skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Qualified Immunity just sets the default and is mostly a red herring (not that it shouldn't be addressed). A city could easily declare that an officer acted outside their explicit government duties when committing a crime

QI is irrelevant to crimes, it applies to torts. And when carrying out their explicit duties, police are performing ministerial tasks for which government employees, including police, have absolute immunity; it is only outside that space where they enjoy qualified immunity, and whether the requisite nexus to their official duties for QI exists is a legal question for the courts, not a matter which the city can declare dispositively after the fact.

> For instance, explaining QI doesn't address how the police have also been able to weasel out of criminal and administrative penalties

That's not contract, especially for criminal penalties, it's prosecutorial discretion which is entirely a matter of what the public looks for in choosing the (almost invariably locally elected) head public prosecutor who sets prosecutorial policy.

When the most important fact voters weigh in electing a DA is police union endorsements, they literally have no one else to blame but themselves for police impunity before criminal law.
I'm currently building an alternative to twitter to publish summaries of papers. It's called Abstra. We're hoping to give researcher a better format to share their stuff, and a quick option for that to avoid wasting time. Would love to have your feedback! Abstra.co.uk
Cent Reportedly Breaks Up with Cuban Link and Boots Her from His Mansion
In terms of the binding agreement, it isn't any different, except you can can move to different providers whereas if you don't own that domain, the service provider has you by the balls.
The git dev responsible for the choice has said it had nothing to do with master/slave:

> "master" as in e.g. "master recording". Perhaps you could say the original, but viewed from the production process perspective.

> A clueless Central European youngster whose command of English was mostly illusory came up with the term, which is why it isn't very obvious...

https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441?s=20

I always thought it meant "master copy"...
Derivatives? Do Barcelona change their tactics because I keep winning big on the first goal scorer?

This is a socially useless activity. Stop trying to force it.
AI generates realistic human faces from pixelated images
It's an empty gesture that requires negligible effort or sacrifice for largely zero effect on the actual problem; basically the progressives' equivalent of "thoughts and prayers". Moreover, it adds a inconvenience, albeit minor, to those outside the United States who are not a party to this debate at all.

We're not against anti-racism, we're anti-nonsense and this is just about as nonsensical as it gets. Actual effort to solve the very real problems that the US faces with regard to race would involve donations of money and staff time to help out minorities, enough to cause some level of financial stinging. If these organizations did that, that would be actually worthy of praise.
> Many illegal drugs have a potential of causing harm.

To the user, which is a risk they chose to take.

Now you could argue that the illicit trade is causing harm, but that's the direct result of criminalization and not of people choosing to consume substances.
Apparently I can't read. Good catch, thanks.
Anyone remembers the app called Mailbox that was acquihired by Dropbox and killed?

God, it was so intuitive, smooth, and simple, with features I _still_ can’t find in 2020 (like reordering the emails in the inbox). I would easily pay 200 USD a year to use that one.
The interesting thing about Gorsuch's opinion considering his reputation is that he specifically focuses on applying the logical implications (if a company would not fire a person for being in a relationship with a man if they were female, clearly firing a man for doing so treats sexes differently) to the Civil Rights Act text rather than likely 1964 understanding of its intent and actually rules out the probable lack of consideration of LGBT issues by the original framers as a relevant factor.
Protected characteristics are not an never-ending list, and that's the only thing you cannot discriminate based on.

You are 100% free to post a job add saying that those with green eyes need not apply. You'll likely still be sued, and you might even lose, but it won't be due to Title VII.
I wonder how many websites are going to break over this when everyones master branch imports break.

I, know, default, still, some idiot's gonna break something big with this.
This could be a good way for FB to back into the search engine market.
I guess it turns out that Chinese bot farms aren't that progressive on LGBT issues.
Is anybody using this? What do you like about it versus a more typical linux or unix? Is hardware support good enough to run on a relatively recent laptop?
These are all judges who have largely spent their time reading practicing law. This is almost certainly SCOTUS doing what SCOTUS does based on how they read the law and not some one off political rebuke or any sort.
> Must be terrifying for someone to make your basic humanity a political football.

Thank you, you worded it really well. A lot of us are just trying to live a quiet life with dignity. I work for a large company that considers itself progressive in these matters. Everybody with access to my background (HR, upper management) is constantly letting me know that "they know" about my background, they win awards for how well they treat me, and feel-good stuff like "they're with me". It's hell.
Do you mean "windows" like made out of transparent glass or "windows" like the notoriously insecure operating system.
> Finally, I see that installation goes over a "curl | bash", which imo is a pretty insecure method of installation

So comparing https://nixos.org/download.html and https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation... - nix is curl | sh from a https address; guix is wget && chmod +x && run shell script. Both also have a trivially-available way to do GPG verification before running anything. So I'd call them pretty close.

