skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's burglary this time, what if it was homicide?

I remember being very troubled by a case from years ago about a cop who knocked on someone's door because neighbors had heard screaming. The resident and his girlfriend had been having loud sex, but agreed to let the cop verify no violence was taking place. During the visit the cop noticed some cannabis plants and the man was convicted of possession with intent to distribute.

My rule of thumb if I were rewriting the law would be that the inadvertently discovered crime must be as or more serious than that which is being reported/investigated. If a person is a victim of or an honest cooperator in the investigation of a serious crime, lesser offenses should be held in abeyance, although a warning of potential liability in future unrelated police contacts would be acceptable.
Whether or not it's fun doesn't isn't the primary driving factor in its continued popularity. People use it because other people use it. It got big and now has a network effect of inertia holding it in place until something else takes off and replaces it.
AirPods solved this for me. I'm not sure exactly what apple did that is different from the regular bluetooth audio spec, but the seemless integration and transition between devices is fantastic
I don't think that's the right twitter link
PHP does at least have an optimised internal representation for arrays with sequential integer keys, where it can avoid having a hash table and just do linear indexing: https://www.npopov.com/2014/12/22/PHPs-new-hashtable-impleme...

But a tradeoff in that design is it still has to keep track of keys and update them if you remove stuff from the start of the array. Adding and removing elements at the end is very fast, though.
> You may have a hard time understanding what all those people do, but I suspect they're all quite busy.

I'm guessing 100 managers at least. Busy hiring more people to staff their perpetually understaffed teams, each doing some disjoint initiative.
I'm not a minimalist, and I'm somewhat possessed by my possessions.

Stuff that comes to mind:

A few commodore 64's, a vic 20, C128, IBM 5155, RS/6000F80, Apple SE/30, Power Mac G3, Libretto CT70, ipaq hx4700, hp streambook 11, Lenovo T420, Olivetti M6 460 Suprema, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, Playstation, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Super Nintendo, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, Atari 2600, A couple Dell Optiplex 755, Victor V386MX, amiga 500, atari 1040 (not fully working, to be repaired).

On top of that, the hifi stuff, vhs players, a betamax, a video 2000, a few laserdisc players, crt tv's, various computer monitors, reel to reel players..

Some laptops and other crap, and some modern PC's and some rack servers and switches.. Probably less than 200 working items.

That said, I'd not donate anything, unless to someone who could appreciate it deeply.
I have an iPad 4 that's mostly used for email and reading HN/blogs in bed.

My daily Linux machine is a Thinkpad T430 from 2012.

I daily drive a 1993 Saab 9000 -- Can it run custom software? The electronics (HVAC, lights, wipers, etc.) are controlled by a Raspberry Pi, so kind of?

And some old phones lying around, including a working Razr and a Palm Treo that can still sync with Windows 10(!)
Disclaimer that I'm no lawyer.

For a project with a single copyright owner/entity (or a group in agreement), yeah. You can't change the license of existing released versions or prevent people from sharing it in accordance with MIT. But you can publish a new release and drop the MIT license or even go closed source. The MIT license is just a grant of permissions for people who are not the copyright holders. The owner doesn't have to agree to MIT in order to use their own software.

Godot would be a weird example though where I hope a lawyer would chime in. The first part of the MIT license establishes the copyright holders. The Godot license says:

Copyright (c) 2014-2022 Godot Engine contributors (cf. AUTHORS.md).

And the AUTHORS.md file has like a hundred names in it. If some company could acquire the entire rights to Godot then they could update the license. But I don't know how possible that is here.

It kind of reminds me of when id software had the reverse situation. They wanted to open-source Doom 3, but some shadow technique they were using was based on a Creative Labs patent. So they had to rewrite a small amount of code before publishing the source.
Well, terms have meanings and it's nice to keep it, makes discussion easier.

So yeah sure, we were doing 2 hours-long 1%-of-a-feature branches.
Hahaha, I had one of these as a kid, and I literally forgot about it's existence until recently. I remember it working much better with the included button handled things.

