skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is equivalent of a system engineer only reading the reports of one dept, let's say the HR department, and then formulating the rearchitecture.

When founding fathers designed the system, they intentionally did not choose to design a democracy because their firm believe was that democracies don't work. This is why they opted for a democratic republic.

One of the reasons why American republic works so well because any small minority can throw a wrench, people can vote with their feet (by moving across states, this is why American federal govt was designed to be so weak, at first it was even weaker but then they had to give it more powers, and today we end up with world's most powerful govt on an absolute scale, but on a relative scale, it can't even shutdown states for a pandemic), and people can vote with their wallets.

Rich people vote with their money directly, but make no mistake, just like disenfranchisement would any minority group will have severe negative consequences, disenfranchisement of the rich and powerful by taking their pretty open medium of participation would also have severe consequences.

American system doesn't just have rich and powerful buying the outcomes, it's just that it's the most open system where anyone can see what they're doing, this makes people comparing it to the rest of the world think that this is a corrupt system, when it is opposite of that.
The opening line confuses me... The JVM is one of the fastest, well established, well documented, widely deployed platform in the world. Hundreds of languages run on it, quite quickly.
I am not sure if I understand your comment. Are you saying conservative Muslims are not normal people?
It's just possible that the system of checks and balances that was designed by a bunch of people who were pretty much new to this, and who didn't anticipate the development of the two-party system, didn't actually turn out to be in a state of perfect equilibrium that would last for centuries upon centuries.

Frankly, I think we should be impressed. It's a borderline miracle that it's survived as well as it has.
June Fourth Incident : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests

Date: April 15 – June 4, 1989
(1 month, 2 weeks and 6 days)
Location: 400 cities nationwide
Show HN: Simple and easy Password Manager on the terminal
Well, I've been using this "password manager" for quite a while now and decided to share with everyone.

sudo cat /home/you_user_name/your_password_file.txt | grep $1 | cut -d "|" -f1 | tr -d "\n" | xclip -selection clipboard

Where 'your_password_file.txt' is a text file (accessible by your user only, with your password) with the following pattern:

password|place_that_password_belongs_to

this way you can create all kinds of crazy passwords, like:

fAnPb;dL998Bm(~|google
\9prC82D#DW2(V!|facebook
zbKBq@76P]FJ<;{|hackernews

So when you call your script passing 'google' as an argument, it will place your crazy password into your copy/paste.
I'm finding this a concept a little hard to understand, but it vaguely sounds like a system involving hyperlinkable notes.

Wouldn't vimwiki basically accomplish this?
That's how the US system is supposed to work too. You're just pointing out its failure, not some fundamental difference.
> At first I thought this was a a way to run a Beowulf cluster...

Well, it is. Install and configure Open MPI or MPICH on multiple connected Devuan Beowulf systems and you have a Beowulf cluster. As a bonus, your new Beowulf cluster is systemd free.
> A group's CFR is almost the only thing that matters to that specific group.

Except that you don't know what defines a group.

We know what makes someone at risk. That does NOT imply the reverse--that we know what makes someone NOT at risk.

Sure, maybe 18-30 year olds by and large don't drop dead. That doesn't mean they don't wind up with stroke risk or a damaged lifespan. And, maybe some 2-3% subgroup of them drops dead because they have a particular receptor--oops, sucks to be you but we can't undo it now that we let the pandemic loose.

You don't just shove a disease through a population when you don't know what the effects are. That is unethical and immoral at the level of eugenics. Good God, man.

We actually did this sort of thing with chicken pox and now those children get the joy of shingles possibly blinding them in their adult life. Oops.

And, by the way, you know what disease we achieved herd immunity to before vaccines? Oh, yeah, NONE. This one will be no different.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. There is documented evidence of this:

> "To see this - traffic blocking the main intersection of a level 1 trauma centre, blocking the entrance and exit to our hospital. Blocking patients from receiving care that they need, makes me angry. It hurts. It hurts a lot," said one healthcare worker on Facebook.

