skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well first of all, the point is to show that there is never a dis-incentive to earn more, which is how progressive tax brackets are supposed to work. You will always earn more money the higher up the income distribution you go, you will just earn less money net-net than you do today.

Second of all, what I described is the absolute worst case increase in income tax because it assumes:

1) 0 overlap with existing programs, which is extraordinarily unlikely. A transfer of $29,000 to a recipient of EITC/CTC and Medicaid is a pretty stupid waste of money. We would either reduce the UBI required (thereby reducing the taxes to the level I laid out in my top-most comment), or we would do away with many of the welfare programs that we already pay taxes for.

2) 0 other taxes. My math assumes an imaginary world in which we do not levy payroll taxes, which account for 35% of the current Federal revenue. That is a world which does not exist, and hence the income tax wouldn't have to be this high.
precisely which android client was he using? (and can he submit a bug report from it?)

My guess is that you were trying to do new-style verification, which requires RiotX, which is shortly going to replace the old Riot Android client.
It could just be that police testimony is not admissible without extra video evidence. In this day and age it may make sense. Especially given how the George Floyd and Amy Cooper incidents wouldn't have been known without video evidence since both involved people lying.
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ThoughtSpot is making election days a paid-holiday for all employees on the day national general elections happen in their country.
In the context of memory, none. However, bandwidth is usually an analog term: the electromagnetic spectrum that is within 3 dB of the minimum insertion loss.
I am not on FB and I tried to get out of WhatsApp too. I deleted WhatsApp and implored all my friends to move to Signal. But out of the 100 or so people I reached, only 2 moved to Signal. My extended family is in India and WhatsApp is very entrenched there. The other issue is that people in India do not realize that the attention issue these apps create is a long term problem - at least not yet.
Right but if your goal is to heat your apartment (and your alternative heat source is also electric) running the computer is a pretty efficient heat source.
"How many resolving DNS servers would need to blackhole Facebook IP address space?" might be a more interesting question.
It's also hard to distinguish among numbers in many sans serif fonts.
Nobody shot tear gas into the crowd that burned down the 3rd precinct in Minneapolis. It was the exact OPPOSITE. Police left the premises hours prior to the gathering.
Ben’s writing on this is so powerful. It should be at the top of HN with a million points. I’m glad to be a supporter of his. As a subscriber I got to hear him read this and it was moving.
5) Make police self-insured, backed by their pensions.
I have multiple disagreements: "ARM is becoming the dominant architecture". No - while a valid statement in 2012-ish, the truth (since about 2016) is "ARM is the dominant architecture". If disassembling binaries without symbols is a problem, then your skills/methods need improvement.
Been there, dealt with that: binary translation of VAX/VMS, Mips/Ultrix, Sparc/Solaris to Alpha (various OS's)
I remember the leave Facebook campaign after they released their mobile app and showed a pop-up on the mobile site offering the mobile app.

I did in fact leave over that. It was a simpler time.
A non-trivial percentage of White Americans feel like African-Americans have already been made whole for the hundreds of years of wrongdoing done to them, and some even feel like Black people actually have more privilege/opportunity than White people in America and that America is now "reverse racist". Anecdotally, they tend to be poorer Whites who feel aggrieved that they haven't gotten the wealth they feel they deserve, but not always.

Basically the type of people who think saying "Black Lives Matter" means you hate White people.
The past few months has resulted in us seeing record traffic and revenue... it turns out that people stranded at home due to stay at home orders are thirsty for entertainment and information.

I can't say that I'm really surprised by anything anymore after all that has happened over the past 3 months :)
You're backing a claim made without any evidence by using another claim without evidence
Seems like nobody here cares as long as it's the hood burning and not their cottage. Kinda what I expected on HN.
Iceland: https://github.com/aranja/rakning-c19-app
I personally dislike all Serif fonts, but TNR most of all. Too much Windows, probably (I also loathe Arial)
I had to go ahead and make a userChrome.css because I couldn't take it anymore. This was the best one (although I did remove .urlbarView-row:first-of-type), so thanks for that. Still looks kind of messy, unfortunately, but an improvement!
This is a commonly repeated rumor about the Michigan lockdown protests, but its absolutely not true[1].

"Despite some "confusion," Lansing police had no complaints about any ambulance being locked in traffic during an emergency, said Robert Merritt, a spokesman for the Lansing Police Department. When ambulances on non-emergency runs were in traffic, "rally participants slowly cleared a path," he said."

