skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is obvious room for improvement. The syntax is not nearly as efficient as it could be.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Your baseless assertion sounds confident but is backed by nothing.
This option would single-handedly fix their completely broken music recommendation algorithm that only seems to auto-play the same 5 or so songs that I recently listened to and thumbs-upped.
i love free software, run linux on all my pc's etc, but i like having one computer that i don't have to worry about getting owned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZITP93pqtdQ
One of my econ profs proposed legalizing the payment of solicited bribes in India [1].

So if an official solicits a bribe, you pay it, then can immediately report them with no legal repercussions. This removes the incentive to hide corruption and let it fester.

This also strongly discourages people from asking for bribes in the first place.

[1] https://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/50335.html
>> but, in some countries, you report your bribes on taxes

> Can you give any examples of those countries?

Germany used to be like this, but it they changed the law many years ago. I don't know if there are any such countries remaining. The article below is from 1995, when bribes were still tax-deductible.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1995-08-06/germany-w...
Keep in mind that it's incredibly rare for any DA to go against the police, so this case is already unusual. We'll have to wait and see if they actually have the evidence / wherewithal to see this one through rather than just settling out of court for a slap on the wrist.

Which raises the question, why did it happen this time?

My best guess is that the Santa Clara DA did the math, said, "I'm in a liberal part of a liberal state where people overwhelmingly support BLM and distrust the police. How can I best generate some positive publicity for myself?"

The concealed permits mess has been well-known for ages. So it wasn't a question of the DA having just learned about it and becoming shocked. And going to the Feds wouldn't have helped much since they don't care too much (else they would have acted ages ago). The question is why the DA decided to make an issue of it.
While I acknowledge you probably have solved for your use-case... I can't help but hardcore LOL at your somewhat terse perspective! Dude... K8S just got mature!
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After going through the process of building a house in CA, I believe we should decriminalize offering of bribes, but not solicitation of bribes.

$100K’s of dollars (>> 10% of the total project cost) have been extracted from us by various bureaucratic processes that are outside what is explicitly specified by the law.

I am confident that this would not have happened if we were well politically connected, and had friends that worked at PG&E.

I honestly don’t know if we were “just supposed to know” that we needed to make some specific charitable or political donation or something like that, because no one has explicitly solicited a bribe from us.

If it were legal to offer bribes, I could go online, and search for information on who to pay off, and to what ends.

Even better, California could fix the law to eliminate these gray areas. In the Apple case, they could move from “may issue” to “shall issue”.

In my case, there could be bounds on permit review durations, and also the cost / benefit of “environmental” regulations: if some ask is too expensive homeowners could “buy credits” by doing something else that would be more effective for the same amount of money.

To be clear, the money they extracted from us for “the environment” will substantially increase our carbon footprint, impact on local wildlife and on the watershed — we planned to voluntarily spend that money to mitigate those impacts because we’re extremely concerned about the environment. Now, we’ve been forced to waste it in low impact ways. I’m not upset that we were forced to spend the money. I’m upset it was wasted.
> characterized by the success story of git replacing everything else.

For most people, svn was the better (easier) choice of tool, shown in how they only use the basic features in github to manage each repo in a centralized manner.
And thus leaves a paper trail that you can use for a civil rights violation complaint to the FBI or at least internal affairs.
Biden Transition site moves to LetsEncrypt-powered .gov domain
> A flaw in the legal process to easy & rapidly return assets to those found innocent does not make all seizures theft.

How does it not? This is not just "a flaw", it's the way it's designed. If you're traveling with $5k in cash, a trooper somewhere on I-35 can seize it with the rationale that (1) I-35 is a notorious drug trafficking corridor, (2) your car is from out of state, (3) there's no legitimate reason to cross state lines with that amount of cash, other than illicit activity, and (4) "you appeared nervous"

They seize the cash, let you continue on your way, and never file any charges at all.

