skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read the exceptions in the actual order.

https://www.lamayor.org/sites/g/files/wph446/f/page/file/202...

It isn't as odious as it's made to seem.

You can still grab takeout from a restaurant, buy weed, go to the grocery store, do your laundry, go to an outdoor fitness class, go to youth sports, surf at the beach, do some outdoor lap swimming, get your nails done, go to the zoo, etc. The request to fill out an online form is a very, very basic attempt at contact tracing that is pretty non-invasive.

City of LA was facing a situation where its hospitals were going to wind up being effectively closed due to loss of capacity. Seems like a decent justification for extraordinary measures. Look at Barstow Community right now. 114% of inpatient beds occupied by COVID patients (as-of 12/15). Imagine if LA hospitals looked like that. It would be apocalyptic.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/12/09/9443799...

As it is, even with that order having gone into effect, ICU capacity in LA county as-of the 11th is 2.7%.

https://www.kqed.org/news/11850757/california-icu-capacity-s...

Plus, if you look at a map of what actually constitutes the City of LA proper, it's a pretty tiny, but extremely high-density slice of the 'Greater LA Area.'

If you really, really want to wander around DTLA, just tell the cops you're walking to the grocery store. They're not walking around arresting anyone who steps outside.

This is a tool that lets city authorities put the brakes on people doing egregiously stupid stuff. They're not stopping people on the street like the gestapo for going about their business.

So, in short the parent comment seemed to express a knee-jerk reaction to a policy without offering an attempt at a reasoned assessment of the context and policy alternatives facing the City, as well as a pragmatic appreciation for the reality of enforcement on the ground. If they offered a viable alternative that seemed reasonable and well thought-out rather than just calling it an "absurd big liberal govt policy" I wouldn't have downvoted. Doesn't matter who runs the city, Repub or Dem, if when you call 911 there's nowhere for the ambulance to take you.
I was born and raised in the US.

"Has to think" is not a common construction, if you're trying to communicate something across the lines of "can't help but think".
Who said to eat anyone?
I took night trains many times during my trips (India, China, Norway, etc.). They are comfortable and cheap.

In the '90s, when there was no low cost flights, my dad usually took the night train Florence-Paris or Florence-Munchen for business trips. He was very happy about that: they started around 9PM and he can be at the business appointments in the morning relaxed and fresh.
Similarly, if a hunter kills me in the woods it is my fault for not dressing like a clown.
I think it's Austria. As far as I remember the train Berlin <> Budapest passes through Vienna.

(I'm surprised, though, that the train would pass through five countries. AFAIK it doesn't pass through the Czech Republic.)
The article only talks about commercial manipulation technology, but what about political or religious ones?
Yeah, no. Ignorance is a reason to employ caution, not throw it to the winds.

What do you imagine is going to be the horrifying fallout of telling businesses and politicians they're not allowed to build and act on detailed profiles of people?
Westlaw’s individual bits of core content are largely not owned by Westlaw and unprotected by its copyrights. It should be possible to carefully extract that in a manner that does not violate copyright law.
I personally can't really see any evidence of mocking or any psychologically-unsafe ideas in any of the comments in this thread, so I'm not sure what you're referring to. You can criticize a product (design) without disparaging the person who created it, and I hope we all can take constructive criticism without making it personal.

Good UI design shouldn't be strictly for design's sake, so it can be frustrating when something is difficult to use because 'looking good' was prioritized over usability.

There's a quote I've read here that I like and think is appropriate: "Accessibility is for everybody."
Somewhat tengential, but one of the driving forces behind India's cooking style (simmering stuff for a long time over a relatively low heat) is due to their lack of combustible fuel. A lot of cooking was (is?) done using cow dung for fuel. This results in a slow, long burn but doesn't reach very high temperatures.
I had a similar thought, but then, I also find it annoying when people say "America" to mean the United States, and not the continent(s)
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The Google Cloud was almost unaffected, during the outage you could not log into the cloud console or use tools like gcloud - but the services itself (vms, gke, pubsub, etc) kept working throughout the outage.
Practice. Relinquish a belief and deal with the fallout (internally with the psychological hit to the ego, modulate the impact it has on you), then strive for something that may or may not be achievable (and modulate again, not letting the attainment be your everything, and not letting failure be overly impactful).