Looking at it now, I see this probably wasn't a factor -- but, in perhaps a prediction of issues to come, at the time I actually thought a significant reason it didn't work is because I'm black and and it couldn't "see" darker skin?
They already have been, since the early 90s & I'm sure most mainframe / COBOL codebases are maintained by offshore staff.
Are you going to upgrade this feature to an Enterprise license one day and then revoke access without a grace period? This happened to one of our Grafana plugins and resulted in a several day outage while we scrambled to sort out the payment.

As your company has shown zero respect for its customers, I will not be using any of your systems.To be absolutely clear it is fair to charge for any of your products, however, if you change it from freemium to paid you can't just pull the plug without reaching out.
Is This the Most Versatile Aircraft Design? [video]
Then, why does my original post have +30? It must have struck a nerve with more than just myself.
Thank you. I figured this is one of those things where a simulation really proves the intuition.
By the time I opened DevTools the audio has already stopped, I searched for video/audio html tags, but found nothing
When you're +$400mil into venture capital raises 'the company' doing something like that can be an awful lot of time, effort and potentially political capital for a CEO to get through.

I'm astounded that so many supposed seasoned leaders were out there making crazy projections around maintaining covid levels of growth and I also don't think 'my bad' is enough in that context, but benefits above what's required are rarely handed over without someone committing to fighting for it.
Well hell, I made the wrong choice at a fork in the road then. If finance is willing to buy a tighter confidence interval based on insight to Mudge’s credibility, then I severely underpriced the potential payout in finance.

E-mail is open to those who want tighter intervals re this deal or similar: my new pivot.
Most of them? Can you give an example of a 5 person competitor competing with a large company?

And of those, how many of them can only do that because they're outsourcing most of their needs to some other company people regularly complain is bloated?
Agreed. I think your counterpart is too focused on the person's _name_ rather than the contextual _role_ that the person occupies.

If someone is coming to me with a question, it is extremely helpful to know up front who they are (with respect to their role, not so much their name) in order to immediately start narrowing down the relevant contextual parameters that will be framing my understanding of their problem and my response. I don't want to read a wall of text while thinking of how to respond from an engineering perspective, only to discover at the end that the person lacks technical aptitude.
I first came across Richard Cook in connection with his enormously insightful "How Complex Systems Fail" (1988) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228797158_How_compl... If you have not read this it's still on point today.

His medical background allowed him to propose biology-based design models for resilience based on bone; this keynote is worth listening to more than once https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LbePBiOvZ4 He opens with three claims:

Bone is not a model for resilience.
Bone is not a metaphor for resilience
Bone is the archetype for resilience.

He had posted much of his work on https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard-Cook-8 before his death.
I don't have that many customers per year, so I just have a directory tree that is of the format <workdir>/<year>/<customer>/<engagement>/ where each engagement is a unique identifier for each customer, followed by numbers that represent the YYMMDD of the Statement of Work or whatever sparked off the engagement.

Too much more than that would be overkill for my needs. In the <workdir> I have other directories with templates for whatever I need, such as for billing, SOW, payment reminders, etc.

Everything is primarily in markdown for simplicity and ease of conversion. I don't use excel, although my invoices once started that way. Eventually I figured excel isn't meant to be a layout platform, and is not compatible with much of anything else in my workflow, and no I longer use it for anything except sorting and visualizing forensic timelines.
You’re doing the same thing by leaving out the health profile of people at high risk of death: Old, fat and sick.
IANAL, but you normally would need probable cause to collect DNA from someone if you want to use it as evidence. There would be probable cause to collect someone's DNA if they have an outstanding warrant. No such probable cause exists for a rape victim.

> She would never have been charged or prosecuted if she weren’t robbing people.

