skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's assume a court convicted someone of murder within this zone. Let's also assume the evidence was overwhelming and the act was premeditated because the murderer had knowledge of the Sixth Amendment and this loophole. The case makes it's way to the Supreme Court. But because of the bizarre nature of the loophole SCOTUS simply chooses not to hear appeal and lets the conviction stand. This is how the law could be enforced while technically violating the Sixth Amendment.
Same here. If I understand correctly, the GDPR states that if the user is tricked into clicking that they give consent, that doesn't count as them truly giving consent. Despite this, many otherwise reputable websites try to deceive you into 'agreeing'. Disappointingly, TomsHardware is one such.

These dark patterns will only go away once there are properly enforced laws against them.
I’m sorry, I don’t really follow. Could you explain a little bit more?
I think wedn3sday hit some of the key use cases we're personally excited about!

Agriculture is an interesting use case we're also excited about! While it's one of the most obvious applications, adoption has been curbed through historically high minimum order sizes, where cost is an implicit factor. Some providers require up to a 250 sq. km minimum order area, which already prices out a lot of small time farmers. We're hoping to reduce our minimum order area to 1 sq. km. and help enable this semi-neglected portion of the market. One company we're excited about in this space is Enveritas, a company looking using geospatial data to push for sustainability within the global coffee industry.

That's just one I can think of from the top of my head!
VLC is the best program I have ever used.

Dumb joke: When it turns 21, what would be the drink that VLC would like?
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> Is there a language that's known for excellent docs ?

Mathematica's documentation is extremely good (reference.wolfram.com).
We decided to implement email reminders so you can choose if you want to receive them. I personally find them more effective than push notifications, but we'll consider that alternative, thank you!
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I think it's not really a false equivalence, as a matter of degree - but see edit made in response to this.

There is also an issue of Maslow style leveling here, but the core point is identical.
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Love the clarity of the goals and self grading, though I'm wondering what happens when things change part way through the cycle.
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You added it only after I called you out here.
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VLC "just works" and has done so for at least the 11 years or so that I've used it. What an excellent piece of software. Never change, VLC!
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Thanks VideoLAN!
Only if abused at high doses. I was recently diagnosed with ADD and the adderall XR is incredibly helpful, and at my 10mg dose on an “as needed” basis (since I don’t need productivity every day) I’m not concerned at all.
Definitely. It is one of the reasons I enjoy working in a 2 week sprint setting (all other reasons aside). It forces me to really break tasks down to actionable items
Of the people that wouldn't use drugs there will be some that legality is their only reason for not consuming. But most in the non-consuming group wouldn't consume even if it was legal for a myriad of other reasons.

I prefer the warnings to be helpful for informing adults weighing risks in their decision. Scarier warnings like on cigarette packs are a means of forcing personal or governmental ideals on others through fear. Provide all the known facts and let people make their choice.
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20 PRINT "STEVE ROCKS"
30 GOTO 10
Makes sense. Thanks for the tip on linking Excel!
My current node is line of sight to the U.S. mountains south of Victoria, so if that's your location and you have line of sight, you can probably connect to me right now!
No it was added specifically after I made my first comment about it here.
Why don't they just leave the badly implemented keyboard then and slap a subscription button on it?
I roughly define binge as any amount of drinking that leaves you with a hangover the next day. That usually indicates that you have consumed enough to lose your judgment on when to stop.
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There is a ton of effort currently being put into the on-orbit servicing world. Orbit Fab is leading the way on providing the fuel depots, and a number of other companies are developing the robotics required to send servicing satellites in between Orbit Fab depots and the satellites they are filling up. Worst case, if the refueling is still a few years out by the time we need it, we would increase our orbit to extend our satellite lifetime (at the cost of lower spatial resolution).
How was VideoLAN started? I remember "Media Player Classic" and "K-Lite Codec Pack" were popular back then and when I installed VideoLAN and it blew my mind. Extremely fast, no buffering and very lightweight. I am 26 but I have been using VideoLAN as long as I can remember. The best media player.
Yeah I think overall harm minimisation would have to take into account negative externalities.

