skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Predator drones can carry multiple air to ground missiles and guided bombs. This is the same model of drone which is used for drone strikes in the Middle East. There is no reasonable reason for a domestic civilian agency to own or use these drones over US soil vs models which are incapable of carrying armament.
This is a beautiful app, thank you for making it.

I can't find how to use a fixed-width font: are community themes the right way to accomplish that?

Markdown is a whitespace sensitive format, it might be that fixed pitch is a candidate to be a first class setting, even the default.
Goldman Sachs did that with aluminum.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/business/a-shuffle-of-alu...
This was very predictable. Tools invented for military operations abroad eventually, predictably find their way back domestically.

Despite that, its a dangerous thing to happen. I am aware of how unlikely it is for the current US Government to use the drone offensively, but once you have a massive fleet of drones flying over the US, patrolling "troubling" neighborhoods constantly, the temptation to use those abilities rises significantly.

I hope that Congress takes action to outlaw this practice, but I have little faith it will happen. It seems like everyday the country is falling further into the pit of becoming an authoritarian police state.
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Drugs by themselves are indeed a bad example (I am personally in favor of legalizing drugs), but let's substitute them with violence:

Would you say that anti-violence laws are ill-conceived because they go against cartels/mobs' business models of extorting money from people under threat of violence?
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Yeah, bubbling is not a magic solution. But why amplify these voices? And why on your “private” platform? A lot of unchecked toxicity can lead to Twitters demise. They set some rules to mitigate for that. Seems ok to me for that to be done for Trumps opponents too.

Remember trolls wreaking havoc on forums? Didn’t they have the right for free speech too and nobody complained when rules were added to try to contain them?
Good news!

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/install-windows-10-on-r...

There's also the more official "Windows 10 IoT Core" option which has images specifically for Raspberry Pi.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=550...
I really like the blog style. Any tips on how I could setup something with a smilar theme.
No they just canceled my subscription. I live in India though, so maybe banking regulations are different, you can't overdraw in India
Sure, alongside slavery, genocide and mass murder. Perhaps we might draw a line on occasion?
I've been using Node-RED for a few years now, and I can automate my LG TV's volume (handy for when the kids punch it up for cartoons) and control it via Siri (which is wired into Node-RED).

One of the medium-complexity things I do with it is check the iOS App Store prices for apps I'm interested to get notifications when they're discounted, but all my home automation runs on it, and this post has links to most of the series:

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2019/01/13/1900

I also maintain my own Node-RED docker images for ARM and Intel:

https://github.com/insightfulsystems/node-red
That should be hidden by default too.
people do, indeed, riot and destroy things to steal and loot. That's the point. Notice it's not the police station being burned down.
No, a private company putting up a warning the that President of the United States is advocating the execution of protesters for looting is not censorship.

I don't have time to explain to someone for the umpteenth time how this is different, and even within the "well golly Twitter is a big company, maybe it's a public utility" argument, the president is a much more unique position and situation than the average user.

The President could talk about how he thinks we should execute our fellow citizens, or call our political rivals skanks, or tell us that Coronavirus will magically disappear by Easter, or that hydroxychloroquine is a miracle cure, all by standing up his own microblog platform and blast it from S3 or Azure. He could hold his press conferences and bullshit to the whole nation, or set up email distros... all things he has done or could do.

Please, for the love of society and sanity, stop throwing around 1984 references every time someone shuts someone else up. Read the goddamn book.
Obviously they're probably not recording all the packets from when I watch TWIN PEAKS on Amazon Prime, though I wouldn't be surprised if they track viewing habits somehow. "Everything" is meant to mean all phone calls, texts, emails, contact lists, and probably posts to certain social media sites and forums. Anything potentially useful in building a behavioral profile of a target based on past behavior.
> Finally even if it hasn't been a problem so far, it is not a "fact" that it cannot and will not be a problem in the future.

Twitter said no such thing, however. Twitter's annotation simply noted that Trump's claim was "unsubstantiated". They did not make an assertion of the inverse of Trump's claim.

> How could anyone know if a wife voted the same way as her husband because she wanted to or because he just filled out both mail-in ballots himself?

This could be easily said about in-person ballots too. 8 states require photo ID, and many people will be covering their faces when they vote in-person anyway.
What about if you have the code?
I wouldn't be suprised. After the riots in Baltimore, a lot of people ended up getting arrested because they thought they police didn't care since they didn't stop the looting, but they just combed through footage afterward and arrested people in the following months.
How I Became Obsessed with a Stranger
I've been doing something similar with some friends of mine for fun instead of work, but the concepts are the same. I purchased a relatively cheap Wacom knockoff from Amazon and have had very good luck with everything about it, from the pressure-sensitivity to the Linux support.

