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I'm not sure it's referencing any actual Facebook posts by the Trump team. It's discussing the protest of the FB employees with respect to Zuckerberg's statement that FB--as a policy--would not label/block posts as Twitter has done.
the cop's autopsy blamed underlying health conditions, unsurprisingly. They'll protect their own at all costs and lie to us in broad daylight. Abolish the police.
> Something based on future crime rates would be much better.

What? A prosecutor’s purpose is not to prevent other crime nor to reduce recidivism. It’s strictly to ensure that crimes that do happen meet justice.

“Unsolved crimes” might be closer, but the prosecutors would definitely need to absorb the detective arm of the police branch at that point.
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/milestones/index.html
See here: https://www.mystateline.com/news/national/medical-examiner-n...

> The medical examiner said Floyd had underlying health conditions, including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease.

> “The combined effects of Mr. Floyd being restrained by the police, his underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death,” the medical examiner reported.
Very true. Only depends if its thermal behavior matches your application's needs.
From the article:

> The findings differ from an official preliminary autopsy carried out by the county medical examiner.
Free speech is morally reprehensible or just speech you disagree with?

If we’re talking about the president’s post, look, there are people on the other side who also post things more incendiary are those reprehensible too? Or is it because we disagree with the poster?

I don’t see how you square FB having that right but simultaneously disagreeing with what happens when they exercise that right.
There is an enormous amount of latent weather data to be extracted from existing sources and they, I think, are doing a great job finding and using them.

I am also working on similar efforts, focused on using labelled photos of the sky with ML to extract weather data from outdoor photos, and using barometers in phones: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allclearwe...

I'm shocked there aren't more efforts in this space. I know IBM is using barometers in phones now, and I suppose Apple may try that post-Dark Sky acquisition, but I'm still surprised there aren't more!
A previous autopsy said it was his heart that failed.
Yes, there was a report by the authorities claiming that there were no signs of asphyxiation and that it was linked to a heart condition or drugs (unspecified drugs, to make the racism obvious).
Picking the electoral college as evidence of there being no perfect voting system is like trying to prove there is no such thing as a perfect leader by using the example of Pol Pot. Also if the electoral college was an intended mitigation to the problem of electing "someone who was hopelessly unsuited to the job", it's not clear that it ever prevented that from happening (any more than a popular vote would have).

"Perfect is the enemy of good", as the saying goes, so let me propose a thought experiment. What if the US kept its electoral college, but each state was required to allocate its electors in proportion to the relative vote share of the parties within that state (as closely as mathematically possible)? Of course this would require a constitutional amendment (or a hack like the NPVIC) but it's interesting to consider how this would change voting patterns, campaigns, results, and the other metrics by which a voting system is judged.
I mostly do link dumping at https://plurrrr.com/. I wrote the static blog generator that it uses myself, it's available at https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog
according to the police department. yes.

even though this man tragically got murdered in front of a camera.

Still, i think it is very important that autopsy happens regardless of its obviousness.
They even went so far as to falsify an inventory. Why would they go to that trouble if they believed their conduct was lawful? In my view this supports an allegation of wrongdoing.
"The findings differ from an official preliminary autopsy carried out by the county medical examiner."
You can be pretty sure that the defence will belabour the point endlessly. There was mention of “possible intoxicants” or something like that in the coroner’s report.

I’m not American so... mine is just an imperfect and remote opinion. Maybe I don’t understand all the nuances and the implications.
Tesla on autopilot crashes into overturned truck
That they stood up for something and paid a high price for it which made their protest more potent to many people?
I'm a reddit moderator for one of the 50 most active subreddits. My experience as a reddit moderator has been that users break down into 4 groups:

1. Normal people that mostly follow the rules. This is BY FAR the largest group, and they're usually great. Transparency benefits them most: once they know what they did wrong, usually they won't do it again. Some even admit they deserved penalties or short bans -- although a few will defend their actions.

2. Jerks: people who contribute constructively sometimes but also cause a lot of drama. If moderators don't show clearly where they broke a rule, usually they're going to protest that they did nothing wrong. Providing transparency saves moderator effort because it avoids some of this back-and-forth. Sometimes. These are almost inevitably the people that claim mods were "abusing their powers" when they get banned for obvious things (swearing at people, posting self-promotional content, etc).

3. Dedicated trolls who go out of their way to break rules and cause trouble. They are relatively rare but as a moderator really the only thing you can do is ban them. Transparency won't make a difference one way or another, but it can be hard to tell a jerk from a dedicated troll at times so you're better off citing specific violations.

4. Spammers & obvious bots. With the right defenses (automoderator rules, spam filter, etc) most of these can be handled with minimum human effort. Without these defenses, spammers/bots can flood you pretty quickly. Transparency is irrelevant here.

