skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People aren't rioting because they want to destroy things

There are people who want to destroy things. See: https://twitter.com/keithellison/status/1266127105621983238?... for a the current manchild of the hour. It often cascades from individuals like these.

He may be the poster boy of the chaos but I assure you, as someone who has been in these streets, he is not alone. Please, come join us and you can see for yourself.

There are countless innocent business owners who were ransacked, who were had their livelihoods changed that would beg to differ with you.

I understand the concept of being loud to be heard. I understand making a statement. I understand burning down the precinct.

What I don't understand is looting independent pharmacies, liquor stores, and restaurants to steal inventory and merchandize and break into safes.

https://www.startribune.com/these-minneapolis-st-paul-buildi...

https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/gsum4h/minority_...
While in general I agree that there are too many administrators at many universities, this type of argument is ineffective without pointing out exactly which administrators. And I find that once you try to do that, no one agrees which administrators should be cut. Do you want to cut the administrators responsible for diversity and inclusion? Or the administrators responsible for tech transfer? Or the Dean of the College? Or administrators that manage grants? Or administrators of admissions, or athletics, title IX, or school of medicine?

For a start, let's cut any administrator that was not considered needed for the proper running of a university 30 years ago. So we can start with the administrators responsible for diversity and inclusion and tech transfer. You can probably also get rid of most of the administrators administering grants, athletics, and title IX.

Give us some specifics to discuss. Because while almost everyone agrees administration needs to be trimmed, if everyone just wants to keep the ones they think are important and there's not much overlap, then there's clearly no way to do this.

The argument, "We can't cut anyone if we can't all agree on who to cut" is a recipe for, "We will cut everyone after we go bankrupt." Those bankruptcies are already starting. And before COVID-19 is over, plenty of universities that can't figure out how to do layoffs of administrators are going to have to do just that.

Education has been on an unsustainable path for decades. It is widely recognized that it is unsustainable. As Stein's law says, "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." But before we get there we get to see the truth of Stanisford's corollaries, "It will go on a lot longer than we think" and "It will end badly when it does stop."

It has gone on a lot longer than I thought it could 20 years ago. However COVID-19 has changed the equation enough to end business as usual, and now we get to see how bad the ending is. The more that administrators cling to keeping business as usual, the worse that they will make things for themselves.
Your argument for the taxpayer being on the hook is that it gives us an incentive to do police reform?

Just put the officers on the hook instead, reform done.

Doctors are on the hook for medical malpractice, works quite well and we still have doctors.
"Unfortunately, we can’t do that here – a 64-bit integer only has so many possible values" and "The remaining 12 or 13 bits give us the extra “digits” we need for preventing carries."

using 64 bit registers, but only using 51 bits, has no overflow. Using 64 bit adds in 64 bit registers overflows, making the carry updates more costly.
Hi HN!

This is my little project that I'd consider at an _alpha_ state. The parser is mostly functional but I have a lot of work to do on it, including things like columns/rows which can span beyond their cell!

I hope you like it and if not find it useful, at least find it interesting :)

I debated sharing this and making it perfect but I think it's more fun to launch something that's in the works and get feedback!
Functional Institutions Are the Exception
Word on the ground is target only started getting looted after it tried to close its doors to protestors looking to buy water and medical supplies.
Signal leaks your telephone number to everyone with whom you communicate, which is a privacy disaster before you even send your first message. (Please don't take this as implicit approval for Telegram's approach to secure messaging, but at least they managed not to cock up in such a basic way.)
I usually to write in short sentences instead of long paragraphs.

I find that it improves clarity. It also seems the readers respond well to that.

With that in mind, why are bullet points so bad ? they seem like a simple technique to simplify writing.
> Processes are fine for preventing operational mistakes, but when it comes to ethics and executive judgment, they’re a poor substitute for having trustworthy people making the decisions.

Exactly this. The only thing that _might_ actually make me trust Triplebyte with my data again is if their current CEO actually stepped down to a less influential role. If I were part of the board I'd actually be advocating for him to step down or be forceably removed if possible.

He didn't put a stop this catastrophic breach of trust after being made aware of it. Even worse, he seemed to have actively drove this forward in spite of opposition. I'm simply not willing to trust a company where he's the top-level decision maker with data as sensitive as they're dealing with, apologies or not.
I keep mine at https://github.com/apple-open-source-mirror, but I have not updated it as the new dyld-733.8 tarballs aren't linked yet and I like to keep them all in sync :(
> Without knowing what makes an account badge-worthy, the only irrefutable significance of a verified badge is that the account has Twitter's approval. By making the badge exclusive to a small portion of users, and keeping the requirements for a badge secret, Twitter has turned their “badge of identity” into a “badge of approval.”

