jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> While you point out that there were 59 police killings, this number may not capture the full picture. It is worth considering that there were 1000 fatal shootings by police and an estimated 2000 non-fatal shootings.[1] That is 450 per 100,000 per year.

You raise a good point; being involved in a shooting even as the shooter is a traumatic event. It's not terribly uncommon for people to have PTSD after shooting someone, even if they didn't catch any return fire. There are also the cases where cops were seriously injured (as compared to "injured" in order to increase criminal penalties) but did not die or retire due to the injuries. Getting shot in body armor is still a pretty injuring event, especially soft body armor.

The important, and difficult question to answer is how many of these violent interactions were triggered by police, and how many were likely to happen no matter what the cops did? American police kill a lot more people than our OECD peers do; we're between Angola and Iran on the international stats, about 3.5x more than our nearest OECD peer (Canada). It's not unreasonable to assume that non-lethal violent encounters scale similarly[0]. Certainly some part of that is American culture in general, but it would be unreasonably deferential to cops to presume that they have no part in the problem, especially with so many high-profile anecdotes of cops escalating or using force unnecessarily. If using violence is traumatic, then doesn't a lot of the blame for that trauma fall onto the same people who decide to use it unnecessarily, and onto the same people that have willingly adopted a warrior mentality[1]?

0 - Perhaps higher still. American emergency rooms are very good at treating gunshot wounds; part of the reason why gun fatalities are down since the 1980s despite still high shooting rates. It's not unreasonable to assume that the ratio of shooting to fatality by American cops is higher than say, Canada, implying that it's even worse than the death statistics imply.

1 - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/warrior-police-train...
That was a more credible claim before the McCarthy phone call story broke, in which we learned that Trump actively resisted calls from the GOP to help end the riot and acknowledged that they were rioting in his name. And, even before we learned about that call, we knew that he tweeted criticism of VP Pence after the mob turned violent. Meanwhile, by dint of his office, he had a duty to stop the riot no matter its origin. His culpability looks pretty clear: he's a firefighter who stacked kindling next to a house, watched a fire get lit, threw some gasoline on it, and stood there cackling while it consumed the building. His best defense seems to be "it wasn't much gasoline, all things considered".
Funny to see this here. My business partner did the design and I'm friends with the team.

I can't say that I feel much for the business, but I've been continually impressed by its ability to generate press. People _love_ talking about and debating this concept, and I can't say that I've been completely free from it.

That being said, this is currently probably the most covered startup from Saint Louis. While it is nice to see a startup from this ecosystem getting this amount of press attention, it's disappointing at the same time. I know a lot of people working on very ambitious and difficult problems that would kill for a tenth of the amount of attention that Invisible Boyfriend and Invisible Girlfriend get.
> For most people, looks ARE part of the equation. It's like removing Pi from an equation.

Did you read that OKCupid piece on when they turned off profile pictures for a day? Supposedly the result was better for their users - people who went on these "truly blind dates" had significantly better odds of a successful relationship coming out of it than the site average. Looks do matter, but the way we encounter each other via technology is artificial and superficial. I wonder if there would be a market for a text-only matching app.
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If it weren't similar at all it wouldn't be funny either. It's a hard balance to set.
A "terrorist" would just find another way to terrorize.. duh. Real terrorism is a drama, as orchestrated by our overlords, to polarize the public in attempt to deprive them of their liberty. That is all.
Personally, I dislike seeing the number of views a thread has, as all that shows is how attention-grabby the title is.

Quick-reply and notify by email are two features I find nice to have. Broken search is another mis-feature that I'd be happy to never see again.
It also breaks down if you use it on very broad scales. Species are easier to separate when their common ancestor is outside your frame of reference.
I'll have to have a dig around the code to see what's different from Backbone. Were you involved with this development, Jeremy?
Disclaimer: I Am Not A Laywer

It's also good to familiarize yourself with the distinctions between detention and arrest.

In the United States, "detention" is whenever police temporarily restrict someone's rights based on an "articulable" suspicion that a crime has occurred. Police can detain anyone at any time if they have an articulable suspicion, but only for a short period of time, and they cannot search the belongings or vehicles of people in detention without consent (many cops will try to obtain consent by saying things like "let me see what's in your bag," but you are well within your rights to verbally deny consent). A good way to establish if you're being detained is to ask the officer if you're free to go. If not, you should then ask why you're being detained, and memorize the response. This is the "articulable suspicion" that the officer is supposed to have before detaining you.

