibberish to me every time I look at it, but I'm not even an APL amateur, much less professional, and that language seems built to be used by people that are very familiar with it. Is that wrong? No, they just aren't optimizing for learnability and community growth, as Python does, instead opting to make it as simple and useful as possible for experts to get what they need accomplished.

You can counter by saying that most code is read more than it's written, so readability is more important, and to that I would say that it depends on the type of code (scripting languages lend themselves to a lot of one-off scripts), and that readability is also a function of experience. If you want your code easily readable my amateurs, then keeping the capabilities you can use to those an amateur can understand is beneficial. If you want your code readable and understandable by experienced programmers, use constructs and control flows that they are experienced with, which is a much wider set of capabilities usually (if the language supports them).
When Obama left office, he apologised to Argentina for the US involvement in the guerra sucia.

I read one of Hanson's books. He recalls that he didn't like academia because, unlike his own farm, he couldn't order people with whom he disagreed off his land.

After reading this article, I think Hanson probably is disappointed that there are not more lefties thrown out of helicopters, but I am not more informed as to what his counter-suggestions to "reform at the local and state level" may be.

Pat Buchanan, in my opinion, was a much more convincing National Review columnist.

Obviously they differ on how to get there, but can the US right agree with the US left on "with liberty, and justice, for all"? It's an excellent sounding ideal.
In Britain perhaps, but I'm in the USA where anyone is (generally) allowed to carry a gun, especially police. Arguing that police should earn the right to carry a gun (especially when that right is so firmly established) in the USA would be a fool's errand.
You're actually in a pretty strong position. Normally to leave a lease you need to give notice, usually 30 days. But there is one time you don't have to do that -- when the lease ends.

If you lease ends on July 1, you can turn in your keys on June 30 and walk away. Your landlord knows this.

Rents won't go back up in July. Even if the economy recovers 100% in the next two weeks, most tech employers in the area are doing WFH until at least the fall if not next year or forever.

If your lease ends on July 1, start looking for a new place now, but don't sign anything. As soon as you find something tell your current landlord that you are about to sign a new lease but you'd much rather not go through the hassle of moving. If they say yes, great, and if they say no, at least you have a new place lined up.

Just make sure you take lots of pictures when you move out because your landlord sounds like the type that will nickel-and-dime you on your deposit.
state changes are not tracked by diffing, it is much more interesting. You can read about it here https://www.atfzl.com/understanding-solid-reactivity-basics
Sorry, I didn't mean to say you are lying, I meant that in the sense people say stuff like "Unless you're writing this from beyond the grave then...". Reading it back I can see how it read.

I was trying to say that you had no reason for not reporting it (based on what you had said - it's too old, it's my word against theirs etc).

Obviously now you've suggested you have your own personal reasons. That's completely different and totally up to you. I was only commenting on the objections you had raised previously, which suggested you thought your information had no value, when it does.
We have the same issue, except in both directions -- we use open-source projects as part of our software, and have also open-sourced a component that we developed, so we need to be able to go both ways.

The following seems to be working reasonably well so far:

- Each component has its own internal repo (in our case, we happen to use BitBucket). This repo contains any bits that are either proprietary and/or specific to our environment, like build scripts, integration with internal CI, etc.

- The open-source part of the component is hosted in an external repo on GitHub.

- The internal repo includes the contents of the external repo using git submodules (https://git-scm.com/docs/gitsubmodules).

We use a convention re: branch names:

- For projects that we don't own, "staging" is where our changes go before being submitted upstream as PR's.

- For projects that we do own, "staging" represents the current development "HEAD" -- our internal "master" branch includes the "staging" branch from the external repo.

- In either case, once a change has been approved for production use, it is committed to a release branch that is used to drive production builds.

Git submodules have a couple of features that make this easier:

- Each branch in the internal repo has its own .gitmodules file, which identifies which branch to fetch from the external repo. The .gitmodules file is an ordinary text file, and is managed just like any other file in the repo.

