skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone who's been around large helicopters knows exactly how much this is about a show of force, and has nothing to do with keeping the peace. The last thing you do with a large helicopter if you care about people's safety is hover over them.

This is why I did not enjoy the "health care flyovers" recently. Normally when we have flyovers, it's meant to say "look at all the might we have to use in protecting you". Even that's not particularly appealing, knowing that that might is going to be turned against most likely undeserving people. But the recent flyovers really felt like "look what we could be using against you". And now here we are.
I've also seen it happen when a system changes its email parameters, like switching from considering the TLD to ignoring it. Suddenly john@email.com and john@email.net are sharing the same account, or have two different accounts and usernames linked to the same address.

I had a family tech support session on this exact issue last week. A relative cleared her cookies and found her saved email and password for Facebook were logging her into a profile she'd never seen before. At some point Facebook had decided name@netzero.net and name@netzero.com were the same thing. We got around the issue by logging in using her account name gleaned from someone on her friends list.
1. It's my understanding that doctors and lawyers have professional organizations, which aren't really the same thing as a union.

2. Unions and professional organizations, and really all organizations intended to consolidate power for one group over another, have both good points and bad. Obviously, unions have played an important role in improving worker safety and security, and that's great. But they've also contributed negatively in some ways. Not wishing to organize under as part of a union is not necessarily irrational; it may just be a different weight applied to the varies effects said organizations have.
"I believe this kind of work doesn’t share a lot of commonality with the research that readers of HN would do - although it is a very effective tool for some stuff we do."

I'm not sure what your expectations of the "normal" HN reader are but lots of people engage in stuff like creative writing, essays, general research to esoteric topics and so on.

For example I have a notebook I constantly scribble on. I've moved a portion of that scribbling to a zettlekasteln like system to a great benefit - although I just use text files and in a simple onedrive directory structure.
I don’t know you or anything about your life experiences. I asked about your motivations because I was curious.

My goal here is to use a calm, measured language. I was hoping this would help the conversation, but perhaps it upset you. You called my comments ‘back-handed’ and ‘two-faced’. I didn’t intend them that way.

You could have chosen different words. You may realize the words you chose were harsher than necessary. Even if you were correct in your assessment, which I don’t think you were, those choice of words will likely have a negative effect in a conversation. Especially online, particularly with someone you don’t know.

BTW, I am genuinely sorry if you think I’m trying to insult you in an obscure or sneaky way. I’m not. Doing that would be unkind.

Speaking of your claims that my comments were ‘two-faced’ or ‘back-handed’, there is another explanation. (Skip two paragraphs down for that)

If there’s one thing I could get across to you, it is: please open your mind to other explanations. Be charitable towards others. Don’t assume malice.

If you think you are already as charitable as you can be, then I don’t expect this advice to bother you. If you feel bothered by it, perhaps you should take a closer look at yourself. (I’m not claiming that I am perfect in this regard. It is a process.)

You might have reached the point in life when you realize and respect that people have different communication styles. Many people may not be as direct as you would like.

You say I ‘dodged’ your question. I hope you realize there are other ways to say the same thing with nicer connotations.

You also may realize you didn’t answer my questions, which I asked first. I don’t mind if you don’t want to answer.

I’ll try to phrase my thinking over the last few messages in a different way. My take is that many of your claims are overconfident, possibly because you aren’t actively asking yourself ‘how might other people see this’.

I think a big reason I’ve been replying is out of some (misplaced, perhaps) desire to help you. I think you would benefit by finding more ways to understand other people’s points of view.

I will admit, you seem capable of arguing just fine. So, I don’t see intelligence being a limiter. I would guess (with about 75% probability) that a lack of empathy is a limiter for you.

This is not meant to be harsh even though it may be direct. If true, you certainly aren’t alone and you definitely aren’t alone in a community of technical people. There’s plenty of rationality and technical knowledge but too little empathy.

Example in point: You did a nice job of criticizing my use of ‘in summary’. I’m both joking and not. My usage could be improved, but I think the intent was clear.

Based on what I’ve seen in your behavior, I predict you will reply. However, I don’t expect it to be much different in tone. Feel free to surprise me!

In any case, maybe you will check back in a few years and re-read this thread. Maybe you will see it with new eyes. Maybe it will be some value to you.

Just so you know, if you reply, I don’t expect to reply in timely manner (or ever). So, feel free to have the last word here.
It might be worth it to keep them at their current salary and just not pay SF real estate costs.
Sounds like you're trying to push forward evidence based policy making. Good for you, I love it!

Have you tried to find other well established entities that are already doing this or have done this before? Maybe the ACLU or something like them.

Have you talked to a lawyer or two? More specifically a layer with roots in the movements in the 60s?

Basically I'm asking if you've looked for or found a mentor in this space.

