skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
jascii says>"The way you are firing yourself up to commit homicide over a hypothetical situation..."<

He's isn't "firing [himself] up.." as you say, he's thinking out what could possibly happen and considering what his options are.

If you wait until you're in such a situation (people are breaking into your car and threatening to harm the occupants) you simply don't have sufficient time to think out those options - you must think and prepare ahead of time. For those who live in places where riots or firefight break out regularly, this is the proper and usual way to prepare.

FWIW in most of the USA it isn't homicide if you kill an attacker(s), provided you are defending life or limb of yourself, others and/or your property.
Show HN: Outside Plato's Cave Episode 1 and 2
Episode 2 here : https://outsideplatoscave.substack.com/p/outside-platos-cave...
It's easy to see this in graph form. 100K+ COVID deaths, 15%+ unemployment, wide spread homelessness, unaffordable housing crisis, riots and curfew in every major American city.

Google DJIA to see a graph of how this has affected the wealthy...

I am not blaming the players (well some), but the game is rigged.
And from his experienced analysis, the study is clearly, obviously junk, and the Lancet should be held to account for publishing it.
My car has a holographic HUD that displays on the windshield, and responds to hand and voice gestures. (The HUD is _awesome_, but the gesture recognition is hit or miss at present).

I agree with you that touchscreens in autos are garbage. However I don't agree that physical or haptic switches are the _only_ solution. I think touchscreens in autos were just a technical stepping stone towards something new, like this combo of holographic/gesture/voice control UI.
Glass isn't the investment it used to be. Glass designed in the era of 35mm and early DSLRs doesn't hold a candle to the glass designed for modern high resolution sensors.
`ag -g 'some-piece-of-the-name-that-seems-kind-of-likely'` [0]

[0] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
If people won't take the peaceful protests seriously the protestors that don't get maimed, murdered, or imprisoned will, almost certainly not give up. Instead, as the movement grows, because the problems are getting worse and the cohort growing in number the protests will inevitably get worse until the movement is crippled or succeeds one way or another. Destroying property and looting is a common theme in successful protests. Your casual contempt of the plight of the poor and minority and ignorance of this is telling but not surprising.
Same experience here. Model 3 is absolutely terrible for this. My father actually kerbed his and screwed up the alloys looking at the screen.
You're imagining some mastermind criminal rather than some kid or for-hire hacker who finds an exploit kit and gets to work piecing together something malicious.
"According to the suit, the company collects information, including IP addresses and browsing histories, whenever users visit web pages or use an app tied to common Google services, such as Google Analytics and Google Ad Manager."

I'd really appreciate some more technical details here.

Does this include web server logs that record incoming IP addresses?

Is the expectation here that Chrome would set a DNT header in incognito mode and Google properties would then obey that header?
Thanks for the insight!

Do you have any examples we can use to learn from?
The US president is the single most powerful person in the world. If he says "Hey $literally_any_media_outlet, I'd like to make a statement, want to swing by the rose garden in 20?" The media will fall over themselves to do so. I don't think you could come up with an example of someone who would be less harmed by being banned from social media than the potus.

Even if for some reason you don't buy that, social media could easily justify a ban by differentiating between his personal and official government accounts.
> I think especially we people in tech, who can often more easily afford it, tend to jump to getting more sophisticated, expensive gear, be that photography, music, painting, etc. expecting better results, forgetting that it's all pretty worthless, if you don't get the fundamental artistry and techniques right first.

Yes, the main point is the diminishing artistic returns from more expensive gear.
i am in the process of compiling a list of ways to quickly spot flawed studies. do you mind sharing your best tips?
> There is no road to keep your eyes on in space

The "road" are the instruments. Having the instruments be directly intractable with makes sense on a rocket.

I agree with you in respect of cars.
Why should everyone have to work? We are 100% capable of creating a society where everyone's basic needs are met with the automation and technology we have today. The idea that a person is only worth something if they work needs to be deeply reexamined.
I went to a well-regarded law school and happen to have witnessed first hand both how many students were surprised that they wouldn't end up seeing the inside of a courtroom in their careers, and how many students shifted their goals from wanting to be a prosecutor or a civil litigator to wanting to do one of the hundreds of other things attorneys do on a daily basis.
To me it's pretty easy to understand. It's far easier for state organs to control large corporations, than many small and independent businesses. Meanwhile, it's far easier for coroporations with means to lobby for legislation that makes it difficult for smaller, i.e. competing, businesses to thrive. They can do this, because they can afford the armies of lawyers and lobbyists needed to uphold and exploit all those rules. Just add revolving doors. It's particularly conspicuous that this is going on to such a degree in the USA. In effect, it means the USA is increasingly ending up with a new kind of aristocracy not dissimilar from the royal rule they once rebelled against.
Off topic but we share the same name. Except I'd be ChrisMarshallCHI.
To be fair, I can't think of anything better than LabVIEW for rapid prototyping and development of complex sensor interfaces.
Renters don't do "nothing." Part of the job of these rentiers - through the profit motive - is to allocate property to the highest (most efficient) economic use: someone who wants that land has to show that costs (which represent the value other people place on alternative uses) are less than the income, or the value people place on the proposed use. So they have to show that their uses is the use that satisfied the most values. Basic price theory.