When you ask for it back, they say, "Nah, you have to prove your innocence first". Oh, and that would be a civil case, so you have to pony up for a lawyer and sue for it. No guarantee that you'll recover attorney's fees, so even if you win, you lose.

If they do charge you with a crime, you can be acquitted of the crime and still they keep the property. (It's "civil" forfeiture, your acquittal isn't enough to get your money back)

Okay, so no, it doesn't make all seizures theft, but it also has no reason to exist as a policy if you can seize assets of charged individuals anyway.

There should, 100%, never be an asset seizure without a related criminal charge. I'm usually not one for absolutes, but I am in this regard.
> > It's complex, because simple music is for children.

> Oh, I'm a child now?

Are you making simple music? You tell me.
My experience is, written communication don't exist until I've mentioned a summary of it in a verbal communication.

Some people are not comfortable to express their annoyance until it crosses a point of no return. You have to proactively seek to bring out their disagreements, and resolve them.

Until you've experience in resolving a number of conflicts with the persons involved, to the extent you understand them on a personal level, you have not achieved trust. In that case, reducing verbal communication produces fuel to create an environment of mistrust and suspicion.
It’s pretty easy to go full procedural with static where classes function only as a name space. Also, I’ve worked in code bases that were a Frankenstein mixture of deeply nested inheritance hierarchies mixed with attempts to be fully functional mixed with C code written in Java. So I stand by my statement.
>This means no 5000 esseys.

I generally tell people looking for my advice, engineering is a reading job. Until humanity figures out how to transfer ideas with something other than characters, you're going to have to read. A lot.

For example, one quick tip I give is just read the entirety of anything you encounter. The whole error message + stack trace. The whole document (page) about the package that contains the function you're after... the whole type and its functions.

It's also how I often mark people a "No" for interview -- when they obviously are not reading the error (with line number!) of their non-compiling code...
Except that US does have universal healthcare for pregnant women. Most pregnancies and births in United States are covered by Medicaid. And Medicaid pays well for that.
Do you want the obvious answer? Clearly I don't advocate high taxes that would leave room for the black market to undercut the price. I've had this exact argument so many times...

BTW, I'm not misleading you in the other thread. I know no one wants to believe that their own government could do that, but unfortunately they did. It's an "open secret", something like NSA spying was circa 2005.

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

Bandar helped negotiate the 1985 Al Yamamah deal, a series of massive arms sales by the United Kingdom to Saudi Arabia worth GB£40 billion, including the sale of more than 100 warplanes. After the deal was signed, British arms manufacturer British Aerospace (now BAE Systems) allegedly funnelled secret payments of at least GB£1 billion into two Saudi embassy accounts in Washington, in yearly instalments of up to GB£120 million over at least 10 years. He allegedly took money for personal use out of the accounts, as the purpose of one of the accounts was to pay the operating expenses of his private Airbus A340. According to investigators, there was "no distinction between the accounts of the embassy, or official government accounts [...], and the accounts of the royal family." The payments were discovered during a Serious Fraud Office investigation, which was stopped in December 2006 by attorney general Lord Goldsmith.[68][69] In 2009, he hired Louis Freeh as his legal representative for the Al-Yamamah arms scandal.[70]

A court affidavit filed on 3 February 2015 claims that Zacarias Moussaoui was a courier between Osama bin Laden and Turki bin Faisal Al Saud in the late 1990s, and that Turki introduced Moussaoui to Bandar.[72] Zacarias Moussaoui stated on oath and wrote to Judge George B. Daniels that Saudi royal family members, including Prince Bandar, donated to Al-Qaeda and helped finance the 11 September attacks. The Saudi government continues to deny any involvement in the 9/11 plot, and claims there is no evidence to support Moussaoui's allegations in spite of numerous previous intense investigations, noting that Moussaoui's own lawyers presented evidence of his mental incompetence during his trial. Leaked information from the redacted portion of the 9/11 Commission Report states that two of the 9/11 hijackers received $US130,000 in payment from Bandar's bank account.
And as a sort of counterexample: Unfinished Swan. It's totally worth playing for the first few levels, but gets steadily less polished and less fun as it goes along.

