skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recognize that what you term "refusing to be pulled into my argument" is a standard libertarian motif of pretending that a complex subject is very simple.

"Defense" is not a simple idea. Proving self-defense in court is quite difficult. Self-defense has not ever been in the US a legal defense against the charge of resisting arrest. We currently discourage violence against cops by giving them the benefit of the doubt that they are acting in the best interests of the law; we may in fact give them too much credit, but to give them no credit at all would turn any arrest procedure into a brawl.

Allow me demonstrate: if a cop A wants to arrest person B, rightly or wrongly, A is using physical coercion, which is violence. By your argument, under ther principle of self-defense, any citizen has the legal/ethical right to oppose use of violence. So now we have a situation where two people simply have differing opinions: A thinks that B should be arrested, and B thinks that B should not be arrested. In your argument, the way to resolve this dispute is not in courts, but immediately, with violence. Either way, someone will get hurt or killed.

Another aspect: if a person's legal justification for resisting arrest depends on their guilt or innocence, why would anyone voluntarily submit to arrest, since doing so would be interpreted as a sign of guilt? If only guilty people can be arrested, then what is the point of courts?

I fail to see how this legal framework would not lead to massively escalating violence everywhere in society. Your worldview is juvenile.
>The entire point of imperial units is that you can always easily just take half of size

Is that why there are 3 feet in a yard, 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon, and 231 cubic inches in a gallon?
Europe’s best walking cities: Six wonders of the wandering world (2021)
Reading your comment history, you have a very bad faith manner of making your points. You speak of hubris to me but nothing in your tone suggests humility, decency or the willingness to debate with people as if they are partners in the community. You're looking for a fight. You aren't looking for solutions.

No, someone would not be immediately thrown in an incarceration pit if someone stole their gun on a Saturday afternoon and killed someone on a Saturday night. Jesus, this is a HN thread. It's a whiteboard, not legislative text. Open your mind.
Making one very large figure less than you, mind sharing any about what you do?
For certain definitions of reusable, yes. Certainly retaining the SSME's for refurbishment was a big accomplishment. I wish Energia+buran could have maintained funding for a few decades - concepts for the flyback boosters were cool and possibly promised to be more quickly/reliably reusable than the space shuttle ended up being.
7? Nice. What do you do?
Thank you for the tip with newsblur! I'm struggling to see pricing info. How much is the subscription?
Yes, you unfortunately do.

If you're a student or having financial problems, please let me know, I'll be happy to generate some coupon codes.for you.
Dude, the Space Shuttle totally had enough delta v to get to the moon. If you don't believe me, why don't you ask Louie Armstrong yourself? /s (I know the xkcd I'm ripping of says Lance Armstrong, but I like the idea of a jazz musician on the moon better than the idea of a troubled athlete.)
I used Zardoz C to make the original FIFA soccer on the Super Nintendo. Of course there was a lot of hand rolled assembly but a lot of the UI and some parts of the game were written using Zardoz. The ability to use the DP as the base for local variables meant the code generation wasn't too terrible.
Sure; if you can do the work. If you can't do the work...
Thunderbird is finally paying attention to the UI side of things. Hopefully they finally implement the standard multiline email list view which has been on the back burner for 19 years XD

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213945
Modifying the Casiotone Instruments (1984) [pdf]
The per-account "Message Store Type" under

Tools->Accounts->(your account)->Server Settings

Becomes modifiable, rather than read-only, after toggling the flag.
I still maintain a product with a few $100K/year revenue written in meteor. We long ago ditched the backed/DB layer but the frontend has aged fairly well. It is still fast and responsive. I will never create another product in meteor but I don't regret using meteor for that product. Coffee script on the other hand.... :P
L7 equivalent software engineer at a big tech company
"What are some notable duties is the employee expected to perform, outside of software development?"
I worked at one place that expected software developers to stock orders in the warehouse, and to take phone calls in the call center.

"Tell me about a recent time the team was allocated time to resolve some technical debt. Tell me about a recent time the team was NOT allocated time to resolve some technical debt."
I worked at once place which shifted from outsource to in-house software development, discovered that some of the primary html views of the website were built using a jumble of string concatenation, and to add a new feature using the existing string concatenation.

"What percentage of my time will I spend coding in this role?"
Worked at one place which assigned excessive non-coding bureaucratic duties to developers.

"How often do you release software?"
Worked at once place which did not release anything for the 1.5 years that I was there.

"How do you incorporate the lessons learned partway through a project into the remainder of the project work?"
Worked at one place that could not pivot due to inability to admit that they didn't have a perfect plan from Day 1.