"Arrest" occurs when "any reasonable person" would feel that they are not free to leave. The distinction between detainment and arrest is subtle, but if you're being handcuffed or put into a police vehicle, your belongings or vehicle are being searched after you have denied consent, or you are detained for an extended period of time, then you're under arrest. Crucially, police are not required to make any formal declaration of your arrest, nor are they required to read you your Miranda rights (though they are required to read them if they wish to question you). If you feel that you're under arrest, your best course of action is to state that you refuse to speak and wish to see an attorney. You can repeat this as often as is necessary. They're not allowed to question you after you say this, but only if don't say anything else. If you do, then you've waived your right to silence. The only exception is that you are allowed to give your name and address in order to be released with a promise to appear in court. If you do give that information, immediately follow it by repeating that you will remain silent until an attorney is present.

Again, I Am Not A Lawyer, although all of this information does come from lawyers who give talks about civil liberties. None of these talks are online, but most of the above is explained in more detail on an actual lawyer's website[1].

[1]: http://www.williamweinberg.com/lawyer-attorney-1127658.html
Even if there is corruption you have no data which says that is the primary actor in this phenomenon.
i might concur with that sentiment...but i think facebook is not the best example. their upside is still tremendous, as they haven't fully exploited their ad revenue (which is better positioned than google imo)
Why come up with such a convoluted scheme? The "I'm not atheist, I'm an agnostic" argument always sounds smug and disingenuous.

Theism is belief in god. Atheism is lack thereof. Agnostics claim that gods' existence is unknowable.

To co-opt Gervais' skiing simile: we have people who go skiing, those who do not, and then people who maintain it's impossible to know whether skiing actually occurs.
Related: "Why you shouldn't use the Lesser GPL for your next library" - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html

The argument is made for using the GPL to give other open source developers an edge over commercial entities.
Congrats, Steve. I know you've been working really hard on this lately. I'm lucky enough to know Steve personally, and I can say it would be hard for anyone to find another person as dedicated to a project as him.

Happy Holidays buddy!
I've heard people say that. I can definitely understand some may type slower. I prefer a physical keyboard for long form writing, but I'm actually pleasantly surprised at how quickly and accurately I can type on the virtual keyboard. It's pretty comfortable for me to write a 2000 word piece on an iPad. For some though, they won't be comfortable doing it.
At my former company we used car names (yugo, veyron, fetish (yes that's a car), ...) and at some other we used (Slovenian) river names (sava, drava, mura, ...).

Where I work now, we use super heroes (batman, hulk, ironman, ...).
Hey, Emacs keybindings suck. Why don't we fix them, instead of complaining?

Surely, it will not be easy -- there are some problems visible even from distance. One of them are people like me who grew accustomed to Emacs' idiosyncrasies -- they're small problem. The big one are people who firmly believe that C-f,b,n,p, C-y/M-y, mainly useless functions having single-key bindings and really useful ones concealed under complicated binding, like C-x b or C-x o, or without any binding at all, like replace-string or query-replace, etc, is the way to go.
Gotcha I thought that it might have been server driven clients similar to the way Spotify does it. But that makes sense :)
You definitely have to make the hourly customizable. Just stating the obvious but people value things differently.

They could assign a positive rate for Reddit time.
Musicians who are breadth players typically become backing/house band members. You see these folks all the time in awards shows, concerts etc...
> Islands already exist, with national firewalls, corporate networks, dark nets

And you don't see companies posting their addresses on those things. They still advertise "example.org" not "if you're in {county} use {county-specific address}, or on Tor use {onion address} or using {decentralized DNS} use example.com".

> A dominant decentralized system

How does this result in a different situation then the "centralized" DNS we have today?
To add: with my own DigitalOcean VPN I rarely see captchas, but some sites block that ASN (like crunchyroll).
1. Interview skills >>>>>> Job skills, productivity, and ability to get work done.

2. Learn office politics and learn to do it well.

3. Everything else is irrelevant.
Even if you ditch the ISOFIX requirement, it's still difficult to find a combination of 3 car seats that will fit across the back bench, even with large cars.
That's kinda the point. Work ethic and obsession are not enough: you have to also win a series of lotteries -- genetic and environmental -- to succeed in his field.
Isn't the best solution to the problem this: browsers turn off automatic checks for /favicon.ico and only load the favicon if it exists in the HTML in the form of the official spec?
> This is no longer an option. Where are such pieces of land that I can go and cultivate?

