skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't most of these happening in majority left wing states and cities run by the left. AFAIK they are still report the Mayors of the cities. Let's not make this a Right vs Left thing any more. The country is already divided as it is, we don't need further division in this country.
Yes, that solution has been known since at least the 1970's. The cost and complexity of adding all those diodes was an impediment in the old days, not sure how much of an issue it is today.
I think ordinary people will eventually realize that once you stop giving so much of your attention to Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. there's a whole internet out there for you to discover.
It's possible to correct for socio-economic conditions. In fact, it's somewhat silly to run an experiment like this without correcting for that.
Personally speaking only, but I am a tech worker in the larger media sphere—mainly publishing with some titles over a century old.

These matters strike very close to home.

edit: I wanted to add that I have a lot of respect for most of the people in this community and the diversity of perspectives it provides. I'm very interested in hearing what people have to say here.
>Any studies involving UBI need to have malicious actors as a part of the study.

Yes, and no.

Of course there will be some low form of abuse and whatever.. that is just a given with anything in the entire world. It should NOT be a main reason of any form to be against it.

We are trying to help people, so what if it's getting a little bit abused? We as a whole are still better off.

It's like a universal healthcare argument.. people might say "well what if someone from mexico sneaks in and get care for free?? I'm paying for that!" If the worst case is that someone gets health treatment... then it's a pretty silly argument in my book.
Then this was definitely not caused by congestion. Would be really interesting to know what was going on with your senses at that time.
[disclosure: I work on Instagram at Facebook]

While some are feeling sad and think quitting is the only way, I feel it's important for employees who care to stay and help implement the changes. I am proud how employees are voicing their opinion inside the company and I hope we see some changes soon.
Listening to a Facebook employee talk about human rights is like listening to a butcher talk about animal rights.

Unfortunately, it's difficult to hear their voice over the sound of their blade hitting the cutting board.
Where did he answer that? I re-read the post but I don't see anything like what you're referencing.

Voting with your wallet is another possible approach, but that only works if the lost revenue from all the people who care enough to leave can offset the extra profits FB is making by being evil.

FWIW I deactivated my account over a year ago and never looked back, but I did that more out of concern for my own mental health than anything else, and I'm under no illusions that my solitary gesture will make much difference in the grand scheme of things.
How about universally abolished income tax, instead? Let's save on IRS expenses too.
And it has, as people take the law into their own hands. Unfortunately in 2020 we’re still arguing whether violence is ok.
As I say above, even if the tank story is apocryphal, it captures the tendency of neural nets (modern or ancient, doesn't matter) to overfit to irrelevant details (which, btw, is what Layerwise Relevance Propagation from my comment above is trying to determine).

This is probably the reason why this story has been repeated so many times (and with so many variations): beause it rings true to anyone who has ever trained a neural net, or interacted with a neural net for any significant amount of time. Unfortunately, the article you cite chooses to suggest otherwise.

In any case, if the tank story is an urban legend it has its roots firmly in reality.
"thugs" is "alt-right" for the bad word for black people. Trump uses it constantly.

Threatening "no quarter" against rioters is to suggest that smashing windows deserves the death penalty without trial.

And that's just in the last 24 or so hours.

Members of his death cult will reply "oh he was keeeeeeeding" or "he didn't mean that" while the administration has argued in the Supreme Court that his social media messages are official communications of the office of the president of the united states of america.
> What’s the beef with my choice?

It just seems odd that they've captured your face walking in and all over the store with their other cameras, but then you choose to cover the camera at the checkout. Why? What do you hope to gain/prevent by doing that? Why are you risking getting in trouble?

Why is that one camera where you draw the line?
I don't think it's reasonable to think that UBI could replace SS and Medicare, elderly people aren't going to give up those benefits for a significantly smaller lump sum. The average SS payment is already greater than $18k per year, not even including the value of Medicare. At best, you might make people who collect SS and Medicare ineligible for UBI, though that would no longer make it universal and the elderly might also vote en masse to collect both.

The argument is similar for other forms of welfare. A single mom getting housing benefits plus food stamps plus Medicaid isn't likely to trade her much higher value benefits for a smaller lump sum. At best you might give her the choice between the two.

Ultimately, most of the expense you are proposing would have to come from new taxes that are in addition to the current Federal budget.
Strict legal action can't prevent them from being undercut by foreign competitors.
Just a piece of data, a cameraman attacked by someone posing as a medic: https://twitter.com/Lucas_Jackson_/status/126708396851348684...