Superliminal was also really good right until the very last bit where it got preachy.
If you're interested in this kind of thing, 9p is also used for exporting storage over the network. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/9P_(protocol)
So if you play any game streaming platform like Google Stadia which at high quality and framerate use an average of 20GB/h, you'll bust that cap in little under 62h, and that's if you do nothing else.
> Last time I checked, bigotry was bad in general, not just when applied to those without power.

You're invoking "it's bigotry!" as a reason why we shouldn't do this. Why do you think bigotry is bad? Is it bad intrinsically (aka "bigotry is bad" is an axiom), or is it bad because of its effects? If it's the latter, does the reasoning apply when applied to organizations with voluntary membership?

Furthermore, I don't see why it's bad to hate on an organization and/or its members based on the conduct of its other members. Let's say Acme, Inc is known for sales reps with high pressure sales tactics. Is it bad then, if I ignore a cold call from an Acme sales rep on that basis?
> UTF-16 (everyone except them and JavaScript uses UTF-8)

It's like blaming America's analogue colour TV implementation (NTSC) when in fact PAL and SECAM haven't been invented yet (and NTSC is partially responsible for PAL even existing).
I've seen a few people on here state this. I really wish people knew their rights better.

Federal judges have consistently ruled that recording public officials in the performance of their duties is a right under the first amendment. As a member of the public, you can record your interactions with police without their consent.
Element of surprise.
My understanding is that nftables and iptables+ip6tables+arptables+ebtables are for exactly the same set of use cases, with the latter being deprecated in favor of the former as the new replacement.

RHEL 8 uses the nftables back end for firewalld by default.

The main difference that I have noticed is that writing configuration files for nftables is considerably more ergonomic than the iptables files which are essentially just unstructured lists of iptables commands.

Generally things like UFW or firewalld are sufficient for host firewalls, but they fall short for routing applications where it is more appropriate to use nftables (or historically, iptables) directly.

Kubernetes and docker both currently use iptables for their routing and will likely migrate to nftables. If/then those projects migrate to nftables I suspect it would also solve the issue where docker port mappings have the ability to unilaterally punch holes in host firewalls, e.g., UFW, because under nftables, tables are just namespaces for chains (with configurable priority) while on iptables the different tables meant specific things and docker made decisions in a branch off of the PREROUTING chain in the nat table, which was encountered before the FORWARD or INPUT chains on the filter table. In this way nftables makes certain expressions more ergonomic than iptables.
That's orthogonal to whether or not the U.S. should have more gun control.

Does the U.S. want to join 1st countries like Australia, the U.K., Japan, (etc.) or not?
I lived about 1.5 years in the US several years ago. Ironically I had planned on settling but instead came to realize what a great country I came from, Norway. America has many qualities but I had to see America to realize all the qualities of my own home country.

Health care was one of them. I never really liked health care in Norway. I didn't think doctors was all that eager to help often. In the US I kind of experience the opposite, but I slowly realized there was a very dark side to this. All too often I saw that it was just a show to please the "customer."

Basically in the US I saw little patient and health thinking and much more of a profit and customer thinking in health care. So often suggestions and procedures where obviously followed for pure profit motive. I discovered on may occasions how I would be given useless drugs and suggestions just to drive profits.

I think all health care systems are flawed in some way. Norwegian health care is no exception. But in the US I saw that it was possible to do much worse. The sad irony of this is that this happened while US doctors from my impression are exceptionally skilled. Problem is that they are in a system which push them to think about money rather than health care.

