skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter can suspend anyone and anything for any reason. You play on someone else's server you play by their terms.

Nothing is stopping Nikki from hosting her own website.
> But the U.S. murder rate is not all that remarkable, really.

The data appear to disagree with you: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2010_homicide_rates_...
Yep, they said the same with the great auk
So let 'em cover it up?

Fuck that noise.

They're already well-known as a crappy company.
Along that line of thinking it's now illegal to burn the US flag.
He didn't say his wife was dying. Colon cancer is not automatically fatal. The problem is that these are always one sided stories and it's impossible to get the full picture...how can you even begin to adjudicate this by assuming his claims are true?
Can you justify or defend your argument in your last sentence? Because I think it's not only wrong, but clearly wrong.

In particular, other amendments have changed part of the text of the original Constitution. How does that not also "abrogate the original deal, making the Constitution null and void"? That argument should apply even more if we're talking about the body rather than the first 10 amendments, shouldn't it? Why do you single out the Bill of Rights as being unchangeable?
Why? Because a principle way our bodies fight viruses is by killing our own (infected) cells. When you kill large numbers of cells in a young child, that child won't grow to the same height, won't have the same IQ, and won't live as long. There are interesting radiological data for comparison. We should have prioritized vaccinating children, but didn't. This is a likely source of a lot of (perhaps most of) the Flynn effect over the last century and more.
Yup, have seen similar thing where we hired and SWE and took 2 months off stating he need to take care of sick parents in India. He came back, 2 days later he resigned & joined FAANG.
As someone who both owns guns, has a concealed carry permit, and has been in therapy and takes anti-depressants, the pervasive fear about getting red flagged and having your firearms taken away seems like overblown fearmongering.

Can someone point me towards some statistics or reports of such occurrences?
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That's not true at all. Context is the only way to make any useful judgements. A couple examples:

Person A tackles person B to the ground and holds them there against their will. Is that morally acceptable? There's no way to tell.

If A is B's estranged ex-husband and is upset that she hasn't returned his calls, most people would say it's unacceptable behavior. If A is a bystander to a knife attack by B on London bridge, most people would (and did) say that it is justified.
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Same. I have very few positive feelings towards either Thiel or Hogan, but I've always thought Gawker was disgusting—the left-wing equivalent of any far-right blog you want to name—and I wasn't sorry to see the end of them.
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Facebook most certainly has not. You can get paid very handsomely for facilitating misinformation that wouldn't otherwise catch on without a lot of surreptitious advocacy, preferably astroturfed. The cash value of this has everything to do with how well you can get away with it. It's just market dynamics in action.

They are simply running into externalities, that's all.
The former is more important. At least in the U.S., ex post facto laws are unconstitutional, so you don't have to worry about concealing past actions when something new is made illegal.
Can you imagine that this greed-talk looks alien to some people out there? Look, their numbers look quite good already. I'm sure you can have a decent life in Sweden with all that money. So why should they feel the urge to sell? Where do you see this invisible magic force which has to turn everybody into greedy zombies without principles?

And yes, think about their families. My SO would throw me out if I's sell what I believe in and I'd deserve it. What an example to the kids would that make? I'd be despicable to them.
I think there are many rights violated as a result of lobbying. Access to basic healthcare is curtailed in the name of profit, largely as a result of the power of lobbyists. I think this has a very large functional effect on the freedom of everyday people. Even if they have reasonable means they may be essentially forced to continue working for an employer who provides health insurance or risk personal financial ruin if poor health befalls them.

The power exerted by 3 letter agencies is greater than any other western nation in my opinion. They are massively bloated with excess capital and power, and it has allowed them to indefinitely extend their jurisdiction until it significantly overlaps with people's right to privacy.

That said I doubt either of these issues would be much improved without guns. An armed population seems mostly incidental. One downside of focusing on armed resistance, however, is that you can easily delude yourself into thinking you're better protected from tyranny, when in actuality the war is already being lost in courtrooms and political backrooms without a shot being fired.
Yes. I do think the cost is really incredible. even if we were to get their entire 11 billion immediately it wouldn't begin to cover the costs (pisses me off the most they get many years on this proposal to pay it, they'll likely make more profit from investments than they will pay back....)

