skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe qualified immunity is a creature of the courts, and related to absolute immunity (given to prosecutors and legislators), as well as sovereign immunity (possessed by the state).

The idea is that people acting on behalf of the sovereign deserve some of the immunity that the sovereign itself takes advantage of. The immunity allows agents of the state to act with less fear of reprisals, especially in edge cases, or when dealing with powerful counter-parties.
This reddit thread from years ago (IIRC it got linked from a bunch of subreddits) explained some of the difficulties really well: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/2qv6o0/...
That's the first step, and this has happened many times before. No REIT drops rents; instead, they offer "$0 deposit", "no rent for the first 45 days", etc. Once these tricks are exhausted, rents will drop. The issue is: how long does it take for these tricks to exhaust?
What are some actual laws we can pass from this situation?

I was thinking at the very least to get a citizen right where you can request to have any encounter with the police recorded.

‘Officer I request my right to have this encounter recorded’.
I'm generally on board with everything you've said, but

>like to see most beat cops completely disarmed

seems absolutely crazy to me as long as the general public has such easy access to guns.
Except macOS Catalina when it hits WDT panics.
Sure, but as it's going to only way for this to happen, and it certainly is possible, is if people start acting against large actors that have a vested interested against this in ways that make de-commodification necessary for the existence of the industry.

It is theft in the same way that someone squatting unused land in the north of Canada and being granted ownership is theft. The fact that we live in a system where this might cause loss of income for someone is neither necessary nor the moral responsibility of the Internet Archive, SciHub or Library Genesis.
With all the talk of unions, as well as issues around gig workers, we need to guarantee health care for all as a human right in USA. Remove the burden and misaligned incentives of employer-provided care from businesses large and small, as well as from unions, not to mention the individuals requiring insurance coverage and care.
Long term, sure. But there's little point in paying $$$ for a tiny place when everything is closed due to Covid. Why not decamp for the suburbs/parent's house for a year and save 20-30k?
Yes, and the people participating on it were pretty sure they weren't living in a democracy.

I imagine that many people on those current protests believe they aren't in one either (or, at least, if one exists they are cast out of it). I'm in no position to judge if they are right, but on the case they are not, violence is no means to do a democratic protest.
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I checked some resources and none mentions Britain or Italy counting suspected cases.

I only did Belgium that does this. What is your source of information?

Not saying you are wrong, but according to me, Belgium is the only one that does it like this.

Even after looking it up, I can't find something that says what you are claiming
The airline industry has a similar model.
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Eh, there's a logic to it, I think. If you intend people to only nominate the people they know personally (because otherwise they are relaying their impression of a curated media image, or the opinion of someone else) then it's likely that people who have more than 50 (or maybe 100 or 200) nominations are being nominated by people that don't really know them.

Some Twitch streamer with a thousand followers would have little problem getting 50 nominations by snapping their fingers, regardless of their qualifications.

This being said, there's probably a better way.
I've had good experiences with Accenture in a staff aug role, but leading projects have been disasters. Similar problems working with Deloitte.

That being said, I've had nothing but good experiences working with McKinsey.
The racist conservatives that infest HN don't like seeing articles that offend them.
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This is overt flamebait. This situation and this forum deserve a genuine, nuanced analysis, not this profiteering tabloidism.
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That's the wrong way to look at it. Amazon shows that it is important to differentiate between business that can be profitable but are reinvesting their profits to achieve long-term goals and business where the core business is simply not profitable.
My conspiracy theory is that something else is brewing on the international level that is bigger than these riots. There's been reports of actions by various international adversary militaries. Everyone is extremely busy.
The rental market is losing it legs in SF for sure, though landlords are going to try and prop up their values however they can. Like a sibling comment said, giving free months rather than actually adjusting the rate. The funny thing is, they price these free months into the rental rate so it looks cheaper than it is.

Here's some anecdata from my little corner of SF. I know THREE separate homes trying to fill rooms, and it's going awfully. The rent is too high, and there aren't enough people looking for rooms.

My old luxury apartment building has cut rents by around $500 for a two bedroom, about 10% (though I think they're doing it by way of free months).

The luxury building down the street, Duboce, is also offering 2 bedrooms at about $500 off peak. They're also listing their rooms on craigslist.

I rent a flat with two others in San Francisco. They're both leaving the city, and rather than find another apartment, I'm going to leave temporarily too. Funny, the landlord could have just given us a reduction and sign a new lease. Unfortunately, he'll now have to contest for a dwindling pool of applicants or let the place sit empty.
The argument isn't that the public is particularly good at choosing administrators, but that they have some ability to weed out bad administrators, and administrators have some pressure to perform. Unlike the public, they accept blame for the negative consequences of popular decisions like tax cuts or spending increases. The ability to take unpopular decisions is a feature not a bug.