Pretty much everywhere. Why do you think homesteading is no longer an option?
Ah the very old MS Paint :)
What an idea!
Contextual advertising

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/contextual-advertising....
Or they are playing I hard mode which forces this style of guessing.
Instead of working from a single 2D image as this work does, what is the state of the art for 3D reconstruction from multiple (non-calibrated) images? e.g. some casual shots of an object using my phone.
I believe the following is a reasonably accurate but more explicit paraphrase.

1. Philosophers have sometimes attempted to deal with the big questions they face by giving big grandiose answers. ("Heroic remedies for intellectual difficulties".)

2. What actually appears to be more effective in producing genuine solutions to hard problems is simply very careful and clear thinking. ("Greater care and accuracy".)

3. Careful and clear thinking isn't really a special subject all to itself: it's just what one should be doing in every field of study, and when systematized and taken very far it turns into science and mathematics.

4. So maybe it's a mistake to think of philosophy as a separate field of activity with special methods, because the most effective way of dealing with philosophical problems is just to apply the same methods of thinking that are useful everywhere, and especially those of science.

5. Why might we have thought otherwise? Perhaps because a lot of philosophical topics were formerly within the purview of theology, and a distinctive philosophical method seemed necessary only by contrast with the even more unhelpful methods of theology.
You prioritize it. If you don't want to prioritize it you are working on the wrong project.

It doesn't matter if it's two our daily or two days a month. If you are working on something you like you will prioritize it.

So don't be afraid to kill a project that you don't want to prioritize.
So the laws of supply and demand don't apply to labor markets?

Increasing the supply lowers the price. Are you disputing this?
If multiple proprietary software packages are talking to each other at all, there must be either an implicit or explicit specification they're talking over. And if that interaction is broken, that implies that either (1) the spec is ambiguous/wrong or (2) one or both parties are implementing the spec wrongly.

Yes. Aerospace takes that seriously. So does the military. That's why Rolls-Royce engines can be taken off a B-787 and replaced with GE engines. The software industry rarely takes interoperability seriously enough to make such things work.

Many years ago, at the dawn of the TCP/IP era, I worked for a large aerospace company. We had a pre-Berkeley TCP/IP implementation from 3COM, originally intended only to talk to itself over Ethernet I brought it up to compatibility with the spec, and added a logging mechanism which logged every packet which was either wrong or which did not advance the connection.

Every day, I read through this bit bucket, and wrote emails along the lines of "Your TCP implementation is not compliant with para. xxx subparagraph yyy of the standard. See this dump of packet zzz where value aaa is incorrect due to bbb." After a while, interoperability improved.

We could do this was because, as a large aerospace company, we were bigger than the networking companies we bought from. So we could pound them into complying with the published spec. We also had backing from DoD in this; they wanted interoperability. Back then, many vendors didn't; they wanted their own dialect of networking. This was the era of SNA (IBM), DECnet (DEC), ARCnet (Wang),
and a whole bunch of incompatible PC-oriented LAN systems. Mixed-vendor shops were unpopular with the old-line computer makers. The idea of everything talking to everything else, and it all just working, was new then. It took a lot of effort on the buyer side to make that happen.
That web site tests HTTP. The article specifically mentions IMAP and SMTP.
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I suspect Intel were going to run OpenSWR on it - that's the software renderer that they eventually donated to Mesa after Larabee shut down.
One guess: he had a $175 balance on a loan.
and another standard will soon arise because the same people who wanted to pay a premium for higher quality food are complaining that now that organic has been regulated the quality has decreased drastically. producers are gaming the rules.
I took the hour to read all ten parts in the hopes of being able to summarize for HN readers, only to come back and find several others had beaten me to it.

The story is well-written, and if you're looking to spend an hour reading an entertaining story, I suggest you do. Otherwise...

tldr: Patrick did not get to keep the money. He gave the check back in exchange for a settlement letter explaining the bank's mistakes. Advertisements for a DVD version of the story and tip requests appear before and after part 9, as well as at the bottom of the first page.
> From what we know of the big bang

There's a lot we know we don't know of the Big Bang.

> The universe being started from nothing violates physical laws.

So does a God. Something has to be violating physical laws as we currently understand them (and we hardly know everything yet...), so adding God doesn't really get you anywhere.
because he signed an agreement that said it cost $175 to close an account. there was a quote in the article that said 'signing your banking agreement is the start of the time when they can be unfair to you'..

also imo the 'bad taste' is mitigated by the fun value of telling a story where the big guy loses. going on inside edition doesn't feel significantly different from posting about it on the internet to me.
> Why limit to "Java"?

