skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Complete nonsense - if you believe for one second that those “reports” were legitimate or that this was a genuine public safety measure you’re an absolute rube and a mark. This was just an elected official pandering to his electoral base of suburban fascists by validating their heroic-murder fantasies.
Please stop posting unsubstantive/flamebait comments to HN. We ban accounts that do that, and eventually the main account as well.

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Laser pointers are about to be bought out everywhere if this keeps going around the states. What is honestly the point of this? Show of force? Cool. Lots of people look scared based on these videos. Not.
The American people made their preferences clear in the 2016 election. That clearly does not work.
> 1. It's my understanding that doctors and lawyers have professional organizations, which aren't really the same thing as a union.

False. Professional organization give licensure. The union represents those who have licenses and or work for an agency where majority of those license holders work.

> 2. ...Obviously, unions have played an important role in improving worker safety and security, and that's great. But they've also contributed negatively in some ways...

You can add a "not having a union" in that sentence and flip those contradictory sentences and they still don't mean anything. It's not about not wishing to organize. It's about coming up with a few set goals that the union can represent. Then the members vote on what else is there that is important to majority of the members. Unions work like a democracy. There's some shortcomings but the overall outcome is beneficial to the people being represented.
India;

CS or mostly any other higher education is English.

It is really hard to translate things into many languages we have here (Especially South India). If done, they will be mostly Sanskrit terms that are still quite harder to understand.

I think everything being in English is a virtue because of seemless interop with the Internet (which is mostly English).

Even when technical topics are conversed in native languages, the terms are mostly English.
Lidar is a laser rangefinder.
I don't support unions because unions drag everyone's wages to an average (I'd rather be a top performer and be paid accordingly). Also, I've seen first hand the amount of incompetent teachers, police and government employees who are unfireable because of unions.

So the concept of a union for me personally means I'll be paid less, be surrounded by unfireable underperformers and have zero incentive to improve my craft.

I also truly don't understand how you can allow politics to be so deeply embedded in your work.
On the Requirements for Successful GPS Spoofing Attacks (2011) [pdf]
Yup exactly that!

“Encryption” with elliptic curves is just ECDH and then using a symmetric cipher like AES.

Signature is a little more complicated. It’s not just “encrypting a hash”
Less officers overall and train the remaining officers better. Besides, given that the police already get so much money and we still have problems, it seems like throwing more money at them isn't the answer.
Kneeling during the national anthem at football games should have been an issue between the players and the NFL, but the kind of people who attend football games disapproved of it.

In Minneapolis today due to the videos which were captured even those anti-kneeling americans largely recognize the problem and support solutions. But by allowing the rump to be violent (or equivalently, serruptitiously distribute bricks and gasoline) the activists are losing public support.

Roughly 200 mostly commercial buildings burned in the main shopping area for (working class) Minneapolis over the weekend. The food and pharmaceutical desert is going to kill far more of the poor and marginalized than police violence would have, in a city that already votes D up and down the ticket.

The violence is not necessary, nor productive, nor are the situations comparable.
The two Stitch Fix stylists that I've known both worked remotely and I got the impression that most of them did.

Is that not true? If it is true, how do you relocate a remote worker?
Microchip PIC16 has similar weird features - some versions have a fixed hardware stack of maximum 8 entries.
Well, yeah. Fascism tends to be popular, even though it’s really bad and needs to be resisted.
Protesters are willfully interfering with traffic.

When a mob of angry people attack your car, what do you do?
Do you want to become the next Reginald Denny?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Reginald_Denny
Yes? What's he going to do if he's kicked off social media? His reach would decline my millions or tens of millions at least.
I'm referring to Trump posting on Facebook. If that's happening, it's news to me.
this explains everything. you can stage a walk out in a meeting but you’re still on zuckerbergs payroll. and if 50% of the us based engineers quit based on some social principles there’s thousands of engineers ready to fill those spots around the world for a fraction of the price. covid has shown remote work works. unionizing and making the US more costly to work with will only accelerate how “remote” these jobs can be
Appears likely Trump’s public statements today were the proclamation, and if it was not, one will be made shortly — after that, it is only matter of time before Trump deploys the military.

Photo in the story, taken late today, is of Trump with the highest-ranking military officer in the US Armed Forces (on the right) - and the US Attorney General (on the left).

