skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two party consent doesn't matter here. The federal courts have consistently upheld that it is one's first ammendment right to record public officials in the performance of their duties. As a member of the public, you are permitted to record your interactions with police.

Now, could it still end badly? Sure. If they are willing to break the law for a bribe, then why not take it further if they find out you are recording.
Apple leaders have spoken publicly in favor of such deprivations. It would be interesting to check whether the company itself has made contributions to that cause under the guise of charity.
Yes, hence the quip about "rich people in it".

A more serious way of putting it might be that the US is in raw dollar terms one of the richest countries in the world (certainly by far the richest large one), yet in many ways (infrastructure, quality of administration, political culture, etc.) it feels more similar to a middle-income one.
>Li batteries ignite equally when charged or discharged. It's got nothing to do with charge state.

Charged is way easier to ignite. Having all those electrons trying to GTFO (i.e. the battery is charged) gives a potential ignition source that tends to go off whenever the battery fails so you just need one cell to be breached the chain reaciton can take it from there. Contrast to a discharged battery which needs external heat in sufficient quantities to actually ignite it.
Isn't the example footage in this video using the fisheye lens? Where is the distortion? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fcbP7lEdzY
I found your take thought provoking. HN is always a surprise.
Mass immigration and sending manufacturing to lower wage countries.
What ever happened to the home of the brave and the land of the free. Well shit, appearntly it went down the drain about 200 years ago. Can't own a weapon of your choice without bribing people anymore. Shit can't even own a suppressed weapon without registering with the FEDs and dishing out 5 years and 10k later. Go to a 3rd world country where its ok to knock on the door and see someone owning an AK47 without it being registered or bribed. Your ass would be shot. This country has seriously went to shit. Home of the mother fucking pussies and slaved to your own fucking land.
I've read that short emails get better response than long ones, and that's also been my experience.

When emailing new users, keep it short. For example:

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Hey, this is Kyle from Shropshire. I just wanted to find out how your demo is going, and if you have any issues?

(end of email)
Is that on the newest Xbox? Saw articles earlier that you can simply switch to dev mode and run retroarch emulators already.
About point #2, I wonder if the deaths caused by smoking remains high in the US because it's measured effect can be really delayed. Even if sales of cigarettes went down in the mid-70's, they were probably still high for quite a while. On top of that, the effects of smoking can take decades to appear. I could imagine somebody starting smoking in the mid 70's and not seeing effects until recently.

EDIT: It turns out reading even not-so-carefully results in fruit! From the article:

> But the chart also shows that smoking peaked earlier in the US. Since there is a lag of two to three decades between the peak of smoking and the peak of smoking mortality, this should be positive news for the US going forward. The country is over this mortality peak and we should expect the decline in lung cancer death rates in the US to continue in the coming years.
And at no point was I arguing that.

What you don't have to learn is different muscle memory for 11 different keys. That's a lot of work, and the only reason anyone does it is because keyboards are made that way.

Becoming an expert takes thousands of hours of work, yes, but why does that mean it should take thousands of hours to become a novice?

Just because I have spent thousands of hours learning music does not mean I should demand it be difficult for beginners.
> I don't think you can really call it a generalized dot product, because it doesn't map to a scalar.

This. Convolution is a function which results from applying to convolution operator to two functions. A dot product is nothing of the sort.
Correct. And it’s not illegal to investigate when nominal jokes about bribery may be construed as code inviting actual bribery.
I'll choose my ground, thanks.
the first pic makes it look like a modern Tandy 100, which would be awesome.

But unfortunately, it is much tinier.
Yeah, that's exactly it- once you have safety, food, shelter and good health and the expectation those will remain, that's amazing.

Personally I've decided to forgo as many personal luxuries as possible (ie don't fly first class, no boat besides a shitty canoe, no peasant steel case rolex, no car worth > $20k in an effort to retire with a few million in liquid assets on top of my house by my early 40s. Having no worries is the ultimate luxury.

Alternatively, if I lived in California where the weather is mild perhaps I would just go full Diogenes.
The requirements to get your "guard card" in CA with the endorsement to carry a firearm a very low bar to pass. You see plenty of people making barely over minimum wage doing this. It is the "concealed" portion that requires the permit that can not be readily obtained by security guards without jumping through the same process as Joe Public which is regulated by the local City and County law enforcement in CA.
>one thing I will add is that every new feature does not have to be a plugin just because you have a plugin interface. "implement it directly in the core" is a perfectly valid fourth choice. some things just aren't suited to a plugin implementation.