Oh, please. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy

And my point still stands. The majority of apps are either front ends to web services, or can be constructed using a similar approach that we use for the web today. They are UI-heavy. I did say you should be able to drop to native code if you really need the power.
Worry about learning instead of your grades. You can get C's and still gain the knowledge you need for your startup. It will cut down significantly on the amount of hours you need to devote to school.
I said it once and got downvoted to hell. I'll say it again. By removing tables and moving all styles to a separate css file you can cut page size in half.

HN is in need of an urgent redesign.
When I go pick up boxed merchandise from a store like Best Buy or Target, there's nothing the clerk is doing that couldn't have been done by a vending machine. It wastes a human being's intelligence to keep them in a dead-end poverty-level job like that, and we're only doing it because we haven't really figured out how to deal humanely with our huge labor surplus.

When I want advice, I'll seek it out from people who don't have huge conflicts of interest around what I do or don't choose to buy.
Thanks! Its always a thrill for me when someone finds utility in a tool that I wrote.
So basically you're proposing protectionist policies to limit supply and thus inflate the price of labor (that is, you).

Would you also support similar arguments for say, oh I don't know, taxi or hotel prices in the area where you live so the existing pool of taxi drivers or hotel owners can protect the income they are making?
If there is a faster-than-light particle in this universe, then that is what intelligent life would use to communicate.

SETI-like efforts have a big handicap for a different reason. To oversimplify a bit: any signal that is distinguishable from noise is a waste of energy.

Right now, in the name of spectral efficiency, we're migrating our legacy systems (such as TV broadcast) to modulation formats that sound exactly like white noise to a receiver that doesn't know the coding scheme... and never mind encryption, which has the same effect. Other races will be confronted with the same problems, and will use the same solutions, to the extent they use wireless for medium- to long-range communications at all.

So, the only way we'll detect intelligible signals from an alien world is if we happen to catch them between their development of communications technology and information theory. This is a pretty narrow window -- only about 100 years in our case.

If SETI has any hope at all, it will lie in detecting deliberate beacon transmissions, not incidental RF. But some smart people have argued that attracting attention with such a beacon would be a mistake, possibly the last one the species in question ever makes.
It is trolling, I admit; but also I've been accused of being a Nazi for saying things like this for the past couple years more times than I can count, so I'm looking forward to seeing how it happens this time.
I hadn't hear of GNI. Thanks for the link.

I'm slightly more suspicious now. Sounds like they want to seed nonprofit news sources that won't gang up and fight them for royalties, as in Europe or Australia.

But I read Oaklandside pretty much every day, and I can vouch for their coverage. Especially Natalie Orenstein's writing on the housing and homelessness beat. It's amazing they have a housing a homelessness beat.
> What are you trying to say here?

I want to look at the problems. But I don't want to do a guessing game with the 159 open issues, which one may relate to one of these points or not.
> You could've easily mistaken our team for a programming language research group at a university.

I had the misfortune of working with basically this same team, on scala (of course).

I argued for maintainable simple technology but scala was too hip to pass, for many.

Still remember one meeting trying to decipher a bug and while reviewing the code in question the lead scala fan said "It is not reasonable to expect to understand what code does by looking at it. I'll need to go research this for a few days."

I hope to never see scala (or its ilk) ever again. Give me the most stable language and environment, where every question is a FAQ and every odd behavior is documented in every book and I never need to fall into the rabbit hole of language traps. Then I can just work on building the product, which is the whole point.
How many of those services are cross-border though? Does "services" include real estate agents and IT contractors?
I guess, if you're a citizen and a taxpayer there trying to make a living and you see your government letting the big corps pay nothing in taxes but you gotta pay your taxes to keep the lights on in the country then it's a tough pill to swallow.
I'm fond of "MAGA" for "Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon". That's the 4 largest tech companies on the market, and they're the ones really making America great again.
I don’t know the technical details; I simply walked away in disgust.

But: I imagine since I had valid login credentials, and they were likely cached in a cookie, well, seems like they harvested cookies and went hog wild?

Tbh, its things like this that
Have prompted me to leave the industry entirely. My personal take is that there are very few ethical people in C-level positions, and hence most companies are entirely unethical. YMMV
They were dubbed for the very young back 30 years ago, and still are.

I prefer to watch in original language (often means English though I am quite fond of German cinema) with English subs. But my mother (~70) would prefer Dutch subs, Dutch dub, or Dutch movie.

Its fantastic we got so much choice. Perfect to practice another language, dabble into it. As already mentioned though, defaults matter.
As a side note, I believe native floating point operations are in the works. This is more of a speed benefit though? http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2019/11062/pdf/LIPIc...