skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterfeit money? It’s movie prop cash. That shit is obvious. I have some from a long forgotten marketing joke.

“Counterfeit money” lmao what a joke. Online commenters are so big on this legalese upgrade business. This guy had some joke currency on him and it’s now “counterfeit money”. Next thing you know you’re going to be calling kids using twigs to play cops and robbers “brandishing replica firearms”.

Oh oh, I know, we could call water balloons “simulated improvised explosive devices”. Coffee pods? “Psychoactive drugs”.

“Counterfeit money” hahahaha. I declare your comment “domestically sourced misinformation”.
Macy's sues to stop Amazon using famous New York billboard
The economics of self driving cars will ensure a rise in public transit usage.

A few years ago, I was helping my friend consider options for saving money. On the table was if they needed to keep their car. Most of their commute was via public transit. However we looked at the number of transits for which public transit was not viable per month (visiting friends on the other side of the metro area, running to stores), multiplied by the cost of using a ride share service. Comparing this number to the car payment, auto insurance, gas, and maintenance, it was no contest: even a few trips amortized the cost of the car and made it worth it.

Every trip has a cost in dollars, time, and externalities (causing congestion, environmental impact, etc). People will tend towards being efficient with those costs, judged by their relative importance to them personally.

The thing is, owning a car is mostly a fixed dollar cost per month. Once you pass the point where owning one is worth it for a few trips, the cost of additional trips is far less, while the time savings remain high. The only time I consider public transportation is when parking is a problem, as all other things considered driving is preferable.

Once self driving cars reach a point where they are closer to the amortized cost of a trip when owning a car, the tradeoffs start to change. Those who use their cars for few, but necessary, trips will be the first to ditch owning. I suspect many multi-car families will downsize to a single car. Once you get rid of your car, and are using self-driving cars for the trips where they are necessary, the question for every trip becomes "public transit, or self driving?" Different trips will have different ways they play out. However lot of people who are currently eating the cost of owning a car and might as well drive anyways will suddenly be able to save a few bucks by using public transit instead.

The final magic of all this is that if you're going anywhere more than a few minutes away, there are many other people going from approximately where you are, to approximately where you're going. The big killer in public transit speed is time. Time going to a common pickup point, time waiting for it to arrive, time spent not going on a direct route, time spent stopping for others to get on or off. With a sufficiently well used self driving car network, it could easily join a few rides together at a point nearby, and have self driving cars ready and waiting at the point near your destination. Two quick transfers, and that's it. If the self driving car app says "45 minutes, $20, or 50 minutes for $10", lots of people would save that $10. For destinations such as downtown, airport, sport stadiums, there's even only one transfer. Given car pool lanes and such, transferring to an express bus might actually be faster than driving directly.
These days in both Java and Swift you can just lazily reference a static class field/property set to an instance of the singleton (in java the field must be on a dedicated private class) and the Runtime will lazily initialize it exactly once in a thread-safe manner the first time it is referenced.
I think you've lost the plot.

MLM's are exploitative, dishonest con jobs. There is no "good" way to run one.
Pardon my density, but isn't that the function of the health checks built into the ASG, which offers both EC2 and ELB health checking to take a bogus instance out of service?

Or do you mean "operation A --> ASG --> (wait $foo time for 'healthy') --> operation B" type thing?
Oh, that would make sense. Thanks!
>They also outsource much of their GHG creation to rural areas but are still the cause/consumer of it (concrete, energy, minerals, construction materials).

If this is true, wouldn't it lead to ridiculous conclusions like a cow farmer being responsible for the GHG emissions of all his cows?
The Vinland Map, Thought to Be the Oldest Map of America, Is Officially a Fake
FBI has just requested the account info for almost 200k ProtonMail accounts
“Best practices” smells like such a marketing term it should be tossed in the bin.

It’s poetic language that has nothing to do with specific problems.

What people usually mean when it comes to engineering is “be safe, reliable, and correct.”

Security best practices to be safe.

Developer best practices for reliability.

Etc etc

“Best practices” is hand wave-y fluff for “do a good job” and doesn’t need a technical definition.

Make sure you’re secure, reliable, and correct given the engineering context, and odds are you result in a system that also has a lot of specific best practices in place.
Those were her words, not mine. I know there are plenty of outdoor things to do.
I’m sure there are plenty of solves for that for those motivated? VPN? Remote desktop?
Something like 1/3rd of PWC's revenue comes from consulting (officially their "Advisory" arm). They started rebuilding it almost as soon as they sold it. Strategy& is actually only a small portion of the Advisory org (S& is really just the rebranded acquisition of Booz&Company).

Another 1/3rd comes from the Assurance arm, which is kind of a cross between accountants and consultants. The "Tax" arm are the traditional "accountants", but that's only 1/3rd of the company.

