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> wasn’t organized ahead of time

Protests might have been unorganized, but riots most certainly are organized. Torching a police car carries a minimum 5 year sentence. It's not the protesters who are doing that.

Moreover, it is still being "organized". Someone keeps dropping off pallets with bricks. There are agitator leaflets all over twitter. People have been recorded on video handing out cash to "protesters" from a thick wad of bills. Someone is organizing and funding the riots.
I don't know about you, but I don't really want my various encounters with the police to be broadcast to the public. They would need to algorithmically blur out all of our faces or something in order to make that palatable.
That's the beauty, they don't have to directly participate if they want to but they can at any time if they need to.
I'd like to see this with two axes. One is killings, the other is per capita income.

I think the US would be off in a corner, all by itself.
Microsoft has their notorious "is this account personal or issued by company it department" (or something like that) question when you login. Which is the reason it very often takes two tries and several minutes to get logged in as I never seem to guess the correct answer to that question...
I know of several groups like this in the Southeast US, where a couple of execs live in smaller cities (e.g. Columbus, Augusta), pool on an aircraft (and sometimes a condo) and commute to Atlanta (Peachtree/Dekalb Airport is pretty convenient to downtown) for work.

There also used to be a regular small plane service between Peachtree/Dekalb and Birmingham, AL for BellSouth personnel operated by the company. BellSouth split it's HQ between both places.
Well, empirically it doesn't do that at all, so that's not really a relevant argument.
I am a member of the project. Chaps spent all of 1 hour in our Slack server slinging accusations and gas lighting theories. The project has only been live for a week and believe me I will be the first to call to light anything that appears untoward. The founders and new leaders are operating in full daylight.
What is the evidence for racist police violence? Black people are killed by the police in proportion to the rate at which they commit violent crime.
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That’s happening anyway now.

Obviously the best thing to do is avoid fighting. However, if you’re going to be in a fight, it’s better to be armed than unarmed, if for no other reason than to encourage your opponent not to force a fight.
I saw an article saying that the government was conducting contact tracing of people arrested at the protests.

At the time I wasn't sure what that meant, but now my guess is that it means precisely what it sounds like: the authorities are using the same tools they use against COVID-19, for the purpose of identifying looters and rioters.

Personally I think we must dismantle a large portion of our surveillance apparatus.
From afar, it seems to me like the big problem in US policing is a lack of calm professionalism. The de-escalation approach in the article would to me but just one aspect of taking a professional approach where safety and following rules and best practices is paramount (and prioritised over 'winning' against criminals).
I have contacted you last month, an acknowledgment or a rejection mail with feedback would be nice
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I've actually worked at more foreign firms than German one's so I may not be the ideal person to answer but when I worked on code that uses German naming people would usually use cases or underscores/hyphens like they do in English. It's just not very readable to use longer German compound words.

That said I think German names are relatively rare outside of old code. Most people just adopt straight up English terms.
4 miles per kWh, I think you mean.
No it should not.
> Realistically, the US isn't trying to kill their grandmas.

You're delineating intentional acts, and heedless acts with well-known and predictable consequences. That's an important difference in the mind of the actor, but grandma dies either way.
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This is not how it works. Antifa has a specific meaning. Similar to how having carbon in a product is not enough to say that it is organic. Or how just publishing your source code online is not enough to make your program open source.
Looking at murder, the statistics tell a different story — blacks are 13% of the population but over 50% of the murder arrests, while whites are 75% of the population but under 50% of murder arrests.

If times the police use force are correlated to violent crime, then it’s unclear that blacks are over represented in deaths by police — they may actually be safer than whites, once controlling for the distribution of crimes they’re arrested for.

One problem I’ve had in this analysis is that the ~60/1000 deaths per year that aren’t justified (fortunately) aren’t enough to do an analysis on that subset.

Of course, 60 deaths is tragic — but 60 wrongful deaths among 8+ million arrests may not be the problem the media portrays it as.

You’re an order of magnitude less like to wrongfully die from police while being arrested than you are to die from a car crash this year. Overall, police are safer than many things in society.

60/8M // 30k/320M = 8%
And yet none of those officers turn in the abusive officers, and in fact are often pushed out of the force, if not straight up fired.

