skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The regulations on the use of deadly force in the military are much more stringent and the escalation has to occur in a specific way to justify the use of deadly force, even when a person is being hostile. In an active war zone, the situation is different but it is a war zone (which is the exception, not the norm)- in most situations for most people trained in the military, the standard way to respond is much more reserved in terms of violence than how a lot of police behave domestically (maybe because of the context of preventing an international incident) and there are very strict rules and serious consequences to using a firearm- at least in most places/situations when servicemembers are issued a firearm.
> Do you think the court of public opinion is consequential?

No. The purpose of FSF is not to be demagogues and bend at every whim of the mob. Public opinion is driven by gossip and yellow press, not by facts and original sources - which was clearly demonstrated when the yellow press accused RMS of saying the girl who approached Minsky was "entirely willing", when all he said is that many scenarios are possible, but he believed that it was plausible that she was directed by Epstein to "present herself as entirely willing" - which was not nearly the same, but was taken out of context by the yellow press in order to destroy his reputation.

Now please apply the same principle to yourself and stop avoiding the questions that I have asked:

> How exactly does RMS voicing his thoughts and opinions make anything worse?

> You mention the phrase "stepping on people". What exactly do you mean by that - both in general, and in the specific case you've mentioned? Do you mean that people don't like his words, and he's figuratively "stepping on them" by expressing his thoughts?
And even the others who might have different views on obscenity, still hold political special to be special.
> No, I just happen to be the only person here with firearms training that is brave enough

Very brave of you. I have some (mild, think seriousmode CCW class) training in the area too, and FWIW it doesn't exactly match your description.

> trying to help uninformed folks focus on what matters

But you're the one who's constantly muddying the waters and turning this into a flame war instead of conversation. Reread the article, then reread this thread. If you come to the conclusion that you're doing something constructive or helpful, rather than that you have ulterior motives or need to seriously improve your communication skills, there's probably no reconciling your POV with anyone else's.
That's not really what Concrete Mathematics is about.
It's not a prereq to TAOCP.
The guy just had a grant terminated for failing to turn over records.
Re >> "with an ability to reflect around 98% of incoming sunlight"

Seems like a mirror would reflect even more light. Now, obviously we don't want to make the exteriors of our buildings and cars a mirror!. but it made me wonder: What's the difference between a really really really white paint that reflects 98%+ light, vs. a reflective surface? Is it that the white paint reflects the light, but in a "scrambled" form, thus losing the image?
Back into space. Seems fine.
I hate how much this whole thread is just everyone dripping with sarcasm.

The same reason we elect mayors but not every single single person who works in city call. Or cabinet members under an elected president.

Effective governance and public and administration still require experience. Elections are great for changing leadership who set policy, agenda, and direction and term limits help there. But they can't replace people with experience. We typically do have some elected positions with oversight over police.

This is NOT to say that there isn't a massive need for more accountability with police forces. But term limits ain't it.
I don't know how any non-FAANG companies in the bay area hire non-junior developers. I have 4 kids and the difference in mortgage payments alone for relocating there is well into 5 figures per year.
It depends. A lot of HomeKit devices have basic functionality through just the Home app, but if you want anything advanced, you need the device app. My Philips Hue bulbs only do "gradually brighten at sunrise" through the Philips app, and Nanoleaf panels need their app to do anything more complex than on/off.
Was the "would" in the previous comment supposed to be a "wouldn't"?

If you don't think Google would support GCP long term, it wouldn't make sense to put one (and just one?) service on GCP.
That was sarcastic, right? But I have to say that recent (last 10 years) W3C decisions seem to me to have been to the benefit of FAANG, not me.
The best arguments for do expressions I've seen are in recent versions of the Pipe Operator proposal which now suggests where do expressions can produce some good simpler looking pipelines with the Pipe operator.

Aside from syntax sugar, it's also a tiny spot for some JIT compiler and garbage collector optimization. Arrow functions still create Function objects, which is a tiny bit of administrative overhead and possible garbage to collect. Most JIT engines are somewhat used to "IIFEs" and can optimize common patterns of that, but do notation possibly directly suggests "not a real Function" or "entirely inlinable function" to the JIT in ways that even arrow functions cannot.

I don't know if that sort of micro-optimization is a great argument for do expressions, however.
You write this as if this wasn't common knowledge:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosu...

If they had no need for contacting Meta and Microsoft and Google, why did they do so?

How could would this put an ordinary citizen at risk? I don't know. All the data is run through an AI and if it labels you terrorist, who is to question it?

