skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are only seeing egregious, extreme cases... as is typical with mass media these days.

99.9999% (more likely far more 9's) cases are your normal, everyday dealing with police (if you even encounter the police at all!).

They aren't out to kill, hurt, jail or ruin your day just for funsies.

An infinitesimally small percent of police are the "bad actors", while the overwhelming majority wake up each day and set out to help their community.

America is a big country, with a lot of people...
In practice, Google Photos is excellent. I don't worry about my photos: they sync to the cloud and I can delete them from the device to save space. Being able to search through my photos by person or even object ('cat') is convenient when looking for that one photo.

Also, for someone who often does informal photo sessions for friends or strangers, being able to share links to groups or albums of photos is super convenient. They can download the full album as a .zip, too.

Pair this with the Pixel's excellent camera, and I don't even miss my mirrorless M4/3rds. The only thing I find myself consistently missing is a good telephoto. I know Moment makes a case and accompanying lenses, but I use the $40 Google case.
Craigslist is a marketplace. They brings two sides together in a transaction. However transaction costs are high. Primarily because there is no security or insurance.

The front page gives you a template for what types of marketplaces you can build and solve some of the transaction costs problems for users.

Dictionary is not going to be too helpful here.
Don't have a choice if I want to play games. Might as well make use of the machine when I'm not, otherwise I'm on my 10+ year old MacPro because Apple decided they are abandoning the developers that made them billions.
> has the mindset of the most evil big brother you could imagine

Wow, really? I must be crazy but I still honestly feel and believe Google is a good company following "don't be evil".
Can you expand on this? What OS were you running your desktop?
This argument is disingenuous. I hope people would stop spouting it.

There will ALWAYS be an advantage to wired headphones over wireless: reliability and versatility.

Bluetooth headphones can be VERY finicky about who they'll connect to and with how much hassle. They also cannot be plugged into a separate DAC/Amp setup.

Perhaps if it were standard for headphones to allow the user to bypass the bluetooth DAC and run the drivers on our own signal, but I haven't really seen this on affordable headphones.
If it were the case that is incredibly unlikely for life to get started in general, we would still be making those observations, give that we are here. This is the problem with only having one poorly understood data point that we ourselves are part of.

I'm optimistic that there is life out there. And if so, we should be able to get hard evidence by studying exoplanet atmospheres in the next few decades. Until then, it is very difficult to assess.
Other thing to keep in mind though is that, an ocean is a big places so there are lots of events where life has a chance to start. So even if the individual chance for an event to spawn life is low, you have a lot of chances. Way, way bigger than 1 trillion chances per planet I'd bet.

And after life reaches a certain point, wiping it out is incredibly hard. I don't know what it would take to wipe out all life, as in every last bacteria too, on Earth...

So while I might accede intelligent (especially technological) life might be rare, I sincerely doubt life itself is.
"now I will kill you until you die from it!"

Seriously though this is hideous.
This is true of course, but it's always a giant red flag for me whenever someone refers to the vague concept of "regulations" as being the problem, vs. complaining about specific regulations. Complaining about the very concept of regulations seems really naive, like precoscious high schooler who just had his mind blown by Atlas Shrugged naive.

The current POTUS made a campaign promise that he would only allow a regulation to be added if two more were eliminated. This is asinine. If there are unnecessary regulations, get rid of them. Get rid of them because they're unnecessary or counterproductive, not because they fall into a category of legislation referred to as "regulations". Losing a regulation isn't an inherently good thing any more than gaining one is an inherently bad thing. The only thing that matters is whether or not it's a net positive, and that's specific to each regulation. It's like saying, "there's too many laws! We need to get rid of some laws!", and proceeding to randomly choose laws to get rid of until numberOfLaws <= totallyArbitraryMaximumLawCountThatSomeoneMadeUp.
* Bluetooth headphones are VASTLY more expensive compared to wired equivalents.

* Bluetooth headphones are a nightmare to temporarily pair to devices.

* AUX is a standard available on all devices in decades.

* Bluetooth headphones needs to be charged.

* Blueetoth headphones have a very limited lifespan because you can't replace batteries in them.

* AUX is quick, pairing to your friends car for a 15 minute drive - nope.

* Bluetooth is quite buggy. AUX is not.

As someone who has bluetooth headphones, bluetooth in car, wifi casting at home - lack of 3.5mm is still a deal breaker. I'm so happy my new phone has it (last one had an adapter that I couldn't bring with me constantly (oh and it started to glitch on me after a year...).
Let’s say there are three candidates, one I think is literally Satan, one I think is horrendous but a lot better than Satan, and then some boring but somehow unelectable person.

