skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Police showing up without SWAT doesn’t really describe the situation in full.

Walking home, I once saw a huge number of cop cars lights flashing on my parents property and was quite concerned. Only by getting close did I realize they where surrounding a burnt car. Lights flashing is reasonable for a traffic stop but it’s not sending a calming message. At the other end I had a cop calmly knocking on my door and everything from his posture to the force and rhythm he used was keeping the situation calm.

First case bank robbers abandoned and set fire to their getaway car in an empty field, the second someone handed in my cellphone to lost and found. First case had nothing to do with me and I was flipping out, second a cops at my front door and everything is calm.

Long story short, the description is quite a few cops where there which is inherently a very stressful situation.
I think you are onto something. An example for me would be, someone committing suicide in the USA due to the perception of having to confront some incredible stressful event in the future; whereas the exact same situation in another country (with different culture) would not yield the same weight to that person.

As an example, take Jeffrey Epstein suicide (let's assume thats what happen). He might have sought that exit given his possible future perspectives. Had he been in Mexico (where I live) he may have had a different (more lenient) perspective of his future.
Well, they lost their land bridge. At some point they had to say farewell to their relatives across the water.
It probably didn't happen all at once. It just got harder every year to make it across. Then one year, that low low tide, didn't happen. Makes you imagine all sorts of adventures and stories related to 'the crossing'.
here in South Dakota at least, much of the native population identifies with the term "indian" or "American Indian." as an example: they have a BLM-esque organization that seems to be gaining support called the "N.D.N. Collective." I always thought it was weird growing up
> still have no idea what the final 3 lines of irregularcircle do, or why the \pgfmathsetmacro\len{} is repeated twice.

Divide the circle in angles of 10 degrees. Each one will be a node for drawing the line. Then go to 10,20,30,40 degrees etc until reaching 350 degrees and assign a length for the radius in each node

This length will be is the desired radius of the circle plus a small amount of irregularity that is randomly assigned but starting at a value provided as second argument. Finally we need to close the circle with -- cycle. The polygon is defined as a -- b -- cycle, or in this case:

starting_node -- {iteration} -- closing_node. Iteration is a list of values for the radius each ten degrees.

If I'm not wrong, we need to use the macro two times because the first time we use a starting value with angle = 0 and then we iterate over the whole circle. We need to assure that we start and end exactly at the same radius value (the radius provided as first argument) so the polygon line will close correctly. Therefore the first and last node can't have any irregularity.
I like Grady Booch's explanation from the Twitter thread:

Rational Software was this: founded in 1982, acquired by IBM in 2003 (they outbid Microsoft, who were also interested in acquiring us).

They were a number of dev tool companies in that time, but no more: open source makes the economics of this a tough sell these days.
CBP Has Placed Travelers’ PII at Risk of Exploitation [pdf]
It's like building a house. Should I have the HVAC guy do the drywall and the drywall guy do the HVAC? Clearly software engineering isn't the same as building a house, but if you have an expert in JAX-WS/SOAP and a feature need to connect to some legacy soap healthcare system... have him do that, and let the guy that knows how to write an MPI write the MPI.
Okay, so let's add a couple of things.

How do you do failover?

Sharing servers to save on costs?

Orchestrate CI/CD pipelines, preferably on the fly?

Infrastructure as Code?

Eventually you a point where the abstraction wins. Most people will say "but AWS...", but the reality is quicker, easier to use, and runs via multiple providers, so I think it's going to keep doing well personally.
> The truth is that a lot of people are hurting badly, and to watch others do extravagant things that don't make a difference for the bettering of humanity now just pours salt on the 'wound' of poverty. For many people, it's visible proof of the gaps getting wider and wider.

I hear you there, but I don't understand why Musk gets a free pass then? He's just as rich as Bezos and just as out of touch with what the needs of average American.
If Antoine de Saint-Exupery was right that: "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." then IT as an industry is heading further and further away from perfection at an exponentially accelerating rate.

The only example I can think of where a modern community is actively seeking to simplify things is Clojure. Rich Hickey is very clear on the problem of building more and more complicated stuff and is actively trying to create software by composing genuinely simpler parts.
There were earnest early attempts at making Java and .NET the language to run webapps, that all failed. For reasons.

So, it wasn't for lack of trying. Javascript won by default, just by being slightly less nasty. Many of us run (selective) Javascript blockers to keep it from being too nasty. They don't always succeed.
Judging from my life experience as South Korean, it would go something like:

First, the police may flat out refuse to believe you (which is also a problem in its own, but in a country without guns, what's the probability that such a call is not a prank?)

