skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canada uses the common law system (with the exception of provincial courts in Quebec), but our constitutional rights are granted only up to "reasonable limits", which gives courts a lot of room to allow legislation which nominally infringes on one of those rights but which might have an overall positive effect on the exercise of others.
History professors come from a variety of backgrounds. Many of them are from groups that are still struggling in the US (ex. trans people). The definition of "victor" must become so amazingly broad that it becomes useless if you want to encompass modern historical narratives.
> The problem with your logic here is it makes the line between police and the military incredibly blurry to the point where police become just another type of military personnel.

Many other countries have Gendarmerie forces that bridge this gap in various ways. The most famous being the RCMP. Other countries mix these responsibilities with varying success, but they do it intentionally. Some have found good success with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmerie
Granted I’ve only worked for small, software-focused companies, but the companies I’ve worked for have had pretty reasonable contracts saying that anything I create outside of work hours without using work equipment or work secrets is mine and not theirs.
> For the people that argue that CEOs don’t matter

Who argues that? Apple already gave us a solid proof of difference between a manager and great CEO decade ago.
Meta: There's something weird about the timestamp on this submission. When I look at it from news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=aviraldg it says it was submitted a day ago, but on news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24744653 it says it was submitted an hour ago. Is this perhaps the result of someone else submitting the link again after I submitted the original?
"The ends justify the means".
I'm not tired of not being able to go into an office, i'm tired of not being able to go to any entertainment or extra curricular activities.
Sorry, what exactly am I misrepresenting?
>APCs are not "purely defensive". They're an intimidating presence

In that case, they can paint them pink.
FAANG companies are like this. I’ve been to other “big names” that run engineers through several hours as well (as interviewee).

It’s exhausting, a huge waste of everyone’s time, and ultimately it put me off.
Spammers killed email. R-----an trolls killed social networks. DDoSers killed free internet.
I will ask successively harder and harder questions in an interview, time permitting.

However I do it only so that I can potentially give a hire recommendation for a higher level with tens+ thousands/yr more compensation.

Also because I'm always just one of 6+ interviewers, and a committee of 6+ completely separate people makes the actual decision, I can't even know if the person is being hired anyways.
> as a Linux gamer I see MS as still quite hostile.

You blame Microsoft because game companies decided to utilize their DX tech? That's a bit of a stretch, but to each their own.
The bandwidth is not expensive. There is simply a lack of it.

Most LEO satellites have 10-20 minutes a day communications window assuming single ground station. Amount of data you can download from a single pass is a tens or hundreds megabytes per day. One high-resolution camera image can be easily over 10MB.
ZeroTrust (BeyondCorp) is one component of SASE. For a while marketing departments were throwing ZeroTrust on everything, but eventually a new buzzword arose to better differentiate that component from the bundle of the whole kitchen sink. https://www.sdxcentral.com/security/sase/definitions/what-is...
Pro-tip: If you go to https://hn.algolia.com/ and search for the comments there, you should be able to see their exact timestamps.
I don't think that refugees flew through space on 747's, a la Scientology (I may have gotten the specifics wrong). But, if you can show me how a 747 can fly through space, I am more than happy to be shown the error of my ways.

Many religions have falsifiable ideas in them. Some of their "core tenets" may not be falsifiable but, again, you can't pick and choose through these books to get the pieces parts to fit your conclusion after the fact.

That isn't how proofs work.
ByteDance High-Resolution AMT System Achieves SOTA in Piano Note
That’s because with a m4, your job isn’t to push random rounds down range. Your job is to actually hit what you’re aiming at. Even with covering or suppressive fire, you’re not randomly shooting down range and your shots are calculated to keep whomever your shooting at either dead or where they are so they can be flanked. You might have some full automatic weapons in your team, but they can’t hit anything so they just lay down suppressive fire. Point is, you can’t hit what you’re aiming at in full auto.

Source: ex-military
Messing with the mail in votes is perhaps new, but suppression of progressive voters - especially minorities - has long been the norm in the U.S. This is actually worse than it sounds because of our electoral college system. Only a relatively small absolute number of votes need to be suppressed to change the outcome of the election.
There is so much that is legal to own (but of course not legal to use violently). 50 caliber machine guns are legal to own, quora reports that it can take a year to get a permit. There are places you can go and fire mortars on private land. Should the police have tanks to counter these things? Because they are legally owned in the us. The answer is no, the police should not. They have shown through their actions (repeatedly during the past 6 months on top of historical actions) that they can't be trusted with weapons this powerful.
I've worked at Microsoft for over twelve years, and I think this radically oversimplifies the story. A lot of the changes that Nadella gets credit for were actually started during the Ballmer years, but it can take a really long time to change things at a company of 100k people.
That seems likely from our perspective, but it's pretty arrogant to think we understand the limitations and desires of civilizations millions or even billions of years ahead of us.