Yes. Quoting my answer to your reply's parent:

"""
It depends on the scope of the functionality. For example, right now, authentication and token generation are in the core, but it's okay right now because authentication spans across the whole product.

We eventually will extract it out, so we could use it as a component in another product, but for now, it's not inappropriate to leave it in the core.
"""
I mean that's fine if you're ok with 30% wasted memory... We just recently had to tune some JVM and monitoring settings because we do the initial and max heap allocation to around 90% memory. There's very little else going on.
The biggest reason for me is to block ads on social media apps. Many of them have no way of blocking the ads (either through pi-hole or a subscription for example).

The other reason is to hide obnoxious features I'd never use that serve as screen clutter (such as stories in messenger)
Caffeine can have both effects. Long-term use triggers it. Short-term use helps.

Speaking out of personal and family experience.
There are two categories of bribes.

If you bribe someone to get something that you're not qualified for, that is clearly wrong on the part of both the applicant and the permit approver.

But if you're being denied something you should get, unless you bribe them, I am more sympathetic to the applicant.
Ok, exterior product.
it's not clear exactly what happened in the article - did Moyer work w/ the sheriff's office to extort Apple for the permits?
There are plenty of places where it is legal to record calls, and in the others you simply need to inform the other party of the recording.
As far as I understand, they get a fairly decent amount of donations from "eta wen" people who are desperate to theme their phones.
Consider Epiphany WorkFlow for the Mac. It's a workflow for writing an academic paper (among other things). I really don't fully understand what you are asking for. I hope Epiphany WorkFlow is useful.
I trust Google’s security more than an OEM focusing on cost minimalisation.

Giving google my viewing habits is bad, but giving Hisense + DodgyAdBroker.biz + CCP/PLA is even worse.
It is infuriating, and not at all surprising when government officials are allowed to determine what actions are permissible by what groups.
> And multiplication is a fancy convolution (with carries).

It really isn't. Just because you see different digits being multiplied that doesn't mean you're convolving functions.
There are places where they don’t use insurance, it’s cash only. The Surgery Center of Oklahoma does cash only and will tell you the cost before you even contact a surgeon or specialist. It’s on their website.

You can also get mri images done for very low cost of you pay cash.

https://surgerycenterok.com/

https://affordablemri.com/
Building an off-grid log cabin from scratch
Half of the joke was probably the Cupertino city council being jealous of Google providing free wifi for Mountain View.

Jobs has a good point about "paying taxes." In the last few years, a lot of people in the Bay Area outside tech are saying things like "why doesn't tech do more to build more housing." They pay taxes, and tech workers living in the cities are paying income and property taxes. The communities should be asking themselves why they, themselves, aren't building more housing. What did they think these added tax dollars should be going it?
GM to recall nearly 6M trucks with potentially dangerous Takata inflators
I learned the Workman layout. I found it advantageous to do so, but I still don't find this to be a good comparison.

The thing is, no matter which keyboard layout you use, there is the same amount of muscle memory required to be learned.

To contrast, a piano requires 12 times as much muscle memory as a Janko keyboard.

Learning to play a piano is hard, and it is made significantly easier by simply changing the physical keyboard layout.
that is precisely one reading of the original quote. Americans are rich, but even rich Americans often life in perpetual financial insecurity. THe average American is rich but cannot cough up a thousand bucks for an emergency, which in the US, can be life threatening.

It's a new sort of poverty, affluent and insecure at the same time, and it's probably not a stretch (given the content of the article we're commenting on) to say it's bad for health.

The average Dutch citizen might take less money home, but they also work 30% less, they won't face the threat of not having healthcare or a roof over their head, and they don't need to inhale car exhaust on a highway for an hour per day but take the bike instead. More money is evidently not the solution to everything. American society seems to be optimised around creating economic activity for its own sake.

edit: not really sure what the reflexive downvotes are for, the links between precarity, inequality, stress and biological harm in populations are well documented, see Sapolsky: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-economic-ineq...
Cefaly really helps me with my headaches. It uses electric pulses to overstimulate the nerves that end up in the pain-producing parts of the brain. I've been using it for more than a decade now.
Thank you for posting this. It is validating to read, and I've been working to check all these boxes (minus Mozilla's test suite).

I've even tested in all the browsers you listed (w3m, Dillo, NetSurf, links, lynx, w3m, in addition to Netscape3, Netscape4, IE3, IE4, IE6, Opera3, Opera12, Mosaic).

I do use cookies, but only when the client requests to register or sign in.

I don't use images, except for a pixel gif which is needed for some JS trickery for older pre-XHR browsers.

