skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I understand correctly, LLCs don't protect against personal negligence and unlawful behavior, in either criminal or civil court. The QI standard seems to go beyond that in requiring specific case law about the specific act of negligence (creating a chicken-and-egg problem for plaintiffs).

It seems to me we have to fix all of these things. QI has to be disestablished as a legal doctrine or at least curtailed to be in line with how other professions get treated in good-faith doctrine. The Congress has to act to establish federal police use of force standards, require the DOJ to enforce them, strip police of military assets, and outlaw police union action on use of force matters and related disciplinary actions. And the states have to act to provide independent internal affairs prosecutors who (as you mention) don't hold a conflict of interest any time they pursue criminal charges against police.

Maybe in this case the SC acted in a calculated way to spur the Congress to act and allow it to be scrutinized in an election year, or felt the case was otherwise unsuitable. But the SC will have to face QI later anyway. The Thomas dissent (https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/061520zor_f2..., search for "Baxter") lays out the reasons why.
Splitting your dataset in ML is an underappreciated art
Your not a lot is quite a lot. And even with that, majority of kids won't end up programmers like you did. That is ok, I am pretty sure there were other things you did not learned in moms library and theoretically could.

The school and education is my about that one kid that gets interested by itself.

> spent quite a lot of time at a command line thinking of things to try writing

Majority of kids won't do that, almost no one who has game accessible. I mean, I would not either and at a time I did not even spoke English to be able to guess words.

And remembering back, the students who were behind in basic "how to deal with files" stuff were considered lost cases later on basically. They could be smart, but they would never be taught interesting bits.
Essentially, the web migrated to the mobile format and Flash was extremely ill-prepared to make that jump, inside and out.
I'd put my money on the latter. Perhaps with the former.
Nobody I know who used Inbox feels that the current Gmail interface—even with some Inbox features backported—is an acceptable substitute for Inbox.
Flash evolved into Adobe Animate, which is used today for many television shows:

https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html

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

Disclaimer: I work for Adobe, but not on Animate.
I Have no experience in the US, but at least for Germany, that won't work because the fees for lawyers, notaries etc will eat that investment completely. You can usually calculate 5-10k€ in external fees only, never mind the time and energy you spend on the talks. Doing a very small round just doesn't work.

> Could a tech company automate the shit out of all the toil involved with VC deals and do VC-funding-as-a-service?

At least for Germany: no. Things like notary fees are pretty fixed, and you can't do that stuff without them (well, you can, but than it'll basically be "here's money, please don't screw me as I have zero ability to enforce anything").
>I'll probably regret asking, but why would it?

Because it is evidence of a crime being committed - i.e. that Assange obtained secret military materials and then illegally published them.

Assange is being held for extradition to face charges in the USA of publishing military secrets. This is a military secret that he published.

The fact of its exclusion demonstrates that the US Government doesn't want its crimes further exposed to the world, and that it doesn't believe that Assange illegally published this material - or else, it would have to be admitted as evidence. This omission demonstrates that he is not being targeted for the reason of publishing military secrets, or else it would have been included in the case as evidence.

Julian Assange is being illegally detained and criminally prosecuted for publishing the fact of America's war crimes and embarrassing the War Coalition.

The USA has, with this omission, essentially admitted guilt for its own war crimes.
But Alito's dissent extends this same example to make an opposite argument. Suppose we have four people: a man attracted to men, a man attracted to women, a woman attracted to men, and a woman attracted to women. The first and fourth (homosexual) are fired, while the second and third (heterosexual) are not. Now it no longer makes sense to say the ones who got fired were fired because of their sex, because a person of the same sex was not fired in each case.
The difficulty to make money out of this might be to determine the delay with some accuracy, not just that there will be some delays. Flight are routinely delayed by tens of minutes (has a low-cost flight ever left on time?) and that won't award compensation.

European laws define mandatory compensations when a flight is delayed or cancelled. This starts after 30 minutes if I remember well and depends how long the delay is and how long (distance) the flight is.

Also, delay is measured on arrival time, not on departure time. Planes frequently depart late then arrive on time, because they fly faster to catch up.
A lot of them need help with their website and data collection.
So vote Democrat.

One party has been trying to legislate—whether you happen to agree with their legislative priorities or not—and the other party has been absolutely wrecking the established rules and customs of the Senate to avoid legislating. We all know which is which.

So if you genuinely want legislators to do their damn jobs, spread the word to everyone you know to vote out the Republican do-nothings this fall.
"in terms of latency, it should be the fastest."

Unfortunately, not even then. Nowadays you generally neglect the latency of the physical act of receiving a bit and being sure whether it is a one or a zero because it is such a small amount of time compared to the other characteristics of the journey, but in this case you can't do that. The amount of time it will take to be sure whether it's a 1 or a 0 being sent will be dwarfed by the amount of time it would take to send a conventional TCP packet containing significantly more than one bit.

