skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except for damned if you do, damned if you dont situations. Most higher ups in law enforcement act more like wannabe politicians rather than senior LEO that manage and coordinate. If you're on the bottom of the totem pole and you see regular cases of seniority or random outside politicians throwing every officer they can under the bus for virtue signaling votes... I wonder how well that'll work out. Let's add on the policy and public sentiment of defund the police, because it's the cops fault crimes are committed. How's that working out in Seattle and Minneapolis? Do a search on the crime rates of the cities that decided cOpS bAd. Crime rates went up, badly. Look, dont get me wrong, reform is needed. I actually say the prison systems and punishments needs massive, massive reform here. Non-violent criminals should never, ever be held in the same building as violent, but that happens about 60-70% of the time (last I saw, but I think it may have been state specific, this was years ago). I also dont think petty, bullshit crimes should get jail time, but this is a vague statement that requires a large discussion outside of here. Plus, you get asshole cops the same way you get asshole anything. It happens. Dont pretend for a second the academic or tech world is full of angels. We are talking about humans. However, if the "good" cops have a low tolerance for bullshit because they just want to do the civil job they WANT to do, properly... you start to push out the internal checks and balances.

Ultimately though, I find it funny how "intelligent" people are so incredibly stupid when it comes to law enforcement. Cops dont make laws. They abide by laws created by legislator politicians. Cops cant argue if a law should be enforced. Only judges and sheriffs can make that call (both are elected positions by the way). However, again, they cant create laws. They work in the spectrum given. The whole checks and balance thing if you paid attention in school. The same politicians who saw "cops bad, shame on them" are the same shit stains that made the law enforcement policy that's hated. Then... they throw the cops under the bus... huh, I wonder why people dont want to be cops once they see how stupid both politicians and the public are on the matter. My honest opinion, as an American that's lived here his whole life, the people fell asleep at the wheel and we are headed for a cliff. It's not the road's fault that there's a turn, it's the driver's fault for not keeping their eyes open. Politicians making bullshit laws for cops to follow then blaming cops for those laws is Biblical level the devil laughing while striking a deal.
This is the same for in-person work. Whether you’re face to face or remote, you still need to practice good management. I find it’s much easier to scale as a remote manager as the team’s focus is much more work oriented and much less focused on office drama that requires management participation or intervention. Even something like catching up with everyone after a weekend is much more taxing IRL from a management perspective.
This is just one data point, but the new college grad we brought in has really hit the ground running. He is not struggling with working from home at all & I'm not having any problems mentoring him.
I disagree. Whilst some employers would be dead against it, others may look positively on people taking sabbaticals/gap years. As long as you have a good CV/resume and if you are older, consistent work history and are taking the time off in a manner which is within your means, I would say go for it.
https://wooey.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
If my prospective employer has an issue with me having taken a sabbatical, I'd rather not work with them.
If we claim that the culture of law enforcement is corrupt, we should be encouraged by the turnover. The problem with that appealing line of thinking for me is the massive amount of mandatory overtime the cops have worked in the past year, which might be nice in the beginning (a lot of cash) but after a year crazy/depression-making. Add to that the weird determination of cities to beat 2020 numbers in crime stats (2020 was a unique year) keeping the OT going. Teachers have been drying up, too, because of local pols using public employees as a political football. It's all pretty complicated.
This website isn't really about etymology as traditionally understood, but only about the evolution of characters. Etymology would be connecting modern Chinese forms to the reconstructed Middle Chinese and Old Chinese pronunciations, and linking them to their cognates in other Sino-Tibetan languages. (This field, incidentally, has made huge strides in the last two decades, but even for linguists it is hard to keep up with the flood of scholarship, and you should take anything on an amateur enthusiast-run website with a grain of salt.)
That'd be a hell of a plot haha. Honestly I think this is closer to being the last big IRC drama
> the ones leaving are the ones who can no longer get away with the abuse of power they have become accustomed to

This is a tempting conclusion, which is why I’m cautious about reaching it. Absent evidence, we cannot dismiss the possibility that the ones who are leaving are the good ones. Those with a strong moral core uncomfortable with their peers or sick of being lumped in by the public with them.
I miss a big button saying ‘NO, freenode is not dead yet’ on that website :/
Is it? The documentation ( https://github.com/up-for-grabs/up-for-grabs.net/blob/gh-pag... ) is verbose, but that appears to be an attempt to lower the barrier of entry. Each PR to add a new project seems to be just the addition of a single .yml file describing the project and associated tags.
> I don't think...

Instead of assuming, it's easy enough to confirm that CPU binning is real.
The file doesn't need to be uploaded for it to be edited within a web app – everything can be 100% local, including saving editor state (through local-storage).

