skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> Good luck disobeying if you are small business owner who was told you can no longer legally do business.

Exactly. The fact that you can't effectively do a sizeable protest around that so goes to show how the population in general prioritizes these issues.

> On a more personal note, my 98 year old Grandma has been confined to her room at the nursing home for three months. Good luck to her civil disobeying orders.

Yeah, public support for your grandma risking getting sick is going to be even less.
Doesn't globalizing promote the creation of more direct relationships, with a broad diversity of people? Giving one a spectrum of ideas and experiences - thereby engendering change?
>if you're building a new line, you may as well make it high speed;

I think the thing to understand here is that mixing speeds is awful for capacity. There are some fast trains now, and everything else has to be scheduled around them, which means they each eat up many slots, to clear the line a safe distance ahead. There's lots of demand for more slow trains, which can't be run.

If you built a new slow line, you would still have this problem. And the slow trains want to stop many places, so you can't build the line through open fields, and building through towns is really expensive.

So you build a new fast line. And then it may as well go a little faster than the existing fast trains. But this increment isn't the main point.

Or at least that's my understanding. I don't doubt the price will grow. I have also heard there may have been other not-quite-as-fast options, refurbishing a disused line instead?
I know companies that live in legal fear of discovery and destroy lots of things that have potential data-mining value. Imagine a firm that deletes all email more than 365 days old...
Signal’s IRS Form 990 (2018) [pdf]
> "If you come to my website to post and I delete it, thats just me taking out the trash as I see fit."

Zuckerberg is taking the trash out (or not, as the case may be) as he sees fit and therefore those that have advocated this argument should logically be supporting his right to make his own choices. One wonders why they aren't?
indeed, scratch that. i rewrote that comment a couple of times, and that 2-way part is of course not correct. this would defeat the point of hashing passwords if they were reversible
Is this peak HN? People are protesting outside at great risk to themselves because they secretly hated Coronavirus restrictions and want to party?

What level of deranged unawareness would ever make you say that?
People were busy with their lives. Now that there's mass unemployment (=time and anger), a generally hated administration, and even more videos of police brutality all over the place it's all bubbling up.
The famous "We don't need no stinking badges" line was spoken by a character who led a band of Mexican bandits posing as Federales.

When bandits become indistinguishable from cops, cops become indistinguishable from bandits.
For a "computational math" (ish) language, having FP64 as the default number format seems pretty reasonnable to me. Cases where one needs bignums of course exist, but I think they are less common. Usually if you need arbitrary precision, you know it.
There’s a difference between censorship and a book publisher deciding they don’t want to publish or sell a book.

This appears to be a case of the later. He’s free to print and distribute his book, but no private company is under any obligation to help him in that endeavor.
Social media will get much better when the reward/punishment mechanisms change and evolves.

It's happening too slowly and at high cost to everyone.
I have heart issues (had a stent 2 years ago - early for my age) and have always slept poorly (mostly bad habits + diet).

Sleep routine is the most essential thing to fix if you have resolved all your basic needs. It creates a feedback loop that helps to reduce stress and improve health.

I've learned this the hard way - you shouldn't have to.
Sure and "figura" can also be "self standing" negative/sarcastic, i.e.:
Ha fatto una figura ...
means that he/she did a terrible impression.

And a (negative) figura can be "brutta" (literally ugly) but also "caprina" (caprine).
It's not like you can postpone protests. It either happens now directly after Floyd's death, or another injustice goes ignored by basically everybody and police brutality as people know it continues unabated. I'm not really sure what you're saying here. It sounds like you're against protests and you believe Covid19 was totally exaggerated.
This is such a tired trope. There is nothing inconsistent about a libertarian disagreeing with the actions of a private business.
It's hyperbolic in one sense, but not in another. Consider the fact that every law is backed by an implicit threat of force. For example, it's easy to say "I'm just asking for everyone to pay their fair share" when referring to taxes. But what happens when you don't pay your taxes? You can be arrested and jailed. That is underlying threat of force. Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
Ask HN: Could You Live Without the Internet?
How long at a stretch could you go without the internet?
If the court system was doing their job, they would strike down many unconstitutional laws and decrees that enabled the growth of big government.
Vue.js founders response to removing Black Lives Matter banner
Yes, /r/politics is an echo chamber. But there is an enormous difference between that and T_D. I don't ever recall seeing posts on /r/politics being stickied that called for violence, whereas that happened routinely on T_D.

Your comment is not sarcastic, it is misleading, misiniformed and ultimately destructive.
It's what happens when someone is privileged and insulated from nearly all consequences for their words and actions.
Free flow of information is not the same as misinformation.
Lack of understanding is not the same as misinforming.

