skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made a complaint on an officer once and the next day his supervisor (who is Chief of Police now) called me up and said,

"... are you suuure you want to go through with this? Because if we investigate and can't prove any wrong-doing, we will charge you with filing a false complaint!"

Now, I didn't back down and got a letter from them saying, "we investigated and, although we are not going to tell you the outcome for privacy reasons if there was anything we would have given the appropriate punishment," or something along those lines.

I think that a civilian-oversight board (and I am fine with making them have security clearances) that can look into these once a year to make recommendations to the City Commission is not too much to ask for considering this is paid for with tax money and currently has little to no oversight.
I play basketball nearly every day -- still at 30. I've gone through a lot of basketball and running shoes. I've never bought any no-name random shoes, but Nikes -- for me at least -- are BY FAR the lowest quality shoes I've worn. They literally fall to pieces within months every time I buy a pair. I can't even complain, because at this point I should know better.

I've found a pair of Asics that have decent traction for basketball. I wore those for years, and then they turned into just my running shoes for years, and I'm still wearing them 6 years later for hiking.
I didn't know I can get so emotional about printing presses until I watched "Farewell - ETAOIN SHRDLU" documentary. It is about the last NYTimes newspaper run on these magnificent machines.

https://vimeo.com/127605643
they're not licensed to practice medicine in the US. and last i checked they can't transfer their licenses easily, or at all.
They really should put "Oxford language professor argues... " in the title.

I'm okay with overly bold theories so long they have some merits, which I mean have some supporting evidence... this has nothing, which makes the quality of this theory right there with unpublished science fiction ideas.

It feels like to me he's ready to publish more books on the topic.
Build a Roguelike in Rust
Could someone explain the down-votes? My hypothesis isn’t great but surely it’s better than aliens interbreeding with humans etc etc?
Explain, please. The only justifications for life elsewhere to exist that I am aware of are statistical, not evidential.
corporate death penalty
Mondo 2000 – Issue 07 (1992)
> This is a compromise that made sense in the 18th century, not the 21st.

Exactly!

People act like our[0] Constitution is some inviolable, sacrosanct tome with words that must be revered and held close, unchanging and unchanged forever. Yet they seem to skip that we've modified the thing TWENTY EIGHT TIMES and that every Much Revered Framer(tm) anticipated that we'd not only change it as often as needed, we would very likely scrap the whole thing and do it again every few generations.

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that mandates that the compromises, adjustments, and tweaks our nation's founders made must persist beyond tomorrow, except our own collective will to not bother with or to actively resist change. It's why I very much enjoy hearing at least one of the major parties actively talk about modification of the Electoral College or the makeup of the Supreme Court or how the legislative bodies of our nation operate. Maybe their ideas are good ones, maybe they're not, but the one thing we MUST NOT DO is shy away from a willingness to keep our country's governance current.

0 - By "our," I mean the collection of people who are citizens of the United States of America. Other nations can and do amend their nations' basic laws as they see fit.
> We have ~80 full-time employees and about 200 part-time. 40 of the full-time and all 200 part-time are dedicated to teaching/career coaching.

What does this mean? I was interested in a breakdown between "people who teach students" and "people who sell stuff," and I don't see how "marketing" and "growth team" differ. As far as I can tell, you're saying that you hired 40 coders, 200 temps as teachers, and 40 salespeople to pitch them to employers ("career coaching").
Tread Carefully with This Venture Capital Firm – Next47
Perhaps you could have said something positive before aggressively criticizing. There’s an art to constructive feedback
The problem with replacing MacOS is that its key value lies in aspects that the open source community have yet to succeed in, or are structurally unfit to succeed in.[0][1]

— System-wide UI consistency, especially in the fine details

— Singular UI/UX vision eliminates points of confusion and everything-is-a-compromise choices for third party developers

— Navigable by non-experts, even when things turn to shit

— Nominally "perfect" hardware support

— Robust colorimetry

— Millisecond audio latency

I use Linux extensively, but I'm not aching to leave macOS as my primary platform. Yes, they did start to go a bit loopy and off-track around Mac OS X 10.7–10.9, but from my vantage point it has been all uphill again since Mavericks.

The idea of running Mac apps in a Wine-like compatibility layer sounds worse than anything Apple could ever do to macOS. Yes, I like free. And yes, I like personal choice. But I value my time and I'm sorry to proponents of other platforms, but macOS just values my time more than any other platform.