Spot on.

It has been always unclear as to the reason or knowhow as to 'why' a particular user has a 'verified checkmark', other than having some sort of following as one of the requirements, but even that is inconsistent. But still, it really does sound like a 'badge of approval' based on some secret criteria.
FFS, how much CO2 does the energy expenditure of mining, milling and transporting the olivine generate?

Just plant more trees!
Well the problem then is the overgrowth of executive power in the past two decades. Unfortunately, literally everyone was silent on that during both the Bush and Obama administration as well, and now are complaining that their chickens have come home to roost.
If you are a Mojave user please exercise caution when installing Security Update 2020-003 for Mojave, which was released together with Catalina 10.15.5. This update annulled my user's password. I couldn't log back in again once the update was installed. I had to use the original administrator account of my macOS setup in order to reset the password.

While searching for information on the problem I came upon another Mojave user who experienced the same problem. Twice... https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/login-password-screws-u...
Does rioting destroy things? Yes. But read that sentence from me again: "People aren't rioting because they want to destroy things".

People are rioting because they see this as the only way forward, not because they want a new TV. They may get that TV in the process, but it's not the motivation.
> If that Target is only in the neighborhood because it's an experimental LP store put in an incredibly impoverished area so that they can develop better techniques for putting people of color in prison, is it suddenly reasonable?

That's a pretty absurd, carefully crafted hypothetical situation that does not apply here.

> .... Yes it does. That's literally why that Target was there. Did you read the link?

Edit: alright, on that point I partially concede. I didn't realize that, and that is disturbing. However - and I just can't believe I still need to keep repeating this - I'm simply not going to go firebomb it because I don't like it. There are plenty of things I really don't like. Do I firebomb them because I don't like them? No, I choose not to firebomb them. Because that's not something responsible citizens do, at least in my worldview.
"The West" is doing DDT all over again. This time it's neonicotinoids, and just like with DDT, they're being pushed by ag conglomerates as a way to increase profits, with a side of "cigarettes give you healthy skin!" style propaganda to make them look innocent.

Last time, we "merely" almost wiped out a whole class of apex predators and caused a collection of trophic cascades. This time, with a menu of unintended consequences only the most obvious of which is the "colony collapse disorder" that's been imperiling pollinators worldwide, we might just end up managing to break modern agriculture entirely and cause famines worldwide, too.

So, yeah, "targeted interventions" merit extreme skepticism, because we as a species suck at them. If you want to look at that through a lens of anti-Westernism, you're welcome.
The article reminds me of a cool vid about ex-jewelery robber breaking down heist scenes from famous movies: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CtWqv0Z3ErM
You realize that radicals and those protesting are part of the "public", right? That their expression of grievances are part of "public opinion"?

As for the people who are disgusted? Nobody cares. They're apologists for state violence, and if after all this time they still don't understand why things are unfolding the way they are, they're only a roadblock to progress.
This is also available through https://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/security-announce.
>edge-cases

This is what happens when you dismiss edge cases in systems that are critical. Law isn't some shitty web app that can afford to just go offline.
Preserving the rule of law is one of the most fundamental reasons for government to even exist. It's predicated upon the idea that sometimes people break the law, and it's better for there to be due process administered by a judicial system than for there to be anarchy. If this is going to become a people vs. the government type issue, where the government isn't expected to be any better than looters, then the looters just got even more of my sympathy than they had before.

If the government is allowed to throw out the law at this point because people are rioting in response to delayed charges against a police killing caught on video, why did the government even have to exist in the first place?
> Most emergencies are sufficiently short-term that they don't meaningfully reduce incentives for new producers to enter a market, because there's no time to adapt.

But it does reduce incentives to keep supplies of goods to be ready to sell them at a profit during the emergency.
Well at the speed the data comes in, you don't have time/space to store it all on disk (and just filling up also doesn't seem to beneficial for them) and also can't just double all traffic for sending it to the NSA

So they have to filter a lot of data for interesting bits really fast before storing / sending it anywhere else
> hurting their fellow innocents

Are you talking about property damage, or actual violence like police killing unarmed black folks?
> in some of them you go to prison but in quite a lot of them you just stay rich and become an elder statesman admired for your business acumen."

Would you take a diceroll where 1/10 outcomes you go to minimum security prison for 2 years, and 9/10 of outcomes you become rich for the rest of your life?
That makes literally no sense. Republicans supported the civil rights acts of 1957 through 1968 with supermajorities, by far larger margins than democrats did. How can it be that "due to the civil rights movement," "less civil minded" people switched from a party that voted for the Civil Rights Acts, to the party that voted for the Civil Rights Acts by even larger margins?