Any news reports of people posing as reporters might be suppressed by newsrooms themselves as to not encourage copycats or get the idea out there that reporters might not be reporters, that is entirely unsubstantiated conjecture though.
Sorry, for the safety of myself, my fellow demonstrators, and my family I am not going to state the actual events I was at.

Others have already shown examples, however here is an news article covering some incidents: https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-asks-evidence-individuals-incit...

I have so far not seen any evidence of the opposite taking place, I would certainly appreciate some counter examples.
Are there people who were ever under the guise that it wasn't?

Are there people that work for Facebook that do not know of the nice words Zuckerberg had to say about the people who initially gave Facebook their information?

I'm not trying to sound snarky, but it's pretty damn obvious to anybody with a functional & logical brain that Zuckerberg is internally an angry outcast of a nerd fulfilling his fantasies of revenge... against, something that hurt him sometime in his life...
Before Debian made exim default and made an ungodly mess of macros and unintelligible crap out of their config, it was pretty simple to configure.

In fact, as an old hand (been dealing with exim configs since 2001), the very first thing I did and still do is delete the default debian hell and copy-paste a simple two-screen config which then needs only 3-4 lines tweaked.
I agree from a public relations standpoint too. All the new cruisers in my city are black Chargers/Challengers with battering ram front bumpers and they look way too intense for the job.

I'm also scared irreparable damage had been done to the police brand such that way fewer "good" people will want to sign up.
They drank too much of their own Kool-Aid thinking they could reform Facebook, an undemocratically governed institution.

Facebook has lost a lot of great talent because of how they treat not only their customers but their employees too. Draconian performance metrics keeping top performers from getting raises, and letting people who game the system increase their pay. Because of their engagement with universities, a lot of their employees have very little experience in any other corporate environment so they don’t recognize mismanagement when they see it.
If you need a business address, it's pretty simple to get.

The main purpose is a paper trail leading the software back to you. If you aren't malicious, it's a few hours task to arrange.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business-insig...
Great video, thanks! Crazy instrument: floating strings, movable frets, last 2 strings are lower in the octave...
If your theory holds, there should be footage out there showing media taking risks. Either from the media themselves or from bystanders.

I've not seen any footage that reflects that - and there is plenty of footage of police attacks on reporters at this point.

Reporters know that these attacks are happening - it's their job to know what's going on! They don't want to be attacked, so they aren't taking risks.
I can weigh in a bit on what the police claim happened here in Indianapolis. They won't account for all of their CS deployments, which I think is crazy, but they did address why it started the other day (Saturday?). Their claim is that what they saw was some police inside the city/county building and a single person started hitting the glass on the building. Simultaneously, "previously peaceful" protesters started locking arms at one end of the street, blocking emergency vehicle ingress, so they let loose a bunch of (13 year expired)_CS gas.

Is that believable? Sure, but locking arms is also a common thing during protests. The road was already blocked off and cars weren't going through. Also, they fired CS into crowds of protesters blocks away, claiming that they think the protesters are coordinating by secure communications and instantaneously turning violent across the city. Most of it seems like bullshit, and even if it's all true, locking arms on one side of a closed street is not at all unusual. They should have arrested the one guy hitting the glass and let the protest continue.

By the way, they used this event to justify the curfews that haven't been raised since then.
That's an interesting idea, especially with routing over LoRa getting a lot of development. I've been following Meshtastic [0] where they're doing both routing and data payloads over LoRa in low powered communications devices.

It would be an interesting idea to have a device that could use 802.11 for data when in close enough range. With chips like the ESP8266 you could still have a relatively low power device but with much greater bandwidth.

[0]https://github.com/meshtastic/Meshtastic-device
It's a corporation, not a democracy. Any "voice" employees have is an illusion when the CEO has his mind made up and controls a majority of voting shares.
What a bizarre decision. I have very little control over what arises me/what doesn’t; it’s part of my lizard brain. I would think the Grindr team would understand that more than most.
Folks without virtue accuse people of "virtue signalling" as if virtue were a bad thing. These folks would call MLK a social justice warrior engaged in "virtue signalling".
According to the paper, it would have been imported as hash instead:

> In fact, no cannabis seeds or pollen remains are known from archaeological contexts in the Ancient Near East, as opposed to northeast China or southeast Russia, where all parts of the cannabis plant and seed were found at different archaeological sites and contexts and were dated as early as 2000 BCE (Jiang et al. 2016; Russo et al. 2008; Russo 2014). Therefore, we suggest that cannabis female inflorescences may have been imported from distant origins and were transported as dried resin (commonly known as hashish).
I'm guessing the context is Facebook's and Twitter's differing reactions to Trump's recent online postings. At a glance, this article seems like a thorough review of the situation: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/technology/twitter-facebo...
If you think that tear gas isn't being used in foreign countries, then you haven't watched television news in the last 40 years.
> pretty expensive

