skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Images (at least now) link to an ArsTechnica article [0] written by Nick Sullivan, the same person who wrote said blog post (the article and CF's blog post are the same thing, with ArsTechnica going up a day later).

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/a-rel...
They make above average salaries for their education level, their jobs are less dangerous and physically demanding than logging and refinery work, and they do not have to move outside of their communities.

Law enforcement is already a sweet gig.
Are they? I prefer to ignore value comparisons not based on numbers.
Here's a police recruitment ad (admittedly from more than a decade ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_rKA6ROAVk

(Newport Beach Police Department recruiting video, from 2008)

And the problem is just the salary and QI? I don't think so.
> As always, you have to ask, compared to what?

What would you even compare instances of police brutality against? Is there some kind of threshold under which you think police brutality is okay? Should there be a rule that each police force gets one free brutalising a year? Or is it just that if their actions are only a little bit of brutality, just a pinch, that they should get away with it?

No one has to ask what to compare it to, because in this circumstance it's a stupid question that distracts from the immediate reality of the situation: Anything adequately described as police brutality that goes uninvestigated & unpunished is unacceptable.
I think you are confusing (i) closing schools in March (about which this article is and which I argued was a necessary thing to do as reasoned above) vs (ii) keeping schools closed NOW and not reopening (which is not the discussion here).

The FHI report is about letting the schools open now as is being done in neighbouring countries but not yet done in Norway (correct me if it argues that schools should never have been closed). I could imagine that might be the right thing to do seeing that its happening EU-wide.
I would love to require LEOs to have a 4 year degree, and then attend an accredited police academy. Doctors spend far more time so that they can save lives, and it's only appropriate that police officers who are given the government sanctioned ability to take lives have higher education and training than the current piss poor standards.
You're misidentifying what the core problem is with police brutality: it's not just about relative frequency, it's about how the justice system responds to it.

As a society we give police a monopoly on civilian violence, it is only reasonable to expect the holders of that power to be held to the highest possible standards.

But the justice system signals the exact opposite, by systematially protecting even the worst cops from the consequences of their actions. This, I believe, lies at the core of the people's rage. I for one think that rage is justified.
Sending 1/48th of an astronaut into orbit would be a great achievement actually. The problem is when you said an astronaut into 1/48th of an orbit, which is what this is currently doing :)
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Well, if you want to focus on police abuse, journalists and opposition leaders are routinely tortured and killed by security forces in Africa.
No one gives a shit.

You might say, well, that particular case happened in <whatever city where that particular case happened>, so people there are concerned. Of course, and that's fine. I'm sure there are things they can reform in that police department. But how does that explain the support protests around the world?

It's a big political manipulation.
My apologies, the USA seem to be more rotten than i thought they would be...my original statement was also to broad, i cannoz defend that video similarilly to how i cannot defend every Police Action in russia or china.
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I have an old, similar Acer. It’s a great form factor.

Would pay more for 4K, smaller bezels and faster CPU/more dram, but only if it remained fanless, and kept the 8 hour battery life.

(I paid $189.)
Why do you need to pay tens of thousands of dollars to for a second degree when you can just go to the source material yourself?

Project Gutenberg exists, as does Youtube, Khan Academy, and many other free resources.
About as spineless and unethical as every other human being.

You know how we have some people worth billions and simultaneously people literally digging through garbage for food?

That's not an accident, it's a constant built into this species, unless we start doing some eugenics, preventing idiots from breeding, which'll take far longer than your lifetime to come into effect.

You interested in attempting to improve this species your whole life, getting nothing but shit for it and dying without seeing any fruits of your labor? I'm not and neither is anyone else who's not a fundamentalist idiot.

So yes, spineless and unethical is everyday reality. If you don't want to deal with it, go into academia or get a high paying job. Once you spend some time around people who know how to behave themselves, you'll be the one asking for a police state to protect you from the masses upsetting your privileged existence. Funny how that works :)

What do you think America and Europe are, but military states preventing the rest of the world from invading their cushy way of life? How awful right? Let's open all borders and have freedom for everyone. Right, alright then.
Well appreciated in fact, for over 2000 years. You know ... Rome.
The only problem with desktop Linux these days is there still not being more companies throwing some effort in.

Adobe and Microsoft could make serious money here. Their tooling aren't just standards, they're —in many ways— the best available tools, that Linux does not have viable solutions for. Clawing our way along with alternatives, and Wine and VMs isn't sustainable. Not forever. We just need a couple of big names to start things going. But it perpetually never happens. Maybe 2021. I'm bizarrely optimistic about Microsoft.

