skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A small handful of people have been kicked out by being swarmed by a crowd and told to leave (and some more colorful language) without violence.

This sounds like at least an implicit threat of imminent violence, without disputing the rest of your description.
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Just to be clear this was his house in London, UK. Not one in Philadelphia.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/36+Craven+St,+Charing+Cros...

William Hewson was a British anatomist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hewson_(surgeon)
The history of labor rights in the US should indicate just how bad things will get if companies aren't curtailed.
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Note that Andy Ngo himself, author of the tweet linked in the grandparent, helped spread the false claims that SPD has retracted: https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1270820367573999616
> I also drank a lot less water than I thought.

For me, the key to staying hydrated is large containers.

When there is a glass of water on my desk in front of me, I sip it as I get thirsty. When it runs dry, I don't interrupt my current task to refill it, so it might sit empty for hours, and I won't drink enough later to make up for it. So, the fewer times I have to refill, the more water I drink.

In college, when I moved between many locations, I used a 1-quart canning jar in a knitted sleeve (classier and a little fall protection -- just remember you still have to wash it). These days, it's a 1-liter jug (err, may technically be a vase) that sits on my desk. I refill it in the morning (or night before) and once in the middle of the day, after it runs out.
Retroactively taking retirement funds from people that were expecting them is wrong. Even if 99% of the police deserved it, it would still be wrong.
Tail Call Optimization in Rust
Yes, sorry I should have been more explicit. The article does mention the Rachel by the Bay blog post, but in a way that makes it sound like a different issue. I think they are more related.

I think the Rachel by the Bay blog post does a good job of explaining what event loops are doing under the hood, and how that can lead to bad tail latency for web requests.
Speaking as someone who isn't American or Chinese, is it too much to ask for both sides to stop spying on the rest of us?
I don't know why we have these less than lethal rounds if they are proven time again to be so damaging. Paintball guns leave welts and bruises just fine and don't maim you in the process. Take 30 paintballs to the upper body and you will be begging for mercy.

The complaint from police, especially with tasers too, boils down to that this needs to be strong enough to stop someone on meth with hulk strength. Police already have much more effective tools for this: Horse cop and lasso.
When the Pandemic Sent You Back to Childhood
Slightly related question: does a RegExp engine in pure JavaScript exist?
Tell Zoom- End-to-end encryption for everyone
EDIT: sorry, didn't mean to one-up someone's article. Do read it for it's intended purpose: showing how much time gets wasted, and how much a dev can get frustrated, by a bad API.

That's a pretty crappy API, but far from the worst: HP Fortify. When I used it about four years ago, the code examples wouldn't even compile, let alone work. The documentation was often flat out wrong. IIRC, there was at least one method with a named parameter, and the spelling of the parameter name was wrong. But then when one went to go retrieve it, it would be spelled correctly. It had every scent of a project that was spec'ed at HP in colloquial English, then sent to some far-off land where English is at best a second language for folks and price per hour is more important than coding chops.

The API referenced in the article is, I'm sure, annoying to work with. But as far as getting actual work done, I would wager a good sum of money that the Fortify API will block you far, far more often and for longer than the Windows Event Tracing API.

And am I correct in seeing that the web page turned my scroll thumb fscking white to match the background? Safari on macOS Catalina.
They will not do it.

They will also not allow duplicates, allow low effort questions - even if others are lining up to answers those low quality questions.

Whoever wants to improve the world as much as stackoverflow once did - and make a bunch of cash in the process could try some of thise ideas.

Someone will probably counter with the assumed fact that if there had been money in it someone would have done to which I counter with the two economists who went down the street, saw some money on the ground and walked straight past it since "if the money was real someone would have taken it already".
so node-red on the cloud? I’ve been waiting for something like this
> Abolishing private prisons is a good start, but we need much more drastic reform to the prison-industrial complex and failed "tough on crime" policies, particular in the realms of drug policy, community investment, and mental health.

Yes, very much so.
Looks like after a couple days this anarcho-communist zone has already begun starving: https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=148485
> They probably won't try evicting people from the area again because they didn't succeed politically the previous times they tried.

Interesting. The city might not, but feds might try, as they probably don't have much to lose.
Or maybe it should have not, and should've just cut off the whole China, how ever offensive to capitalist sensibilities it is.

Let the free market come up with another alternative for massacre-silencing needs.
This feature really is a bug for Chinese speakers. The same phenomenon as people being unable to accurately draw a bicycle, an object you're pretty familiar with, is called "character amnesia" when you're unable to write a Chinese character that you probably see every day and can read and understand with no problems. The meaning of the character is definitely abstracted away somewhere in your brain, but there might be hundreds or thousands of characters you're simply unable to reproduce on paper.