Assuming the police decides it's somehow a credible threat, the police will most likely call for the help of the best trained, best equipped, elite anti-terror squad, because that's what they're trained for. It being such an unusual occurrence, the incident will certainly feature in that day's national news. Which also means that the officer commanding the operation knows their actions will be dissected to death by armchair quarterbacks - which might be a bad thing in general, but on the other hand, the officer will certainly NOT order anyone to "just bang on the door and start shooting." Their reputations and jobs are at stake.

And, in the 99% of case it turned out to be a prank, well, you can assume the police will do everything to swiftly find the perpetrator and bring them to justice - after all, the police office has a reputation to protect.
> for microphone, even the gyrosensors can record voice in some quality

Turning off all three kill switches kills all sensors.

Concerning the problem with the C code, yes. But it’s the same problem as with Apple, trillion-dollar company.
I think wealth actually is being redistributed, but not in the sort of nefarious way that some people are claiming.

Last year incomes went up for the lowest earners. When less wealthy people get more money they tend to buy material, mass market goods. Large corporations tend to be the main suppliers of those goods. Thus, increasing buying power at the lower end of the income distribution results in companies earning more money.
So we should stop? SpaceX did it first, everyone else can just fold up shop?

C'mon. Blue Origin has a proper rocket, it seems very capable. They even land the booster like SpaceX does. To be unimpressed with their achievements seems like sour grapes.
> If suddenly the employer portion of the payroll tax disappeared...

That's what I'm saying. The piece that's added or removed is negotiated over, it doesn't just belong to whoever has their name on it.
It is probably best to verify the situation on an anonymous call, but my point is people will absolutely blame the cops if they assess the situation and that extra time results in people dying.

The cops seems to be in a lose lose situation. If they go quickly without fully validating the situation they will be blamed for any death. If they take additional time to confirm the situation and that results in somebody dying they will be blamed.

There needs to be validation, but there also needs to be quickness. It is impossible to get the right mix of the two in a consistent manner.
Review: Why Facebook can never fix itself
Ah, I guess that makes sense when it was still niche. It looks like the others above it are mostly big data and ML related.
Who decides what research is garbage or not? I notice your list lacks any mention of anthropology, history, or other humanities, for example.
The cost of entry into this industry is so high, as well as the risks. I applaud those who innovate in the Quantum Hardware area.
This. Every engineer employed at BO is one engineer not wasting their talents doing adtech at FAANG to pay the bills.
I highly doubt this. Source: work in the industry.
My experience is the opposite - an APT repo is just files on disk behind any webserver, a few of them signed.

Setting up all the infra for publishing APT packages (one place to start: https://jenkins-debian-glue.org ) is far easier than trying to understand all the rest of the things you mention.
The interesting discussion to me is why governments are not doing more to decriminalize or legalize drugs.

That seems to be the only way out of this mess.
While this is not false, I don't think many of the posts critical of K8s hitting the front page are advertising for Nomad, or focusing on drawbacks that don't apply to Nomad.
Was there ever any issue with any type of vaccine that did not occur within weeks of administration? I remember reading an article that said that serious adverse effects of vaccines either occur soon after giving them or not at all.

That does not mean that there could not be any or that we should not look but that from what we seem to know about how vaccines work, it would be very unlikely to find anything like that.
Respectfully I disagree for two completely different reasons.

First that shouldn't be considered probable cause without some supporting evidence, especially given the well established practice of swatting. Supporting evidence here might be as simple as proof (beyond what swatters could spoof) that the call came from the house they're busting down the door of... or peaking in the window. If the police can't establish that a crime is probably happening, they shouldn't be busting down doors, even if that means that they are possible failing to prevent a crime.

Second, busting down the door in response to a hostage situation isn't even a reasonable response, that's just asking for the hostage to be killed... the appropriate response there is to establish what is actually going on, and only then consider violent action, but almost always to try and talk the hostage taker out... in your typical hostage situation the hostage takers want something and the police have all the time in the world, unlike the hostage takers the police can take shifts and get sleep.

Think of this along the lines of the doctors "first, do no harm" principle but applied to rescuing hostages.

The police in sweden this morning freed a hostage this morning at the cost of 20 pizzas, and while I haven't seen how discussed publicly got the other hostage free and the two criminals (back) in custody. Talking really does work...

PS: While I'm at it, can I recommend "never split the difference" as a good book on negotiation, with a side of hostage negotiation stories.
My advice would be to use begin and end. Then you don't have to think about the indexing.
We are planning to have some dedicated functionality to help with non-conformance, anomalies, and other related things. We also plan to integrate with JIRA for separate reasons too.

We have not implemented a standard data scheme yet, but that's a great idea. We've been letting our customers set up their own schema and structure based on their needs, but I can definitely see the value of being able to adopt an industry-standard schema, so that's a great idea.

