skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was reading all the comments here and wondering how come you don't have at least 4 weeks of paid annual leaves! Then realised that many of the comments are from Americans. I'd have thought Atlassian being an Aussie company would have to give you at least 4 weeks of annual leave. But being an Aussie company can't change the mindset of the managers in another country!
s/11//g

And it becomes the call I made over a decade ago. I really haven't regretted it. Literally anything you use will have multiple frustrations you have to get a bit zen about, why pay microsoft for that?

Come on in, the water's fine.
I think these are two pretty different situations.

If civilian gun owners in the US tried to overthrow the US government, the US military would crush them in a heartbeat. Hell, with the level of militarization of many local police departments in the US, it might not even take the US military.

You can't really compare that to a reluctant, unpopular war fought in someone else's territory. The US was never going to commit the entirety of its military might to defeat the Taliban. And at any rate, it's probably more accurate to say that the Taliban defeated the poorly-trained, poorly-prepared (US's fault) Afghan Army, not the US military. I expect the US could have occupied Afghanistan indefinitely, holding back the Taliban, if we chose to.
Are these the only green technology items that will prove hard to recycle or is this the tip of the iceberg?

What of solar panels, or batteries for instance?

The Planet Of The Humans - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE has a pessimistic view on the current technologies.
And with that, Facebook will do government biddings to prevent the promotion of peaceful protests, sit-ins, Occupy events, demonstrations, etc.
Tube Archivist: Your self hosted YouTube media server
I used to get a booster every 10 years because I was a hunter and went to places that might have wildlife and lots of junk to get cut on like bundles of old barbed wire.
You better believe I'm for real. "State of emergency" is one of the most dangerous and pernicious situations for a society to find itself in. Rights that are taken away are often not reinstated. This is why the right to free assembly is enshrined in the Constitution in the United States.
I'm frankly really confused that Terraform is still so widely used for AWS IaC when CDK exists.
You'd be wrong in the USA. Anybody who parks in any public space or outdoors can have a unit placed on their vehicle by anybody.
I'd bet it is, because I did the same (in a 240V country). I knew it wouldn't end well and did it anyway because, I guess, as a kid I was used to the world not letting bad things happen so didn't really believe it would. There isn't a switch on the toaster or TV that bricks it after all.

Anyway got a spark and the magic smoke, and bought a new PSU from a guy at school for $15.
One plausible answer I heard was that emissions regulations were an EU thing, but the car industry is still very firmly national.

No national government was interested in rigorously enforcing the regulations to the detriment of their own nation's industry.

This is a core issue with the political structure of the EU in general, and isn't even specific to cars.
> * Folks don't have a ton of trust that the regulations will help their lives, or block govt from doing things, but do imagine they will be annoying (more permission banners / cookies popups etc).

This is because those laws rarely have teeth at all. I don't want "ACCEPT BUTTON FOR MARKETING PERMISSION", I want all remarketing and persistent cross site tracking to be illegal. Period.
> The "homogeneous = less crime" argument is a bit xenophobic/racist at best, and not quite true.

Why the ad hominem? It stifles conversation. I think it is entirely legitimate to make the claim that ethnic, and actually more so religious/worldview heterogeneity can cause conflict. Heterogeneity is inversely correlated with trust because trust is formed through understanding and appropriate agreement and these differences often mean misunderstanding and disagreement. You can talk about dialoging as a way to reduce conflict, but even when understanding exists, when one norm must prevail and two groups are in conflict, this will leads to problems. The more fundamental the conflict, the worse it gets.

Look at Yugoslavia. Are Croats, Serbs, and Bosnians "racially" different? No. Language? Not really. So the source of conflict is religious.

The political conflict in the US today is mostly religious in nature, where "religious" is broadly understood.
How would you define "social media"?
They don't necessarily serialize and send your biometrics over the internet. FIDO biometric implementations, for example, use it to unlock an on-device private key, which is then used to sign a challenge for the server to authenticate. No secrets, biometrics included, leave the device.
And now they don’t have to because you carry your own gps tracker with you and Google will sing easily.
LOL, yes, if we were only all just like Joe Zamudio in 2011:

>> “I came out of that store, I clicked the safety off, and I was ready,” he explained on Fox and Friends. “I had my hand on my gun. I had it in my jacket pocket here. And I came around the corner like this.” Zamudio demonstrated how his shooting hand was wrapped around the weapon, poised to draw and fire. As he rounded the corner, he saw a man holding a gun. “And that’s who I at first thought was the shooter,” Zamudio recalled. “I told him to ‘Drop it, drop it!’ “

https://slate.com/technology/2011/01/joe-zamudio-and-the-gab...

>> But the man with the gun wasn’t the shooter. He had wrested the gun away from the shooter. “Had you shot that guy, it would have been a big, fat mess,” the interviewer pointed out.
> So did our Deep State as they lost a twenty year fight against the Taliban.