In absolute terms, honestly I'm not sure it is that big of a deal; default protection is HTTPS, and GPG is easily available. The only obvious issue that I see is that nix might be vulnerable to the truncated-stream issue; I forget whether that can happen over HTTPS or not.
Did you also give the school bully your lunch?
B. Stroustrup: Thriving in a crowded and changing world: C++ 2006–2020
Since fusion is only happening in the center of the Sun, and the outer layers are almost entirely transparent to neutrinos, this is actually a direct image of the solar core. Which makes it even cooler imo.
A while ago I got a recruiting email from somebody at Robinhood. In it, they listed the number of times their average user interacts with the app daily and framed the high number as something to be proud of.

For a lot of services, this is a neutral (or even good) metric. But for an investing platform, encouraging people to interact more is a fabulous method of turning it into gambling and causing people to blow a huge amount of money.
The supporters (is that the right word) seem to agree. The issue isn't that the people were discriminated based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, but because of their sex. That is to say, if they were males presenting as females, then the discrimination is based on their sex of being male because had they been female presenting as female they would not have faced such discrimination.

It seems like a six of one half dozen of another distinction, but I think it may become a factor when you start considering other sexual orientations. Primarily asexual individuals, but there are a number of other characteristics of humans that are currently classified as sexual attractions and not orientations but which some scientists think should be reclassified based on the biological/neurological basis as we better understand the difference between a preference and an orientation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23500093 (138 points/224 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23518123 (127 points/206 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23519813 (44 points/84 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23522859 (15 points/5 comments)

(From 32 minutes ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23528134 (36 points/42 comments)
what's the function that returns from the pandas dataframe the foul that the german goalkeeper made to Higuain?

Jokes aside, pretty good article. I am an Argentinean, so consider that a lot.
You all remember when they got rid of the Santa hat?
That's hard to say, of course.

There's little rejection in left wing parties and German trade unions (with the exception of the police unions, obviously) with regards to ACAB and similar messages, although you won't find anybody running for chancellor embracing it. As they will march with the Black Bloc on ocassion, I don't think you can draw a clear line.

The parties' youth organizations are generally significantly further left, so that's a different story entirely, but that's probably true for any youth organization.
The man page of the command helps in most cases. Often the description section has info if the command reads from standard input, a file or both.
I see no issue with developers shipping universal binaries indefinitely. I don’t see what the issue would be with that, for most devs it’s just part of the Xcode build process. I suppose it would double the compile time for release builds.

Testing is a legitimate concern but I don’t think it’s as consequential as you imply. (For most developers.)
The feature set would be extremely difficult to clone via IMAP + SMTP without being confusing. One of the major features is that you can change the subject that is displayed on an incoming email, and that it won't be changed when you respond (so if someone sent you an email with
"no subject" as the subject, you can change it to "foo bar foo". They will still see "no subject" when you reply, and conversations won't be broken in Outlook). That'd be very hard to clone in an arbitrary email client that didn't know how to fix it. Another one is that every unique sender gets put into a screening folder until you tell hey where to put it (inbox/paper trail/feed), and that functionality can't be cloned in a email client (because they don't know how to force you to answer that question).

Even if they found a way to make it work now, every time they had a new feature they wanted to add to their web client, they'd have to worry about making it not break Outlook/Thunderbird/$RandomEmacsMailClient, because if it does people are going to miss emails and leave the service. And since their target market is people who hate the way email works today anyway, the target market probably won't ever want to touch IMAP again if they can help it. If they want to go back, all their mail can be exported and new mail will be forwarded to their next address. It seems fine to me.
IF the resulting ruling was, indeed, based primarily on license eligibility cross-state line then wow, what a mislead but also what a possible challenge hole like you said.

I am not a lawyer™ but damn this would be a fascinating challenge. It almost implies state licenses exceed state lines to an almost federal level which seems pretty counterintuitive to me. I'd almost want to see a lawyer who has a state-level license to practice law challenge this in court to be eligible to use their state-level license in a different state.

If true, fascinating. This post represents only theory interest and no opinion of the top level topic other than this one:

Equality, EFF YEAH!
The procrastination link is an interesting one. I used to put things off until the day they were due, waking up at 5 in the morning to finish papers etc. But it wasn’t until later in life that I started identifying as a ‘morning person’. Procrastination often seems to be our body / mind subconsciously optimizing for future peak performance.
No.

page 38 or so:
> JUSTICE ALITO, with whom JUSTICE THOMAS joins, dissenting

page 145 or so:
> JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, dissenting.
Because you live in a society that mostly functions because people mostly don't discriminate against each other, and the conditions which result in you being able to open a fruit stand for personal profit would be basically impossible without that.