"Tell me about some advanced design patterns that you don't use."
Worked on a team that used every advanced design pattern that mankind had ever given name to, each in 200 places without an iota of consideration to the costs that go along with the potential benefits.

"Do you plan on shifting your entire tech stack into something else that can scarcely be considered software development?"
Self-explanatory, but has happened to me 2x now, so be on the lookout.

Fifteen+ years into my career, I've discovered that every job will give you one or more damn good reasons to move on, and each of these lessons above took 1-2 years to learn, so my latest strategy is just optimizing for pay rate. :-)
It depends how much you overbuild. If you build enough to supply half your needed energy for the worst case week and 3/4 for the worst case month, 4 weeks is probably enough.
Thanks for providing the extra info. I'll look into it.
Boy, if you don’t like your purportedly fundamental rights exposed as public records, just wait until you hear about voter rolls.
There was this in 2014: https://newatlas.com/visual-microphone/33222/
Ancient Land of YS was programmed by me mostly using APW C with assembly used for graphics routines. Thanks for the info on Zardoz. I always wondered what became of it - it was my favorite.
Sure but in that respect I diverge, I think they’re setting a low bar.
America has probably rewritten history more times than we'd like to acknowledge. There are some countries that will jail you for questioning the official narratives. I have a feeling America is headed in that direction, one ideology or another.. eventually if you question it you will be labeled some sort of name to elicit the worst reactions from people towards you.
>Never mind that gun owners in America don't have the organization, training, resources, or equipment to effectively combat a police department, much less the US army quelling an armed insurrection, even if their rights ever were legitimately threatened.

This is a common argument, but completely ignores what the Taliban/Iraqis/ISIS did to the best and most well funded military for 20 years. What the Vietnamese did 40 years before that; completely ignoring 60 years of actual events.
Here are a few viewpoints you may find useful:

- tantrums happen to your child

- tantrums are a regulation mechanism - your child is disregulated, their brain is overwhelmed by uncontrollable emotions and needs to flush all the stress hormones quickly to come back to normal

- there is a reason for the dis-regulation. What does the child need that the environment does not provide?

- in the case of a restaurant - yes, take the kid outside, give them undivided attention, give space for the emotions to get expressed and for their brain to self-regulate.

- become curious about the child's needs and see the tantrums as a symptom of building frustration of some needs not being met. Common possibilities are: severely depleted "reservoirs" caused by chronically unmet needs for play, physical activity, the child having control over their body, schedule, activities, company, your attention, solitude, approval, knowing that they matter etc.

- a common situation related to a restaurant is the child's need to roam, run, be physical, loud, unrestrained. One way to have well-behaved kids at the restaurant is to have a kid-guided (they have control), exhausting, loud, physical activity beforehand. You get the point.

Do not try to control (the expression of) tantrums. Extend your best interpretation and create space for the tantrum to quickly unfold so your child can regulate. Change the environment and remove the root causes.

Ideally, the outcome of your parenting is an adult who is capable of identifying what they need before they are in crisis, capable of providing it to themselves, and when this is not possible, capable of regulating themselves.

You need to model all of these, over and over and over again.

Notice what they need and help them meet the need before their emotional state gets too agitated. If a tantrum is an extreme way to "ask" for something - help them meet the need - way before reaching that stage.

Source: my training as a nonviolent parenting educator.
Maybe they shouldn't be in that role then.

Maybe Walmart should be expected to employ people in these roles who are paid and trained well enough to be able to pass a test like "can you spot the most obvious scam that has ever scammed, at least once in a while?"
>But a checklist for defusing tantrums when they happen would be nice

I didn't see if you mentioned ages which is likely a big factor. I only have one kid that's 3.7 but tantrums have been rare for us; probably just different kids and the fact he get's all our attention but here's a couple things we do and mainly it's about preventatively avoiding the triggers to a tantrum situation

1. talk everything out ahead of it happening so it's not a surprise when it happens, remind them repeatedly, and make it positive

2. when I know Mom will be gone and that might be tough, I plan a few things that are different or fun and we only ever do those things during that time so he is actually excited that Mom is leaving (we call it having Dada/[son's name] fun time). I'll talk about these things during #1 and he'll tell Mom about it when she returns

3. just me, but I wouldn't mention ice cream to my kid until afterwards as a reward for the decent behavior (he wouldn't think about the fact he behaved poorly and would just expect ice cream when Mom got home then it would be WW3, I'd have to then stick to my guns because I never cave in to the tantrum)

4. sleep management as discussed, hunger as well

5. we never ignore it. we shut it down and discuss how that behavior is completely unacceptable. we allow the time for him to calm down, have a time out if it went that direction, then we reflect on the event and have a conversation about why [whatever it was] is happening and why their attitude is not acceptable. our kid responds to being talked to like an adult, we just have to break it down and explain the reasoning and he understands it.