Obviously I vote for the last one and don’t vote for Satan, but do I vote for the middle one?
How is there any increased risk of "greater evil" winning from third party voting in approval voting?
Both Witcher 3 and Horizon required 45+ GB patches for me. Horizon was still an amazing game so I don't mind, but I don't know how TW3 became so popular, I couldn't get into it and had to return it, not to mention it ran awfully (on a PS4 Pro too).
Yes, in fact I exploit this feedback loop mechanic to keep my testosterone production at female levels as a transwoman. It isn't just a lot of testosterone, but high levels of total sex hormones will cause production to decrease. So I simply make sure my E2 levels are high enough to keep result in my T levels exactly where I want them (cis female range). I keep my T production (and thus levels) low 24/7 so long term there would be testicular atrophy issues that I don't care about, but guys would. As long as your doctor and you understand what is going on you can usually obtain what you want and avoid what you don't.

My brain clearly runs on e2 and not T and having the right amount of e2 present has been life changing as far as my mood is concerned so for guys that run on T, but have low T levels I absolutely get how much of an improvement it could be once they raise their T levels.
You're right but the fact that he was able to curl a file from the outside does seem pretty bad. It means that you can effectively proxy traffic through the website and use it to target 3rd parties.
Given the way the URL is formatted it would appear to be from Dec 1998, so not HL2.
> Replace 'perception' with 'interpretation' and my comment still applies.

You can’t just go around changing words all willy nilly. Language is a group effort and different words have different meanings.

> Interpretation can be thought of as part of perception or vice versa depending how you look at it.

Nope. Interpretations are based on perceptions. We’re talking about perception in the physical sense. Like seeing, smelling, etc. I can’t teach you how to perceive any more than I can make a blind man see. But when you perceive what I perceive to be a red light, we can both interpret it to mean “stop”. In this country, if you want a drivers’ license you better adopt that interpretation.

> Nothing is truly repeatable because we don't have the ability to perform truly controlled experiments

The scientific method has been used very reliably and predictably to solve very big problems. It’s all based upon repeatable observations. And you’re right, we’re never 100% certain about everything, that’s why the body of work continues to improve over time.

> If you define interpretation as some stage of perception/observation that humans agree on

I said that interpretations can be agreed upon by individuals. You can also have your own interpretations that nobody else agrees with. I’m pretty sure Tarzan has his own interpretations of his perceptions. But in society we have decided to arrive at similar interpretations to many things so that we can function. You know? to prevent people with drivers licenses from obliviously running red lights and crashing into you and breaking every bone in your body, etc.
I used Crostini without issues on an Acer Chromebook 13 while traveling for a week or so. The performance was as good as you would expect for a laptop in that category. I didn't find it noticeably worse than when I used Crouton (which isn't behind a virtualization layer).
It's Swift 3.1.
Massive crater under Greenland’s ice points to climate-altering impact
You are Kenneth Almquist, and I claim my five pounds.

* https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.sources.unix/Vejy...
Although it's not directly related to webdev, I highly, highly recommend the Coursera course Learning How to Learn as a starting point: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

For the computer side of things, I highly recommend Harvard's CS50, which is completely free, for an introduction to computer science [0]. It has a great subreddit [1] and is a fantastic resource. MIT also offers a great pair of free introductory classes on edx. [2]

FreeCodeCamp is an interactive online program that does that exact progression (HTML/CSS => Javascript => React). Here's a link to the curriculum: https://learn.freecodecamp.org/. It also has a wide support system (chats, subreddit, etc), and it's also completely free. I never finished the last few projects, but the rest of it taught me a tremendous amount.

There are so many variables and so much luck involved that there is no guaranteed path, but these are two great resources to get started. These were some of the resources I used to transition from no-CS (disclaimer: with a physics degree but zero programming experience) to a programming job at a startup. I've since continued learning through online and in-person classes and joined a large tech company.

Happy to answer any questions about these resources. Given how many variables there are, I hesitate to use my own experience as an example, but I'm happy to give back and pass on any knowledge I can.

[0]: https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-introduction-computer-scien...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/cs50/

[2]: https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-computer-science-...
Thing is, whether its ChromeOS or Windows, you are not allowed to look at what exactly they are sending or not sending, and you literally sign a contract saying that they can collect whatever they want and use it however they want.

Google has a history of downright ignoring your privacy setting for the benefit of getting more data. And they are aggressively trying to associate you with more devices. It's also not even that they want usage data specifically, they are in the business of building data rich personalized profiles of you, for whatever use they decide on later.

Whether or not you are concerned is up to you.
I don't see any advantage of ChromeOS over Linux that would, for me, be worth the risk.
Yeah. Now answer every clarifying question about what it means to "approve of" someone.