The only network access absolutely necessary is downloading the web app code initially but after first load it's possible for a web app to work offline
I have taken a year off before and a couple of months in between jobs. I think many of us have undergone once-in-a-lifetime type of stress in the past year that few would consider taking some time off as toxic. We all processed the events of the past year differently, and we all coped in different ways, but it still took a toll. I would encourage taking time off.

The one major issue of taking some time off right now to travel is that it is incredibly difficult to do so. Many countries are still closed, or if open, have some sort of curfew. In the US, national parks are overwhelmed with tourists. If traveling solo, social distancing (either laws or new culture) makes it difficult to connect with strangers.
Unlike all the other things Google kills, this one has an actual SLA and a ton of customers with enterprise agreements.

Oh, and it's very interconnected with GCP.
> "By drug dealer I assume you mean person of color"

Why would a drug dealer be a "person of color" ? I did not see that in the original comment and I don't understand why you would make that assumption.

My experience (based on news reports - I've never purchased drugs illegally) about drug dealers is that they are a cross section of society, meaning people of every skin color and ethnicity. The color of their skin is not the deciding factor based on the reports I've seen.

Why is the color of someone's skin so important to you?

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It would be nice if they provided a route to getting old GAFYD users over to a standard Google Account.

I've still got old accounts with photos etc on that I cannot move, and the only reason I moved from GAFYD is because of so much functionality being missing.

GAFYD https://lifehacker.com/what-does-google-apps-for-your-domain...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27497207

'dang:

> All: please don't post shallow, reflexive reactions to a story like this, even if you're sure you're right. Such reactions are 100% predictable (e.g. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27497174), and predictability hurts more than rightness helps [0]. Predictable discussions are tedious and invariably lead to worse—for example, tedious discussions turn nasty because that's the only thing the mind has left to amuse itself with [1].
They seem cagey about whether or not the individual plan will have custom domains or support. That'd probably be the dealbreaker for everyone with single-user business accounts.

(Unless you're like me and still have grandfathered unlimited storage).
curl https://URI_TO_WEB_APP | wasm-exec-webapp /dev/stdin
Thanks! That's a bit of a sad state of things :-(
Someone who has been doing "independent consulting" for six months or a year is pretty transparently obfuscating that they were unemployed. I'd probably view it in a better light--not that there's anything wrong with doing or trying to do some consulting on the side--if they were just open about taking some time off.
First, we had centralized time-sharing systems, which gave way to decentralized applications running on PCs. Back to centralization with early web applications, and now back to decentralized apps running in the browser.
Irish DPC: 99.93% of GDPR complaints see no decision
I might be in the minority but I'd still love to move all my web services over from Google to DDG, especially my email. DDG could just be a front end for another provider like DDG mail powered by a trusted provider like Proton or Apple. I know I can get iCloud online but I'm used to Google ...all services provided by one provider (one place) i staunchly support.
Invoking Alan Watts here, how else would one be able to broadcast one's spiritual superiority? /s
The "book a meeting" mechanism shown in the animation towards the end looks like an interesting competitor to Calendly and similar.
Does anyone have any experience on how this couples with nuitka, pyinstaller, py2exe?

There's a section on pyinstaller in the github page, but my experience is that this domain (packing a Python application into an executable) is hard, dirty and inefficient all around, so I'd appreciate having the opinions of people who tried it beyond toy problems
The difference is that there’s not normally a mass catalyst like the end of WFH. Many people think of quitting their job, few actually do.

That’s largely because of status quo bias. People don’t like to make any major changes to their life situation unless prompted. But if a company exists on ending the WFH arrangements that people have become accustomed to over the past year, all bets are out the window.
A 6 month gap was the healthiest emotional choice I ever made. Just be prepared that you have no idea how you'll react to it until you do it. I strongly recommend setting very light goals for the first month while you adjust, otherwise you'll stress yourself out.

For me, I went with "Take one great photo a day."
Im not seeing a lot of remote/hybrid offers in the midatlantic area (from my little checking around my area).

It's a lot more "we're remote right now and haven't determined our remote strategy" which like my current place generally means we'll expect you back, but might be a little more lenient on why you need to do a special WFH day.

I've done both full remote and full open office. I think being close enough to go in and get together to determine project path and then going remote to work on it seems to be the way to go. It doesn't look like my current employer believes the same way - even though they are doing very well right now and we're all remote.
Thoughts on the upcoming changes to shortcut mapping in macOS
MicroStrategy Completes $500M Offering for Bitcoin [pdf]
Uh Hitler was very popular. (To be precise he was more popular than the other guys.). The problem people have with Hitler isn’t that he was unpopular.