> WLNS reports another posting: "You are currently blocking ambulances, physicians and caregivers from making it to work to care for the sick and relieve the exhausted workers.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

Quotes a local news story: https://www.wlns.com/news/health/coronavirus/capitol-protest...
That works on desktop, but not on Android. Any clue how to get Firefox on Android to obey about:config fot settings would be very welcome.
Well said.

Founders deeply distrusted democracy. Government in general, which is why system is setup to be so inefficient at change
And really as a practical matter the senate chooses the nominees too. We don't have a Justice Garland.
I highly recommend watching this video [1] to understand why "progress has stalled".

Believe it or not, it's by design.

1. https://youtu.be/Ggz_gd--UO0
Great to see you working on this!

I was wondering if you could estimate what it would cost to have always on recording of all these radio conversations, cost of running this speech2text ML and cost of labeling this data.

I think having these rough estimates will make donations easier for people.
what if you need to distribute a .deb containing binaries that target other operating system ?

example: I got a tool that allow from any Windows/macOS/Linux to package a runtime+script to any Windows/macOS/Linux

the Windows .exe can not be compiled from sources under Linux, so this particular runtime can never be distributed on Debian official?
No its the landowners who can hold them over the barrel for their highest overhead: rent. And those same landowners are able to do that because they have enough wealth to wait on the next person who will initially pay the high rent.
It's still hilarious; it just takes a certain level of bitterness and cynicism to appreciate.
Have they not? Certainly, life as an engineer is exactly as I desire it to be most places I go.
Oh man, thanks for this! I did not realize that it was essentially to hoist the boats over uneven terrain, always assumed the canal was a straight dug channel. Never enough to go search out the answer, but it always tickled the back of my mind when it came up. Thank you!
>as long as they’re having fun in return

This is true, but not in a a way that maps directly to the gesture. For example, reloading in Pavlov is not fun in isolation. It’s a relatively tedious process that mirrors reloading in real life. It is rewarding to successfully reload while you’re taking fire and then proceed to kill your enemy. As a result, reloading gesture > reloading button, even though you need to memorize a different reloading action for each gun (it becomes muscle memory).
Not OP, but generally you wouldnt distribute the actual passphrases to the people who keep hard copy backups. You'd distribute the key to unlock the key. That way you could rotate the actual key and you just re-encrypt it with the secrets you already distributed.
I'm unclear if you're saying the same thing.

I'm suggesting that optimizing for officer safety at all other costs may result in more overall death (/injury) than if more emphasis were put on civilian safety as well. I very much don't have any particular data to back that assertion up in this case, but often such things are true.

Hopefully that clarifies.
Although some may think the reason why Mark Zuckerberg has come out against fact-checking politicians is so that he can reap profits and sow division while cackling maniacally, I think instead he has simply put a lot of thought into the problem, and not only realized how difficult it is, but also that it cannot work well long-term. He is much more concerned about the long-term future (decades) of Facebook than he is about some upsetting posts made by an upsetting person.
Not always. Say that an artist posts their art to Deviantart, and another user rips it off, erases the watermark, and uploads it to Reddit.

No money changing hands, but the artist still has the legal right to remove the copy and/or be properly attributed.
Paper is used on occasion to brainstorm. It's faster than using browser-based diagram tools, which are better for formalizing my diagrams and distributing them to others. My workspace doesn't have a whiteboard; I might prefer that to paper.
Interesting, If you look closely you can see the words 's a t i r e' hidden in the paragraphs.
Link redirects to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests

> Please submit the canonical URL. Avoid link shorteners.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Police brutality supercut videos go viral"

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/style/police-protests-vid...
For the better part of a decade I have worked in SF at startups. You know what I say when I'm sick? "Hey, guys, I'm sick. I'm going to sleep it off." No doctor's note, no accou

This has never not been the case. Number of unions? 0.

