skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure - I think that reinforces my point that there isn't and won't be any political will to send unarmed social workers instead of cops on mental health calls solely on the abstract merits. Almost 100% of cases where the police check in on mental health cases end up fine, even though the cops are armed. If the attempted rhetoric is that sending in armed cops is a bad idea, the evidence suggests that it's generally fine in practice and probably does not warrant a change.

What is new about the "defund the police" and "racist murderers" rhetoric is that it suggests that almost 100% is meaningfully different from actually 100%. Almost 100% of interactions Jack Ruby had with people ended up with them surviving, but he is still a "murderer."
I don't think people understand that large rivers can flow through deserts and provide water.
It’s a made up number - no one normal uses this much water in a bath
Side note: really difficult to read the site on mobile with all the ads popping up
It would be much more helpful if they were obligated to either protect or serve. As it is, they have no obligation to do either one. "To protect and serve" is literally nothing more than a marketing slogan, originally used by the LAPD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

https://www.lapdonline.org/history_of_the_lapd/content_basic...
Yeah, I read it. Wasn't a bad paper, just not my pet theory.

Mind you, I did the reverse: I did the thing then researched why I just achieved what is claimed by many to have been vaguely impossible. Discovered a lot of amazing research that nobody really talks about.

Leptin and antibiotic research both are extremely important to this field, to the point I've now watched it go from being obscure to commonly discussed within the now-merging Paleo and Keto communities by the common folk who aren't too big on reading papers.

I'm not against any theory, I'm just favoring the theory that has the best support. Contamination theory isn't invalidated by my own personal point, I very well could have stopped the contamination source (by the methods proposed in the paper) by simply not eating infected food, which Paleo seems to significantly avoid.
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When restaurants first opened in mid 2020 the filter effect was very clear. Most places were fairly empty and patrons were those who would score lowest in the trait of “conscientiouness” because they had to take a big health risk rather than cook a meal. Also they acted entitled as if they were doing the restaurant a favor by going. It seems to me this effect should be over in the vaccine era though.
The market has always been too crowded, unless we are talking about the early Atari 2600 days.

Being a game dev is akin to music, acting, whatever arts related.

It will cost blood, sweets and tears, full of ups and downs, and only an handful will manage to keep going at it their whole life.

Just like other arts, it doesn't mean people just give up, rather be aware it isn't just because they like playing on their games console every single day, that they will make it on the industry.
Not affiliated with the product but you are discounting the value of the remaining 50 minutes to zero.
I could tell you but then HN would get the subpoena.
One more general point in favour of the narrative is the rate at which service industry workers have been leaving the industry in particular[1]. Of course that also can be a function of rising wages in warehouse work or better unemployment benefits so the phenomenon might not be solely recent, but I don't think the narrative is made up, retail work is pain.

And no offense but it might be your experience of luxurious SF dining that is a little bit unrepresentative.

[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/retail-workers-leaving-quit-...
Water would cost $12 per month which is fair and lower than almost all existing urban water costs . A corner store sells water for $$ per gallon. The tax on a bottle would be small fraction of a penny
In California they doo'd it. Something around 70% of the water that flows in rivers and streams is spoken for.
I hat this too. Especially for newsletters. They tease you with an interesting headline and then let you scan the entire thing to find maybe just a link to the topic teased.
Weird, the actual serbian word is "čuda", pronounced "chuda", and they're completely ignoring the diacritics.
They've raised 6 billion BEFORE this. This takes them to 8.5 total...

100% they should have delivered something by now.
Why isn't this considered criminal vandalism and hacking?
Intent matters.

Owning the domain doesn't give them a right to intentionally interfere with the requested content; they should simply decline to serve the expired URLs.
Debian bullseye release planned on 2021-08-14
It's funny that lots of people comment on the snappy UI, because there isn't actually a lot of performance magic going on here -- the frontend just loads a few-MB large gzipped JSON inverted index and uses it to do all search and display locally in the browser using pretty normal unoptimized JavaScript. No WebAssembly or anything else fancy -- just JavaScript working through a large object graph.

I think in general simple JavaScript applications can be remarkably fast these days if you're careful not to introduce unnecessary work and aware of the data structures you're using and profile + optimize judiciously :)
Thanks for taking the time to share Near’s story.
> Many

Citation needed.
The true format is, of course, YYYY-MM-DD, not YYYY/MM/DD.
You mean it could be a “fallacy of composition” - if you provided some evidence for the claim that a group of likely non-racist individuals are nevertheless racist as a group - whatever that means.
Andrei also found something else to do after writing the book!
>And poor renters largely benefit by not having to pay local income or sales taxes, since the burden of the tax will fall on their landlords.

