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> You haven't gotten us anywhere near the point where they can compel production of social media accounts during a stop

Well... but they're doing it. The memos tell them to demand social media accounts, and it warns officers that failing to collect this information might come up in reviews and have negative impacts on their career. So we're at that point, regardless of what they are or aren't legally able to do, and regardless of what a judge would rule during trial.

Of course, it's good for people to know their rights; it's good to educate people about what the law says. And sure, the average low-wage, stressed out, busy commuter can roll the dice about what will happen if they say no. Maybe they won't get arrested, maybe they'll just get a harsher ticket written up. Maybe the cop will get visibly angry and demand that they unlock their phone and then hold out their hand, and that person can then try to overcome an entire lifetime of social conditioning to avoid placing their phone into that hand. And maybe the cop will shrug it off and walk away. It's a fun gamble.

But the base action of a cop saying to someone, "you need to give me this" is still going to happen to people regardless of whether or not you say it's supposed to happen. It is good to educate people about their rights, but rights are not a panacea against police abuse.

The awful thing is that it's entirely rational for people who are scared, who are busy, who are stressed, who are poor, and who don't want a confrontation to decide that they're not going to roll the dice and that when a cop tells them to unlock their phone or write down their Facebook username, that it's better to comply. For some people, that might be the correct choice, because antagonizing a cop is too risky for them. In a situation with a large power imbalance, "demanding" or "compelling" information doesn't always need to be backed up by a specific law. It's enough for a cop to tell you that you have to do something, with the implicit suggestion that they could arrest you or injure you if they wanted to, even if they aren't likely to do it.

So saying that cops aren't allowed to do something (while completely legally correct) still doesn't mean much unless you also have a working enforcement strategy that's going to prevent them from doing it. Eventually getting your case thrown out in court over an improper stop is still going to be a traumatic experience for most people, it's still something that someone scraping by on minimum wage can't realistically afford to risk.

You point out (accurately) that arresting someone over this would be uncommon. But this is still a situation where one party might be risking something life changing, and where the police officer is realistically risking very little. Nor does an officer need to arrest everyone who refuses the request, they just need to have a credible threat that they could arrest you. A power imbalance is enough on its own to allow an officer to demand something that most people see as a small concession -- they don't need laws to back that up.
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Java is awful and slow.

Invent Go.

Waiting for generics....

5 year later

Go looks like Java. Back to square one :)
Thanks, I needed this.
The fuel for fission comes from rocks. The Earth is full of rocks!
Hm not great.
Thanks for the links. This is a really well written case which relies on an easily swallowed fallacy. The argument is that the main limiter to improvement of batteries is research which needs time, so we shouldn't quickly scale up battery production and end up with suboptimal batteries.

Of course the main way to improve batteries at this point is to make them cheaper, which comes directly from production scale (look at what happened with solar panels). And even if that wasn't the case, while we wait for improved tech before we scale up battery production, we're continuing to dig up and burn fossil fuels.

This reminds me of some of the propaganda spread by fossil fuel companies decades ago. They position themselves as being on the side of environment, and yet the conclusion is always to delay, do more research, and continue with the status quo.
Mellanox, Pensando, and Xilinx SN1000 claim to.
Worse. The others still try.
> Then again, I'm not sure exactly what a type would be for Unicode.

I have this internally in my lang AST Rust

Utf8

I think that is the type:

struct City {
name:Utf8
}

For a scripting lang like mine I surface it as `Str` but in a system language I think is better to say `Utf8`
You could say some of the top tier of society has a presence here, but I don't think it describes most of HN's audience and commentariat.

Anyway, comment quality does vary a lot by subject matter. Industry insiders aren't likely to say anything new in this case, whether because of NDAs or language barriers or disinterest in HN, yet there is broad interest in the direction of automobile development. It's something people here are trying pretty hard to understand themselves, so they often feel they have gained enough insight to share, just as they do with COVID. I'm no sociologist though, this is just a layman's take. :)
related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28453256
>Implied Value — Here’s how you get there. The two pieces of data that you need are:

>1. FMV per share — In general I recommend using the most recent investor price. If it’s been a long time since your last financing round then I recommend adjusting that FMV per share by a reasonable growth rate (either tied to revenue growth or the change in your 409a value).

>2. 409a value — This will most likely be the exercise price for the option grant. Since a 409a value is calculated at least once a year (and definitely along with a round of financing), it should be relevant for the calculation.

But if the 409a value is recalculated along with a round of financing, wouldn't FMV per share equal 409 value?
It's not just formal career consequences. It's also that a full request involves a whole rigamarole that the arresting officers have to go through that basically takes them out of their workday for as long as it takes to get you processed, and to complete the paperwork. They have actual jobs they're supposed to be doing. If they routinely arrest people for not revealing Twitter accounts, they won't be able to do that job.