Even if you decriminalised meth, for example, and removed the need for property crime to get it, it could still cause a lot of bad effects for people proximate to the users.

People stay awake for days, become irrational and violent. Prolonged use can trigger psychotic episodes.

There needs to be a balance between taking into account the safety and freedom of users and the safety and freedom of wider society.
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I went to college in the US, in a state that has pretty heavy-handed drug penalties, and my experience doesn't sound much different from yours.

As another comment mentioned, using college-aged kids as a representative sample for the entire population is inherently flawed, especially when it comes to things like drug use.
Ah so it's the "Nigerian Prince" scam, basically?
Apple, almost exactly 2 years ago, revoked Facebook's enterprise signing key after shenanigans they had pulled with their fake VPN. Until that was fixed, Facebook devs were unable to install new builds on their testing devices.

Based on that history, I don't think Apple is scared of Facebook. They probably won't pull the app because it would be flipped back on Apple, but I'm sure they could find something to push back on Facebook with.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facebook-and-google-...
Thanks! Yes, book recommendations would be welcome.

The struggle I've had so far is that I feel like I'm in a weird in-between space between super simple and super complicated. When I look for inventory software, some solutions are for the basic case of people selling t-shirts or sneakers with no concept of subcomponents. And then when I look for software that supports bills of materials or "kitting" it's ultra-complicated and assumes I have multiple warehouses and do everything through purchase orders.
Yes, web notifications should do the work on mobile too. Probably that's even a better approach than having to install a new app for a simple tool like this one. Thanks! :)
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Thank you, the organization and of course the maintainers of all this wonderful software that you maintain! I recently tracked down and reported my first bug in one of the projects and the maintainers made the experience an absolute joy!

To the question: I keep hearing from my younger peers that they don't see any value in out-of-browser software. To me, that's their loss. But if this attitude is prevalent, do you feel you are having a harder time attracting talent than say 10-20 years ago?

Merci encore une fois !
Here's a controversial opinion:

Best practices aren't the same depending on the caliber of the engineers you have.
"Many resources / allied forces / waste on cracking / advert messages / That bemuses / Burma Shave", see [0] for context. This was not an actual Burma Shave advertisement of course.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave
Decriminalizing possession doesn't stop the need for people to steal to afford drugs, though. It also means people who do them will only interface with the criminal justice system when they commit these kinds of support crimes.

They won't get scooped up for a lesser offense, yes. But if anything, it means when they do get scooped up it will be for a worse one, and it will happen.
I hate the logic that because people have successfully used something, it is good. Having used MongoDB extensively, it is absolutely true that MongoDB is powerful and useful. However, it is also true that I would never choose it over something else for a new project. It has likely improved since 2013, but so has everything else.

Certainly I could endeavor to build amazing modern software in C, but unless for some reason C is an absolute must, I would rather try any other language first. I doubt this is a controversial statement, and yet someone will always be there to defend the opposite stance.
Thanks for the explanation. Guss I never had an NLP usecase.
So SpaCy can take a text or sentences apart and knows what the parts "mean" but I can't think of a problem to solve with this.
Maybe summarize a text or something, but I guess I am not imaginative enough
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Thanks for sharing your story. Oh man, that sucks! Yeah, it's funny there's things I don't want to build in the first place. And then the moment you build them, you are responsible for making sure they work for the rest of your tenure. Managing downstream dependencies is genuinely hard for so many systems, and is made worse by the lack of visibility and custom code-writing for internal tools.
They probably A/B tested and had a far lower conversion rate when users saw their crappy keyboard.
Leaving ADHD untreated can do significant damage to your health, too.
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Google had a game studio? Did it make anything?
Hey jbk just wanted to take this chance to say thanks! VLC has been year over year some of the most consitently good software I've ever used. Thank you for all the hard work I'm sure goes into making a killer product.
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What quantity would you say is binge drinking? Or rather, if a six pack before bed (6pm-9pm) isn’t binge drinking what quantity of beer is?
> Can you pump your own gas?