Agreed. For whatever it's worth, I have a few friends who swear by it. I have no idea how dynamic our bodies needs are, but presumably you could make the price more reasonable by signing up, getting yourself on track, cancelling and then checking back in after 1/2/N years.
Mr. Zuckerberg held firm even as the pressure on him to take action on Mr. Trump’s messages intensified. Civil rights groups said late Monday after meeting with him and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, that it was “totally confounding” that the company was not taking a tougher stand on Mr. Trump’s belligerent posts, which have contributed to the rhetoric around the protests over police violence in recent days. And several Facebook employees have publicly resigned, with one saying the company would end up “on the wrong side of history.”

If the "sides of history" are a spectrum, with Facebook on the "wrong" side, what social networks are on the "right" side? I'm sure the Fediverse and Mastodon are on the right side, and Matrix/Riot are as well. Signal should be on the right side, but probably closer to the middle of the spectrum, but not as close to the middle as, say Twitter or Reddit.

How would fellow readers of HN plot current social media on the sidedness of history spectrum?
The point is vote buying, of course.
I write how I write, either you like it or not. Keep your lectures on how to start sentences for your kids, I am not interested.
> But the government's part of the system is absolutely insignificant.

The easiest data point I could find is that the Executive branch spent $228 Billion in 2010 on government salaries, excluding the military and USPS[1]. That's almost $700 per person per year if you converted it all to a UBI. That's far from insignificant.

> But I also have a neighbor that will spend the cash component of the welfare he gets within the first 10 days of the month. If he got cash only and had to pay rent himself, I'm certain that he wouldn't

I don't see why I am obligated to pay for someone who refuses to take care of himself.

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/how-mu...
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The total, broadly construed cost of every US anti-poverty program is less than one-third of the $3tn mentioned above. You only even get that if you include Medicaid.
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Hello there, Jesse here.

I'm looking to work on a small team of highly motivated individuals doing innovative and, more importantly, meaningful work. Areas that sound interesting to me are graphics, computer vision, compiler development and genetics/genomics to name a few.

I have experience (10 years) building CRUD APIs for the web in all manner of interpreted languages and frameworks.

I've worked on multiple compilers both for fun and profit, a 3D game engine, memory allocators, parsers, a Windows IDE, IBM mainframes running RPG (wtf .. people still use these!?), binary and text-based network protocols, lots of CRUD applications both frontend & backend, setup web servers from scratch many times, written C++ node modules .. I think you get the idea. I'm comfortable writing and deploying code to pretty much any platform.

I have a diverse skillset that could be valuable to your company if you're looking for someone with a well rounded knowledge of CS, coupled with good understanding of how to write well-working software. I consider myself to be a craftsman, and firmly believe in shipping high quality software. I feel the quality of most software today is _far_ lower than it could be, and make a conscious effort to set a high bar in terms of quality for myself and, to the best of my ability, encourage those around me to do the same.

If you think we could do good work together, please contact me at my email address listed above. Cheers, Jesse.
> You don't think I would be justified in blaming 3rd party for pressuring others into firing me?

No and I think that this is the significant portion of the problem. Do better.
I apologize if I came on too strong.

But my comment still stands, if our/your/whatever elected leaders are just people like us. Why treat them differently or expect facebook to treat them differently?

Your reason of him being elected doesn't make any sense to me. Saying it's the president makes even less sense. What about mayors, governors in the US? Do they get the same leniency as you give to president?
It’s important to note “Modern Monetary Theory” (aka MMT) is almost unanimously rejected by mainstream academics[1]. Its largest proponents are political leaders rather than economists.

[1] http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/modern-monetary-theory/
You can implement a progressive tax using UBI and a flat tax instead and thus get rid of all the loopholes and tax screwery. IMO this is what all countries should do. Corruption loves complexity.
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I could use a TLDR on this one ...
One thing that I haven’t seen mentioned is that IA allowed authors to remove their books from the national emergency library. This doesn’t make publishers happy because they can’t make the decision for their authors.
The server seems to have a rough time at the moment.
Quoting your source: "Dressed in riot gear, deputies from the Alameda County Sheriff's Office arrived at the house on Magnolia Street around 5:30 a.m." That confirms what jeffbee said. (Except the "old" part. If 34 is old, I'm in trouble.)
> I am honestly rejoicing at the sight of Americans discovering they are not really as free or as better than the rest of the world as they think they are

Americans are still freer than the rest of the world in general. None of this changes that. "As better" - still hasn't changed either if by better you mean better off. If you're born in the US, in general, you're in a position to be better off than most of the world. These two things also apply to most European countries. We aren't going to apologize for it. I understand if American patriotism and confidence puts off other countries. It's not for everyone. Different cultures have different values. It's ok.

