skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those users invariably have been blindly clicking away the update notification and have picky themselves to blame.
> At the end of the day your computer is no different from an expensive space heater. Might as well mine some crypto with it.

i mean... it wouldn't be a space heater if it wasn't crunching pointless numbers...
They also keep people honest by diminishing the temptation
And I expect different companies will hold different standards as to when content meets that line.

That's not to say I think Facebook or Twitter are consistent - they are far, far from consistent, and you are right to desire to hold them accountable to their own policies.
> Sure. Call it resolved. That does not mean that it didn't happen the way that it's being described.

I am not arguing if the events are misstated. I will continue calling it resolved, as crew took the apology and does not seem to want anything else. So why bring it up again?

> This is a really weird point to get hung up on, given that the title of the original article is "U.S. police have attacked journalists more than 120 times since May 28". Where does it say "intentional"? I can't decide if this is a strawman or goalpost shifting, but either way your approach to this conversation is odious.

This whole discussion is a subthread of a comment, that the title might be misleading, because for many it will imply intent to attack journalists specifically.

> Officials are acknowledging that these are wrongful arrests, why can't you?

If you want a serious talk, we should use proper legal terms. "Wrongful arrest" definitely does not apply to the second of two cases, and in the official statement that wording was not used. They did apologize for making a mistake, which happens. But it is a mistake permitted by the law due to special circumstances (e.g. a riot).

> please continue looking into the evidence. Because there's tons of it and you know how to find it.

I am not making extraordinary statements, to which I consider "police intentionally focus journalists".
err.. There are so many videos of people grabbing stuff from stores and running. That is looting.

Now, If you make the argument that these people are not protesters but opportunistic thieves, then we can all move on.

Looting & destroying someone else's property as a response to injustice is almost as bad as the injustice itself.

This is not to say all protesters are looters, but that thieves take this opportunity to insert themselves into these situations masquerading as protesters.I have no sympathy for these people.(Not that anyone cares about my opinion)
Usually "I saw videos of this" isn't a good argument, though I do agree. I've yet to see any proof of protests causing an emergency vehicle to arrive too late, while there are numerous counterexamples. The most memorable to me was the video of a street absolutely packed in France where they made room for the ambulance to drive through.
How many of the problems here will be picked up by your package linter?
Which version are you referring to? I found several versions on Amazon which appear to have different gameplay.
They generally do have consistent uniforms (dark, gray and tan solids with a badge and utility belt.) The vehicle wraps vary more.
"What about" is not a helpful question here. Stay focused on the main issues.
Heretics abound.
I get that feeling already when I tried half life alyx's gesture to gravity grab objects in the air.
I think you're missing the point. This is the structure of malfeasance. It is the goal of every borrower to create a scenario which is, for lack of a better word, homomorphic to this one.
It's a good question. I'm not saying it accounts for all of it, but to my understanding, DC is both heavily segregated an has a gigantic, poor black population. Not to mention presence of the federal government there and the uhh...arguably symbolic incensing that may have occurred there. But I'm sure I'm missing key factors even with this analysis.
> Hunting deer at night is very, very illegal as the deer freeze when the light is shined at them.

Is that really the rationale? I would think risk of accidentally harming humans or property would significantly increase at night.
I've never used nix-env on NixOS. I really think that command only exists as a bridge for people used to more traditional OS's. I think there is a space for it - if you don't want to spend time building your user configuration declaratively, just install what you need and get going.
Ask HN: How is your startup handling BLM?
I'm so disappointed in my series D company's lack of response. Wondering if any employees at small to mid-size startups have shown satisfactory leadership.
For sure it is valuable feedback for Mozilla, but honestly as a long term user of Firefox and based on following various controversies and criticism my aggregate opinion is that many Firefox users often chose the strangest arguments.

A pinch of how "linux is not about choice"[1] would improve the discourse around Firefox.

I understand that many choices Mozilla made are dubious and that the browser is one of the most important pieces of software on a modern computer... still that xkcd looked quite relevant

[1] http://www.islinuxaboutchoice.com/
Honestly speaking for myself I think roboto and Calibri are excellent fonts.

Readable and aesthetically pleasing, what's the general opinion on these default fonts in the typography world?
I think what people fail to recognize is that AI/ML solutions will _always_ be imperfect.

