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Police have been ordered by the city government to avoid enforcing certain laws. It basically means that homeless people can get away with theft and any nuisance. Also criminals are quickly released re-offend.

Here are some examples.

This guy has been arrested, charged, and released on his own recognizance five separate times. None of the cases have been closed yet: https://twitter.com/SFPDTenderloin/status/123955010416546611...

This guy was arrested, charged, and released without bail several times before he hacked someone up with a machete: https://twitter.com/SFPDTenderloin/status/122409012050613452...

This guy has been breaking into cars for over a year. He was caught multiple times and released on his own recognizance: https://twitter.com/SFPDTenderloin/status/121391498699874713...

Most of the bay area is like this and criminals know it. It's hard to describe just how bad property crime is here. Everyone I know has given up reporting when their bike is stolen or when their car has its windows smashed. They know the police won't do anything.
I've been a Python developer for more than ten years. Approximately 98% of the time I need to debug something I use print() statements and this:

import IPython; IPython.embed()
Glad to see that I'm not the only one triggered by the irony. :p
I think the context of what you're serving matters. In this case the game content is good enough that the performance probably doesn't matter.

The worst example of a refused performance improvement I can think of was in relation to improving a help site, it had generally bad reviews from users (it is very difficult to get good reviews from users for a help site because if a user is coming to your help site they are already in a bad mood)

but obviously if you are on a site that you are mad about being on and it then takes a long time to load all the data so you can try to figure out your problem you are going to be steaming.

Project manager wouldn't prioritize the three performance improvement tickets I made with lots of cogent description of why it needed to be done. Somehow though, this is my fault.
I don't think there is enough political will to rally peacefully for real structural change. The average person does not want to rock the boat, they just want to go about their daily lives even if it is harder than normal, or if their kin are only "randomly" targeted as bad as that may sound.

I've seen it happening in a country that has actually, super explicit structural racist policies and laws against a minority group, and the minority just does not do anything because they're "kinda okay". They don't riot, or have any large-scale protests. They barely do protests, and even then it's rare.

I also grew up in a another country that crumbled under an authoritarian government. The government meddled with elections, caused election violence, was instigating for youth-brigade members to cause violence, seized private property, the economy exploded with thousand digit inflation, people went for weeks with barely intermittent water or electricity, etc. And still, the best people could muster was to either "leave" whilst those that stayed did their utmost best to help each-other out to make life barely not miserable.
>> Autopilot users are ALWAYS supposed to watch the road and take control in unusual circumstances.

It looks like there is no single general concept of road occluders. If autopilot can't avoid a big object in the middle of the road what is it good for? Tesla claims to provide more than an airplane autopilot, they say its tech would avoid that mountain.
Very handy.

For anyone interested, there is a nice collection of system fonts available on int10h.org:

https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/
When I ported my toy compiler backend from NASM macros to straight x86 instructions, as means to remove code I didn't own, I had this clever idea to use AT&T syntax because I wanted the compiler to depend only on GNU as and used the opportunity to try it out.

Never again, after all this years I still have vague memories of how I used TASM and MASM, and trying to write x86 AT&T was such a pain.
Police and politicians are not supposed to be involved in decisions of whether to prosecute crimes, so the fact you lay guilt on them for not prosecuting is puzzling.

Prosecutors are supposed to be making those decisions on behalf of the state or federal government.

The police did everything in their power (immediately firing them). It's up to prosecutors to do the rest.

Do you think police generally support what happened?
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Thanks for sharing!

I am exactly half your age and have been programming seriously for only for 25 years (if we consider talking over serial/COM ports at 1200 bauds or passing printer escape sequences from a DOS ncurses-like software written in BASIC serious :), and I can't imagine not programming in the future. Programming is the art of creating solutions for me, and I am sure you can relate!

However, I do hope to retire early, to allow me to work down the long bucket list of ideas I have.

As with anyone in programming for so long, I am sure you have a similar bucket list :)

Thus, my question is: what has kept you at your jobs?
Yes, 'reverse racism' isn't a thing, it's just racism. You don't get to change the meaning of words because you studied critical race theory at university.
You hit a temperature/pressure threshold pretty quickly once you start going down.