- Updating the submodule code in the internal repo is done by recording the hash of the specific commit from the external repo. This lets us control precisely which code from the external repo is included in builds (either development or production builds), and also provides an audit trail.

We used subtrees initially, and if there's not much traffic back and forth between the internal and external repos that can work, but it breaks down quickly as the repo becomes more active.
In Sweden we have the super restricted "right to quote"[1]. Fair use seems like a dream compared to this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_quote
Have you seen SF hotel rates during convention season? The most basic rooms go for $3-400. Have you tried to book a Paris hotel in summer? In my experience your statement is not true
Obviously the third that OP supports should decide, as they are good and the others are evil.
The modern day "corporate raider".
Tattoo them, not implant. I believe that because billG said that’s what he wants to do, unless the official website is some sort of joke I’m not getting: https://id2020.org/
Never saw allure of living there..sky high rent, smells of a homeless epidemic like no other I've seen and overall the desire to live in any big city with COVID and riots/protests is even more unappealing! Hopefully all that and remote work pushes many to buy in more suburban and rural areas.
Understand that many have been predicting that some amount of reform will come so Police Unions have been pushing legislatures for indemnification within contracts negotiated.

This in effect may still shadow some of the abusive officers but it also will mean pay outs will be from the very community they were abusing people with in.

Simply put, public employee unions within the United States have an exaggerated affect on politics at local, city, and state levels. This includes both police and teachers and in many cases fire. besides bankrupting communities with excessive pension and benefits plans; in fact these were some of the golden plans mentioned as being a limiting factor to what the ACA encompassed and the House only recently tucked a provision into law that passed which removed all consideration of these plans from future ACA fudning; they are leading to bankruptcy issues for some localities. On the teacher front a three year veteran is near immune to firing in NYC if not all of NY state.

It really comes down to this, the laws have to change. Both QI as well as the legality of these particular type of unions which do not serve the same purpose unions in corporations do. They are bleeding America dry and not just in money. Be very watchful for the House to attempt to bailout all these public sector employee pensions in the near future. [0][1][2][3][4][5]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2018/10/26/ill...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/business/dealbook/coronav...

[2] https://www.chicagobusiness.com/html-page/848696

[3] https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/pritzker-...

[4] https://www.heritage.org/jobs-and-labor/commentary/public-he...

[5] https://www.ai-cio.com/news/10-billion-illinois-pension-bail...
It's more the ubiquitous and uncontrollable fast-charging that kills batteries. I would love for charging power controls baked into Android, as I know there are one or two manufacturers who have them (ASUS and Sony?).
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Your point is very good. However I do want to mention a very limited exception. I am an academic and I write texts that are Free. I figure that a (I hope!) good text raises the profile of my institution and that students come to study at an institution because it has a good reputation. So while, as you say,

> It takes years to write a good book. Years. It's not something you just whip out.

nonetheless these works are freely available.

However, despite perhaps a few exceptions here and there (Kahn Academy is another), overall I very much agree. People have to be be paid. And while Patreon-type stuff is a great idea as far as it goes, it is not sufficient.
As far as I know, yes (although I don't live in Germany) but with disclaimer that it possibly allows old buildings to stay with the ventilation they were build with (which used to have decent ventilation via fairly poorly airtight doors and windows). It doesn't matter whether it's active (and by active you mean having ventilation hole in the room or fan?) or not – it should provide necessary exchange anyways. Maybe it's not true for the old buildings that weren't updated but in that case they are not healthy to stay in – whether with or without line drying.
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Shucks. I went for a quick google which seemed to confirm, but oh well.
/r/exlurker? (Only half joking!)
Assuming even distributing of funds among those 340 people is a little hard to believe as well.
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It's not about that - the filesystem needs to be simple snough that multiple vendors' implementations will be compatible.

Remember SOAP interoperability? Me neither. It was too complex for its own good. That's why REST is used everywhere today and experienced web developers smile every now and then when they remember they don't need to use it anymore. Well, most of them at least...
> The MLK quote is trotted out pretty often, but "a riot is the language of the unheard".