It takes a lot more than a Glock and a few boxes of ammunition from the sporting goods store to befuddle the US military. It takes fuel, food, medicine, training camps, and other infrastructure necessary to survive and fight back. You’re not going to get that in appreciable quantities in the middle of the US without Uncle Sam and several three letter agencies noticing. You would need the help of a foreign power and/or seizing land to tax... at which point the Second Amendment is moot. Might save you a few bucks to have all these small arms laying around, but it’s only a small piece of the puzzle.
> Anyway, I'm sure it's only temporary

I believe you’re being sarcastic, because as free society and governments move more towards authoritarianism, it will become everything but temporary

I agree with everything else you said
How can it be not ingested at all? If Google is giving me turn by turn directions it needs to know where I am.
Tesla's New Steering Yoke Shows Little Benefit and Potential Safety Pitfalls
And the Overton Window shrinks even further.

Not good.
The other way around is problematic as well. A friend of mine had a 2018 15” MacBook and had to get it repaired under warranty because the battery swelled up and made the trackpad stop working correctly. The “Genius” at the Apple store said it was because he always left it plugged in, and that the problem is fairly common. Apple has recently started allowing MacBooks that are plugged in long term to hover at around 90% battery instead of always keeping it topped up presumably for this reason.
Those are quite commonly used words at Aussie companies. I guess it's just a cultural difference.
The amount of people who don't realize "slippery slope" is only a fallacy if it's not grounded in evidence is insane.
I didn’t say it was fine, but admittedly coastal elites are at the very bottom of the list of people for whom I have sympathy. I imagine a heartfelt appeal to the plight of the coastal elite would be tremendously amusing.
I can recommend Gnus.
Especially for small effect size and suppressing what didn't work, this is one obvious way of many to perform p-hacking for publication acceptance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
How many more years on top of the two we've been through will this pandemic continue for? Maybe 5 or 6?
I would bet any amount of money that it's a private space debris tracking conglomerate that discovers a widowmaker asteroid coming at us...

...and they make us subscribe to a rundle for the rest of our lives to keep it from hitting us.

"Earth, and life on it." - brought to you by Facebook, probably
Well, yes, but if you go after the people in the news, all the random data brokerage companies in the shadows get off scot-free and continue doing their own data harvesting. You also can't punish people for leveraging data against you if there's no law for either holding such data or using it for societally-bad purposes.
How so? Social media only started being a societal problem after it became heavily filtered.
It can be helpful to delineated systems in one way or another to attempt to clarify understanding and convey meaning.

You’re right though, we need to be careful that those maps don’t get confused with reality and end up constraining thinking and meaning.
Yeah, there's a lot of spam out there. My employer's spam filtering software used to send out weekly statistics telling us what percentage of incoming e-mails (across the entire company) were spam. The spam percentage was remarkably constant from week to week: about 90% of all incoming e-mail was spam!
Funny, I was just thinking to myself that maybe a paid subscription Windows could be a solution to undesired UI change. Because it would take away the lure of the upgrade sale licence. 64 bit w2k? Yeah, I'd totally pay for that.

If I were in charge of Windows product strategy I think I would create competing subdivisions that replicate the model of Linux distributions but on the NT kernel. Sworn to binary compatibility but inspired to try different monetization schemes.
The problem is that anything you allow against the perceived enemy might come back to bite you if you suddenly are perceived to be the enemy. This is especially true when silencing opinions; you're not only taking away their right to speak, you're also taking your right to change your mind.

I fully agree with you that when judging a specific occurrence, the context is really important. Judging completely without context, on the other hand, is good way to know whether the action is something morally acceptable.

In this case, the 'goodness' of the action clearly depends on whether you like the target. So I'd argue that this really is not a good thing in general. It's slightly worse if it hits the 'good guys' and slightly better if it hits the 'bad guys', but it's not good either way.
Depends on your state, in mine it's 7 years - looking forward to my 6 month half pay sabbatical next year!

(For those unfamiliar with LSL, I could take 3 months full pay if I wanted but half pay for double the time is my choice.)
I uh, kind of like my IaC to tell me what is going to change before I accidentally run a ‘DELETE FROM ec2_instances’.
Facebook is in a no-win situation here. Regardless of what action they take, they are either accused of suppressing free exchange of ideas or of permitting the exchange of dangerous ideas.
I’m not a gun owner, and not interested in being a gun owner. I have shot guns, and it was fun, but I already have more hobbies than I have time. I’m a city kid, so I don’t really have a need for guns as tools the way country people do.

Guns as a political issue are great for getting the base riled up. But they really aren’t that important in the big picture, either for the liberals that want to get rid of them or for the conservatives that want to keep them. We all have a lot bigger fish to fry.
To me a policy of unlimited PTO looks great from the outside when companies are trying to win over new employees and have a pissing contest around who has the best perks.