Oh stop it, that's not nice. We are slowly, slowly increasing the ability for people to pump their own gas. Right about the time nobody needs to pump gas any more, we will fully legalize it.

We also have no sales tax, and I consider that a pretty big plus.
Just so that people understand, OpenJDK is the name of Oracle's implementation of Java, to which Red Hat, SAP, Intel, Azul, Google, Twitter and others contribute, but Oracle contributes ~90% of the work. "Oracle JDK" is Oracle's support subscription, but the source code to that software is OpenJDK. A couple of years ago Oracle completed open-sourcing the entire JDK, making the JDK fully free and open source for the first time in Java's history, and now it offers no proprietary features. It also started focusing more on, and shifting people's attention to, the OpenJDK brand.

Because Oracle owns the OpenJDK code, only Oracle and companies that license the OpenJDK source code under a proprietary license from Oracle, like Azul, can release closed-source implementations of the JDK that are based on OpenJDK.

(I work at Oracle on Java, i.e. OpenJDK)
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> Dumb joke: When it turns 21, what would be the drink that VLC would like?

VLC is French, so it's been drinking great wine since it was 18 ;-)
a detection is typically a rule that describes known bad or suspicious behaviour. all simple rule would just be a list of malware hashes or domain names

so instead of writing rules using tools such as YARA: https://github.com/fireeye/sunburst_countermeasures/blob/mai... (sunburst)
they want to write them in python
That website just defines a “standard drink” in the US as 14 grams of alcohol. It doesn’t say anything about how much an average person can “process” in an hour. I can’t even come up with a good reason for the utility of a measure of alcohol without it being a ratio of how much can be processed in an hour.

That’s why the NHS metric is better suited for discussions about how much alcohol per unit of time one can/should drink, or to discuss the effects of different rates of alcohol consumption over time.

From the NHS website:

>One unit equals 10ml or 8g of pure alcohol, which is around the amount of alcohol the average adult can process in an hour.
Nice!

I guess the next target is to do RISC-V. I think it only works with the interpreter at the moment.
The legal drinking age in France is 18 :)
I'm curious where the definition of a class E violation can be found. I didn't find anything through a search.

It seems odd to me that the government can charge a fine without a crime being committed. In my mind, this would remove the rights and protections that someone would have under a criminal charge.
You can see this in stuff like Chinese-American restaurants, or British-Indian food, but a lot of great food comes from what cooks have to do when using their original recipes/cooking styles in a region with distinct ingredients. I end up accumulating a lot of ingredients that are traditional from international groceries and stuff, but a lot of interesting and tasty dishes come from what you can substitute regarding local produce and ingredients.
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That is the logistics I'm talking about. Testing was incredibly slow to scale up last spring, and scaling up tests for antibodies as well seems like unnecessary complication. We need fewer moving parts, not more.
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100% this. I was diagnosed last year (at 33), and it changed my life for the better; specifically, it allowed me to stop being angry at myself every time I did something that was, in fact, a symptom of ADD. Now I had a reason and could work to modify behaviors, as opposed to just feeling guilty and undisciplined.

Mark Suster’s posts were what set me on this track of self-realization (along with my best friend and fiancée telling me to consider it), so I’ll leave them here in case they help anyone else too:

[1] https://bothsidesofthetable.com/how-to-know-if-you-have-add-...

[2] https://bothsidesofthetable.com/why-add-might-actually-benef...

[3] https://bothsidesofthetable.com/developing-an-action-plan-fo...
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>> Because Alaska’s state tax system is linked to the federal tax code, that law allows businesses to write off net operating losses against five years’ worth of state corporate income taxes. Companies can either ask for the refund to be applied against future taxes or to request cash back from the state <<

im betting AK isnt the only state in this position, im wondering how this comes about [todo: Re. state tax laws linked to fed tax laws]

it seems like classic footgunning; if the industry fails the state takes a big gouge in revenues as well as jobs displacement.

Im really not a business guy, are there any other business sectors like this, that basically have no taxation or tax rebate if they post up a loss?