I'd love to learn more about your use case and understand better where you're coming from on those points.
This is the reason I haven't upgraded to Sublime 4 yet.
This x10. Each such setup is a unique snowflake of brittle Ansible/Bash scripts and unit files. Anything slightly different from the initial use case will break.

Not to mention operations. K8s give you for free things that are a pain to setup otherwise. Want to autoscale your VMs based on load? Trivial in most cloud managed k8s.
Political party is a personal choice and thus not a protected class.

Freedom of association permits us to choose who we do and do not associate with based on that individual's own choices.
I don't believe the moon and Mars are end goals, just steps along the way.
If you really think it's ok for someone to abuse privileged access on a supposed "anonymous" commenting platform to dox someone because they didn't like their comments, then I don't think our discussion is going anywhere.

edit: commenting platform of a _journalism_ organization! Journalists should know better than _anyone_ how important anonymous communication is.

If you want to argue that he was just doing what he thought was right, fine. But I think that they should update their organization's website to include something along the lines of "we think journalism is important, unless we disagree with what you're saying."
I’m working on a project management app for small businesses using Matrix. I’ve been inspired by your work and the transparency with which the team operates and the business model you have pursued and succeeded at. I’m also stunned by the technology recently being deployed in Dendrite.

Is one of the best ways to support Matrix and grow the influence to hire Element’s team as consultants to build custom implementations and use cases?
> who ... understand the OS internals? ... How about write a library for their fav language? How about actually troubleshoot a misbehaving *nix process?

Ex-Amazon here. You are describing standard skills required to pass an interview for a SDE 2 in the teams I've been in at Amazon.

Some candidates know all the popular tools and frameworks of the month but do not understand what an OS does, or how a CPU works or networking and do not get hired because they would struggle to write or debug internal software written from scratch.

[added later] This was many years ago when the bar raiser thing was in full swing and in teams working on critical infrastructure.
Sennheiser PXC 550-II. It is comfortable to wear, has good sound and noise cancellation - and void through. Connection is possible with Bluetooth, USB and classic jack plug.
Not sure what's wrong with it. I use Firefox nightly and I love it. Admittedly, for mobile I use Brave browser.
I wonder how much pressure Evernote is experiencing from Notion and the latest generation of productivity/collab tools? Any here who has jumped from Evernote to another tool, why?
> Traditional Russian ... values are under active attack from the USA and its allies, as well as from transnational corporations and foreign NGOs,’ ... It defines ‘Russian values’ as ‘life, dignity, rights, freedoms’ as well as ‘high ethical ideals, a strong family, prioritising the spiritual over the material, humanism, kindness, justice, collectivism and patriotism’.

I cannot disagree with much of what is said here (even that I guess that strong family is just a short hand for anti-gay, so maybe I am missing other 'eufemismes'). But, to reduce corruption would be the first step. As 'prioritising the spiritual over the material' is not compatible with corruption. Life, freedom and dignity are not compatible either with executing journalists and opositors.

I can understand the will for information sovereignty. But it just seems an excuse to avoid international accountability.

Facebook is not cited in the article, I guess that USA corporations are not so bad if they are willing to share data with the Russian government.
> While Musk focuses of space station resupply and satellite launch, in addition to "Mars Missions", Branson and Bezos have fully stated that they are in the business of space tourism.

That's kind of a silly argument in my mind. Tesla started out making electric sports cars that cost $100,000+ each. Just because a company focuses on high margin products for the super rich when they are starting off, doesn't mean they aren't making significant technological progress that can benefit the world.
You are reducing things to statistics at the detriment to a large number of people.

You are responding to a thread of someone not like what you described, who exists in great numbers as well. The two examples you presented are wildly different: Britain's suicide rate dropped 30% and now they are at square zero again how to prevent all those suicides that keep happening!

The point of even talking about it is to show how useless telling someone "hey just call this phone number, because I care about you, well I don't actually know you but I avoid the topic of suicide" is just as useless as the people on the ground telling someone not to jump from a burning building.

Even if they don't jump (or do call the suicide prevention number), the fire is still there (the underlying problem is unresolved and still not reconcilable)
Exactly, an autoscaling cluster of multiple nodes with everything installed in a declarative way with load balancers and service discovery, all ready in about 10 minutes. Wins hands down.
Oh there's a bunch of other problems as well. Developers will "solve" problems by increasing the number of virtual threads, that actually should be solved in other ways. Tons of code is going to suddenly discover assumptions about its underlying runtime model are no longer true, leading to subtle and potentially complex problems. New software will need to either take on the burden of choosing a runtime model or adopt the complexity from having to consider a mixture of both...
It looks like the WH-1000XM4s have something like this. Would love anyone's personal experience with these kind of features.
> They made billions from excellent businesses on which the world relied during a time of crisis. What would people have done without the likes of Amazon and fast delivery of nearly everything?

