skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your statement is implying that the overuse of force is only in retaliation to attacking cops - have you not seen the dozens of videos over the last few days of people being shot at or gassed for protesting peacefully? Or being rammed into with cars?
All of those odds are nonsensical without a time frame.

Are we talking about on a trip to a grocery store, or this year, or in a life time?
Oh, yes, so we're supposed to believe that malware outfits bringing in millions of dollars a year in illicit profit can't afford to set up front organizations.

And it doesn't even have to be fake! You could be Zoom! Or Avast! Or Trend Micro! Or Sony! Or Lenovo!

The only person in this story who doesn't have a business address is me.
An Empirical Study on ARM Disassembly Tools [pdf]
We the people of the united states grant a monopoly to an individual for a certain amount of time. I personally believe it should have stayed with the original time period. How much time do you need a monopoly?

>The Copyright Act of 1790 was the first federal copyright act to be instituted in the United States, though most of the states had passed various legislation securing copyrights in the years immediately following the Revolutionary War. The stated object of the act was the "encouragement of learning," and it achieved this by securing authors the "sole right and liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing and vending" the copies of their "maps, charts, and books" for a term of 14 years, with the right to renew for one additional 14-year term should the copyright holder still be alive.
This serves pretty much as an extensive Deep Learning State of the Art reference. See e.g. https://paperswithcode.com/sota/image-classification-on-imag....

I am impressed by its content. I use both for research (to track progress) and teaching.
Previous references:

- Measuring the Progress of AI Research by Electronic Frontier Foundation, https://www.eff.org/ai/metrics

- Natural Language Processing Progress https://nlpprogress.com/

are great, but nowhere near Papers with Code, when it comes to the completeness, and UI.
I think legal realism as Matt Levine states it this time is not quite right. Whether a law is meaningful depends not just on what officials do, it's about what most people do.

An example is a curfew. If the government announces a curfew and most people stay home, then this supports the curfew, and the authorities have a better chance of enforcing the curfew. If nobody obeyed it then it wouldn't work at all. (At best it would give the police a justification for selective enforcement.)

The same is true of health orders. We have seen quite a bit of cooperation, partly due to people agreeing with the general principle of wanting to avoid spreading the virus, and partially because many people will obey the law even if they don't agree with it. But, this cooperation is only partial and has seemed rather tenuous lately, due to fatigue and fairly obvious lack of enforcement.

There are different ways people obey laws. Most people outside government have fairly vague understandings of law and only follow the general principles. For the specifics of a law to matter, ultimately it depends on most people accepting the authority of the courts in settling disputes. In particular, the police accepting the courts' authority and enforcing decisions is key.
This is a somewhat small distinction, but I think an extremely important one: prosecutors - not police unions - are responsible for the lack of charges and indictments against police[0]. And even if an indictment is returned, qualified immunity[1] reduces the chances of conviction.

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ferguson-michael-brown-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity
Once again, this feels politically motivated.
1. It's old news.
2. They blame Russian hackers, but we rarely ever have full certainty into the true source of an attack. This is due to false flags (for example, the Germans adding some Russian comments to their code) and hackers routing their attacks via a daisy chain of compromised machines all over the world.
3. The NSA are the worst offenders when it comes to exploiting software vulnerabilities.
Compared to other countries (that have less crime rates), US' police is _way_ too much militarized. So the margin is quite big
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Do not dismiss this new horrifying upswing in brutality with hollow generalizations
but, together!
Still, you have to be mr Scrooge to punish IA for trying to help during an international emergency.
I have heard excellent things about Crossfire but alas have not had the chance to play it -- hopefully one of these days!
Were the cops organizing by social media? He's making the point that social media can be used for good or bad, what the cops use is a rather orthogonal point.