6. a majority of our tantrums are due to his sense of something not being fair. Like if we changed our mind on something without fully explaining, or in an undeserving punitive way. So we avoid this. We strive to be fair in our interactions. See the ice cream example in #3 and proactively avoiding a potential moment of perceived inequity.

7. Communicate a lot. Explain your rationale. Don't be a dictator type parent. I think this is common parenting and takes some creativity/patience to never say "because I said so".

Best of luck to you!
Are these computer animated movies is are they doing that in lego? They also got lots of other battles rendered this way, it must be a movement!

there are even stop motion movies on the Ukraine war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r89A4ngNnxU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BrAZBHkRB8
Biological evolution is sort of an arms race? Wolves as a species aren't trying to eat every single deer and deer as a species aren't trying to never be eaten by a wolves (of course species don't "try", it is just a convenient manner of speaking). It is more like a balance where wolves eat the unhealthy/old deer and moderate deer population is the ideal for both species. Calling evolution an arms race massively misses the essential nature in most predator-prey relationships.
Curious there was a massive spike in reported hate crimes against blacks (45%), to 2,871 (2020) from 1,972 (2019).

Strangely, Alexander writes:

"there was no corresponding rise in hate crimes the way I would expect if this was whites targeting blacks, so I think the perpetrators were most likely also black."

Alexander is a smart guy, and he almost certainly found the same data I did, so I suspect his use of the word "expect" is doing a lot of work here.
Is there something wrong with saying you don't care about the logo on a shirt, but might care about other things?

Like i might not care generally, but part of not caring is that i don't really want to draw undue attention to the item in question. E.g. I probably wouldn't wear a shirt that was neon green sequins or something similarly ostentatious. That said, im not going to care about a pocket one way or another.

I suppose you could say not caring is a spectrum not a binary.
> Personally I think they should not be able to decide such things. A payment provider should be forced to accept all legitimate customers. It is absolutely unwanted for a private business (in an unrelated category no less) to be playing the role of legislator.

Why? I would say just the opposite: by default people should be able to decide who they want to do business with. Payment providers are no exception.

Some people might want to refuse to facilitate payments for eg bakeries that refuse to bake cakes for gay weddings. Some other people might want to refuse to facilitate payments for bakers that bake cakes for gay weddings. (Similar for many other issues you can think of.)

> Recently there was a lot of news in the Netherlands about prostitutes not being able to open bank account because all banks refused them.

The bigger problem here seems to be a lack of competition? If barriers to entry were low enough, presumably someone would open a bank that accepted prostitutes' money and make a tidy profit (since there would be less competition, when they are the first ones).

Banking is regulated so heavily in an attempt to keep out even slightly 'shady' things, that the effect is to drive people into the arms of the really shady.
Then they should employ and train people in these roles who could be trusted to do that.
What could she do with GPT-3 and DALL-E?
‘Supercookies’ Have Privacy Experts Sounding the Alarm
Topical forums run by enthusiasts are always good. 4chan is underrated in some ways even; there's a lot of garbage but the best is better than anywhere. I think in general you should avoid sites that have any kind of voting. "Bump order" brings controversial ideas to the top which means they're probably original.

IRC channels are still great too, I learned a lot lurking in places like #linux on freenode.
You're right. Calling out tradeoffs transparently in the comment section is 'on brand' and that's precisely why I keep coming back to HN and the comment section, specifically.

Blog articles are helpful but most often are a single person's perspective and no one person is perfect. I love HN because I can get some great anecdotes (or sometimes response articles) from many perspectives.
I think its a bit of misnomer, because YC will always object to being called tech bros. But going by all the verbage on the topic, I would say a close approximation would be:

“Embedded Growth Obligator” (may sound more broish in Spanish YMMV)

(Thanks Weinstein!)

In more familiar but less wieldy parlance, it might be
“Rationalist non-lifestyle Hustler”

There is a bit of of an accusation of hypocrisy too, that is, YC and its organ HN will say they pander in service of curiosity, but its more like the other way round. (Make things people want! Spread your ideology later!) If thats not in itself a lifestyle its at least a narrow perspective on ikigai— perhaps summarized as “Learn Or Earn”

I would say I am not an example of techbro, because I spend time on replying to your statement without any consideration of the victory conditions.
Parents and govt have to clamp down hard and fast on this shit or there's going to be issues. Major major issues. It's not 'a mistake' that 'the algorithms' teach American kids to smash up their schools, it's cyberwarfare and we're losing.
(Though to be clear I think a person should be able to do whatever they want with whatever is inside them until the moment it’s not)
Lots of people will only private sale to someone with a concealed permit as it acts as a form of 'good guy' card.
> for the wrong reasons

Yes, they should probably be empowered to actually make decisions and trained to make them correctly. Is that asking so much?
Interesting that every example photo, irrespective of the events, has ominous Quake3-like skies.
Will never happen because women love men. Many to the point they can't help themselves and will put themselves in harms way to be around them.

