skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Re-interpreting existing law is a HUGE component of our legal process.

It is, but that doesn't necessarily mean it should be.

Decisions like this are ultimately political. The Court has basically decided that discrimination based on sexual orientation or transgender now counts as discrimination based on sex and hence is prohibited by law. But decisions about what real-world actions count as what legally recognized actions are political decisions, and political decisions in a democracy are supposed to be made through the democratic process, i.e., by the people or their elected representatives.

> This goes all the way back to common law roots

Yes, but those common law roots are not based on democratic norms; they come from societies that were not democracies but monarchies. A case could be made that our concept of "common law" has not kept up with the evolution of our society from monarchy to representative democracy.

Of course, an opposing case could also be made that even though our society is nominally a democracy, that doesn't necessarily mean that everything in the law should be democratically decided. Our law does recognize fundamental rights that cannot be changed or removed by the democratic process, and at least part of the process of common law is supposed to be to provide a way for people to have those rights recognized and respected even if there is no explicit statute that does so. Then the question would be whether there is such a right not to be discriminated against based on sexual orientation or transgender.
> companies exist literally only to make money

I see another commenter has suffered downvotes for blankly replying "false" to this, so I'll try to be more substantive.

This is confusing symptom and cause. We have evolved a system where companies are defined as having profit as being their "raison d'être" but that's not the same as saying that's why they exist in the first place.

Companies were created to solve problems, those problems required resources and those resources required finance. Economic systems evolved to place individuals with capital in the position of being providers of such finance, who demanded profit as a return, and as such redefined the impetus of companies as existing to provide them with that return.

But it is not the reason they exist.
Data Dive: Snap Breaks the Million-Lens Barrier
Yes, it's common to have this kind of acceleration in a video controller. There are VESA extensions for blitting to screen memory for example. Even something as basic as a CGA text screen—where rendering of bitmap fonts is offloaded to the video card and the CPU only needs to operate on indices into a table of predefined characters—could be considered a basic form of 2D acceleration.

The article and most discussion here however concerns rasterization, specifically path rendering, which is useful when rendering things like fonts and image formats like SVG. You use primitives such as lines and curves to form outlines of objects and then fill them. It's a problem that does not very easily translate into rendering textured triangles (which is what the GPU is best at) or copying/moving screen regions, so there's some work in doing it in a performant way still, and a lot of it typically happens on the CPU.
I think a large part of their crappy Windows software was there need to make it look like the Macintosh version. I get the feeling if they are putting Xcode on Windows, they will not feel the need to make it anything but a Windows app.

I would also imagine they would remove anything having to do with the Macintosh except perhaps the Catalyst compiles which should decrease some of the neglect problems causing bugs.
You couldn't make this up!
Florida doesn’t do basements.
You have to dig for the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email, navigate the unsubscribe website interface which is always wildly different and sometimes absolutely confusing (possibly on purpose). Then finally you have to hope they honor the request.

I think the screener sounds great. I hate that pretty much all online retailers equate a purchase with "we can send you marketing emails". Having a consistent, up front interface to kill these emails that will always work is very nice.
I built a site to raise grassroots bi-partisan support to end qualified immunity at https://endqualifiedimmunity.com. The goal is to get Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians to all contact their representatives and senators to support legislation against this.

This is the first time I've ever done anything remotely political beyond voting but was so incredulous at the broad scope of this judicial policy and it's impact on removing accountability from police misconduct that I had to do something.

If you'd like to help in any way on this -- contact me (see profile).
Epixel MLM CRM
>Insider trading was illegal
Hello, yes, I'd like to talk to my fellow congress-person who actively trades on insider information
The U.S. Government does not have police contracts with schools. Police are state, county, or local. The last few weeks have made it clear to me very few people understand our system of gov.
Reasonably clean, attractive and maintainable, but what makes this particular framework "maximalist" and for "full-stack developers", especially in comparison with other CSS frameworks?
Yes, I find it incredible that seeing a word like "cop" makes someone uncomfortable/unable to do their job. Reading the rest of the replies made me feel like I was crazy one. (thankfully the thumb votes show that most people disagree) I know these people mean well, but I view these people as bullies disguised as allies.
It sounds staight out of Star Trek
HOw do you reconcile not forcing someone to do something with depriving another of life & liberty? The entire reason for protected classes is to prevent the majority from harming the minority.

>> forcibly compel you to allocate your time and resources to ends they define.

...as has been SOP in even the most permissive of societies throughout history. I'm all for classical liberal ideals influencing the world, but these extreme libertarian rules and values have never existed outside the minds of their most zealous believers and you don't have to get too far into the details to see their contradictions.
To break it down:

- Police can only be sued personally if they violate "clearly established" law.