________

[0] The achilles heel of the open source community stems from the lack of a unifying vision and a top-down approach. This has major advantages as well as major disadvantages. But nonetheless it affects the result. And depending on your priorities, the advantages might outweigh the disadvantages or vice versa.

[1] And to be fair it's equally true in the opposite direction. Open source succeeds in many aspects like robustness, hardware compatibility, longevity and transparency/deep trust. Hence why it has utterly destroyed the server market. These areas of success are not accidental or arbitrary.
Tankokai MT – HyperScript and Functional CSS – MithrilJS and TachyonsCSS
Anyone notice the CDN they are using (https://www.belugacdn.com)? Looks like their pricing is 1/10 of S3 and GCP.

Anyone used belugacdn before? Care to share your experience?
You can use rclone for that. Which is basically this from a command line.
People like you exist in every generation. Each generation has their own term for them. In the past maybe it would have been names like “nerd”, “geek”, “wiener”, “dufus” or “poindexter”, but I’m not sure what they are called today. In any case, people who were members of these minority groups were commonly subjected to teasing or even bullying by the others for not fitting in.
My partner's director of studies at Cambridge believed in ghosts and once played a tape recording purporting to contain a recording of one (random static) in a supervision.

It's fairly surprising how often you'll encounter fringe views in academic circles, but I think when it's not something directly to do with the things you're teaching it's generally just thought of as a harmless idiosyncrasy.
The fact that there‘s any independent political parties responding to citizen concerns is the destabilizing factor.
Seems like some sort of deposit system might work. First time, customer buys an inexpensive but reusable cup, which they can take with them. On a following visit, customer exchanges this cup for a clean one, which they can also keep or trade in on a subsequent visit. The retailer would have to wash the cups but at least that would solve the sanitation and consistent serving size issues. After too much wear and tear the cups would eventually need to be recycled, but that cost should be relatively predictable and amortizable, especially at scale.
but appeal to popularity/authority is not the proper way to validate a hypothesis no matter what
By working continuously for more than 24 hours. I'm Indonesian and there are stories of polling places running from 7am to 9am the next day, not counting the hours they spent setting up the polls.

The main reason it became so grueling is that we held simultaneous elections for president, congress, and provincial representatives this year. We learned our lesson and won't be doing them simultaneously next time around.
Most of those names imply other character traits, not just a sense of generational malaise
Just wanted to comment on the clarity and effectiveness of the home page. Love it! So many user-friendly checkboxes are ticked off. Nice look, great description, plenty of examples, advanced usage section that's very easy to take in, credits at the bottom with some backend tech used, a welcoming contact link...

All of this accomplished (landing page and documentation) in just a few scrolls of the mouse. I went from novice to expert in a minute. There was a real effort to communicate with the end-user from an (empathic) end-user perspective.

Even the parsed json page listing a default 30 images (with credits) is easy to navigate with all the pertinent information available - including urls that open in a new tab (so a user doesn't lose their place on the origin page).

You mentioned in another comment that 400 million images are served per month. Yet... it has the feel (and performance and care) of a small static site.
That's a very interesting take.
I feel like they're all very urgent to tackle.

People are losing faith in the political system and I fear they are also losing faith in the judicial system.

Do you think the people would be OK with more oversight on the lower level of the executive branch, but none on the legislative or the judicial branches nor on the top level of the executive branch (the president, in the US of A and in at least a few other countries) ?

Also, it's worth noting that laws are usually not retroactive, AFAIK, meaning that if you commit what would be a crime under a new law before that law was passed, you can't be prosecuted.
— Internationalization
They don't need our trust, they only need our data and our acquiescence. So far, they've got both. Trust is not required, nor is there any evidence they desire it.

And in any case, Zuckerberg isn't going to resign, and the stockholders can't eject him.
> Nothing is ever clear cut, but a lack of perfect knowledge and the possibility of unintended consequences are poor reasons to refrain from acting when the consequences of not acting are dire.

Sounds like a thinly veiled version of the Politician's Syllogism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism
and LetsEncrypt out of the box, which is gravy
Fair. That part was over the top. But I do think employees pushing their own intellectual passions or resume building pursuits over the interests of their employer are pernicious.

If it’s out of ignorance, then sure by all means educate.
Needs to be asynchronous. You pay for the cup when you buy a drink and you can drop it off at any disposal machine and get your money for the cup back. The problem to solve is that no one wants to carry a cup around for longer than necessary. Buy, drink, dispose.

