skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I'm not trying to set any narrative, just giving my own data point, no one should extrapolate this more broadly.

In my neighborhood, the event organizer wasn't even from my city and she was doing everything she could to get the crowd angry at police. Many of the others who spoke were calmer, more reasonable, more positive, sincere, etc, but she was trying to get people ramped up. The police weren't at the protest originally and she tried to use the lack of police presence to anger people ("look, the police don't even care about protecting you!") and then they merely showed up and it was the other way around ("the police are here to stop us!"). Seemed like she was trying to agitate people into provoking the police. Even still, the protest was generally peaceful on both sides; as far as I know, there was no police violence nor rioting/looting/etc. Proud of my hood.
So the president, MOVES military against American Citizens and we're all like???? Why is this happening??? That's why information is powerful. I'd personally rather people get mad that he said it and he then does nothing than for him to take action.

Yes, this information needs to stay out there. Stay informed. If this was some troll suggesting Trump move the military against the US, I could see you saying that should be pulled down.

This is the president, as much as I fucking hate him I want to know everything he says. Not because I agree but because to not know what he's saying handicaps my ability to mobilize against tyranny before it happens.
But this just states the current situation, when paper is being printed without any relation to material implementation of the value that it's supposed to represent. The fact doesn't justify the policy. Economy depends on producers of value, not on a printing press. I can exchange values without a means of paper.
Hi.

The landing page looks decent.

All invite codes got used up (or there is an error when using above codes). Or is it a part of a challenge? ;)

I'd like to DM you but there is no such functionality on HN. I'd contact you via other means but there is nothing in your profile :)
> Engineers love to point out how scientists don't know, and can't prove, whether their climate models are accurate. Scientists know that that is the whole point of building such models.

I disagree, strongly. A big part of the point of building such models is to get models that are more accurate than the currently-existing models.
Trying to stop the President from inciting violence isn't the responsibility of Facebook. People have a right to know what the President is saying and his hostile intentions. If the President says a bunch of racist and violent things in the State of the Union address, would you also blame ABC for airing it?
Don't generalize, please . You're one of the most radical posters in this discussion, and your comments are full of emotions, instead of being rational and weighted .
i see, so this topic is considered 'intellectually curious' while anti-ccp is 'loyalty to a cause'

i am not really sure how you make that determination, i personally find accounts of what the ccp does to exploit its citizens intellectually interesting when it is not widely reported

so, given you exponential drop off comment, i assume that means a small number of highly voted protest posts are allowed, and then past that point they will get modded. is that correct?

and yes, we had this discussion before, and i became confused in this context since protest topics also seem prone to intellectually uninteresting flamewars hn wishes to avoid

it seems there is an exception in this kind of case where a controversial topic is allowed if it is new

technically, police brutality and protesta are not new topics, but i suppose this exception is the current national impact?
I was at a peaceful rally in Seattle last night, and a bunch of cops kept closing in and started shoving people.
I don't see this too different from the Unix command line.

It actually removes the complication of using the compiler, and makefiles, and so on.

The beauty lies in its simplicity.
> But seldom is this slur applied to anyone because someone has done a behavioral study to determine the person insulted is feigning morality.

Your parent isn't denying that the term should exist, only saying that the people who most frequently use it are just slinging a pejorative without knowing if the person is offline-virtuous or just online-conspicuous-virtuous.
Great!

I greatly enjoy publications that provide their implementation (or a simplified) version. Playing around with the problems yourself, can give a much greater insight and understanding in addition to the fundamental, written work.

However, I did encounter situations where providing the direct implementation was seen as a bad thing. It was thought of as `giving away your advantage' and squeezing out multiple papers before even thinking about publishing the code had their preference.

It is great to see more and more research publications go together with their implementations.
In my experience evil is a fruit grown from one of two seeds of desire: either it comes from an individual or group need to impose order, or more precisely their vision of order; or it comes from a need for catharsis by watching the world burn as some part of it descends into anarchy. Both seeds can grow into fruits of atrocious acts of evil.

At the same time, no one individual or group is all bad. You can pick any person or organization and find something good to say about them. I think that is often a good exercise, as long as we don't publicize our thoughts on that (taken out of context they could be interpreted as support of an evil groups broader actions). That Mussolini made the trains run on time is sometimes given as an example. It doesn't change who Mussolini was, or the horrors perpetrated under his command.

Individuals within an evil empire can also have better moral character relative to the others in the empire. Rommel is a case in point. That doesn't change that they participated in the commission of atrocities. It's worth noting that Rommel tried to stop Hitler, Operation Valkyrie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Valkyrie
One effect is that if you can depend on a basic income and health care then it becomes vastly easier to move, and even if only some people take advantage of that is puts a lot more competition onto housing to not price gouge.