But, they scale. There's always a threshold for the accuracy/efficiency point. It's not meaningful to identify errors, even if they seem glaring, if overall you're reducing 80% of loss at 10% of the expense.
Suggesting that unfettered capitalism is resulting in extreme wealth inequality assumes we live in a system of unfettered capitalism. Which we don't, not even close.
George Floyd Death: Minneapolis Police Union Blocked Reform
For France: https://gitlab.inria.fr/stopcovid19
If this is about posts that incite violence and unrest, then Facebook and Twitter should definitely be removing anything that tries to justify rioting, and certainly anything that argues that it's necessary. As far as I can tell they're not - and not only that, the activists and many of the journalists who're pushing for this ban would almost certainly object if they did.
> There is so much FUD, conspiracy, and disinformation surrounding the topic of the hazards of EM radiation to human tissue that it's hard to separate what's relevant from the hyperbolic.

I posted this and I agree. To be entirely honest I was hoping to gain some insights from comments here on HN.

u/Junk_Collector has an interesting question that I was wondering about as well.
I think you'll find that to be true in most discussions about UBI, even those backed by conservative economists like Charles Murray.

As for economically conservative discussion about redistribution, I think Greg Mankiw had one of the best summaries of the matter in 2013 "Defending the One Percent"

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mankiw/files/defending_the...

Ultimately the question of whether to redistribute or not is as normative, just like considering taxes to be inherently immoral. So far societies have enjoyed the former more than the latter, but individuals fall on both sides.
OK, I'll bite, and ignore the dismissive "not even wrong" insult!

Remember how the scientific method works: if you make a hypothesis, it's the most fragile thing in the universe -- a single falsification is all it takes to send you packing.

So, every time someone trots out "the plural of anecdote is not data" when presented with a refutation, this tells us something important... Like it or not, that's just how it works.

A group's CFR is almost the only thing that matters to that specific group. If the CFR is low, it literally does not matter at all how, or how fast you got infected -- the statistical outcomes are now known! The "continuous exposure" vs. "casual interactions" thing? That R-0; interesting, but almost irrelevant vs. CFR. In fact, once low group-CFR has been ascertained, the "normal behavior case" R-0 defines the societal infection/immunity rate required to achieve their group's contribution to societal herd immunity, but otherwise is of little interest: the average group participant just wants to gain immunity, as quickly as possible, to provide protection for the high-risk groups.

So, the fact that multiple independent instances of (accidentally measured, statistically significant) high rates of group infection without demise, leading to a low group CFR are extremely surprising, and that should have led to a "stop work, tools down" moment for those engineering our societal response. But, it did not.

That is disappointing.

I think the most disappointing thing, to me, is how many in our society are more than ready and willing to throw the innocent, high-risk elderly and those with co-morbidities "under the bus", just to avoid their own (very low) CFR.

Take it like a man/woman.
That is why I made the analogy to a space heater - because mining would be a free side benefit of something you actively use to keep warm.

The environmental impact is also negligible if the power you're using is coming from solar or wind.
Core counts has gone up quite considerably in the last few years, certainly in a compute farm context. 10 years ago, you'd be looking at 2U servers having 8 cores (dual quad core) as high density. These days, 2U servers can pack 4 sockets, and processors are in the high 20 something cores, so if you've got deep pockets you can get over 100 cores in 2U.
I have a similar idea. I've been working on a design for a Common Lisp-based desktop environment that can run on top of Linux and the BSDs. It's inspired by the Lisp machines of old and OpenDoc, an API for building component-based software that was championed by Apple and IBM back in the 1990s before Steve Jobs returned. I haven't started writing any code yet, partly because I've been learning X programming and other parts of the graphics stack like Cairo and Pango.

I have some more ideas at http://mmcthrow-musings.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-proposal-for-..., though I wrote this before I committed to using Common Lisp (I talk about using GNUstep near the end of the document, but I've since ruled it out due to the difficulty of finding modern Objective-C bindings for SBCL that work with GNUstep).
The app isn't obfuscated an was quite quickly decompiled.
and I thought these Raymond Chandler novels describing the cops of "Bay City" were fiction...
I never made any such statement, let alone "keep pushing". I simply asked for counterexamples to some of the examples shown in the media.

Do you have any concrete examples in your situation in Sweden?
No. You're ignoring the reality that digital assets aren't like cars. Close to 100% of the cost of creating a book, movie or song lies in the creation not the duplication. If all of the audience copies it for free instead of buying it, the creator makes nothing.

It has ZERO to do with whether the book store is deprived of the use of the copy. It has everything to do with whether the creation costs are split evenly amoungst the users.