The government could help a lot by creating a standard cup and mandating all companies have to use them.
I remember a computer science professor working on something called "belief spaces", where instead of having a database of facts like "all mammals have four legs", it was more like "joe believes all mammals have four legs".

I kind of wonder if that is actually the way to a more accurate representation of reality.
I’ve been searching for this data for a while. Mind sharing your sources?
It's an involved topic. More than I can just briefly summarize, but what's the scientific argument against it?
It's definitely something that people have looked at, eg:

https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3-specifications/pull/292
Interesting. I wonder how it compares in capability to these algorithms, which are in Nvidia’s Redtail SDK:

https://youtu.be/T7-IxCW1UlA
Taiwan is not critical for Chinese defense. Who wants to pick a fight with a giant well funded army?
As an economist I love this. People respond to incentives and making the decision visible, not making it a tax by letting the coffee shops keep the surcharge, and making it possible to keep prices the same (including the surcharge) is frankly a well designed law/experiment.
As far as I'm aware, the most the EU has done is look closely at doing it (most recently in 2018). One could argue that Lightning ports are better (particularly when compared to micro usb), and Apple seems to be slowly switching to usb-c. A standard charger would a. prohibit fast charging technologies or b. "pick the winner" with respect to such technologies. It would almost certainly slow or halt the use of newer fast charging technologies, higher bandwidth connections, etc. as they were created.

I understand bottles are different, but I felt a bit of a need to mention what a bad idea the phone charger thing was. "Design by committee" is a pejorative for a reason. Also, knowing governments, they would do something crazy like mandate the standard soda cup to be small (see NYC).
My biased view:

- Teaching assistants and section leads play a huge role in the quality of student experience. I think sometimes a supply/demand for filling these positions can result in not the best people filling them, which then can undermine the experience if your teaching assistant isn't the best.

- The system relies on teaching assistants for reviewing student code, and determining if students pass their tests. I worry what it means for ensuring students aren't progressing through the curriculum without having truly learned prior material. This goes back to having properly motivated and talented TAs too. Maybe some sort of randomized spot-checking, QA from full-time staff on this could help.

- I think sometimes the startup nature, remote-aspect, and fast iteration can mean various transitions through the curriculum aren't explained properly, but rather communicated piecemeal and students assemble an understanding of what's happening by discussing among themselves. There's a lot going on and structures are evolving constantly and sometimes instructors themselves can have trouble keeping track. I think being live in a room forces teachers to properly add ceremony and bookending structures to classes, but that can get dropped in the remote sphere.

Another thing, which is more a worry than a critique, is keeping the character/values and quality level there as it scales.
I see the fallacy in the parent comment just a little differently. It suffers from the "can't prove a negative" problem.

The comment never argued in favor of life elsewhere, and certainly not in any concrete form. It only said that we can't conclude that it doesn't exist. There is only an emotional suggestion that it does exist.

So it just boils down to an unhelpfully weak statement. Virtually all scientific minded people agree with the statement. The suspiciousness (like with religion) is placing such a weak statement about the general proposition in the middle of a discussion about a specific proposition (reptiles, interbreeding, etc.), and that doesn't make much sense on closer inspection. Why bring the straw-man up THEN if not suggesting a stronger form of belief?
LSD is habit forming?

...and although many people (myself included) use cannabis in a habitual way, I don't think it's "extremely" habit forming. If cannabis represents the extreme in this metric, then it is a very flat extreme since it also has to include sugar, crack cocaine, nicotine, etc, users of which obviously develop much more dire habits much more quickly.

I don't know that either of these are habit forming so much as that people realize their benefit and choose to use them in some sort of routine.
What does “proper” mean? Because it’s certainly the only practical way to validate most hypotheses. Sure, I could spend a couple of decades independently evaluating the effectiveness and safety of the flu vaccine, but in the meantime I’m going to have to decide whether to wear my seat belt and whether these apples I bought are safe to eat and how often to water my plants and so many more things. Appeal to authority is necessarily the way most people validate most hypotheses they depend on.
Well, this runs _binaries_ that were compiled for macOS. Yes, practically speaking, the only binaries worth running on macOS tend to be open-source utilities that can be compiled for Linux anyway. But it is a fundamental difference in implementation that makes this project truly exciting.
The webview is by definition a native component, I mostly agree that we shouldn't call it a "native" app but I hope to find customers interested in adding more features than simply rendering the URL.
Seems like this alien theory is not related to his official research work.