For food and clothes and whatnot there's plenty of competition and those shouldn't rise beyond any mild labor cost increase.
> What's the equivalent to the "URL bar" for software? What's the equivalent to the ACME domain validation challenge?

It's quite ironic that JavaScript is practically a native language on Windows since Windows 8. Either it's indeed not possible to use LetsEncrypt for that or they marketed it wrong to developers.

I'm amazed how MS is often the first one to push out new Desktop technology a decade before everyone else (HTML on the desktop, AJAX) but it's usually others that take full advantage of those on other platforms...
when a new guy arrives to the company, we generate the keys on an air-gapped computer (with cahoskey et al) and upload the to the yubikey (they keep a separate encrypted usb key with the private keys).
Then, some employees verify the new employee and sign their keys. There are then uploaded to teh keyservers and an internal mail is sent.

Quite old school but it works quite well, alas we're small though (120).
Might also want to checkout r/Gatekeeping ;)
The battering ram is useful even for peaceful purposes. It’s great for pushing crashed cars to the side of the road and is a good place to hook a tow strap. I’m from a rural part of the country and they have come in handy multiple times.

Totally agreed on the paint schemes.
On the other hand all incidents of violence that I have witnessed so far was from the protesters to other protesters, and some against shops, shopowners, counter-protesters, and drivers. Although I am not doubting what you said, in my experience it seems that the protestors scatter and do not cause any unjustified violence when the police starts chaos.
In case you're serious, the point is redistribution. Abolishing the income tax probably just makes income inequality worse.

If you're against redistribution in general then that's a different discussion, but at a minimum, in societies with great inequality, even the winners don't win if it all goes the route of the French Revolution.
Wow. Lies.
The limitations you describe are rooted in a pre-VR world. VR is much more conducive to gestures. In Half Life Alyx, Valve could have technically allowed you to lob a grenade by just pressing a button "because it's easier." But they didn't, and opted for a gesture-based input. They could have allowed you to turn a wheel by mashing a button, but they didn't, and you actually have to turn the wheel in circles. These decisions would have been insane with a keyboard and mouse as inputs. They're natural for a VR game.

Without a keyboard, it's cumbersome to switch between a bunch of spells. Gestures are both more immersive and functionally better. Maybe most people wouldn't memorize hundreds of spells, but a couple dozen are certainly feasible. There could be a spell "language," where the initial part of the gesture could correspond to the category of spell. Fireball, fire wave, etc...can start with the same basic gesture. All wave spells can end with the same gesture. Hundreds of spells can be constructed from permutations of 20-30 foundational gestures, kind of like how a core group of trilateral roots in Arabic and Hebrew can construct a much larger set of words (sometimes without previous knowledge of a specific word/permutation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_root
Basically what infinity0 described in his sibling comments. I want to have a source package that can be used to build the binary package in a deterministic and reproducible way.
You can't put diodes on a membrane keyboard. (Well, maybe you could, but the side with the traces is right up against the other membrane. Hmm, could you dope the membrane? brb, patenting) And if you did, the cost would still be greater than zero, so it wouldn't fly.

Ghosting on a discrete contact-switch keyboard is inexcusable, of course.
digressing a bit, that's believable but my registered agent (a specialized law firm) just scans and uploads any mail to my account on their portal. It's not a problem most businesses spend much time on but you can probably find one that lives in this century. If I'm paying them a tiny annual retainer it's the least they can do and has already saved me a lot of tax compliance hassle being able to pull old docs that were handled by someone else.

If you were deliberately trying to set up a few shells for obfuscation it would not be hard, particularly if you had some means of buying fake IDs.
Assuming taxes rise proportionally to cover the bill, there should be no inflation -- in fact, it would even have a slight deflationary effect (all other economic factors being equal) due to deadweight loss.

Whether the nation is wealthy enough to sustain that tax load yet is uncertain. Market caps and national wealth values on paper break down when huge amounts of wealth needs to be liquidated to service new taxes. Even so, I think it probably is, with a clean restructuring of our tax brackets, but we have a lot of other debt to service first. Of course, in reality, if this ever gets legislated it will only be adding to the already staggering deficit.

Whether or not the politicians whose voter bases rely on UBI can be trusted to keep the UBI at a reasonable level (i.e. enough to survive in rural areas but not going to cut it if you want to live in west Los Angeles and not have a job), is a more contentious point to me.
N is the number of content types (still a lot), so FB only needs one misinformation filter, and you the user could choose whether or not you want that one.
Python is crap
In at least some cases it has been initiated by protesters/rioters. E.g. in the spread sheet row 17: https://twitter.com/Stephon_Dingle/status/126656092123893760...