Opiates do kill too many people but there are more social externalities than tobacco. I think (hopefully) the 2nd hand smoking effects have diminished, though I'm sure kids in homes are still exposed.

But opiates touch everyone that knows an addict or is related to one.

And the cost of theft, homelessness, HIV/hep infections, blood infections, huge amount of overdose calls.

But I agree the costs of tobacco are huge. And the costs of the oil & gas industry's behavior are even bigger than all of these combined.
> LeoLabs sells data to satellite operators, space agencies, America’s armed forces and insurers keen to calculate better actuarial tables for spacecraft.

> Customers include insurers keen to see if policyholders fly their satellites as safely as they claim to.

> Northstar, for example, plans to charge annual subscriptions of between $10m and $100m.

> Naturally, this orbital-tracking technology has military value as well.

I think most of these companies are assuming they can get big government contracts once this becomes a big enough problem. Lockheed Martin has Space Fence (https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/space-fence.ht...) which was presumably funded by a government contract
Yes it is. They're giving a lower quality result to the user (their customer ... but not for long if competitors can get just a little bit better)
Between Proton and WSL we're getting closer to a true "write once run anywhere" world where host platform won't matter so much. Devs will be free to develop with whatever tech stack they like most, make a canonical build, and other platforms will be able to run it.

What's going to be hilarious is that much like dosbox became the best way to run old dos programs even if they might still technically run on windows, wine/proton will be (and sometimes already is) the best way to run many older windows programs. Particularly I'm in love with proton's fullscreen magic that doesn't actually mess with your display mode, so e.g. I can run Touhou games fullscreen in proton with my display at 4k despite them only supporting 480p fullscreen -- running on Windows will try to set my display mode to that with varying success. At some point we'll be running old Windows programs on Windows with wine/proton through WSL.
The Raspberry Pi 400 is basically this.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-400/
> Or telling people they should just:

Nowhere in the original post does the word "just" appear. I don't think the poster was being flippant at all, or was suggesting that taking this path is easy, or one to be taken lightly. Just that it should be no surprise that trying to take the "easy way" to change public policy is not one that's likely to work. (Or, rather, that trying to change the government from the outside, on a part-time basis, is going to give you limited results.) Doing so is very hard, and might require a career change if you are serious about making a difference.
When I was 8 years old I had a teacher who let me explore the spectrum zx every midday break. I spend so many hours loading tapes with games and programs. It was for sure the spark for me to start my life with programming and computers in general. Rest in piece. A legend!!!
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ge-announces-first-us-wind-... (December 2020: GE announces first US wind turbine blade recycling program with Veolia)

https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/end-wi... (May 2021: End of wind power waste? Vestas unveils blade recycling technology)
Indeed you’re right (and this was my understanding too) - I misread what a previous commenter was intending. I thought they were saying most broadcasts are 1-piece blobs, thus good for 5G bursting. My experience w HLS is indeed some small-number-of-seconds frames at a time. I guess I’m not sure here whether 5G is more battery-efficient or not. “Fast-enough” is all that’s required, so I guess it’s just the calculus of energy/bytes and how long the radio can sleep between segments. Seems very circumstantial to me…
Or use their office for nonstarter political suits to rile up their base.
Seems like the link is not correct (404)

It is: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turb...

Should probably be: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turb...

One little "q" to many at the end of the url
The stat might reflect reality. But reality reality probably includes a lot of people shot in extremities and shrapnel bouncing back from steel targets.

If someone is shooting to stop a threat they're probably gonna have better than 5/1000 odds of permanently stopping the threat.
Yeah the whole "censoring" stuff ratcheted up really fast. Kinda crazy.
Department policies have caused a surge in resignations and early retirements, with no supply of new recruits eager to step up.

In sense, the movement was successful because it reduced the number of police on the street. OTOH, those places are having to increase their police budgets and raise salaries to replace officers who have left.
> Yeah this myth again.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/09/covid-hos...
I just mentally x-ed out Atlassian from my list of companies I would consider working for. It's courageous of this person to post this and not take the severance.
You’re focusing too much on the initial creation rather than on going maintenance and evolution. SQL and relations are much better suited to handle evolution by enforcing constraints than a graph of stitched together pseudo JSON.
Because German society, like most others, is divided between those to follow the rules and those above the rules.
In that case, a better example would be Ireland, which was incorporated fully into the UK with the Act of Union, and was colonised. Another example would be Algeria, which was a French department.
> The potential costs of systemically removing correct but controversial/fringe content are extremely detrimental to scientific progress in general.