You're building an argument atop the assumption that if Amazon didn't exist, nothing else would be available. Amazon's strategy is to spend money that no other company can spend (by forgoing profits) to be the fastest / cheapest option available. Bezos' innovation is not the "fast shipping" or "broad range of products" Amazon offers, his innovation was the foresight to understand how to dominate the market and the gumption to do it.

A single business that owns the sales and distribution of goods is one possible solution to the problem you describe, absolutely, and it's pretty clear that Amazon is doing the best job at that solution... but it's not the only solution, it's one of many.
Please could you clarify - what does he stand to gain here? In your Mongol analogy, motive is clear. Here, not so much.
Hm, so showing ads on the home screen [1], doing pointless UI redesigns that waste screen space [2], adding features people actively DO not want [3], and breaking the mobile app [4] are NOT good ways to increase userbase? Who knew?

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...

[2] https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/please-dont-remove-the-compa...

[3] https://www.guidingtech.com/disable-pocket-firefox-desktop-m...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/ic8uwm/new_update_...
It's a classic conservative strategy. Take over a government program, run it into the ground, use it as evidence that governments don't work, and then run for office on a platform of dismantling the broken government.

The essential problem with the idea of government is that it requires people to cooperate in good faith. People who say government doesn't work are essentially arguing that people cannot cooperate with each other.

Given our level of social and technological progress, you'd think people would give up on this idea but it persists. In a hunter gather society, yes, like one of the ten guys in the tribe could provide way more meat than the other nine combined. In a global society of billions, it requires cooperation, coordination and institutions. A single person is an angstrom of humanity.

Our personal vanity tempts us to ignore the hundreds if not tens of thousands of people that make great companies possible not even counting the public institutions and services. We like to believe a single person can be so important because that makes us feel like we can be important.

In reality, no person is important. Bezos isn't important, Musk isn't important neither you or I are important. How the billions of people work together is important. We should be focusing our efforts on improving how we work together.
Our systems of cooperation (aka governments, companies, communities) are the only important thing.
I think he just hired CNN for that.
Thanks for the feedback. This is super helpful. Two cards we have been eyeing are Brex and Ramp since they don’t require a personal guarantee.

I’m curious if you have had experience with or heard anything about these two cards? We’re a seed startup going into Series A.
I love my Bose QC35 headphones. I purchased mine in summer of 2016 and they’re still working great. Battery life is still more than enough to get through a full day. I’ve had to replace the ear pads twice now, but otherwise they’ve been flawless.
I'm not sure about HN policy here regarding linking to such things. For a couple of years I ordered from Afinil Express, who have semirecently changed their name to Shark Mood. You can guess/Google the URL. For security you'll definitely want to use cryptocurrency and not a credit card; apparently the issue is shady overseas card processors and not the merchant(s) themselves FWIW.

As far as dosage, it's really trial and error I suppose. Generally each pill is meant as a single dose AFAIK. You can always dip your toes in the water by starting off with 1/4 or 1/2 a pill.

I generally do 1/2 a pill before breakfast and 1/2 a pill before lunch (on work days) and roughly half that amount on off days.
I find this particularly naive.

There are lots of reasons why Russia becomes this since the collapse of USSR.

If, imagine, somehow the privatization worked out wonderfully, every Russian is as happy as as their counterparts in US, UK etc. (In fact, that would not be sufficient...) Do you still think Russia would do this?

If you think they still would do this, then it must be the free will of the country?

Now given what's happening, should this be treated as a natural reaction to the fact that learning from a foreign system is not working, and the nation are trying something else?

Remember, when you claim someone else is inventing certain ideology, that means there is a concept of ideology. The moment this concept is created, it naturally applies to the accuser, I.e., someone else inventing a different ideology than the accuser.

Then, it's obvious that the foreign ideology was regarded by the ruling group as not suitable.
Warehouse workers are average $17 Target and $15 Best Buy

Your link doesn't show Amazon, but found it here https://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/Amazon-Warehouse-Worker...

which puts in in the average of Target, Amazon, and Best Buy
Why are the top comments companies promoting their solution?
Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s find to do so I just don’t expect them at the top.
Okay, right off the bat, the author is already giving himself answers:

> Essentially, this means that it [k8s] will have fewer concepts and be more compositional.

Well, that's already the case ! At its base, k8s is literally a while loop that converges resources to wanted states.

You CAN strip it down to your liking. However, as it is usually distributed, it would be useless to distribute it with nothing but the scheduler and the API ...

I do get the author's point. At a certain point it becomes bloated. But I find that when used correctly, it is adequately complex for the problems it solves.