Luckily, this is mostly the case today, and for the cases where it's not eventually a law gets passed, so there's theoretically no reason for a broader law assuming that we don't... assuming that the goal is eventual consistency, so to speak.
That sounds like CodeMax, or its descendent CodeSense.

CodeMax was originally a product by Barry Allyn (WinMain software) and it was pretty good.

Unfortunately though for him the market was pretty small and it was difficult to survive as a commercial product. It was open source for a short while and that was when CodeSense came about.
The original episode title "Employees with Matt Orzco of Peakon" is a better title I think.

The podcast episode talks about how many of the employees worked from home/remote at this one company, the company didn't loose employees.
No, you should read it as “also doesn’t sell my data”. The point is that office 365 offers a lot more value than hey for the same price.
You're absolutely allowed to discriminate based on hair color because it's not a protected class.

As a society we have decided that discriminating on some things is abhorrent (race, et al), and other things is not (hair and eye color).
MeiliSearch: Self hosted search engine with a RESTful API
> Probably the best reading of "..." nowadays is "and making money is bad, so" or "and this made somebody higher-class than them sad, so".

My understanding of the university admissions scandal was that the parents were defrauding the university by bribing the admissions staff to lie to the university about how good the candidates were. It would have been legal if they had instead been honest with the university and paid however much extra was needed to convince them to accept their children. But that would have cost them more than bribing individual staff.

So I don't think that example fits your mould.
They're similar indeed. I wrote the linked post and that blog is mine.
It does, that's the only way I've used it. It's no Gmail but it's tolerable.
> This list is really more about stoking emotions than providing evidence of anything.

Yet lists like that is all we have to actually quantify the problem because there are literally zero attempts of doing it on a federal level [0].

In that context, I always consider it quite fascinating how the federal US government is allegedly very informed how many protesters are killed by security forces in countries like Iran, yet the same federal US government couldn't tell you how many of its citizens are killed each year by their own police.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/one-year-after-ferguson...
I don't have anything to add, but I just want to give you a shout out because this seems to be the most specifically constructive post in the whole thread.
> If Amish are allowed to opt out of social security, why can't Libertarians?

The Social Security opt-out is only possible for members of certain groups, most of which were special carve-outs added when Social Security was first implemented[1]. One of those carve-outs is for individuals which are members of a religious group that has existed continuously since 1950 and have a religious objection to Social Security (those requirements only really match a handful of religions who lobbied for this right during the introduction of Social Security). However, anyone who wants to be excluded from Social Security must have never received Social Security benefits or made Social Security contributions and must be a member of some kind of pension scheme. Some police officers and some teachers are also excluded from Social Security due to different carve-outs but still qualify because those police officers' and teachers' unions have pension funds.

Libertarians don't have any carve-outs (nor do any other political group for that matter).

> How is a "pension scheme" different from "social security", in any way that matters?

There really isn't any difference (at least from the "is it gambling" angle). The main difference is that the pension schemes aren't government-run (unlike Social Security). It was a historical compromise (the groups lobbying against Social Security happened to be okay with being able to run their own pension schemes) which probably looks fairly strange in retrospect, but that's the way it is today.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States...
Sure. But Roberts is a human being. He has an ego, ambitions, and feelings. So who knows.
Zoom Caved in to China on Censorship
There is a very American viewpoint that the rest of the world is somehow different. There are police in Taiwan, Australia, Canada and most of Europe.

They are friendly and don’t over exert their force in a frequent manner like the US.

In US the police just take out their gun for absolutely petty reasons. It’s like they just want to escalate the situation rather than calm it down.

So yes, the problem is American police don’t know how to calm a crowd down. They stand like robots rather than be humans and listen and work with the crowd.

In many instances the first shots are fired by the police.

The crowd has been otherwise quite peaceful exercising their first amendment right.
What if you took commercial video like a news broadcast vs youtube? Would that still be off limits?
If the target has a gun in their hand no doubt they represent a threat. Use the body cam to prove that and you're good in the eyes of the law. But, I've seen plenty of people fleeing being shot and that is just so wrong, the said cop being the justice and the executioner, with a decision which they have taken in blink. And I've seen cases where the cop got away with it and that is what hot buttoned the protesters.
I usually don't lose sleep at night when I see thieves stealing property from other thieves who also steal property. It's even more difficult to care when a massive thief is stolen from.

