skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have found an excellent resource [1] for data-driven policy that has been shown to reduce racism and abuse in police departments. I have written all of my local leaders who are up for election where they stand on each one of their ten points.

All of the requests on their website seem reasonable and it was really illuminating doing research on my local police force and seeing how few of them they've enacted.

[1] https://www.joincampaignzero.org/
I have been meta-worried about the optics of protests because as a student of history i see echoes of 1964 and 1968, and i am horrified at the idea of a “law and order” second term.

USA Today publishing something like this does a bit to assuage my fears! For the non-American HN audience, USA Today is the anodyne newspaper you get for free at a business hotel chain with your crappy refrigerated muffin or yogurt and instant coffee. It’s about as intentionally bland and inoffensive to everyone newspaper as still exists.

If the message there is this, we might pull it off and meaningfully address something instead of wanking about protestors like we usually do.
In many areas the policemen have been participating in the protests.
You're assuming the speculation is the actual intent. What if it was something more benign, like allowing it to turn off cameras in a nuclear power plant or secure facilities or something like that.
>I am guilty of this myself

Aren't you the wrong person to catalogue this stuff then?
Except their variety destroys the economies of scale that make the USB-C peripheral market so much more diverse.
You're completely right, but just to highlight that it's "not guaranteed," the 1918 flu started out fairly mild and then mutated into a much deadlier strain.

(I'm reading John Barry's The Great Influenza right now.)
Trump barely passed undergrad and couldn't get into business school in spite of his dad donating a whole building to get him in. He's not intelligent.
>People are not apples

Indeed. With our greater-than-apple intelligence, we should expect cops to sort out the bad apples themselves. Not close ranks and ostracize colleagues who speak up against the bad apples.

When you have great power and knowledge, inaction is being complicit.
> https://twitter.com/mollypshe/status/1266934680273727491

I clicked this. It contains a apparently completely baseless claim that a masked looter is an "undercover cop". The claim also has been denied by the St. Paul police department.

Is it your intention to discredit claims of police brutality by repeating apparently false ones?
No paper trail, no investigation.
Here you go. Video of cop shooting a guy in the back as he ran away, then planting a gun on him. The officer didn't know the event was filmed, and filed a wholly false police report on the subject.

https://youtu.be/XKQqgVlk0NQ
They'd probably take the Volkswagen strategy:

Team A builds a feature that detects when the device is in a localized area. (This already exists)

Team B builds a feature that disables the camera. (I could see this being a parental control)

Both features are reasonable by themselves. It's when they are combined that they become an issue. The trick is that Teams A and B don't know of each other's existence.
I was referring to the architecture of Chromium being wrong to achieve certification for safety critical applications.

And look, I haven't said impossible, but rough estimate I'd say removing 75% of the features and 5+ years to rewrite it to be compliant. And the subset of javascript that it could run would be very limited - it might not even have loops or functions.
How many instances of police stopping a murder can you think of?
Hope that works for you ! Your statement above has nothing to do with yaml being on the way out...
It's not in the title but the goal here is to feel better afterward. It has nohing to do with the statistics of making the better call.
Twitter seems to be doing a good job.

Maybe you don't create a site, but resurface the content on different social media.
> According to the Cares Act—the $2 trillion stimulus bill that became law last month—there is nothing preventing banks from simply claiming individual Americans’ $1,200 lifeline before it even reaches their hands, if they owe outstanding debt. While Congress is not expected to gavel back in until May, the Treasury Department could still issue regulations exempting stimulus payments from private debt collection. It has not done so.

> The Trump administration has also put private banks in charge of doling out $349 billion in loans for the Paycheck Protection Program, which are meant for small businesses suffering from the Covid-19 recession. But struggling small-business owners are running into bureaucratic roadblocks put up by some of the world’s wealthiest financial institutions, like JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

* https://www.barrons.com/articles/cares-act-workers-companies...
They need to double the pay for cops and remove their protections like qualified immunity and the right to fire if they feel threatened. This is the only way we get higher quality cops in the system, we incentivize better people to join with money. Maybe once we have a critical mass of great cops we will need less cops overall.

All of these extra costs associated with overtime etc because of these riots and looting are a direct result of employing shitty cops and completely avoidable. The costs should be taken directly from the pension funds of cops as far as I’m concerned, cities should not bear the costs of overtime because of riots caused by cops killing people.

