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> The US constitution needs lots of updates but this maybe the most important item -- manadatory prison terms for anyone acting on behalf of government who is found violating the bill of rights or any restriction set by articles of the constitution.

We already have federal criminal and civil law establishing penalties, damages, and other remedies for deprivation of rights under color of law, plus the Constitutional power of impeachment which is designed to serve that role for offenses against the Constitutional order of government that are not adequately remediable through traditional legal process.

Your problem seems really to be that laws are always enforced by humans and you don't like the way that the humans responsible for the existing enforcement mechanisms apply them. That's not something that is likely to be fixed particularly well by focussing on changing the law rather than focussing on changing who is entrusted with it's application.
I thought the model was publicly shown? You can take that and do your own training and make your own API, right?
I don't know why, but the thought that 'trustworthy' news sources are pseudo-anonymous or actually anonymous sources on a message board scares the ever-loving-shit out of me.
I became interested in Jordan Peterson and the my Google feed noticed. The amount of fabrications that started popping in my feed, from famous outlets, opened my eyes to just corrupt the news media is. Its hard to overstate how despicable and toxic this is.
The money quote:

> Study author Kristen Syme, a recent WSU Ph.D. graduate, compares treating anxiety, depression, or PTSD with antidepressants to medicating someone for a broken bone without setting the bone itself. She believes that these problems “look more like sociocultural phenomena, so the solution is not necessarily fixing a dysfunction in the person's brain but fixing dysfunctions in the social world."

This is EXACTLY what Kaczynski said:

> The concept of 'mental health' in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress ... Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual’s internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.
You don't have to ask for leadership to do things to enable others. Like improving CI, facilitating communication with another team, fostering a positive environment.

I think ICs who focus solely on keeping their head down and writing good code are limiting themselves, and it's a similar mentality I see at lower ranks in games.
It has always been true that "we" can solve any problem we put our minds towards.
You probably can create some novel color experiences, by gazing at color sequences animations.

Warning epileptic risk, experiment at your own risk.

You have some led or screen smoothly changing periodically.

Train your brain to discriminate between the two following sequences.

Going from red to green to blue to red. (Species A)
Going from red to blue to green to red. (Species B)

You have to pick the right frequency (i.e. ~10-20hz) fast enough so that your brain sees it as a single unit without thinking about it, but slow enough that is still able to pick some differences.

You can gamify it for example on a screen you can watch color-changing moving balls. And you have to pick one subspecies only.

You can then extend this little game to train your brain to "see" various color rotations (aka rotating a color sphere). It's kind of like learning music. Construct some structure programmatically, then gaze at it until your brain intuitively grasp the underlying structure.

You can also play with the difference of temporal phase if you have some vr-headset you can have a 6D color space input, which you can use to train your brain to visualize 4d rotations, and rotations in higher dimensions spaces which will probably be useful for visualizing QCD intuitively.

If you have the time to train your brain for it you can construct a rotating color based language like you would with music. If you sync-it up to music it can help the learning process by doing some kind of joint training between audio and visual space.
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Hmm...

All else being sufficient, acting with/feeling "ownership" over something is the #1 way I've gained the skills to get that change-companies-promotion.

AKA, I've found it worth it for personal growth, even if it's not been worth it for this-season career.
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I’ve found grep to be unreliable or behave unexpectedly with strace. Even when piping to strings first, although not sure if that is of any consequence. Anyone know why that is or experienced the same?
It's stunning your union would permit this shit. It's no wonder Americans in general are so sour on unions if this is a representative experience.
> Business models based on advertising revenue are ruining the world.

What else do news agencies have to make money?

The could sell stories and news for a subscription. But the news can be had for free in other places.

They can't really sell classifieds anymore since Craigslist, Facebook, and forums have taken those posting monies away.
Again, dragging another system entirely into the conversation is non sequitur.

Also, I just find it interesting you feel compelled to defend a dictatorship.
I have the opposite issue trying to write in emacs-lisp after doing lots of clojure. I try to:

(mapcar my-func my-list)

and it throws void-variable and then I remember that I have to add the #' reader macro to have it read as a function not a variable.

(mapcar #'my-func my-list)

It just takes some time to switch the mental model over each time. Clojure did get me in the habit of using unique names for all functions and values because accidentally shadowing a function binding is that more difficult mistake to debug.