This is not how the rental business works. Property tax is simply a cost passed on to the renter.
First of all, the purpose of photosynthesis is primarily for obtaining energy via carbon. Oxygen by itself is no use. Secondly, not all of the oxygen that a plant uses comes from photosynthesis. Some of it can be absorbed from water in the roots, and some is absorbed from the air itself between cells. The amount varies from species to species.

More importantly, you've completely missed the bigger point. Carbon has been sequestered from the atmosphere over millions of years. Now we are releasing that carbon at a high rate over a few decades. The balance is being changed at an extremely fast rate, in a blink of a geological eye.

So.... the OP originally tried to justify fossil fuels on the basis that plants will just absorb it. Can you answer my question to them? Where does that carbon go once a plant has absorbed it?

Ok, so let me cut to the chase. Plants store the carbon. Plants eventually die. Carbon is mostly released back into the atmosphere either indirectly or directly. So increased plant sequestration is only a temporarily store, it can't help us fix the carbon issue permanently.
Facts about Richard Wagner, his music and his misadventures
Same applies to most spicy food we now eat in Europe, until the discovery age there were no chilli peppers around, even the African ones came from Americas.
This week's 99% Invisible talks about this in the context of the Hanko, the personal stamps used in Japan for signing contracts and recording Nemawashi consensus. It talks about how one may join the 100% consensus, but still not be 100% bought in, which may be what Iv was getting at.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/hanko/
It's not insane, but it's not very logical. As a non native speaker, I prefer to say "Today is the 23rd of July in 2021" which is perhaps not valid English.
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I will say the very few times I've needed to call them they helped, a little. One particular case I had to buy my stolen stuff back, I'm lucky they found it, and they of course probably charged the guy who stole it with felony theft. Another case they resolved only after threatening to leave me with my problem unless I let them check my friends for warrants, which none had thankfully, and threatening to shoot me. Other encounters were usually uneventful, sterile and bureaucratic in nature, only once did I have what would be called a positive encounter, the cop declared respect for my rights. He still wrote me a ticket. And there's the countless "interactions" where you just see them around and they don't hassle you at all.

All in all, you need someone who's job it is to deter crime and prosecute criminals in some way. But people willing to enforce unjust laws and who have personal incentives to make your life harder and some authority to do that when it pleases them to are not to be trusted. If we could have the former without the latter that would be great. But given that cops can't actually stop crimes unless they get lucky and most crimes go unsolved, and seeing as we have the latter, it's not worth it. It would be better to just encourage people to be armed for their own protection.
God that's depressing. I was rereading the post on Coding Horror about interviewees not being able to pass fizzbuzz and I have such a hard time believing it.
Past related (I think?) threads:

BlocklySQL: A new block-based editor for SQL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25517043 - Dec 2020 (38 comments)

Blockly is a library for building visual programming editors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10763057 - Dec 2015 (40 comments)

Google Blockly is a library for building visual programming editors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987641 - Aug 2015 (1 comment)

Google's Blockly Games - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8211031 - Aug 2014 (18 comments)

Google Blockly - a visual programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4050426 - May 2012 (123 comments)
Are you suggesting that it's vice versa? Because it seems SpaceX (even from its name) has always had a MUCH bigger vision than blue origin. Were Blue Origin pursuing reusability before SpaceX?

Bezos getting into electric cars, Blue Origin trying to get into Satellite Internet it always reeks of sub-par copycatness
It's unfortunate this got flagged as a dupe. It's a well-researched, new article containing new reporting and information, as well as statements from experts in suicide and abuse. The reporter also spoke to Near's employer and independently confirmed the death, which is something that the past submissions did not.
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> when you go deep into the rabbit whole

It's a perfectly reasonable mistake, but damn are the implications of that phrasing unpleasant to think about...

It's "rabbit hole", btw, in case this was an /r/boneappletea moment :)
That was exactly my experience few months ago when I was building a wysiwyg resume builder. The first problem I faced was that if I was entering some text and switched from the browser to another app and then back to browser, I would lose focus. So I had to built custom logic for that using a whole bunch of workarounds. But this was an even bigger pain because if the user's cursor was in the middle of a sentence and not at the very end, then placing the cursor at a specific position was quite complex in content editable. Similar problems if the user had selected/highlighted some text.

Undo/redo logic was another nightmare. And copy paste required a ton of clean up before.

Next issue I faced was that if the container element had certain css formatting applied (can't remember which one) then if I hit enter, then backspace won't work. If I remember right, this had something to do with a well reported bug related to pre-wrap, white-space, break-line etc. This was also when I discovered that the content editable would work differently across browsers. This was basically when I dumped content editable and went with a simple textarea and a "fake dummy" hidden textarea used for calculating the size, formatting etc.

https://resumetopdf.com/
Then you should hope they stop being used as fake mental health counselors.
The GPLv3 requires that if you distribute GPLv3 software as part of a consumer product, users must be able to install a modified version of the software in its place.