I fall pretty strongly on the side of combatting misinformation, but I disagree with outright removal of content. I think it should be flagged as misinformation, but left available. Put another way, I'm a fan of labelling, not censoring.

I want transparency. "Our misinformation bot rated this as a 90% chance of being misinformation because XYZ." I bet the only reason we can't have that is because the ML bots suck so much the tech industry is scared to implement any system that might be open to scrutiny or analysis. It's a bit ironic.
Now take a look at the H&K G11 schematics. It's mind-boggling.
The sacrifice element is key. To quote Douglas Adams,

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
And so this is the situation we find: a succession of Galactic Presidents who so much enjoy the fun and palaver of being in power that they very rarely notice that they’re not. And somewhere in the shadows behind them—who? Who can possibly rule if no one who wants to do it can be allowed to?”
They've been doing this for going on 20 years now.

Long ago someone stole a $1000 note out of a safe. Local sheriff's office asked Google for everyone in the area that recently did a search for them--- got back pages and pages of results because some TV show had an episode about them.

If your search history doesn't give you anxiety you're not cynical enough.
Of course, that is the correct answer!

But, if you actually want to change the country, you must first go into finance or otherwise accumulate the wealth and influence needed to "corrupt" enough legislators into abolishing the current campaign financing and lobbying rules, so that all those whom you exhort might actually have a chance of winning office. Note this also immediately removes your source of power (not something people often do voluntarily).

I really don't see an obvious way to change things from within the system. I hope there is, otherwise we get either unending corporate feudalism or revolution.
Lol, don't buy into the stereotypes. Germany is like USA with better social policies.

As long as you pay your taxes you're free to do whatever you want.

No one will help you, no one will get in your way.

The occasional cranky old guy calling the cops on a party is not representative of the whole society.
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> i don't see where this theory that variable refresh rate would make a difference would come from

People are comparing between the 13 and 13 Pro which get the same battery life for audio playback. There are very few other stated differences between them.
“ There are parents who fear that children are being given instruction or choices at school that parents are not privy to and that would traditionally have required parental consent”

Are you referring to sex ed. here?
Use a terminal, or just Win+R
This is hilarious as he has drafted CoCs before.

Peter is your stereotypical twitter SJW personality. He's not as bad as some people we could name here. He at least codes unlike most of the pretenders.

You see kids - fascism is bad for everyone. You might think that just because you're a beta male that chastises everyone on every internet forum about 'muh sexism' to win points with the girls, even though they'll never fuck you cause you're beta, you're immune but this is proof that it is not the case.

The only way to win this game is to not play the game.
I'd encourage the fanboys who are inevitably triggered by this assertion to just compare dimensions and shipping weights on key components. The F150 is a much heavier vehicle all around.
Another question is how many fatal gun accidents were intentional suicides that the medical examiner, for whatever reason, didn't want to enter as such.
I do... Actually I also thought the article was talking about Genius hardware at first :-).

On my mind, they used to occupy a space in the 90s that is now taken by Logitech. Not sure what happened to Genius!
Swiss gun culture has nothing to do with American gun culture. Guns are for hunting and sport that's it.

Essentially no one even thinks of getting a gun for self defence. There also has never been an idea that guns are for defending yourself against your own government here.
> the median and percentiles are a more relevant and intuitive number to think about

A good example of this is when people say "more than half of drivers say they are above average drivers! Idiots!" Of course that's perfectly possible if most drivers are basically fine and some are really really bad. For example, 99.99% of people have greater than the average number of legs.

The correct impossible statement would be if more than half of drivers are better than the median driver.
He is talking about government level threats, DO provides no benefit.

I'll add that rolling your own means you're the only one exiting that IP address, so if your threat model involves websites profiling you and/or alternative accounts that won't help.
There's a bitcoin wordlist that can encode 2^11 bits per word, so 3 words could hold a 32-bit hash. You'd need a pretty large wordlist for 3 words to hold 128 bits.
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I would find it a bit strange if you said the application feels a bit snappy vs your previous implementation on REST. I am guessing pretty much that you are in an eyeshot of your server in the figurative sense.