Then, they get money from rent if they successfully allocate this land. If they unsuccessfully allocate it they have an incentive to undo that mistake (evict) and try again next time - and those who are really good at allocating well get more resources.

Now, whether the ones that "got there first" should get land is a good question, but it really doesn't apply in a market, since those who actually have the best record allocating land resources will end up with more land, no matter the original distribution. I would like to ask though, how else should we initially allocate propert?
You have a pay a premium for that next-day, on-site warranty. But it's worth it.
China is America's largest consumer of automation equipment. 25%. They, like America, are automating at a furious rate and have been for 2 decades.

The end-game is, of course, little need for labor at all. Like America China will have to face this and find some way to keep millions from starvation. And soon.
> I think when the whole world is doing it one way and someone goes out of their way to do it another, it really begs the question: why? The only logical conclusions I can think of...

I think the actual answer is

D) The law judged civilian-style license plates to be unnecessarily redundant given other methods of official vehicle identification.

I found this fact check that mentioned this, which pointed to the actual statute in question: https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/minneapolis-police-license...

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/168.012:

> (b) Provided the general appearance of the vehicle is unmistakable, the following vehicles are not required to register or display number plates:

> (1) vehicles owned by the federal government;

> (2) fire apparatuses, including fire-suppression support vehicles, owned or leased by the state or a political subdivision;

> (3) police patrols owned or leased by the state or a political subdivision; and

> (4) ambulances owned or leased by the state or a political subdivision.

Language like that has been present in Minnesota law since at least 1949, and the language in that version makes it clear their concern was making sure public vehicles had their ownership clearly marked.

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1949/0/Session+Law/Chapter/6...:

> Sec. 2. Vehicles owned and used solely in the transaction of official business by representatives of foreign powers, by the federal government, the state, or any political subdivision thereof, or vehicles owned and used exclusively by educational institutions and used solely in the transportation of pupils to and from such institutions, shall be exempt from the provision of this chapter requiring payment of tax or registration fees, but all such vehicles except those owned by the federal government, municipal fire apparatus, police patrols and ambulances, the general appearance of which is unmistakable,shall be registered as herein required and display tax exempt number plates furnished by the registrar at cost. In the case of vehicles used in general police work the passenger vehicle classification license number plates shall be displayed and furnished by the registrar at cost; but the exemption herein provided shall not apply to any vehicles, except such vehicles used in general police work, unless the name of the state department or political subdivision owning such vehicle shall be plainly printed on both sides thereof in letters not less than 2 1/2 inches high, one inch wide and of a 3/8 inch stroke. Such printing shall be in a color giving a marked contrast with that of the part of the vehicle on which it is placed and shall be done with a good quality of paint that will endure throughout the term of registration. The printing must be on a part of the vehicle itself and not on a removable plate or placard of any kind and shall be kept clean and visible at all times. The owner of any such vehicle desiring to come under the foregoing exemption provisions shall first notify the chief of the state trunk highway patrol who shall provide suitable seals and cause the same to be affixed to any such vehicle.
That is kinda temporary, in normal companies mistakes get accountability and executives are fired. In the end, you can get on the "design by committee" trap.

The problem here might be the monopoly, so it doesn't matter how bad the decision there will be no repercussions.
"Secretly" is a misnomer.
That is a single person. Have those been peer reviewed and scrutinized by the wider medical community?

If you open the study, you'll see there are open-labeled non-randomized trials he is referencing.

It's been a handful of months since COVID-19 grasped the globe. Too early to take things as gospel. As we are finding out in this thread, these types of studies are open to bias and rife with mistakes or misinterpretations. If we are to take the desired lesson from this thread, it's that data surrounding these medical journals need to be highly scrutinized before we can take them in as evidence.
Linearity, on-state loss, pole-to-pole isolation, and breakdown will be atrocious. It makes for a nice clickbaity publication though.
Such arrangements are not conducive to the political process, and that should worry everyone. If something can be used against someone it can also be used against you.
Pascal Is 50
That seems unlikely for a compound which is stable as a gas at STP. You can sometimes stabilize an allotrope of a compound which would otherwise be stable as another allotrope, but there's no real way (that I'm aware of) to stave off a phase transition, especially one as energetic as solid/gas.
I bet a port to the Teensy 4 would be popular for some use cases. No wifi, but 600Mhz, gobs of RAM, and ~$20.
AMC Theatres has 'substantial doubt' it can remain in business
Basic Introduction to C#
I disagree somewhat.