Here's an assignment for you: imagine writing a book or creating a movie. Now imagine that everyone pirates a digital version instead of paying you. Do you feel okay because no one deprived you of your original copy? Or are you depressed because everyone is using your work but not paying you what you asked?
Nobody Knows the Future
So, eating a lot of fish I would guess.
It sounds like you're aiming for something a little more advanced, but I want to mention Amazing Tales [1] just in case you aren't aware of it. It does really well as a "first RPG" for kids, with the focus heavily on the storytelling part of the game.

[1] https://amazing-tales.net/
They decided to buy Pocket instead. It's no longer a third-party thing.
China Is Making Cryptocurrency to Challenge Bitcoin and Dollar
The Gifts of Reading Are Many
As someone who uses AT&T mobile for my only internet, this is better than nothing.
If you don’t see how inaccurate several parts of that statement are, I am afraid that it would likely not be a productive discussion for either of us.
I think you're missing the point.

For Bitcoin to continue to act as a decentralized currency ledger (with "settlement assurance"), then the network hash rate must remain high.

Nobody is arguing that the code couldn't run on one processor, only that cryptocurrencies conceptually depend on this high hash rate
Debian packaging lacks a practical guide that is comprehensive enough to cover all modern use cases, but at the same time doesn't lack focus and goes to the point. The official docs are very extensive, but then they lack self-references to guide the reader to the interesting parts, or surprisingly lacks information that one would expect to find in there.

You will read about debian/rules file, but then open one from any example project and only see a single rule calling "dh". Turns out debhelper is there doing things for you. On to read about debhelper. But now sometimes you'll see some rules file that uses the target "override_dh_autoreconf", which was not explained, not even hinted, in the previous docs. On to read more.

Did you think you got everything? Not so fast!

You'll document yourself about debian/control files and see that using some variable-like names are common in lots of projects. For example this is used a lot:

Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}

On with the same issue. For some reason (which new users reading the docs shouldn't really have to care), "shlibs:Depends" seems to be used all over the place, but it is not mentioned, hinted, or even suggested in a mere "see also" paragraph in the docs about debian/control. If you are thorough enough you'll end up seeing a quick mention in a different section (8. Shared Libraries), and turns out the actual definition of this variable has to be checked out from "dpkg-shlibdeps", an independent package.

Now how to actually build a package?

In the old days, the debian/rules file contained all the steps, but all is now helpfully abstracted by simply calling debhelper (dh). But calling debian/rules itself is abstracted also by dpkg-buildpackage. Calling dpkg-buildpackage is itself covered by debuild. And debuild is possibly covered by calling git-buildpackage. There is a crazy pile of tools calling tools calling other tools, that is nothing but extremely confusing for newcomers.

For the 99% of times you just want a local package for local installation, dpkg-buildpackage is what you want. But getting to that conclusion is not something you get pointed to from a brief introduction from an official manual. You get to that conclusion after either studying all tools and putting order to all scattered knowledge in your head, or after blindly following some random blog of forum post (which tend to be correct because thankfully all this tooling doesn't change much over time)

EDIT to stress that all information is there, but the official docs lack a good enough effort of linking or including everything in such a way that it follows a logical learning process for newcomers.
> At the end of the day your computer is no different from an expensive space heater

In most of the US, at least, you want AC and not heat at least 7-8 months out of the year, if not more.
Firefox Sync meets all the criteria you've described, except I don't think it has automatic Tor integration.
> The idea of copyright for books is that another publisher can't start printing copies of a book someone else wrote and start selling them.

But with the historical conceptual constraint that:

a) it costs enough to make copies that a physical publishing industry is necessary to produce copies of books at scale

b) it is unthinkable that copies may be made for $0

c) were it somehow thinkable that a person could magically receive a book from a neighbor with the neighbor never losing their own copy, the free transfer of copies clearly trumps any benefits or incentives federal copyright may have.

Lucky for us Jefferson saw in human ideas the same novel properties that we take for granted with digital data, and he wrote explicitly about his priorities regarding those novel properties:

"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation."

So the one relevant historical commentary I know from the time is clearly on the side of the person you're responding to. You can't apply the same copyright logic to non-physical things (or more broadly, things for which a recipient can receive a thing without the giver having lost one). And if you try, then free distribution outweighs exclusive rights.
When BBSes started to come about, we were warned repeatedly that censoring content would make us liable for the the contents themselves. If we did not, we could not be held liable. The only place we were told we can limit, is at account sign-up.

What happened to this legal quandary? Facebook is not only a "carrier of posts" but also "arbiter of contents", in essence playing both.

