skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some cases it could be as flimsy as they were pacing nervously while black: https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/deas-cold-cons...

Because they claim that these are "consensual", they claim that they don't need any particular criteria for an encounter, but of course the "consent" was not ever really freely given here, they would either trick or bully people into giving consent.
We've already got Emacs
Yes, that's another different sense. In fact it's an intransitive verb that wouldn't fit here grammatically.
Scheming Reasoning Evaluations
I would first ask myself whether this an honest mistake that anyone could make. If the answer is yes then there's really no need for any conflict. I don't think you have to get into a conflict to find out.

We don't expect people to be perfect. Everyone will occasionally make mistakes. I would not frame it as a loss of trust.

If the answer is no then I agree there's a problem that needs to be root caused. Maybe the root cause is Jimmy had a fight with his spouse, or didn't get enough sleep. Maybe Jimmy just can't do the job we're asking him to do.

Beyond that there are process questions to be asked. Don't you have some sort of staged deployments? dev/stage/prod? The reviewer that was concerned about whether Foos are gone - why was he concerned? Is there an easy way to check that?

I wouldn't say there's never a situation for difficult conversations. But usually those are not the right tool for the job. Jimmy is completely aware (presumably) that he said no Foos are left, and that when his code merged the remaining Foos caused an outage, and that his change had to be rolled back to recover. He is a responsible and trusted member of the team. How does he own up to that? What is your culture? If he is not responsible nor trusted than eventually he'll not be there and that's something to be reinforced positively and understood by a high performance team. It's just my experience that if you're at a point where you're playing those games then it usually isn't going to result in a positive outcome. Those tools are not appropriate for high performance teams in high performance organizations. Maybe they are in different organizations.

EDIT: In the military for example it is common to reinforce what people need to do via some sort of punishment. The difference is that you got people who possibly don't want to be there in the first place and in general you don't fire soldiers. That method sort of works but it doesn't really produce the kind of environment a lot of us would like to be in and there's always conflict between fear of punishment and taking initiative.

I would also say there are other things that can be done in this scenario, including a culture of postmortems, where you review the incident as a team and brainstorm ways of avoiding it in the future. This can be tricky to be done in a truly blameless way but if done right can act as a positive reinforcement. In general it's better that peer pressure and culture are the mechanisms that drive people vs. managerial action simply because the manager can't be everywhere all the time. The manager drives that culture.
One of the most worrying patterns for me, in both government and any sufficiently large corporation, is the idea of secret rules and dishonor without explanation or appeal.
A few years ago I doggedly tried to switch to Nyxt for everyday use. I really liked the concept, but at the time, it was too buggy, and constantly crashed on me. I'm going give it another shot.
CollapseOS is a FORTH based system too, based on that exact premise.

http://collapseos.org/
I still have the Cog DVD lying around somewhere!

Also owned that exact Accord. Had no end of reliability problems with it (which were also quite expensive to repair).
Using satellites to transmit the game data wasn't TOO exotic, I imagine they did it because all the cable headends were already set up to receive national channels carried over satellite. Having centralized control of the game server also let them switch out the game images for timed events such as competitions. For regions outside the US, Sega went the simpler route of putting game servers at each headend and mailing out CDs each month.

It makes sense that it was unreliable in certain areas, cable TV was analog back then so cable providers didn't really have to worry about signal noise being a serious problem until Sega Channel came along.
Just to be clear, are you saying that 100% of every BAT token that was pooled for a site has been distributed to the intended site? Or are you saying that only 100% of every BAT token that was purchased directly by an end user has been distributed to the intended site?

Is there a page somewhere with the information on the tokens for each site and their payouts status?
I agree that they have replaced station wagons but as a station wagon owner they aren't really even close to interchangeable. I don't know why they replaced them.

Compare my Mazda 6 wagon to the Mazda CX-9 crossover. My wagon is almost 25% more fuel efficient (7L/100km vs 9L/100km) but also has MUCH more space. Minimum cargo space of 506L vs 230L. Maximum cargo space of 1648L vs 810L. It has a shorter wheelbase and smaller turning radius. It does have worse towing 550kg vs 750kg but I almost never see anyone towing anything.
In the spirit of promoting curious conversation, I'll ask: Can you identify the specific feature(s) you don't like?
Feels like a general police stop abuse in a new context: You're free to go as long as you don't actually try to go, because exercising your rights makes you "suspicious."
Sorry dang, sorry HN.
I have never heard of maple syrup fraud in the US nor can I find any articles on it.