If the baseband has GPLv3 software on it, then that implies the user has the right to run custom software on the baseband (at least at the same privilege level as said software), which probably implies the ability to connect it to arbitrary networks.

If only the application processor has GPLv3 software, then there is no requirement with respect to the baseband. The GPL isn't that viral.
Bjarne's vision for C++ is well documented in "The Design and Evolution of C++". but naturally Ken Thompson is completely unbiased against C++, just like Linus Torvalds.

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Bjarne-Stroustrup/dp/0201543303
I do it with xmodmap on Linux.
Android has won the phone world war
The end of the spectrum is probably more at thinking of human cities as distinct life forms.
They are wannabes because it makes the author of the parent comment feels better.

Anyone who isn't objectively the best at something is probably automatically a wannabe. So at the end of the day it's just a wannabe calling everyone else wannabe. Don't waste time on understanding people like that.
What I'm intending to say, quite badly as it appears, is that even if someone in crisis appears to be "violent" -- or if a person threatening suicide can be interpreted as threatening "violence" -- that is no reason to withdraw them from eligibility for a caring response.
We have a Crisis Response Team in my city and it has been blessing.

I believe they are actually part of the fire department or under their leadership but I could be wrong.

The most important thing about the crisis response team is time and patience.

The team is trained in descalation and are able to spend hours with a person in crisis.

They will sit and listen to the person, give them rides if need be and also make contact with people even if they aren’t in crisis to build trust and reliability.

Most of the time that’s all that someone really needs is just someone that will take the time to really listen.

I will also add that there is a definite need for a police presence in my city as well.
That's open source for you. I once worked on a project that had RiscOS as a first-class platform, and I was pretty sure that the maintainer was the only user of RiscOS in the world.
Easiest I can imagine is a user-facing id that gets incremented by trigger (e.g. select max(col)+1 — autoincrement/serial doesn’t guarantee contiguity, or even reasonable increments…).

And then any second trigger that relies on that value
Reminds me of the Make Noise 0-Coast: http://www.makenoisemusic.com/synthesizers/ohcoast
To what end? Growing food?

And one should use it in a sustainable way, so hopefully it doesn't run out.

And yeah, the ocean has water, but you can't use it unless you desalinate. Seems smarter to use water that's already useable and readily available?
> <contenteditable=false> within a <contenteditable=true> wouldn't work

yep, ran into the same bug few months ago myself.
But it's not true though. You saying it is true doesn't make it true. It's about as true as the statement "black people kill each other over crack corners." Sure, some do, but most don't, most just live their lives like the rest of humanity.
For anyone doubting how simple this is, you can buy entirely pre-made games and template games in the Unity Asset Store for anywhere from $25-$500 depending on how polished the asset is.
It's Stavros everywhere, it was only StavrosK here because the former was unavailable. I wasn't too fussed either way, but I asked the mods whether I could reclaim the username and they renamed the account to it, so here we are!

I figure it's easier for people to remember now.
Oh, that's right! I had totally forgotten about that method.
Just like other languages, C++ is not (that) complicated, if you happen to have full control of the code being written.

It is when you scale the team, or have a codebase that is being kept running since C++ exists, that the problems start.

However, to be fair and something that C++ haters tend to cleverly forget, trying to update a .NET Windows Forms application written in C# 2.0 into C# 10, Java 1.4 into Java 17 and so on, will face similar issues in complexity and language idioms.
They have. Rivian has delivered Amazon delivery vehicles which make deliveries:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJJNTVy62PU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LGtskt4YGA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzRDuLo3K6Q

Deliveries of the R1T should start in September after being delayed:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/41578/rivian-r1t-deliveries-ar...
The reasoning is clear as day. However, even the English themselves do not use this broken format: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

The US always seem to resist sensible things when it comes to units and formats: it is a mystery to me why they are so attached to imperial units, when the rest of the world sans Liberia and Myanmar are using metric units (and Myanmar planned to leave this shameful club before the recent coup).
It's a shame that propopents of good ideas need to mollycoddle fragile egos before the ideas can be approved on their merits.

Why is "stop killing Black people" the wrong goal?
Its very rare that I disagree with you, but I think this would be one such. PP made a claim that data from Indian government is not trusted, and implied bad faith as if the rest of the world has a chip on their shoulder about India.

I think it is legitimate to show why numbers quoted by this government (in particular, but its largely true in general) is distrusted. The examples that I quoted are publicly available and very overwhelmingly typical.