It's worth nothing though that a lot of the Tax and Assurance folks traveled to client sites very frequently, too (not all of them, but a big chunk). Really the main groups that worked in-office were the internal firm services (HR, internal IT, internal finance, etc).
What is the Mendeleev effect here? That the weight of the bears shows some periodicity?
The difference is SSI is extremely fast and quite limited. You’re not supposed to write your entire website in it.
So, uh, why would you yell "no ears" instead of "I'm deaf"?
When you say some leniency is shown, did anything happen to either one as a consequence of this? From my reading of the article, it doesn’t seem like it.
It boggles the mind that people could actually think its obvious what behaviour is unfair discrimination and what isn't. Like have they never opened a history book? Or noticed the countless lawsuits on the subject? (I think usa has a sort of arbitrary enumerated list, but canada doesn't explicitly enumerate so there's fun court cases over things like do drug laws discriminate against people who enjoy the taste of marijuana, etc)
Social change takes a lot of time and a lot of funerals.

By continuing to make people aware of abuses these stories provide a critical function to inform people about the problem.

Given in this thread we have the usual sneering about movements seeking to "defund the police" and 'crazy dangerous BLM Marxist anarchists' it's clear there's a lot of people who are either acting in bad faith or will never change their views.

But by continuing to highlight the terrible abuses by people the state grants a monopoly on violence to (just check the headline news in England) the media can build a new consensus and change minds and build a critical mass to support progressive improvements to the nature of policing.

For someone who already supports reasonable and proportionate reforms to policing such news is often more infuriating and disempowering but essential to cut through to the rest.

Taking the example of the torture and murder of a random woman by a serving police officer in England, plus the court judgement on the rapist Spycops scandal plus the rate of domestic abuse by serving English officers we will have a lot fewer people claiming the police in England is fine and doesn't have issues after this week. Perhaps then we can improve oversight of policing with broad political support and avoid any more victims.
As a parent of a special needs child, our policing situation is terrifying.

I think non-black folk are now starting to see the horrors of our unaccountable law enforcement agencies that black folk have experienced for centuries.
Kinda depends. Single instance things are usually globally referenced, but as long as you're referencing an instance and not a static thing they're not hard to convert to an "injected" dependency if you need to provide a test impl to some thing being tested. The real problem is static things that can't be swapped out because you're actually calling static methods on some class rather than sharing an instance and calling instance methods.
Let’s do prison reform too then.
From personal experience seeing how their data is generated, I don’t trust Waymo reports at all. They straight up lie about the capability and disengage rates to an astonishing degree. I left several years ago, but I see no reason they would have developed honest practices on the meantime.
Why should a worker accept a smaller cut for a feature the whole team contributed to?

Did they write less code or contribute less bug fixes?

Is the pay based upon output or businesses ability to manufacture consent in workers?

Americans are battered spouses who would be wise to force austerity on CEOs rather than the other way around. Indeed, look at the wins teacher strikes and workers sitting at home right now, have on wages and competition.

They need workers (when humans believed in religion as our social temple they were called “flocks”).

We’re filling in the area of a perimeter originally defined by Bible thumpers and dead men of a classist perspective. Workers build the world.

Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed uses a forced importation metaphor, of high minded aristocratic/imperialist expectations on locals. It’s one of my favorites to point folks at.
You're right that surviving on a homestead sounds very... unromantic to me. I planted a bunch of apple trees, berry bushes..etc, over a year ago. I fertilize and water, but somehow blight took it all. It seems like nature is constantly trying to fight you on everything.
Ada's formal verification capabilities have fallen behind Frama-C for ANSI/ISO C.

Frama-C allows formal verification of essentially arbitrary heap manipulation algorithms. You can implement linked lists and graphs in traditional C with Frama-C annotations in the comments, then prove your code never dereferences NULL, never has an integer overflow, etc.

One single commercial Ada vendor offers Spark, a formally verifiable subset of Ada. Spark does not allow arbitrary dynamically allocated data structures like Frama-C does.

https://frama-c.com/
I would think the normal drain of a battery sitting on the shelf is more than this feature uses.
I think you may find that "just get shit done" is even more true for BSD today than it is for Linux, haha :) Depends, but... I am practically shocked at how problem-free FreeBSD and OpenBSD have been for me (other than when I use obscure unsupported hardware! haha) ... even with updates and totally customized configs, etc. Keep it in the back of your mind to dive into again, for sure!
>How is putting cops in prison extra-judicial or cruel and unusual?

It's not, but GP's exact words were (emphasis mine):

>Preferably by ending up in prison, among the general population.

Which I've taken to imply "...so they'd get beaten up by fellow inmates". I'm not sure why he'd bring up that detail other than to imply that.