Innocent people are charged and prosecuted all the time. Otherwise there would be no need for a trial.
Bad strategy, imo. Sounds like they should have tried to answer why people used their product in the first place. “A competitor does it” isn’t a valid excuse—its like suggesting The French Laundry switch to fast food because McDonald’s is a competitor.
You're not actually becoming a bank. They are just providing an API so you can act like a bank. Your money is still going to be held by an actual bank. The banking services are still being provided by an actual bank.
Mass firing at UAE newspaper raises question of censorship
Twitter shareholders vote to approve Elon Musk’s bid to buy the company
It’s fascinating how people will contort their brains to make every obviously shitty thing that SFPD does somehow the fault of their political boogeyman.

Can you point out the evidence that Boudin instructed the SFPD to use DNA evidence in the investigation of retail theft? Like is there a memo from the DA saying “I, Chesa Boudin, instruct you to collect DNA evidence for retail thefts, and make sure to mash the rape victim database up with the criminal database!”

I have never seen a group so fervently pro-police on this site as the pro-SFPD group (and I do not mean the anti-Boudin group, I mean the group that is critical of anyone that doesn’t tow the “poor SFPD, we would live in a utopia if only they had unlimited power” line.)

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That's why you don't request your personal file from the FBI, either they have a file on you from your youth or you have given them reason to suspect you did something at some point. I'm curious, but not that curious.
> But still: juniors have literally complained that it doesn't matter when I fail, because I'm already "made". Their sense that they have to prove themselves, and advance on some ladder, hangs over them always.

They are not wrong. I've been around long enough to earn some trust. I can (and have) made some major mistakes that would be reflected on a junior's raise, but I get by with it. I'm also working in places where those mistakes are more likely because we don't trust juniors in them. I like to think I make less mistakes than the juniors would, but I'm not sure...

If you are a junior, just wait - your turn will come.
I'm (positively) amazed at the number of open PRs on Godot's Github [0].

I'm used to those sorts of numbers for open issues without ongoing fixes - but the number of issues is actually only 5x the number of PRs.

That seems insanely productive for an open source effort.

[0] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pulls
Company dumps creosote into the ground for 40+ years. Somebody blows the whistle, EPA prosecutes the whistleblower.
Company gets a slap-on-the-wrist fine, while the whistleblower gets house arrest.

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/25/did-the-epa-prosecute-an...

Administrative law is broken. Doubling-down on it isn't going to solve the problem.
I can see your argument, and it's certainly an interesting way of looking at it, but this just explains the "dating app" part of your assertion ("... it's a dating app for women,"). It's missing the explanation on why it's a "dating app for women".
I too had the same thought. You might hike 10 miles on the weekend but depending on your weight that's maybe 3000 calories at the most? It's pretty easy to eat that back over a week.

For the record, just in case it helps you, most weekdays I walk pretty close to 10 miles using a standing desk and walking treadmill. If you can incorporate it into your work day I'd recommend it.
I’m not going to stop using accurate language just because it makes you feel bad.

They are a cult. It’s a group of people who fervently worship an ideology filled with hatred, falsehoods, manipulation and deception. They even have original sin, and excommunication.

All under the guise of protecting oppressed people.

However if they actually cared about the causes they claim, then they would try to make their ideas as easy to digest for the average sane person as possible. But it’s not actually about helping people, it’s about moral superiority and pushing people away who aren’t “pure” enough.
A few author friends and I have been using a "collaborative branching fiction" site I wrote 25 years ago. Took it out of mothballs when Covid hit, spruced it up in some ways. Now it has a react component that graphs the DAG of the stories (threads can merge together, loops are not allowed), lets you filter by un-concluded threads with some nice animation. I wrote some software that will project how big the story will be based off of average chapter length and choices per chapter. I'm also trying to make the site "guide" the authors in terms of how many choices to add, to keep the overall size of the story within certain guidelines. Since we're mostly third-person past-tense, we're trying to maintain a somewhat literary focus so that all threads have pleasing narratives that eventually end.