If you're interested in seeing what it looks like, the link is in my profile. :)
The concrete examples given are all politicians. The title should probably read “We Judge Politicians Based on Their Relatives”.
How to UseRef to Fix React Performance Issues
To incorporate, or not incorporate - that is the question.
I'm dying of laughter because this is exactly the reply I would expect from someone of the school of thought I was representing.

But I'm sorry, that's a thing! People ask for a baby in a month, get a baby in a month, sure the baby is not great, but it gets them pretty far. Not everyone has the luxury to say no and walk away. Honestly I find that kind of weird gatekeeping in our profession kind of sad.

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The people who "only know how to slap together components" are starting somewhere. I was privileged enough to have access to technology from a young age and tinker to my hearts content so I ended up with a deeper understanding of things. But there are people who started from nothing, didn't have the opportunity to even tinker had they had the access, they were working on moving forward in life.

Now our field has been democratized to the point people don't need to have had those opportunities to do amazing things, we act like that they do is somehow lesser, even though once we swallow our pride, at the end of the day people don't care that much.

People notice their apps crash, people complain things are slow. But when the chips are on the table, they deal with it very well. The web has gotten slower and slower, and it's usage has gone up and up. The apps have gotten buggier and buggier and the amount of utility they provide has never been higher.

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Also I thought about pointing out the context is for-profit apps here when talking about people rushing to ship hastily slapped together legos but figured anyone having this conversation would realize that.

In that context money is everything. No point in shipping a formally verified native app if a competitor takes the entire market with their 1 month baby and no one uses it. (and yes sure you can point out the academic satisfaction of it... but academic satisfaction isn't going to pay a mortgage or feed your kids)
I suspect you have to enable some firmware or drivers through NixOS options:

- https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-profile-all-hardw...

- https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nvidia

- https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Accelerated_Video_Playback
> with a financial incentive

I guess it doesn't need saying, but government offices have no such incentive. In fact, we don't want government offices to have such an incentive, and we even make it illegal to construct such an incentive in certain ways. See: the article.

> the courts have ruled there is a reasonable amount of time, that's 45 days. It's been litigated.

Courts don't control purse strings, and the remedy you're asking for here is pretty extreme given the circumstances.
I'm surprised that you're surprised. You ask this as if the US is immune to corruption. Maybe the US isn't as blatant as Russia, but you're dealing with humans. Call my cynical, but this is going to happen.
You don't even have to look that far.

Places like Johnstown, PA were declining about 2% per year from 1950 to 1970.

That means that things were already going wrong long before 1971.
I'm not sure how buying a device connected to the internet, fully controlled by the company, that also collects data and sell ads is an improvement.
Not against individuals, but against companies? Absolutely. There was a big push to do more "value capture" from the Big Tech commuter shuttle buses in exchange for permission to run on San Francisco streets. It was largely stymied by state law, which SF activists didn't quite have the momentum to change, but it was a big thing in local politics for a while.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco-accused-...
You could segment them in three sets: well insured, people with catastrophic health plans, and uninsured. Many employers are switching to high deductible health plans and that deductible may be thousands of dollars, i.e. catastrophic plans.

When going to a doctor for a simple diagnosis or bloodwork can easily cost $400 to $1000, many put off doctor visits unless it's an emergency. It can easily become a choice between a doctor visit or a car repair. Preventative checkups are gone and insurance is only something one uses with an emergency room visit or major health issue.
You’re still depending on Spain to enforce them.

There’s a big difference between American Federal law where the Feds are in charge of enforcing Federal law and the States are in charge of enforcing their own laws; and Pan-EU laws where a law is really an agreement to pass a bunch of laws by the member nations who then enforce them using whatever enforcement mechanisms they have. By passing the agreement as laws through their own legislatures, they in effect become a part of each member nation’s national laws. As far as I know there’s no EU FBI/DEA and the closest agency to it is more like Interpol.

See also the kerfuffle between Apple, Ireland and the EU where the EU went after both Apple and Ireland to get the Irish to enforce some European agreement that may or may not have prohibited whatever Irish tax regime was (is?) in place.
Usually not a great idea to make an image of a disk when filesystems on it are mounted writable.
Ask HN: I'm looking for pre tech MVP anecdotes from successful companies
I watched a video by Michael Seibel where he talks about the fact that AirBnB didn't even have a way to take payments at first. You had to take cash and pay the host directly.

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6f-how-to-plan-an-mvp

He also made the point that you need to stop thinking of your MVP as "special" and think of it like you are looking for an old shirt in your closet to paint in and destroy. And I really liked that.

I also remember reading a comment on HN by a YC company saying they didn't even have any tech yet. They were doing intake via email and manually pairing up matches in their two-sided market.