So officers working side by side with abusive officers are absolutely complicit.
Collection of the good that we have seen from police in recent days
Ok so sadly my Thai is not where it should be, but it also heavily uses borrowed English words, that it masterfully butchers. Thai language has only a fairly limited number of ending sounds and also usually needs consonsants attached to a vowel.
For example so a master branch, would be a somethign like a masta brand, I'm guessing. Here's an example of some non-IT terms http://pickup-thai.com/loan-words-from-english/
I'm sorry it happened to you and I'm frequently ashamed of our legal system. It's obviously not perfect, but sometimes it feel like the people who work in it don't have the capability to improve it.
Imagine being a cop and having to deal with stuff like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k4L97igDjY They literally save this man's life and he kills the guy who saved his life. Cops don't work in a safe space. Years of working in a violent and hateful environment must take a serious toll on them.
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I couldn't agree more. A sheriff regretfully telling citizens they may need to kill a home intruder in self defense (giving the sheriff the benefit of the doubt - I haven't heard the message), is vastly morally different from a president gleefully declaring his intention to personally order the killing of citizens en mass who may have done nothing worse than stealing from a business. This distinction is lost on a terrifying number of sick people who are quite excited about the prospect of shooting criminals.
They can pay it from their own salary - officers who are subject to more claims will end up with higher costs.
Could you give a quick recap on the type of problems involved in this domain?
There’s already universal indemnification, de facto where not de jure: https://www.nyulawreview.org/issues/volume-89-number-3/polic...
lost the feeling of hunger for a few years due to medication I was on and barely have much sense of taste to begin with. My nose is often stuffed rendering me barely able to taste and smell most foods. This combined with a need for a high calorie intake I cannot say that I felt any qualms with meats but eating as a chore is horrible and a most disgusting feeling, the mechanical movement and disassociation that comes with this numbness is something people will adapt to however, and can be beneficial when making choices on what to eat.
Many people want mayhem, but I think your comment is wrong.

> Pro-police forces WANT mayhem ... it changes the subject away from the widespread peaceful opposition to racist police violence.

I don’t think that typical “pro-police forces” want to own the narrative of their cause being racist and violent.
I used to live 5 miles from work with a straight shot down a bus corridor. It was cheaper to drive it. Occasionally I'd set out for work by bike at the same time the bus arrived at my stop and still beat them there.
That's because you didn't notice the disinformation that was plausible.
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There’s a good story in the Ben & Jerry’s cookbook about how Ben and Jerry argued about which size chunks of Heath bar to use in their ice cream.

They ended up with the perfect mix of little shards and big chunks by freezing a case of Heath bars and throwing it onto the concrete floor from the top of a ladder.
What a fascinating question. I'm originally from Italy, studied CS in an Italian university and only briefly at UC Irvine (California). I've left Italy 12 years ago and worked for American corporations or startups since.

I am terrible at discussing CS in my native language. Even with fellow Italians, I stay with English as much as possible.
> Who decides what is and isn't cruft? You?

Browser vendors do. Popups were cruft. Flash was cruft. Not all the time. Just almost all the time.

Ever used Reader View? There's the great de-cruftifier! It doesn't work with web apps, but it sure works great on content. Perhaps some day browsers will default to Reader View, and the web will become more pleasant.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.C.A.B.

This violates the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for.
I know that I posted yesterday about this site but there were a lot of people asking to see the good that has been recorded over the last few days even though these are some of the darkest days that we have seen in a long time.

Please watch these heros working WITH communities and continue to upload more examples of the people that we should be looking up to. Despite all of the bad we are shown, there is still good in this world.
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HN is weirdly hostile towards the modern distributed systems and DevOps ideologies. The amount of people making incorrect opinions on K8s threads is just staggering for a technically inclined crowd.
I am big into video games, and a couple of years ago I found a blog that really resonated with me. Same type of games that I want to play, and they were all fairly old. A couple of years ago I stopped playing modern video games and just kind of stuck in the past, and didn’t have anyone to talk about them with, so I’d comment on this blog I used to read about older games and made some good friends that way.

Eventually I want to talk about my own gaming experiences, but mostly I wanted a place to log my thoughts about games I was playing, games that were coming out, and basically have a place that I could go to to trigger my own happy nostalgic thoughts experiences, but mostly I wanted a place to log my thoughts about games I was playing, games that were coming out, and basically have a place that I could go to to trigger my own happy nostalgic thoughts.

I’ll be honest, I really wish I had chosen a different name, but I bought the WordPress plan already so I settled on https://www.nostalgiatrigger.com. It doesn’t roll off the tongue nor would it be the average person’s cup of tea, but for the 5-6 people who comment and leave feedback, it’s a cool little community.