I 100% support restricting distribution of material that is based on conjecture and bullshit info. Especially when that information comes with a for-profit motive.
This person can easily put their book for free on their own website if they really feel they have important information to share.

Amazon can decide what goes on their platform. It always baffles me that people think that free speech comes with a right to have an audience. That's not what free speech is.
> fact based

Does it represent both sides of the controversy equally or is it only nitpicked facts?
I suspect any police force that is sufficiently large and has militarized and "riot" gear will tend to have similar problems. I'm sure that small town police departments have much more variation in their patterns of behavior.
Are we saying that:

(a) police are a net good, but slack is aiding/encouraging particular bad behaviors; or

(b) police are a net bad and we should just deny them anything that enables them to do their jobs; or

(c) police are a net good, but it's bad PR to associate with them
What do you mean by "far left"? Can you give an example?
> So you began your interaction by holding the door open for another human being, and you ended it a few minutes later by confronting them about a personal choice of health and safety, thought them to be an asshole, and laughed at them due to their response?

Yep. It's not a personal choice though... it's well-known that wearing masks prevents the spread of disease.

How is it that you are ignorant of this fact?

> And you're so proud of that interaction that you are posting it in a comment on HN right now?

That's what you got out of that?? Okay...

You seem to be having trouble differentiating a plain description of a brief interaction with a cop who was clearly in the wrong with "pride".

> For all you know the officer was called into the store for an urgent matter.

Too urgent to take 2 seconds to put a mask on for everybody's safety???? When he wasn't running into the store? That's not urgent...

Sorry buddy, but you're clearly wrong. Perhaps you should re-think your position.

> Mind your own business, be kind to others, and you'll lead a much happier and fulfilling life.

I'm white, I live in a great neighborhood, I got a huge house, a pool, a boat, 3 cars, my job is very fulfilling, I make 6 figures working full-time from home doing something I love... my family is wonderful, I have hobbies, friends, I travel... thanks for your concern, but I'm not sure how much happier I can get, lol ;)

I'm honestly doing so well and my life is so easy that I feel guilty at times.

Sorry that you got triggered by this. Perhaps you should consider taking your own advice? Please do... thanks.
Yep. I like this bit by Slavoj Zizek: https://youtu.be/IISMr5OMceg?t=407

This is just racism in a different form.
I was once a proud member of this community, learned all basics and built my career with help of this coding community.After one working and learning with all folks in this community I landed up with three job offers. Today I am a happy software engineer in Silicon Valley, I want to see more people changing there lives just like me. Proud of your work team.
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I did Learning How To Learn twice and I still not sure how helpful it is. The only thing I found useful/applicable is spaced repetition.

What part of the course do you feel it's valuable? I don't mind going back to do it again.
I don't think the above poster is claiming it is logical, but the opposite.
> Yes, because pop-guns do anything against trillions of dollars in armor plating and advanced weaponry.

of course it does. bombs or tanks dont help you hold a city - it is singly people with firearms to kill the other people with firearms.

its a different story if youre talking total war, but theres basically no scenario where american military would decimate american cities.

> This is such a mentally lazy platitude

interesting opinion considering all you have to do is look at the last two decades of failed intervention in the middle east.

EDIT: additionally, many places in the middle east were occupied against their will by the terrorist forces we were there to fight. thats not the same as a citizen militia resisting occupation
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Every full face respirator you see riot (-causing) police wearing or holding has a P100 particulate filter and could have instead been used by a nurse, EMT, or an at-risk person for protection from COVID-19. And to have so many ready to go, the cops were likely just sitting on their stockpiles throughout that period of dire PPE shortage. If that PPE had been used for healthcare as it should have, the cops would have had to think twice before adding tear gas to the air during a respiratory pandemic.
Thanks, glad you like them.

We're figuring that out right now. We've got a FB ad campaign going and have gotten a few sales, but this line just went live on Wednesday. Our original maps (released at the end of March) were all of Vermont ski mountains and with ski season cut short by the pandemic, we think we missed the boat timing wise.

Our main priorities right now are expanding our geographic reach so that more people can find something that they like. We've got a few more series in the works that we should have up within the month that will greatly expand our offerings.

Then... FB ads, content marketing, target blogs and relevant traditional media? Maybe try and get prints in visitors centers, lodges, hotels, etc?
how much kinetic energy is required for a razor blade to cut vulnerable areas? speed is a bigger payoff

double mass == double force ; double speed == 4times the force. basically a rapier attack
Worked until some time in my early 20s. Ate an astounding quantity of junk food, often got 6 or fewer hours of sleep days in a row. Looked great, felt pretty good, almost never even got the sniffles.