Once software support comes, and people can carry on doing their work, the weight of demand forces hardware support for oddball wifi chips, RGB mice, whatever. I can buy another mouse today, I need Illustrator and Photoshop for professional interop.

As for TFA, everybody derives their annoyances from different places. Desktop Linux isn't perfect, but it's the best I've got, by some distance, for my workloads.
My neighbor is a Sargent in the local PD. Town of 300K. He made $140K last year ($40K of it OT). I think the notion that police are underpaid is not accurate, at least here.
I find the opposite. My professors really did appreciate my deep work and involvement in PhD-level research. What doesn't appreciate my work is really the degree: regardless of whether you do so your degree just says BSc. It's more for learning for your own good.
I wish the article would go into differences between patriotism and nationalism. (eg. not all patriotism is nationalism and not all nationalism is racism)
Thank you, I will take a look and add it
It cannot be eliminated by legislation. It arises from a SCOTUS decision, and can only be undone by them (at least in the broadest sense).
Then the person in question is 'spineless and unethical' and shares a responsibility for the results of their labour. 'Just following orders' does not absolve them from their responsibilities to their community. That their sacrifice might be in vain is a separate issue that should be, in my opinion, addressed by making education in ethics a mandatory part of the curriculum of all engineering degrees.
I would argue developers in the UK and Canada are underpaid.

Silicon Valley is unique even in the US in that the companies see developers as revenue sources rather than costs.
You don't need to double major in philosophy to be exposed to it. For a fraction of the money you paid, you could've tapped into free online resources and paid for a philosophy tutor to walk you through the classics.
I think your last paragraph is the most likely. SpaceX will simply not accept a government contract that works against their interests since they are a private entity. If starlink pans out, government contracts won't be such an important source of revenue long term.
Because Italian shows different reflexes of Vulgar Latin phonemes then French does. So if a word is present in French with a phonetic outcome different from most words of Latin origin in French, then you can tell it is a later borrowing. Also sometimes you can trace the slow spread of an Italian word first to the medieval Occitan dialects spoken in southern France, and then only later into French spoken further north.
Who determines when the right is earned? Civilian review boards have been resisted consistently and internal reviews are heavily biased (as evidenced by such things as rehiring officers who resigned amidst arguably criminal infractions).
> excuse to commit crime

When cops break the law, and that's what they're doing here, they destroy faith in the justice system, in rule of law.

What's crime? Is looting a Target, crime? Sure, according to tons of various laws in the USA, it is. Think about it another way though - there's a pile of food, more food than anybody could possibly eat before it spoils. In fact, lots of it does get thrown away, because it spoils. You're hungry, you walk up, take some, eat it, and leave. Did you just do something unethical? You take a TV, a pure form of entertainment and nothing more. Did you just do something Bad? Hm. Maybe, if I followed a very very long chain of events, I could say that the taking of the TV meant a CEO got to buy 1/100th less TVs for himself, sure, that's kinda bad I guess.

Is it... worst than someone with a state-sponsored monopoly on violence doing, well, any of the following? :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23373619

There is no "excused crime" happening here. It's people recognizing that the rule of law is broken, that those with the Most Might are doing as they please, and telling themselves "well fuck it, I'm going to get a TV then."

Expectation of the citizenry to, uh, "respect property rights" (lmfao) is absurd when we don't even expect our police to respect the rights of People to exist without violence being committed against them.

So in short, who gives a fuck if target loses TVs - until we solve police brutality to the point that every cop is held criminally accountable for unethical violence, I say let it all burn, because the harm done by a looted target is immeasurably less than even a single instance of police brutality.
The aim of this project is to make people see eachother as the equals that we are. Thank you for the kind words
A lot of great advice so far.

Right now, you don't need to know stuff. The point of college is to teach you stuff. You need to know how to learn stuff.

Young programmers can get used to solving a problem by alternating between typing code and googling until it goes away. No, expect to use your brain on a different level. Be prepared to sit down with a pen and paper and just think for a couple hours. To be stumped, and ask others for help. To spend time with textbooks and lecture notes trying to figure out what they mean and how they empower you to solve your problem. To be humbled, to have bad grades or struggle sometimes.

Find ambitious, excited, positive people with similar goals to yours. Help each other succeed.
I agree with joining an ICPC team as soon as possible.