And of course there was the case of the riots at the CNN headquarters.

But I think this clearly & quantitatively shows that in general actions against journalists are initiated by the police force, which I don't find surprising.
Don't just claim it. Supply the verification.
>the unlawful acts must be done while such official is purporting or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties

This is probably the most disturbing thing I read about law enforcement. To me it translates into following: as an officer acting under "color of law" I am free to loose my temper and kill whoever the f..k I want for any reason as long as I am not doing it based on color/race/whatever. All I have to do is to "pretend to act in the performance of my duties".

Can somebody correct me if I am wrong (I sincerely hope I am).
Ask HN: If you're so smart how come you're not rich?
Does anyone else feel this way?

I don't know about you, but I am smart. I know I'm smart, I am told that I am smart, I do smart things but . . . I am also old, and all my life I have worked (mostly) for people who were not smart as me, and somehow they:

* were my boss

* had a better/faster career

* or .... they owned the company

I am old now, but I can still kick some ass, and that's what my intention is.

When I was younger I was:

* insecure: some of that shit still lingers.

* anxious: yeah, this is related to the shit above, but I wanted to highlight it. And while I am over it, some of that shit still lingers

* more smarterer #LOL

* more courageous, in a way. Now that I am less anxious and more secure, I seem to have lost the hump!

Any tips for me how to overcome the snart-complex, kick my own ass, and start making money?
I think this is pretty cool!
One suggestion is making it easier to search by date. I was able to figure it out by clicking a link but if it was possible to select from a calendar or type in a date and get all events that would make it more friendly :3
You could probably build one with Twilio. But otherwise it'd be on the bridge-owner to absorb the cost, so it'd almost certainly be a paid / self-run bridge of some kind.
I dream of the day that a land value tax, and only a land value tax, covers all government services. In fact, one could argue that the size of government that a land value tax supports is the maximum size.
I don't give Facebook's executives the benefit of the doubt in thinking that's why they're leaving it up, but I'd have a very hard time arguing that you're wrong.
Ask HN: How do you do end-to-end testing of your API?
At my company, we have a growing number of services written in golang. We are looking to standardize the automated end-to-end tests across the different services. I would love to hear how you handle end-to-end testing in your service that is accessible through http endpoints. Bonus points if you have also dealt with internal gRPC endpoints. I only mention golang if you happen to use something specific to golang development but the end-to-end testing solution does not have to be limited to golang.

Thanks!
Can you expand a little bit on the white racial resentment and what you mean by it ?
I'm not sure what it is you're suggesting they do. If they arrest the looters, you will complain of "police brutality", since as a rule, criminals do not go into custody willingly. If they do not, you will complain of "looting". They also can't individually go after looters in this situation - too dangerous. Whatever they do they have to do as a group, without dispersing.
Can you be more specific on what stuff is no longer relevant? I started the challenges and put them on hold but plan to return at some point.
Lower rate of NIH awards to African-American/black scientists
jwz: Everyone at Facebook is qwhite complicit
> blocking emergency vehicle ingress, so they let loose a bunch of (13 year expired)_CS gas.

That doesn't make sense, unless they wanted the driver and other people in a not airtight emergency vehicle to end up in the gas cloud as well...
Didn't FB recently create some oversight board? Has it weighed in yet?
> I guess you could count the video of a Seattle cop telling another cop to take his knee off of a protester’s throat.

Yeah but that only happened after the crowd was screaming at them to take their knee off. I doubt that would have happened if it weren't for the protestors and the optics of doing literally exactly what kicked off this latest protest to begin with. If those cops were alone and making that arrest a month ago I highly doubt the other cop would have stepped in to move his knee.
Corollary: Climate science models should be built by engineers, not by scientists. Task people who 'use what is known and understood to construct systems that can be validated'. Perhaps the whole scientist-as-faux-priest meme should be toned down a notch.
He almost certainly is financially independent. He likely made a ton of money contributing to the problem we have today... And it sounds like he's going invest that money into a censorship-oriented social media startup.