They sure kill a lot of people in Pakistan based on this data:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-n...
An anecdote that I often tell as a joke, but is true: When I lived in San Francisco I worked in IT for a bank. I quickly learned that when people asked me what I did, it was safer to say "I'm in banking" than "I work in IT." This was even true not long after the Wells Fargo scandal, and in SF people would probably be most likely to assume I worked for them!

Say what you will about the banks, at least they're the evil people know, I guess.
Three data points:

- A friend who got a Ph.D. in Chemistry at Berkeley in the 1970's - in spite of major health issues - told stories about entitled pre-med students back then, aggressively telling him that they needed/expected $Grade in the course which he was a TA for, in order to get into their preferred medical school. (From a quick web search, Berkeley has a "top 10 in the U.S." chemistry program.)

- A kid I once knew got straight A's in the "weeder" organic chemistry classes at University of Michigan in the mid 1980's - in spite of being, in his own words, clearly less bright than the average student in his class. His secret? - nose-to-the-grindstone discipline. He studied organic chemistry 4 hours per day, 6 days per week, from the week before classes began until the week after the final exam. (Similar to Berkeley, U of M looks to have a "top 10 in the U.S." chemistry program.)

- One of my relatives spent her career as a pharmacist. (Which also required organic chemistry classes.) She wasn't able to pass that class at U of M - but their Pharmacy program had less-lofty academic requirements (vs. pre-med), so she was able to re-take organic chemistry over the summer at another university (2 or 3 big steps down the academic rigor rankings from U of M), and get a "good enough" grade to continue in the U of M Pharmacy program.
Not if you write it in Common Lisp.

Seriously, I have put a lot of Common Lisp code into production and it just doesn't have these problems because of its ability to redefine classes on the fly. Combine that with an ORM that issues the right ALTER TABLE commands and all but the most radical design changes are completely turnkey, no stick figures needed.
One can be both exceptional and have deep seated emotional and mental health issues. The former does not excuse the latter, nor that observations made of the latter are any less relevant.

Also, it’s not one’s fault for having emotional and mental health issues but, crucially, it is their responsibility for addressing them.
Ask HN: Is there an international market for my niche app?
I will start building a simple material receiving report web app, mostly to help my mother-in-law. She enters delivery note items (goods) from various suppliers into Excel table, but she's struggling with filling those Excel files and printing them. I wonder if there is an international market for this kind of app and I want to find out where those people hang on internet (forums, FB groups etc.). If you can point me to some, I will greatly appreciate. Link to landing page of the app I wanted to build:

emmmer.webflow.io
How many apps use Swift in 2022?
We analysed the top 100 non-game apps on the App Store to find out the number of apps using Swift.
This is as official as it gets that Elon Musk is commiting to buy Twitter for the $54.20 original price, and I'm still confused why no other submissions about the news have made it to the HN front page.
In 2022 thinking that your esoteric language is going to help you implement new features faster than with a mainstream language is just plain language zealotry.
Buildings subtend a very small solid angle relative to the earth and the sky most anywhere I drive (and I live in a major metropolitan area).
The news. I genuinely don’t want to know what horrifying things are going on in the world.
NKS isn't a new kind of science, but it's not nonsense. It's a poorly cited thorough monograph on cellular automata.
Yes, it's not reflecting the light so much as re-radiating it in a diffuse pattern.
Is rqlite a fork? It strikes me more as an application that uses SQLite as a dependency, rather than a fork of SQLite itself.
I got my first tech internship (at a 5 person startup called "Pagerduty") thanks to one.
I find it unreasonable that every language would have all of its features always compatible. Why can't we just say "don't use X and Y together" ? It might solve a ton of problems. All you have to do is have a big red warning in the manual that says DON'T COMBINE X AND Y, and a language feature that lets you turn on X and turn off Y.
Might as well skip the extra step and just torrent them directly. What you are doing is illegal either way, so why do the extra work?
That's just bad dev, for a native app.

But anyone complaining that modern Electron/Web apps have bad performance is naive. Of _course_ they do, and yes we should try to improve performance, but much of the industry as a whole has decided that features > performance for the most part.
I'll ignore the fact that you responded to my question with other questions instead, and actually answer yours. It's a proxy war. We're pretending we're not actually at war with Russia and this is all the heroic effort of Ukrainians. So the same reason we don't impose a no-fly zone over parts of Ukraine - we're trying to balance escalation that achieves a goal without escalating too far that there is no return.

Now your turn. Who other than the US benefits from this?
Because Samsung doesn't run an app store on iOS.
If an app doesn't have recurring costs involved in serving their product (server costs, etc), it's hard to justify a subscription model vs charging a one time cost to purchase the app.

