skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was not a riot but a peaceful protest that was covered by multiple camera angles (including the POV or a camera that got punched by a cop/fed/whatever while they brutalized journalists). Civilian riots in the next town over do not justify police riots to enable a tyrant to walk across the street to take pictures of an upside-down bible in front of a church while that same church's pastors were tear-gassed.
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This a very good point. And it's also exactly how I see a potential relationship. Beginning with a proven product (4 years history of organic growth with low churn), and with a long-term outlook.

I've yet to find a marketer that would be interested. To be honest, I'm not that surprised — I want accountability, and there are many others out there who do not, and with faster-growing businesses.
Brenden, you have a terrible understanding of the powers of the President. The President can propose and cajole, but it is both houses of Congress that must pass the laws and only then can the President sign them.

Secondly, there are plenty of things to criticize both parties about, but if you think they are indistinguishable, then you aren't looking very hard.
While I, too, am using an ancient washing machine in my home, it's not exactly an apples to apples comparison. New washing machines use far less water and electricity than their older counterparts. They also remove more water during their spin cycle, reducing the amount of drying necessary. And if your dryer uses natural gas (as mine does), a newer washing machine will reduce your use of natural gas as well.
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I’m probably biased in that I primarily use Emacs and like lisps. So I find guix more approachable right out the box. Learning a new language just to use an OS is quite a big ask and part of the learning hurdle of Nix.

It’s too bad that guix uses old style mailing lists for development though. I just can’t be bothered setting up myself for that mode of contribution, so I’ll continue to use NixOS for the indefinite future.
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> There's no other reason you could think of to feed a hungry person?

It's not what you can think of that matters, it's what the people who control the state apparatus can think of.

The vast majority of human beings are capable of empathy. Such people are usually found towards the bottom to middle of most hierarchies, because their empathy makes it painful to fuck over all the other claimants and collateral damage that they need to crawl over to get to the top.

You could look at capitalism is a sociopath-containment vehicle. If there were no sociopaths, there would be no need for capitalism: people would produce what was needed and freely share it with the people who need it most. However, there are sociopaths, and throughout history they've usually just taken all the excess production, enjoyed it, and left the people who produced it destitute. It was a big innovation to be able to channel that selfishness and will to dominate other people into productive uses that make the rest of society more efficient.
Charisma can be learned.
An amusing aside: When I was in grad school, the university created a little pamphlet to help students answer the question: Should I get my own computer?

That such a question could even be asked, dates me. But one comment in the pamphlet still seems to ring true:

Don't expect the computer to organize you. If you have a messy desk, you will have a messy computer.

For me, search is how I organize my files, and yes I suffer from my lack of organization.
I could really use not a full download-to dialog on every save in my browser, but just a prompt for a very small set of download locations I've defined, possibly filtered by extension (.jpg -> 'photos_to_sort' or 'memes' or 'temp_junk' as my options)
Here in Germany, they seem to. Don't know if this has changed recently, but for the last personal visit 2 years ago, it was an IBM guy.
And get rid of two party recording consent laws?
1) Bloomberg doesn't control facebook

2) Bloomberg ran as a democrat

Imagine a world where you get your news from Fox News and then go to a conservative controlled facebook. He would be unstoppable.
We are way past the boiling stage.
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That is a failed acquihire. The whole point of an acquihire from the acquirer's point of view is that while business-unit-specific OPEX budget is used for salaries, bonuses and other overhead, retention packages and equity arrangements are generally covered by the central budget. Otherwise you would just hire people directly, possibly using special packages.

What an acquihire gets you, as an executive, is that people you otherwise wouldn't be able to hire, because you can pay above market without wrecking your budget. These people are either vesting out equity or they are on explicit retention packages, but from a budget standpoint _they aren't on you_.

Another way to think about it is that this buys you the time necessary to, using the normal levers available to you, get employees to the point where a set of overlapping RSU grants are vesting quarterly, thereby both avoiding a steep compensation cliff and getting the total compensation to where it needs to be in a way you could not do on day one.
I see. That's what I thought.
For reference, this is the original study and HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23273615
I love poking around.

I love poking around with vi, more, and grep.

I cannot fathom how someone would want to poke around with a mouse while pointing, clicking, and peering into a little 2" x 2" dialog box.
This unfortunately isn't surprising anymore:
1. State and local governments wanted order above all
2. They created laws and regulations that gave too much leeway to police with little oversight
3. Cops think they can act with impunity.