- They can't be sued if they did their best in an area where the law isn't clear.

- This doctrine was established by older cases.

- The court is going to let those older cases stand, for now.
Assange indictment fails to mention video that exposed US 'war crimes' in Iraq
This is one of the supreme examples of what a huge effect media bias can have. Without actually lying, the media coverage of immigration (often purposely blurring the lines between illegal and legal immigration, with the birth of the term "undocumented immigrants"), people have become convinced that the US is xenophobic and against immigration. The U.S legally allows a million people a year to immigrate here.
Good, more workers should demand exodus from police and army related projects. Anything less is hypocricy
...cases that asked the court to revisit a doctrine...

The Court was asked to review cases. Those cases relate to a doctrine known as qualified immunity.

...a doctrine which shields police from lawsuits...

Qualified immunity shields government officials (police, in this case) from civil lawsuits (suing for damages - officials can still be held criminally accountable).

...conduct that does not involve a “clearly established” violation of the law...

The QI only applies when there is not a "clearly established" violation of the law.

That last phrase is the real killer. Courts require the aggrieved party to cite previous cases with EXACTLY the same set of facts. Of course, no two cases are exactly the same, so the courts have effectively given police officers blanket immunity to civil claims...
2020:
1. Covid
2. Polic Brutality
3. Cicadas
4. Global Thermal Nuclear war

Yep....

Hey, it's only a "3% fizzle reaction". How bad can that be?
Why do you think so?

In TTA you have static schedule for what is achieved dynamically in x86 CPU, consuming energy. You can have much wider issue there, you can better utilize parts, allocating, for example, more shifters than is available on CPUs/GPUs.

You may not be so lucky to achieve 800x energy efficiency gain, but getting ten times better than CPU is achievable.
It’s understandable to give up on a worthwhile cause because you’ve lost the energy for it, but it doesn’t make sense to actively encourage others to give up on it, if the cause was ever important to you at all.
Thing is resolved: use rbhint if you care, do whatever you want if you don’t care
Same, used them for years for business travel. Painless in every way.

Check out was easy, about 2 mins at the gate. Check in was parking the car and walking off from the garage to the Airport terminal. No need to do anything.
A standard test for applying to grad schools.
If anyone is looking for a used car, they have a lot of their fleet up for sale here: https://www.hertzcarsales.com/
Corporations are most definitely NOT staying out of politics. All of them are actively lobbying the government for numerous different kinds of policies, from immigration and trade to environmental control and taxes. In fact, corporations are the main driving force behind almost all policy decisions in some way or another.
> only the privileged can avoid experiencing negative political consequences inside their bubble.

> Nat Friedman is on the wrong side of history here. These empty words are no longer sufficient. Hopefully he figures that out before his tenure at GitHub comes to an end.

These statements seem at odds. If privileged people are insulated from negative political consequences, then why is he at risk of losing his job for taking the wrong political stance?
it isnt typically the only goal, no. Many people own stocks and stakes in companies because they believe in what the company is doing, producing, or working towards.
Why are you bringing this up again? It happened over a week ago, and afaik, things are all settled now. Are you looking to spark light to the flaming again? Please stop with the needless provocations.
Show HN: Trying to design a news website as a houseplant video game
https://www.kaptest.com/gre/what-is-the-gre
Thank you.

It's not worked, though, since no one is replying. A lot depends on luck as to whether something gets noticed, up-voted, and replies.

I might try re-posting tomorrow morning (my time) in an attempt to catch a different audience. Then if there are still no replies, I've found a good time to ask these sorts of questions is on a Saturday at about 10:00 UTC.

And good luck, I hope you get the information you're looking for. The answer[0] from maverick74[1] might also be useful for you, but you've probably seen that.

Cheers.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23526270

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=maverick74
US Supreme Court backs protection for LGBT workers
Excuse me, but is there a reason why you chose to reply to my comment with an insult? And six days after I originally posted my comment?
>What is so bad about employees at a company having a say in what type of work the company does?

No, I don't think there is anything wrong with it, that's how we can change direction of the company and produce good. I think that's a very problematic path filled with mine-lands where employees decide how company makes money. GitHub can just outsource this project to Russia, Australia or India, still make money and deliver the project. Silencing voiced of those who speak, but still, being on a path of conflict of interests between board members and workers.
Citation needed. Case law has existed since the invention of America.
Over the last decade, Zoom was the first video conferencing tools that mostly "just worked" that we tried at work. One of our founders would more than half-seriously say "my next venture will be fixing video conferencing." He stopped saying that after we started using Zoom.

As for the valuation, yeah, that is wild. It very well could be divorced from reality.
At this point there are multiple "classless" CSS "frameworks" posted on HN daily and subsequently hitting frontpage. This fad has become quite boring, no offense to the author of this particular framework.