Depending on the software, the pressure-sensitivity might not work so well, but that shouldn't be an issue for whiteboard-style usage.

My recommendation is that you use a 60% or tenkeyless keyboard so that you can comfortably fit the drawing tablet to the far side of your mouse on the desk and still be able to type. Having a trackball is nice since it means that you don't have to give yourself a large area in which to use the mouse. If you're ambidextrous with the mouse, this won't be an issue.
Do you really think that the 50% of the population that is conservative is really much more prone to asshole behavior? Does that really make sense to you?
So, every mailbox in a post office gets one or two voter applications or ballots. A bunch of them get sorted out and thrown in the lobby trash can as people pick up their mail.

Some unscrupulous person grabs a bunch, forges signatures on them and mails them back in.
I suspect dogs aren’t particularly deadly, it’s just that there are so many of them and they collectively spend so much time near humans. Sharks on the other hand almost never interact with humans.
Soon, someone will proudly invent a way to refactor all these utility classes into sheet-like files with cascading styling rules.
It's usually called the Reaper, to distinguish from the original Predator
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This is precisely what Trump's executive order targets. Section 230 of the CDA gave websites and social media networks a little wiggle room in the platform vs publisher stance. They could moderate as they see fit without being liable for the content on their sites. Now that's being weakening, or more precisely becoming more well defined by the FCC. There will be strict requirements to be considered a platform, one example of which is needing to have a well defined terms of service and strictly follow that all across the board.
Indeed. The riots and destruction are an unfortunate byproduct of the outpouring of pent up rage and grief. They are a distraction from the real issue, which is the summary execution by the state of people in the street. The police are 100% responsible for all destruction that has occurred this week. If they had not executed a man in the street, none of this would have happened.
Online colleges like the University of Phoenix have been around since the public internet (and by mail before). They went after working people and veterans who didnt care for the 'dorm experience'.
I'm aware of that, but it's extremely, extremely unlikely that this drone is carrying any sort of missiles. I can't prove that for certain, but let's be realistic here. The government could in theory drive a ballistic missile launcher hidden in an 18-wheeler into any major US city - should we not allow trucks on the road?
This would certainly be convenient, however if your mailing lists contains a lot of old people then they forward your emails to their friends. Their friends who are annoyed by this then unsubscribe the original recipient without noticing that the email was forwarded by their friend.

This is a real problem for us - not a made up scenario. So we remove the auto-filled email on the unsubscribe form.
> Notice it's not the police station being burned down.

A police station was burned today.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/protests-looting-erupt-...

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/george-floyd-protest-update...
I don't get the fixation on wiretapping one's home for marginal convenience gains.
This is also true of academia: you can buy your way out of the stipulated teaching load. Some faculty members with large research grants or side businesses (and little interest in teaching) find this well worth it.

Meanwhile adjunct faculty - who used to only account for a small fraction of higher ed - today do the majority of college-level teaching (generally with low pay and benefits and nonexistent job security).
>Nasty social media that makes their money on outrage and exposing people to scam ads?

Last I checked Facebook and friends still exist.

>what did we actually lose?

* Many europeans lost access to various publishing sites (another win for the big guys)

* Collectively who knows how many millions went to lawyers to reverse engineer the vague GDPR standards
You are radically underestimating the size of email as a global corpus, to say nothing of phone calls.
I do a similar thing but just use "proficient" and "familiar", leaves much less room for misinterpretation when there are only two levels imo. Over time I've also trimmed down the list significantly to only languages I would be OK working with and be comfortable doing an interview in. For example, I know C++ to a "familiar" level thanks to school, but I personally dislike it and wouldn't want to it to be part of my work at all, so it's not on my resume.
I may have used the wrong term. I do not mean utilities in that sense, I mean they should act as carriers rather than publishers of information. That is more like the phone company and less like the NY Times.
I've called the police one time in my life. The arriving officers were a bit wary and perhaps a little dim, but they ultimately helped save my friend's life. I would have been in trouble without them.
2FA that actually carries a payload to verify like Duo will be much harder to exploit, indeed. As to whether making your life harder for routine system administration tasks will actually make stealing your personal data harder, I still have my doubts.
Isn't it a long standing thing that the US Military use of force rules in warzones are generally more restrictive than the policies for use on their fellow citizens by police back home?
This is the real answer, due to the civil rights movement the DNC lost the south due to the less civil minded parts of the party switched to the republicans.
This is from the ICO, the UK privacy regulator: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

> Consent requires a positive opt-in. Don’t use pre-ticked boxes or any other method of default consent.