One can make a similar theoretical argument that it is harder, possibly 'orders of magnitude' so for a CEO to determine the reliability of prospective hires to be accountable for decision making, and yet they invariably do despite greater ability to take executive decisions than the public
If you have rockstar And or making living off of being a singer go dream but with reality in mind. You either have that gift that compels people to stop/drop (also pay to)and listen to you or not.

Also, Louis Armstrong has a very distinct voice and no one I've heard sings a Wonderful World better.

I pursued my dream as a kid I started to hear songs in my head I hadn't heard before. That led me to Nashville to finish college and pursue my Songwriting dream. There you have to be the best of the best and many of those don't make it as they didn't get their break. While pursuing my dream I played/performed in many guitar circles amongst 5 to 10 songwriters. People will let you know if they want to hear you again vs. the next guy or my girlfriend at the time who usually was the best in each circle we played in. That doesn't mean I don't write Or perform anymore and enjoy it..I'm always just a realistic person.
It is mind blowing that a company as big as google can be that bad at dealing with customers.

Not only that but people are building business on top of a company that can wipe out your digital presence (gmail) because you try to charge back an erroneous charge. Seems to me like living under a constant threat..?
Unrelated to the job post itself, but I spotted the puzzle and couldn't help but try it out for a minute. Sadly, I couldn't get anything useful out of it; I have a guess as to what it should decode to but got nothing remotely close to ASCII from it. Perhaps I'm just not smart enough to pass the test? ;)
Interesting - it seems more verbose but fairly expressive. Two thoughts: (1) a (more) declarative model would interesting vs. all the callbacks, and (2) where's your to-do app, lol -- all the frameworks have one? :P
I don’t understand all the details. I do understand that when you specifically hire someone to do something that has inherent risk of bad things happening to people ...

There seems like there should be some mechanism in place to limit or control their exposure to criminal prosecution.

At a certain point it seems like it would be too risky to oneself to do your job, if there are too many ways you can be prosecuted for doing it.

But on a specific level I have no idea.
I would like to be able to filter out games with in app purchases. Or more specifically, in app purchases that impact gameplay.

I don't mind cosmetics but whenever someone spending money has an advantage, I don't want to touch that game.
Your keyboard is neat, but I just don't think it's for me. If you've ever looked through menus for some command, you know that it never feels good. Looking down at your keyboard and doing the same visual search would feel just as bad.

If I were spending on keyboard research and development, I'd want a silent design that feels as tactile as buckling spring switches. That would benefit me (and anyone nearby) every time I press a key, which is thousands of time per day. A display on each key? Neat, but that's about it.
Plus, Macs are far from a rare sight in 'Europe'...
Heck, I'd go farther and make the House a random sample, and move the Senate back to being selected by the States.
They are not the source, per se, but they are the deciding entity as to what moves in the process. Legislation cannot move without leadership, which includes committee chairs, majority leader, floor leader, whip, etc. Under a very technical way a discharge petition could be brought to force it out of committee, but ..that's extremely rare[0].

[0.] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discharge_petition#Uses_since_...
There’s a parsing ambiguity I think. Is it “(reached profitability after years of not) && (reached profitability post-IPO)” or “reached profitability after (years of not, all of which were post-IPO)?

Ebiester’s initial comment on becoming profitable after IPOing with losses allows for either as a follow-up. We seem to have taken opposite readings without ill intent on either side.
Python dependency management of packages using C or C++ behind the scenes is really problematic and sometimes, the installation may fail. In this case, a solution is to use Conda or mini conda which provide many pre-compiled packages and also Clang C++ compiler.

An alternative way to allow people without software engineering background to play with Python data science and machine learning tool may be providing pre built Docker images with everything pre-installed which may save one from configuration trouble.

Docker is also useful for learning about new programming languages without installing anything. With just one command $ docker "run --rm -it julia-image", one can get a Docker image containing a GOLang compiler; a Julia language installation; a Rust development environment and everything else. Docker is really a wonderful tool.
Probably due to time zone
Good points. I think the reason this is complicated is that the Apollo missions included one stage, the S-IVB, which was used twice, for getting into low earth orbit, and for departing for the moon. You have to count some fraction of that as mass lifted to orbit, but i don't know how much.
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> there has been a lot of talk about COVID19 leading to an implosion of used car values

I don't get that. Surely people still need to travel, and are less likely to take public transport, wouldn't that drive up demand rather than drive down?

OK people might not be commuting 5 times a week, and perhaps doing fewer miles overall, but you'd still need a car.

If you live in a walkable city, then your requirement for a car hasn't changed if you are no longer walking/subwaying to the office
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In short the prosecutor's office has to work closely with the police to do their job. They are strongly discouraged from bringing cases against cops to avoid hurting the relationship between the two parties.
Anyone with a minimum of common sense knew where this was going.
I actually was shocked when I learned about robot debt 3 years ago. I knew people would die, I knew there will be bugs, and I also knew that they would not apologize for the simple reason is that they don't have a simple clue.
Also, they can't be fired, and they know each others since they share the same school - ACT is a small country town....