As for the rest of the comment, I'm not disagreeing with you on those points.
Well, it is 1% if you account in all ages. It is clearly larger in certain age groups.
Denial of an interpreter is a denial of civil rights.

The only crime is that the taxpayers will pay the settlement not the police force.

We should take all settlements out of the local police Union so that all cops suffer.
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>Does that mean I don’t need to pay taxes and they should never use violence to coerce me?

If you're not violent during the arrest and don't resist, they shouldn't(and usually don't) use violence to arrest you and transport you to prison. There is no coercion to pay taxes by beating you up like the mafia.

>Does that mean I don’t need to pay rent, because so long as I’m not violent they can’t remove me?

Again, you're conflating leading or carrying you out as violence.

If the police use the bare minimum necessary physical force to carry out their duty, I don't think that qualifies as violence.
Yes, but hence a global "but .. better managed" :-)
Yeah this video still haunts me(1). The cop was acquitted by jury, saying the victim, committed a misdemeanour by leaving the house without identification(2).

They did win $1.75m in the end though so at least there is that.

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_SSGa7-6BQ

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sureshbhai_Patel
If long term support is what you're after, the iPhone 6s (a 6 year old phone) is supported by iOS 15.

... just putting it out there.
" to tazer and tackle the perpetrator who isn't actively resisting? "

He admitted to resisting in the article.

You can see how changing one small fact completely changes the nature of the article.

If police are trying to arrest you, and you fight back, that's a major escalation it almost puts 'the thing in question' they were pulled over for as a side show.

And - he's deaf, he's not blind.

The notion that 2 Police officers in uniform are upon you, and you can't tell they are police is a bit rich, it sounds like something made up by an attorney.

'Blinded by the light' would make sense when they were in their car or behind the lights. And certainly maybe he didn't recognize them or hear them at that time.

But by the time the police are upon him, it would seem very well within reason that he knew they were police.

That said, we don't quite know the details: maybe they came up on him from behind. Maybe they walked straight up to him and it was perfectly evident that they were cops.

That nuance is really important, because 'resisting arrest' is a serious thing, and if he did in fact know they were police, and he fought them, well then he's not going to have much of a defence in getting tased. If he was legitimately surprised then obviously some kind of reaction like that is warranted.

All of that said, why was he in prison for 4 months, that seems very bad.
Monopoly on legal violence is the job description.

Don't want things smashed, don't use a hammer. Don't want violence, don't send a cop.
Maybe I missed declining a prompt in setup, but this latest feature was opt-out, automatically enabled after a software update, and only notified me once, the first time I powered off the phone after updating. To disable the feature, I had to go four levels deep in Settings, with the last two levels having seemingly unrelated names, disable a toggle, and accept a misleading confirmation prompt.
For the average user they are the same thing. "off" is not even a state the average user uses. It's either open and connected to the network or closed and in sleep mode.
Wow, thanks for sharing this.

I’ve seen a huge demand for houseplants in the States but New Zealand is taking it to the next level! Its Tulip mania all over again haha.
Immigration boosts U.S. life expectancy
Time to disband the post service.

Let it be done by a private organization, for lower rates and faster arrival times.
I see your point, but aren't all those things architecture dependent i.e. dependent on the implementation of the prog-lang environment?
The "perverse incentive" is that people who might otherwise be hospitable to a reintroduced animal will likely lose control of their property if they do anything to help. They could put out feeders, cull predators or provide habitat. Instead they are encouraged (if they want to keep control of their property) to be as uninviting to these animals as possible.
They show it clearly above the slider when shutting down. Since this is a feature virtually 100% of users want on. This seems appropriate.
We always called it being on the beach. Indeed, not viewed positively.
My great grandmother lived on a farm during the great depression. They had plenty to eat, but she said that what hurt them the most was the city folks couldn't buy their produce or eggs, so they lost their ability to largely make additional cash for odds and ends.
We’ve just got a different interpretation of what I wrote. Of course my data and location is tracked all the time - it’s an endless stream. I was referring the thought I’d have if I was to become aware that my Bluetooth signal of my “powered off” iphone was the data source used to spy on me. There are plenty of easier ways to do it… and my phone is usually powered on.
Interesting. One could see this being a way to operate cloud resources through a Kube API.
Warren Buffet isn’t most rich people…
Pray tell, what do you think is missing? You can say "we don't know the whole story" for almost any news article and be likely correct and yet detract from the discussion.
"Have you ever lived off of the land?"