Trump intentionally left the White House to force his way through the protesters.
Thanks as well. Help people like me who walks by.
When has any military ever stopped obeying criminal orders? I’m sure it has happened before, but I’m sure they are rare and isolated cases.
In some nations there absolutely is.
I might have been too young to see/notice the motivational posters, but here in Australia both the motivational and DEmotivational posters became unironically popular at around about the same time.
EDIT: Can someone not possibly support peaceful protests and the police shutting down riots/looters?
"Rebellion, uprising, or insurrection is a refusal of obedience or order." is the first sentence of the Wikipedia page for Rebellion.

Irrespective of the primary intent of the civil unrest [1], failing to disperse after being ordered to is an act of insurrection. I express no opinion as to whether insurrection is called for or not, just that technically it seems to be such.

[1] some people say 'protests', others say 'riots', I'm hoping 'civil unrest' is neutral but I'd happily take correction if it is not.
https://tatianamac.com/posts/white-guyde/
There was a struggle to get George Floyd out of his car, and again into a police vehicle. Bodycam footage from the police, or a statement from them, has not been provided. We don't have the full facts.

We know that George Floyd was a repeat criminal, with a record of armed violence, who was being arrested for another criminal act.

Having a knee on his neck so long? Police incompetence.

You know what else is police incompetence, by the same police force? The death of Justine Damond: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Justine_Damond

Killed by a Minnesota police officer fast-tracked through cadet training for diversity reasons.

Where were the protests for her? Why is it just regular police error when a white Australian woman dies in the USA, after having done nothing, but a huge injustice and evidence of massive inequality when a man with a history of violence, in the process of resisting arrest, is killed by the same incompetent police force?
>The interesting thing about Ableton is that they're actually XML files under the covers.

Are .alp files also XML? How would I go about viewing the contents of one? I had a quick go at it once but couldn't get anything not looking like binary.

The reason I ask is because the native alp files and instruments have preview sounds, and I'm curious if there's any way to add previews to your own created instruments.
What? Damn, what's happening here?
If we go back to the Kent State shooting, Gallup found that 58% blamed the students and 11% blamed the National Guard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings#Aftermath...

I don't see it as a crazy idea that shooting some protestors would be popular.
Another story about this, which isn't paywalled: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/stitch-fix-is-layi...
Indeed it was a curfew violation. That is not a valid reason to illegally use the might of the US military.
Because god forbid this country's descent into fascism is discussed instead of the newest cli tool to be rewritten in rust.
> Protests are more dangerous when unplanned or when their organizers give no thought to self-policing.

Gregg Popovich expressed a similar thought in his interview with The Nation: [1]

”[Protests] are very necessary, but they need to be organized better. It’s frustrating. When Dr. King did a protest, you knew when to show, when to come back the next day. But if you’re just organizing protests and everyone is coming and going in every direction, it doesn’t work that way. If it was nonviolent, they knew to be nonviolent, but this is muddled. More leadership would be very welcome so these incredible mass demonstrations can’t be used by people for other means. We can limit the bad, but only if things are organized better.“

[1]: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gregg-popovich-geo...
Disbanding the existing police force is possible without conflict, though it would require the local government taking action, having a plan, etc.
Including the United States at Kent State.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
https://soundcloud.com/the-daily-beast-politics/trump-audio

President Trump on severity of response to protests.
Have you not seen Montreal protests? Police suiting up in the same gear and getting ready to fire the same less lethal rounds in to crowds.
Or the police would preemptively send a death squad to their house to murder them, as happened in the 60’s

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton
Or even just breakpoint() built-in in python 3.7+
In addition you can set PYTHONBREAKPOINT=ipdb.set_trace (or whatever you prefer) in your shell rc file
I worked in good to borderline psychotic cultures. It is all about management; if they condone bad behavior or not. If management ignores selfish bullying behavior then the good employees leave, the bullies stay, and productivity is history.
In this case perhaps rehire with slashed salary. Some people in need would take it
Serious question: do you genuinely think he would care if 50% of the SREs went on strike, or even if they quit immediately? I find it hard to believe that he would be significantly distraught.
"We are going to cut your salary in half. You should move to a cheaper city to make up for it."
It’s more dangerous to deliver pizza than to be a cop.
> If you look harder for crime from certain demographics, you'll find more crime from them.

Not just that: if you look harder for crime in certain areas, you'll find more (and this leads to more potential for escalation).
All those things you mention are design choices.

Perhaps one of the impediments to the development of new user agents is a feeling that they must be complex and meet some "standard" of features. A standard that is nigh impossible to meet for the average programmer. On top of that, web developers demand the ability to create complex web pages full of executable code.