Anyway, this is just my experience and it doesn’t really answer the OPs original questions. If I go back and read my old material, it really comes off as pretentious and just overall atrocious, so to probably echo what everybody else is saying here, the trick is to just write as much as possible and don’t try to focus on things like length or flow on the first time through. In fact don’t even worry about editing anything, the editor will highlight any misspellings or grammatical errors, so let your mind go into stream of consciousness mode, just to get ideas down on paper.

Oh! And a recent tip for something that I’ve started doing a few months ago (typically while writing down initial thoughts while I’m playing a game for the first time), I leave Notes open on my phone so I can easily tap the microphone and speak sentences straight into a first draft. I realized that I spent the most time trying to figure out how to phrase certain things on the first draft, so by getting out actual well formed sentences as they came to me while I was playing a game, I was essentially removing the hardest part of writing from the equation.

I’ve been running this blog for about five or six years now, and also did some longform game review writing I’ve been running this blog for about five or six years now, and also did some longform game review writing on https://www.thewellredmage.com a few years back, and getting started on a blank canvas is always the hardest part. So whatever works for you, try taking YOUR “hardest part” out of the equation.
Careful. That’s how Breonnna Taylor ended up dead.
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Minneapolis Chief of Police:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medaria_Arradondo

Seattle Chief of Police:
http://www.seattle.gov/police/about-us/about-the-department/...

St Louis Chief of Police:
http://www.slmpd.org/chief_of_police.shtml

Atlanta Chief of Police:
https://www.projectq.us/atlanta/atlanta_police_chief_erika_s...

Chicago Chief of Police:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brown_(police_officer)

Oakland Chief of Police:
https://climaterwc.com/2019/07/17/san-mateo-police-chief-sus...

People on HN seem to have a cartoon villain view of police, so I thought I'd share a few faces of police leadership in effected communities.
> But cities don't want to spend that kind of money on these things as they would rather not tax people to pay for it.

I'm certainly no expert in police budgeting, but when you see some police forces literally buying tanks, at least in some cases there must be room for money to be better spent. John Oliver did an interesting story on police militarization after the Ferguson riots following the shooting of Michael Brown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUdHIatS36A
> I don’t think that typical “pro-police forces” want to own the narrative of their cause being racist and violent

I think they do. Many cops seem to be very racist and very violent. It doesn't seem like they care who knows it. Even when they do care, they might not turn on body-cams which should be a fireable offense and now it finally is in at least one case in Kentucky.
While there's a kernel of validity to what you're saying, cops in every state and every nation have to deal with a violent and hateful environment. The variation in outcomes suggests something else is at play.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking

Above, they cherry-picked a few cops that just happen to be the chief of police. It's not that simple.

You don't understand the institutions involved if you highlight these examples. Police, police unions, district attorneys, etc. It's not simple.
> the problem is distinguishing ones in the lane from those outside.

My vehicle is doing adaptive cruise to the car in front of it--including on banked curves and in Los Angeles traffic--sometimes dense-sometimes empty. This means that it is working out which car is in my lane--probably via beam steering and corresponding to my steering wheel position.

This doesn't seem to be an impossible problem. This seems to be a Tesla problem.
I remember learning this years ago from a video which turns out to also be made by Merriam Webster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3sDiH3FhnY
Judging from numbers reported by their competitors in the phone and PC spaces, Apple makes less gross margin on laptops than on smartphones. Jacking up RAM prices allows them to capture more profit from laptops, but also keeps their average gross margin number from device sales from dipping drastically as phone sales slow.

Apple breaks their margin numbers into services and devices, so if the devices gross margin dips appreciably, investors will read that as a sign that Apple's cash cow handset business is on the ropes.
Like DC blackout?
I thought it was going to be about the musical instrument- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dord_(instrument), somebody should let Merriam-Webster know :)
Do you have some references on that phenomenon?
> Somewhere along the way Tesla Autopilot became marketed as a fully self-driving system freeing us to tune out

Do you own a Tesla or ever considered buying one? This is a misconception I hear from folks who never planned to own one but not from owners.
I don't think you care to ride into battle with a 12.5mm gun mounted on a Yugo, much less a 20mm. That's where the Hilux and other mid-sized vehicles are useful. But your analysis it otherwise pretty accurate.
> If everything improved so much, how come that the Internet is worse than in 2006?