To fund/incentivize continuing development of new features, they can have reasonable in-app purchases to unlock those new features.
We have had 2 quarters of negative growth before without an official NBER recession (though not since the 50s).
The guy just had his grant terminated for not turning over records. What’s your explanation for this counter-intuitive behavior?
Ba dum tss
If sites like HN were that influential we’d all be running Linux on the desktop and listening to our nomads.

Not sure if that’s a good or bad thing.
wireless charging efficiency isn't too great either

https://debugger.medium.com/wireless-charging-is-a-disaster-...
If it is a free market, let me install a different app store than the apple one.
You have to use something similar to https://github.com/facebook/folly/tree/main/folly/experiment... to solve this problem.

It's a nasty bug that everyone encounters when first working with coroutines. (Similarly everyone will encounter references that don't live until you co_await the task).
> the various statistics that have already been brought out in the various sub-posts to your original post.

Have there? I haven't seen them. Best I've seen is a study suggesting that killings by police may be undercounted due to mistakes in reporting, but doesn't make any claims that these represent crimes committed by police.

> there seem to be a large number of complaints against police officers in the U.S.

Google tells me there are 900,000 cops in the US. That's a large number too. What's the complaint/cop ratio?

> very few of these actually go to an indictment

How many fewer than we'd expect? What's the normal indictment rate? What should it be?

> of these ones that go to an indictment it seems fewer get heavy sentences in comparison to the rest of the population for similar infractions.

Again, how many fewer? These are all things I would expect could be demonstrated empirically. What are the actual numbers? It seems like people are mostly going by their gut feeling, which I just don't find convincing.
Mostly the world changes due to unpredictable emergent phenomena, but occasionally you do get intentional changes as well. But intention is individual, not collective; there's no such thing as collective intention. At best you have many people's intentions in agreement. Rarely does that arise in a workplace.
he filed a filing
Why are you confident?

Reverse the positions and imagine Twitter is the loser here and has to pay a billion dollars and legal fees to Elon. Do the shareholders each have to send in a check for the amount? Of course not; Twitter would pay it out of their corporate assets. Their stock price might go down because of the event, but the core idea for corporations is that shareholders are not liable for the corporation’s debts/liabilities and, conversely, shareholders have no general claim to the company’s assets (or rather they have the lowest priority claim after all other stakeholders).
Having recently left Google after more than 10 years, I don't think those are the reasons for any decline at Google. I think it's very hard to scale a company to that size without many layers of middle management, and I think it's very hard to be an effective middle manager at Google (and maybe anywhere).

Until I see a more functional company with 100,000+ employees, I attribute all the issues to scale.
For one, you can’t use the phone during wireless charging.

I know, ”akshually, you can use it, you just can’t hold it in your hand!”. Anyway, you can’t use it normally - it must be kept on the mat to charge.

Also, there are a bunch of accessories that require physical connection. Search for “iphone pendrive” for instance.

Bluetooth headphones still have laughable latency for music production, and decent quality full-duplex audio isn’t there either.

iOS developers will also tell you how reliable wireless debugging is. (Hint: it’s abysmal)
> Gage claims that Tipping wound up with three broken ribs, a lacerated liver

This is missing something.

CPR often results in broken/cracked ribs and abdominal injuries.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266652042...
You read a math book slowly, so you don't need whitespace for help skimming. Extra whitespace would make the huge books even huger.

Beautiful formatting here refers to the text, not the whitespace.
> The new material features boron nitride in hexagonal nanoplatelet form and offers a solar reflectance of 97.9%

What's the difference between white paint and a mirror? Scatter?
You may have missed the other 10 reasons I listed besides performance.

Also, no JS code will be faster than Java. While both have insanely good JIT compilers that can output some truly, often surprisingly great machine code, java is all-around faster, if for no other reason, due to its killer GCs.
Kinda, yes.

But also, specifically for calculus, thinking of things of the areas or slopes of other things, and how incremental changes affect them, is a very simple and powerful lens for lots of things.

Of course, lots of teachers just hammer the fiddly memorisables until the wonder is dead because they're easy to test and/or they don't have an intuitive feel of the underlying meaning themselves.

And, for calculus, the fiddlies have never been so needless to know as everything non trivial is a computer job and no one is limiting things carefully to closed forms. Few people need the chain rule specifically, they'd be much better served with knowing that there's a thing called the chain rule and what that means, rather than the exact painful calculations and lists of forms.
I don’t think there’s a physical difference between reflection and re-radiation, is there? Reflection is just highly organized/non-diffuse.
Wow, it was amended 11 times.