However we have no proof that users would reject a cornucopia of different agents that did not all have the same set of features. User agents do not need to be designed to satisy web developers. User agents can be designed to satisfy users.

They can be designed to do one thing well instead of do everything.

No user agent need be intended to "replace" any other, and certainly not to replace "modern" browsers. The intent is to create choice and user experimentation.

It is still possible to access the web with simple programs. It is not gopher or gemini but it still can work in a relatively simple way. Web developers probably do not like that but it remains true. The complexity of today's web sites is optional. It is a deisgn choice. Made possible by... "modern" browsers.

Godspeed.
I assume from the shooter's perspective the cop wants to search a him, and he knows he has an illegal firearm on him. Depending on the state and his status as a repeat offender, he could be facing life in prison for that. So, suddenly murdering the person who is going to put you in jail for the rest of your life seems like a zero sum game to a sociopath.
Alaska sold it’s soul to O&G industry in exchange for a yearly dividend for each of it’s residents.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund

Would have been nice if Alaska recognized climate change decades ago.
Wow, 17k per head outside the valley and nyc? Seems exceasive, its the first time i har of this figure. Any idea how much that would be in california/nyc?
> When the processor documentation and every single other toolchain out there uses a different syntax, you should use that syntax too.

All the GNU tools, and many of their clones, use AT&T syntax. I think I run into it more often than Intel, and I turn on the option for the latter where I can. It’s really prevalent.
I've told friends that I have a sinking feeling a Tiananmen Square-like event might happen soon in the US. I predict that there will be people online arguing the semantics of what constitutes a "massacre" or a "tragedy."

I hope we never get to that.
I don't really buy it. Young people overwhelmingly preferred Bernie to Clinton and Bernie to Biden, yet Bernie lost both Democratic primaries. The game is rigged.

Also elections are what, every 2-4 years? That's a very infrequent cycle. Currently there are no elections going on at the moment, so what do you want these protesters to do, wait patiently until November?
What's with the cynicism in this posts? They're trying to make a point and bring awareness. Who cares how hard it is. At least they're doing something.

To give them credit they're making a political statement at work when we're told not to talk politics at work.
Playing devil's advocate, didn't they call in the national guard though? That's what the national guard is. I guess I am not surprised at seeing military grade machines.
Television. Online and paper news. Literally beaming messages directly to the cellphones of every American.
I’m (half) Italian and (as you might expect) we do much the same when we import terms from English: commit becomes commitare, debug becomes debugare, and so forth. There’s only three suffixes (‘cogniugazioni’) of verbs in Italian (-are, -ere, and -ire) but the relative frequency decreases right-to-left across that list and indeed most verbs ‘imported’ from English fall into the first category.

It’s particularly when we ‘re-import’ something that English actually imported from Latin or Latinate languages. For example, import itself: we have importare in Italian which actually means “to care about”. But of course we re-import it as meaning “to bring in” (either in economics, or in the Python sense), so it acquires a meaning that it doesn’t actually have in Italian, and we pronounce it differently by moving the stress from early in the word for our native meaning to late in the word (on the -are) for the ‘foreign’ meaning.

Esportare means “to export”. But of course we bring in “exportare” from English, which is a corruption of our “esportare”.

Since I’m half English too, out of courtesy I make a point of using the most Italian words possible, because slinging around English terms is snooty and a sign that one is showing off, and of course as a native English speaker I could do it better than most. So for most people it’s a computer, which gets pronounced something like com-pù-tèr”, whereas I make it a point of referring to it as a calcolatore (a “male calculator”, which is the native term for an arithmetic machine that can execute arbitrary streams of commands, whereas a calcolatrice is a “female calculator” that cannot be programmed, i.e. a calculator in English).
Because they're replacing their political leverage for dollars.

Which is, of course, their choice.
> Seize the means of production!

You realize that means your business too?
Let's just censor the protestors. Glorifying violence isn't a good thing. Fb and twitter should take a stance on it. They have roads to shout on, who needs social media?
People are often fascinated by some aspects of those considered "enemies", even if for good reasons. Like Guy Fawkes and Che Guevara, almost nobody agrees with their idealogies, but they are both widely recognized as symbols of resistance. And similar fascination of Nazis is present as well, from their uniform design, scientific achievements, to their detailed record-keeping.
Fascination with the enemy. Fascination with the horror of that day to day life.
Is that branch as in CPU instructions? We(edit: in Japanese) refer to the Git feature as ブランチ(buranchi) and CPU instructions as 分岐命令(bunki meirei). Old CS folks calls computers as 計算機 but normally it’s コンピュータ.