Twitter can be useful for following people and orgs you care about. And TBH, the "hot takes" I have sometimes seen on Twitter have changed my opinions about things. And people are using it now, in America, to share videos and communicate about things like they did in Iran 11 years ago.

Where Twitter fails to be useful is in

* Trusting it too much when you don't already know the source
* Looking at the replies to Tweets (IOW, tweet convos are rarely useful)
* Hashtags as journalism (#blah is trending!)

Bots, trolls, and hate are huge on Twitter, as are whiny people looking for attention. Find the way to use Twitter properly, and it can be a benefit.
Actually, this is not the official charge on Mrs. Meng.

According to wiki, the actual charge is:
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proxies conspired "to misappropriate intellectual property", and Meng lied to HSBC bank.
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Canada's legal agreement with US is that they work in accordance with US, for criminals that violated the laws at Canada. But there needs to be laws in Canada that are equivalent to US ones.

For example, if I committed murder in US, and fled to Canada, they legally are obliged to capture and send me back to US. But if I sell limited item to Iran, and fled to Canada, then Canada are obliged to send me back, because Canada does not have a sanction on Iran.

And this is why this action outraged a lot of Chinese, and worried a lot business people.
From Aaron Hillegass Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Third Edition

Once upon a time, there was a company called Taligent, which was created by IBM and Apple to develop a set of tools and libraries like Cocoa. About the time Taligent reached the peak of its mindshare, I met one of its engineers at a trade show. I asked him to create a simple application for me: A window would appear with a button, and when the button was clicked, the words “Hello, World!” would appear in a text field. The engineer created a project and started subclassing madly: subclassing the window and the button and the event handler. Then he started generating code: dozens of lines to get the button and the text field onto the window. After 45 minutes, I had to leave. The app still did not work. That day, I knew that the company was doomed. A couple of years later, Taligent quietly closed its doors forever.

It is asserted a bit later than C++ was the problem.
The really odd thing is the media were highlighting risks... but not giving them context. Aspirin is risky, but millions take it too, over the counter.

I’m all for being skeptical, but I think they went overboard, especially given the alternative of having no medicine.
Wonder how recent events will influence the pandemics.
I haven't. But I suspect that's next. If you compare things like Lumo / Planck (ClojureScript) to Babashka (GraalVM-based Clojure), you can clearly see the perf benefits of going native.

This stuff is arguably just an initial foray into the embedded world. You could imagine a Clojure dialect or compiler that emits WASM, or C, or even native code.
Hearing about the Flight Software and Avionics teams reminds me of this, although they don't seem to be on that level quite yet.

https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
Healthcare pro also. You are right. Academic publishing has become extremely toxic to both science and the healthcare system in general.

A major issue with this is the political and hierarchical benefits of publishing. It encourages professionals to focus on that, to the point that clinical work is now looked down upon and producing loads of shitty papers will propell you to the forefront of the academic star system and make you rich. It's truly cancer for our healthcare system.
by putting "parking lots" in quotations, I was meaning to ask for the alternative digital equivalent to major platforms like FB and Twitter.
It fares pretty good in my opinion, I was taking Japanese classes before this COVID situation and they implemented remote classes using a self-hosted jitsi instace, we're 15 people in the jitsi room, we have the class for 5 hours and it's pretty stable, I imagine there are more rooms working simultaneously too, since we were not the only class taking place before this.
HSBC publicly supports China's national security law for Hong Kong
Bricking? I would say that a wipe can fix it.
How Much Do We Need the Police?
For a long time I thought cell phone cameras were so good there was no point in buying a dedicated camera. Then I won a hackathon at work and the prize was a Sony mirrorless camera. It's a totally different experience
One of the issues with those automakers is that their interfaces are in general unresponsive and slow. The one in my BMW sucked. The Jaguar I-PACE is very slow as well.

Tesla got this right with both the touch screen and the physical buttons on the steering wheel for things like volume control.
5 Reasons Why I Love Being a Remote Software Developer
The problem with this is it's another signal of "we're above the law and special." In California, non-federal government plates, including local police, are all numeric regular plates but without registration stickers. Maybe California government plates should pay registration if not to be consistent too.
CoW Semantics
What you see right now is the normal Google QA process.