In practice I haven't missed the flexibility of a lisp-2, if anything it's just made my code more readable because my names are forced to be more descriptive
> 'Working class' people start plenty of businesses, but maybe not many tech businesses.

Why would a 'working class' person put in sweat equity and take on risk to make a VC much richer when they can bootstrap the sort of lifestyle business no VC would touch, working for themselves?
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I got on Google's APP a while ago. Google is great for this specific purpose - if there's one thing you can count on Google for, it's never ever listening to their customers, no matter what.
Couldn't find his; but i found these:

https://www.instructables.com/id/eWaste-60-3DPrinter/

https://github.com/biosafetylvl5/retr3d
But pretending is key here too. Harry Potter porn? Here she’s pretending to be Emma Watson’s most famous role but not Emma.
At least in browser-world, most APIs (i mean the ones defined by the web standards) are built around async/Promise/callbacks/HOF, like it or not. There is no switching to other languages/framework when targeting the browser as a runtime.
"Objectively" means that someone should be able to unambiguously tell, without having to apply any judgment.

And yes, it's possible. Am I objectively good at calculus? I passed the AP test. That's an objective measure.

But it's not that simple, for at least two reasons. First, it's always possible to question the "objective measure". Is the AP test a good test of whether someone is good at calculus? AP says so, but that's not actually any help. College admissions departments think so, too. But grad school admissions people don't think so at all, and neither do math department hiring committees. This shows the problem: There is a measure that can objectively be met or failed, but is it the right measure? How can you tell? Not objectively.

Second, in many fields, there is no analog to the AP test. Is Tolkein a good writer? Is the Mona Lisa a good painting? There is no clearly objective measure. The only measure is that many people think so; more people than think, say, my daughter's watercolor is a good painting. That's subjective, but at least it has the merit of being subjectively shared by many people. And with something like Mona Lisa, it's shared by many people across many years - it's not just today's fad. That's still subjective, but it's at least a subjectivity that has widespread agreement to it.
Over 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year, that's a loss of ~$2000 in 2020 dollars, not counting the dues
Hi there, interested to see this but I'm getting a "Not Found" error. Just a friendly FYI.
I wish those holes for refrigerant lines in apartments were standard in the US. My apartment in the bay area has no AC and furthermore doesn't allow window units, so I'm stuck with inefficient portable units. I'd love to be able to just put some mini-splits in (and I'd probably still come out ahead over renting a place that comes with central AC).
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I worked at Optimizely from before its series A in 2012 until the end of 2016, so I have a unique perspective on this. For most of the time when I worked at Optimizely, the company was all the rage. It appeared at the top of most "hot startup" lists, the Glassdoor reviews were 5/5, revenue was skyrocketing, and for a period in 2014 it became the fourth most valuable YCombinator company (after Stripe, AirBnB, and Dropbox).
Of course, Optimizely's success was't guaranteed. In 2015, the company abandoned the self-serve market that had driven its original momentum and pivoted instead to vague and indefinite enterprise offerings that were (and are) hidden behind schizophrenic marketing, an impossible sales process, terrible customer service and a general approach of trying to extract the maximum amount of money from clients rather than providing them with value. From 2015 on, everything (including the internal culture) became mumbo-jumbo, a cloud of dishonesty. I used to be able to explain what Optimizely did to my grandmother; now I don't even really understand it myself.

Th Episerver acquisition is indeed a bad exit, and I think I will lose >$100k in stock I exercised (which is OK, I'll be fine). But I hope all readers will take from this saga a lesson in humility and the pitfalls of intellectual dishonesty and hubris. Just because your startup is skyrocketing isn't enough. Success is not guaranteed. Your company's leadership needs to be honest with itself, which Optimizely's leadership was not. They need to be humble and work hard, which Optimizely did not do.
I love this part: “I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false.“

When I read the headlines or scan articles here on HN I’m under the impression that I know things and understand things, but it’s really just surface level.

I like the idea of ignoring news and instead read quarterly long form magazines or books. The really important stuff will bubble to the surface and be examined more intelligently.
MOBA = Multiplayer Online Battle Arena

I think... First thing that came up when I searched.
> Torturing is illegal

"Iran’s police, intelligence and security forces, and prison officials have committed, with the complicity of judges and prosecutors, a catalogue of shocking human rights violations, including arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment, against those detained in connection with the nationwide protests of November 2019, said Amnesty International in a damning new report published today."[0]

[0] - https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/09/iran-detainee...