Is Facebook then liable for the contents? I am not referring to DMCA, but libel and related issues.
The comment you are replying to addresses this:

> Unless there's an easy way for police to make a credible determination if the media badge is valid, I would count it as an honest mistake with no major consequences.
I think about the shooting of Daniel Shaver very often. A cold-blooded execution of a middle class white man caught on video and the officer was acquitted. We need to address both police brutality as well as racial inequality, and I wonder if it's more difficult to do both at the same time.
> Dress for the job you want. If they all dress like storm troopers some of them will act like storm troopers.

Relevent: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-blazer-experiment...

> For many years, the Menlo Park police had worn some variation of the traditional, pseudo-military, dark blue uniform. But Cizanckas thought that look was too intimidating and aggressive, so he traded it for slacks, dress shirts with ties, and a blazer. Guns and handcuffs remained hidden under the coat. Instead of a metal badge, the blazer sported an embroidered patch that looked a little like a coat of arms....

> That’s because uniforms not only shape how people see the police, but also how police see themselves. In challenging an image so entrenched in the style and psyche of police officers, Chief Cizanckas was bucking a tradition that would prove hard to change: a uniform whose history was interwoven with the profession it represented and that went back more than a hundred years.
OP has the typical troll/seagull approach. And people like him/her are the bane of fora/democracy. They come in, write something stupid, and then it's up to others (thank you mikeyouse) to spend the time to educate them. The problem is that he/she will not learn, he just managed to waste 10 of your minutes with his/her stupid poison.

He/she will go around, writing the same crap, until people will be to tired to rebuke it, and then he/she wins. We don't need trolls here. +1 to mike, -100 to the troll.
An idle computer clocks down and sips power. Going full bore mining coins results in significant power usage increases. We're talking 10 watts vs 100s of watts.
As a comparison, the Portland, Oregon police bureau starts officers at 66,934 as an entry wage, and it starts at 80K if you are moving over from some other law enforcement agency.
That's probably a good idea! I've been looking for a good protein to add in to my diet, I'll need to take a look to see if my grocery store carries this once I can go again (closed due to the protests)
I don't mind Calibri, but I've always thought it was a surprising choice as a default since whenever MS Word switched to it. It just looks too "friendly" for "serious business" to me. I think if you interpolated between Helvetica and Comic Sans you'd get something like Calibri on the way. (PS I know nothing about typography.)
You are mixing tidal forces with local attraction forces due to ice. Even though the forces due to ice are not felt everywhere in the planet, they do have an effect that can be calculated, and it is stronger in the body of water closer to the poles. The result of this force causes water attraction in the polar regions. So the effect that is felt in other parts of the planet is not due to the gravity force, but due to the displacement of water happening in polar regions - after all the water needs to go somewhere.
Neither in Paris
Were they lawfully ordered to clear the area before using force?

If the lawful order was give, was it because criminals were using the peaceful protest as cover?
> I hope we can agree that is an ideal to aspire to.

It's an ideal to aspire to, but only if the ideal includes a very strict standard on what level of knowledge justifies dictating a public policy at all.
They don't tend to protest engage in violence against soft-left events like democrat rallies, unless I'm mistaken? The vast majority of the time it's against alt-right or white supremacist events.
Some thoughts:
1) Fire all current police officers
2) Hire back maybe 25% in numbers, but different profile people
3) Stop enforcing drug laws
4) Convert all property crime handling to online recording
5) Take away police guns, tear gas, etc, except in very rare circumstances
6) Have police focus on the very few dangerous situations where they are actually needed.
What happened to the US Apple/Google app?
> I am just concerned about whether it grows over time into eroding away the ability to speak on the internet.

By this reasoning, we'd be crippled to make any decision for fear of what that may lead to. This leads back into the slippery slope fallacy. When something larger is at hand, then we can re-visit, but this is not large enough to merit that amount of mental and emotional effort to justify and discuss. Granted, that's entirely subjective, but I fail to see this as a very large issue. It's only making the news because these social media companies have gone so long without enforcing these policies.

> This is just one thing. We don't even have any visibility in the true special sauce - the algorithms that determine what to show to people. Do you see the problem with this or you think that people who are responsible for these algos are good samaritans and they don't need any public oversight?

This is extremely problematic and I agree. This isn't really the topic of this discussion, but it's definitely a problem. Social media companies are already censoring and filtering posts via their algorithms. That wouldn't be the case if feeds were purely based on a time-series (as they used to be).
Don't forget creating the coronavirus crisis by ignoring the previous administrations pandemic playbook and dismantling the pandemic department.

Also the argument what has he done can be answered with saying his actions of doing almost nothing in February helped kill many more people than had he acted faster on intelligence he received in January