What facts are you basing this opinion on?
Similarly some systems allow different email addresses for the same account. Which can go badly ...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-01/scammers-stealing-tho...
You can shoot a home intruder during and outside of riot conditions. I'm not sure why he posted this.
The police could stop the protests instantly by changing how they deal with racist officers and officers who kill people. They would rather escalate the situation than make these changes.
Ask HN: How do scalable distributed systems (~banks) maintain ACID properties?
I don't understand how ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability) critical systems, like banks, can agree and decide what my account balance looks like at any given moment? Or is my bank account actually just a single SQL database row somewhere with no read/write replicas?
On one hand I agree. I’m sure the majority of cops are good people doing a hard job. But, at some point it becomes a loss of institutional control (to take a term from the ncaa). Everyone needs to be fired and the institution has to be restarted.
Bay Area and indeed, California landlords have increased rent at every opportunity for more than thirty years; multiple studies show that rent in the 1970s was more like ten percent of a working income, that has changed to thirty percent+ across the entire State of California (on the other hand, San Francisco itself has always been pricey, at every stage for a hundred+ years).

Isnt it somthing that the last thirty years is exactly when millions of US adults had turned thirty+. The cost structure of a young adult in the last thirty years has been nothing like the previous thirty. Building new housing (and rental units) has been substantially restricted across generations in California, but it got particularly noxious with the six-figure twenty somethings taking the rentals, while the other ninety-eight percent of the population just ate the cost increases at every turn. These are economic facts and are documented extensively at the Terner Center at UC Berkeley among other places.
I wouldn't call nine years relatively recent
Those are non-executable rulesets that are part of XProtect, the system-level antivirus. It’s not an OS update.
There is a lot of cool stuff happening in nano materials science I think. It doesn't quite get the mindshare it deserves.
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It is on you if you don't take the testimony of hundreds of thousands of black people that they're terrorized by the police as evidence of possible police brutality.

Does that sound absurd? Is it as absurd as presuming the police would incriminate themselves with the data they create?

All evidence you can gather will be indirect. You make your judgment based on which you consider relevant.
>cherry picking

Baseless accusation. The protests are mostly in the blue-voting cities, and the GP's list is representative.

[edit]

Here is how it works:

Minneapolis, Chief of Police: nominated (...) by the Mayor of Minneapolis (Betsy Hodges) [1]

Seattle, Chief of Police: [n]ominated by Mayor Jenny Durkan [2]

St Louis, Comissioner of Police: appointed as the 35th Commissioners of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department on December 28, 2017 by Mayor Lyda Krewson [3]

Atlanta Chief of Police: Mayor of Atlanta Kasim Reed announced on December 1, 2016, that he had chosen Shields [4]

Chicago Superintended of the Chicago Police Department: The City Council on Wednesday voted 50-0 to appoint former Dallas Police Chief David Brown to lead the Chicago Police Department [5]

Oakland Chief of Police: Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced Monday that she has appointed former San Mateo Police Chief Susan Manheimer as Oakland’s interim police chief [6]

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medaria_Arradondo

[2] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/carmen-be...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hayden_Jr.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_Shields

[5] https://news.wttw.com/2020/04/22/david-brown-confirmed-chica...

[6] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-Mayor-ap...
Were you at any point ready to just accept it for the rest of your life or did you always hope it would return?
Also, you don't understand the institutions involved if you highlight these examples. Police, police unions, district attorneys, etc. It's not simple
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It's crocodile tears. Police chiefs knew all along about the deplorable amount of racism and casual violence on their forces, they just chose to ignore them. Now the political winds are shifting and they have to go along to keep their jobs.
The roots of policing in the US have it's origins in slave patrols. Very different from the rest of the Anglosphere.

https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/brief-history-slavery-a...

"Slave patrols and Night Watches, which later became modern police departments, were both designed to control the behaviors of minorities."
I see a lot of mention of neural networks in relation to Autopilot. However, it's hard to imagine that those pursuing automatic driving wouldn't combine neural networks with normal old rules and safety thresholds (ie "just brake" if a new, sufficiently large, mostly uniform object is filling much of the sensors).

Is this not the case?
oof, sorry and thank you for pointing me to this. I am clearly out of the loop
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In his defense, all technology is an instrument of political and ideological battle. If the site admins really want to enforce that guideline, then we should not be discussing current events here.
Correct. Which correctly conveys the accurate impression that it is a technology which makes the driving experience somewhat easier in a limited number of ways.

Which is why Cadillac calling their autopilot "Super Cruise" accurately conveyed what it does and doesn't do, and doesn't have an endless news cycle about how the "automatic pilot" is neither.