It's hard to engineer materials or machinery that can cope with the kind of pressures and temperatures created when drilling deeper than a few kilometres.

Also pouring government funds into something like this is not as glamourous as manned space flight missions. A good example is that we know more about the surface of the Moon than we know about the ecosystems in the Mariana trench.
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Work. Volunteer. Take care of your family. Vote. It's a bit of a bad timing for protests right now - easily exploited, will likely result in negative change.
I cannot agree more. If you make everything about politics, you will either force people who don't align with your politics to split off, or silently tolerate that you're using "the union" against them and their interests.

Single issue organizations are much better. You don't need to agree on how to run the justice system to promote safe drinking water, so don't use the Safe Water Now organization to weight in on prison reform or police laws. Start a new, unrelated org if you want to do that.
I think the argument is that a union is more like a party in a winner-take-all system than a party in a multiparty system.
Isn't all war "the continuation of politics by other means"?

I presume what was meant here was that 20th C fascist movements got big by the strategic use of street violence, in a way that the relatively liberal societies they worked within weren't equipped to counter.

Obviously not the first movement to use street violence, but (in my understanding) the scale and discipline with which it was deployed was a new and distinctive feature.
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Couldn’t you just install Debian, choose sysvinit and uninstall systemd?

Also, I personally won’t be dropping systemd any time soon because the alternatives on Debian are:

Go back to Sysvinit and have to write sysvinit scripts myself; or

Use some even less common init system and have no package provided init scripts/units/what have you.
Thanks for the catch up, it's already updated.
Of course!

If the post is “the only good X is a dead X”, I don’t care who is saying it, they shouldn’t be allowed to.
The fact that he flips off the protesters who try to stop him and continues instigating until the police escalate.

Did you watch the video?
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Yeah, Roam looks exactly what I'd love to have, and I would pay a licence fee; however, I don't want my knowledge hosted somewhere else apart from my computer a my backup.
Antifa literally exist to use violence upon people who don't share their politics, which is one of the hallmarks of fascism.

Naming yourself "the good guys" doesn't mean anyone who opposes you is bad. It's like if someone said disliking 'Make America Great Again' means you don't want America to be great. Or opposing the Patriot Act makes you not a patriot.

You know this, everyone else reading this knows this, stop pretending we don't.
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FB/Google/Twitter/... are already the arbiters of the truth through their algorithms deciding what to show to people. I don't think they should censor posts though, instead they should make their algorithms transparent and reduce the reach of posts and ads.
What kind of "tracing" is this about?
Great write up, thanks!
You want to make sure PyCharm is only indexing files within your project. Depending on your setup, it can try to index all files within virtual environments etc.
That was just one tank though. You can't really compare what happened in Tiananmen Square to what's happened in the US.
No, but a friend of mine is and he said exactly the same thing.
This is just a wave of low cost shoring. I work for a SV company and we are “offshoring” all our support from Midwest to Canada. I can see this trajectory play out for Stitch Fix and other companies. Pretty stylists here are commodity jobs and plenty available in Canada. Best part is that it is an English speaking nation as well
That's a weird stance. Law enforcement is always based on the credible threat of violence.

You can comply peacefully with everything they ask of you. That's because of the threat of violence. "No, we can't make this person come with us to present them to a judge, if they don't want to, they must be let go. No Violence!" sounds crazy.

"No violence, ever" just means "property should not exist as a concept".
We're not allowing governments to do the proper, necessary surveillance to control and prevent crimes in general, including ones at demonstrations/protests. Whenever these ideas start popping up, someone always finds some "privacy" concern that spoils a lot of tech-answers to crime and violence, including here on HN.

I find it very saddening as the victims of these crimes end up being victims that are ignored by "privacy" advocates and proponents, as if "privacy" is a bigger concern than violent crimes.
Bewildering syntax aside, that sounds like every big company, ever. Unions don't change the core nature of large organizations, just the power dynamics.
Thank you for your observation. We are checking on how to fix this.
Not based on offers I or anyone I know has gotten. Who would blindly take options without knowing what percentage they make up?
Do yourself a favour and learn how to use use a proper IDE.
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I don't think there are enough white nationalists to blame them for that.