Many people don't question the standard course progression, but a college path is very customizable. Ask advisors or professors how you can do more. Sometimes you can take a graduate version of a class instead of an undergrad version. Make sure you get the math prereqs early and really nail those classes, don't just go through the motions.
What are "higher quality cops"? People with more developed morals and ethics? Money does not necessarily attract more compassionate or kind people. There are plenty of other high paying industries where that's not the case (e.g. banks, real estate).
There's another name for it, actually:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_script

I've wondered about whether Asperger's could be considered a learning difficulty related to these in the past, especially having read that chronic anxiety can be approached in that way:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/is-chronic...
I personally am still fine with the ~100 ppi density. Being fine with it means using a UHD TV of slightly more than double the diagonal length of the 1080p 23-24" monitors is actually a cool way to get more real estate without multiple monitors. I think this really is a personal preference thing.
ULPT: pro-your-party bot accounts?
Meanwhile in reality, some districts disqualify any applicant that can pass an IQ test: https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...
My post wasn't referring to the impact of the Roman Empire in terms of originally bringing Latin to France which, of course, everyone knows about. Rather, I was referring to the later wave of Italian > French borrowings post AD 1000 when Latin had long since diverged into the different Romance languages, and Italian was considered a prestige language in certain contexts.
In this case thats probably fine. It does remind me of a time when a bitcoin keygen site was declared safe because it didn't make any network requests. Only to find out later that it had a malicious random number generator that generated predictable keys.

In this case its possible that the site encodes the data back in to the image but that seems unlikely.
German cops fired 85 bullets _total_ in 2011. Florida cops shot almost 200 bullets into a UPS truck, killing a hostage and bystander in 2019.
The first link is one of the two I saw today, yes. There's really nothing that convince me that these people are not evil. (The second was in Portland, I think.)

The second link doesn't seem to have any video. But head-kicking beyond the point of unconsciousness is not how I would defend myself from a crazy person (if that's even a factual take).

The third link is hard to interpret, but until someone analyzes it, I assume that the people assisting the guy are not the same ones that were committing wanton savagery. But bless them, in any case.

I turned to my wife after seeing the first video and remarked, "These guys just gave the fall election to Trump.". If you're old enough to remember Nixon, you'll take the reference.
Are you actually arguing for eugenics?
It would be as easy for the cops as staying home, because that's literally all they have to do to prevent violence in the streets.

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proacti...
Maybe, I never said that I was the right person and this is certainly something I don't see myself doing for the rest of my life. I would however like to give the tools to those who are the right people.
there's a scale to a submission being flagged (depending on the number of flags relative to other activity on the post), and they affect ranking before the "[flagged]" mark appears - I assume that's what happened. You can email the mods and ask if they'll remove the ranking penalty through the contact link in the footer.
The outrage started not because of the video that was undisputable evidence of police violence, it started because the police did not immediately arrest the officers who committed and helped with the murder of a person.

Had Minneapolis have to burn to the ground, so that they finally arrest the murderer policeman?
In an ideal world we wouldn't need police at all and we wouldn't be having this conversation.

In my example, I was pointing out that if we remove police corruption from the equation, police would still kill some number of civilians. Because of that fact, the parent's post doesn't make much sense.
Would military like training help? Drilling events, having high quality roleplay? It's not like Nasa flies to space without drilling everything.
Both legitimate and excessively violent policing happens right now. And unfortunately, excessively violent policing isn't being punished appropriately.

The officer charged with murdering George Floyd has been charged with police brutality 12 times, and let off with "no discipline" every time [0].

If officers who used excessive force aren't punished, they are taught that their actions were acceptable. I'd like to see calls for punishment in the case of Derek Chauvin, as well as for any use of excessive violence. I think convicting Derek Chauvin for murder would set a new standard for police conduct that could prevent similar acts of excessive violence from happening in the future.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/LPOTL/comments/gsespz/derek_chauvin...
> This is assuming that you are not doing anything illegal

I have only good intentions. Doing something illegal could be shifting rapidly. Trump intends to make antifa a terrorist organization (of which I have zero affiliation and conflicted feelings about). I believe that action is but a taste of what is to come.
90% of the job is dealing with drunk and disorderly people or descalating domestic disputes. That knocks a lot of High IQ/EQ people off the list.

My mother was a dispatcher for 15 years. I was in our local areas explorers program. It’s exactly what you see on Live PD. Traffic stops, drunk and disorderly people, drug busts, or domestic disputes. Cops do almost no detective work. Investigators do that.
Failures of the system should very much be analyzed and corrected. This site doesn't appear to have that goal.
Denmark, Finland say they saw no increase in coronavirus after schools re-opened
Interesting. How would a study like this isolate the impact of alcohol alone on the O2 and BP levels?
While Soyuz is nowhere close to the cost of a crew dragon , It does not cost that much for Soyuz either , Russians are charging that much because they could and they also want their margins .