Funny the title of this post sounds like he made a tweet that turned into a SEC filing.
Black 4th pin seems like a somewhat common failure mode: https://ioshacker.com/iphone/why-the-fourth-pin-on-your-ligh...
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I have returned to using C++ over the last six-months after not using it really since university 20+ years ago. I mostly write Python these days, Java in the past, but have also recently written some moderately complex and unsafe C (e.g., making a parser using flex and bison; doing lots of void* pointer arithmetic to get around not having runtime reflection). I am astonished at the complexity of modern C++. I’ve studied Rust and used some Swift (on an iOS app for a client a couple of years back), and I struggle to “correctly” write code in C++. I feel as if C++ is collapsing under its own weight.
I have mixed feelings. It’s sadistic but too relevant to ignore. It’s an hit in the aircraft carrier of the FIRE poster child.
I think you might be stretching this a lot... try to drive past the front gate at your local military base and we can see just how reserved their use of force is.

It is true, however, that the military has strict rules for when lethal force are permitted. I'm not sure how that counters anything said here, since LE also has very strict rules.

In hindsight, we can all examine the facts and agree the force used in that situation was unwarranted. But that's the benefit of hindsight.

Regardless, we should not focus on how many rounds were fired. We should instead focus on how the wrong decision was made in the first place.

That is the point of this entire thread. Do not use round count to indicate anything. It just doesn't indicate anything...
> No one in this world is training to fire a "warning shot".

I'm not sure if you are correct. See this Wikipedia article and search for "warning": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_firearm_use_by_country

It looks like several European countries have an established policy of firing warning shots. Denmark at least legally makes them required.
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It's a real shame that home networking equipment don't have better firewalls or VLAN capabilities.

With a simple (open,pf)sense firewall, ubiquity AP you can easily configure a WiFi network that is completely internal and can talk to each other, but not to anyone else.
It won't shine any brighter than the light that's hitting it.
I didn't post this time. But I've hired lots and I'm ahead on my hiring plans.

A lack of posts can't be interpreted as a lack of hiring.
Canon is Building a $345M Chip Plant in Japan, its First in 21 Years
Archived: https://archive.ph/2022.10.04-194651/https://www.newyorker.c...
If you wanted to finish someone off, smashing their broken ribs into their liver could work well, especially if they're still conscious.
Seeing the photo of Knuth picking cotton in Uzbekistan, my ex-Soviet citizen's first thought was "now what they did pack him for".
Intolerance towards religion is toxic and anti-diversity. In America, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes discriminating against people because of their religion illegal in many contexts. If you can't work alongside somebody who is religious, then you become a liability to any corporation that respects this law.
CPR causes injuries.

Half of the injuries are likely tied to the CPR.

The other half may or may not be related to the training event fall, or intentional violence.
You could try buying some and find out!

https://culturehustle.com/products/black-v1-0-beta-the-world...

You could also mix it with the 'whitest white'

https://culturehustle.com/products/white-20
Well, if we're all chiming in: another requirement is a caloric surplus. Beginner gains are a real thing, but at a certain point (say 8-10 weeks) a caloric surplus will be required to continue seeing changes in strength and muscle mass. And that reminds me, the weights also need to get incrementally heavier.
Money supply has roughly doubled since 2020. So you are not correct.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
> and a replaceable battery

And with that EU will help out also, they are already working on a legislation for that.
> Reflected heat has to go somewhere.

Back out to space, where it came from.
Another aspect is that in software, the code is actually the design. So a diagram that only approximates the design is not so useful as it is in electrical engineering where there still MUST BE a completely accurate design or the project fails.
And with this outlook, industry should/will get ahead of the legislators and gravitate towards a standard of their own.

The current legislation was introduced because 1 manufacturer chose to not follow the standard and mostly for profit reasons.
You can spew messages into sqs then have a lambda on sqs sending to pg.

Funny, we were going to use kafka too, but just sending to mysql worked just fine <shrug>. One day that will change, obviously.
"systems should be used and designed in an equitable way" - the woke ideology has sneaked even here.
Those downloaded movies still have DRM, and can only be played on official Apple devices or apps. Apple can revoke the license whenever they want. No better than what Amazon and others do.
yes. A white surface scatters the photons and a reflective one keeps them in the same position relative to the others. If you make a surface smooth enough it starts becoming partly reflective. There is also scattering of photons that happens in object itself

I found this video about the topic to be interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n_otIs6z6E (title: Why aren't Mirrors White? Why isn't EVERYTHING a Mirror?)
That might have had a big impact. I used to always look for it on the 1st of the month, many posters might have failed to find it and just moved on.
Interesting. Haven't really visited Twitch in years, so I've been thinking of it as a gaming platform mainly. I'll check it out. Thanks!
Wait till you hear about the Talos POWER-architecture computers

https://www.raptorcs.com/