It also doesn't take into account how much men love being men and doing male things/male culture.
Why would the phone manufacturer care?

(And in any case, as you suggest most people pay more per bit transmitted on a mobile voice call than they pay per bit as data.)

Purely for fun, it would be interesting to hack up two smart phones to transmit data over a voice call. Presumably, you can keep everything binary, if you control the end-points.
I think any one with average intelligence can probably do software development, it's just a matter of putting in the effort.
A thread about the dark side of Shopify
Thanks, View->Font Size is not present in the version I'm using, but it sounds like they may have just added it. I guess they finally listened to the cries of users. I will look into how to run the new version without confusing apt too much.
Has anyone here witnessed asian hate in response to covid. I have seen much reported about it but have really ever witnessed any myself.
It's about two thirds of the way down the page of https://newsblur.com/ (when you're not logged in).

Paid account is US$36/year.

You can sign up with a free try-before-you-buy account to give it a go first, though.
This is the realest comment here. are you really going to ask for the donation like the manager asks to every moaning and complaining person for example? No you're going to take their money and say nothing and move along. Poliicy meeting reality.
>> we may in fact give them too much credit, but to give them no credit at all would turn any arrest procedure into a brawl.

This is possible and I accept this end point. My worldview is consistent, yours is bound up in perverse gotchas and outs for when force that is otherwise unjustified has to be justified or else "bad things" will happen to society. You assume that my framework ends with "massively escalating violence everywhere in society" but you haven't proven that and, more importantly, your worldview (assuming it's the current one) has resulted in the same problem. Or are we to take George Floyd's death and the related national civil unrest as not a massive escalation of violence everywhere in society?

I'd rather be juvenile than a hypocrite.
Thanks, nice find, it sounds like they are couthing up about this. I'll see if I can try it out.
Honestly, that is what I was expecting given the title of the paper. That or a partial reverse-engineering and emulation of an SSD controller firmware.
I've done this before, used a sqlite as a unit testing stand-in for a read-only MSSQL database my app used. Allowed me to unit test the data transform code conveniently. But that's about as far as I'd go. Running tests against one database and production against other is a great way to discover bugs in production, like the text length constraint covered in the article. And if speed is of concern but data storage is not, just launch the test database with tmpfs backed storage.
My total compensation dropped about 20%. It was definitely a meaningful motivator to switch jobs. I started a new job this month, which put me back at market rate for my level and geo, plus a modest raise.

Many people advise staying put during economic downturns for stability, but I actually think switching jobs is quite advantageous because you can get more shares per dollar in your initial equity grant. My shares at the new company were granted at a price ~25% down from peak. I'm optimistic the market will turn around in the next 12-24 months, leaving me with some handsome appreciation I would not have otherwise seen.
Yes, the Range Safety Officer could send a coded command to "terminate the flight of an erratic vehicle" by cutting off the engine and "dispersing the propellant". Each of the three stages in the Saturn V rocket had linear shaped charges to blow up the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen tanks. [1] The astronauts would hopefully be pulled to safety by the launch escape system, the rocket engine on the top of the capsule.

[1] See https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap10fj/pdf/19700015780_as-505-a... pages 14-15.
Google and wikipedia tell me that SWAR is: SIMD within a register, also known by the name "packed SIMD".
Or they just wait until the homeowner leaves for work.
Let's be real: registry is punishment. Some of those people were convicted of urinating in public. If anything continued ostracization precludes reform.
In my scheme:

the disk is explicitly yours - bought at full retail price

the drive is yours, every user gets a dedicated drive in the infra - again bought at full retail price at the moment you sign up
Can you give a verbatim example prompt? Because my understanding is that GPT-3 works by generating responses based on seed phrases, not from arbitrary instructions.
As far as themed sets go, Lego has been consistent in promoting aggressiveness in the last 30 years. Police chasing the bad guys to put them in a prison cell, pirates wanting to plunder the treasure, ninjas riding heavily-armed aircraft.
When am I able to check my messages, but unable to respond? If I don't have all the facts at my disposal, that's probably what I'll respond, but promptly acknowledging receipt is a core component of sustainable social relationships.

And I can think of one supporting study off the top of my head:
Marital interaction and satisfaction: A longitudinal view[0].

0. https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F0022-006X.5...