Edit: I wasn't asking you to explain it to me; I was asking how you break it down for the average person so that they don't need to keep depending on the election officials to disambiguate every case.
I answered on a sibling thread.
Well Harmony was a JDK released under a more permissive license (Apache) but it has been discontinued. Moreso, unless you want to deal with being sued by Oracle and proving in court that your use of the JDK APIs are fair use (like Google had to do for Android), you really want to use something that is derived from OpenJDK, and thus GPL. So a more permissive implementation isn't likely to ever exist due to the legal liabilities.
My android phone (which I have stopped using) sends ads as notifications based on my location. Usually it's just asking me to review something nearby but they have suggested that I visit somewhere (McDonald's, for example) then leave a review. If I turn off location services Google Maps pretends that it cannot access information like my saved addresses even though I can see them on the map. It will not allow me to use them to set a route or refer to them in any way, they are only visible as pins on the map. If Chrome OS becomes as ubiquitous as Android I'm sure such "features" will be soon to follow. People who are cynical about taking seriously Google's harvesting and usage of user data are delusional to have so much faith in them. Our last hope is that many developers still care about privacy and security. Chrome OS for web development is an unacceptable proposition.
Cynics abound on hacker news.

Meanwhile, looking at this article with a systems perspective, this is incredibly good news. Large operational entities realizing that they are most performant when accountable to the public is a very, very good sign.
> Why would the voters listen to them if they did in fact approve of multiple candidates?

What does “approve of multiple candidates” even mean?

Preferring one candidate over another has a clear meaning. Approval does not; as well as meaning honest, uninfluenced ballots are going to vary from voter to voter even with the same actual assessment of candidates, that makes it a lot easier for voters to be manipulated by influencers as to the right way to map preferences to ballot markings.

Approval is good for open-ballot voting on, e.g, where to go to lunch (where “approve” means “commit to attend if the option is chosen”.) It's a poor choice for public, secret-ballot elections.
So just to talk about the Coke vs Pepsi thing a bit...

I love Diet Coke, I'm a Coke person for sure. But I have to admit that Pepsi is winning the business wars, not because of their beverage business, but because of all their other investments. Pepsi used to own KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut (later spun off into Yum! brands), and they still own Frito Lay chips. Coke I don't think has been as good about diversifying their income stream.

To take this to the political sphere, the way to win a Duopoly is to cheat and outsmart your opponent. I'd say the republicans are winning this one though, with the electoral college, citizens united, and the way they are playing for votes with fear and hatred.

Now to be sure, I'm a democrat, and I don't like what is going on, but even I have to admire an evil genius and how they manage to somehow hold on. It's finding ways around your opponent, not trying to attack them head on. I think if we changed the voting system to a ranked choice system, this would be a big way to swing things back toward the democrats.

I'm still always freaked out by people that vote green, and you can see how blue + green > red, but red is still the plurality. Ranked voting would really change this. Even I want to vote green, but am worried that I will affect the spread. Being able to bring in new blood with low risk of going with the worst option would be a huge improvement.
>Credit score tracking is privately managed and incredibly inaccurate, it can lead to people being unable to qualify for mortgages when their financial situation is quite solid

The first thing I did was say was that credit scores aren't perfect, so I'm not disagreeing with you on this. as for the "incredibly inaccurate" claim, are you talking about accuracy as a whole, or people on edge cases being screwed because they have a bad score? because I highly doubt lenders would bother paying for a worthless risk model.

>Additionally credit score calculations are all proprietary

And you think the citizen score isn't going to be?

>may have begun taking your social life into account (there are mixed reports) [...] credit score trackers do all that stuff behind closed doors..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Credit_Reporting_Act ? Also, you can opt-out of social media, not so much the government.

I'm not sure what you're trying to do by pointing out how bad credit scores are, because citizen scores are clearly worse, considering they can collect everything credit bureaus can, but more.
If the police kills an unarmed and innocent man, it definitely means that police in general is not acting efficiently.

Right now, I see no movement with police higher officers to improve police response protocols to reduce fatal encounters.

The narrative is not about "all people are different" and "some neighborhoods are bad" and not about "some officers can use more training";
I think there is an institutional problem, with police protocols that prescribe police chasing/hunting, swarming, incapacitating, shooting, all topped up with officers having no strong knowledge of the law, and not being punishable for lying on duty and unnecessarily hurting during arrest.
Shortcuts, and Swift Playgrounds even more so, have been granted private entitlements by Apple to function.
These arguments almost always seem like encryption is about access to information but isn't encryption about understanding information? If they are asking for a key to decrypt then they already have access to the data. If you write a note nobody will ever have access to- say you slipped it onto Voyager 1, there would be no point in encrypting it. Encryption is to protect against (possibly) accessible data.

Old-school though experiment- I encrypt all my paper notes using a simple substitution cipher. They seize my notes and have full physical access to them. If they don't understand my notes can I be forced to explain my cipher?