It’s tough when you’re insecure because your primary mental fortification is an inflated ego. Just get used to (practicing) inflating and deflating the ego (ideally just keeping it half filled with air) so you literally are not a zero-self-esteem mess out there in the world.

If you have no practice with this, every time life gives you an opportunity or challenge, you’ll make judgement mistakes.
>There are no sleeper trains, because something something infection, so you get to sleep in normal compartments.

The UK has two sleeper train services- the Caledonian Sleeper from London to Scotland, and the Night Riviera from London to Cornwall.

At one stage, the Caledonian Sleeper stopped selling seats and would only sell sleeper berths (because of coronavirus) while the Night Riviera stopped selling sleeper berths and would only sell seats (for the same reason).

While I understand stopping selling seats, the decision to not sell sleeper berths probably has more to do with cost than protection from the virus. See also Eurostar's short-lived decision to stop offering free Wi-Fi in standard class!
Right, like https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-secret-facebook-war... ?
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For cases, I would think headnotes and footnotes would be the only proprietary Westlaw data. The case itself is content written by the court.
>Sorry.

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archive.org, never change.
>You can't goto out of a function

You can with a goto expression and a label address available - though the behavior is undefined in C, so bets are off.

And you can with longjump/setjump more explicitly.
Well, one can hardly generalize to Europe just from London.

To give just one counterexample, I grew up in a very rural/mountainy part of Austria, surrounded by forests everywhere, and I can count the times I have seen a squirrel on one hand.
When I was there I just searched it on moma and they had a paper on it showing the correlation coefficients.
And now we know why they are limiting their free space offerings! ;)
For now, it mostly wraps existing UI frameworks yes. In the future if Apple decides to, they can depreciate AppKit and UIKit without changing the SwiftUI APIs and have it drawing directly. I see that as a very, very long way away though, UIKit/AppKit will be around for years to come.
You live there!?! It sounds wonderful.

This sort of thing is a big part of why places like Houten (and Odense - basically second or third tier cities with good infra but lower cost of living than capitals) are on our short list.
They interview a huge amount of people. Its really not too hard to catch their eye
This point was also made in David Attenborough’s recent climate documentary: the point is not about palm oil but about rainforest protection. If there is no protection, and if people can’t make a living another way, the forest will be cut for whatever makes money. The most tragic example i’ve seen is rainforest turned into those wood chips they put around potted plants. Is that a high value commodity? No. But it makes >0 money and if the value given to the wild forest is zero, then it will happen.
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Jordan Peterson is definitely a red flag; he's one of those people who experimented on themselves and failed badly: https://www.mamamia.com.au/jordan-peterson-daughter/

I absolutely agree that advocating for yourself as a patient is important and that you are the best guardian of your own interests .. but I also know that one symptom of schizophrenia is strongly held delusional beliefs.
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Not OP, either, but I've heard of pretty comprehensive security checks in New Orleans. (Though, there it really makes sense.)
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Also, it's important to note that in places more strongly influenced by British English, acetaminophen is known as paracetamol.
Well we could see its google's website
Well here’s the thing though. Google are removing quotas from things like appengine. How can it be simultaneously helpful to have quotas but at the same time google wants to remove them?
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It reminded me of something I see on Windows also, with Netflix at least on Edge. Not sure how to reproduce entirely but I think it's if I pause and move off the browser tab and play, there's a good chance the frame rate will begin to stutter.
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For purposes of future language design: why not just ban conversion from integers to pointers? Pointers have metadata that integers can't provide, therefore the conversion is impossible, QED. What's the use case for it outside of, say, binary executable loaders?
What does this mean? I don't see any mention of Google One or storage on the page.
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The author, himself, seems to be a pretty interesting chap.

There’s many axes to these graphs, and we constantly try to boil it down to simple 2-axis plots.

For example, there’s smart, then there’s driven. I have worked with many very intelligent folks that fall to pieces, when unpredictable things happen, or when presented with challenging conundrums.

I knew someone who was definitely not a gifted, intelligent person, and was quite aware of that. I won’t go into his story, but he had a lot of personal challenges that most folks would consider “showstoppers.” It would have been quite easy to throw in the towel, and give up on a future.

He did not. He worked hard, for many years, and refused to let the attacks and sneers stop him. He pursued education in the IT field, after his original vocation was eaten by new tech. He was the oldest (and, likely, most-tattooed) person in his classes.

He ended up working at one of the most prestigious labs in the world, and was obviously valued by his employers. He worked there for a decade, before his unexpected death, earlier this year.