If providing consent requires a single click (accept the pre-ticked options) but declining consent requires multiple clicks (to untick the pre-ticked options) then that is already in breach.

> Be specific and ‘granular’ so that you get separate consent for separate things. Vague or blanket consent is not enough.

A big "accept" button for everything is not good enough either.
There Are No Such Thing As Shark Attacks

https://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=03214697...

I actually saw this standup bit recently and after Googling, it looks like it was borrowed ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLwYkZUNvKo&feature=youtu.be...

To clarify, it's actually the other way around, the standup came BEFORE the blog. Should have realized the upload date is not the performance date.

https://www.espn.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/3722/shark-atta...
Censorship comes in many forms. Governmental censorship? Bad. Self-censorship of a platform such as Twitter, good, and necessary.
The issue is that / redirects to /news even on back button presses (Chromium 83). Since you linked to / instead of /news, it gets stuck in a redirect loop.
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Well, also the fact that a police station is filled with armed police might also be a reason.
> we still don't do it until it's too late and becomes a problem. A single neighbor who doesn't do this endangers the whole block. And the authorities don't give a fuck. It's infuriating, really.

You seem to be strangely unaware of the large amount of money which has been spent for decades on mosquito control by individuals and all levels of government. There are widespread control campaigns, active research into developing new weapons (e.g. traps which are effective against tiger mosquitoes), and community awareness to get more people involved with habitat control and using things like bed nets.

I mean, does this sound like not doing something?

https://www.epa.gov/mosquitocontrol/success-mosquito-control...

Several companies have been working for years on genetic modifications to disrupt mosquito spread:

https://e360.yale.edu/features/genetically_modified_mosquito...
Others have mentioned the air-to-ground missile problem, but my question is: “what does CBP have to do with this?” Border Patrol’s job is to, unsurprisingly, patrol the border, as in, the national border.

Even with the “100 mile zone”, Minneapolis is more than 200 miles inland.
The method you purpose is less secure as humans often use low entropy passwords even when you ask them not to. If you are building a system only for humans that use high entropy passwords (are you really willing to bet the farm on that just to save a couple clock cycles) or other machines it might work but I also see no benefit to that approach so you might as well just bcrypt it and call it a day anyway.
It's one of the few ways to negotiate back against contracts of adhesion. Giving that choice would theoretically be nice, but the status quo makes it not really a free choice, and the downside is bigger than the upside.
You're assuming that a single variable is being changed, but the far more likely explanation is that, given the high complexity of the situation, there are some other variables that you're not accounting for.
I don't think it's fair to call this censorship because of the amount of transparency twitter is showing. Something like shadow banning people is probably inappropriate most of the time, but now that trump signed the eo twitter is responsible for the content on their platform, so they've got to protect themselves from legal liability.
Where do you draw the distinction between a drone (presumably unarmed) vs a police helicopter?
Friend, you have no idea what you are talking about. Please do as the other guy said and shut up and listen for five minutes.

Protesters took over the precinct station that the murderers worked at and burned it to the ground last night. https://kstp.com/news/protests-continue-in-twin-cities-st-pa...
My question was, in fact, in good faith. I wanted to know if you would apply your generalization to me, as the way it read it seemed to me like it would.

Apparently it doesn't, so I guess I didn't get what you meant.

I tried to go back and reread it, but it's flagged now and I don't see a way to.

I think your example is actually closer to intellectual honesty than you think it is.

"Small government" is not "no government".

To a pro-life conservative, abortion is murder.

I've yet to meet a conservative who doesn't think the government should be involved in preventing murder.

Requiring you look at the victim before killing them is a pretty pathetic protection against murder, but it's probably better than nothing.

I'd guess from your framing that you support abortion rights. If so, I can certainly see why this would look like intellectual dishonesty to you, but as I argued above, I think that's due to not understanding the people you're talking about well enough, at least in this case.
Big discussion of the same material from 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21979333

Please don't editorialize titles. This one broke the site guidelines badly.

Cherry-picking the detail you think is most important from an article is editorializing. Threads are sensitive to initial conditions and the title is the dominant initial condition, so this is a big deal. Being the first (or luckiest) user to submit an article doesn't confer any special right to frame it for everyone else. HN readers should make up their own minds about what parts of an article are important.

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do so in the comments. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I can see the influence of Aphyr's classic posts on this one, but a bit of constructive feedback:

* If you're going to emulate a writing style, you need to go all in. Study the word selection, cadence, choice of punctuation…go back regularly to ensure you're consistent with it. Once you set up a reader's expectations, anything that doesn't match will stick out and break their immersion. Read it yourself, and then if possible get others to read it too and do the same thing: hopefully they'll see the problems you may have missed.