Note that while we neglect it, it still exists. If you zoom down to a small enough scale, you don't get a pristine series of ones and zeros, but a noisy voltage or light signal, and there can be plenty of attoseconds where the current voltage/light could correspond to either a 0 or a 1 coming in next.
There is something called "TME" i.e. Technical Marketing Engineer. Some big companies have these roles that are a go-between the technical teams and the prospective customers. Try to find these type of roles. Another option, as suggested by other here, is to collaborate with the sales team to help them in understanding technical details of the project.
Good question. Why not open source?

All it takes is someone (or group) interested enough to expend the resources necessary to re-implement it. But browsers are not going to support binary extensions. So an implementation might be in WebAssembly / JavaScript -- but then Flash becomes just a translation or transpile layer onto existing web technology.

If nobody implements an open source Flash, that is the proof that it is not sufficiently interesting to anyone with resources to build it.
I agree, this is bizarre and disturbing. It was not done by a rogue employee, but rather a coordinated effort.

> a systematic campaign fueled by the resources of a Fortune 500 company to emotionally and psychologically terrorize this middle aged couple in Natick, with the goal of deterring them from writing bad things online about eBay.

What jumped out for me, was that several of the criminals were involved in policing, security, intelligence, surveillance, and "special operations".

It's not hard to imagine that there's a corrupt and unethical streak in this subculture, since they are above the law in some sense. It's only a natural step, to abuse their power and treat the public with contempt or disdain.
It's an interesting point, but surely it is useful to know when you have been compromised (e.g. to change passwords)?What about post-infection where you want to e.g. clean up the machine without reinstalling the OS unnecessarily? Or in general preventing rootkits from persisting across reboots will at least help to prevent new data being exposed?
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I am still wondering if there is any way to get good lambda performance with a DB that is neither managed by AWS and not publically accessible.
Particle physicist here! Actually it's pretty easy to generate intense neutrino beams. You just have to accelerate protons and smash them into a lead wall. This produces all kinds of particles, including for instance muons. Since muons are charged, you can filter and focus them into a beam using magnets, and then they rapidly decay in flight, producing a beam of neutrinos going in the same direction.

As you say, they are quite difficult to detect once produced. This is exactly what the DUNE experiment will be doing. It's a large underground detector in North Dakota that will measure properties of neutrinos produced in a beam at Fermilab near Chicago.

The difficulties mentioned in the quote from the article have little to do with neutrinos. 1000 TeV is simply an insanely high energy for any particle beam.
The intersection of buying their stock this past week and people who read SEC filings rounds down to zero.
If I might ask, when was the last time you have D a shot? Available documentation has improved recently, though I think there's a big need for improved tooling docs.. in my case, it took forever for me to figure out how packages work with `dub`.

However, if you can get past the startup barrier, D is a real pleasure to work with.
Both parties have failed to act, but now that one party has finally caught up to reality in this one area, only one party is actively obstructing something that is an obvious necessity.
Based on similar stories, I suspect that a lot of the people in these positions have the experience that they get away with almost everything (e.g. someone else is made the fall-guy, or things are swept under the carpet).
Someone please give this memo to Citibank which still uses Flash for their virtual credit card number feature! [1]

[1] https://www.cardbenefits.citi.com/Products/Virtual-Account-N...
If you watch CNBC, the common theme is that "Robinhood traders" are buying/selling hertz (despite its near $0 actual worth) in a gamble for short term profits.

Much like people buy/sell crypto with zero analysis of fundamentals.

I don't think it's a bad decision for Hertz to offer up shares if it allows them to repay a greater percentage of their debt.

I think the real problem is that there are a lot of people who are speculating (gambling) in stocks like Hertz. This has been the case since online brokers came in to existence, and has only been magnified by the recent trends toward $0 fee commission trades pushed by Robinhood and the like.

If there is anything that I'd say needs to change, it would be apps like Robinhood should make detailed company information more easily accessible so people realize Hertz is going to $0 before gambling on a short term swing (which would mean making the UI/UX a bit more clunky + dense, so it probably won't happen)
Debates are usually dumb performances done for the sake of convincing the audience using as many rhetorical tricks as possible to make themselves look like winners and that therefore their idea has won in the marketplace of ideas. A better system would have the two scientists discuss privately and then come forward with a joint statement either reconciling their views, or stating they are unreconcilable
Do you remember IntraBuilder?

https://www.drdobbs.com/borlands-intrabuilder-10/184415559

It was a flop, but they did try.
Who wants to build a competitor and get bought out with all that cash they have? Lol.
Citation: US Constitution.