FWIW I always provide a reason when issuing a ban (citing the rule broken and where they did it).
Many are paid to write and maintain open source software - I would say that comes close.
Subsidized for who though? It's not clear that the consumers, the restaurants or the Drivers are actually getting a good deal here.
Can someone comment on what the official police report said and how it differs from the private report? If you can provide references that will help too. My search abilities failed me to get a succinct answer.
Thanks, will read these tonight
The replacement system for copyright is the system that was around pre-copyright: direct funding of works by people who have some interest in their production. Now applicable on a far larger scale via crowdfunding, as showcased by e.g. Kickstarter and IndieGogo (and used successfully to produce a sizeable amount of high-quality, free and open works).
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You can delete a downloaded (but not installed) update on iOS.
> Abolish the police.

Or, perhaps, remove qualified immunity.
I'm not the first to make that critique, I'm merely repeating it. Even Peter Thiel said a variant of it: "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters."

Everything you're saying makes sense. It's true that venture capital structurally cannot coexist with investing in these longshot/moonshot "big problems". So maybe the problem is that tech has become too reliant, even dominated, by VC funding? Perhaps more public investment in R&D and the sciences is in order? There should be alternative funding mechanisms that don't rely on the short-term focused, pour money on ten and hope that one survives, scattershot approach of VCs?

The main point is that it is truly a shame that even though we live in an age of dumb money thanks to the Fed and ZIRP, and a lack of places to put that money into, the natural response is to invest in yet another food delivery/ridesharing app, rather than the stereotypical big problems.

Perhaps the problem is that VCs have too much money to begin with?
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How much of the overall investment was done in the hopes that some level of autonomy would turn all these minuses into pluses within a couple years? I get investing in a loser if there’s key enabling tech like this “in the pipeline” but it sounds like even then the math is a bit backward.

Quote from the article:
> “At some point, delivery drones and robots may reduce the cost of fulfillment, but it will be a long time before the capital costs and ongoing operating expenses are less than the cost of paying someone for 30-45 minutes of their time.”
Not really. Socialism was supposed to be sharing production means. This is just an attempt at monopolizing a cut-throat market.
I'm going to guess you've never seen how senior executive recruiting actually works. I regularly work with senior-level executives in automotive, tier 1 supplier, and software companies and can tell you for a fact that right now these people would not easily find jobs anywhere else. Without the retention payouts their options would have been 1) keep working through the wind-down and receive their normal level of pay and benefits or 2) have no job and get the 55k/yr equivalent in unemployment with no benefits. I 100% do not believe very many, if any, would have opted for the latter option and sitting around on the beach. This payout was unnecessary.
Sounds like the 'hack' wasn't one. From the article:

> So by all means, be angry, but don't spread disinformation and right now, all signs point to just that - the alleged Minneapolis Police Department "breach" is fake.
What does "potential" in "any potential intoxicants in his system" mean? I thought the point of an autopsy is to remove doubt, not add to it.
Not really, but the "county medical examiner" didn't come to the same conclusion. IIRC they essentially blamed pre-existing conditions for causing his expiration right at the exact moment a cop was crushing his neck between a knee and the pavement.
It is just staggering to believe that they tried to hide the real cause of death amidst all this protesting. Like they genuinely thought they could get away with just sweeping it under the rug.
The power of disinformation even when it was not even done well. I swallowed the report hook, line, and sinker.
> I will never trust banks since they are for-profit companies

Banks don't have to be betting against you to make money. They can simply charge a markup or profit from the bid-ask spread if they're making a market.
Our Database of Police Officers in Fatal Shootings Reveals Who Shot Citizens
I'm a critic of all of the foundations of the US legal system, but I would want to know more about the effects of something like "abolish common law" before we jump right in.

I see that a little like someone yelling "let's abolish gravity" without stopping to consider: "what continues to exist if gravity no longer applies?"
Your position is really contrary to your interests.

DMV agents are probably not very wealthy. By suing them you would simply drive an underpaid worker into bankruptcy and probably never get much money back.

Meanwhile, the DMV can easily scapegoat it's employee and never reform or make any systematic changes. Furthermore you would have no recourse to sue them directly since they can just keep hiring more poor workers to be thrown under the bus.

Ultimately the tax payers (or voters) need to keep the DMV accountable. There is no alternative. Democracy doesn't have shortcuts. The tax payers have to pay when the government screws up. More to the point - the tax payer ALWAYS ends up paying when the government screws up, without exception, 100% of the time. Either they pay by having a corrupt DMV that hurts society and everyone at large, or they pay through lawsuits and higher costs at the DMV.
...and loads of ML/AI hype.
As a frequent reader of thedonald.win, for some people, yes... yes, it was.

I honestly don't know how you could mentally wiggle yourself into thinking that 8:45 seconds of someone being on your neck could have an alternative cause of death. Hell, but let's say it was something else. Let's say it was actually a heart attack that ultimately did him in. Does that matter? Surely, we can point towards the stress of having someone on your neck for almost 10min as a contributor...?

Honestly, I'm baffled by the mental gymnastics.
"Rent control" has existed for nearly 50 years for property owners in California. It's called Prop 13. The current housing mess is a direct consequence of it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23383162
> You can actually play free games, have fun and never pay.

But it will never be as fun as it could be if there were no in-app purchases and no ads. That always sits in the back of my mind and prevents me from even trying a game with in-app purchases.
I'm a junior software developer looking for a stimulating new role. I love writing software that has a positive impact on people, especially if it means that the target audience is relieved of a boring and burdensome low-energy task. I'm mostly interested in backend and desktop development but like any good developer, I'm always excited to learn something new.