Not quite. I understand how hard it can be. It also depends on just how off the land one wants to be, like a guy I know living in a self built log cabin in Alaska. I'm not going that far. It would be nice to have land for my wife's horse, to expand my beekeeping, and to expand my garden/fruits/mushrooms/etc. And like most people on small farms, I'd probably need another job to make ends meet.
Good on the author for listing other similar programs. I have been testing one of them, datamash. Its documentation claims it is faster than uniq in some situations.
Great, now you made the reform 2x harder to pass because now you'd need to get voters on board with prison reform. I'm not sure what the point of "let's give corrupt cops extra-judicial punishment by putting them in dangerous situations, but that's fine because we'll also simultaneously fix the dangerous situation!"
This proposal would create a comprehensive financial account information reporting regime.
Financial institutions would report data on financial accounts in an information return. The
annual return will report gross inflows and outflows with a breakdown for physical cash,
transactions with a foreign account, and transfers to and from another account with the same
owner. This requirement would apply to all business and personal accounts from financial
institutions, including bank, loan, and investment accounts,2 with the exception of accounts
below a low de minimis gross flow threshold of $600 or fair market value of $600.

pg 94

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/131/General-Explanati...
Additional historical perspective: it was designed this way specifically for power, abuse, corruption. The entire jurisdictional system was designed to empower the worst while letting the “best” wash their hands of it. That there’s a through line from slavery to Jim Crow to rampant abuse of power in law enforcement shouldn’t be a surprise.
I don't remember nerds being the ones worried about what's socially popular and fitting in.
The demise of Doing Business: Goodhart’s Law in action
I can see a "live in suburbs claim city" for some areas that's a significant cost of living decrease. Another 5 miles away I'm in farm fields and costs drop even further.
A simple "i changed internet providers" if probably enough to move 20 miles and dro get the lowest cost for me. It's a very strange arms race
> We have a very high vaccination rate here in Iceland but that did not stop hospitalisations, or deaths

Let's fact check this. Here's Reuters COVID data from Iceland: https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-m...

Iceland has had a grand total of 33 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. There have been 3 deaths total since May 2021, which is remarkable on it's own, but especially since Iceland's infections during the pandemic peaked in early August 2021. So, no, vaccines didn't totally stop the deaths. But vaccines dramatically reduced them and prevented what likely would have been a spike in deaths in August.

Here's more from the Washington Post, which actually seems to remember that Iceland exists: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/iceland-covid-su...

> Many of the country’s recent infections have occurred among vaccinated people, but they’ve been overwhelmingly mild.

> Iceland’s rates of covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths have remained low. Of the 1,300 people currently infected, just 2 percent are in the hospital.

> The country hasn’t recorded a virus death since late May. [The article was written in early August before those 3 additional deaths].

No comment on whether you're an anti-vaxxer, but you are misinformed.
Cool, but the list is written in a way that you can’t be a good person without “being progressive, but it’s just the wording.

> 1. All forms of racial segregation and discrimination are wrong.

The first one and it’s some subjective question that everyone will answer “Well of course I do! It’s not discrimination that I think X or Y people suck because reasons”. My favorite comment on this was a Welshman taking to a Londoner about Britain “No one here is racist unless you want to talk about gypsies”.

>2. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion.

Does hate speech exist? Do you feel that you should be tolerant of intolerance? This is not getting better for subjectiveness. How much of what is going on right now is “You aren’t allowed to be wrong!”?

>3. Everyone has a right to free, public education.

Define FREE.

I skimmed the rest. Didn’t get better. Is this just some attempt to get people to call themselves what the author considers themself without really investigating the minutia of these issues?
> The statement “category of endofunctors” is a good example; for someone with a very visual intuition like myself it feels like something that simply cannot be visualized, or is akin to visualizing a 5d hypercube.

Follow this recipe and don't skip any steps:

1. Understand what a category is. Objects and arrows between the objects, composition of arrows, identity arrows.

2. Understand what a functor is. Associate each object of one category with a corresponding object in a second category. Do the same for arrows.

3. Understand that an endofunctor is just a functor where the first and second categories are actually the same category. These are the functors that show up in programming: Maybe/Option, List, etc. The objects of the category are types and the arrows between them are functions.

4. Understand what a natural transformation is. In programming terms, a natural transformation is like a generic (in the OOP sense) function. Example: length : List<T> -> Int is a common natural transformation that takes a list and returns its length, and it works for any type of list (i.e., for all T). This particular natural transformation goes from the List functor to the constant functor that maps every type to Int (see how T doesn't show up in the return type in this example).

5. If natural transformations go between functors, consider making a category where the objects are functors and the natural transformations are arrows. This is the "category of endofunctors" you're looking for. If you have trouble visualizing it, any category can be visualized as a directed graph: the nodes in the graph are endofunctors like List, Option/Maybe, etc. and the edges are natural transformations like "length".

Each step will require you to Google something, stare at its definition, and spend time with examples. The one mistake that everyone makes is thinking that they should understand the phrase without first learning the constituent words. There's nothing mysterious or clever or tricky going on. You just have to know how to break it down into an incremental curriculum (which I've done for you here).
What unencrypted location tracking does this comment refer to?