(To be clear: the things you mention are bad)
I am not sure I follow you. The lead essay is written by Ben Thompson and your article refers Ben Evans. Different folks
The problem is the other side is often judgement proof. And you might not know who the other side until you get a counter-notice with their contact information.
> Two limestone monoliths, interpreted as altars, were found in the Judahite shrine at Tel Arad. Unidentified dark material preserved on their upper surfaces was submitted for organic residue analysis at two unrelated laboratories that used similar established extraction methods. On the smaller altar, residues of cannabinoids such as Δ9-teterahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabidiol (CBD) and cannabinol (CBN) were detected, along with an assortment of terpenes and terpenoids, suggesting that cannabis inflorescences had been burnt on it. Organic residues attributed to animal dung were also found, suggesting that the cannabis resin had been mixed with dung to enable mild heating. The larger altar contained an assemblage of indicative triterpenes such as boswellic acid and norursatriene, which derives from frankincense. The additional presence of animal fat―in related compounds such as testosterone, androstene and cholesterol―suggests that resin was mixed with it to facilitate evaporation. These well-preserved residues shed new light on the use of 8th century Arad altars and on incense offerings in Judah during the Iron Age.
Employees are often the ones accused of theft?
Do you know if GDPR prevents EU countries from obtaining IP logs for Amazon zones located there? I was hoping I could spin up an EC2 VPN in Europe and feel more secure that my IP logs can't be obtained by the US gov't. I use RunBox for email in Norway, which has the strictest privacy laws, but there is no AWS zone there. Any thoughts? Thanks.
Fair enough. But in this day and age? As developers, we cant be apolitical any more...
Strange times when Twitter can claim to be the morally better social network.
It is bad if you're an author. (Or if you're a reader who wants the authors to stay in business.)
To clarify, whilst we are changing the systemic issues which cause poor decision making we can also stop buying lottery tickets. I think starting with the things we can change first is a good place to start.
Until I started peeking into how self-driving cars worked, I understood that this was the standard way to build a self-driving vehicle. It still is, outside the marketing-driven industry.
People cannot downvote replies to their comments, so the downvote didn't come from tsimionescu.
That, and the journalists are literally there to record evidence of their abuse. Police don't like it too much when you record evidence of them, say, beating a peaceful protester, or forcing a weapon into the hands of someone already pinned to the ground.
For those who have trouble with Medium links:

https://archive.is/X0c63
I have heard that's a myth, and it's really just that the North Atlantic is big and the prevailing winds go east.

I haven't done the deep research to confirm that, so just take this a me spreading a rumor.
I wish more people here thought about the fact that vitamin D deficiency is caused by the same illnesses that Covid-19 is comorbid with. It could still be the vitamin D, but then again, it could be the hypertension, diabetes and ace2 receptors.
I think it would show more nuanced sentiment to say, that on 110 occasions journalists ended up caught in aggressive police action since May 28. Current wording would have an implication for many people, that journalists were deliberately chosen as targets.
It makes sense that they would do this if they were actively trying to lure the pro-copyright camp (Authors' Guild and publishers) into a difficult-to-defend and highly unpopular position.

That position being that the IA shouldn't do what the law says you aren't allowed to do? That doesn't seem very difficult to defend at all, and it's going to be unpopular with the kind of person who thinks copyright shouldn't exist but probably less so with the people who created those works if they aren't getting paid as they should be.

I'm a little wary of saying much here because copyright disputes often seem to end up having relevant details that were omitted from some reporting on them. But if the IA really is making and distributing an unlimited number of copies of a protected work, isn't that exactly the act that copyright was designed to prohibit?
Is there a backup on the IA? If this lawsuit takes down IA, will the wayback machine content simply be lost forever?
If it bothers you so much, why not just use the regular checkout? Or just shop somewhere else? Do you cover their security cameras all around the store with bags or just the self-checkout one?

This seems a really odd place to draw the line on surveillance.
Not how things are going. Being able to eject oneself from the political and cultural norms of Earth is becoming more and more attractive concept. All of the technology and knowledge, but, potentially, with none of the baggage.

One critical junction will be how much the Mars colony can avoid the smuggling in of bad ideas and ideologies. If done well, this could result in a radical divergence between the cultures, and wealth, of the two planets.
> It is not charitable when you give away another persons property

Knowledge and culture is not anyone’s property. It is the collective work of all of humanity and ought to be treated as such.
The point is that instead of an open port for a service you close all the ports you dont need open, and then firewall what you do need. I'm saying stuff like avahi isn't needed in my case so I turn it off and of course thats not the only measure so I run a firewall amongst other things...
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Which in turn was perhaps caused by "the news" going from being mostly journalists to mostly pundits with the rise of mass media.
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Interesting that in your mind drones are the dark side of the uprising. Really says something about the tech bubble and priorities. I can assure you that drones are the least of protestors' problems right now.
EDIT: I’m not totally sure about the bulging out part of the floating ice is true, but there are also glaciers on land such as over Greenland that would shift the center of mass.
In big cities like NYC people get sunlight during
their commute

Perhaps you have only seen NYC in movies. You can spend a lot of time commuting in NYC without any direct sunlight hitting your skin whatsoever.