Really the amount of projection in some of these replies is incredible. All I’ve done is explain why one group of people have warm feelings for Modi (and FYI no development work was done in that area by prior Congress or BJP governments.) I’ve even acknowledged that he has made serious missteps. But as in parts of the US, in parts of India ORANGE MAN BAD is the only acceptable response it seems. Just a different shade of orange that’s all ;-)

> At this stage anyone, literally anyone, would be better than him.

If you say so. In the real world there actually has to be a person. That person has to actually have a platform, preferably something more than HES HITLER YOU GUYZ, and has to appeal to a vast an diverse electorate who will be driven primarily by parochial concerns. That’s how democracy works.
Not really. It's not free, but its dramatically cheaper than the US, and usually paid via government-provided loans with good terms (low interest, fixed repayment of 9% percent of your salary above a reasonable minimum, taken automatically by employers). It's closer to a graduate tax than a traditional loan.

Everybody can have a loan for the full cost if they want one, people from poorer families get outright grants instead.

Certainly not perfect, but my impression is it hasn't significantly hindered uptake from lower income students and its not a major financial burden in practice.
Are they losing a lot of customers to Basecamp or something? This seems like the business model for a lot of their customers (small businesses/churches/etc that just need a space to put stuff where everyone knows where it is). Those places are probably paying for Google or Microsoft mail anyway though.
Right, but it's not that black and white. There are exceptions for law enforcement, and details as to where it is applicable.

My point is that the solution is in politics and law making, to regulate these details.

Case in point: in my continental European home country, cloud emails are protected the same way as all your other communications, where in the US it appears they are not (?).

Which is to say: similar basic rules may yield pretty different outcomes, and the difference I believe is in politics.
When the profession doesn't have any repercussions for bad actors, this is the inevitable result.
The Scandinavian usage of tun is akin to a courtyard, or the open space between a (small and fenced in) collection of houses. Again a courtyard can be traced to Middle Lower German hof, and even onwards to Proto-Germanic hufą, which is cognate with the Scandinavian word for head. And indeed if you want to say "the main part" in Danish or Norwegian you'd say hoveddelen. Hoff additionally means a royal court in Norwegian. On the other hand, the easiest cognate of this word in English is probably that of a horse hoof, which makes sense because such a tun is usually a stamped hard by both humans and their cattle.
I still fail to see your point, because Sing# also allowed for unsafe code, plus those designs were not adopted in Midori, nor Barrelfish.

Plus SIP as managed OS aren't that different from Mesa/Cedar, Lisp Machines, Smalltalk, Oberon. Modula-3.

Yes, the overrall security is way better than C and its descendants, but that doesn't make it fullproof.
Some Americans are breaking out of political echo chambers
I think for some trying to explain how to get setup for the VPN remotely is a nightmare. Why I mention this? Because I've had this exact problem a couple months back. Basically, I wasn't able to access a SQL server on the business' internal network until me and IT had the realization that my IP address at home was conflicting with theirs. So I had to manually update my router settings and all the affected devices (laptop included) to use a different subnet. So it's little things like this that will plague any on-boarding WFH worker among others.
Some PM just reinvented Google Wave.
I get so many recruiters contacting me that I could never do this. 95% of them are low quality jobs anyway.
> if they have job security now then why take the risk?

Because, at least in the US, and at least in IT, it is a buyer's market.
This is the trap of social media and why many people would be healthier and happier if they were able to live & be present in the moment without their phone.

Plenty of people will read this comment and think that is not them but if there is not a point in your day when your phone is not on you, out of sights and out of reach for at least an hour you're not as "present" as you think.
The polyunsaturated fatty acids are much more prone to spontaneous oxidation by the air.

In your body the oxidation reactions are not spontaneous, they are catalyzed by enzymes.

All the cells have large quantities of enzymes used for the oxidation of the mono-unsaturated fatty acids and of the saturated fatty acids, which are stored together in the fat used as an energy reserve.

So MUFA and saturated fatty acids are either oxidized rapidly when you do physical work or they are stored in reserve fat when in excess.

The poly-unsaturated fatty acids are not used as an energy reserve, they are used mainly for building various kind of cellular membranes.

Most cells do not need to transform PUFA and they do not contain enzymes for this. Excess PUFA are processed mainly in the liver, where they are transformed through a chain of reactions to fatty acids that can be oxidized through the normal path.

When there is a deficit of PUFA, but there are precursors with a shorter chain, e.g. ALA for DHA & EPA, the liver will perform elongation reactions, to increase the quantities of PUFA, instead of preparing them for oxidation.