Unless one is talking about imitation maple syrups, but those are labeled properly.
My brother (Australian) spent some time in Canada and was able to see a doctor straight away and really cheaply a bunch of times, and visited the hospital once with a nasty foot injury with no dramas. It seemed like a pretty good system.

I remember contrasting that with my US experience at the same time, where a 10 minute consult with a doctor cost 600USD. I had a really obvious ear infection, just needed some antibiotics, but he must have seen me as a cash-cow and ordered a ton of unrelated blood tests that were pointless since I was flying out the next day. I walked away feeling like I'd been scammed.

(In Australia a doctor's visit is under 30USD, blood tests don't cost much either)
Thank you. I heard similar sentiments RE: complexity and that's usually enough to turn me off of a tool.
Are the downvotes because this wouldn't work to sabotage the cables or because it would work?
I'm currently looking for similar info but for MySQL/MariaDB for an IoT side project ... any suggestions?
The experts are often the ones most likely to be paid to lie. It's because we think they are experts that we believe their claims.
Which part? The hosts often got the better end of the deal.

Today i would much enjoy a monthly elaborate dinner with my girl in exchange for 1x using a bed in a spare room i never use. Renting it out for a day for $ to a stranger is not going to happen but if it did it wouldnt cover the cost for professional cleaning plus a private cook.

I also had friends who never cook and ones who barely clean. I did whole office buildings, vacuuming a livingroom is not going to impress me.
https://archive.is/gGzWV
The reverse also happens, knock-offs being as high quality as the name-brand because it's cheaper on the production side to use existing factories/machinery.
Kinda related, but did you know that GitHub refer to itself as "The AI-powered developer platform"? I guess copilot is more important than being a decent forge.
Even if it were true, no legally established organization would ever say "we have this policy so our patrons can do illegal drugs"
Fellow 4a user (best small phone ever). It's perfectly fine for me too.
https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/issues/3386

> The gist is this: we have a lot of tools built in to our analysis library, pagerank, tf/idf, things like this which we can use to generate summaries, extract, keywords etc. There isn't a giant opaque LLM behind everything. These tools are used in logical ways, for example, when you bookmark something, how should you tag it? Nyxt figures out some likely tag candidates and suggests them to you.
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Resubmitted since I really find it useful (and it had a bad previous round on HN).
Using an LLM is “common grounds” for a malpractice suit? Come on, the technology hasn’t even been around that long. Without corroborating evidence, why should anyone believe you?
Yes, and people right here on HN will often defend such rules because "if the rules are known, people might comply with them". The secrecy and ambiguity often are the point as it allows the powerful to attack the weak under the guise of legality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyeball_planet
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Is this standalone or an emacs plugin? I rather use vim motions, so is this locked to emacs, or can i do vim style for things instead?
This is not a dissimilar system to Teletext[1], which transmitted data in the blanking interval of a broadcast TV signal, and could be interpreted by a TV or other hardware with appropriate support. Teletext was pretty widespread throughout Europe in the 1980s and 1990s.

It was typically used to transmit pages of information (news, weather, etc.) that could be viewed directly on the TV, but the BBC's Ceefax[2] Teletext service was also used to distribute software to the BBC Micro, when equipped with the appropriate Teletext Adapter[3].

In a similar fashion to the Sega Channel system, the Teletext system would broadcast looped data, with popular pages (such as news and weather) being repeated frequently so they would load quickly, and less popular pages taking longer to load (or more accurately, to wait for the next time they appeared in the looped data).

I was interested to see that the Sega system used a bitrate of 8Mbps, which sounded pretty high for the mid-90s, but I see that Teletext had a bitrate of almost 7Mbps for PAL broadcasts, despite being roughly 15 years older!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceefax

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro_expansion_unit#Telet...
E. Allen Emerson has died
I just learned that he passed away on October 15, 2024. I could not find any HN posts about this, so I’m sharing it here a bit late.
Usually such restrictions are defended as being necessary to ensure the government gets their cut of the action and to keep criminals from being able to easily handle the fruits of their law breaking.
Emacs isn't a browser though
I know I'm gonna' sound like a broken record, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41563553 but civil forfeiture should be unlawful and is most assuredly unconstitutional.