I searched the web for "pre tech MVP" and it thinks I typoed that. I searched HN and I like the top comment on this piece, but the article is no longer even available:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1503867

Personal anecdotes, links to articles or suggested search terms are all equally welcome.
http://arkadia.xyz/zoom.js?v=19
I am not sure why you were being downvoted, exactly. While there is a difference between the two terms, it seems like an area that firms could easily fudge, until someone actually investigated the specific case.

> What is the Difference Between Bribery and Facilitation Payments?

> Facilitation payments are different from bribes in that they’re offered or solicited in return for a service a person or a company is entitled to receive. In contrast, bribes are offered in return for undue and illegal advantage.
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Do we know if these executives were deserving of the CCP? It would appear they were, from the post’s link:

> Sung—second in rank only to Sheriff Laurie Smith in the sheriff’s office—is accused of deliberately holding back four concealed carry weapons (CCW) permits for Apple’s security team until the Cupertino-based corporation agreed to donate 200 iPads worth about $75,000 to the Sheriff’s Office, Rosen said. Sung and Jensen allegedly worked together to solicit the exchange of CCW permits for the tech donation from Apple.

The much larger corruption seems to be on the LEO side to me. Which of the two actors swore an oath to uphold the law?

If it wasn’t for clickbait, the headline would focus on the LEO.

[0] https://www.ganintegrity.com/compliance-glossary/facilitatio...
Yeah, but the Air Force doesn't fly KC-130s. They do fly KC-135s, and C-130s, but there's no point for adding the KC package on for the Air Force. Everything the USAF wants to refuel is fast enough that the KC-135s are a better plane for the USAF.
> Convolution is digit-based multiplication,

It really isn't, and I don't understand the level of confusion that leads to this assertion.

Is it because the elementary school algorithm for multiplication decomposes a number in it's decimal places before multiplying?

> so why not start with that?

Because it would be wrong, misguided, and it would fail to demonstrate the logic behind convolution.

Let's take a step back and think about it. Convolution is mainly and primarily used as a convenient way to covert signals between time and frequency domain, within the scope of Fourier transforms. Who in their right mind associates elementary school multiplications with conversions to/from the frequency domain?
The open source Logitech Media Server still receives updates and used in conjunction with raspberry pis with decent audio adapters, it works fine. It also works with old Squeezebox hardware, of course. Good controller apps exist on android and iPhone now as well.

(I mean, it depends on your definition of polished...)
I somehow found it deeply relaxing.

For sure amazing artwork, but the overall experience staring at it - magical.
Thank you for your creativity and how you put it on!
Bookmarked.
A few thoughts off the dome-

That link contradicts your claim that drivers are only compensated for the time spent with passengers

That link is attempting to calculate take-home pay after taxes, health insurance, etc. Minimum wage is pretax, so even regular employees aren't making minimum wage once they've paid for their income taxes, social security, Medicare, disability insurance and health insurance. Imo its nonsensical to compare gross against net pay
Hmm. From the article this wasn't a payment of cash to an official. It was a donation in kind to the police dept. I don't know any more than is reported in the article but I will say that some years ago I was subject to a similar "offer". Much smaller in scope, and the official wasn't in law enforcement, but similar enough in essence. At the time I thought it a little weird but also assumed "that must be how things work here". I passed because the cost wasn't worth the benefit to me. I certainly did not think that I should go inform the police that this official had solicited a bribe.
I have an Icinga2 monitor on all my hosts for "dmesg" output to include the OOM killer string, and alert on that. Very useful.
I thought this, too, but someone did the math and were not as close to the boundary as you think. It's something like the Earth would have to be 10x bigger to prevent chemical rocketry from working.
I'm not super educated on this but I thought that malpractice insurance basically "handled" the problem at a reasonable overhead compared to other gross inefficiencies.
They didn't even trust 255, 254 or even 253. It had to be 252.
Page missed #hrs worked, holidays/vacation days.

Actually just the general stress that you have to work hard your whole life just to get-to/stay in middle class. Maybe that is related to the inequality part.
California has the 7th lowest gun death rate.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/...

California is 23rd in homicide rate.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality...
This is a cool idea as an art project (obviously it's meant to look like a TRS-80 model 100), or some sort of retro mid-1980s cyberpunk thing, but in terms of practicality for real use, almost nil.

If you want a real distraction-free portable terminal for stuff like this, take an old netbook or super thin laptop, install openbsd on it (or a very minimal debian), and then use a text mode multi session manager like screen or termux to do everything in the CLI.