Some of my co-workers from my previous employer are currently still on classes paid for by that previous employer.

Levels.fyi has median German comp at $95k (net $61k), median SF comp at $236k (net $151k). We'll just use your numbers for the time spent:

Berlin: 52 - 6 - 2 - 4 = 40 weeks = 40 * 5 * 8 hours. Net hourly wage = $38/hr

SF: We will assume they work full 52 weeks, and they work 10 hours a day, and every day of the week = 52 * 7 * 10 hours. Net hourly wage = $41/hr

Okay, so if they never take a day off and they work 10 hours every day they still make more. Now that's being generous to your claim.
For some communities, you're losing most context by not being on FB. Most of the discussion happens on Facebook and not anywhere else. For some communities I'm in, you're basically completely out of the loop if you're not active on Facebook. Yes, you could try to get context from friends but they're getting it from Facebook as well. Once you're all out - none of you will have context.
If GrubHub replaced the restaurant's actual phone number with GH's on Google or Yelp or whatever, what service have they provided? (Hint: the answer is: none.)
for anyone else mislead by the title, this is not a blanket change but looks to be an exception being granted to an entity that owns 450 radio broadcast station licenses
Looks like it's still relying on Ethereum, which IMO is irresponsible from a climate change / energy use point of view.
It's really much simpler than that. The people who pushed the tax cut said it would lead to a huge increase in companies making investments that would lead to more good jobs in the US, and it just didn't happen.

You have the ideological position that what investors do is always good for the country. It's not. Sometimes it is, sometimes people invest in things like bubbles that ultimately burst and damage the economy, sometimes they invest overseas in enterprises that take jobs away from the US, sometimes they waste money on investments that fail, very often the invest part of their money on lobbying to get rid of regulations that protect the public, and so on.

I am not saying investment is bad for the country. Often it is good, but it is not nearly as simple as you think it is, so you need to think things out on a case-by-case basis, and the gigantic tax cuts that the corporations and rich people were given was clearly wrong.
Absolutely serif. Sans for paragraph text is an abomination.
Ilir is a real one. I hope he keeps crushing it.
When armed robbers took my iPhone, it ended up in Ho Chi Minh City after 3 weeks. I'm guessing it went robber -> fence -> exporter -> foreign shop. Presumably someone there defeated the Find My iPhone lock or parted it out then.
The 1992 police riot in New York associated with resistance to community review boards and Giuliani's mayoral ambitions[1] should probably be on that list.

[1] https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/rudys-racist-ra...
I use an app called cellular z. Never caught a stingray in the wild, but it's easy to see if a tower "moves" with it.
The rioters aren't trying to start a revolutionary war. They're trying to start a conversation that will never happen with a bunch of hand holding and song singing.

We're FAR past that point, and the reason that comfortable white people are so taken aback by this is because they've been given the freedom to ignore it all. Just watch the alternate dimension that is OAN or Fox News, and you will never have to worry about how a minority is ever treated in this country, because they will either tell you it's all bullshit or they will wring their hands for a segment and then go right back to bashing Obama or Clinton for things that are happening 3.5 years into Trump's presidency.

RIGHT NOW cops are shooting tear gas and grenades at peaceful protesters.

RIGHT NOW photographers are losing their vision because police officers are firing rubber bullets at their heads.

RIGHT NOW cops are destroying property and blaming it on imaginary groups of paid protesters.

RIGHT NOW cops are hiding their badge numbers because they don't want to get fired.

RIGHT NOW cops are assaulting and arresting the press.

RIGHT NOW cops have the right to wander into a woman's apartment and shoot her stone cold dead because they didn't read the number.

RIGHT NOW people in this country watch with baited breath to see whether people like that woman who murdered Botham Jean in his own home would even get charged.

It seems to me that a large portion of the conservative side of this country is more than happy with "coming down hard" on people to try to scare anyone else from trying to upset the apple cart. Because it "works."