However, its unlimited until it impacts your teams and the role that you are actually employed to do. I agree that if you want to be flexible you implement a flexible PTO policy that still has a limit that can be built up over time. Exceptions to that limit can be granted.
Ask the Taliban if small arms can fight the US military.
In decentralized VC, community managers will be the new partners
Ask HN: Why did Delicious fail?
When I was about 15 me and my friends put what little money we had together and send it out I think to England or Germany to buy a license for the Amiga C compiler. 3 months later it arrived in the mail. I could not wait so I actually learned C in those 3 months, straight form K&R, without access to the compiler. It was all so gloriously magic back then. I do not think I ever enjoyed a piece of software as much as that compiler.
Where can I buy a single license for personal use of LTSC?
Not sure what makes you say that but no, I really don't. My comment was genuine and not sarcastic.
Gnome to prevent theming, wider community not happy
> but yes, there's is roughly a 0% chance that using a gun defensively in a hostile situation will result in successful self-defense

I'm pretty anti-gun as they come, but this seems like a pretty absurd assertion. I would certainly expect a non-trivial amount of self-defense situations involving firearms would result in disaster, but I would not expect that to be even close to "nearly all of them".
Yeah right. I'll believe it when I see it.

Australian submarines are vaporware. The only way Australia will get new submarines is to buy them ready-made from somebody else.

Only problem with that is that Australia doesn't have any money to do so.
I know a few friends of mine who are extremely risk averse: they live boring safe lives and think I'm crazy going to those dangerous mountain bike trails. They don't seem to get the concept of freedom: their freedom ends with a choice of a tv movie for the evening and that's enough for them. Some people here really believe that freedom is more valuable than safety, more valuable than the number of deaths or whatever else statistic you might have there. Once these people pass away evenrually, the drive behind this freedom will vanish, and America will turn into Australia, with draconian control of guns, speech and whatever else, but I hope to not be alive by that time.
Why would you prefer to do this with SQL rather than any of the existing frameworks that already exist?
Didn't Clapper go on to reply, "Not wittingly?"

You know, just like in every other criminal trial where the defendant is the one who gets to make the determination as to their own intent.
> because we're already banned from questioning a lot of areas of science on most major tech platforms

Or, in other words, those platforms have banned science. It doesn't matter what exactly their dogma is, science can not happen there.

This may not be a problem, we don't need every single platform to support science. But it's not aligned with those platforms PR.
Cheap Android phones usher in an era of mini kiosks everywhere
> since it was so hyped and well funded

The funding comes from the hype. So all it takes is for the hype to be overblown for the whole thing to fall apart.
Stories from the Old Days at Sun (1992) [pdf]
Bits per second is really the only honest way to sell linespeed.

Right from the start telegraphy used symbols per second because anything else gets difficult to explain (eg hello is 5 symbols, Hello is 7 symbols). 200 years later we've made this more complex, not less. If I send a byte, it ends up as approx 64 bytes on the wire. Which bytes do we count? Do we count inter-frame spacing?

Symbols per second for transit and packets per second for routing are the only metrics that are actually fair
The ui alone is basically enough for me to not touch it for a while. I dont need any of the new features and there are loads of anti features i tthe ui (rightclick menu, taskbar icons for more than 1 window, changing default apps, etc)

I dont understand what's driving these changes, but they seem so use hostile that it puts me off the whole os.
CDK still uses cloudformation under the hood right? Anything to do with CF gets a hard pass from me.
is this a list of the philosophy google wish they had?
> The pioneer of software dictatorship will probably make this impossible or illegal as soon as it gains any traction though

What does Microsoft have to do with this?
Would it be possible to create a US city where it would be illegal?
That won't work in large parts of the world, like China.
The US has the gun fetish because it has a perpetual racialized underclass, among other reasons. You're right the violence is tied to its history. But so are the guns. You cannot separate the two.

As others have pointed out; personal firearms are pretty useless as a vehicle for resisting state oppression and tyranny. But they're useful for stopping slave revolts or, more contemporarily, guarding your McMansion.

The problem in the US isn't the right to bear arms. It's that the wrong people are bearing them. The militia types are the authoritarian aggressors that they themselves fantasize about resisting.
It doesn't rest on the premise that bad guys won't obtain guns illegally ... because they for sure will and that's the case everywhere.

Supply and Demand applies to the Black Market as much as it does to legal markets.

Again Japan is a great example: there are pretty much no guns allowed, anywhere, and guess what? There is almost zero gun crime.

There's no doubt that anyone with basic resources and need could obtain a gun if they really put their minds to it, but that's part of Supply and Demand, it's just not worth the extended effort in most cases. But if you have them lying around, with easy access, and your whole crew has them, and your rival gang is also easily and well armed, well, then you have a problem.