I have 3 years of experience writing software, mostly in the .NET ecosystem, but I love using Python and I'm currently developing an interest in Golang. I have fledgling experience with Javascript, Java, Bash/shell scripting, and Android mobile development with Java from brief stints during my schooling and career.

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Those extreme examples have clearly adopted Shadow technology.
How are they even allowed to say "any potential intoxicants" when they haven't tested for intoxicants? Did they do a test? That seems like a very powerful and prone-to-misuse political tool.
I'm assuming that all of those targeting factors match up to the user-provided info in their profile. So for instance "house/dormitory" was probably a profile field back in 2004.

Kind of reminds me of how Google started selling ads, just buy a keyword, that's it. And the CPM was determined by bidding (though I'm not sure how you make that fair)
Eternal never fusion is basically a public policy failure writ large:

https://i.imgur.com/D6cDJ22.png
So - the tesla driving facebookers get a day off from work - paid - not even using their vacation - and this is a walkout?

Are they forfeiting their stock to protest facebooks offensive conduct?

This is the look at me style of protesting.

Quit your job and work a better company if you think facebook is a scum company.
Just a small correction.

Although Visual Studio for Mac started as just a rebranded version from Xamarin Studio, nowadays it shares several key parts with Visual Studio proper, implemented in .NET Core and shared across macOS and Windows.
As an engineer who loves the moonshots it breaks my heart. The core problem however is that from a dispassionate investor viewpoint, the uber for Y companies are more understandable and are perceived to deliver larger results more quickly in aggregate. Even accounting for these public failures. And since the dispassionate investor really only cares about return (regardless of what most say) they don’t invest in long term, capital intensive, unproven business. There seems to be an opportunity for entrepreneurs who can market the moonshots better to investors and hire the people to execute on them. But those two skills are very rarely in the same person.
To readers who wonder how this could possibly be a thesis in computer science: I haven't checked, but it would perfectly make sense in the context of a larger project about generative design. You need to understand the cultural conventions before you can fulfill them in code. Understanding the application domain is a part of every software project.

Cultural research as part of a software project is no different from a physicist writing sensor readout code as their thesis as part of a larger experiment group (which, from what I have glimpsed, seems to be more norm than exception with physicists these days)
Reading this, I realised the fnords are everywhere, once you know how[0] to look for them.

0: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22fn+or+d%22
Voting hasn't worked. Oakland PD still has half of its budget to brutality complaints. It's been 7 years since the movement started and 66 years since voting was allowed for Black people. Voting isn't going to change anything.

"Broad agreement" by who, exactly? I keep seeing videos of cops smashing windows then blaming it on protestors, cops attacking crowds with tear gas and less-lethal rounds, and now a shooting of a small business owner at a barbecue. It's not connected to a concern for justice because you're looking at the wrong side to blame.
People and systems are deciding what you see and do not see every day. From moderators on HN to the algorithms on every Facebook and Google product. When you search on Google and get a trillion results, you are letting Google choose for you by ranking pages. I am extremely thankful for those services as I would be sad if I had to wade through a trillion results and decide what to see/not see myself. I expect these companies and people to filter out BS I do not want.

None of that prevents me from hosting my own website, or going to a public space, and saying whatever I want.
I'm not aware of any aggregated list, no. But call the organizations that you believe in, and ask. I'd guess the majority of them would love some help, especially smaller ones who likely don't have the resources to hire their own tech staff.
Harsher penalties for excessive use of force would be a good start.

The problem right now is that excessive use of force by an LEO rarely results in actual, hard time or fines for that officer. Consider the death of Eric Garner [1]. The city of New York paid 5.9 million to his family and the arresting officer was fired from the NYPD. Additionally, the Department of Justice declined to bring criminal charges against [the arresting officer] under federal civil rights laws.

If we reorganized our justice system to actually pursue officers who use excessive use of force, perhaps officers would be more careful about using it. But the current state of affairs has no penalties for the officers if they do use excessive use of force when it is not justified.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner
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There are several comments here that explains the difference. Summarized, previous autopsy blamed pre-existing heart condition for the death. While this new independent autopsy determined it to be asphyxiation.
Thanks :) Most reviews are from current users, but there is some old reviews that I moved from my old blog.
Ask HN: How can I help protect citizens against police brutality?
I don't want this to seem too reactionary, but this has been on my mind for quite some time.

Obviously given the ongoing events of the past few days, I feel now more than ever like I should really step and do what I can personally, to make sure we can help limit/stop police abuse of power.

As a nerdy SWE I often feel like I have a hard time finding ways to contribute in a "boots on the ground" sense.

My personal preference would be to use my differential skills to build software to help "police the police" in a sense - or help citizens report interactions with the police. But that's just really high level and I'm not even sure if I'm thinking about this in the right way.

Any advice, help, thoughts, or even counter points would be greatly appreciated
It's like that line from Collateral. "What? No. I didn't kill him. The bullets and the fall did."

It's obvious if you watch the video: "his own body killed him"
why do you read thedonald.win?