Not sure when you think they're soaking up all this sunlight. Sitting in a train car? ...that's underground? Or inside a bus? Or is it when they are walking between tall buildings?

New Yorkers are not exactly known for their tans, even in summertime.

but get no sunlight when cooped up in a small apartment

You were not forced to stay in your apartment, even in NYC. You were always allowed to leave. Of course, most businesses are/were closed, but you are/were certainly allowed to walk around. Many people also have access to their apartment rooftops.

Perhaps more relevantly, of course, most Americans do not live in places like NYC where they have difficulty accessing sources of sunlight. I live in a suburb of a different American city and we are getting much more sunlight during quarantine. It's much easier to take walks and sunlight breaks during the daytime.
> What can Microsoft do, as an alternative, that doesn't result in an identical or worse situation?

Microsoft can recognize that pay-to-play certificates are merely assets owned by developers; not developer identities. Microsoft needs to manage identity relationships with developers in a way that is indepdent of certificate aquisition and expiry.

The certificates themselves are merely an implementation detail of identity.

With that said, I don't condone the corporate gate-keeping of software development and recommend developers not contribute to any platform that requires indie developers to pay to become a part of the ecosystem. Long live open source.
The current wording is correct. The journalists are in fact being deliberately chosen as targets.
I just want to say that we have to do the things necessary to differentiate ourselves from places like China or Saudi Arabia. Nothing is implicit.
According to the data, it will help:

https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1180655717038067712?s=21

(pasted the tweet which contains the link to the data because his entire tweet thread is interesting!)
It depends if you think people are making their own choices in the first place, and then that they are capable of making different ones. The "systemic" view of the world says people aren't making choices, the system is coercing them to make choices. Therefore individuals aren't responsible and should not be coached to make different choices. Both views taken fundamentally seem short sighted. You need both.
Watching the videos posted online it certainly seems that the journalists were chosen as targets. At a bare minumum the police knew they were press (given that they are wearing badges indicating as such, often holding them above their head) and proceeded anyway.
journalists were deliberately chosen as targets
There is plenty of video footage of journalists being directly targeted and attacked by the police.
Alternatively:

sudo sh -c "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/fb0"
There is a huge difference of what kind of identity is established: Let's Encrypt tells you basically that you are actually talking to the right server, whereas EV certs for signing binaries tell you which company that actually exists in the real world owns the certificate.
Sure, Bonzi Buddy might not be the best example, but you get his point. People just click through dialogs to close them without thinking about what they are clicking.
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And we need to form an IA backup. Some org that has all of the (non-book) data so if IA goes down, the important content is still available.
What this really does is train users to bypass protections. As anyone who has owned a mac can attest, I now basically think nothing of the potential perils of doing "right click -> open -> ok" because I have to do it ALL THE TIME.

It's getting to the point where it's the same on windows. More info -> run anyway is becoming a useless annoyance.

I would note that at one point SSL certificates were kind of in the same boat. Users clicked through web warnings as a matter of course. The thing that changed is that we were able to reduce the financial barrier to certs to literally $0. If the same can be done for this nonsense, we will be in much better shape.

I have already made my choice on risk when I chose to download the software from the developer and execute it. A prompt for a first time trust might be the limit of what I'm OK with including, but any stronger warning or making it difficult to proceed is really only reasonable to do if some 3rd party is compromising a choice I have already made.
You're assuming most cops support Trump?
I disagree with the premise, I'm not aware of protestors threatening bystanders. And at the point that they're threatening to kill bystanders, that has progressed past rioting to terrorism.

At that point, I think the full spectrum of force (including lethal force) is fair game.

Now if we take a situation like the present one, where there is a mixture of peaceful protests, and riots that threaten property, I think the response is different.

Firstly, immediate escalation from the police only begets escalation from protesters. Start with officers in uniform and somebody with a bullhorn. You shouldn't need riot gear unless the rioters are violent towards police. If the rioters start throwing things, upgrade to police in riot gear with shields and batons.

Responding with tear gas and rubber bullets should be saved for if the police are utterly unable to contain the riots to within a certain area. Building barricades and waiting them out is a potentially effective option. Yes, there will be property damage, but that's pretty much a foregone conclusion. Build the barricades, arrest people as they leave the area.

There are also other less than lethal options. Pepper spray seems like an effective system with minimal harmful side effects. There is an acoustic system that generates painfully loud sound (although I believe it comes with a risk of permanent hearing damage). Batons and riot shields seem like an effective system. Regular old vision obscuring smoke grenades would cut out some of the mob mentality since you can't see everyone else rioting.
Armed revolt certainly can be good, though it can also be bad, and the victors will decide. For example, the Founders were traitors to the British, and all then-still-alive ones would have hung if the War had been lost. That means if you're going to have an armed revolt, you'll want to make sure you win. Even now we're far from what you have in mind.