I think for the most part people are well served by being told that they should simply say "no" to requests like these. The article has a different framing, that Californians should instead feel angrily but passively victimized by the process, which is I think not productive.
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I still don't understand why I (an American) can't pay the BBC money for access to iPlayer. BBC has been saying hell no to my money for over a decade now. It doesn't make sense. Free money! You could lower your TV tax!

I think it must be BBC official policy that they want the whole world buying VPN and pirating the content. It doesn't make sense. Throwing money away and then asking why they aren't competitive with the commercial offerings.
I have actually been in many negative encounters with police. Far more serious than traffic violations.

You can still tell them to fuck off and remain silent. Sometimes they will threaten things like X or Y charges, or someone told us this, but it really does not matter.

You will see them in court.
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Sebb767 is referring to "don't tell anyone your name" in real life (ie, cop stop).
Convenience is exactly what Helm is.
They need a firm launch date because of the cascading research windows already allocated, but there are 344 single points of failure, and it will be virtually impossible to fixed once launched. I'm terribly excited for the advancements this telescope will bring, but I'm very nervous about the launch and deployment.
Not really helping your case in my opinion. How was he supposed to know someone was bleeding in your car? And you were speeding, what did you expect to happen? It wasn't his fault you broke the law.
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You've posed a false dichotomoy. I've worked at multiple billion dollar startups that got by just fine without k8s. And I've worked at startups that started on completely different stacks and migrated to k8s. If you're already containerized, you've reserved a good amount of optionality.

The kind of reasoning you pose is similar to "SQL doesn't scale to infinity, so start with an infinitely scalable eventually consistent document store". This line of thinking is dangerous to most companies, and often the death of startups. Assume YAGNI.

There's some truth to "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM", but IBM was never a good choice for anyone except consultants. k8s isn't too far from that.
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They have a very interesting project of a clock custom built for NASA to calibrate high speed cameras. Apparently these tubes can switch 100,000 times a second and their lack of any flicker makes them well suited to this purpose: https://www.daliborfarny.com/project/calibration-display-for...

I've worked with vacuum tubes a bit in audio amplifiers, but this seems wild, honestly. Does anyone know how Nixie tubes can manage such a feat? 100,000 times a second? It's incredible.
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I don't think I've ever sat down and watched The Shawshank Redeption or Goodfellas. Like, made plans to watch either of those.

But I've seen both movies probably a dozen times at this point.

It's always been a matter of me stumbling upon it while channel surfing (1990-2005) or "guide scrolling" (2005-2018), landing there to kill a few minutes, and watching through to the end. A couple of times I've gotten lucky and caught the movie at the start, so I can actually say I've seen these movies. But I've seen way more of the middle and end parts than the beginning parts.
Oh yeah I assumed the T stood for tera.

~> units '1.5 teraJPY' gigaEUR
* 11.511012
Lisp programmers don't joke about themselves? "Lots of irritating, superfluous parentheses"? "Lisp programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing"? "Emacs makes a great OS, it just needs a decent text editor"? Has this person ever heard Lisp programmers talk, or does his only exposure to Lisp culture come from the Selected Flames of Erik Naggum?
Its more of a hobby project. Have a spare Rpi 3b and Usb GPS dongle from another project. Plus, saw some cool projects on the nixie sub. Figured, it would make a nice looking retro clock in my home office. The USB dongle is a big finicky. So if I can't get that to work - then I might just make it into a NTP client and let it sync up with a public server. Nothing on my LAN or homelab is mission critical where I need that level of time accuracy.
Satire requires a certain level of intelligence which these seem to be lacking.

Take this, for example:

> [effects of scurvy] definitely sounds better than occasionally sucking on a lime.

I am sure Ms. Baecht thinks that is a demonstration of supreme intellect.

> You see it now, don’t you? Scurvy is nothing more than a made-up, foreign-fruit-induced plague, and I, for one, will not be silent! I will not be a sheep, er, I mean, I will not be a fish! I am a man! A very, very painfully misguided man, and I swear to you that the juice of a lime will never pass my lips—at least until the internal bleeding starts, and then I’m sure I will go along with whatever old sawbones says. And I definitely want access to that new experimental leech treatment.

Sod off!
They fared much worse than their Scandinavian neighbors who did lock down, but they did better than some parts of Europe. A new law was passed in Jan 2021 which legalizes lockdowns, so they do have it available as an option now.
Well their JavaScript "new" site sucks so horribly that it even brings my heavy gaming PC to its knees.

Clearly they have no clue what they're doing (probably at management level, even bad devs can do better than this) or they have a ton of legacy code they're trying to write around.

But even the old one had its issues. Deep threads with thousands of posts would often crash when you clicked the "read more" to go deeper and instead redirected to the top. So it could be that's where it's at. I assume a complete code review / partial rewrite would be very hard to justify at Reddit's scale.