The argument that guns are good for personal defence just does not add up, it's just irrational at face value that everyone running around with guns (even legal ones) creates safer conditions.

The only place they would be useful is in highly dangerous situations, ironically made dangerous at least in part because historically lax gun regulations. If I lived in Mexico, I may very well own a gun, but in Maine, it would be basically pointless for the purposes of 'self defence' there.

Switzerland has high gun ownership, but they do not really have pistols and they do not carry them for self defence.

Mexico has strict gun laws, but they are not enforced, so the laws don't have much of an effect.

USA -> Can/Aus -> UK/Europe -> Japan form a fairly straight forward examples of ever stricter gun control leading to considerably less gun crime.

Note that some of those places have elevated levels of physical assaults, and knife attacks, but that leads to considerably fewer injuries and fatalities.

The 'stand against tyranny' argument notwithstanding, I think there's some legitimacy there, but that's another can of worms.
There are definitely alternatives. Not sure if some people are just less exposed to the entire market and are unaware that there are choices out there. I don't use Mullvad just because of how large they are.
Talk too much truth in here and you will get flagged or cancelled too. Big pharma is in charge of HN too
> If you oppose lockdowns you still need to express your views lawfully just like anyone else.

Until expressing your views becomes unlawful?
I agree with your post but in terms of the above commenters use of the word "murder rate" is that even the metric we should be using for comparison? How about combining that with manslaughter?
Didn’t they also introduce other software changes? Can you buy apps from the store without a code set?
> The term 'assault rifle' is used loosely by us, but in terms of law there are definitions: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1296...

"Assault rifle" has a very specific meaning: an intermediate-caliber, magazine-fed military rifle capable of both semi-automatic and automatic fire. That common meaning has been more or less fixed since WWII when it was adopted from the German word Sturmgewehr.

"Assault weapon" is a legal term that is defined by law (e.g., California's assault weapons ban or the failed federal Assault Weapons Ban of 2019 that you cited). "Assault weapon" includes not only semi-automatic rifles, but also shotguns and pistols that have certain characteristics. The definitions are long and complicated because they attempt to ban only weapons having the visual and ergonomic features of military weapons, while ignoring weapons of similar caliber that do not have those features.
The problem is not specifically criminals, but how people react to others under stress, and how they view guns in their lives. Do they turn to guns quickly, or do they find peaceful solutions? The posted signs are one way to judge, and I really do hope most people are peaceful, even though they portray violence. My family's safety could depend on their true nature.

An example of someone's recent true nature:

>> A Washington man was arrested after officials said he shot and killed a neighbor for revving his engine too loudly.

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/state/washington/article...
Direct link to the interaction in the Gophers slack: https://gophers.slack.com/archives/C029RQSEE/p16300860484522...

Explanation by Tim Heckman: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1exmMfbgVCz3dRXOOlfUCYeiX...
If you're a windows user you don't really have a choice if you care about ongoing support. This really should be "Windows: Just say no".
Derm aid is a widely known trade name available in 0.5% or 1% hydrocort formulations on the shelf of any pharmacy you walk into
> It's the same in the US, and basically every country in the world. Some places are dangerous, others aren't.

No, it's really not. I spent a number of years living in Seoul, and you can have a 25 million people metro area with virtually no areas you wouldn't go to alone at night. They may exist, somewhere, but you really have to struggle to find them. That plus no loud and aggressive people on the streets, basically never having to feel guarded or adjusting your walking path to avoid that one sketchy person.

US cities can be such stressful, on-guard, subtly "stand your ground"/"toughen up" experiences in comparison sometimes. It's draining, really just wasted energy, and as a man, makes me behave in wasy I don't actually want to.

Culture really matters. Weapon laws really matter. And national pride in places and spaces that just simply don't shape up well is something to resist.

I have a feeling that the entire "arm the populace" mindset and everything that goes along with it (the lack of interest in consensus-building displayed by wanting to maintain an exit from it, etc.) is much more likely to generate the sort of politics and politicians that would ever require civilian I arms use.

States can certainly go bad in many ways. South Korea managed to impeach its most recent bad President through peaceful protest alone (search "Park Geun-Hye protests") with basically not even a punch thrown, however.
It was the sarcasm of an entire galaxy collapsed into a total singularity of sarcasm, where being anywhere near its event horizon rips the very fabric crappy corporate and political narrative, and nothing that encounters it can persist in that reality thereafter. That's how sarcastic it was.
Just in case you don’t see it somewhere else in this thread. Someone posted something that does this: https://github.com/cloudquery/cloudquery
HN is social media too.
> When did being against lockdowns become harmful?

Around March 2020, for most countries. A bit earlier than that in Japan, China, Italy, South Korea, and Iran.