A US system where incentives go realigned to serve people rather than profits could quite possibly turn into one of the best health care systems in the world.
IIRC ATF clamped down on this.
I hope there standard was to not do it, because it is a US crime for any US national, citizen or resident as employee, officer or agent of a US corporation to bribe or otherwise corrupt a foreign official.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Ac...
Gunnar glasses have helped me a lot. They are kind of pricey, but the difference has been kind of incredible. My headaches are also much worse if I’m not sleeping enough, and they have helped when I don’t really have much choice on how much sleep I can get (like when we had a newborn).
This thread reminds me of John McAfee's bribery guide
http://www.whoismcafee.com/the-travel-guide/
Presumably using an enterprise-grade NVMe SSD with power loss protection capacitors would avoid such trouble. Some of those have reasonably low power consumption under load, but they're all bad at idle compared to client/consumer SSDs. But now you also have me wondering about Intel's Optane cache SSD modules, which like enterprise SSDs don't have any volatile caching, and they're also cheap enough to make some sense in an RPi context. I'm tempted to do some voltage margin testing on one to see where it browns out compared to a typical consumer SSD.
How do you find these?
Reasons for GGG Developing Poe Heist
She had one because the anarcho hippie terrorist groups of SF targeted her and shot up her home several times. When the group was arrested/disbanded, she let her permit lapse.

While I agree it sucks that some rich and powerful people seem to live by a different set of rules, it's not like she had a permit just for kicks.
Organized labor can negotiate with corporations and politicians to defend the interests of their members.

The way things are now in the US wasn't inevitable.
That “training” is completed by clicking ‘Next’ 50 times, preferably as fast as possible so you can get back to work.

It exists so the company can say it tried to prevent this and shouldn’t be held responsible.
> Everyone has the right to bear arms but what do we do when that infringes on other peoples right to life? I think it's a cogent question.

Clearly the state has laws against murder. And California even has laws that "enhance" sentencing criteria for anyone guilty of using a firearm in the commission of a felony.[1] Also, "mass shootings" are also illegal and are incredibly rare.

Also, I have a right to "property"/"pursuit of happiness" (per Fifth Amendment and the Declaration of Independence). In the Bay Area, if I leave my laptop in my trunk, it'll be stolen. If you leave CA (or at least the Bay Area) and visit a state with slightly looser restrictions, laptops can peacefully spend a dinner in the trunk without being stolen. I have to imagine that criminals who know they have very little to fear from armed ordinary citizens are emboldened by the restrictions on firearm ownership. By the logic above, the correlation (note: I have no data other than the ubiquitous "BRING YOUR LAPTOP INSIDE!!!" signs all over the place in the Bay Area) must mean that the state is neglecting a right to property, therefore the fun restrictions should be relaxed. Or maybe using aggregate statistics and correlations isn't the best approach to analyzing legal-political issues in the absence of a very strong signal.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
Thanks.
Pure JS and Canvas API, nothing else!
This is true but complex. It depends on the type of service you receive. As a general rule, you'll need to pay a yearly deductible before receiving insurance benefits for non preventative care. This can be anywhere from $500 to $8000. High deductible plans are commonly referred to as "catastrophic" plans, because the deductible is so high, and the kind of people who purchase them are typically not wealthy, that their owners would only seek care in a true emergency where the service would exceed the cost of the deductible. After paying your deductible you will often also have a "co-pay" which is typically a flat rate based on the type of service. Something in the realm of $25 to $500. After that, many plans have something called "co-insurance" which is a percentage of the bill you are responsible for even if you have met your deductible. Say, 20%.

Add all these charges and fees up, you'll keep paying them until you hit your "maximum out of pocket." So as an example, I was hospitalized a few years back in December while on what would be considered a "good" healthcare plan. I paid my $1000 deductible, a $250 co-pay for emergency room care, and co-insurance of several hundred dollars. I stayed a single night in the hospital and received a CT scan. I was given Tylenol, released the next day, and referred to a specialist. I wound up seeing the specialist in January, so my deductible reset. I was given another CT scan, so I had to pay my $1000 deductible again. The total bill for the entire process pre-insurance was in the realm of $80,000. After insurance, I paid $5000, which was my entire life savings at the time. I didn't hit my maximum out of pocket for either year, so I got lucky in a way. I could have had to pay double what I did.
finch?
> "Medieval armies, say, were not generally followed by specialist murder units."