Edit: This report came out Sept 2nd, 2020.
I understand they need money, but expect it will have to be a fire-sale. Unless my understanding of ARM financials is far off base, no financial buyer would pay even $10B, and it’s hard to imagine strategic buyers paying over 3x that.
This is the stuff I've counted so far (I know they are not all React alternatives): Preact, Mithril, Crank.js, Hyperscript, Reagent, Closurescript, Elm, Cycle.js, Lit-html, Haml, Slim, Jsx, Meiosis, Svelte, Formik, Vue...
The article presents the case much better than I could summarize, but effectively we need dramatically better coordination between government, public health organizations, and healthcare, and that coordination should be established before a crisis hits.
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> Those saying 'Why use P2P apps if you have nothing illegal to share' are the same ones saying, 'Why need privacy if you have nothing to hide'.

Agreed. Saying content illegally is certainly a problem, but let's not dismiss the importance of decentralized systems. It certainly helps distributing large files without a central server and point of failure. I seed my share of Linux distros and open source softwares to help with the distribution with my own bandwidth and storage. And decentralization is s big equalizer in power, which allows the masses to share content even if there is someone in power against it.

We need decentralization and P2P protocols more than ever.
Can you reproduce this behaviour in local runners?
I've always liked plain C better than C++ yet I sure wish they would've had a true string type like other languages. Most bugs originate from the str family of routines.
I think a prefix of the comment string is in most cases sufficient to disclose what the comment is about. I tried to include that above, but it got too tricky for silly technical reasons so I bailed.
Unions are hard because employers can basically do whatever the fuck they want to fight the union and they usually only get the NLRB injunction/penalty months/years later, after everyone originally supporting the action has been removed by the company.

Some unions are also just in the pocket of management. I have friends who are teamster organizers and they've told me some managers in some industries will actually request unions.
Well, taxes hurt new money the most, which is why so many of those people on your list are inherited money and very few of them got rich from tech.

It turns out that extreme taxation helps aristocrats...
> Have a look at https://liquorix.net/

This looks super fun to play with, thanks!
"He explains the irony of the term saying it came about 'because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have,'"
It's a comparison of different methods of social control. An interesting conversation, IMO at least.

"Bad guys bad!" is much less interesting, especially when it's only the bad guys you've been told to hate.
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In Scala or OCaml you get a compile-time warning + runtime error. In Java 14, Kotlin and Rust there is a compile-time error if switch/match expression is non-exhaustive.
That's a good point, developers/sysadmins/IT and adjacent jobs in general may be a sizable exception.

Most "normal" users are usually running very homogeneous systems (the average office worker doesn't get to choose whether they want a Mac Book, a Windows PC or a Linux workstation), where the difference would only be between work & private computer use - but I think, most people (again, developers and maybe designers excluded) have little overlap in the tools they use at work and at home.

Electron is the native-ish sequel to the everything-is-a-web-app movement, I suppose. That has similar motivations (also makes everything no-install, super portable), and for plenty of tasks it's good enough, as computers these days are massively over-powered for lots of general tasks.
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In my experience, I agree the core functionality (variant management, remote config, etc.) is relatively small amount of effort compared to the interfaces to make it accessible to those non-technical orgs, like you mention.

However, we found that those interfaces only allow very limited, shallow tests and you very quickly outgrow them as an organization. In other words, once you reach diminishing returns on button color and header text optimizations, you start wanting to test deeper UI experiences and complicated user flows. At that point, you have to involve engineering anyway.

When an organization has engineers who are motivated by business metrics, they have no problem implementing shallow tests (like button colors) while working on tests of the deeper UI experiences as well. And at that point, the non-technical interfaces have little value.
It can depend. Valuation is based on SaaS business metrics like Cost to Acquire Customer, Average Contract Size, Average Lifetime, and Margin.

Reducing headcount or doing a hiring freeze is a way to improve your metrics ahead before you go shopping yourself for an acquisition.
I totally missed that yesterday.
>US export laws Syrians were banned from downloading the most basic shit like Java runtime

That's still the case for many encryption products from Oracle. You have to register and sign T&C which say you will not export this .jar to a banned country. It's been like this since I remember... 2005 maybe?
I have built quite a few rendering servers for various use using canvas.js and nodejs. I also built a prototype for a dynamic video rendering server once - also based upon nodejs and canvas.js. It was slow but worked out as a proof of concept that became a fairly successful startup.
> Unable to compete on merit, schedule,or price, ULA is reduced to buying another congressman, who's implying SpaceX is a security threat via the China card.