These protesters? They're just reciprocating what "works."
I don't mind them going all-out on USB-C, but yes, then why are brand-new iOS devices still coming with Lightning-to-USB-A cables?

Then they put USB-C on ONE iPad, and leave shitty Lightning ports on everything else.

Oh, and then there's the fact that the USB-C ports are so defectively close together on MacBooks that you often can't plug two things in next to each other... certainly not with the adapters you typically still need.

This kind of blunder stands as Jony Ive's legacy.
An hour ago I tried to order sushi. It was a larger order, several adults and Grubhub tacked on $38 in fees (not including a tip) for $120 of food. The place was 11 minutes away - I live in US southeast with a car and ample parking. They are crazy if they think I'm paying that, I'd rather eat a sandwich.
If you're looking for conspiracy theories/FUD everywhere, you'll surely find it. This is what happens when people don't temper the hobgoblins of their minds with facts and the acceptance of unknowability.
> But one of the major criticisms I hear, after abuse of force, is that “the police didn’t do anything”. It would seem that these are incompatible. They can choose, but we expect them not to.

I can't parse what you're trying to say here, which prevented me from responding to the main body of your post, unfortunately.

> Nobody is ever going to protest this.

What would you suggest we protest? There are many dangerous professions. Law enforcement isn't even the most dangerous. They're not even in the top 10. Should we protest car accidents that lead to the death of professional truck drivers?

"Police" is an institution. It has norms and is governed by rules. Police officers are meant to protect and serve society. When they fail to do that, that should be protested. I don't see the value in protesting the fact that law enforcement careers carry risks. Yes, it's true that there are bad people in the world. That doesn't give law enforcement carte blanche to abuse their power, nor absolve individuals or institutions from protest of abuse of that power.

(There's also a relatively snarky response here: Yes, it's regrettable that these officers died in the line of duty. We should dismantle the US police institution in its entirety, which would solve both the concerns of BLM protestors and largely address your concern. While I don't share that view, I do know many people who do.)
Hugo/Netlify is a dream. One of the few things in web technology that is a joy to use.
ACLU?
I'll respond to this comment here on behalf of all of the responses to my point:

None of you have provided any reasonably objective definition of what could constitute an otherwise illegal, and sometimes violent protest.

These responses sound a lot like right-wing NRA 2cnd Amendment people barricading in buildings with guns and police surrounding them kind of rhetoric.

All three of the responses (at the time of my response) purport arbitrary definitions of self-determined, extra-judicial action - essentially vigilantism.

Literally, people inventing some cause and then taking over public property, sometimes causing damage, or worse.

If you accept your own definitions of 'legitimate cause' - I'm afraid you're really not going to like what a lot of other Americans would like to protest, just as violently.

If people are going to protest, especially when things can get violent, they're going to have to do so in a way that's not entirely disruptive -> like gather in a park, otherwise, it's just not going to work out.

We don't get to invent the law, no matter how passionate we are about something.

There are just a ton of better ways to create change that are totally within civil and legal framework, and there are many good examples to follow. And especially the rioting is probably counter-productive in almost every sense of the terms.
This is a great idea and what a coincidence, just one week ago I posted a side project to HN that aims to build a website completely by user requests from scratch, while your website is destructing itself.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23315733 // https://userbricks.com/
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/1-deputy-de...

These kinds.

I'm going to reiterate that it could have been overkill or poor judgment and that we don't have all of the information.
It's disheartening to me how utterly shitty and amoral silicon valleys startup scene has become.
That first story is repeating a (false) rumor. Even the second story you posted directly contradicts it.

> Sparrow spokesperson John Foren said there are no access problems and ambulances can “get in and out. There’s no problem.”