If we had a critical mass of good cops, we likely would need less overtime overall because the relationship would be better between law enforcement and citizens, especially minorities.
No, the dark matter is still dark, and was never missing, because we know it's there from its gravitational effects. We just can't see it (hence "dark") and don't know what it is, really. But whatever it is, it's definitely there. Well, actually there are some who say it's an illusion, but nobody says it's missing.

The missing (baryonic, i.e. ordinary) matter on the other hand, is matter that theory predicts should be somewhere but we didn't know where it was, i.e. it was missing. This research says that it's in intergalactic space, which everybody kind of thought but wasn't sure. Now, using their techniques of looking at the way frequencies from fast radio bursts spread out they can basically "see" it, so it's not missing anymore.

A Nobel is not likely for this work, because it doesn't change our understanding of the Universe in any significant way... but it's pretty cool, anyway, they deserve a toast, and "found the missing matter" will look really good on their resumés.
If it was a choice between following the order and being out of a job? Not very, particularly since your sacrifice would almost certainly be in vain.
imagine being able to turn your boss over to authorities and trusting that you wouldn't be retaliated against.
Didn’t look at your site but Having handles 100s (honestly) ecom sites, simplicity is rarely a pain point.

Adding to that, if woo or Shopify isn’t easy enough for a person, they sure as hell won’t be savvy enough to manage a site through a spreadsheet.

You pain point and your solution don’t match. Spreadsheet based things will be more accepted by the web savvy, if it hits a particular pain point. Simplicity isn’t that.
I don't know about the "because" part, I think the job attracts tough guys and racists (not saying all cops are bad)
That's an acceptable workaround. Just remember the containers aren't available on NFS and thus other systems.
Covid survivor receives $840k statement for treatment, with more on the way
If you're actually trying to fix a problem, there are better ways to go about it.

Why not try to build evidence to determine the reality of the situation? There is nothing honest or good about building a one-sided repository that serves only to confirm political dogma.

What if a fair judgement of the evidence shows that black police officers treat black people no better than white police officers? What if white police officers treat black people better than black police officers on average?

Of course, I'm sure someone biased enough can invent an explanation for any contrary evidence. But the of the situation might be very different from the current propaganda.

Regardless of the policing data, the root cause is unarguably a fundamentally economic problem.

Poverty is synonymous with violence. Policing is synonymous with violence.

By turning a class problem (rich people stealing/rigging the system) into a racial issue (white people are bad and should feel bad) you're doing the bidding of the rich people that want to prevent revolutionary economic reform.

Edit: Flagged in 60 seconds. There is no way this comment violates the HN guidelines. If you disagree, just downvote, don't abuse the flagging system.
Paying for mooc courses from your University is going to suck. I would defer if I was you assuming your University will be having some sort of crazy online or hybrid thing in the fall due to covid19.
Who knew that Thompson Twins song was really about a highly educated Austrian.
Genuine unprovoked and unnecessary police brutality incidents are incredibly rare (relative to all police interactions) and hardly an epidemic. When someone is breaking the law and resisting arrest the police have no choice but to be violent with the resistor. Unfortunately these incidents often get categorized as "police brutality" when they're really just a necessary use of force.

More broadly, the entire narrative of police brutality and killings of minorities is basically nonsense. When controlling for violent encounters with police and crimes committed, blacks (armed and unarmed) are actually less likely to be killed by police than whites.

Sites like this and an irresponsible media simply exaggerate the issue and needlessly inflame tensions without providing proper and necessary context.
i think datprotocol.org looks promising for folks who are interested in rehosting the data
Sorry the "full full" was a genuine mistake not intended as sarcasm.
> So Haskell is best in class if you define that to mean web servers written in Haskell?

I was answering your comment about Haskell's web ecosystem. I didn't claim that Haskell is the best in class for everything just because it's the best for implementing web backends.

> It is revealing but not entirely surprising that the Haskell response to my question was instead to talk about strong typing and STM and so on.

I put them into my response because they are the features that you highly likely are not going to find alltogether on any other platform. The regular things like I18N, L10N, and so on that you mentioned are not worth the discussion, because Haskell ecosystem has them, in various shapes and forms, and apart from boring implementation details they are no different from similar libraries on other platforms.
I don’t understand. Surely in the ideal world nobody would kill anyone else. I’m not sure that’s very realistic, or even relevant to what we should expect from police in the real world.
I wish that were true, but the complete history of policing in America suggests that the police there exist primarily to protect the land and facilities of the ownership class, and have never had nor needed any consent of those outside of the gentry.

The more recent history suggests that the people who wish to deter or educate the cops are significantly outgunned, and the brutality will continue until such time that those trying to change the status quo will give up, as they stand no chance of victory in the physical battle this has become.