Courts adjudicate the law, including common law. They cannot create new law.

If there was no law or common law establishing "qualified immunity" then the court cannot invent qualified immunity.

In fact, in this very article, one of the Justices agrees with me here:

> Thomas has argued that qualified immunity is essentially a creation of the justices — substituting “our own policy preferences” for that of Congress.

All in all, it's a failed system that requires someone to even have to utilize the supreme court to settle these types of matters. I don't believe the government can legitimately absolve itself from any liability, regardless of circumstance, that a private person is not absolved of. This would require actual change on a state and local level, but that's not a change that most people desire. They believe the state is benevolent, there's only a problem when it's a problem they (the public) face themselves.
I took the GRE in 2011 and I recall driving to a strip mall in rural Seattle and sitting in front of a Dell PC, underneath moldy ceiling tiles, and doing the test on some kind of virtualized, _greyscale_ Windows 3.1 environment. My memory may be exaggerating at this point, but it was shockingly old.
For what it's worth, at least they gave the eBay vendor who mailed the bloody pig head mask to the victim a great review: "A++++ Great seller and fast shipping! I hope to do business with you again."
In practice means DA's aren't doing their job.
Loneliness could be changing your brain and body
You're right that there is a problem with how the standard is applied- requiring prior cases with extremely similar facts for precedent is the most dumb sounding thing to me.

But the complaint about how qualified immunity is applied doesn't change the bigger issue that those cops in your example beat up someone and were acquitted of assault. This is focusing on how the fallback lawsuit was prevented by qualified immunity instead of the primary issue that those cops should have gone to jail.
Yes and no. Congress has had something like 40 years to write legislation contradicting the judicial construction and has failed to do so.
I was suggesting blockable cookies in the context of this hypothetical cookie banner. It wouldn't prevent you from blocking all the cookies if you want, just not in this banner.
A country with a majority of miners can censor transactions from addresses it chooses to blacklist. Just as miners can choose to include transactions with fees they like, so can they exclude transactions from addresses they are under pressure to exclude.

Authorities in more countries than the UK have seized bitcoin. You make the classic mistake of looking at where the system is hardest and declaring it secure, instead of looking at where it is softest, the user and their systems.

They can't seize fiat if they don't know where I buried it either. Bitcoin is no more secure than that.

Like I said, these are fairy tales you tell yourself about security.
You pay for brightness (My 4K projector has a xenon arc light source) and for black level (LCOS, etc.)
Not naturally.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21384573

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23273961

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23273988
Shameless plug, here's my project:

https://github.com/FlorinAndrei/WeatherStation

The Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense has all the sensors I need. A bit of Python on a Pi Zero performs data collection and a bit of pre-processing.
shrug And people jump off bridges. Doesn't mean we stop building bridges. The market is rough, them's the rules, sorry not sorry.
Awh yiss. I've been wanting to read this since seeing it in https://danluu.com/programming-books/. Thank you!
The most interesting fact on the image (IMO) is that the halo is clearly elliptical, why?

Is the image aligned to the "main" ecliptic plane of Solar system or rather to Sun's rotation plane (7.25° from those) ?
I haven't had a single legitimate company ignore a firm and strongly worded e-mail or phone call asking to not be contacted again. Plus in Europe we have the GDPR on our side and while it's not actually being enforced, mentioning it is usually enough to raise some eyebrows.
> How will we preserve all those classic flash games that we wasted our time playing in the early 2000s?

I assume the same way we preserve long dead consoles. Emulation. It isn't difficult to set up a VM with older copies of windows.
macOS: Apple Developer App
"gsh" or "gush" would be as clear and less awkward to discuss.
Since this is the top comment, you may also want to edit that Devin Wenig is the former CEO[0]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/25/ebay-ceo-devin-wenig-is-step...
Jeez I would list 300 things with nondescript names even if I had no side projects to get around that ridiculous rule.
yeah but a 23 year old has a lot of life ahead of him. much different than a 70 year old doing that.
This thing is bizarre. It reads and looks like the standard "use trappings of actual science to sell bullshit", except they don't seem to be selling anything?

To be "charitable", maybe someone multiplied the solar neutrino flux/sqcm by their "maximum" energy (wikipedia numbers: 17e10 x 8e6 ~= 0.2w) and thought "that could power things!!!"

But more likely this is some sort of deliberate scam.
You said

> If Boeing decided that ICE should behave even worse, would we cheer on ICE for compromising?

I said

> I wouldn't cheer on any company doing that,

emphasis on the "n't" in "wouldn't". And to be specific, I would not (<- that not is load bearing) cheer for Boeing advocating for more cruelty, nor would I cheer on the government for acquiescing.