The realignment of southern democrats is due more to the fact that, once segregation--which democrats tolerated and republicans didn't--was off the table, they were more aligned with republicans on other issues, such as religion, gun control, abortion, business regulation, taxes, etc.
This comments reads as "god save capitalism. Everything is justified unless dollars are burned in the process."
Higher prices during emergencies would make it more profitable to anticipate them and keep inventory around in case of emergency. It costs money to store extra stuff and that cost needs to be paid for somehow or preparedness probably won't happen.

There may be other ways though. In cities where people have limited storage space, maybe consumers who want to be prepared would pay a subscription fee for the option to buy a disaster kit on short notice?
The cops could have controlled the story by not arresting a journalism crew.
It would be bad because it would be enforcing a death penalty for theft, and because it's extra-judicial (no arrest, no jury, no conviction, etc...).
I think this is actually a balanced argument.

HN should have a setting so that the most downvoted posts show up at the top of the page... That would save me a lot of scrolling to get to the unpleasant but accurate content.
What about real-estate? Theoretically someone could buy up every property in an area and then price gouge anyone who wants to live there. They "could" just live somewhere else that is cheaper.
I'd like to see a system like this: if your tweet is blocked for a reason, all you have to do is find a tweet that's worse than it is for that same reason, that is not already blocked. If the moderators agree then yours is unblocked and the other's is. Maybe disputes with the moderators' decision can be public, so people can see which way the wind blows with the particular social media platform.

Lots of people here will propose ways of gaming this system, such as setting up fake accounts where they make worse tweets. I don't want to pre-argue with them by making this post really long though. I think that starting with this design it's probably possible to tweak it to encourage honesty.
.... Yes it does. That's literally why that Target was there. Did you read the link?

ETA:

> I'm simply not going to go firebomb it because I don't like it. There are plenty of things I really don't like. Do I firebomb them because I don't like them? Nope, I choose not to firebomb them. Because that's not something responsible citizens do, at least in my worldview.

I'm very, very glad that you and I have a voice in our communities/countries and don't need to resort to violence to get our message across. I'm not glad that the reason you and I have a voice and the people rioting in MN right now do not, is because we benefit from state violence and they are on the receiving end of it.
Congrats on the call out by Point Free, authors of the functional architecture you are using. https://twitter.com/pointfreeco/status/1266397563004915712
you can read it?
The briefest investigation of the comments sections of local news sites explains what they're not only afraid of, but perfectly rationally expecting amd shrewdly avoiding.
Somewhat off topic but the last time I visited the Palm Springs Air Museum, they had a B-17 Flying Fortress that you could crawl inside! I've never been so thrilled to bang my head inside a cramped space.

https://palmspringsairmuseum.org
Magic Leap CEO to step down after company laid off 1k employees
Again, the President's "take" is totally irrelevant in US being an authoritarian police state. The issue is systemic and can not be attributed to an individual or office.

I'm not an American but have lived there in the past for many years. It has always baffled me how Americans are willing to blame the left or the right instead of the system as a whole. Maybe because if they did so, they would be undermining the very foundations that their country was built on.
More like "god save common sense and basic human decency"

WTF is the matter with people?
What more do they do? I'm not aware.
> disgusts the vast majority of law abiding people

Speak for yourself. I'm quite happy they burned down a police station. Let DAs and cops around America take note: going forward, if you don't act decisively when a cop murders a black person, you're probably gonna lose a police station.

It's just a damn shame the cops forced the people to go this far to get the message across. The police officer standing by that let the murder happen could have prevented it, the cops at the protests could have deescalated instead of firing tear gas into crowds of peaceful protesters. The cops did a GREAT job of descalation when white armed militia turned up at the Capitol two weeks back, they're clearly capable of it. And, the DA could have chosen to have the murderer arrested straight off.

Let this then be a lesson.
'my friend' haha it's ok to use TikTok :P
What makes you think big tech follows the rules?
That seems more sinister somehow.
Another fellow Minnesotan here and former Minneapolis resident (used to live a mile away from Hiawatha and Lake back in the day).

>Characterizing what is happening as an edge case is a huge mistake. People do not spontaneously start protesting with so much anger if it hasn't built up over so long.

These protests are at least partly drummed up by out of state agitators, and are implicitly condoned by a feckless and weak state and local government that would rather give ground (literally) than enforce the rule of law. Saying "enough is enough" means going to the polls, not burning down all of the businesses in your neighborhood that were already on the verge of collapse thanks to the pandemic. That people are making up excuses for this behavior is disturbing to me, and signals that America is farther along the path of Imperial collapse than I previously thought. What end do you think we end up with here by condoning this? Agitators taking over City Hall? Disbanding the police department?