If people here knew of the particular challenges this person faced (not my story to tell), I guarantee that mandibles would be hitting the floor.

He was definitely below average in many ways, but above average in other, very important, ways.

No matter how much we have on the ball, we all have weaknesses, which will never be addressed, if we refuse to see them, and we often have strengths that we may never know, until the fecal matter hits the air circulation device.
I think the claim is that futurists lived to ruffle feathers, not fascists. Which doesn't seem an euphemism to me.
>quite a few things end up getting achieved because somebody is punching above their station. I think you learn the most when you steam train into something and get stuck - then figure out how to get out of it.

You can do that without deluding yourself into thinking you're smarter than you actually are, in fact it probably puts (the very likely) failure into a much healthier context.

Someone who is average can do exceptional things depending on the circumstances, and that is also really another point, not overplaying your own role in your success will make you pay attention to the people and the circumstance you rely on, and the huge role luck plays.

There is no need to perceive oneself as exceptional to take risk, that's just a broken celebrity culture. What I'm saying is, be Samwise, basically.
If it's running on a TV, it better be. At that point it's not an plucky O/S running on underpowered hardware, trying to save battery.
This is the sort of thing you can't help but run into when looking up ffmpeg incantations over the course of building a solution.

Just look how easily you ran into it when you weren't even looking for it.

For such a complex tool, the internet (like StackOverflow answers) ends up becoming a recipe book of practical solutions that would be hard to derive even if you sat down with the documentation and read it front to back. Nothing wrong with embracing that.
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A night train from Bratislava to Prague spends most of the night on a siding in Břeclav.
I understand, no disrespect meant to Poland - I've edited my answer to not sound disrespectful. My grandfather on my mother's side was Polish. It was just an awful trip. I guess I had built up this romantic idea in my head about night trains, but the reality is that the they are extremely noisy, so you should at least pack some earplugs. Also, the security warnings by the train staff made me nervous.
That's sourdough you're thinking of. I'm pretty sure Black Lives Matter is in some way connected to something that, as they say, "matters".
This looks very cool. Do you have a roadmap?
IMO this was part of a misinformation campaign against Zoom from several months back.

Zoom is not malware and never was malware, although Zoom did so some installer tricks to help computer illiterate users get into meeting more
quickly, which coincidentally is their entire value-add.

Note I own no shares in Zoom, do not and never have worked for Zoom, and have no financial interest in Zoom.
> I can't help but think the posters have a chip on their shoulder from being rejected by Google

I think so too, look at this angry (it says "fucking" 3 times) comment over at Reddit:

> It’s a waste of fucking time. I’m a really talented programmer [...] I’ve been eliminated based solely on messing up some dumbass arbitrary puzzle.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kcwqij/every_s...

And the only reply that to me somewhat seems to understand what's going on, getting lots of downvotes, so it got collapsed and you cannot easily find it:

> They just play a numbers game, and are able to discard perfectly capable candidates with this kind of questions, and still get a bunch of great candidates

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kcwqij/every_s...

(although it started in a bit weird way with "Lmao", however the other replies weren't any more polite were they?)
I don't know how it works in such cases, I mean, this is publicly known that there was an outage.

What I believe is that customers will probably get free GCP credits and that's it, everything is good as before.
I feel this is just a more negative version of always aim to surround yourself we people smarter than you.
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There are a lot of reasons and they can be discussed ad-nauseum. When you boil your question down to it's essence: "Why use a first-party framework and language" it's much easier to answer. The simplest and most pragmatic answer is "because this is what Apple tells us to use". It's a business decision more than anything else, if your business somehow depends heavily on mobile then you want to build native apps.
Rodents can be extremely friendly and cute indeed. Evidence: capivaras!
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So the solution is again MASSIVE investment in NUCLEAR power to give access to cheap and reliable energy.
While there are multiple routes, I believe this one you're talking about has to go through Prague.
No, because that case is too vague. Sending a notification isn’t a crime, especially when you request them by not turning off notifications.
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Disagree. Signal on desktop works very well for me and is very useful for quickly sending files from desktop to phone and back, especially when the phone isn't handy.
Well, this is diet advice from Italian Fascists.
I have a product that does of what you ask, e.g., no ads, no tracking, no "Dear valued customer".

Unfortunately:
- competitors use revenue from ads, tracking, selling data to their advantage and undercut your value based on price.