The Chinese characters are composed of a specific order of strokes, and sometimes it's like you can't bring a clear enough picture of it into your mind's eye to be able to reverse engineer it with a pen on paper. I probably experience this a lot more as a learner of Chinese as a foreign language, so I'm pretty familiar with the feeling of "Character amnesia". It happened to me the other day with 牙 (tooth) a pretty simple character that you'd think would be easy to remember. Once you get the first two to or so strokes down though muscle memory seems to take over and you finish it almost subconsciously.

From anecdotal examples, this is actually pretty common, and in mainland Chinese sources I've read they seem to put it down to people using pinyin (romanised pronunciation) input on phone and PC keyboards instead which gets people out of the habit of remembering stroke orders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_amnesia
I think the burden of proof is on those saying, "This time it will be different."
Pretty impressive. I could see myself using this quite often.

Wonder if it has already scraped all the man pages for the various bash tools or if doing so would improve it even more.
> depending on the political views you hope to find

It seems like the really good discussion places wouldn't have to carry this caveat. It's too bad those are even harder to find.
> There's little to no C++ software being written nowadays that's not games.

You need to look around more, because you are totally wrong on this point. It's true that C++ isn't used a lot in web programming, and web programming is what a lot of people see these days. But there is a lot more software being written than web programming and games, and C++ is still in fairly significant use.
If that were correct, why do unions exist in western European countries? I understand from a US point of view, fixing [what are to an outsider's eyes] poor worker protections and a crazy medical system would help (if on the flipside creating vast, black-hole-like, tax-funded bureaucracies), but I think it misses the point of unions slightly.
I'd rather live in a second-rate democracy than a first-rate corporatocracy. To me, that's the only outcome that matters. If the Chinese monopoly does things to break our laws, it can be sanctioned or banned.
Looking at the cases of the NBA and Blizzard, no.

Next step will be hours of Congressional hearings where politicians invoke fiery rhetorics and company executives use verbal jiu jitsu to dodge out of any legal liabilities.
I work for an IoT company, and I can tell you that data costs are high for IoT because the cost model is different. You purchase a 10GB plan from AT&T for your cell phone and they know that you likely won't use it all, so they can "oversell" data. With IoT, you have a much better handle on how much data you use so when you purchase a 10MB plan, they know you will use almost all of it. Additionally, IoT devices tend to have higher backend infrastructure costs as they often connect/disconnect from the towers as they wake up and go to sleep, or move around between towers /carriers a lot. Plus the "always roaming" statement above adds cost in exchange for flexibility.

It's just a different business altogether.
Ask HN: No-code tool for creating API shims?
At Fivetran we frequently get requests for connecting to sources that we don't support and may not ever support, like your own API that you are the only user of. We'd like to build a connector to:

- A no-code tool

- That's powerful enough to pull data from arbitrary APIs

- Accessible to semi-technical users (analysts who know SQL)

These analysts would then use this no-code tool to create "shims" that connect Fivetran to arbitrary data sources. Is there something out there that fits the bill?
The talk page functions as the latter for contested issues at least
Suppose Zoom exits China (1.39B potential users) in response.
This would almost certainly constitute a breach of fiduciary duty.

Censorship is legal. Failing to act in the best interest of shareholders is not.

Perhaps legislators should stick to writing laws?
> I would also request that the Senator from Missouri give me a specific list of what constitutes "American principles"

You can get a great picture of his (parties) principals by his press releases. Yada yada relgious freedom, police are good, "radical left" is bad, planned parenthood is the devil etc.

1. https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases
Pricing:

* Initial cost: $3/SIM

* Monthly cost: $2/SIM (you can inactivate it at any time)

* Data: $0.10 / MB

* SMS: $0.01 / SMS

Looks good for applications that only sends a small amount of data.
> Even worse is it can change at any time.

There have been some good public quotes about how capricious the censors can be when it comes to movies in China. Big budget movies made in China suddenly can't be shown because ... well sometimes they don't even know. Filmmakers have been pretty open about saying that they don't know what the rules are and they think they're playing it safe and then their film is blacklisted because they think a censor thought that a scene might seem 'sympathetic' to an event barely mentioned in the film, and maybe recently someone in power decided that moment in history was 'wrong'.
Reminds me of a Stewart Lee bit about people confusing things with health and safety legislation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_JCBmY9NGM
A synopsis:

* Jake is an entertaining writer, even if his style is not what one would call "information dense"

* This was written back in January

* He is grateful for the opportunity to have worked as an investment banker and feels it has opened other doors for him

* Investor banker hours are indeed quite long (70 - 90 hpw) but people in the business typically exaggerate their hours

* Answer to the title question: "I knew by this point that I did not want to rise through the ranks in typical investment banking fashion, so rather than stay until I found something else to do, I decided to quit and do anything else I wanted to do."