In this moment of reckoning, I wonder if the US will be able to undo some of these terrible policies

Relevant References:
https://www.joincampaignzero.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km4uCOAzrbM
If this were about somebody getting a 2k$ macbook whose fingerprint reader doesn't work, everyone would be outraged.

But since I paid 2k$ for a Lenovo Ubuntu laptop, I'm the one that's wrong for expecting the fingerprint reader to actually work.
I can't point to a single thing Obama did to fix the broken state of the country and politics. Maybe I'm just dumb, but my only memories of him are some speeches he gave about closing Guantanamo and then not following through.
>My suspicion is the Public Defenders’ offices are nearly universally underfunded and overworked [...]

By design.
If there is a breach shouldn't the service force a change to proceed or change them and force a reset?
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Are you justifying this as corporal punishment for pre-crime?
But this is the same pattern where the executive branch just takes ever more power for themselves, under a belief that it will be wielded appropriately. The Obama administration could have prosecuted fully and given the corrupt police departments and officers definite punishments, instead of putting a settlement leash on them that just got handed off to the next President to be let go of.
Isn't evidence that establishes a witnesses credibility relevant and allowed? Wouldn't this information ruin their credibility?
> The Guardian has since contacted five hospitals in Melbourne and two in Sydney, whose cooperation would have been essential for the Australian patient numbers in the database to be reached. All denied any role in such a database, and said they had never heard of Surgisphere.

This is damming. Did they just make it up or simply extrapolate the results from a small dataset accross the world?
What infuriates me is that how can you not see that you need another YEAR right up until a few months remain wtf. Why not announce it sooner.
>Yes, and I have already said that I oppose those decisions. The government should not be playing favorites.

So you agree that government should stop subsidizing roads and suburbs?

>Cletus' behavior doesn't affect everybody; it only affects the few people who are within range of his coal rolling.

Actually air doesn't work this way. Pollution can and does carry for hundreds of miles.

But we can proceed with your fictional conception of aerodynamics.

How are the people that Cletus rolled coal on supposed to get compensated for their loss?
Was not the case for most careers out there? If you want a comfortable 9-5 job you generally join a giant and stay as long as possible.
I should not have said 'this is false'; the story very well could be accurate. Please pardon the harsh tone.

It's more correct to say that stopping and re-starting the whole car is not the easiest way to restart the MMU. It's quite possible there are people who aren't aware of the 'two thumb salute' method.
> This would imply the president would have been unharmed if he just took a walk to the church.

This comment sounds very disingenuous, because it fails to take into account the fact that Trump's decision to go on an unplanned photo-op was designed to force a scenario devised explicitly to draw a reaction.

And please note that even the priest complained that he felt abused and betrayed by Trump because it was patently obvious that the goal of that stunt was not to visit church or talk to the priest.

In basketball there's taking a charge and flopping. Trump's photo-op at the church was a colossal flop.
Here is the entire report:

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
Those posts frequently get user-flagged.
In my domain (bioinformatics), if it's self managed, Ubuntu is the standard. I would attribute much of the popularity to the Biolinux project, which built upon Ubuntu LTS and bundled in many popular bioinformatics packages which are a pain to setup and configure on your own. Besides these, many popular packages provide deb bundles, which makes it easy for a PhD student to manage on their own.
It was self-censorship.
The War on Terror is an actual war waged using actual militaries. And non-American citizens don't have constitutional rights outside United States territory. Those facts in no way diminish the wrongness of what has happened, but we could just as well compare it to Global Warming and our complicity in the death of millions; the connection would be just as tenuous and unconstructive.

That said, interestingly in 2016 ~1100 people were killed by police officers in the United States[1], while ~1600 people were killed by drone strikes in Afghanistan[2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/...

[2] https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/drone-war/data/get-the...
Staff officers do not wear BDUs every day. He has an office job, not a combat role. Look at any non-emergency meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; you’ll see a lot of dress uniforms, not a lot of BDUs

As the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff he is prohibited by law from exercising any authority over troops. His only responsibility is advising the president, and working with the Secretary of Defense, who does actually command troops.
5 years in front-end is long enough to have been there for major shifts in the way we write for the client. 5 years ago is when es6 came out.
This comes up a lot, nobody is literally chained to their desks. Democracy in the workplace comes from voting with your feet and taking another job at another company. It's not perfect, particularly for lower income people, but it's also not slavery and generally the arc of worker rights is improving through time.

You could make a case that some of the current anger in the united states is because COVID's destruction of the economy has removed that freedom to switch jobs (as the jobs have gone) demonstrating how important it is.
I kind of feel like people here are not reading what I'm actually writing.