So anyone who did a shit job there never been told to change anything.

I am not surprised, and this will happen again.
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These businesses’ products are the way humans communicate. I don’t consider “you can say what you want, but it will be impossible for you to say it _to_ anybody” to be an acceptable compromise. Free speech that’s not absolute does not exist at all.
During the last downturn in 2008, only the highest rents in SF dropped. The rest of the Bay Area just stayed flat for a few years.

This downturn may be different because of the shift to work-from-anywhere in tech, but it will be interesting to see. A lot of people like their tech offices, with their free lunches and snacks and gyms and coffee and so on.
This is addressed within the press release.

IA is claiming that they're mostly making available copies of out-of-print books that are hard to find.

But that's not true. Within their "Emergency Library," there are quite a few books that were published relatively recently.

For instance, I'm an author of several books. I found one of my books, from 2014, which is still in print, on their list.
Where your argument fails is that nowhere in the Constitution, or quotes like that is mentioned the right to be _heard_. You have no inherent right to an audience (either on Facebook, or in a public place). In-person, I can walk away. But the virtual equivalent is "stifling"?
Right, that's discovery as I understand it. But why would you, as the defense, plan to present a video that demonstrates your guilt? If you aren't going to present it, it isn't part of discovery. The prosecution is required to share material that undermines their own case under the Brady Rule [1], but the defense does not bear the same burden as far as I know. In fact, the defense is not even required to request or subpoena the exculpatory evidence; the prosecution is expected to share it of their own accord. Which typically means the prosecution just shares everything they have, in case something turns out to be exculpatory (the Brady Rule is still in play even if the prosecution is unaware they have the evidence).

My take is that this situation applies to evidence the defense has acquired. I don't think the _defense_ is required to share it voluntarily (although it could probably still be subpoenaed if the prosecution was aware of its existence). I.e. if Joe Shmoe was being charged with burglary, and someone sent his a lawyer a video of him committing the crime, his lawyer is not required to disclose the existence of the video. If the prosecution found out that it existed, they could still subpoena it. Although I don't know if you could subpoena it from Joe Shmoe, that's beyond my limited reading. You could definitely subpoena it from whoever sent it to the defense, as their right against self-incrimination doesn't apply.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/brady_rule
>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.

Every lease I've ever signed required 30 days notice from either party to end the lease when the lease term ends, otherwise it proceeds on a month to month basis with no further action required.

Edit: Technically not required in California but confirmed that it was in fact required for a previous state I lived in.
This was an interesting read. Are example results of the procedural generation posted somewhere?
> 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.

This isn't guaranteed. In my case (renter in North Carolina), even at the end of my lease I have to give a 60 day notice prior to the lease-end or else my lease switches to month-to-month automatically.
Each act of copyright infringement does not equate to a lost sale.

We have a term for copyright infringement. We have a term for unlawfully taking things that are subject to scarcity. They are two different things. The lack of scarcity matters.
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Other replies have some useful ideas, but I think it's important to strike right at the heart of the issue: lack of accountability and redress.

Something _like_: make police leadership legally accountable for the actions of their officers. I say something _like_ this because it's in the right direction, but probably not the exact solution necessary. Another similar approach is something _like_ forbidding police unions or otherwise completely neuter them [with respect to Officer's actions].

Ideas like community service are good, but I think it's important to have clarity of approach (drop racism as the driving force and focus on accountability) and efficacy (make real changes).

This issue is very murky even to Americans, but everyone will say they know what the problem is or they will deny that there is a problem. If their description of the problem aligns with predictable political leanings, they're likely taking an emotionally driven perspective.
Just to poke your brain, or anyone's, suppose we shared concerns and views on all topics. Now let's consider a spectrum of "how well are are individual rights upheld in practice?", with all the nuances.

What's your short list of particularly good/best places in SE Asia/Oceania (that you'd be comfortable travelling to, but even work with, invest in? (Coming from the north Atlantic)

I'm down to:

- Australia + NZ

- Taiwan (sadly HK seems 'compromised')

- Singapore

Pretty much in that order. That's the shortest this list has even been in my lifetime. What am I not seeing?
One minor thing I might consider is more examples with animation in UI --- it's a place where most apps want to go but have trouble doing elegantly/performantly.
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If this were the main factor, then victims of police violence would be a representative sample of the population. Instead, they are disproportionately non-white. The current state of affairs has to be understood in the historical context of institutionalized racism in the US. It's built into policing in the same way it was built into the physical infrastructure of cities. https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-racist-planning-...
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Jinx, just commented the same thing. Mine is even 60 days!
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