* Praiano, Italy on the Amalfi Coast is an awesome place to visit

* Recommends World After Capital by Albert Wenger and The Fixer by Bradley Tusk
I will get one, just to have one. Just like I wanted to get that $100 laptop a decade (or more?) ago but I never got the chance. I see it more as supporting an endeavour that may benefit more people down the road, than any thought I got on my mind.

For anyone who wants a a decent tablet (Android 5 though) on 10", I suggest the Amazon Fire HD (7th gen is fine), you can get a used for for £30-£50, then "hack it" to remove the Amazon crap/bloatware (plenty of sites with instructions out there) and use that. I have set up multiple friends like that. They buy it, meet for a coffee, I de-crap it for them in 20mins and they end up with a nice 10" android tablet to read and watch Netflix.

(Not advertising or affiliated with Amazon)(I think Bezos should give more to his staff and less to his pocket) ;)
If anything I would think them even more practical, but require one to be more active in their enforcement.

But that is the thing I don't see being recognize. While the current institute that is the police could pass away, society will still have rules and will still want enforcers of those rules (though not all rules are equally enforced). And you see this in any supposedly anarchic community, they still have social standards they enforce, they just do not rely the nearby government for enforcement of smaller issues (though there is still a reliance for larger issues, such as stopping annexation by an entity with a larger force). In turn this makes me think all such communities are actually minarchist instead of anarchist, which is a drastic difference in base assumptions.
See, this bit about the Live account is where you and I differ. It's now so much easier just to have my Live account that mirrors my Local User account, except I use a PIN to login instead of a password and my Win10 license is bound to my Live account so if I need to reinstall and reactivate I don't have to screw around with manually typing keys or having to call MS to activate, it simply works.
IRC is fully customizable with plugins written by hundreds of people. Sure, you won't get "threads" or emoji responses to individual responses, but it's possible to add a number of features.
Big shoutout to saying low impact cardio. Running is the big example that can cause pain where people's bodies are so different that it's not clear what the correct form is for them or if there's even a good form.

I play and follow golf and the big injury issue with Tiger that made him multiple surgeries, and also had to reshape his golf swing from the pain running caused. Here's an article[0] about that from Running Magazine. There's more to the story on this, like his background and mentality on Navy Seal training, with his body type and high impact running it caused huge problems he's still dealing with.

As for funning form types, check out the video of Cliff Young and his running style[1] for the Sydney to Melbourne race at 61 but shuffling.

What I'm saying, and what I'm glad you included, is the importance of cardio being low impacts, and to also not feel bad if you're not a running. Biking, and especially swimming are great alternatives and so much better on your body long term.

[0] https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/tiger-woods-regrets-run...
[1] https://vimeo.com/258718906
We have absolutely no interest in wide-scale usage, let alone if it were to come at the expense of fully exploring what a natively-2D language is like.

Narrative is an utterly different thing in UNLWS. We simply do not have "stories" in the same sense as you're used to. The closest so far is that, rather than the reward/punchline/moral/etc coming from the ordering of things, it comes from understanding the whole, i.e. as an emergent effect of the gestalt.

We don't try to have things that aren't native to 2D. We are, if necessary, able to describe something that happens on a linear timeline - that's pretty easy actually - but it simply isn't the "normal" way to arrange a large utterance. We just aren't all that interested in temporal order. We'd be more likely to represent the underlying structural order, or causality networks.

We do have a quotative, and we've talked about using IPA if we ever needed to literally refer to phonetics for some reason, but so far we simply haven't needed or wanted to do so. (Not for names, either. Names are assigned in a manner that's native to UNLWS; we don't care at all about the phonetic form in another language. Consider ASL, which does this partially [for people who do have sign-names, and under extremely heavy contact with English as a dominant language].)

We never borrow foreign words phonetically. That is just as alien to UNLWS as assigning Chinese hanzi to a name based on their meanings or stroke #s would be to an English-only speaker. We only borrow concepts, and that's only after (sometimes radically) rethinking what those concepts actually are, underlyingly, and what an UNLWS-native perspective of them would entail.

We want to explore two-dimensional language in its own right. Although we do care about expressive power, we really don't care whether it's easily translatable to/from any other languages.
In fact, the number of C++ programmers is growing faster than ever. This is evident in the growing number and size of C++ conventions. (Bulgaria has its own, now.) Even ISO C++ Standard committee attendance is reliably a lot more than every previous meeting, even when held in inconvenient places. Attendance will hit 500 soon. The amount achieved at each meeting grows accordingly. Proposals get more scrutiny and draw on more experience.