I think 45 and company are fascists, or fascist-curious or adjacent or something like that.

In the past. Say, GHWB, people would call him a fascist because they didn't like some bit of policy. I didn't care for his policies by and large, but I also do not think he was a fascist.

Is that clearer?
Only in NYC...
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> Charisma can be learned.

Did Hillary Clinton learn it? Of all the people in the world, she's probably the one who had the most incentive and motivation to "learn" charisma, if it was possible.
Just to stop treating any community as something special.

That event have nothing about particular community. And I do not understand who and why decided to assign color label to that crime act.
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Allah's son? Did they say that?
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Heh, so that's just after the split of what became ms sql server on the Microsoft side.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybase

> 1993: Sybase and Microsoft dissolve their partnership. Microsoft receives a copy of the SQL Server code base. (...) Sybase SQL Server version 4.2 and Microsoft SQL Server are identical. (...) From this point the products diverge as Microsoft includes more Windows features whilst Sybase adds Enterprise features (performance and scaling).

> June 1993: Sybase announces its latest generation of software, named the System 10 product family; (...)
> Andrew Wakefield

Is that really all it took? Here's 1000 more that came to similar conclusions: https://vaccine-injury.info/pdf/vaccinepeerreview.pdf

Have fun!
The democrats have continually come to the table— it's still the republicans obstructing. Remember DACA-for-wall?

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-immigration-deal...
I agree with this very much. Despite the observations (and people's incorrect intuition about tight labor, before this virus at least), there is a surplus of willing labor to do work. To the extent that part-time gig work has become a necessity for people to stay afloat. You cannnot fundamentally change the situation or get wages/labor power to increase by restricting who can work, artificially raising wages, etc. The mass action of people numbers is hard to counteract, and as long as there are way more people than required for the demand for labor, we will be in this situation.
Google+ and Wave were both doomed because they were invite-only. If you have to ration invites, it isn't much of a social network. Invite-only successfully created artificial demand for Gmail because invited users could immediately communicate with non-Gmail users. That didn't work for Google+ or Wave since they didn't interoperate with services that people already used.
I read the full article. And it feels like much ado about nothing.

One, the author for some reason is uncomfortable with a purely mathematical description of the world - without giving reasons beyond that humans cannot physically comprehend what the equations represent.

Two, the whole piece disregards the advances in emergent phenomena, complex systems and statistics. Yes, we do not understand how individual electrons look like in copper, but statistical descriptions of copper dimensions, purity and grain size are enough to get an exceptionally accurate idea of the electrical behavior of a copper wire. This extends for exceptionally complex systems like lungs (smoking will significantly increase your cancer/emphysema risk), or planetary systems (increasing CO2 concentrations will increase surface temperatures).

Three, There is also a weird bias against modeling. I am an experimental scientist, but I work closely with modellers, as all experimentalists do nowadays. Personally, I believe, that this bias against modeling often has a political component due to anthropogenic global warming. But in reality, there is a very vibrant dialogue between modellers and experimentalists, and hybrid scientists, people who are trained in both fields are the rage right now for hiring committees. Models have also improved dramatically - density functional theory is exceptionally accurate for smaller systems, while ReaxFF for dynamic systems and molecular dynamics simulations for more complex systems become better every year. The whole point about complex systems, applies to modelling too. I do not need to know the location of every molecule in the north Atlantic to predict the path of the hurricane - high pressure ridges and sea surface temperatures will give me really good results.
You can go through the voting records an various bills and see how they voted, it's all public data. I challenge you to do it one day, and you can see the difference between what they say in their speeches and what they actually do policy wise.

You can also cross that data with polling from the respective senators or representatives on individual policies and see how they line up. You can see quickly that they do not represent their constituents if you take the time to do it (I've done it myself).
That, making civil forfeiture funds go to the general coffer, and forcing police departments to pay settlements out of their own budget.

They socialize the costs and privatize the profits of their misbehavior.

FYI, 1/3 of all people killed by strangers in the US are killed by the police. [0]

Police take more money from people through asset forfeiture than criminals do with theft. [1]

[0]https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/
[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...
Maybe the X1 Carbon 7th gen has a bit better support than the Yoga I have, but that gives me hopes that everything will work one day (although some user below has your exact same Laptop and they complain below that Audio does not work for them, which is the same problem I used to have with Ubuntu, so maybe this is a Debian/Ubuntu issue that others distros do not have).

FWIW, I've also used fwup and it has worked perfectly, so that's something that Lenovo did get right.