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/0...
Surveillance of protesters:

Student leaders were put under close surveillance by the authorities, traffic cameras were used to perform surveillance on the square and the restaurants in the nearby area and where students gathered were wiretapped.[108] This surveillance led to the identification, capture and punishment of participants of the protest.[109] After the massacre, the government did thorough interrogations at work units, institutions and schools to identify who had been at the protest.[110]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...
"...the ruling is subject to the requirement that Cumulus obtain specific approval for any foreign individual, entity, or group of such individuals or entities that holds, or would hold, directly and/or indirectly, more than five percent (or more than 10 percent for certain institutional investors) of the equity and/or voting interests, or a controlling interest, in the company."
You have to also take into account Long Term and Short Term thinking.

Not only are we playing a Prisoners’ Dilemma but most of the population is thinking about a value function that pays off in the Short Term (it’s definitely true about events outside the population’s expected lifespan, but also is true within a single lifespan).

In the Long Term all of our needs are relatively aligned.

There are pivotal points in history like the signing of the Magna Carta at knife point, rather than yet another relatively-shallow regime change, that are thinking about the value function in the Long Term.

There will one day be an iteration on democracy that solves the Byzantine Generals Problem. Where the “failures of communication” are caused by Short Term thinking.
Ask HN: What is the most useful object you carry around with you?
(Not counting your phone)
Thank you for the feedback (and for all the moderation work). It can be hard to detach and focus on the “purely informational” substance of an argument, but you are right that that is pretty much always for the best. This is going to sound like such a HN cliche, but if there was a good way to convey emotion as independent metadata instead, I’d try to use that.

And to clarify my comment, I’m frustrated to see so much of our public discourse still rely on appeals to authority, even when we’re talking about claims that are fundamentally impossible to validate. Authority figures are proving to be nearly-as-bad at navigating these difficult topics as the rest of us, but it seems that to do any better, the public would need to understand the actual ideas being discussed, which seems a long way off (I don’t even hear this mentioned as a possible goal).

So for now we are left with a choice between trusting what is essentially an order of clerics, empowering another authority that won’t do much better (regular old politics), or mob rule. I have to go with the second option, but it is not much better than the others, at best.
There is no operator. The Grubhub-owned number will ring through to the restaurant, but will log the call so that Grubhub can get its commission.
This kind of privacy/redundancy tech has suddenly gotten really real the past couple weeks.
This is not what the comment you are responding to is saying, please address those points.
Deja Vu fonts are relentlessly unpleasant, blotchy and lumpen.

Linux Libertine O is a better font in every way. If you really feel like you need a sans, Biolinum is pleasing.
One of these groups is capable of violating our right to free speech, our right to assemble, and our right to a trial by jury. The other is not.

No one is condoning looting - in fact, it's just as frustrating for me in that it's distracting from the message. But let's not forget what the (much, much) bigger problem is. I also believe that various bad-faith actors (police, conservatives) are using the looting to distract from the fact that the police have systematically deprived us of our rights with no recourse.
Usb 3 hubs with a USB-C upstream certainly exist, all the docks out there are functionally that, and there are also dedicated hubs as well.

Here’s the one i use:

Anker USB C Hub, Aluminum USB C Adapter with 4 USB 3.0 Ports, for MacBook Pro 2018/2017, ChromeBook, XPS, Galaxy S9/S8, and More https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DFYQXY7
You have to outnumber for security. From the videos in Hong Kong, I noticed that the journalists in shiny PRESS vests were usually WAAAAAY more than the number of police, many of them only holding video-taking cell phones.
You could've just said that you have a hunch.
The author's experience mirrors mine almost exactly, down to being inspired to study computer science by that how-to.

And, maybe not coincidentally, I agree with everything in that post.
Yes, I agree with you about that. The point at which we diverge is that I’m saying it’s not hypothetical — Zuckerberg is making political decisions which reflect his personal values.
https://github.com/matrix-construct/construct
> unifying the command line and the desktop into a single UI

This is how computers used to be. I had an Apple II which was exactly this. if you booted without a disk in, you just got a BASIC prompt.