Please don't excuse burning down entire neighborhoods. Thanks.
I can’t count how many times I’ve individually solved this problem for various companies, and fixed broken ledger systems. I’m currently dealing with the terrible legacy decisions of single-precision float database columns leading to floating-point precision loss on a multi-million $$ eCommerce platform.

What a schlep.

I’m curious, do you store currency values as decimal dollars or integral cents?
With price controls, what happens is not that everyone has access to things.

It's that they sell out, and no one can buy any.
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I am the opposite. My depression and anxiety has gotten worse since I have been stuck working from home. The social interaction I got at work has been significantly reduced.
Searching for contraband and illegal aliens no doubt https://www.cbp.gov/about
One is operated by a federal institution that is not responsible for internal domestic affairs.
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To justify violence against protestors and to sway public opinion against legitimate grievances with law enforcement.
gas stations were selling bottled water for super high prices

Chances are, what they were doing was illegal, especially if there was a formal state of emergency declared.

Did you report it to your state attorney general? They're usually pretty good about enforcement and handing out fines when these things are brought to their attention.
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Unlikely, were they on their way to church also?
> %$#@! the ecosystem* . People are more important.

You do know humans need a functioning ecology in order to survive, right?
On a tangent: http://us.metamath.org/ does the same thing but with theorems logic
Coronavirus: South Korea closes schools again after biggest spike in weeks
> Tools invented for military operations abroad eventually, predictably find their way back domestically.

The second R in reduce, reuse, and recycle. /s
It's still good writing in the sense that it's interesting and engaging even as someone with relatively limited interest in the topic.
Well there was a platoon of police armed to the teeth at the murderer's house, so burning the station was a good enough plan B.
A Study Out of Thin Air
It's definitely a rule in my house. I'm raising my kids right.
Regarding your first sentence... I think we have the same conclusion. :)

Thanks for the heads up re: Ramhorns. I'd seen it before but Mustache templates aren't particularly my thing - Django/Python guy in a previous life, so I've got love for the templating models from there. Willing to sacrifice a small amount of speed for developer ergonomics, things almost universally get rewritten once big enough scale comes into play anyway.
How the US Army trains to attack a city
Show HN: Cool React UI scaffolding tool (intro video)
New executive order targeting social-media companies isn’t about Twitter
How do shops work in those jurisdictions? Don't they usually rely on an ‘offer’ that is semi-implicitly accepted by a client? And which is afaik a form of contract? I thought that this is the mechanism that licenses use.

This seems to be the thing in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offer_and_acceptance
It's amazing to me how the system can send 4 cops to take someone into custody immediately over an alleged passing of a fake $20 bill, but when there's video of a homicide taking place despite the pleas of the victim and the intervention of bystanders, and more video shows that the initial report submitted by the cops in question was a lie, everything has to slow right down while we wring our hands over the rights of the cops.

Also, when people complain about MSM they are including Fox and Sinclair.

Please don't insult my intelligence again.
They continue to operate and are not bogged down in regulation. Even if there are unofficial rules of what matters and what doesn't, they have figured out those rules.
The DOJ is part of the executive branch and is instrumental in setting national standards and investigating police departments. FBI as well. The executive branch has a fair amount of sway in how policing is done in the US and largely can help set direction, set policies, investigate departments and "clean house".

for example: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...

Who is President is very much matters. You clearly see this in the Reagan/Bush/Clinton years, where mass incarceration was in vogue, at the direction of the Attorney General (William Barr), who is part of the executive branch, leading the charge.
Maybe this is a US-specific problem? I'm not American and the public education system is actually doing a great job in most developed countries.
Mark Zuckerberg silent as Trump uses Facebook and Instagram to threaten violence
How does Google verify the official website piece? That seems to be the bootstrapping moment that enables this whole --scam-- growth hack.
This so much, I think as people strength in their own opinions has weakened they have replaced it with this us/vs them mentality where you must agree with them in all issues. At root, a narcissistic culture where lack of personality and individuation is overcompensated by external signalling of virtue.
"Oh look at those soyboys, we are so much masculine than them."
"Oh look at those rednecks who voted for Trump, why can't they get a college education."

First case, Why so insecure that you constantly need the other to reaffirm yourself?
Second, Why do you need to reaffirm your college education was actually worth something? (Many cases, sad to say but they should sue to get your money back)
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> if the people can't follow laws why should the government?

Damn, this should be framed.