Civil war ideation is probably not productive at this time nor generally -- let it always be a remote possibility, possible, yes, but remote and unwanted. We're seeing a fair bit of legislative and social change right now, and we can expect more; there's no need to start killing people or threatening to or fantasizing about it.
And "the enemy of the people"?
Well, some videos I've seen wouldn't exactly disagree.
If you show up for riot duty wearing [1], you're likely to walk away with injuries. If this goes through, make sure to track police injuries during riots if you want to be forthcoming. Violent protesters and instigators will throw things no matter whether you're in [1] or [2].

Bike squads on regular duty almost always look like [1] anyway. [2] might be a SWAT picture.
Copying isn't stealing. If I made a perfect double of your car based on a picture of it, and you didn't lose your car, there is literally no way you can make that out to be bad. Your analogy falls flat on its face and chokes to death before it accomplishes anything.
> This is why we need WASM and web-first development.

This is why we have Linux. Personally, I don't want to live in a web-first world. I don't want everything I do on a computer to have to have internet access. And I certainly don't want the browser to be my OS.
This is not the first article claiming that on HN (the previous one was flagged to death). Like the previous one, this one does not show anything objective to support this interpretation.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/11142215334617907...

> The press is doing everything within their power to fight the magnificence of the phrase, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! They can’t stand the fact that this Administration has done more than virtually any other Administration in its first 2yrs. They are truly the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!
They are being arrested too. You need to deliberately select someone as a target for arrest.
When "Freedom of the Press" is under attack, newspapers/press/media have had their legal counsel file lawsuits against the government. But with the demise of revenue for many newspapers (and many going out of business), I wonder if they will take those expensive steps.
It's already taking(taken) off. I don't think any of the 3 points up top are typically valid and linked together.
I use an "old" oculus rift setup that is tethered to my desktop with a 1070ti. The only batteries to speak of are in my hand controls and they last months. The head piece is not heavy, so you might be referring to a wearable pack seen in vr installations mixing vr in a closed set/space?

Quality wise, visuals are pretty amazing. Good enough on mainstream games like Half-Life Alyx, GTA5, Pavlov and Lone Echo to make me think and feel like I'm in the environment. As a private pilot let me tell you that flying in vr in X-Plane 11 is just amazing. 360 views and interactions with knobs/levers in the cockpit. Even more, utilizing more advanced setups in unreal engine and megascans/quixel goes to another level.

It's still not entirely accessible to everyone in terms of cost as it's not cheap. Especially if you want the "best" graphics which requires the headset and a computer with decent gpu. So I do agree with point 4 and being a niche market.

I wonder what "taking off" to most people is? It's definitely not Lawnmower Man/the matrix/ready player one yet. It's cumbersome when using a tethered setup and room scale is amazing but I don't exactly have a dedicated play space to wander within or a specialized endless treadmill.

It does however provide an interesting escape with unique experiences. Something as simple as google maps is mind blowing when traveling around the world. I was recently working on a house project and needed to figure out the remodel. I modeled the house in Maya, imported it into UE, and was able to put on my oculus and "walk" around the space.

For me it's hard to go back to "flat gaming" after vr. I really enjoy it and look forward to seeing how it continues to evolve.
They were though. The videos out of twitter are completely horrifying. An endless wave of cops hearing "Reporter! Here's my badge! I am a reporter!" and just ... not caring. Bash their face, mace them, just follow orders. I saw a video where an officer smashed their video camera. A big one, the style a professional reporter uses.

It's our democracy. And we want to hope for the best. But damn if this isn't worrisome.

EDIT: Hehe, well. Sorry you got piled on. For what it's worth, I was very much on the side of the police about three days ago, so I had to do some soul searching. In case you're in the same boat: I urge you to go seek out and find some of the videos that people are upset about. It's not propaganda; it can't be. It's just footage from citizens.
So are your secrets served from a central node that authenticates the certificates? What does your process look like for changing secrets when someone leaves the company?
Haven't read Lederman's book but sounds interesting. If he is referencing the Bible that makes me not like the name even more however names really are pretty trivial and aren't the real science so I guess it doesn't even matter. It is just my opinion doesn't really mean much in the grand scheme of things, both my opinion and what he names the Higgs-Boson.