I'd use the old one but I find it so clunky. Even though it has the same density of hacker news it lacks all its grace.
Also vagrant by default depends on virtualbox, and that is x86-only so it does not work on your M1 Mac, or your Pinebook : )
Serious questions: how is it manipulating people? To what end? Is there any proof of this?

I don't doubt the government could get them to do what they want. But what would it manifest as?
The article is yet another unsubstantiated piece by the author (will not mention his name here), in line with other extremist and poorly sourced clickbait pieces like this one:

‘A nightmare scenario’: how an anti-trans Instagram post led to violence in the streets'

The documents released by the Brennan Center simply do not support the claims of the news article. This fits a pattern of the author citing anonymous sources and then public sources which do not back up his story. It's unfortunate how low the Guardian's standards have fallen that they would allow this mishmash of agit-prop on their newspages.
Living in the USA, I tried to buy a license during the London Olympics. I was using a proxy so that I could stream the BBC coverage (instead of NBC's drivel). Even though I'm a UK citizen, it was based on residency and totally impossible to do. Ridiculous. Happy to pay the fee (as noted, it's similar to Netflix) so that I could watche the content.
Police encounter many non-citizens, who still have many fundamental rights. Any given person might be a citizen, a green card holder, a temporary visa holder, an undocumented person, or a tourist who is not subject to visa requirements. I don't recall the percentage offhand but something like 10% of US residents are not citizens.
I want to see all stories, not first one only.
> Most residential hot water tanks do not produce potable water.

As a consumer of residential hot water tanks for 40+ years, this is news to me. How is the water in a residential hot water tank not potable?
Microsoft and Google try? But yeah Intel is trying really hard.
Then people think that dinosaurs and humans coexisted. They just can't win.
> Simply and agreeably assert your rights. More people do it than you think.

Police culture in America is based around disgust and disdain for the notion of “rights”. You can try standing up for your rights, but that is likely to be responded to with “stop resisting!” and a subsequent (constitutionally protected) physical assault.

Then Ted Cruz will go to Jamaica.
If you watch less than 5hrs of BBC content a year, perhaps you aren't best placed to comment on it?

This criticism is so hackneyed it could have been copy pasted from a 2002 Daily Mail comment section.
The 409(a) valuation is the value of the common shares. They are generally valued at a discount to the preferred shares (or company valuation) due to the fact that the preferred shares have a pay back preference and the common are considered less liquid. The discount is generally higher (70-80%) during the early stages of a company when a liquidity event is less certain and the discount decreases over time.
That's demonstrating both server delays and a hacky way of updating a normal png. No apng there.
Is there any practical benefit of Podman over Docker on a Mac? Virtual machine is still needed, so any performance issues are likely to persist (well, maybe Docker for Mac is a bit more buggy, but we can manually setup Docker instead of Podman in a similar way).

Also, I think we are losing here access to the Docker socket on the host (inside the virtual machine it can be emulated using docker-podman).
> When your production service has a mysterious error in the logs

...such as a 75 cent accounting discrepancy? ;)
Agreed. From my perception people knew the system is and always will be imperfect, and relied heavily on the idea that not all people can afford to fight the government, but that at some point the government will mess with someone who can. Democracy in the US is like standing on the shoulders of giants who bravely carved the way ahead for us. One of my favorite examples is Larry Flint who lost his ability to walk, much less his representation as human among other humans, for the principles of free speech. Although you may not agree morally with Larry Flint, you likely stand in his shadow when you say things other people and the government don't like.

That said, when the middle, and upper middle class are so squeezed that they cannot fight the government anymore -- then who is left to? When economic (or class, whatever your favorite rhetoric) mobility has chilled, who will rise to the ranks of those who can fight who have memories of the time when they could not?

Anyway, this is the way these problems are postured in my mind.
How does it deal with mapping relationships? For example, a Many-to-Many between Posts and Tags, or a Many-to-One like Posts and Comments?
Great question! Search is (I believe) a second-order problem. Once permissionless publishing is solved, extensions can be built onto the core protocol.

In my opinion, indexing and ranking services work much better as ancillary services. The bundling of indexing and ranking with core protocol features is one of my main contentions with the Coinbase-backed "Research Hub" project/company (https://researchhub.org).

If you think about it, journals are also important services

Also, git repo link needs to be updated, and there's nothing there right now really, but https://github.com/scipubapp is the right link!
> However, you're being "too smart for your own good" if you go down this route. A perfectly unbiased input would still have 50% of its inputs rejected, and already you've dropped the speed of the RNG by 50%.