Websockets has its troubles. Some ISPs block websockets with some websites so you end up falling back to long polling and it becomes taxing to get a reliable implementation going - some clients just cant connect to a pure websocket.

The other is the upfront handshake has a cost or over an unreliable connection, say with a mobile app where REST tends to shine a bit more.

Then theres the ability to cache responses across geo-regions, a websocket cannot do this.

The other issue is with a REST request you can also do multiple requests at once, with websockets its one at a time, or having multiple websockets to get round that - which makes it worse off.
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I’m not white and I’ve been stopped by police numerous times and have never been afraid of being shot. The chances of being involved in a school shooting are lower than the chance of being hit by lightning.

I also have flown many times. Nobody has ever ‘checked me for guns’. Generally they are checking for knives and explosives. You might be too young to remember, but much of today’s airport security was brought in as a response to 9/11.

If you really think a gun might appear at any moment, I recommend you do some research on how unlikely that actually is. It’s a totally unrealistic fear, and one that can only result from being misinformed.
> Twitter can suspend anyone and anything for any reason. You play on someone else's server you play by their terms.

Yes, but then, why should there be laws that shield these services from any legal responsibility as to what their users post? The government shouldn't need to protect these businesses either and let them off the hook because of the scale of the moderation. it goes both ways. Private companies can accept whatever they want, the government doesn't have to protect them either, they are a private company after all. They should bear all the risk.
There's no substance to the Harper's Bazzar article, and The Guardian one cites two cases, one I'm not familiar with, but the other was a clear case of attempted murder that got so notorious the woman was given a pass in the end.

Key detail in that case: when you withdraw from a heated situation, retrieve a gun from your vehicle, and go back to it and shoot at the person you're arguing with, you're not exactly demonstrating legitimate self-defense.

Needless to say they don't list any cases where things went right for a woman defending herself. Do you believe there are absolutely none of those? Do you follow any news sources that would even cover them??
The Afghanistan thing is an easy narrative, but it isn't really an accurate one. More accurate:

> Two superpowers found that Afghanistan, a fractious nation mostly comprised of illiterate peasants and devoid of exploitable industrial or natural resources, wasn't worth the price of occupying indefinitely.
Geofence warrants are more analogous to getting a warrant to check the surface thoughts of everyone in a certain area.

We just don't yet have brain implants allowing our corporate overlords to directly log our surface thoughts yet, for now they only capture them via backscatter in our search queries.
Yes! However it gets a bit complex, as they're using dns based geofencing so there's some extra steps.
> requires HTTPS

I've always felt conflicted about this. I generally support moving everything to HTTPS, and requiring it for new TLDs isn't a terrible idea because there's no chance of breaking anything legacy.[1]

On the other hand, Google owns the TLD, controls the HSTS preload list, controls the most popular browser. The idea that an entire TLD could be added to the HSTS preload list was a completely unilateral decision by Google. It makes me uneasy.

[1] ...unless you were using the domain internally assuming it would never be added to the root zone, which bit some people when they did this with .dev
It's scary.

Imagine the US five years from now, with Team Trump in charge of the censoring.
Translation - everyone who wants to have their rights respected must quit doing whatever they do and become a politician. And we of course would leave it to a career politicians to bake our bread, write software etc. etc.
> I personally trust RedHat more with setting good defaults than random ArchLinux users (that also recommend firejail)

You speak as if these "random Arch Linux users" have written their opinions on the wiki rather than reasonable conclusions based on how unprivileged user namespaces have been a source security vulnerabilities in the past and is still seen as a security risk.

Maybe try not to let your bias get in the way?
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It's called not being an idiot.

I've known people who transition to get a great new job, then pursue a pretty clean case (quietly) against their old company - often with pretty good results.

This demonstrates you have power of choice in your destiny (the opposite of cowering and whimpering) and it's practically much easier to job search while employed. And I've seen old managers let go, not because of the case per se but because they were losing staff.

This type of thing? There is going to be some sympathy for their manager having to manage someone like this (who does not sound very professional).

The case is also easy after you leave. You don't need the money as you have a new job, you don't need to keep your (old) job - you've already left. So it's simple, so and so kept trying to get one room for both of us while travelling, here are their nasty text messages, work environment was not healthy, would prefer not to litigate the issue. Done. Now you are really set.
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