* Each of the original blog posts had one specific "technical flex" in mind, and they stayed on topic. The one here is not quite clear: it seems like it's "programming on the bare metal", but it does too many things for a result that isn't all that surprising. Ok, you ditch Rust's standard library, and core features of the language…but then you copy paste it back anyways, and after that you link against libc and call printf. The point is to show that you can do better with all your work, not the same.

* At the very end: you are an expert Rust developer, better than your interviewer. You know you're not going to get an offer, but you didn't want one from them anyways. You're certainly not desperate to impress them.

Now that I've read the whole thing, a couple of technical comments:

* You can use -lc on macOS, libSystem will handle it for you.

* The existence of a "frame pointer" is a myth spread by bad programmers. There's no point in touching that register and certainly no need to waste two bytes stashing it on the stack, for goodness sake!
There are folks who are legitimately angry and are expressing that peacefully. And then there are people torching businesses, police stations and cars. Do you not think there is any sort of reasonable line being crossed here?

I don't think it's fair to say it's inconsistent use when the domestic terrorists (yes, I agree with that portrayal) took over the statehouse. They were all in the statehouse, or in the immediate vicinity. How is a drone going to help in that situation?

This is clearly a different situation with widespread rioting over a large geographic area.

Edit: it's possible I have some of my facts wrong here - that's totally on me. But as much as I disagree with the GOP/COVID protesters - to their credit, they didn't start firebombing their local grocery store.
I will recommend the book "The Story of the Human Body" by Daniel E. Lieberman. In his section "Unwise Wisdom Teeth", he writes:

"Just as your limbs and spine will not grow strong enough if you don't sufficiently stress your bones by walking, running, and doing other activities, your jaws won't grow large enough for your teeth and your teeth won't fit properly if you don't stress your face sufficiently from chewing food."

A fascinating book. One observation: modern human hunter-gatherer mothers typically wean their children at age three, while a mother who is a subsistence farmer can wean her children between one and two years. Thus, humanity underwent a population explosion once we started farming instead of hunting and gathering.
I don't know if they were actually mean, or just trained to be noisy and act like they were. Either way, I know they'd raise holy hell at the window whenever I walked past it. They might've been thinking "hey Dad, it's so fun to bark at people! Look at how big I'm smiling!" for all I know.
Exactly. Not to mention that what Trump tweeted about has long been the single workable solution to widespread looting.

Protests are fine. Mayhem and larceny, however, are not. Violence against lawbreakers is absolutely enshrined as acceptable, and that isn't going to change for the foreseeable future. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with Trump's tweet, certainly nothing overriding the First Amendment.

Further, Twitter is absolutely in the wrong to portray itself as passing some kind of absolute judgement on the President's views, and in fact that it is above the Presidency. It is NOT a neutral platform.
i'm happy to pay that (tiny) cost if it makes even one person stop and question the narrative honestly for even a second.
> is it still an OK practice to use it as a general hashing function for a uuid/data checksum?

No. If you don't care about collision resistance, use MD5. It's faster, it's smaller, and it makes it obvious to everyone than your software isn't supposed to rely on collision resistance.
Pretty sure there are laws against mass arson, looting, rioting, vandalism, etc. so if the people can't follow laws why should the government?
Your company might value your work 100x what they pay you, so they dont want you to do something they can get for 10x what they pay you... For example when you have the plumber, electrician, etc over, you dont ask her to bake you cookies, even though they might be very good at baking cookies.
It's the default Ghost theme, I think.
Iron, blades, paint, plastic, ink, and specially pharmaceuticals are generic names for a huge diversity of products (or components).

Each of those products requiring completely different tools, skills and materials.
You missed my point. I am asking for consistency in the metrics.

We get malaria from a parasite that is spread by mosquitoes.

We get tuberculosis from a bacteria that is spread by humans.

TB kills more than three times as many people every year as malaria. Why is malaria counted as a death caused by mosquitoes but TB isn't a death caused by humans? Either you count both or you count neither.
Still no news about the mail data losses since 10.15.0... Ah well.
So the rioters are hurting their fellow innocents because it's easy and less risky than going after the guilty? You're probably right, but it's not a flattering view of the rioters.
And in what way do you believe the cop hasn't been held accountable?
Oh, interesting, here is the court case:

> https://www.nacdl.org/getattachment/136371f4-aa38-476f-bd9a-...

On page 12:

"There was no improper use of an unmanned aerial vehicle. It appears to have had no bearing on these charges being contested here."