I think a corollary of free speech is that the community should contest and call out misinformation.
And European food without potatoes.
I guess being around since the language exists.

Just like looking at C# 10, Java 17, Python 3.9,... and making sense where the features or standard library calls came from.
Many, particularly South Indian dishes are cooked without chili peppers still.
They pretty clearly confused 0.25 cents with $0.25
Reminds me a bit of Macromedia/Adobe Authorware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Authorware
Bash and readline are both gpl-3. In theory, in some cases, you can force the company to give you the option to replace them with your version. Cleaning up gpl-3 is not fun.
China has falling social mobility?
“inherently racist”?

Inherent: “existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute.”

Once you define something as “racist”, then it’s not hard to conclude it’s “racist”. Sounds a lot like the christian doctrine of “original sin”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin

“Is it your assertion that only white people contain original sin?” - yup, both sentences seem equally meaningful IMO.
This is an absurd misrepresentation of what happened to Ms. Lyles.
Not only am I aware of this fact, I have actually been to a river in a desert!

And there's still a reason not much grows there. You start piping the water from that river into the desert and grow tropical fruit orchards you wind up with problems, such as those we see in southern california, which you might be surprised to find out is what we are actually discussing, water shortages caused by trying to grow tropical fruit orchards in a desert with rivers flowing through it.
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> For instance, when someone is talking about JSON serialization in C#, you could bet your life that they are referring to one of ~2 specific libraries and sets of methods.

I wouldn't bet on it, https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/try-the-new-system-tex...

Also try to talk about Java 17 to clueless group of devs still delivering stuff into production with Java 8 in 2021.
It hindi language, chuda means 'get f*ckd'.
Ranges had to be implemented without using the new language features that would make it easy and clean. Its authors had to use template-metaprogramming substitutes that are slow. As the language implementations catch up, the library can be upgraded and will get faster to compile.

There are new initialization modes that are simpler. The old ones still have to work. But you don't have to use the old ones anymore.
He said he was being erased from existence, not that it was the Libyans to whom he sold a shoddy bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts!

edit: some folks need to go rewatch Back to the Future...
Using intentionally ambiguous language to misdirect is only temporarily convincing until people cotton to your game.
Why do I always see these kind of post about android wars on smart phone. Its like android fans are trying to imply android is better than apple while apple fans don't really care.
I think the only sarcasm is around the world "failures". No one creates a super successful creative-work their first time, or usually even their first dozen times. You have to keep at it until you master it, and then also get a bit lucky.
Google also changes the front page results if you put the same query multiple times thereby bringing even phishing sites with low age as top result.

I recently caught a phishing site of my Govt. Tax website like that [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/Abishek_Muthian/status/14097614168657469...
Are these block-based visual editors Turing tarpits or entry drugs?
Here in Australia, the English colonialists established many policing units composed of aboriginals from one area (nation) who would then be responsible for hunting down and massacring the aboriginals in another area (nation).

The institution itself was racist -- regardless of the composition of individual members working under that institution.

To insinuate that an institution's ability to be racist depends on the ethnicity of its individual members is to deny that institutions have their own power.
No, it is not objective. He just failed to get the clues. In the second action sequence the player is told what to do twice: first in the briefing, and then he is given clear voice instructions what to do during the event itself.

First action sequence is more difficult, but is solvable, too, once you understand that different weapons have different effect on enemies.
Regarding modern check flags: clang-tidy has its modernize-* flags
Yep that's what happened.

In my defense, it's common "greengrocerese" to list a price that way. If limes are shown as "0.10¢ ea." on a handwritten card, you're not getting ten for a penny.

I still think taxing residential water is irrelevant, and that the difference between buying water at auction from the state and paying a tax for that water to the state, is that auction is better because price discovery tends to be.
It's technically accurate, and some serious bullshit:

'No taxation without representation. But also, no beer until representation.'
I wonder how long before the advertisers on these platforms realize how much the social media companies are using the same variable rewards, random payoff, low friction, and rule of reciprocity to manipulate companies into continuing to buy ads? Measuring ad effectiveness is already hard, now the social media giants are both the platform and the technology for measuring "engagement".

Isn't it blindingly obvious to ad buyers that they are essentially putting coins in a slot machine, pulling the "show my ads" lever, and getting a good feeling when the metrics show their ad 'went viral'?
Go would be modern in 1992, not 21st century.

While C# is now on version 10, and Java on 17, if we account for the releases in 2021, the large majority of the world is still delivering .NET Framework (C# 6)[0] and Java 8 code into production.

When I use modern C# and Java, always need to give a mini-lecture on current state of the world.

[0] There are ways to use newer C# version in .NET Framework, but with some caveats.