Ultimately it only matters what NASA pays , i.e. how much of the cost savings benefits the taxpayer and how NASA is using that savings
The idea that the situation would be improved by the protesters being able to shoot police is... Questionable.

The better solution is unarmed police: billions of people live in localities where most police they encounter don't have guns and may not be even authorized to make physical contact in the case of a conflict. The idea that all police must carry guns and must be ready to use violence "to protect us" is one of those assumptions you assume must be universal until you somehow find out that it very particular to certain locations.
Make sure they are 100% opacity. A lot of people mess this up and use 90% opacity or similar and the original image can be revealed by messing with the color levels.
I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone defend police and not use the "bad apples" expression for some reason.
Thank you for that. I will read through this at some point tonight.
Just needs some rendering presets, star field backgrounds, lens flare, GPT-2 title generation, and you've got random SF novel book covers!
Nobody cares about the train directly. Public transit in the US is just to free up more roads for drivers.

The only good thing I can say about the proposed rail system so far is that both San Jose and SF have "terminals" for it, so it could be built more quickly in the future.

When I was looking at the US fatal accident rate recently (about 37,000/year), what struck me was that it was basically 1 fatality per accident (ie. Americans really do drive sole occupant trips.)
I use Gitea for my own projects, i.e. I do the setup myself and it's trivial. It uses SQLite as backend, so no complex DB deployment.

It's very easy to deploy, consumes few resources (you can run it on a low-end VPS). It even has Jenkins integration.

However I don't know how it scales to big teams and projects since I only use it for myself.
And I'm not entirely convinced by its security track record, but it looks like things are improving.
And desktop, thank you.
That isn't how it works. Of course it can be done through legislation. That is how the branches balance each other.
Done and live, hopefully it will be a little more stable now.
I could see that interpretation. It's not very clear to me though…
Whoa, harsh take on love, but I understand it. I met the love of my life during my freshman year, and though there have been times I feel my focus and productivity suffered as a result, I would not have it another way. Love, and even heartbreak, are such fundamental and enriching parts of human life that I really think they are worth sacrificing for.

I can get past distraction. I still code don't I? I still learn. But to eschew love for fear of heartbreak is cowardice.

"Far better is it to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to forever be fearing what may happen." - Herodotus
If I tasered a person, I'd have to justify it. I'd like the police to be forced to do the same.
How did you have time to get three minors? I got a 4 year business degree from a liberal arts college, and between the business school requirements, the major requirements, and the gen-ed requirements, I had maybe 2 open elective slots. And this was even with AP course waivers.
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Android uses a forked Linux kernel.
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I'll look into it and get it done, thanks.
are you calmer yet?
That's the problem. Police don't serve us. "To protect and serve" is literally just a marketing slogan for the LAPD [0]. Police have no duty to protect the public, according to the Supreme Court [1]. Moreover, the origin of police forces in the US was not to protect the public, but to protect the social order and serve private property interests:

> More than crime, modern police forces in the United States emerged as a response to "disorder." What constitutes social and public order depends largely on who is defining those terms, and in the cities of 19th century America they were defined by the mercantile interests, who through taxes and political influence supported the development of bureaucratic policing institutions. These economic interests had a greater interest in social control than crime control. [2]

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[0]: http://www.lapdonline.org/history_of_the_lapd/content_basic_...

[1]: https://mises.org/power-market/police-have-no-duty-protect-y...

[2]: https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/history-policing-united...
That's not how this works. Laws can absolutely be changed; in the case of a SCOTUS decision, that's what constitutional amendments are for.
I agree that all police should have body cams always, for the protection of all. I'm not aware of anyone that objects to this, though probably there are some.

Furthermore, incidents like this have really made me reconsider my objections to the panopticon. These days, I think we'd be better off if there were cameras everywhere always, broadcasting instantaneously for public capture.
This is a really good point. I had completely overlooked various deterministic resource cleanup idioms as being equivalent to RAII in all but name.
Source, because this exact article is about the total nominal amount, not per capita so average has nothing to do with it. In fact many of the people in those low wage jobs which were vaporized are now making more money with unemployment due to the CARES act. The federal government is giving unemployed people 600 per week (31,200 a year) on top of state benefits regardless of their income so anyone making less than that is making more on the federal government alone.
I like to think that this isn't a whole jurisdiction problem and more an individual one.