That's quite the leap, although I can see your logic.

Ultimately Musk should have seen this coming because it's obvious. He's tied a huge amount of his net worth to the favour of the CCP and involved himself with a program of national importance to a country that is at odds with the CCP.

What's worst, Musk has zero respect for any sort of arms length separation between his companies, so it's almost guaranteed that the CCP has some level of access to SpaceX IP as they expand their grasp on Tesla through Shanghai.

This was all easily avoidable if Musk didn't insist on thinking that if he didn't personally come up with the idea, the idea must be idiotic.
Hope this guy gets out of Iran ASAP.
Spam problem is absolutely miniscule in comparison with the forthcoming. GPT-N running in medium-sized datacenter would be able to outargue 90% of people on any topic.
Imagine each person in the world been assigned his own personal team of propaganda agents.
The defence would be an independent ID system. Something historically done by governments only, with a sizeable infrastructure.
Can someone gift the money to the donkey sanctuary without taking the tax benefit, so as to not deprive the children, the sick and the military

It appears you are donation shaming - saying the government has a better idea of what to do with tax money than an individual donor
I was wrong about attempted assassination, was thinking of Bush's: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/clinton-punishes...
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It's comforting to hear other people who share similar opinions about this.
As an independent open source developer, it's clear to me that corporations have taken over open source and have been actively suppressing independent projects.

I've been very fortunate that my open source project was able to get a lot of attention early on (5 years ago) and has been able to get a lot of steady traffic from word-of-mouth since.
I don't know how anyone could independently launch a successful OSS project these days.
From what I’ve seen with friends in the amusement industry, the unions don’t really work for them and in some cases are run by the company itself (not directly but with directors that have obvious conflicts).
I am almost a day late... But yes.

Honestly, I wish that they would make appliances with physical controls as opposed to digital. At least those are easier to fix/mod on your own.
Re 9224, I feel bad that BrandonM has been singled out that way because the comment has been universally misinterpreted. He was commenting on Dropbox's YC application (that's what "app" meant back then) and trying to be helpful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229275
Japanese regulators tell convenience stores to relax 24/7 schedule requirements
This comment feels more idealistic than realistic.

Companies rarely want to pay for someone to learn on their dime unless there's a specific gain. It typically takes 3-6 months for an engineer to become truly effective and that's with domain knowledge transfer.

Domain experience is valuable and allows speed to get up and running.
Personally, I've actually gravitated more towards long-form stories that aren't exactly news as-it-happens and more about events unfolding. Because of that personal preference, I've subscribed to The Atlantic (and considering others). I remember reading a post on here about a month ago that seemed to indicate I wasn't alone in that trend.

I posit that people are willing to pay for quality journalism that talks about a larger problem, but not for as-it-happens news. The latter has become a race to the bottom and first-out-the-door incentives drive it even lower (social media has certainly contributed immensely to this).
Its fine to have exclusive relationships. Its not fine to try to socially isolate your partner so that they have no social contact outside the relationship. I would describe such a relationship as abusive.

I strugle to interpret the grandparent's phrase "You want to be as exclusive as possible with the other person, so that you both have as much of other's attention as possible" in a way that doesn't support socially isolating your partner, which i would consider unhealthy as an ideal, and abusive in practise. All relationships take time and effort, whether that's friends or otherwise. If 100% of your attention (which is the max possible) is focused on your partner, it implies that 0% of your energy is focused on any other friendships/social contact. That is unhealthy. It should not be held as an ideal.

But to be very clear, you can still be in a healthy exclusive romantic healthy monogomous relationship, while still having other friends & acquaintances. Having other platonic friends is not the same as being polygamous/polyamorous/etc.
> AI’s failure at recognizing marginalized groups

There's a remarkable technology with 100% accuracy: the Brooklyn yuppie.
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As long as you get dressed back in your pajamas when you leave, ;)
Sure, I can have for example my computer be send only. But unless everyone else configures it properly as receive only, they can start pushing data to other clients. It would be far easier to have Syncthing create a readonly share similar to Librevault and Resilio.
Thanks for the clarification! The Wikipedia says they’re often used synonymously, and I’m definitely guilty of conflating the two
Can you raise an issue in the GitLab Runner project? This way we can take a closer look at the errors you have experienced.

And no, we don't do this on purpose in order to have you buy more minutes.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues

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