This guy's experience at Facebook has taught him that free speech is the problem. His next startup sounds like Facebook's next multi-billion dollar acquisition.
For sure, but gestures and controllers are not mutually exclusive. Specific controllers can be made for wizard games. Wands come to mind. Even without a wand, the Oculus controller can be combined with gestures just fine.
A new drawing game bringing friends and family together
Tech companies mark Blackout Tuesday
Please explain why I, a tax paying citizen who isn't a racist and hasn't discriminated against anyone, should have my money taken away at the point of a gun to fund all these programs. Also all the government spending for COVID was also misguided. Not the federal government's role and our debt is at dangerous levels.
Not enough people acknowledge this. The U.S. is a heavily armed country. It is very easy to (legally) buy military grade weapons in most states. Knowing that you could potentially get your head blown off anytime you pull someone over is going to lead to a very different psychology than you might see in a country like South Korea or Germany where very few people, if any, are armed. You can't just say, "Oh look how nice the police are in <Insert random western European country here>. Let's just do what they do".

This a much more complex issue than the media or either political party is willing to acknowledge.
> More people have been killed and had their lives destroyed as the result of non-protestors taking advantage of the protests to destroy communities.

[Citation needed]

I find it hard to believe that a few days of these riots has caused more damage and loss of life than generations of racial oppression and police brutality. If you’ve got a source, I’m all ears.
> The fact that after half a century, Unix-like operating systems and programming environments are de rigueur is plain enough evidence of this.

Unfortunately Unix blew a 28-3 lead against Netscape Navigator and now 99% of people spend their time in web browsers instead.

I think this speaks to the weakness of the experience using Unix, not its strength.
I agree - I thought it was horrible at first (actually, I thought something was broken at first), but I have grown to like it. Sure it can be tweaked a bit but overall I think this is a good move.
You have to be first registered with the state and the feds (IRS) as a business which creates all kinds of legal obligations and paperwork.
I don't even really know where to start with this.

First of all, your income numbers are household incomes, not an individual number. A significant number of your 'unemployed' are actually children, carers/homemakers, who belong to those households. Other unemployed are e.g. retirees who often times do not have a zero income.

You're indicating an effective tax rate based on the idea that the tax only pays for the UBI. Don't you have to tax more than that to, e.g., run the rest of government?

Social Security costs about $1tn per year. Medicare costs about $600bn per year, which is about the same amount as Medicaid. Means-tested cash and cash-like programs (EITC, food stamps, SNAP, school lunches) are perhaps another $300bn.

Canceling those programs would fund most of your UBI but would be represent an amazing transfer away from the poorest/oldest, which I suppose was not really your intent.

Funding any portion of UBI through a VAT is also regressive: less well-off households spend a significantly larger proportion of their incomes.
What would you have preferred? If the police shows up and the looting does not stop, they can either use force (aka violence) to make it stop, or they can go home, essentially giving up the rule of law in the area.

Not showing up can be a tactical decision: you don't have to generate more bad press and more cries about police brutality and you also don't need to quasi-officially hand over the area to the looters.

The state's power isn't real as in "we can crush you", it rests only in everybody's fear of the state being able to crush them. If there's a chance that the state has to back down, not seeking the confrontation sounds like a smart choice to me, even if it comes at the price of a day or two of looting.
Ruby has more complicated semantics.

An example of a concrete difference here is that Ruby checks for overflow on integer maths, where Java does not. This means each maths operation is a little cluster of nodes, rather than a single node.

Another example is that Ruby has dynamic typing, so values that come into the function need to be type checked, and values going out need to put into a format where they can have their type inspected.

One more example is that the call to fib in Java is static - we know exactly where that goes. In Ruby the call is dynamic, so we need to check we're calling the correct method.

Here's a full SVG copy of that diagram https://www.dropbox.com/s/k68id9aqu258blw/fib-ruby.svg.
Now that we've brought up COVID and car accidents.

About 36,500 people died in car accidents in the US in 2018 [1], so about 100 people per day die from car accidents in the US.

About 1,000 people are dying per day from COVID, currently [2].

Wouldn't this mean that the odds of dying from COVID are much higher than dying from a car accident? Which would contradict the odds I'm seeing in this thread.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
[2] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
I’m not sure. When self-checkouts were introduced here, they had staff supervising to help and educate customers then significantly scaled back that headcount.

Fast forward several years, there’s more staff stationed with self-checkout due to theft.

I think retailers are going to calculate the cost of headcount and theft and make a decision based on an equilibrium.

Of course, the best outcome for Walmart is to have an automated LP system to reduce staffing cost for the long term.
Read my comment in context. The person I replied to implied that the police actions we're seeing this past week (in particular with their behavior towards the press) is itself legal, which it is not. That they have a way out for their illegal (or at least wrong) behavior is a separate, but related, issue. The thing I was discussing was that the law is already on the side of the press, the police are violating the law. Your comment is about the separate issue of why they are violating the law (the belief, validated repeatedly, that they are above the law itself). So yes, the law needs to change, but the police are not presently acting within the bounds of the law so the issue isn't just changing the law, but reforming the police forces.