I've interacted enough with privatized insurance companies that if insurance wasn't a requirement or near requirement, I'd happily choose other options of mitigating risk. I much prefer self-insuring when feasible.
"Three months into the pandemic, the argument about the moral and economic superiority of the modern office is over. Remote work works."

So, I have worked (mostly) remotely for years, and I don't think I agree with this. It works for some people, in some situations. There are absolutely times when you need to be in the office with other people, and even if my client is in another town I have to drive over there to talk to people in person.

This from a person who works one of the most remote-friendly jobs (computer programmer), who is obviously not opposed to the idea because I do it myself most of the time. But I think what a lot of people discovered is that working remotely _doesn't_ work.

It probably also works worse over time, as the personal contacts made in person, fray after a longer and longer period without in-office conversations. I would not be surprised if some companies, currently paying sky-high salaries for employees in very high cost of living areas, find it attractive to enable more remote work. If and where it works, great. But the idea that everyone will do it in the future, is just fantasy.
True, but the distance between Firefox source and Firefox is config+compile.

You cannot compile Chrome. I've heard that Chromium can be compiled and run, but I've never actually seen it, or hear of anyone using that professionally.
If you're pinning the SSL cert then it's not something they can fix, it's something you need to change on your end.
To me, moving the Macs to ARM or perhaps just the laptop models to ARM could be a win for Apple. Thinner, lighter, lower-power and better software integration with the iPhone/iPad could result in happier consumers and more reluctance of users to jump to Windows based machines.

The risk is that there will be enough difference between the ARM machines and the previous ones that consumers will be reluctant to buy the new machines. I know that the keyboard problems on recent laptop models caused me to buy some windows laptops for the rest of my family.

There is a way for Apple to facilitate this move to ARM. Make the ARM machines noticeably less expensive than Apple's previous Macs. I've been disappointed during the last few years by the cost of Apple's Macs, the mini, the iMac Pro, the Mac Pro, and high end configurations of the laptops seem overpriced now. Perhaps this is is a longer term strategy for Apple. Maybe they have priced the recent machines higher so that adoption of ARM based machines can, in comparison to previous models, look more attractive. Apple could also lower the margins on the new ARM machines, at least until there is enough buy-in by consumers to raise the margins back to be comparable with Apples pre-ARM products. My prediction is that the new ARM machines will be priced very competitively when they are announced. In a few years, their prices will rise.
Neat!

I wonder if there is a way to modify something like xfig to output in hand drawn "look".

Collaborative editing is of course also very good and tools like xfig don't have it.

I guess I'm wondering aloud if it makes sense to see "hand drawn look", collaborative editing and cloud storage/saas as orthogonal issues.
Yeah, 99$ seems like to much for me. I currently pay ~24€ for secure private email hosting in the EU. Not so many fancy features, but it does include a entire gsuite clone
They're conjugate in the sense that thoughts will be part of many different trails, while trails are composed of many different thoughts. Focus too much on the specific thought, and one loses track of which specific trail; focus too much on the trail, and one loses track of which thought. (so a self-reinforcing coherent group of thoughts and trails would be a gaussian?)
Meditation (and abstaining from alcohol) is the only cure for ADHD that i have found after years of misery and ritalin et al. I wish i could give this message to all the people who suffer from it. One must keep at it every day for half a year to have some success with it, so its hard.
Java code base from redhat (now IBM)... looks complete though
That isn't the purpose. It isn't for end users to run. It's to be able to have confidence that the object code in a software distribution depends only on the source code, and not on something that a clever attacker has managed to sneak in, using a variant of the Thompson "trusting trust" attack.
LOL!

Absolutely Ayn Randian stream of thought.

Could you may be think about how you were able to do the said fruit stand business in peace, take a currency as a payment and not worry about bartering, not worry about your business being stolen outright my guy with biggest muscles or how people are able to come to your fruit stand in the first place etc? Unless you are thinking of your business in a vacuum, then go ahead and fantasize.
You can learn sales and marketing when you have a product. In mean time, read books on these topics.
That doesn't really answer the original question at all.

The question wasn't "is this particular case fraudulent for any reason what-so-ever".

The question was "is buying insurance on something you already know is going to happen" plain and simple fraud?

The identity fraud isn't really relevant to that question at all.

FWIW I'm not aware of any law in the USA that makes it illegal to buy insurance when you know the policy will pay. Knowing more than the insurance company's actuaries is not fraud. Making false statements is fraud. Intentionally causing damage to collect insurance payments is fraud. But the hypothetical oracle who knows when the next flood/fire/car accident will hit due to divine inspiration is free to buy a relevant insurance policy the day before. AFAIK.