[1] https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/0...
It's available online, but not open source. This is the "licence" they include: https://github.com/AU-COVIDSafe/mobile-ios/blob/master/LICEN...
Definitely. I don't really think this hypothetical attack would be possible, I only bring it up to demonstrate the effect that lowering the hash rate would have on the cost of disrupting the network.
I think he was using the old client, yes. I will ask him to file a report, I tried RiotX and it seems to work well.
Traditionally that was the case, however there's been an increase in incidents where they have been responding with far more gear and weapons than could possibly be reasonable. In short, they're actively looking for excuses to play dress-up and it's getting worse.
It takes 10 seconds for someone to create a lie, it takes 10 minutes to rebut it.
Overcome the police to what end, though?

All most of the protestors want to do is protest, ie partake in some of their 1st amendment rights. So the protestors "overrun" the police and then what? Continue to stand in the street chanting?

This feels like straight projection, and focusing on the few people taking advantage of the situation by looting etc. The police could solve that in a heartbeat by deploying small units into the protest crowds and working with the peaceful protestors, but first they'd have to give up on the goal of disrupting legitimate protests.
Yes, #3 is the key point, that there are exceptions to the flamewar constraint if there is some new, interesting information for a current major topic..
heh, something set this guy off.... I wonder what it could be?
The main thing I’ve been told consistently is foot in the door is the biggest thing. Once you’re in as long as you really did pass the interview and are at least okay, beyond that, chances of you being fired have to be low because no one ever brings that up. I’ve asked around. No one thinks that is even a possibility in normal circumstances.

I don’t think any companies do stack ranking any more in terms of firing. Layoffs are the only times you’d have to worry. And that comes down to politics as well no matter what.
Presidents have all kinds of privileges that others don’t. Why should their privilege on social-media be diminished? To me the problem is not the platform but the fact that they have such exceptional privilege to begin with.
Hacker News is almost minimalist in the same vein. What's its font though? It's pretty nonoffensive.
Given the total number of interactions with police every year (tens of millions), the number resulting in death is low (roughly 1000 a year). The number of deaths as an accident or unjust is a fraction of that.

Any time a person is killed or treated wrongly is terrible and police should be held accountable. But I believe it is more to do with rotten people than it is a rotten system.
Its a combination, that's one of the big rationals I've always heard. Also, enforcement of rules would be really painful at night. It probably would be very dangerous to be out there with some of the idiots who think they are hunters.
That’s what they told those sneaky terrorists that disguised themselves and snuck onto private property to destroy tea in Boston harbour.
> No...it's an entirely plausible assertion that there's no evidence for.

Not technically impossible is not the same as plausible. It's technically possible that Hitler survived WWII and lived it his days in Argentina. It's not plausible.

> To turn this back on your demand for evidence...how do you know?

Because it's a BSL-4 lab built in collaboration with a top French lab. The researchers are trained at top national labs in the US, France and Australia. Top international virologists insist that the lab in Wuhan has an excellent safety record.

There are a whole number of things that make the theory utterly implausible:

1. The lab did not have SARS-CoV-2. They sequence and publish a segment of the genome of every coronavirus they identify. SARS-CoV-2 is not among the several hundred viruses they've identified and published in this manner. In order to get around this, as a conspiracy theorist, you'd have to assert that the lab, for some reason, decided in advance not to publish SARS-CoV-2. That's implausible element #1.

2. Even if the lab had discovered SARS-CoV-2, and then not published it for whatever unknown reason, they wouldn't have found it interesting. It's 20% divergent from SARS-CoV. Before this pandemic, researchers weren't particularly interested in viruses that are so different from SARS-CoV. There are viruses that are only a few percent different from SARS-CoV. Those are the types of viruses that are intensively studied, where you can start spinning theories about lab accidents. This is implausible element #2.

3. People outside labs are exposed to SARS-related viruses all the time. There are estimates that literally millions of people are exposed every year. If you compare that against a few highly trained researchers working under strict protocols, you begin to see the absurdity of blaming the researchers. We're talking about odds that are literally a million to one here. That's implausible element #3.

> But you don't fight back with equally poorly considered knee-jerk retorts.

You should learn something about the subject before you comment that the theory is plausible.
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Going USB-C on their phones and tablets while also swapping the Thunderbolt ports and maybe the power ports on their computers for USB-C, then leaving it that way for three years or so before removing the other ports, seems like it would have been a much better lead-in if they really had to do it. At least then we'd have been able to slowly accumulate USB-C dongles without feeling bitter about it, since they'd work on i-devices too so feel like they're providing some kind of benefit or future-proofness. As it is it's 2020 and I still feel like I'm wasting money buying either USB-C or Lightning dongles—the former because I don't need them for anything but very new Macbooks, and the latter because surely they're going to switch those to USB-C eventually (surely... right?) so those thunderbolt cables and adapters will become junk long before they should.