However all these reactions with PUFA, either for synthesis or for degradation, are rate-limited by modest quantities of the necessary enzymes, so either too small or too large quantities of PUFA can exceed the processing capability needed to adjust the PUFA concentration in the body.
Tobias Bernard Explains GNOME’s Power Structure
I found the original site more than ten years ago in university. Was amazed by the rich content. Thought it was probably a big well-funded academic project. A few years ago I learned it was done by a single person living in China out of pure love of our language. And he had trouble renewing his visa and had health problems. I was even more impressed. Now he has a very rare Chinese permanent residency for foreigners and has been able to monetize some of his work. I feel so happy for him. Thank you sir for all the great work.
I think all he meant was it was a similar break in terms of length of time and the company did a good job of re-integrating women who went on maternity leave for that length of time, leading to a good company culture in general for getting employees out for long amounts of time back into the thick of things.
Thought it was already possible since PDF files can be opened by modern browsers just fine. But recently tried making Google Sheets open XLS files via some 3rd party plugin, no luck.

Surprised Google didn't whip out something proprietary, since Google Docs was added 15 years ago, way before official drag and drop support too. Didn't Google Desktop allow that at some point?
Nope. The file data is open within the browser context, and from there the app can decide what to do with it - which may entail uploading it, but doesn't need to be. The same way you can open a file in photopea.com without uploading it to their servers.
Building a Color Scheme
If you want and can take it - take it. You never know if you’ll be able to afford it in the near future.
I mean... sure? Or to the side? Was it really so hard to find a large region in which there were obviously no allied soldiers? Like... people weren't wandering around outside the trenches right?
It’s also a huge disincentive to switching jobs: I’ve known people who took or stayed at jobs they didn’t love just for the benefits who would have preferred to be independent or at small companies but had families, various conditions which didn’t prevent working normally but would have made individual insurance prohibitive. The ACA helped, but not enough and not in every state — especially because large group plans can mean less pushback on every charge.
I don't know how the IKEA hardware works. However it is not true that Alexa has to talk to a cloud service to integrate with all IoT devices.

I know this because I run some local Raspberry PIs that pretend to be WeMo devices and I'm able to control them without any cloud connections from the PIs. The echo discovers the WeMo devices via upnp.

This has been a thing for quite a while[0].

I believe you are correct that Google Home has no local network device control.

[0]: https://hackaday.com/2015/07/16/how-to-make-amazon-echo-cont...
Far more people die from medical malpractice mistakes every year. I don't see anyone calling for dismantling the medical profession.

Police are a necessary part of modern civilization. Full stop. If they have no repercussions for bad actions, then implement them.

It really isn't that complicated.
One of you gets off the track to allow the other to pass.

A normal bicycle can be lifted in one hand. This looks more unwieldy but not too much heavier. It shouldn't be hard.

(If two riders are both so oblivious that neither sees the other coming from at least a quarter-mile off, they deserve to crash.)
Doesn't that describe literally every financial asset? After all, a piece of paper or a yellow rock only has value because other people are willing to give you goods in exchange for it.
I feel like I'm seeing a larger than normal wave of retirements. Which isn't surprising. People who were thinking that way anyway probably figured they might as well keep collecting a salary during the pandemic given everything was closed anyway. But now that travel is creaking back to life, etc. people are ready to pull the trigger.
The blog post seems to be aimed at individual businesses.
I don't understand, why would they care about that? Are you saying people would be less interested in baseball if the MLB were upfront about the past instances of cheating?
My interpretation of the post you're responding to wasn't that the experiences were similar, but that the work culture responses and company infrastructure for handling extended absences worked the same way for him as they did for mothers. I think the point was that if there are good systems in place at a company for maternity leave, that maybe people can use those same system to take non-maternity time off.
I am not lying, the assortment of Thread based devices ever seeing sale is much smaller than the size of Thread's illustrious board of directors.

They literally have more talkshops per months than devices released.
> . It helps that my parents are immigrants, and my parents' accents give them away, which leads to cops and even judges doing stupid things to side with the locals instead.

Can you expand on the negative experiences your immigrant parents had with police and courts? Stop and frisk or things like that?

The minority of people (including Black Americans) don't support less police time in their neighborhoods

Preference for Amount of Time Police Spend in Your Area

Would you rather the police spend more time, the same amount of time or less time as they currently spend in your area?

More time; Same amount of time; Less time;

Black Americans 20 61 19

White Americans 17 71 12

Hispanic Americans 24 59 17

Asian Americans 9 63 28

U.S. adults 19 67 14

https://news.gallup.com/poll/316571/black-americans-police-r...
I find it interesting the article seems surprised AMD said nothing. AMD for a long time was a major owner of shares of global foundries. GloFo Spent a while buying the stake that AMD held. AMD is still using GloFo for it's IO dies as they don't need the densest nodes. Heck AMD just this May announced it's gonna buy an other 1.6 billion dollars worth of wafers from GloFlo.