Our most active story, Story of a Stone, currently has 318 chapters, 1,064 pages, and a total word count of 265,964, or about the size of Ulysses by James Joyce. It has 4 unwritten choices, and a sprawl of 1.35 choices per non-concluding chapter.
Just a reminder to anyone reading - don't trust anyones predictions about economy without seeing their current stock/option positions. If someone is so sure that the company is going to fail, it would be a no brainer for them to short the stock or buy put options.
I noticed I saw way less information about shows in my area, the only thing I used facebook for. I missed nearly two months of shows at my local venues due to relying on facebook before I realized something had changed. Maybe they increased how much you had to pay to advertise or increase reach? No idea!

Looks like I'll be writing my own scraper, fun times are here.
The second one's the only one of the new trilogy worth saving from a fire. Though I also can't really recommend it to anyone because it doesn't stand very well on its own, and I sure wouldn't want to recommend either of the others to most people (IX has some "so bad it's good" qualities that make it fun for a certain kind of viewer, but I wouldn't say it's any kind of major hit even in that respect)

Man. That trilogy. Good actors, excellent in some cases, and they sure did try. But it wasn't enough.
ahhh,,... I would say billions in revenue makes it anything but. A short lived idea, maybe, a novelty, maybe
Agreed. That part was not well written. It seems like a vacuous, self-important phrase unless it is immediately tied to something else like, "I take full responsibility and as such I will be <taking the following meaningful actions or stepping down, etc>.
>If you didn't do stupid stuff in your youth, you never really grew or learned from it.

So, he's... just like most people? Do you have any specific incident(s) to point to, re: Mudge, or is this just speculation that can be applied to nearly everyone?
It does make discussion easier, which is why your improper use of the term caused such confusion here, and illustrates my larger point; your team sounds like it has a fundamental lack of git knowledge which prevented it from successfully making use of the tool, instead falling into anti-patterns and bad habits that may or may not have resulted in delays, confusion, and disruption that would not have been necessary had you actually known the correct way to keep a branch up to date and avoid costly merge conflicts.
The samsung odyssey"+" is the best flight sim headset imo; they use some sort of screen to reduce the pixel/screen door effect and it works wonders in making stuff look realistic.
Wow, that was wild.
Google Reportedly Cancels Next Version of Pixelbook Laptop to Cut Costs
What If? 2 is here with even more serious answers to your weird questions
Please don't tell people, It's so addictive to "factorio people", I loved this game.
> If any manager can make 100 developers more 10% more efficient, but only a few people who have any ability to be a developer at all, then the developers are worth more.

Then you'd expect fewer developers, and fewer managers overall. Unless you hit some really low threshold (e.g. 5 developers, so the same manager is only worth 50% an IC) where the cost of manager doesn't "pay back" in developer-headcount-reduction, it'd still follow the same strategy.

And of course, the amount of "pay-back" you get from a manager would naturally be how one derives their value, and thus their paycheck.

But IC --> Manager as the only promotion track is completely unnecessary, and generally a mistake. That's just intentionally driving into the peter principle (promoted to the level of their incompetence), because you've simply left no other way to go. Usually you have the alternate track for IC's expanding into larger/more abstract/more important domains, but not head-count; technical/solution architects and what-not.

But the story hasn't changed -- if you assume the role of the manager is to make their resources more efficient, then a manager's value scales with the number of resources under him; an IC does not. It will always eventually make sense for a manager to be more valuable than an IC, and this only holds false at low headcounts.
Tallinn actually has a seaplane harbor, though it's a museum nowadays - Lennusadam: https://meremuuseum.ee/lennusadam/en/
She's still a kind of English speaking world figurehead even if there was a spot of bother with that independence kerfuffle over in the American colonies.
At one point no one wanted to have business meetings on Zoom, but the technology improved and the culture changed such that it's now ubiquitous. Metaverse technology is still really clunky today and used only by a few early adopters, but it's entirely possible that the experience will improve a lot in 10 years. Who knows?
During the dot com downturn the consulting company I was at went through 2 or 3 rounds of layoffs. Then in the 2008 fallout, there was another round. If one is lucky enough to survive them, they could be witness to many but not be a recipient of any.
I went to the magazine expecting to read a 1985 article about declarative languages and instead (also) found a review of the first Amiga computer. This sentence in the editorial column made my day: "Dazzling graphics and audio and an open expansion bus make the Amiga the intellectual and technical heir to the Apple II." ... if only history had played out differently!
First job I had was installing SCO off tapes and that was the year 2000
> Aren't free apps a conflict of interest then?