[EDIT] go figure, my wife just today bought a new iphone, wants to put some music from her 2019 Macbook Air onto it, needs to plug it in at least once in order to do that (have to plug in first to enable wifi sync), and can't because the phone shipped with a fucking USB-A cable and the single lightning-to-usb cable we have in our house is missing. This is going down right now. So much for not needing USB-A ports on a laptop in 2020 even if you're fully in the Apple ecosystem. She's so annoyed I wouldn't be surprised if she returns the phone. I mean granted the phone isn't the latest model but it came out way after they made the all-USB-C switch on their laptops.
They don't ignore them. They are mashing that skinny pedal to get that truck somewhere they can get a new tire on the double before DOT sees it and puts them in an expensive and time consuming hole it may take weeks to dig out of depending on who they work for and the details of their operation. The incentive structure truckers work under isn't ideal to say the least.
From the link above:

> To implement its contact tracing functionality, Immuni leverages the Apple and Google Exposure Notification framework (see Apple’s documentation and Google’s documentation). This allows Immuni to overcome certain technical limitations, thus being more reliable than otherwise would be possible.
You'd think so, right? But the incentive is to show they were good hires and to quickly eliminate bad hires and if you show me the incentives I'll show you the outcomes...

There is zero incentive to hire for anything except individual performance (superstar) or technical knowledge (basically the same as above) and any success can be humbly accepted while blame can be cleverly diverted onto the team while advancing one's career and looking good to one's bosses.

A better scam has never been perpetrated and it all starts from people trusting too much as is often the case.
I keep my OLPC (running Debian) around for precisely the reason of having a low-spec touchstone to keep me grounded. Heck I even test some programs on an NSLU2! https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/9ab25536b01d903539bd...
That's kind of the point, you can back write a block chain with enough hash power. Just go back a few hundred blocks in the chain, and "fork" into an alternate chain. If your chain can catch up and become longer, you win.

This happens on a micro scale every day, when two people "solve" the next block at the same time. Inevitably, one of those forked chains gets longer and the other one is abandoned or "orphaned".
A black shop owner was arrested at gunpoint, live on Fox News for asking for help because of some looters, but again some people don’t see the problem.
Gravity pulls on both objects. The water (along with the rest of the planet) pulls the ice down, the ice pulls the water up.
> The network hash rate is only so high because the ROI is there, but without it, people would still be mining.

Can you expand on that? What would be the incentive for the miners then? What happens when all blocks are mined?
I'm sure there are cheaper options with a port mirroring function, but one of the entry level Ubiquiti switches plus a controller running in a VM would work, too. Hmm, I should definitely investigate cheaper options.
Could you clarify your use of "permitted" here? In the sense of "allowed", it seems redundant, since you go on to say that they were or were not forcibly dispersed.

The other option, more literal, is "they got a permit to do this protest", but there have certainly been plenty of peaceful grassroots protests that got no sort of official go-ahead and yet were executed perfectly fine on both sides.
I've got a lot of chat logs of people organizing who know they're Antifa. The handbooks and wisdom obviously tell members to obscure the organizational structure, to enable exactly what you're doing here with the definition, and it works when nobody cares, but not now.

Just because your criminal organization has chapters, doesn't mean people don't see the organization.
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> one incident thousands of miles away that happened to be captured on a smartphone

This seems incredibly ignorant. The "incident" was a murder, in broad daylight, by a police officer.
> what does it take to trigger some of the automatic query parallelization

Table scans, index scans (b-tree & bitmap only I believe), joins, and aggregations. There may be some limitations with joins, such as hash joins duplicating hashes across processes or merges requiring separate sorts.
Perhaps it is you who need to look up the statistics of those cities. Only two police officers have been killed in Minneapolis in the last 20 years, out of more than 600 homicides in that city.
I have friends who are police that post videos of their gun training to social media. One exercise involves speeding up to an area in their cruiser and quickly coming to a stop. Then they exit the vehicle and use their door as cover while shooting a target as fast as they can. Afterwards they proudly smile and hold their target up to the camera.