What's so hard about just throwing a few lines of CSS in a file and adding a link element to the <head>? You can get the same amount of mileage by spending 10 minutes writing generic rules with the benefit of knowing exactly what part of the page is affected by which rule (more valuable to me than the instant gratification of classless frameworks).
I've posted Springer's promotion about 45 days ago. They have about 500 books you can download for free! I also included a list of all the computer science ones, if anyone interested:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23055340
Yeah I disagree with your statement a lot, but YMMV.
We need term limits on the supreme court. The idea of lifetime appointments for anything in a democratic society is absurd.
I found the point about minorities and women curious, is that perhaps due to the fact that profitable-ish business can be assesed more rigorously on the foundamental, rather thsn on VC's opinion of the founders?
Be careful when using semantic elements purely for presentation purposes. For instance, the <aside> element gives the element a landmark role 'complimentary' telling assistive devices that this is not part of the main content.

That's not really true for your cards, though, they are part of the content.

Also, having multiple complimentary landmarks in the same context (main, footer) is really confusing. Having 3 <aside> elements next to each other would be like having three <header> elements next to each other.
I got curious about the way games provide fun, and whether that fun can be ported into use cases like news and discussion websites.

During this exploration, I arrived at some thoughts around user interface[0] and user experience[1], and built a simple prototype[2] to show these thoughts in action.

I'm debating to continue this hobby research - anyone out there interested in gamification & want to exchange notes / keep each other updated?

--

[0]Buttons, scrolling, and clicking can be abstracted using game assets, camera system, and fun gestures https://waavg.vlaaaaad.com/#ui

[1]For play to happen, a design needs progression loops, choices with consequences, and aesthetic feedback https://waavg.vlaaaaad.com/#ux

[2]The mechanics of a news website (topics & comments) were used to build a digital houseplant simulation game https://waavg-demo.vlaaaaad.com/demo
I had one bad experience, one terrible.

The bad: charged for a full tank of gas and a filling fee despite me filling it immediately before returning it. I didn’t keep the receipt or take a photo, mea culpa. Worked out as something crazy like £4 a litre, with the fee.

The terrible: prepaid rental, pick up at one airport, return to another - paid the fee for the one-way up front. Was slightly bemused when the car they gave me had clearly come from where I was going, so I was paying €160 to do them a favour. Where it got terrible: the office at the airport I dropped the car at was unattended. It was meant to be open, but wasn’t - so I used the key drop and caught my flight.

They then charged me €4500 for extensive bodywork damage - two new doors, new mirror, new panels, new glass, etc. - the car was immaculate when I’d left it, and from the photo it looked like someone had t-boned it in their lot - broken glass on the ground around it, etc.

I had a walkaround video from when I dropped it off, showing no damage - but they pointed me at the section of the rental agreement that says that if I use the key drop I accept all responsibility for damage to the vehicle between me dropping the keys and them inspecting it. I didn’t have a leg to stand on.

To add insult to injury, they also charged me the one-way fee, again.

Needless to say, I never used them again after that.
> Or you could just sell software tools to people who pay for them.

Yes, that’s one of the (political) options.
You seem to be making the assumption that this activity was _not_ their job, and that they were acting badly independently. Based on the possibility that the initial call to action may reach all the way up to the C-level executives (Two unnamed executive are included in the complaint that had roles above Baugh), perhaps this was _explicitly_ their job?
(Slightly in jest) I was annoyed that minecraft.com doesn't link to the game. It's some random company... that is actually in the craft of real world mining.

I'm surprised Nissan was not able to settle w/ mom and pop. Branding is worth millions. I doubt they were being stingy; were they holding out on principle? Were mom and pop asking for a silly amount?

It's also amusing a North American corporation was able to wrest the .amazon domain away from, well, the real Amazonians in Brazil.
I really appreciate the defense here of the pig.
A Graduate Record Examination; a standardized admission test.

If you hope to be admitted to grad school in the US (and Canada, methinks), the GRE is mandatory at many, if not most, establishments.
When people say they back Black Lives Matter, what does it mean? Is it real support for actual demands or symbolic and emotional support?

According to wikipedia these are BLM's policy demands:

Policy demands
In 2016, Black Lives Matter and a coalition of 60 organizations affiliated with BLM called for decarceration in the United States, reparations for slavery in the United States, an end to mass surveillance, investment in public education, not incarceration, and community control of the police: empowering residents in communities of color to hire and fire police officers and issue subpoenas, decide disciplinary consequences and exercise control over city funding of police.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter#Policy_dema...
"Are employees allowed to wear dresses and high heel shoes to work?"

"Well, that depends."