Certainly we would have failed at that task of predicting our own limits and desires just hundreds of years ago, nevermind an alien race.
The 90s called and want their argument back. Also, slashdot says hi. :-)
> It's been a long, strange trip but it's always driven by two motives: Making good products ..

Really, really .. more like shifting it out the door if it compiles sucessfully!
Yes, but that wasn't pacific in a lot of cases.
I'd expect this to be narrowly interpreted. I don't think any precedent would extend the ways you suggest.
> He explained: "Thirty minutes into your first video meeting in the morning, because of the concentration one needs to have on video, you're fatigued."

Meetings have become excruciating to me. I'm not alone so it does seem like people are having fewer meetings (positive!) but the idea that we're all going to be remote knowledge workers after this seems to be a fantasy. I think the remote workforce will grow 2-4x, and certain nonessential knowledge work will become remote (and therefore cheaper) but the best and brightest knowledge workers will continue to all congregate in high COL cities for career development and things by and large will not be that different.
On Facebook, Misinformation Is More Popular Now Than in 2016
CDNs can almost always serve assets faster than the origin can.

Because PoPs are closer and transfer speed ramp rate scales to latency, the further away a server is, the longer it takes the download to ramp up to full speed. This is especially relevant when talking about smaller resources like javascript, css, and small or optimized images, and webfonts.
> FYI, just because you've already had it doesn't mean you can't be an asymptomatic carrier.

That statement defies all science and logic. Either I have immunity, which means the virus can’t survive in my body which means I can’t be a carrier OR I don’t have immunity at which point it’s just as likely to get symptoms as it was the first time.

> Also, some people have had it twice.

There is no actual data to suggest that, only a few self reported cases which scientists have said were far from clear. It’s still regarded as very unlikely and in fact all regions in the world which had a very severe outbreak in March and April haven’t had a second wave at all yet whilst the rest of such countries are currently in the middle of a steep second spike again.
Well, we all suffer if a segment of the population isn't innoculated. Suffering, disease spread, cost. And putting "intellectual" in quotes is what, and attempt to make resorting-to-science look wrong?
This is the type of article where the first thing to do is reject the premise.

If you are getting exhausted by video calls, something is wrong. You should not be spending all your days on calls, doing even more meetings than before. You should be using a variety of communication mechanisms, and figuring out which work for different situations. Managers should not be striving for "more contact", they should be striving for "more trust". You should also be relaxing the formality of calls so they are not exhausting. And your teams should be figuring out their own personal WFH environments - we are all different, which is why the advice on WFH is so scattered. Individuals need to experiment to find out what works for them.

If you miss the office because your simply miss the people and enjoy the office environment, that is one thing. But if you miss it because you have not yet put in those efforts to make remote work effective for yourself, your team, or your entire organizations... then you have some work to do.
> It's commonly understood by even a child that an armored military vehicle belongs in a war zone

I don't feel it is "commonly understood". Remove the word 'military' from your descriptor of the vehicle and let's talk in specifics. Do people working in dangerous conditions deserve protection? Yes. Do we need police to handle dangerous conditions even if they are rare? Yes. Do some of those situations require armor to protect them? Yes. Do they require a transport to get police to or from those situations? Yes. So we need armored vehicles, on rare occasions. The fact that an armored vehicle was used by the military is not really relevant.

>So I'm outraged as a taxpayer to see my money being wasted.

Why are you outraged at getting free surplus equipment that may be at end of life for military purposes? And what is a 'regular basis'? It doesn't matter if it is once a year - the police still need to handle that situation and need to be able to do it safely.
The issue of Windows 10 telemetry still remains, however. Something not available when Linux is installed on a system as the host OS.
> If we're talking about the US, that's already extremely firmly cemented outside of specific union protections (I haven't heard about unions going to bat for employees getting called out; I'd be interested to see if it's happening).

It's not firmly cemented, it's a common law, but it's well within the realm of possibility that Congress would pass a bill that strengthens employment protections. This is something the US has gone back and forth on for a long time; why do you assume it's fixed (i.e. "cemented") now? And if it's not cemented, why would you want to lean into that precedent?

> but is somewhat orthogonal to the question of calling out people for bad behavior.

How can you make the argument that it's "just employers' exercising their freedom-of-association rights" and then argue that freedom of association is orthogonal? Anyway, we're not talking about them exercising their freedom of association rights, we're talking about coercing employers into terminating employees who fail to toe the party line.

> That happens all the time. So does employers supporting employees' support of a political candidate.