If you want to compel private companies to do work for an unprotected class like a federal law enforcement agency, then yes at that point you should probably go and vote to make sure that happens.
And it will be interesting to see if it will be put on the agenda by Chairman Nadler. But Pelosi's omnibus bill has a far weaker proposal in that it only eliminates QI for police officers.
> So now we have average american Joe running a weather station that feeds directly into our state of the art GFS model?

No way. The data is quality-controlled and bias-corrected before assimilation. Any bad data is thrown out. The papers I linked above do a good job describing how this is done.

> What if joe forgets to maintain his station?

No maintenance required. Individual data points are irrelevant, this idea only works if you can throw out bad data without caring. So throw out any suspicious data.

> How do you assert quality control?

Sorry to keep directing you to the papers above, but a team of really smart people spent years on this topic and they do a better job of describing it than I could. Cliff Mass et al.

> I just am skeptical about this all.

AFAIK the Weather Channel has been providing your forecasts for some years now in Apple and Google products with all of this barometer data from phones and weather stations in backyards. If you didn't notice a strong quality decline since some years ago, then I would say it's fine. You've probably noticed a forecast quality increase during this time I'd guess.

> cant trust users phones to provide input for mission critical weather forecast models (GFS).

Why not though? What is wrong with any of this method? It is all scientifically tested, researched, peer-reviewed, published, analyzed, post-event-analysis, the whole deal.

> Peoples lives depend on this information!

Well yeah, that's why we need more data! We have so little data now that people are dying from preventable cases like a lack of storm warning or good communication about incoming weather events.

This all matters so much. Ignoring billions of deployed, internet-connected barometers is costing lives that could be saved if we used all the data available to us to make accurate weather predictions.
I can't speak for the US but in the United Kingdom, case law can almost certainly invent law. Historically, that was how the law formed. Most law now derives from statute (in which circumstances, case law merely adjusts the scope of application and interpretation of existing law) but there are still areas where case law can still _invent_ law.

Maybe the same applies in the US too.
Presumably the implication is that not mentioning the contents of the video which Assange is accused of illegitimately accessing is like not mentioning in an indictment for a thief that the object stolen was a loaf of bread to feed their starving family.

Whether that is an apt analogy and whether this "failure to mention" represents a deficiency in an indictment is perhaps best left to the reader.
Added to that:

If Github/Microsoft start picking and choosing which agencies to host, I would say it's somewhat likely and understandable that they be blacklisted from future government contracts and contract renewals.

It's also somewhat likely that in such a case, as we have seen with the Huawei moves recently, the US government could halt sale/export of tooling to any other government.
No, but there are other organizations that I can donate time, money, and resources to to combat human trafficking. So any negative impact by defunding ICE's human trafficking response can be offset.

> I want ICE to have every tool at their disposal to fight sex trafficking.

I want a different organization to fight sex trafficking. If it's an important enough issue, it can be split from the organization that imprisons children, which is....not too far from what you're lauding ICE from preventing.
The problem is that it's never enough for these people. It's ICE now, some other organisation tomorrow, and eventually every mention of Churchill must be scrubbed from the site. This is, unfortunately, not a hyperbole.

On the bright side of this all, I think now is a great opportunity for daring entrepreneurs to start actual utility SaaS companies that make it clear they'll do business with anyone and only interfere if and only if the law requires it.
Yes, serialization is the issue. URL length is technically unlimited but in practice very long urls don't work out so well
I saw the headline at the time, but didn’t read the blog post because reasons.

Does anyone have a link or archive link?
Domain/OS on Apollo DN3500 software emulator (a little fiddly to set up):
http://mess.redump.net/howto/apollo
Virtually no startup can get loans without a PG at any non-loanshark rate.

This would be very attractive to someone who wants to grow their business without taking (more) personal risk than they have already.
> when it comes to social issues

In a society, those are the only issues that actually matter.
True - I'm not necessarily agreeing or disagreeing with it. It will send a good message to some people and a bad one to others.

To other government agencies, they may see github as a liability and end up leaving github altogether - I think that's the 'lunacy' part from a business perspective.

Corporations know there's always a chance that they'll get an internet pitchfork mob going after them for some (justified or unjustified) reason, and the last thing they want is for their cloud providers to pile on and further add to the fire.
> and each individual participant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.

What about divided? by a fraction? :trollface: Does that fall under "increased"?
I still think this is a smart move for Hertz. A loan comes with an interest rate and repayments. A new offering is just cash minus the fees. It's "free" in terms of future obligations.

If this "IBO" gives Hertz the breathing room to restructure, clean up, and come out the other side, then well done. If not, no one will be surprised. It's a "no lose" scenario for them.

As an investor, nope. If it drops down to penny stocks, I'll go "all in" with the $6 I can't transfer out of my Etrade account but not willing to consider anything real.