The amount of gun training these officers receive is insane, and it's no wonder why so many resort to using their weapon first.
Blocking traffic might reduce auto accidents, saving lives. How many of those ambulances are responding to auto accidents that could have been prevented?
Sweet! Thanks for sharing! I’ll have to look into this more when I have time. I think the missing key for me was the BCD part. I had figured out how to do the seven segment display at some point using other utilities that LBP2 had.
> To implement its contact tracing functionality, Immuni leverages the Apple and Google Exposure Notification framework (see Apple’s documentation [1] and Google’s documentation [2]).

[1] https://www.apple.com/covid19/contacttracing

[2] https://www.google.com/covid19/exposurenotifications/
Democrats don't say that.

Unless you grant that Republicans say that "blacks are lazy and violent" because right-leaning Internet randos say it online.

The presumptive Democrat candidate put out words of unity, compared to Trump's verbal shit splatter.
What about if you go back three or four generations? five or six?

I'm conflicted on this issue, I really understand the need and can persuade myself either way but it's not obvious.

Being black in America may be a special case that's worth trying to correct directly with something like reparations, but I'm not convinced you can right all historical wrongs by this logic generally. A lot of groups have faced terrible persecution throughout history.

American Indians, Jews, etc.
I'm seeing the same. Even when people are acting out, the police are supposed to be a professional, trained force that is capable of keeping them selves in control and knowing when to back-off and regroup when things aren't in their control.

All I see is crazed fighting from them. Wide eyed with fear, wild swinging, just indiscriminate violence. Is property damage bad? Sure. But good lord stolen Nikes are so inconsequential to what I'm seeing from the police right now.

I am not a bleeding heart liberal, nor am I some apparently crazed republican. I just don't like seeing my fellow Americans getting killed and beaten. The fact that they are totally immune from prosecution and oversight makes the power dynamic of it all that much more infuriating.
Common wisdom is that serif fonts are easier to read, but most research I've read on the topic show either very small or no readability increase with serif over san-serif fonts.

As an example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612630/
Indeed. The only reason I know is that I tried a few years back and realized that I was asking the computer to do something that I couldn't even do. Anyone that doubts it, just listen to the NYPD feed and try to transcribe for just a minute or two.

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/32890

(edit: also, thank you for keeping this service up and running for so long, have been a regular user since the early RR days. Would love to have a comment/live chat option if your backlog is getting bare :))
Zuckerberg hires police officers cited for using excessive force to work as his personal bodyguards.

Yes, that's right. While he's busy pretending to feel bad about the situation with bad cops, he recruits and pays them to protect his family.

Facebook and Zuckerberg are well beyond complicit.
Obama did a pretty damn good job.
Those other countries shouldn't be spreading conspiracy theories either, but the intensity with which the Trump administration has been promoting the lab theory is really unmatched. It's on an entirely different level.
I'm not using Arch as the baseline - just saying that I'm familiar with Linux.
It's also quite bizarre to see people dying because they are black. Actually it's so bizarre that people can't help but have to break rules to send a message.

As far as I can tell, it's not about that one 'incident' but about all the deaths that weren't recorded, and the many lives that are spent in fear.
Have you looked at git-annex recently?

https://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/ipfs/

It takes a little bit to work out why you want it and why its so much better in that unixy way many of us insist on vs git-lfs (supporting ipfs should be a clue there).

*as a warning some of the defaults in last years git-annex 7 versions were aggressively annexing files in the git archives but fixed now.
I do know why. The death of one man is a tragedy, the deaths of thousands, merely a statistic.
Edited to delete reaching too far
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Yeah, I don’t believe it. Rioting is natural human behavior. In Bangladesh we have violent riots after every election. The police aren’t instigating them, they are nowhere to be found. Why would I believe that Americans are any different?
That sounds a bit off to me.

> writing to the framebuffer in an inefficient way

Fun fact you can memory map /dev/fb0 and make changes to it directly.

Decoding video frames is much more expensive, than rendering them. The source of the slowdown could be software decoding the video frame. Where the X video player might have been using a specialized chip for this, i.e. GPU or Intel graphics, depending on the setup.
Can't read the article, but based on the headline and sub headline ...

I've been thinking about this for days now. And I think that the truth is, yes, these police murders and assaults are committed by a relatively few "bad apples."

But also yes, there is systemic racism. Systemic. The combination of qualified immunity rulings, laws and their interpretations, police union contracts, and worst of all, "the blue wall of silence," means that these few bad apples can be confident that they'll get away with whatever they do.

The system as a whole has congealed into conditions that are favorable to the "bad apples."

Yes, it's systemic.