Mainstream media is now 50% fake news.
> The fact that he flips off the protesters who try to stop him

Because he wants to break the police car obviously.

> continues instigating until the police escalate

More like until he is shooed off. I do not see the police in the video at all actually. Regardless, would that not be the best idea if you are going to cause trouble? You would not want to be arrested after all.

And yeah, I did watch the video.
I have a Model 3. It still does phantom braking. Elon’s FSD claims are laughable and this story is just another data point
The alternative is the employer winning in a two party system.
I agree but stopping on the highway for a paper bag could itself lead to serious series of accidents
I think it's fair for private companies to provide curation as a service. I don't think it's a good business model to be both a curator and a platform at the same time outside of maintaining an overall level of safety and decency (pornography, snuff, overt racism, etc.).

I don't see why it's wrong for facebook to stay out of it other than reporting violent language to relevant law enforcement. Seems like assault is already a felony.
Found one of those in the stacks of papers from my father's time at IBM. Funny how paper-based information technology was back then - the first thing that comes to mind are the punch cards, but also later program listings were printed out a lot.

We used stacks of "endless paper" core dumps / assembler listings when painting rooms, as you could just unfold a huge stack of paper to protect the floor from paint splatters.
Btw, this is exactly this feature request: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-226455

Current statement:

> We're very aware of how important this feature is, and we have several initiatives in place to provide a great experience for fully remote development. Unfortunately, at this time we're unable to share any specifics or timeframes, as getting the best possible experience requires massive-scale architectural changes to our codebase, but we've been working on this for quite some time already and we believe that we will have a solution that will go above and beyond what VS Code delivers today.
> More realistically, I think it is rarely this simple, on either side. I'm sure that usually there is a feedback loop of escalating responses.

The premise of the article is Police showing escalating force, increases escalation of protestors.

While likely it's a feedback loop, the police are expected to keep the peace; so there exists a higher standard for their behavior.

Yet, an oft criticism is that LE agencies don't always get the de-escalation training they need.
Of-course these things happened. However, they will never reported by the "progressive" MSM. The HN community has blinkers on because the vast majority (not all) of people here are rich and un-affected by such matters.

Do not take my words for it - Please do your own research.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rochester-store-owners-attack...
https://twitter.com/PatrolRpd/status/1267202275895803904
https://www.firehouse.com/operations-training/news/21140391/...
no, they don't! what are you talking about? I have been to places where people have to defend themselves from neo nazis coming to beat them up for being gay. it is a label that indicates reactive protection from fascist violence, period
Could the organizers arrange for citizens arrests of the troublemakers by the peaceful majority? Like asking them to leave and having them restrained by the peaceful majority if they refuse?
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Judging by what people buy it seems you are in a minority.
And what if the lift fails? How are they gonna climb up 40 meters with a huge and bulky Moon suit?

It would be bummer if you had to die on the Moon because you couldn't climb back up into your spaceship.
Rio Tinto should have paid to have them removed, plain and simple.
The point is, if citizens are armed, they can keep the peace (more or less) without police for a while.
Why must websites sustain themselves financially?

It can literally cost you $30 a year to host a website.

Many people will spend more on coffee. Per month.
Thank you this confirms my moving away from MBP because of touch-bar, perhaps somewhat easier as I love Windows so the Surface range was perfect.
" A fascist is one who uses violence for political means."

What?
No, that's the definition of terrorism.

Fascism is an extreme nationalistic ideology pioneered in Italy by Mussolini and adopted by Nazi Germany.
> It's literally not an organization.

And that's the problem.

This story is natural clickbait because you have literal fascists claiming to be anti-fascist, which is an obvious contradiction.

But if Antifa is just anybody who is against fascism then violent anti-fascists are Antifa. You can't say they're not when they actually are against fascism. And without any official leadership to disavow the advocation of violence, now your label is tainted by violent evildoers and you get to enter the grab-bag of boogymen for whenever somebody needs one.
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Reddit is not different with respect to this. HN, mostly, so far, but it does consider certain things more or less off topic, so it's not trying to be a general platform as such.
Both US and UK are extremes which shouldn't be taken as role models.