Go figure, at some point your body stops being able to find something (I still have no idea what) to do with an extra 2-2.5k calories a day of crap, 6hrs a night of sleep starts to leave you dragging after one night of it, and you can't live like that anymore (well, you can, but it'll be... very bad).
SlateStarCodex's review of Turchin's "Ages of Discord" has some more discussion
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/02/book-review-ages-of-di...
Indeed. If HN were to become as popular as Reddit, and wanted to retain the current quality of discourse, you can bet that the mods would have to delete 80% of comments as well.
Fitful : Occurring in or characterized by intermittent bursts, as of activity; irregular.

https://www.wordnik.com/words/fitful

I am not a native speaker and had to look it up.
Measured total extraction time this morning, so you can compare - 30 seconds for the first outgassing pour, 1:00 for the second pour (first 220g), 1:15 for the third pour.

I usually pour without timer - since I don't like agitation, it's not like a timer makes the water go faster :) - but that's pretty consistent with the last time I measured. That was a total pour time of 2:52. (I keep lab notes. I decided to just fully nerd out on my coffee a while ago)
As someone that doesn't use reddit much, could you explain? I thought the front page was essentially a combination of popular things from the subreddits you regularly visit?
Are you saying we should censor information if it only represents one perspective?
Woah. Agreed. Reddit could do way more in that area.
No, it has effectively been banned. It was forcefully taken over by the administration. While it technically still exists, it actually moved entirely to its own dedicated website.
He genuinely believes that "armed protests" are peaceful because his side has been involved in hundreds and they were all peaceful.

So he obviously thinks the guns were the differentiator and not the privilege enjoyed by being a bunch of old white men with the support of the authorities.

A number of cops were shot at during these recent protest. Our mayor was discussing this very fact this morning. Turn out, all that body armor is highly effective at stopping small arms fire. (There was no elaboration on who did the shooting though, so I guess it could have been friendly fire)
Is the argument, then, that protestors should wait until police brutality results in another death when it is more convenient to protest?
Tricks for Reading Middle English
4chan only removes illegal content and I enjoy it just fine. Reddit’s voting system pushes down low-quality content well enough on its own.
And even those that aren't "spoiled" (in the sense of committing atrocities themselves) still tolerate and provide cover for those who do. It's an entire culture of suck.
Disclaimer: I'm a Go fanboy so I'm biased.

> if Go takes a bad turn

The conservative nature of the Go team seems to recognize this worry. It's been bashed from the beginning for no generics but they are working on it. They just haven't found something that "feels right".

Of course there's just no pleasing all the people all the time.
If your city had a ballot initiative to defund and disband the police department, would you vote for it?

EDIT: I'm a little confused about the downvotes. If the answer is "no", then what's the problem with police using slack? Isn't it just a basic tool for communication? Is selling them radios also bad? I should also say that my answer in my city would be "no".
Life Sciences Financings and Commentary #10
What stories don't make sense? A novel coronavirus caught fire in China, spread internationally, killed a lot of people, and some gov'ts fumbled the response and some didn't.
Relevant, but I think the timeline is a bit subtler than that. (Mostly, the CEO referenced in that story is Wong himself, not Pao.)

- Reddit was acquired by Condé Nast in 2006.

- Founders Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman left in 2009.

- Yishan Wong became CEO in March 2012.

- Reddit raised its Series B in September 2014, led by Sam Altman. Wong was one of the investors.

- Wong resigns in November 2014. Ellen Pao becomes interim CEO and Ohanian becomes executive chairman.

- Reddit introduces an anti-harassment policy and bans fatpeoplehate and other subreddits in early summer 2015.

- Later in the summer, Victoria Taylor is fired. Users hold Pao responsible, she apologizes for how it was handled, and she resigns on July 10 under pressure from the board. Huffman becomes CEO.

- One day later, Wong writes the above post.

- One more day later, Wong reveals on Quora that Ohanian, not Pao, fired Taylor.
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I was tear gassed once and it was hell, I have nothing to compare it to. But it should be illegal, it was torture.
>Why does he have to say that he's married to a black woman. That he has a black child. That he is quitting. That he's hiring a BLACKKK person etc. Just do it man, don't make a wave.

Because he's trying to make a statement that racism is wrong, and because he wants the reasons for his resignation to be publically known, of course.