Sounds like whether a word is loaned or created/translated varies?
This does not sound right. The platform independence and freedom is the big win for lambda where it is basically the perfect vendor lock-in? With serverless you give up a lot of independence.
Of course they'll get arrested, after they've been convicted?
ubuntu gets around this by messing with stuff in /etc

I still haven't quite figured out the chain of events that motd uses to phone home every time you log in, although I do know /etc/default/motd ENABLE=0 disables it.
What have they been unable to enact? By my measure, Facebook has implemented "fact checking" with a jury stacked full of left-leaning organizations and has leveled bans and other measures against enemies of the genocide-denying ADL, a far-left organization with a long history of disgraceful incorrect accusations (which includes ruining innocent people's lives, later resulting in a court settlement).

The only reason FB takes marching orders from such organizations is lobbying by their own employees.
You should not underestimate the extent of undercover/false flag instigators of violence at protests. At least here in Belgium this is a practice that is uncovered nearly every time when some violence erupts at demonstrations. The individuals that start the aggression are later photographed to be chilling and changing attire behind police lines.

Usually people at large anti-establishment rallies know very well there is litle to be gained by violence. Those in power otoh know very well how they can turn media coverage spotlights away from the issues and towards any disruptions to discredit or mute the actual grievances.
Maybe if they brought down the servers on their way out…
Battle of Athens (Tennessee)
> I also truly don't understand how you can allow politics to be so deeply embedded in your work.

The president of the United States is threatening military violence against its own citizens and you criticize people for being "political"? Seriously?
So so sorry. You really articulate how hard this is on you.

How did you end up
Losing it?
I found it interesting to consider that the people who leave lasting impact and legacy on the world, don’t have extensive note-taking or organisation systems (like I am anxiously given to do) or whatever else. That’s not what we remember them for.

Maybe a drive to “do” and “build” - and actually doing something about that - is far more important... I’m probably not articulating this properly.
I think the problem you’ll run into is getting people to upload.
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The "sad" part is the innocent victims whose property has been trashed by blatantly illegal activity.

I speak as one who has protested, when legitimate protest spoke out against tyranny AND managed to leave public spaces cleaner than found (!).

Floyd's death was tragic. The last week of illegal activity is tangentially related at best.
This is the consequence of corruption, loss of trust and loss of civil society. And I see no ethical or moral incentive for the second class to participate, because it's a lie that the rule of law applies equally. It's a farce. Just admit what it really is, rather than keep lying about it.

The notion that peaceful protest will be respected? The president and vice president have asserted it. Yet both of them castigated Colin Kaepernick's peaceful protests. They don't have any respect for peaceful protest. Kaepernick was subject to ridicule, his livelihood destroyed, and threatened with ejection from his own country, for his peaceful protest, by the sitting POTUS.

Amy Cooper insists she's not a racist. But used her whiteness as a weapon, and a black man's blackness as a deficit, knowing full well with her threat against him that this same racial animus would be applied by the police. That's why she made the threat. What's more striking about the story? Her lie about the events that were to have transpired? Or her truth? White power. White power. White power.

There is no good reason for thinking people to respect American rule of law from an ethical or moral standpoint. Only respect it the same way black Americans, minorities, poor have come to: fear of its power.

The system isn't just imperfect. It isn't what it purports to be. And it isn't accountable. Why defend it? Where's even the pride in defending it? Where could legitimacy even come from?
Are you familiar with how America got started?
The IRA and its various splinter groups wanted a united Ireland. I’m not sure you can really say they got entirely what they demanded.
When debugging compiled code, I often attach a debugger to the process after it’s started to introspect it. I’ve often wanted to do something similar in Python; does anyone know of a tool that might do something like this?
Please don't post flamebait to HN. This comment was by far the most flamebaity top-level post in this thread, which predictably led to by far the shittiest subthread. That's not cool. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting to HN? Note these ones:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

"Eschew flamebait."

If you consider the rest of this page, you'll notice that most of the commenters support the protests (though of course they are divided, just as people at large are divided) and doing so without breaking the site guidelines. It's actually a surprisingly not bad discussion—at least relative to the extremeness of what's going on right now.
Volkswagen makes official investment in Argo AI, will share costs with Ford
I wonder how long until the first protestor flies a DJI drone into a military helicopter turbine intake?