Wasn't sacking of cities in antiquity and medieval times basically looting of all valuables and either the killing or enslavement of the population, mixed in with considerable brutalization during the process? The entire besieging army took part in that.

> "I think there's a reasonable case that the Nazi military really did have a special, virtually unique brand of evil."

Nope, I'd say the Imperial Japanese Army had them beat on that score easily: they spared themselves the need for specialized units by simply having the entire military commit atrocities. Much larger scale than the Nazis too.
I assume it still functions normally while acting as a webcam (aka it's a general purpose computer with ssh etc.)

Would it be possible to insert ffmpeg in between the camera and the output to usb? It'd be fun to throw some weird post processing in there.
All of this is available and not expensive. Easy? Maybe not.

You don't want to do it? That's your choice.
US residents have a huge obesity problem, and very little has been done to improve the situation
why the Sheriff is not indicted???!!!
Well, you do it without their knowledge of course. Cellphone in pocket for audio, etc. When dealing with corrupt people, secrecy is paramount.
I never said that you don't track down a root cause.

Once you identify a root cause, you can assess the scope. "allocate 5 bytes more than you need" is a pretty broad reaching fix. I'd be very hesitant to implement it without proper time to fix.
So the FCC?
I understand your principled point of view (and I did not downvote), but at some point this becomes akin to a vegan or climate change activist chiming in on posts about steak-cooking techniques. It’s not wrong per-se[0], just pretty tiresomely off-topic if you point it out every time.

We get it. 1 in perhaps 1K web users doesn’t like Javascript. If you use it, your TAM shrinks to 99.9% of what it could otherwise be.

[0] - I think the danger is similarly blown out of proportion to the harm
Right, like is that the reason that Symbian succeeded?
I don't know what you think is needed for nix/guix that has not existed the past 20 years.

All the other technologies I mentioned require fairly recent kernels to work, namely for all the namespace shenanigans they employ. Nix can run on perfectly fine on at least Linux 3.2 (stock wheezy), so far as I tested.
the employee was put in the unfortunate immediate situation of either not getting their lawfully permitted license, or paying the bribe

A private citizen of limited means paying a bribe is somehow reasonable because there's a huge power imbalance.

Comments from this thread condoning bribery.

Bonus irony is that 2A is so broken in CA that even Apple security chief has to go through the "process".
When purchasing a TV, this is getting more and more difficult. There’s few dumb displays out there these days.
For those of us not fully in on the technical details, is your example basically invisible Zalgo Text, or is this something more subtle?
Router prices have boggled my mind for a while now. I bought routers on amazon for $10-15 bucks about 5 years ago and they were fine. No issues and just some cheap brand. Then one day I stepped into a best buy and a guy came up to ask me if I needed anything and I said "do you have any routers cheaper than well...$40?" The guy scoffed and said "Not if you want a good one." He then proceeds to show me a $100 one made for like 1gigibit internet and like 10 ports. I said "Nah I'll just go on amazon, thanks."
Google Vote Reminders Only Went to Liberals for at Least Four Days
Bitcoin could be seen as an attempt to introduce a new non-inflationary base currency.
It does a good job. It asks “why?” and then shows the causes, with numbers for each cause.

Of course, there’s a deeper and more contentious kind of “why?” and it doesn’t go as deeply into that, other than to show some things that seem to correlate.

But I think it is useful, because one can’t defensively say the US doesn’t have a problem compared to other rich countries. The Nordic countries save early, sickly babies and nurse them along just as much as the US does, for instance.

The only thing I wish they’d have changed would be to indicate relative weight of the causes. Because obesity is an order of magnitude more lethal than homicide, for instance.