In that case, it seems like a private project. Crazy ideas or not, I'd be happy if that guy doesn't get sanctioned harshly for this.
That social thing exists sometimes, but I think it's overstated. Consider, for example, the many students whose only direct interaction with the professor is to try to get an extension on an assignment (arguably late because homework was encroaching on their hangover obligations).

You can think of ways with simple technology and social organization to scale some version of the mythical social thing to much larger numbers of students, and to be available to anyone who will use that sincerely, not some lottery of acceptance and whether/how you can manage to swing the huge tuition (possibly taking on crippling debt for the rest of your life).

I look forward to my degrees becoming officially worthless, with everyone having the same or better education easily available to them. We're already getting there, but we need to keep going in this direction, and to dispense with pretense. Things like better scalable feedback help.
I'm not entirely sure what "it" you're referring to.

If you're saying that it's racist because only one race is allowed to say the word:

No, I don't think so. It's not really a racial thing, it's a race and a culture. Not all black Americans say it, not all black Americans agree with it, and not all black Americans can get away with saying it. It's a kinship thing. My wife's female friends can say "you're such a bitch" but no one else would be able to say that to her. My coworkers and friends call me a nerd, but if someone I didn't know called me a nerd I would take it as an insult. They haven't earned that right. It's an offensive word unless there is a kinship developed where I know you're not saying it in a hurtful way.

If you're saying it's deemed racist for non-black Americans to say the word, then yes. Saying it with an "a" would be deemed less racist and more of a very rude faux pax by many. Others may see it as very racist. Also depends on the context it's being said in.
It's kinda cool that we can predict in enough time to save lives and equipment. If our brains or metabolism had been slower, then this might not be the case, even after we've developed the mathematical theories that we have now.
Consider using a base amount modified by cost of living, esp locational, with a formula that adapts when it changes. Buffer does this for their transparent salary calculations:

https://open.buffer.com/transparent-salaries/

Btw, love what you're doing. It might have helped me back when I was in a rural area. We didn't have Internet, though. So, would've been whatever I could do at libraries during narrow windows of computer use. These days it's McDonalds' Wifi for lots of folks. Do factor that into your offerings somehow if you don't already.

Good luck LS! Looks like awesome stuff you all are doing.
>First, durable goods are probably more expensive. For example, old lawnmowers lasted forever--WalMart ones die in a couple seasons.

The local hardware store sells the same or close to the same value engineered Chinese lawnmower using a B&S clone engine and a steel deck. Walmart sells it for $119 when it's in season and more than that the rest of the time (I wanna say $140ish but I'm not sure). The hardware store can't touch the sale price. I bought a lawnmower last summer so I'm very aware of what durable they cost at the various outlets. Old lawnmowers lasted forever because all the ones that are left are high end aluminum deck models that never got ridden hard and put away wet (which is why I got one of them for free on Craigslist instead of buying one). You see a similiar pattern with other durable goods. The model of big box stores is low margin, high volume. They sell some stuff that's value engineered to within an inch of it's life (a lot of the stuff at Harbor Freight comes to mind) but they don't generally engage in bait and switch. If they sold goods that always failed to live up to what people were expecting they wouldn't still be in business.

>Second.

Walmart by itself is not going to wipe out your town. If Walmart and the other big box stores wipe out the town it's because there was no real economic activity going on there and everyone else was just rent seeking to sap the money from the few parties engaged in actual economic activity (like a plumber that jacks up his rates when working on rental income properties in a tourist town). Nothing of value is lost in that case. Complaining that Walmart kills a town is like complaining that more automation kills a factory town, sure it might be technically true but if increased efficiency is a threat to your economic survival then you were already dead and just didn't know it.

>Third, is WalMart actually cheaper?

It's very, very rare that I find that they're not. On groceries their selection seems to be pretty poor but you can get staples pretty damn cheap. I grew up in a shithole where you always had to watch what you were paying or you could get screwed hard so I tend to really watch trends. Big box stores tend to have the cheapest prices broadly. Small businesses will occasionally have great prices on a few things but prices in general will be higher. The value add of small businesses is flexibility and service that is only workable at their scale, not pricing.
Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?
Big market, check. Validated demand, check. Product or service exists, uh-oh.

I set out to build a reverse address book. Instead of updating your address book with changes from everyone else, you update your own details and it pushes to everyone else. Turns out someone beat me to it and my inspiration evaporated.

Zoom is a recent and great example of competing in a crowded market and winning. For you builders/founders out there, are you on a never ending quest to find something new/unique or do you prefer another quality in your idea to start a project?
"Because I can" has produced some odd results over the years. This however is among the oddest.