We need a modern test for the "bridging jurisprudence" to take it to SCOTUS.

Oh, wait...
Anyone interested can also check out the Vimium browser extension.
Update: as promised, we sent an initial email to everyone who had submitted to our Google Form up through approximately this afternoon. Unfortunately it looks like all newlines got stripped by the mass mailer we used, so it looks atrocious, and a few of you may have had your email systems flag it as spam; if you didn't get an email from me (James) just now, and had submitted, please reach out to hn-hiring@ptown.tech.

Meanwhile, others are still welcome to submit to the form, and we'll do another pass for new submissions in about a week.
uh they one thousand percent have

did a killer whale write this
ACAB.

These cops, like literal generations of cops before them, work in a system that financially and socially rewards and reinforces this behavior.

We need to stop thinking about cops as the good guys by default, and really start examining the systems that we've built to give them power. Especially unchecked power like this where they can train a dog to mark on a bag, use that training to get probable cause, and then steal whatever they want within the bag.

It's not just a few bad apples, it's a systemic issue that needs systemic fixes. Because if you put most humans in a position where they can get tens of thousands of dollars a year, without consequence, and be told they are heroes for doing so... it's going to be difficult to resist. We need to sharply cut back on police power, sharply cut back on police presence (do we really need DEA agents "cold checking" airline passengers because they bought a ticket late?)
No, they don't just work at these places, they run these places.

There may be some problems in UK society caused by upper class Harrow school boys (!), but the batch of those very same upper class Harrow school boys currently running the security services are obviously smart enough to recognise that getting the job done requires more diversity.
I'm sorry, this is the Stripe support forum, not the Google support forum.
There's more convection as they blow harder.
I vividly remember playing Genesis in my living room as a kid when my parents were having friends over from out of town. My dad and his friend came in after a couple beers and my dad explained what I was playing. His friend knew all about Genesis already: "We've got the Sega Channel. I play 50 games a year!" I remember being very fascinated until he started laughing, which to me signaled that he was pulling my leg. I spent the next 30 or so years thinking the "Sega Channel" was a dumb joke from an inebriated friend of my dad's. Until today.

Looking back, maybe my dad nudged him to change the subject so that I wouldn't spend the next month begging for a subscription.
> Many modern “open-source” companies use a version of their product with some basic functionality intentionally removed as a demo for their non-open-source paid product.

I've been burned by this a couple of times, and I'm unfortunately now highly jaded when it comes to for-profit open source projects. I think it's not just "many companies" but "pretty much all companies" do open source as a performative marketing ploy.

Suppose you want to break into a market with a strongly entrenched leader - say, eCommerce, then you need to find a niche that sets you apart from Shopify. But finding profitable niches is hard, and success is far from guaranteed. So instead, you can performatively declare that your project is open source, while only paying lip service to writing docs or providing support - nobody can complain if your response to support requests about self hosting are terse and unhelpful, because of course, you're doing a service to the community by providing self hosting at all right? But in actual fact you're only doing performative open source for marketing purposes, and either removing features from the self hoster version, or simply making it hard enough to successfully set up, that the sunk cost fallacy will drive people who tried to self host into giving up and paying for your hosted/managed product.

Some companies maybe are not quite this evil, but if they don't strongly and genuinely commit to making sure that people can actually self host, which means providing decent docs, and at least basic support, then it amounts to the same thing. Good intentions don't make a usable open source project.

I've been burned by RocketChat, Outline wiki, Odoo, MedusaJS, Saleor. Of these, the worst was RocketChat, who put me into a sales funnel and chased me for weeks, refusing to answer basic questions about pricing, while providing a self hosted product that is absolutely useless when you go past about 3 or 4 users.

You'd think I would have learned by now! But at least I can try to spread the word about this practice. Maybe Zulip is different. I hope so. But make sure you can find reviews or examples of other people successfully using it before you invest too much effort.
Nyxt is very promising, and I hope it gains momentum. The obvious advantage of Nyxt is programmability and keyboard-driven workflows.

However, I use old hardware, and it's a bit slow and laggy. Chromium behaves the same way, so I imagine this is due to WebKit and Blink being significantly heavier than Gecko.