To suggest C++ is a dying, slowing, or stagnant language is objectively delusional. The language is healthier than ever, and going gangbusters.
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>This would almost certainly constitute a breach of fiduciary duty.

Would it? I'm not sure simply operating in a big market or not operating it would qualify as 'breach of fiduciary duty'.
Sounds like something you could pull off in Zapier (or an open source equivalent) perhaps?
This sort of thing is why I always scoff at the idea of slow compile times for static strongly typed languages (eg. Scala, Haskell, OCaml, Rust, etc).

Sure, it definitely compiles slower than some other compiled language, and there is no compilation for an interpreted language. But if you factor in testing, the type systems of those languages can easily remove a massive amount of testing that other less rigorous languages would either a) not test at all, or b) test at a significant cost. I'd be willing to bet that if shopify were using a strongly typed language, 50-90% of their testing would be completely redundant, because the type system already takes care of it.

That isn't to say that there are not reasons to use dynamically typed languages...just that if you are building production systems in strongly typed languages, compile time is almost completely irrelevant as a factor in productivity, regardless of how much slower they compile in comparison to an alternative.
The small RAM sizes on these devices is a limit of the SoC. The RK3399 in the Pinebook Pro can only drive 4GB of RAM. The A64 in the original Pinebook and this tablet can use 3GB but that would mean using more memory chips.
Great initiative!! I wanted to volunteer, but they only accept if you can teach in two semesters per year or 15h per week. I am a researcher and I find it is too much! Once per year and then 5 h per week is the maximum I am able for a usual paid course in top 200 university, sorry.
Need to plug that new PC into the socket? Sorry, equipment installation is a union job

For anyone who thinks that this is just hyperbole, it's exactly the sort of thing that happens.

When I worked at a unionized television station, I was watching an aircheck of a recent broadcast. When I was done, I ejected the tape and put it back into the archive.

The union filed a grievance against me for pressing the eject button. As a manager, I could use Play, Stop, and the shuttle controls, but not Eject. Only a union member could eject a tape.

At another television station where I worked, there was an employee retiring after 30 years with the station, and we thought it would be cute to show a ten-second clip of him working while the anchors said goodbye and thanks. It never happened. He worked upstairs, in the tech center, and the members of the photographers union weren't allowed to operate any electronic equipment up there because that was the province of a different union. This included working their own cameras. At the same time, the people who worked in the tech center weren't allowed to operate any of the station's cameras, because that was the domain of the photographer's union. As I said, we were never able to air a clip of this good employee doing his job.

At another television station, I worked weekends. Naturally, I was expected to work five days a week like every other employee. So I was assigned to help write during three weekdays. A union grievance was filed against me for taking a theoretical writer's job. The result was that for the next FIVE YEARS, I did nothing three days a week but look at lolcats, and the station had to keep paying me my full salary.

I'm not anti-union. I think unions are essential for coal miners, maids, janitors, and other people. But I'm not convinced that white collar people need unions. Or at least there should be a method of calling out and publicizing union abuses to let their members know what's going on.
I think there is a great deal more nuance than "ok to monitor".
I was being ever so slightly facetious (I'm sure a MO Republican's views differ greatly from those of my West Coast Liberal(tm) arse), but thanks for the list as it solidifies what I was merely guessing at. :-)
Surprisingly well written and researched.

One thing missing is the effect of testosterone on lean mass creation.

Wonder if the fat to co2 process can be ventilator assisted without hurting the lungs .
Thanks for the mention! I'm an employee at Particle, and this is exactly it. I'll be honest and say that dealing with carriers sucks. If you want to bring your IoT device to market, you want to focus on building that device — not negotiating with AT&T or Verizon. We protect our users from that so you can focus on your core competencies and shipping your products.

We leverage our large deployed base of devices for negotiations in a way that you cannot if you are a single IoT business. We've actually had customers use Particle, decide they wanted to do their own thing for cost/complexity reasons, start a relationship with the carriers, and come running back because it was intractable for them.
...because this is slacktivism lite. Rather than addressing actual issues facing african-americans today, we're engaging in silly naming changes that will have zero impact on 99.9% (optimistically) them

...because I don't want to be paying the externalities (workflow changes, having to keep up with the new "correct" naming) caused by a game of "who can be the most woke" between a vocal minority of progressives
To be honest I thought the fig on the right was your proposal. You better improve the default. Plus when you compare the data should be the same.
That's an individual, correct.

My response, if you look, was to a post that posed the question:

> How, after all the events of the last two weeks, is anyone still willing to take a police-person’s word as truth?

That is not speaking of an individual, but of a group, and then asserting claims regarding all members of that group.
Yes, that is how it works, and you can buy a key right inside the Windows Store app so you don't even have to go digging in Microsoft's website nor a reseller site.