MLK Jr was unequivocally non-violent. That quote was in the context of explaining the root cause of the rioting, not condoning or endorsing it.

Don't trust anyone trying to tell you MLK Jr would have supported violent protests.

They are either trying to manipulate you or sadly ignorant (or both, of course). In either case they have it wrong, in terms of history and in the implication that violent protest will lead to any kind of progress or justice.
Maybe the reddit of 2016 was more manipulated? How would you tell the difference between new manipulation and change of manipulation?
How is this article on the front page of HN? It conflates cash flow with net income, and shows a lack of understanding of the business models of these companies.

Also... "why did we allow so many unprofitable companies IPO? When did losing money become acceptable and the new normal for publicly traded companies?"

This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how public markets work.
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"We will not curb violent speech if the speaker is a notable public figure" is already political. That's a political stance, not an apolitical one, and it's very naive to believe otherwise.

Besides, Facebook has a PAC! In what way is this attempting to be apolitical? Although their donations are split, since 2012 they've given 14% more to Republicans.
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This is my feeling also, but in general I'm very frustrated at how this whole conversation is based on these "feelings" because the data is so poor. I think an important component is an independent oversight apparatus that (among many other things) is responsible for collecting standardized, high quality data that can be aggregated at a national level so we can conclusively answer questions like, "do police target certain races in their killings or is it an artifact of different crime distributions or etc?". It just seems insane to me that we keep going through this cycle over and over and spend so much time debating these questions, but we don't avail ourselves by the relatively inexpensive, straightforward step of collecting more/better data. Of course, not everyone will respect data over their own feelings/experiences, but (1) the data might agree with those feelings/experiences and (2) the rest of us can move toward a consensus at any rate.
Again, libraries are closed. Libraries do this every day. People are locked in their homes with nothing to do, so they opened their archives as a gesture of goodwill and generocity to a nation of people who cannot get books from libraries. While this may not be legal, it is humane. The problem with this country is that the humane thing is often illegal. We cannot give this food to the hungry, we could be liable.

It's honestly what sucks most about this country: if someone is making money on it, everyone else who comes near it is powerless against it.

Yes, they are breaking copyright law. Who gives a flying fuck about copyright law when there are 100,000 dead people and riots in the streets?
Another downline impact of this, from an economic standpoint, is automaker sales. Depending on the automaker, fleet sales (much of which are to rental car agencies) can exceed 50% of total vehicle sales. So, if rental agencies aren't buying new cars this year, that will have a massive impact on automakers volume.

Now, fleet sales are typically very low margin for automakers, but they still need that volume to keep the lines productive without reducing labor (another economic impact).

One bright spot is that most suppliers that I have dealt with only produce about 25% of their volume for new car manufacturing and the rest are "service parts" (repairing existing cars). So, hopefully it won't have chapter 11 impact on most suppliers as the service market should be quote healthy again soon.
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I'd say research position at Google of Microsoft. If research positions are not available then any position that gives you some freedom to poke at whatever you like.

I do agree that such positions are much rarer nowadays than the Cold War in which states were willing to invest X% for scientific progression. Nowadays? Let's cut everything that doesn't have a strong political backer.
I'm not sure we just need more political parties, yes it would be nice. But we really need to work on disentangling how deep economic anti-humanist incentives and policy have embedded themselves within both parties.
there has been a lot of talk about COVID19 leading to an implosion of used car values, this is affecting big automakers who have large lease portfolios, Ford and GM each are well past twenty billion here so I expect Hertz cannot be helped by this pressure
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Rent control has a lot of unintended consequences. It is supposed to be a short term band-aid for bad zoning policies, but the zoning policies actually have to be fixed if you want to remove the band-aid.
Everytime I read an article about all these tools I really can't help but think what would happened if Linus would have taken over the desktop. All the tools really largely seem to try to poorly replicate Linux package management and the fact that because of this devs now don't care anymore about api stability and not always building against the latest and greatest.

I admit a pyenv is nice for testing against different python versions if necessary. But on my Linux systems generally fine with just installing system packages and doing pip install --user for the odd package that is not in the repositories
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