> I think Linux support of new hardware is always going to be shaky unless we can get vendors to care and support it themselves.

This is what I actually expect from a Ubuntu-certified laptop. That the manufacturer makes sure that the Laptop actually works with Ubuntu.

That's the same bar I have for Apple and windows laptops.

Otherwise they should just call them "Linux tinkerer friendly" or similar.
I've long argued for massive estate taxes on the very rich that forces a partial reset on wealth and avoid medieval times when land ownership was just passed down generation to generation. It's the only fair and practical wealth tax I can think of. I have no problem at all with Bezos being filthy rich, however, I have a giant problem with his kids and all descendants being billionaires. A huge estate tax would also massively incentivize charitable giving as wealthy people donated money to avoid the government taking it all. I'm sure consumption would rise some also, but the more money you have the harder it gets to spend on consumption, hence many of today's problems. The point is, knowing it will mostly go to the government upon death, the extremely wealthy would be motivated to do stuff with the capital. I'm still baffled why no one has seriously floated this idea though.
Based on this thread you don't want to trust what Lenovo or Canonical say. You need to find first-hand reports about particular models.
Trump's unique characteristics were antithetical to the role of POTUS. Now cult leader, on the other hand...
Paul Graham says that many of the biggest companies initially start out as toys, or solve small problems [0]. Gates and Allen thought about whether they could create a BASIC interpreter and sold it, for example, and used that to eventually create Windows.

You can't know whether your company will be a billion dollar one ahead of time, unless you're really working in a large problem space, such as biotech, space exploration, etc, but it doesn't look like you are. Therefore, just solve the problems you have, make money (preferably without raising venture capital), then use that money to fund your business and hire employees.

Check out Indie Hackers for more examples of profitable internet businesses [1].

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

[1] www.indiehackers.com
From a legalistic point of view you are correct. But if it wasn't that it would be something else. Already the DEA is being repurposed to investigate networks of 'professional anarchists' who are supposedly the architects of the current unrest. While support for the drug war is waning, reactionaries are just switching back to tropes about 'communist agitators' that were used prior to the drug war to delegitimize civil rights activism in the 1960s.
>If your manager wants to put diesel in a gasoline car, you often have to agree

If you are using this as a metaphor for a decision you personally consider stupid, then maybe.

If it's actually putting diesel in a gas car, then no, I can't imagine any case in which an intern couldn't safely tell that to their director or CEO.
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I can never find the survey, but I remember reading that something like 80% of officers think they've never arrested the wrong person for a crime. Which would imply that these officers thought they were just closing loopholes that would let these criminals go free.

That is what makes these stories truly terrifying. The cops still probably think they're righteously pursuing justice.
Musk was born in South Africa, so isn't eligible for the presidency.

Edit: Must have only skimmed this thread before commenting because the parent mentions this, oops
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Interesting. I'm still seeing them.

Are we talking about the same thing? They aren't actual favicons btw, they are composed of text with the word "Ad" but formatted and positioned to look like exactly like favicons.
Does President Trump's threat to treat them as publishers rather than platforms have teeth?
Nothing the USA does has any bearing on my view of the actions of the People's Republic of China against those Canadians. The PRoC is subjecting (almost certainly) innocent people to confinement and mistreatment for purely political reasons; this is unforgivable.
> Civil forfeiture was originally created to try to take money from drug dealers.

I agree with your premise, but this statement is incorrect. Civil forfeiture originated from the British Navigation Acts of the mid 1600s. It continued to be accepted practice in the US after the revolution, and was relied on during Prohibition as a tool against bootleggers much as it's used against drug dealers now. Usage has certainly escalated due to the war on drugs, but it's not where it originated from.
I agree, but if you do this you are usually labeled a ‘denier’ of some sort in regards to the topic at hand.
You'd think so...but I also thought it would be politically unpalatable for Trump to refuse to divest from his business.

And once in office, the emoluments clause of the constitution has been shown to be pretty toothless.
It's just a natural product of capitalism[1]. When you can buy a chunk of a business and own that chunk of its profits, you can use those profits to buy a larger chunk of the business, repeat ad nauseum, until you have so much money that your needs for more profit aren't satisfied by any one business, but you have enough money to perform multi-business maneuvers. Higher interest rates might make some of these maneuvers less possible in the short term, but that would just delay the problem until the wealthiest capital-owners accumulate enough money that they can put forth more collateral to get better loans.

[1] By capitalism I mean private ownership specifically, not the usual HN definition of something something markets something something competition.