"What does it depend on?"

"..."
I suspect any employer who fired a white person for, say, dressing their hair like Rachel Dolezal whilst permitting their black employees to do so would already be in danger of the discrimination suit.
that's because they know they're going to be worth essentially zero very soon
I'd really like to one day find out how this decision was made at Western Digital.

My understanding is there wasn't much for WD to gain here and serious risks...

Did they really feel this was worth it? How did this decision make its way through the management chain?
In what sense did Goldman Sachs do something similar during the crisis?
A lot. Although they do not say how much.

https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-acquired-hey-com/
You're completely right. I've very fortunate, and that does give me the ability to ignore certain things. I make sure to have an understanding of what is going on, and my active ignorance is more of a way to avoid things I'm already aware of, where my knowledge of the event doesn't help progress anything.

The example that pops in my head first is COVID. I knew what was going on with COVID and how to keep myself and others safe. My issue was that it was circulating everything 24/7, while not offering new information the vast majority of the time. It became very anxiety inducing to see a ton of articles every day that end up just being filler with tangential evidence of nothing new.

But you're completely correct, I'm very fortunate, and I should have clarified more on where and when I choose to ignore certain things.
What was wrong with 'main'?
I agree that employees have the power to change their employer, I merely am pointing out a potential other option that I rarely see discussed. Github is one thing, and an organization that I think is better than most, I think I was mainly thinking of other equivalents, like Facebook, which has _never_ been anything but reprehensible, and yet employees try to believe in this "change from inside" narrative. At a certain point, it is only self-delusion.

To be honest, I dislike America, and do plan to leave it in the next couple of years. I've always considered it a reasonable option :)
Making them fast? Do you mean making them quickly?
If you do have that responsibility, then a huge swath of open source developers in the world are guilty of abetting pedophiles, rapists, and terrorists.
No one is going for ICE employees, at least in this thread. They are proposing going against ICE as an institution.
The Court is not bound to hear any particular case.

They typically only hear cases where the regional appellate courts have differed significantly on interpretation of the law.

I'm not aware of the lower courts have much disagreement here. They almost all afford broad QI to police officers.
Which One of Those Am I Dealing With?
I don't have a dog in this fight but have to say I was pleased to see bbatsov stand up to the pressure. It's ridiculous that these people who have contributed nothing to the project think they can come in and tell those who have devoted a huge amount of effort to it what they should be doing. The level of entitlement is simply off the scale.
You are correct, that happened to the Super-K detector in the early 2000s. It's briefly mentioned here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Kamiokande#History
I shorted Zoom last week and got burned losing about $500.

It's clearly overvalued, but when will it start to fall?
The fact is that police shootings of unarmed African-Americans are still only 0.1% of all African-Americans killed. There are studies that find that no racial differences in lethal uses of force: https://www.nber.org/papers/w22399.pdf
> Cops kill about 1600 people total (justified and non-justified combined) per year in the US. There are about 16,000 murders per year in the US. Out of the ~1550 people killed by police in 2019, about 40 were unarmed.

> You should be much more concerned about a criminal harming you than a police officer.

There's a lot wrong with your comment, and one issue is your conclusion obviously does not follow from your (unsourced) statistics. If you want to reason from statistics, they have to be measuring comparable situations, which yours are not. Being killed by police is more like being murdered by a stranger, which is much less common than being murdered by anyone including people known to you [1].

Another issue being armed does not justify a police shooting, which you kind of imply. For instance, Philando Castile was armed, but clearly should not have been shot by police.

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
“Primary” != “only.”

“Shareholders” != “only people with a stake in a company existing.”
Kudos to Clarence Thomas for being the sole Supreme to dissent from this decision:

“There likely is no basis for the objective inquiry into clearly established law that our modern cases prescribe... Leading treatises from the second half of the 19th century and case law until the 1980s contain no support for this ‘clearly established law’ test.”
Also, for all the "projection" they talk of, they are projecting US-centric views on to the wider world innit? Not many countries have cops carrying military grade guns/tanks and randomly shooting...
Yes, it must be placed in the same file as the type itself.

Side note: It is a Babel macro :)
From top of my head, what I was told from officers (my dad and others), police isn't conditioned to ai I'm for the center of mass. They rather aim for the legs and such. SWAT being an exception, of course, depending on circumstances.

It is still shooting at people, so potentially deadly. But less so than putting 6 bullets into someone's chest.
> Not even mentioning that one of those charged used to be a police captain...

i.e someone used to committing illegal intimitation with impunity, while being accustomed to responding to criticism with tear gas?
A $2 put for Jan 22 is currently trading with a 1.60-1.75 spread, meaning the break-even point is $0.25-0.40. Not much reward to have there. No shares available to short either.