They are indeed, I think. When was the last time you saw a really great free app? That was at the beginning of the App Store ecosystem, I think they've moved away from it.
> There's a decent overview [0] that derives the expected length, and showing that it grows without bound up to 100% is suggestive of the result (combine that with the fact that the mean length is strictly monotonic increasing where it exists and is infinite at >100% utilization, and that shores up the mathematical loose ends).

Ah! I can process this and it makes crude sense to me. Thank you!
If every CEO would be sanctionned for every situations no one would want to be CEO.
> None of this happened by accident. California began investing in solar power more than 20 years ago and passed Assembly Bill 2514, the nation’s first legislative grid energy storage mandate, in 2010. Gov. Gavin Newsom has also pushed to get more clean energy assets on the state’s grid. These long-term efforts are paying off for California — and have shown the world what’s possible.

This puts the "California banned non-EVs and their grid collapsed" takes into perspective. 12 years ago grid energy storage was seen as a bit odd, 12 years later (i.e. today) it's kind of obvious, what will we think in 2035 when we can no longer buy new ICE Vehicles?
I'm afraid this will be an unpopular opinion with how beloved Godot is... but this is how Unity ended up where they are.

Unity launched with a very similar mission to Godot, very similar energy of busting up big game engine: then the funding came in.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60346300:

> French diplomatic sources told Reuters that Mr Macron had been told to choose between accepting a Russian PCR test to get closer to Putin or abide by strict social distancing rules.

> "We knew very well that meant no handshake and that long table. But we could not accept that they get their hands on the president's DNA," one of the sources told Reuters.

> The source did not elaborate on how the Russian intelligence services could exploit Mr Macron's DNA.

Doesn't provide insight into why one should be concerned, but it's useful information to know that nation states are wary of each other in this regard for some reason even if we don't know what that reason is.
Recently you pulled one of our Grafana plugins without notice as you had upgraded this to an Enterprise license. We are more than happy yo pay, however, pulling production support without reaching out to negotiate a license is a d** move. We suffered an outage of several days while scrambling to get the payment approved. Luckily we didn't suffer any major outage in that window.
Yesterday's headline:

"Russia’s budget surplus evaporates as energy revenues shrink"

https://www.ft.com/content/d9cdc51f-5fe3-4f4a-b0e8-054ef21a2...

> Russia’s budget surplus for 2022 has almost evaporated after a sharp drop in energy exports during August led to a monthly deficit of as much as Rbs360bn ($5.9bn).

Russia is increasingly cutting itself now too:

> Revenues look set to worsen following Russia’s suspension of Nord Stream 1, one of its main gas pipelines to Europe, in early September.

> Russia’s economy shrunk 4.3 per cent in July 2022 compared with the same month a year earlier, according to the country’s economy ministry. Analysts at Aton, a Russian brokerage, expect the economy to contract by a further 5 per cent in 2023 because of falling energy output.
A lot of business in general tends to slow down during the last few weeks of the year. It's sector-dependent, somewhat, but just things like getting approvals from or meetings with people who are 'out' for the holidays impacts even well-intentioned orgs from moving at 'regular' speed when it comes to making hires or signing business deals or what not. It's not a 'negative' viewpoint so much as 'realistic'.
have more

* https://www.science.org/content/article/omicron-booster-shot...

* https://www.fda.gov/media/159496/download

* https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-00771-8
so, garbage. Got it.
Then why mention incentivising behaviour with some crimes over behaviour with other worse ones?