Firefox is really snappy on old hardware, at least when running Linux, and uses a modest amount of memory.
Only when it comes to protecting Americans and their well-being. Everyone should have affordable health care, medicine, education, etc. If you can't pay, we ensure you are still taken care of. Is that right-wing?

I have seen good-paying jobs disappear for our youth. Every company I walk into there are entire floors of Indians working. These are some of the biggest corporations in America. These Indians are not citizens but either contract or H1B employees.
Do you think the Justice Department didn't know about this before the story broke? Or did they take action only because the story became public?
"You can decline to consent, but you'll miss your flight because we'll detain you for an hour". It's so clear that no one can meaningfully "consent" in a situation where one person has the power to deeply fuck you over like that.
The only connection between this and emacs is that both use a Lisp language (Nyxt is written in Common Lisp)... and that Nyxt is inspired by how emacs works. Anyway, why did you assume it is an emacs plugin? It doesn't say that anywhere.
Maybe he was invited.
The verge has seemingly been doing this a lot recently and it's been very annoying. It's not obvious that any given article will be paywalled or not. It would be nice if they at least marked them.
Yes. 2nd and 3rd pronouns tend to be harder to use in social contexts.

You usually convey a bunch of info and intent when referring to someone (how close you're to that person and their social position relative to you), and pronouns don't easily cover that range. It can be done but requires more finesse.

That's perhaps why pronouns are so tainted (You=anata has become the most stereotypical way to call one's husband)

The better choice is usually to omit the subject and just imply who you're talking about. Using their name is the second best alternative.
`<radio-receiver></radio-receiver>` let's get that in html6!

Nice use of web components!
Searches without a warrant. Seizing cash and property without charging a crime. The US has being doing this stuff for years, like any corrupt banana republic.

Do better, guys.
I’ve never heard of a legal limit for paying in cash. The AML rules require people to have an explanation of where the cash comes from, but there’s no limit on it. Of course there’s no requirement to accept cash except in the case of paying a debt.

Here in New Zealand there are maximum limits on the number of coins you can use so paying your tax with a truckload of 10¢ coins is illegal, but if you use $100 notes you can use as many as you like.
Because auditors and penetration testers, even incompetent ones, are not government employees violating anyone's 4th amendment rights.
Adding the notebook GUI to a CAS (with a flexible programming language like Lisp or the Mathematica language) was a huge innovation, and we can probably thank Mathematica (along with MathCAD and Maple) for providing the inspiration for other notebook systems such as Jupyter.
which means close the site and ignore the article. Or wait for some kind soul to post the archived version on HN lol.
I gave my differentiating factor..

Yes it's my take on the ship of Theseus problem.

In that problem we re asked to consider if a ship with all it's parts replaced is the same as the original..

My argument is that so long as the ship is being used for the same purpose by the same people then it is. Without a purpose, wood in the shape of a ship is not even necessarily a ship

Things are more than just their physical form.
Thousands for the commercial license sounds like incentive to work on a free alternative.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241208050739/https://www.theve...
I have not watched Intel closely for a long time. Seeing that its market cap is down 30% over the last decade is crazy. Considering how IT in general grew so much over the same time period. What happened?

To see how the Intel CEO is thinking, I now scrolled through a few interviews with him.

In this interview, Intel's CEO is asked to describe the difference of a CPU and a GPU:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d07wy5AK72E

His answer is that the CPU is capable of doing general computing, while a GPU is made for very specific tasks.

I'm not sure if that is a good way to put it.

The way I would put it is that a GPU is a bit like an array of many CPUs. And to manage this array of processors all doing computation at the same time brings constraints and management overhead. So it is usually harder to program a GPU but results in better performance.
Unless maybe steganography. Information could be hiding in plain sight.

For instance I could have thousands of photograpphs I take wih my cell-phone everyday and have the info hidden in their pixels?
List of open-source startup alternatives to well-known SaaS products
Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family
Because AI worked out great for lisp.
You're thinking of the 1988 Waller case and the 1992 Ho case, both involving transferrable pre-1986 MAC-11 machineguns. The NFA items this article deals with are post-1986 samples, which require law enforcement agencies to write a law letter for class 3 SOTs to acquire. No post-1986 samples have ever been used in a violent crime.
I’m so confused by people not liking crystallized honey. It’s so much more convenient to use, it doesn’t drip anywhere it’s practically like thick peanut butter consistency. Great for yogurt, toast or tea. Why would anyone want it to be runny?