Isn't that obvious?
Largely a company can choose their customers; they’re not forced to transact with anyone. There are some exceptions of course, largely based on the reasons for not transacting. Being publicly traded doesn’t really matter here directly.
There is no code, only characters
I loved the Five Dysfunctions of a Team. However, the advice in that book requires the main boss to be fully committed to fixing the dysfunctions and to convince their team to get onboard (or fire them if it’s not possible). Not sure how likely that is in this situation.
I'm not sure who of the people complaining here are libertarians, and, to be honest, I don't care. Whenever this discussion about the power of platforms like amazon over our discourse comes up, someone dismisses it with the accusation that some libertarian somewhere is a hypocrite about this. So what?
No one is censoring you or regulating speech. Do you call people the N word? Why not? Are you censoring yourself? Maybe you do. Should I have no recourse to express my distaste if you did? Should I build you a tent on my property and get you a bullhorn? It's a weak argument and ironic considering we are discussing this issue openly and freely on the medium you claim is being regulated.
I'm not understanding this. Couldn't you choose an arbitrary amount of bits to hash to on the client side?
My girlfriend worked in eye care for years, she's seen a lot of pretty bad injuries over the years one of the worst stories though was a teenage girl who was pepper sprayed in the face at close range. It basically disintegrated her eye balls. One of them was nearly completely gone and the other one had about 30% of its tissue remaining. She permanently lost her vision and had to undergo multiple surgeries and rehabilitation for months. The damage was worse than a patient she seen who was shot in the face with a shotgun. His vision was able to be partially restored.
Indeed. Hitting the front page is really a punishment to any subreddit that desires to maintain high-quality discussion.
Lisp is written in the data structure.

But that's not a requirement for macros. One can write macros from a parsed AST. But that's not what Lisp does.
‘who decides what is bullshit’

Is the usual problem with this.
> I say that specifically because this word was coined in 1965 by Calvin Mooers with a particular specific definition; I'm saying that even though it's a (relative) neologism, the word has already shifted in meaning.

Mm what I meant to get at was that you give a definition of "meaning", which is that "a word means what the people who use it mean by it", and your use of the phrase "let's say" makes it sound like this is a charitable admission on your part. And my point is that this is what it means for a word to "mean" something — it's entirely based on what people who use it mean by it, so the way you say "let's say" was rubbing me the wrong way, so to speak.

> I actually agree... the article (and the previous one) are mostly consequences of starting out in the belief that homoiconicity is something to strive for, and then failing to understand what homoiconicity would really be -- but discovering the things to strive for in the process.

I did not take the time to read the previous article, but I regret that now. I will go back and read it. :)

I don't think I did a good enough job saying that I think this is among the best articles on homoiconicity that I've read! I meant for my lament to be more general and not specifically directed at you, but more just at those people striving for homoiconicity without a clear idea of what that means. I think, rereading parts of this article again now, we're more aligned than I had previously though. I'm sorry for not realizing that earlier!
Anyone wondering what this is, a “Form 990 is a United States Internal Revenue Service form that provides the public with financial information about a nonprofit organization. It is often the only source of such information.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_990

—-

990 is intended as a document For public release; the 2018 is the most recent 990 I was able to find for Signal, if anyone has a more recent one, please link to it.
I don't think that prioritizing in general is an anti-pattern. You will do things before other things and you need to choose what to do first. The criticism in the article was about bad prioritization. With GH Projects you can have the liberty to queue issues however you may see fit.
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> Well you are well known to ban very good advice on a very specific topic - but we both know that even mentioning that would get me into trouble.

The only advice we ban for are:

1. advice advocating for intolerance against a protected class (e.g. lgbtq+, race, etc.)

2. anything involving violence or suicide, regardless of jokes.

And beyond that, we're obligated to remove submissions involving CSA per Reddit (or Reddit Anti-Evil Operations does it for us), and in such an event we provide resources the submitter can use to seek help or an escape.

It's pretty cut and dry.
The first amendment does not include the word "peaceably."
Yeah, but then the server must know the plaintext password to check the client reply, which is exactly the problem password hashing schemes were designed to solve.
"campaign" donations. Perfectly legal
> It's not great that it frequently takes a direct familial relationship to cause it.

I believe it is called the Empathy Gap:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy_gap

Remember how the conservative establish was anti-marijuana, and before that anti-gay (well, still some are), and before that anti-mixed-race-marriage, and before that anti-long hair?
They didn’t say it was? Ideas don’t reach a single person — someone that follows these forums — and then stop. They continue spreading and they might moderate when they do but they still have some center.
What kind of open source projects are useful to go for? This seems like by far the best way to spend a few months. I know Python best but I don't mind learning a new language.
Well, good for you! Myself, I enjoy places like r/AskHistorians or r/sex which absolutely would not exist in their present high-quality form without very active moderation.
> "everyone is suddenly all for mass protests"

Do you have a source for this?
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