Sad we have to address police corruption and brutality, but it's part of the process. Many nations don't have the ability for civilians to enact change. It's core to our foundation. We've done it many times before.
Stop posting political bullshit to HN!
Keep your cancer to Reddit...
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I just looked at this guys resume. Its pretty great. Kudos for standing up too. Hope he gets a great next job.
Considering that we’re going through a pandemic, I can imagine a lot of things I’d like to interact with by only using hand tracking, outside of VR.

Perhaps this necessity with be the mother of invention.
How do you know he doesn't have a new job or plan? That's a.. rather large assumption.
He clarified his comments and his explanation is not inflammatory.

"Looting leads to shooting, and that's why a man was shot and killed in Minneapolis on Wednesday night - or look at what just happened in Louisville with 7 people shot," Trump tweeted

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-defends-his-when-the-l...

People should be given a chance to explain what they said if it is misinterpreted. Focusing on the misinterpretation after the explanation has been made is in-fact inflammatory and divisive.
Yep! Even as a fan of more parallel-friendly programming languages I still think having single-core algorithms applied to different input parameters in parallel is a very viable alternative approach if your problem space allows for it.

I quite disliked the journey. The UNIX shell legacy shenanigans are real and can be a pain. But you can still bear a lot of fruit without going to the more arcane corners of it.
At least one paper[2] associates CS gas with long term heart and lung damage.

So the cops will get theirs... in 20 years or so.
I assume you’re talking about the bible, which is obviously not copyrighted, so where does the idea comes from that nobody will continue to buy old content if it’s in the public domain?
don't interview with them, I had an onsite a few years ago with them and they cancelled it after I booked the hotel room and refused to reimburse me, what a joke of a company.
My idea was more in that every p2p node of Matrix can also be a IPFS server, and be used to pin all of your own media + a small cache of your contacts/group media.

You wouldn't need to save all of the media your homeserver is dealing with, but you still could be reasonably sure that your node would be able to find all media you are supposed to access.

Given that the post talks about libp2p and how libp2p's main driver is IPFS, it seemed reasonable to think that if you are adding Dentrite to your browser you might embed an IPFS server as well.
why are you asking loaded questions? it is almost as if you are not interested in having a discussion, but would rather post talking points that i already agree with

hard to understand the point of what you are doing
If you use any of Instagram, messenger, or WhatsApp, you vote with your wallet to keep Facebook alive.
"from inside" never works, it is just an excuse. Just face the reality - you like this big money more. I'd too if I made it through the interview.
Stop posting political bullshit to HN! Keep your cancer to Reddit...
Yes, I do that, too. Data Matrix, not QR, but my keys do have paper backups.
Personally, I agree with Zuckerberg. Facebook in particular, and tech companies in general, should not be unilaterally making choices that fundamentally affect our government. Facebook is right to keep both harsh words from Trump and the video of Floyd's murder.

That said, I applaud the author for standing by his principles and putting his money where his mouth is.
Of course work DOES happen at the computer -- a lot of it. I've always been a bit annoyed with hyperbole.

That being said, I liked this article; it has some good, practical ideas for ensuring that your day will be productive.

WIN THE DAY: Before you switch on your computer, determine for yourself what 3 (or fewer!) accomplishments this day would constitute a win, a successful and productive day.

The other thing is to ask yourself the question from time to time throughout your day: What am I doing right now? That is, which of my to-do's am I working right now? Unfortunately, the answer is often: oops -- actually something else entirely.
What’s Behind Technological Hype?
Are you arguing that looting and rioting are free speech?

That would be an argument mostly without legal precedent or support.
Sure, and we’ve had race riots in the past too.

But when was the last time we had this level of protest in support of a minority group? The million man march? And that required how much organization in comparison?

No one is arguing that it’s a required feature for masses of people being angry at injustice.

What they’re arguing is that it changes which injustices are visible.
They are reacting to this message[1], which includes the phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts." It's a phrase that has been used as a pretext for violence against protests[2].

As mentioned in [2], Twitter reacted to the message on their platform. Facebook has the same policy against using their platform to incite or glorify violence[3], but have chosen not to enforce it (or disagree that it is an incitement to violence).

[1] https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/posts/10164767134275725

[2] https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/864818368/the-history-behind-...

[3] https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/credible_violenc...