Right, but I'm guessing you would argue that this is immoral and harmful behavior--if so, why would you advocate for those who would emulate it (note that canceling is even worse, because it's not just an employer parting ways with a heretical employee, but a mob pressuring an employer to part ways with said heretical employee)?

> Politicization of labor isn't new. My relatives who are union are required to spend off-job time working a phone bank for a few hours every election cycle in support of the candidate the union is backing; it's part of their union agreement.

Why would they do this if the status quo was already "extremely firmly cemented"?
Interesting. Followup question, is this the case only for ARIN addresses / US court system, or does it work like that elsewhere too?
Game companies can be blamed for their own things, but I totally blame MS for proliferating lock-in. Where is their backing of Vulkan? DirectX was and is used as an anti-competitive lock-in tool. MS has been doing this for decades and nothing changed in this regard in their attitude.
Ha! Well, I just realized I messed up left and right in my post so... we all do it.
I got it. It just seemed like from the phrasing of your post that a link to the description of Prop 25 would have made more sense.
They did, but they started moving away from it. Their big change came two years ago when they opened up their patent portfolio to the Open Invention Network. That meant any company working with Linux can use their patents without royalties. For more on that see: https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-does-microsoft-joining-th...
>is there a better way of describing the group of countries where it is unlikely to encounter criminals with lmgs mounted to pickup trucks?

The dogwhistle has now turned into a full on bullhorn.
black (the python auto formatter) uses mypyc

https://github.com/python/mypy/tree/master/mypyc
And yet, if we were to go back a decade, does anyone recall anything like this ever happening n the U.S.?

It's news because it's ... new.
Why?

Also, reminder that you can track your ballot online and make sure that it is received and counted, whether you mail it or drop it off.
And it sounds like you are sure the laws of physics don't apply to aliens.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
> toothed whales are a parvorder of cetaceans that includes dolphins, porpoises, and all other whales possessing teeth

The article for whales [1] linked from that sentence says "They are an informal grouping within the infraorder Cetacea, usually excluding dolphins and porpoises."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale
This may feel like a no true scotsman, but it really isn't - those that oppose free speech are not true liberals. The heart of liberalism is individual freedom, responsibility, and culpability. True liberals believe that speech that does not directly evoke violence (such as Holocaust denial) is not violent. If somebody hears that speech and decides to become violent, that's on them.

Believing that we need to restrict what is said in the town square because people will get bad ideas, believing that people are not free but just a confluence of the ideas around them, believing that people need to be led by an authority - these are the classic arguments against liberalism.

You're trying to say that liberals are reciting anti-liberal talking points within their community regarding whether this kind of free speech is good. I think it's far more likely that these people are not really liberals, and just consider themselves to be liberals because it's the most popular political ideology of the day. We should not call those that recite anti-liberal talking points "liberals" - to do so is to rob the word of any meaning at all.
The problem of features being changed or removed by a software update is real and the owner can be harmed, as you were. As the owner, however, if you are harmed in that way then you may have a claim against the manufacturer. For example, in a recent class action case by PlayStation 3 owners against Sony over the removal of the Linux OS feature, the court seemed to agree that owners were entitled to damages because Sony ended up paying millions of dollars to class members in a settlement. If you or the PlayStation 3 owners were not owners, then you wouldn’t have a good claim.
Its really not. We're headed back into the dark ages.
Elastically scaling your transport and housing needs works great when you live in a city but fails hard when you live in rural or suburban neighborhoods. Since the author is a strong advocate for public transit, I'll preempt the "this would be more viable if public transit were widely available" with "yes, but that's a massive inconvenience and additional time you have to account for".

Of course, if the author is subtly implying that everyone should live in a city, then, well, not everyone wants to live in a city nor should they have to.
You probably already know this but with .NET core and .NET 5 you don't need Windows.. it runs great on Linux and/or Docker.

You even get nice IDE features in VSCode.

C# is still a joy to develop with over Java, GoLang etc IMO.
While I agree in general, I think HN's rules of conduct discourage posts that have even a small chance of misinterpretation.

(I can't quote the specific rule, but I seem to remember this from some feedback that @dang gave me a while ago.)
The presence of complex equations does not determine science-ness.

Arguably a science should feature theories with some ability to predict behaviour observed in the world, and those theories should be falsifiable.

Some offshoots of theoretical physics that generate large parameter spaces of non-testable mathematical models packed with complex equations are arguably not science (string theories...)
Who gets to decide what counts as a "distortion" of the holocaust?
Can you install Windows on a partition without it deleting a neighbouring Linux partition?
"Meaningless" seems to overstate your case.
Many modern cars have the ability to disable the front passenger airbag, for when you do need/want to put the seat in the front.