- and free users love free stuff. I had a user ask me to include ads in exchange for paid features.

- and yet people still distrust you. Once I proudly posted a new feature to Show HK and the first response was "How does this post not qualify as 'spam'?". Some people automatically think you're a bad guy since you sell something.

- without advertising, how do you get the word out?

I rely on word-of-mouth, since it carries much trust, and news articles. This means it's a slow game.

It is very hard to find mutual respect (both ways) between user and maker. Most relationships start with distrust or "what is in it for me".
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Ugh, if only other companies cared that much :-(

Amazon Prime app on LG TVs has had lip sync issues for at least 4 generations of their TVs, problem has been reported both to LG and samsung, and no one cares enough to fix it. When using the app on my LG CX the audio is about 500ms behind, it's an insane amount of missing audio sync and no one cares to fix it? No other apps do that, it's specifically amazon prime, but I guess it doesn't sell their Fire Sticks so hey, who cares?
Requiring unique credentials often leads to hardcoded but predictable credentials derived from the MAC address or some other public information about the device. I like the way the Turris Omnia does it, on first boot you get to set a password and there is a password strength meter.
The writer Huw Lemmey wrote a really interesting essay on Fascism vs. Pasta a while ago:

https://huw.substack.com/p/spaghetti-al-fascismo
> Iirc the mechanism that causes it to dull the pain also creates stomach acid.

Maybe it also increase stomach acid production, but my understanding is that the primary problem is that it thins the protective stomach lining.

Ibuprofen is a non-selective inhibitor of the COX enzymes. Inhibiting COX-2 reduces pain and inflammation. Inhibiting COX-1 inhibits stomach lining growth and the clotting process. Pharma has created selective COX-2 inhibitors, but some of those have run into their own problems (blood clots leading to myocardial infarctions in the case of Vioxx patients who weren't also on aspirin, IIRC... though, an increase in MIs would seem to be the natural and obvious side effect of intentionally reducing COX-1 inhibition. IIRC, the increase in MIs was in contrast to the traditional Ibuprofen treatment, not compared to an unmedicated baseline.)
The solution is even simpler than that: encourage poor people to have one or zero children. Cash handouts to encourage poor men to receive vasectomies for example.
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Are we celebrating irrelevant interview questions?
Talking about the limits of how we use technology in society is hardly disempowering - quite the opposite. I would have thought that talking less about the potential supremacy of technology would be the real counterproductive measure in trying to curb that potential reality.

Whether or not the influence of technology is overblown, the fact still stands that we need to draw boundaries around how technology can be used for persuasion. The question should be "where is the line?" not "should we even bother drawing one?".
Yeah :( I remember being on the night train from Munich to Vienna and the bed being only 180cm or something. Though I had booked the cheapest sleeper option that was available (sharing the room with 5 other people), so maybe this is different in the upper classes?
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I totally agree. The different and sometimes complex ways people are good at some things and bad at others is a reality that actually exists.

The idea of playing mind games in order to act less self-important seems... kind of self-important. The context of it being sold as a new idea in a blog with the person's name at the top in capital letters doesn't help that perception. I think Socrates might have the jump on this guy's routine by a few years.
Except you must have it installed on a spyphone at the same time, which destroys all privacy it has...
If you have a talent, you can do with it whatever you want. There is no such thing as squandering your talent.

People always told me: "You're so good at maths, you have to go into research. Your talent would be wasted as a middle school teacher." But then it turned out that I hated research. I work as a programmer now, a profession that I do enjoy, but it's so mundane. I wonder where I would have ended up if people hadn't discouraged me from becoming a teacher. I'm slightly jealous of people who get to work with curious kids every day.
Exactly. We know that the existence of the forest is extremely valuable in its natural state — for carbon capture, biodiversity, etc, but we expect to reap its rewards without paying for it. The forest is just as much a natural resource as the oil underneath Saudi Arabia, for example.

FTA:

> "The real problem is cost, because natural palm oil is extremely cheap...”

These kinds of statements are infuriating to me. It’s only cheap because we don’t pay for the negative externalities. If there were a monetary value associated with the forest, destroying it for a monocrop wouldn’t be so cheap. Markets are extremely useful things. We should use them.
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I saw lots of squirrels in Prague so it's not just London. They also have these massive rodents in the river. They are very tame, can be up to the size of a small dog and have big, red teeth.