If I comply and the unscrambled contents are "RedFalcon has delivered the ApplePie to the EndOfTheRainbow". This is basically another substitution cipher. Can I be forced to explain this under threat of jail if I don't explain it in a way they accept?

I realize modern encryption is way beyond this, and way beyond my understanding. Has the basic principle of access vs understanding changed?
People understand the current system well, so the new system collapsing to it isn't that bad.
It is perfectly possible to have too many regulations, but that doesn't mean that the answer is no regulations. The simple fact is that we (human beings) have demonstrated quite well that when there are no rules, exploitative power structures form very quickly and do not self correct. Not to mention things like dealing with the problem of the commons.

Regulations can be useful, since none of us are saints, they are required.
It is, but if the ranking is exhaustive then it cannot regress to de facto FPTP.

You wind up with an arguably more benign form of strategic voting: preference deals.

The point here is that approval voting, range voting etc work better than IRV under a number of ideal conditions.

But political parties have no incentive to cooperate with the ideal conditions. They want to beat the other party.
Thanks for the feedback, was it the 4 GB or 8 GB model?
(I'm a software engineer on Google Drive.)

The answer is no. To the point where it's actually a pain in the ass for us because developing any ML-assisted capabilities for G Suite requires us to only get training data from specific subsets of customers who are under special contract conditions.

If you buy G Suite from a reseller then they might be doing shady shit but we'd terminate their reseller account if we found out about it.

I know people like to bitch about this kinda shit on HN but honestly I and my coworkers spend so much time on protecting our customers' data from literally everyone -- including ourselves -- that I want the chance to bitch back about how hard my job is.
iPhone X, Galaxy S9, Xiaomi Mi6 Fall at Pwn2Own Tokyo
No mention of the problems of the countries that have multiparty systems. Italy (6 major parties) and Israel (18 parties in the Knesset) have dysfunctional governments with too many parties. The UK has five parties with 10 or more seats in Parliament.

The US is having lockup trouble with two parties, but that's historically unusual.
Bitcoin plummets under $6K to a new low for the year after months of stability
Some in your position would, some wouldn't. It's effectively stochastic sampled ranked choice across the population.
"Nope."? You're missing my point. I'm not saying you're not right about that, but that being so condescending and snarky is unacceptable on here, whether you're right or not, and however the person you're replying to spoke to you.
Apple forbids that because it wants to be able to control and validate applications on their store. If they allowed self-modifying code apps could auto-update and change their features post-install. This is not really related.
Is someone collecting these attack vectors somewhere?

That would help prevent anyone writing an email client to make the same mistake.
12 from how many?
Essentially "The Anthropic Principle" if people want to read more about it.
No "Privileged" means having advantages that others don't.

Being white is highly correlated with being privileged due to historical circumstances, but it is only a racist reading of the word that thinks that being privileged is being white.
Games, like music, culinary and other arts have greater-than-background levels of competition because many are drawn to them by artistic motives.
You may safely rely on both the greater evil and lesser evils saying so.
I'm a software developer but maybe I should get payed as a police officer on top my regular wage since that's my rule as well.

Actually, you might as well give me a raise because I haven't killed anybody in the process either.
Netflix testing a mobile-only subscription to make its service more affordable
> With Chrome OS the main benefit to me is the same as running OS X or Windows: you don't have to worry about your stuff working.

Has not been my experience with either of these three. There are plenty of Linux distros that are miles more stable.
Would it be ok if I ask you about this in details ?
TBH, I think that cartridges in this case could be replaced by USB thumb drive keys... effectively a 128GB USB drive with a hardware key, and maybe even an embedded OS. Updates download and apply into the Key. Take it with you, run on any common x86 system, it could be great.
THANKS! Great timing on the black friday sale.
Anecdotally, as an aggregate, my testosterone levels increase during phases of my life when I do those things.

I suppose I am now required to look up references to support the following statements:

1. exercise without over-training boosts testosterone (maybe some middling results here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00441300 ) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S174360951...

2. Reducing stress increases testosterone http://psycnet.apa.org/buy/2000-13208-002

3. High fat diet increases testosterone https://www.nature.com/articles/4500825 (and probably ref 33)

4. I should have also mentioned that my lifestyle often includes less drinking during these phases https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article-abstract/74/5/957/2875...

5. That i socalize more and skip work more as well. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00441-005-0006-2

and that taken as a whole, I feel more like myself, increasing self esteem, which may itself help. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136466131...

Or you can look for pop blogs. https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/how-to-increase-test...

But of course, I just googled around for a bit to find one-off papers. It's a good starting point if I wanted to write a research paper on it, but I really don't. I wanted to provide my own experience, and have.
Uber's last ditch effort to lock in customers/loyalty before Google/Waymo comes to market with deeper pockets to outspend/outlast Uber's insane burn rate.