And, for some cars, the front seat is safer for everyone, including children, thanks to the focus on improving the safety ratings for front seat passengers (which are often advertised) [1]. For example, my car last car had side curtain airbags only in the front.

On average, especially with older cars, I assume the CDC is probably right. Their recommendations necessarily have to be the most useful for the average/masses.

1. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/study-shows-back-s...
Its all fine to imagine the police are operating in a vacuum, where they can wait days for the FBI to respond when they encounter an emergency call with somebody with an automatic weapon.

Sure, they shouldn't have to have that kind of weaponry. But neither should they encounter them on the street. Are the police are some sort of ablative shield, that can be sacrificed to a political ideal?
The difference between this and Tailscale, is that tailscale is everything open by default, and this would be everything blocked by default. Role and Conditional based access would allow people to touch only what they should have access to, at the network level. Tailscale doesnt mesh Identity/Role/Firewall into a denylist.
Downlink will pretty much always be the biggest constraint. You'll always want more data down than you can affordably downlink. And sensors will always produce more data.
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Private Database-as-a-Service as an Alternative to Managed Cloud Databases
Not sure about Linux (and I have no inside info, just public sources), but around 2013-2014, the tech press was full of reports that Microsoft was making billions[1] from Android, by charging OEMs $5-15 per unit for patents Android allegedly violated.

This report[2] from October 2018 seems to indicate that Microsoft no longer does this:

> Ten to 15 years ago we were very focused on the competition between Linux and Windows,” says Microsoft’s chief IP counsel, Erich Andersen, in an interview with Yahoo Finance. “But today Microsoft is a very different company. With the rise of our Azure [cloud services] business, Microsoft has become one of the largest contributors to open source in the world. . . . We’re in a position where, as [CEO] Satya [Nadella] says, we love Linux. We love open source. That’s a big part of the future of our business.”

[1] https://google.com/search?q=microsoft+android+patent+fees

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-may-relinquishing-b...

Anyone with first-hand knowledge care to comment?
Once voted in they can pretty much do whatever they like for 2-5 years. All part of the current system of enslavement.
HN Moderators will sometimes "rescue" a submission if they think it will do better at another time and might be interesting to the community.
Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207738

(I reposted because I found out about it recently)
The thing is, when people talk about UFOs, we always think "aliens", when in fact, it is just as the acronym suggests: unidentified flying objects. They wouldn't be unidentified if we knew they were aliens.

Aliens are an extraordinary claim, we need to check out a lot of things before we start considering them. Take the "life on Venus" recent claim. There was a lot of work done to even consider it. They used results from several observatories, analyzed every known explanations to rule them out one after the other, and even now they still consider it unlikely compared to other currently unknown chemistry. So if you see a scientist and tell him, I saw a flying saucer, it was aliens, he will laugh at you because there are thousands of other explanations to look for first.

On the other hand "mass hysteria" is also a lousy explanation. In reality, I think they are usually optical illusions. For example, the moon may appear like something else in unusual atmospheric conditions, and if you cross-reference the position of the moon with some UFO sightings, you get a lot of correlations. Other cases include small, close objects like insects appear like large, fast objects, this is common among pilots who are trained to look for other planes. There are also many psychological effects that aren't hysteria, for example it is common for people to "remember" things that never happened, which is also a big problem in a court of law: our memories are unreliable. Add to that defective equipment, pranks, etc... and you can probably cover most of the sightings.

Then there is a small minority of true mass hysteria, secret programs, unexplained physical phenomena, etc... and only then you can start to consider aliens.

And to make thing worse, more often than not, there is very little data.
They did that and more. For instance, to bankroll the SCO lawsuits. I'll never forgive them for any of this, as far as I'm concerned they are untouchable, I don't care whether they 'changed course', if a company has condoned such tactics then they no longer deserve my support.
6 hours? WTF is this shit?

We do 30 minute blocks with your boss, one director + one developer, one with the CTO and then the wrap up with the internal recruiter.

The other departments do roughly the same (finance does comptroller + one of your coworkers at the same level instead of director + developer)

Edit: We also make sure to allow the candidate to get some water, pee breaks and take them out for lunch (if it happens it to be during the lunch time)
So Microsoft should just throw away decades of work on DX because your feeling are hurt over Vulkan? Show me examples of Microsoft using coercive practices to make game developers use DX. Otherwise this is just more of the same "lets jump on the anti-MS bandwagon" hubris, looking for any angle to attack MS because that's the trend.
> Airbags are not designed with the bodies of children or infants in rear-facing carseats in mind.

According to FMVSS 208, they're tested using an unbelted 50th percentile size male dummy. That's the reason they deploy with more force and are triggered at lower impact speed had they been designed with belted occupants of varying sizes in mind.
But they won't. Because they wouldn't look intimidating.