So you think the UK police should kill more people?
How about instead of spending trillions of dollars we don't have on UBI we actually do something that will make a difference:

1. End the war on drugs
2. Fire bad cops
3. End Qualified Immunity
4. End Civil Asset Forfeiture
5. Collect stats on every-time police force is used
FWIW critical lack of zinc is associated with loss of smell and taste. Apparently the body consumes a lot of zinc to fight viruses. You might benefit of supplementing for while.
You're right, by turning off my ad-blocker, my mobile screen was fully covered with ads.

What constantly worries me however, is what happens when most visitors use ad-blockers? My guess is, a war would be declared against current web standards, where users can still modify DOM and remove unwanted content.
Edit: reword for clarity.
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But the militia was imagined as a different thing than a standing professional army
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It does not imply a singular group. For example, Al-Qaeda is classified as a terrorist organization despite being made up of several structures and groups.

It implies a collective.
When you have a disease killing more people than malaria despite the massive lockdowns, there is no legitimate way to have a conversation.

And in case you think 'yeah but the lock downs don't work' look at Vietnam: they are the first country to have local transmission outside China, and they started anti-pandemic measures in December. Results? 95 million people, 329 caught the virus, 0 deaths as of today. Not 329 thousand. 329 people. That is what this could have looked like in most of the world, if the virus had been taken seriously and if our politicians cared about human life.
It's legal to declare main as returning an int, And then not return any value, but it's not legal to declare it as not returning any value? I agree that in many contexts it's useful and important to have a good return value, but to be honest, I almost never end up doing it in my own programs.
I did this in the past. Aparently I forgot I had an account, setup a new one, then found my older account, after some email migrations, they ended up on the same email with the same password. I think it was pretty consistent about which account I logged into, but changing the email (or the password, I guess) of that account let me access the otherwise hidden account. They still have no merge feature, but at least they let you change your email address, unlike some sites.
Hmmm. Insurrection: a violent uprising against an authority or government. Not sure “failing to disperse” really qualifies
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It feels a bit weird to engage in politics in a country you are not a citizen of, though. It's good that it's allowed and it shouln't be impeded but it feels a bit like when you go to a friend's house and tell them how they should educate their children differently.
Yes, failing to care about a disease killing hundreds of thousands of people, and failing to protect yourself and loved ones, does seem like a good reason to end a friendship.
I personally found the archive[0] an excellent software to get started with a Zettelkasten. The forum and the blog posts on the site are great.

I'm also developing a CLI script to visualize your zettelkasten[1]. I mainly use it to print stats, like the number of connected components and find orphaned notes.

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[1] https://github.com/BasilPH/vizel
Oh, having full ipython during debug investigations is much better than using pure pdb.set_trace(). Thank you.
Terrorist organisations are not necessarily singular groups. Al-Qaeda for example.
I developed MFC applications and wxWidgets is FAR better than MFC. Much easier to use too. Plus multi-platform.
The experience with -ism words like socialism, communism, capitalism, libertarianism, etc, is that it is very hard to rally a group together that agrees on an actual definition of what they mean.

So when you say 'From what I can tell antifa is anti-fascism' - what does that mean? America doesn't have any serious fascist groups - from what I can tell the ruling powers are decidedly corporatist and the first alternative philosophy seems to be light/moderate socialism. Second is maybe libertarianism.

So who/what do you think the anti-fascists are opposing, and what would they espouse if they ever decide there are no fascists for them to define themselves against?
Knowing English definitely is an advantage, but how big?

If you’re not interested in an international careeer (many people aren’t), you have quality education available in your local language, and there’s a thriving local tech scene I don’t see why it has to be that much of a disadvantage.

There are many other languages that are big and used by tens of millions of people. In most of those languages you can find all the books, courses, and conversations you need to take up computering.
Reminds me of the protests in Egypt.

Except in Egypt the military did it to show that were with the protestors and getting ready to swap the dictator out.
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Stop. There are no utopian technical solutions to human socio-econo-political problems. Please stop.
They break that prohibition all day every day. That's one of the things Snowden objected to.
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