See also: Hong Kong

I frequently wonder if these police would be so eager for a fight with sticks if some fraction of the protesters were carrying the same rifles as their opponents. In theory, that is legal there, and I hope more people take the peaceful, rights-based approach that the Black Panthers did.
Postexercise hypotension&muscle O2 regulated by nitrate-reducing oral bacteria
needs a better interface, but it's my fav candidate for immediate backup if it were necessary.
How would you go about implementing the feature so that it passes inspection but completely fails in the field? It's like a high stakes game of TDD-golf.
> The thing is people are already being held accountable for their skin tone, and the likelihood of changing your behavior when you have lived your entire life in an environment of constant oppression

Actually, a lot more whites are killed by cops than blacks. And before you say that's because there are more white people than black people, blacks represent only 13% of the population but commit 52% of the crime. So, you are less likely to get killed committing a crime as a black person than as a white person.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-black-amer...
Yes, but now that I think about it, I may be misremembering things - I think they (anglo-) Saxons tried to learn something from how the Romans were defeated.

So frustrating that the details elude me right now, please someone fill in if you know. I think it was at the time of Alfreds rule.
To document single incidents of brutality has value. The documentation of one single act of police brutality has value. As the police has a monopoly on the legal use of violence they have to be held accountable.

This is like saying building a registry/counting murders has no value and brings no insight.

And this has nothing todo with condoning violence of protesters, which is just as wrong as police brutality. The issue is, that police never seems to be held accountable for excessive use of force.
Can you post some examples? What do these dashboards look like?
Wow really? Sounds like something that could be abused... But I know I seen some posts before talking about someone wanted to have a way to disable phones during concerts due to copyright concerns... But seems like with some things it starts out with one goal and then keeps getting expanded and expanded a little bit at a time.
What I would love to build (or find someone else has already built) is a proxy that transparently serves historical versions of pages from the internet archive for projects like this one. Also don’t forget jwz mirrored the original Netscape home page at its old location @ home.mcom.com. Brings back such good memories from a time filled with wonder and positivity.
The Counted is not necessarily police brutality as much as listing everyone killed by police in the US, along with a brief description. The Counted totally fascinates me. I like to close my eyes and pick some square at random and read the story there, which is always a brief tragedy, but not necessarily what I would call police brutality. Many surprises there, including a surprising number of cases involving machetes.
Hope everything is ok for yourself, family and friends in your community and neighbourhood. Any idea how it might impact your work and living situation next week?
Which is what happens when "something working for no obvious reason" breaks.
Not to mention CFD modeling - the F1 engines' combustion stability took enormous amount of iterative development and exploding test articles to get right, whereas new engine designs are much closer to working when the first prototypes roll out.
Host it here: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ (This is assuming that you are not doing anything illegal.)

Make it static.

Be able to deploy quickly to a new host if need be.
I feel like the privilege to carry a gun and be allowed to use it should be an earned one as well.

Police need to remember they serve us, and by taking the job, they have vowed to put their lives on the line for people. We have no need for cowards who fear for their life and just shoot every possible threat.
Learn to meditate, find a sport that you like and do it regularly, take a class on how to learn (Coursera has a good one "Learning how to Learn"), and take a class on how to take good notes. You might also want to study up on personal organization and personal finance.

WRT study groups, YMMV. I found them incredibly stressful and counter-productive, but other people really seemed to like them. Eventually I actively avoided them.

Start your projects as soon as possible, and then put them aside. You'll come back with new eyes, but your brain needs time to chew on it. Sadly, I think a lot of college courses go too fast, and sometimes you'll have an "aha!" moment months, or even years later. Not sure if there is a solution to this.

Love is almost inevitable, and is almost always a huge disaster for everyone. It's possibly an even worse impact on study than video-game addiction. I would say try to avoid love, but honestly its wonderful. But if you feel lonely, feel lucky that you're not either distracted or heartbroken.
Just so I understand, how are the 2 related? You seem to suggest that the "protesters savagely kicking unconscious victims in the head" are criminals. I agree, they likely are. By those terms then all of the police officers kicking downed protesters are criminals as well. Why are their fellow officers not arresting them on the spot?

There is a very large difference between random protesters committing violent acts and government sanctioned organizations with the legal right to shoot and kill implementing a wide spread program of violence and brutality. If you cannot see the difference, then you are not looking. If an officer observes another officer committing a crime and does not intervene then that officer is corrupt. At each of these police brutality incidents there are often a number of officers observing and not intervening.