To improve this situation you can use an additional trick: keep track of the sequence of thrown-away pairs, and look at them again in consecutive pairs, and generate some more random bits:

* 00 00 -- throw away

* 11 11 -- throw away

* 00 11 -- output 1

* 11 00 -- output 0

and so on..

see the paper "Iterating Von Neumann's Procedure for Extracting Random Bits" for details.
I see it more like an aspirational goal. But one where everyone understand that is at most about start new projects that wholesome replace them (or "replace" is for create alternatives, not for truly rewrite the old ones).

And I'm one that will be super-happy if all C/C++ code in the world dissapear now and be replace by Pascal/Rust/Zig/D/anything else that is better.

MOST of my troubles are because C/C++. And the worst ones. Even if I 'm in a environment (business apps, ERps) where in theory system lang concerns are a distant worry.
It's unfair to suggest that being concerned about fairly authoritarian measures amounts to being 'against hospitals', and also to assume somehow that people must have a 'philosophy' and that it somehow has 'no answers for pandemic'.

Creeping power and influence of fairly undemocratic globalist institutions and especially major multinational corporations that have far more power than any local government is a legit concern.

All of said - I do not like this article one bit.

It's really bad.

It's so bad that it should be considered for it's bad logic, more than anything the author has to say about face value.

There are lies, misrepresentations, logical fallacies in every paragraph.

He indicates that 'it's odd' that people can have 'good health but still have COVID', which is not odd at all.

He misrepresents the nature of testing: " Consider all those people these past months who have recovered from a respiratory illness, with fever and cough, without ever being tested." - insinuating in the following sentence that somehow untested individuals with 'fever' are counted as COVID, which is definitely not the case.

The author seems incapable of grasping that having a viral load means 'you have COVID' and importantly - can spread it.

"Central to the definition of Covid, is that mass testing programs be the only means of defining the extent of the disease, assessing the success of the technocratic response, and the virtue of the compliant population. Covid is not like other communicable diseases, which are diagnosed mostly in private, according to likely symptoms. "

Is completely false.

COVID is tested much like every other such disease, using tests made available for private and public, your doctor will apply them just the same and it's ludicrous to suggest a doctorw would only diagnose 'based on symptoms' if there were simple and accessible tests at the ready.

". There is no general unified Covid with a limited set of properties. Attempts to fix its characteristics dissolve in a pool of contradictory evidence. "

Yes, this is called Science. It's a new disease and our understanding of it changes rapidly.

"Reinfection aligns neatly with established doctrine about the inadequacy of our natural defences. "

No, it's just a common thing that happens in viral diseases.

" Remember that this all started with "two weeks to crush the curve,"

Yes, we had very short period of time to change behaviours to bring the R0 down. It mostly worked.

"To begin with, vaccines, while indeed extra-natural, merely stimulate natural immunity. If we may hope for a vaccine, it is unclear why we cannot let some of our natural immune systems join the fight. "

This is a totally nonsensical and contradictory statement. We know some people are infected, and we adjust that into our policy. We also know it's of much less risk to children and that they do actually represent some threshold of natural immunity.

He uses the term 'extra-natural' in different situations without any context, it has no meaning.

It's really difficult to parse through this really terrible reasoning, I'm all for contrarian arguments but this is a terrible piece.
This offers an interesting variation of the old timey classic asteroids game where instead of splitting apart and pieces flying in directions appointed by Newtonian physics and the conservation of momentum, the pieces of the hit asteroid try to reassemble according to some model of gravitation or attraction.
Is there is a solution for using `docker-compose` on mac with podman? I know that podman supports it natively now, and there is `podman-compose`, but I couldn’t find much on getting either working on a mac due to the remote setup.
What you say is, "I'd like to speak to a lawyer, please."

Over and over, until they are bored and give up trying to intimidate you.
Yeah we used it in production, I’m not there any more but as far as I know it’s still running.

Swarm was good, easy to set up and run, but it had a lot of networking bugs. More than once we had to cycle the docker daemon on all machines which basically resulted in a rolling outage.

We’re trialling nomad at our new co, I was put off by the opaqueness and complexity of K8s, but apparently that’s just me.
His codeblocks have broken horizontal scroll on mobile.

Other than that I like it a lot. I built some codegen stuff in the past for test automation and it's really quite nice because it reduces a lot of user errors.
The alternatives only suck because we've been made lazy by the seeming ease with which social media facilitates human contact and interaction. Yes, you absolutely should delete social media, and yes, making an effort with people will feel like hard work. But it will be worth it.

I personally think sites like HN and Reddit are better forms of social media because they don't necessarily try to replace the contact you should have with friends and family. If I interacted with friends on Facebook, I felt like I'd already done enough with/for them, and left it at that. Without it, I make more of an effort to stay in touch. But at least on HN, this isn't a replacement for my friend circle, it's just more of an interest group that provides some interesting reading and conversations.