They have literally billions of beta testers, who are even paying for the privilege.
> Take a sports team. They are not micromanaged. They are given a common task, a common strategy, guidance, but in the field they are alone.

They are more and more micromanaged.

* Training has become the land of measuring and controlling each detail, and has expanded into controlling your whole life as much as possible.

* Before the game, with more and more accurate and often static tactics. Don't you act another way or it means disobeying and the bench is near.

* During the game. Hardly 15 seconds go by without the coach (or the coaches) yelling orders at 1 or 2 players. Now there are even real-time data collecting and analyses, sometimes from sensors.

Perhaps the worst example of micro-management is cycling, where I am pretty sure that the only directeur sportif's dream not yet fulfilled is to be able to radio-command electrodes implanted in riders' muscles. They already get the position of almost everybody in the pack in almost real-time, they get radio-communicated real-time speed, power, heartbeat sensors measurements and two-way audio communication with each rider of the team. For now they have to do with giving imperative orders through each rider's earpiece (so the reaction can be delayed or the order not quite obeyed), otherwise managers would be computer game players. And silly (sometimes collective) punishments for those who dared disobey when they felt the orders were stupid are not uncommon: even though it means losing chances on that day or the next, the manager has one priority: showing who the boss is.
It reduced support for a particular cheap, off-patent medication that wasn't going to make anyone much money if it worked.

Competing on-patent drugs, like Remdesivir, would make someone a great deal of money if they work better than HCQ.
I've heard stories from salesmen at Porsche dealers that the people who come in puffed up, clean cut and suited are more likely to buy a base mode;, while the guys who buy the top end cars are often scraggly looking. Definitely something to be said for being successful enough you're no longer trying to convince people you're successful.
This would imply that the very event of being in a team that is acqui-hired should communicate that you are more effective than the norm compared to your cost and that you can therefore either negotiate higher pay at the acquiring company or you could bring to status to the table in salary negotiations for a new job.

FWIW, I don't think acqui-hiring is only about getting a team that is relatively cheap for their output. Regular hiring processes are also not cheap and by buying an entire company you can "hire" several devs in one shot (and at a lower risk) where it might otherwise take much more time to find that much extra capacity.
> Caught on tape by a whistleblower cop, the officers said they witnessed or took part in alarming acts of police misconduct, from framing and beating residents to collaborating with drug dealers, all as part of a culture of impunity within the department’s narcotics unit.

Probably the single most effective thing to reduce police abuse in America would be to end the war on drugs and decriminalize drugs.

No-knock warrants were originally used to try to catch drug dealers before they could flush the drugs down the toilet.

Civil forfeiture was originally created to try to take money from drug dealers.

The war on drugs has taken a wrecking ball to the Fourth Amendment restrictions on search and seizure.
Note that the data within the post is from an AMA 7 years ago
The independent rule is: weird is something that gets you marginalized in the society you live in, without being illegal/detrimental/an infringement on others' rights.

Being unusual is not the same as being weird. Being unusual can in certain circumstances make you "cool".

There is no circularity, and you have yet to make a pertinent counter-argument.
Server logs with IP addresses are acceptable to most European privacy regulators if you only use them for a technical purpose such as debugging. And not keep them longer than needed for that.

So practically: logs are fine, delete them after a while. If you store the same information in a permanent database and use it for analysis you're in trouble and should have asked permission.

The fact that the user uses a private window or other means to indicates they don't want to be tracked probably makes this a more clear case.
I think you're right that low interest rates boost wealth inequality due to rising asset prices, but they also reduce income equality because of the tight labor market.

And by artificially low I meant below the natural interest rate or NAIRU.
I have seen the video in question. It’s tragic.

You neglect the hundreds of thousands of people who turned up in peaceful protests around the world over the last week. These people are seeking positive change within their communities.

Your attempt to mine a simplistic “protests bad” narrative from a complex event is done in bad faith.
I disagree with your comment; these were not “violent rioters.” But I vouched for it, as it should not have been flag killed.
This could explain why it might not have shown up in testing.

It's not just that the image had a non-sRGB colorspace, it's also that the pixel values in this specific image were out of the expected range.
Heh...Symbolics Genera environment (Lisp) had the same sort of footgun. You could edit pretty much everything down to bare metal on the fly, and the closer you got to the bottom, the more likely you were to touch something that should not be touched by mortals.
It's very common for the elite to openly reference what they're doing, crime-wise, because 1) It's easy to hide in plain sight, and 2) Who's going to stop them, you? Epstein's probably on an island right now.