When the system designed to enforce the law routinely breaks it without punishment then the system is broken and needs to be rebuilt.
Arch Linux is super simple. Don't set up a bootloader; use efibootmgr to launch Linux directly with the UEFI firmware using EFISTUB and you're golden.
TBF, Plato's Republic explicitly states the guardians of the Polis were not subject to the same laws, and refers to the idea that there is no hierarchy as the "noble lie."
It is extremely hard to believe that we live in a lawful society if the keepers of the peace are considered to be above the law.
Does it mean anything to you, anything at all, that you are willing to defend every single video accusation of police misconduct? What a blanket statement to make.

Maybe you should check your biases.

And here you go,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/judge-releases...

Tell me why this guy deserved to die for losing at a game of Simon Says.
This.

Many retired people need help with what others consider everyday (monthly, yearly) tasks: changing filters, fixing a door, light bulbs, or minor electrical fixture/switch/appliance repair, stopping ants entering the building, a leak in the ceiling, etc. Fixing PC problems counts too.

Anyone who has owned and maintained a home is capable of doing these things provided they're in good health. I'm always happy to help my retired neighbors with their little problems, perhaps b/c I don't have enough of them and they are an interesting distraction, as well as making me feel helpful.
Troopers in certain states already make over 80-100k USD, how much money should it take to hire a decent human being?
Support for this is built in to the stock camera app for Android 10.
You can also generate them via Siri Shortcuts now, I wrote a simple shortcut that’s shown on the share sheet, so I can share WiFi credentials from 1Password via QR code.

The shortcut is just regex match the base station, password and security from the text 1Password shares, then format it as WIFI:S:<ssid>;T:<security>;P:<password>;; and then pipe that to the Generate QR code action.
Landauer's Principle
Oh, don't worry, the Silicon Valley nerds will be begging for cops the day the riots get a bit too close to them.
Could elaborate a bit on what got you into the IT industry at age 34 and what you were doing before that? How easy/difficult was it for you to find a good, well-paying job and build a career?

> I'm sure certain sectors of the hotshot startup world are biased towards "bright young things" but as far as I can tell there are many orgs that have a place for grizzled greybeards

What kind of organizations are you referring to? / How would one go about finding organizations like these?

The reason I'm asking is that I'm in my late twenties and considering doing a PhD in mathematical physics before leaving academia for good and entering the IT industry. Like you, I started programming in my early teens and while I kept coding as a hobby and also worked as a part-time software engineer for a startup for ~1½ years, I obviously have much less professional experience under my belt than those "bright young minds" who enter the industry in their early twenties. So I'm somewhat afraid that it'll be even harder for me to enter the industry when I'm in my early/mid thirties than it is right now.
Just because it's painful doesn't mean it's hopeless.

Protests now, and when you get home, call, email, and write letters to every person that conceivably has authority over how the police act. Don't relent. They did arrest the murderer, after all.
Reverse+osmosis+purifiers-Alkaline+water+|+Tony\'S+Pure+Systems+&+Electronics
Maybe qualified immunity needs to be reduced in scope, but what is the alternative? Without something like it, police might otherwise be held liable for something like having to taser a violent person, only they hit their head on the way down?
Yeah that's the Problem, what is a clear overstep? Maybe the 'victim' was totally out of His mind before, maybe he was calmed down before an raged again, maybe he was loaded up with drugs and imposed a danger to himself/Others/the Police.
It's not that you could judge what is a 'clear overstep' by the immeriate context you see in the video
You are probably thinking of assembly code generated by a compiler, not by a human. Human generated ASM is far more economical (e.g. have a look at Abrash's legendary "Black Book"). Or the Linux 1.0 kernel. It fits on small poster (can't seem to find it on google, a co-worker had it in his office in the mid-90's). Or shellcode, which is small asm by nature. Very very clever asm.

More examples (About half my contract work is in the embedded space, so I encounter assembly on a weekly basis): highly-tuned algorithms, such FFTs on different DSP architectures from TI and Arm, or a very cool parallel FP64 dividing algorithm implemented in 8-bit integer assembly I saw recently; or for startup code (vector and interrupt table generation on init); or for extremely constrained systems like near-field powered products. For example, I worked on a NFC card reader that read SmartCards. The Smart Card code was hand-written assembly and only a few hundred bytes.

So yea, compiled C will always be bigger than hand-written assembly, but you're missing the point with Python: Python takes gigabytes of libraries to be installed, and tens/hundreds of megs of code is loaded during runtime. So it is not a valid comparison. Just look at memory usage of the typical python program.
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