I'm sure you'll find great technical suggestions here, but I want you to succeed in your mission and that'll require more than technical tools.

But maybe you already got those.
Can you elaborate on that? I can't really read the mind of either of you ("you know as well as I do"... what do you guys know?)
hashing was originally invented to keep physical clerical staff from bumping into each other in front of the file cabinets
Why don't the "good protesters" speak out against the looters? Why do you demand the cops do what you wont do? (maybe you personally do but most protesters are not speaking against the looters). Often times it's dangerous to speak up or separate groups entirely. I'm sure the oakland police department is less racist than some random cop Jackson, Mississippi.
Contact Tracing: Laying the Foundation for Real-Time Social Tracking
No, I was quite worried about the driver being dead, and the article hasn't written about it, or hid it somewhere.

It's just basic human empathy that in an accindent safety of people should be no. 1, and then safety of the system should be addressed.
Aren't there official government channels for presidential communications, like the whitehouse.gov website, and state of the nation addresses?

Obama managed fine without ever relying on Twitter.
Your account may be shadowbanned. I vouched for this comment though. It describes what I feel. Not that the workers perhaps aren’t doing anything else. But solely this action doesn’t mean much at all.
The alarm bells of fascism are ringing loudly, are the American people listening?

It started with violating the rights of non-citizens by throwing them and their families in cages. Its building on centuries of black oppression and a nationwide corps of officers lead to believe certain class of Americans to be less than human.

Today, the president used American Military-lite in a completely unnecessary display of machismo, to terrorize groups of peaceful Citizen protesters and continues to do so by semi-wartime methods. The CBP has offered its help in brutalizing another class of people; these are the same group of people who have been let loose on border communities with little repercussions for their actions.

Unchecked, the fascism will grow until there is nothing left to contain it.

Its clear to the present occupant of the White House that winning fairly is not possible. Using emergencies as a pretext for grabbing on to power is an entirely predicable playbook, and yet Americans seem utterly powerless to stop what they know in their hearts is going to happen.
D.C.
I know of at least 1 luxury clothing startup that is doing extremely well due to the increased online activity. Maybe it's just stichfix's market segment?
Ok you pick a name that conveys the full force of the dishonesty going on.

How about "scumbag site technique". Or "Shyster Design" Or viciously dishonest intent.

Arguing the semantics of whether it's /sometimes/ not actually fruadulent according to law or /sometimes/ not criminal because the law isn't there yet does not alter one itoa of the wild and deliberate dishonesty going on.

The intent is to deceive. Make excuses for it all you like knowing it doesn't change what this is but reveals something else.

So what is a beter name than "Dark Pattern" for this kind of intentionally dishonest and deceptive program?

I still vote criminal. I want the law to catch up with reality. if your corner store behaved like that they'd go to jail when caught for most of this vile crap.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
How do you feel about cops murdering black people? Was that a good idea?
Fisheries across Alaska are really struggling. It is striking how climate change affects the economy of Alaska today.

Another article: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/08/785634169/alaska-cod-fishery-...
> The UH-72 in this instance has red crosses on white square backgrounds on its door and under the fuselage

This is absurd. Is that not a violation of Geneva conventions?

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v2_rul...
We have masks and an economic crisis in Europe but we don't have street riots.

The problem here is (other than underlying systemic issues) a pretty stupid attitude from the administration which went for confrontation rather than accomodation.
That would be my guess too.. but that's probably what you want to happen if automated sensors are unable to perceive the world around them - slow and stop the car until a human takes over again...?
CIA learned from the fall of the Shah of Iran that strip shredding is, given time and patience, a reversible operation.
Would you mind sharing what caused you to abandon TiddlyWiki? I like the look of Notion and Roam, but I don’t like SaaS. I’m a few weeks into customising a TiddlyWiki instance and I am becoming quite committed to it. It seems to have the right balance of out-of-the-box functionality and customisability for me. But I am a little apprehensive about finding that it gets slow after a few years of use, or something like that.
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We are listening, but honestly I don't know that to do. I feel helpless and scared (which is what they want, of course).
if they hover too low and someone tethers them down theyll know it then hell breaks loose
Thank you. That's really touching to read.
What is a goroutine? And what is their size?
Why not make universal laws that apply to anyone that can be proven to injure another human being with economic deterrents?

For example, if you hit a man in the face, cause bruising, lets say that costs $1,000 across the board. $1,000 for any hematoma, $5000 or any broken bone. $25,000 for a GSW, $100,000 for a life-threatening injury, etc.

To take it further, if you discharge a weapon at another human being, the fine is something like $1,000 per bullet, etc.

Additionally, existing laws still apply.

Following the above guidelines, you don't need to prove mens rea. It is just the cost of doing business.

It would be a violence tax at the individual level.
Authoritarianism is on the rise and with the US, China, and Russia becoming ever more powerful I’m having a hard time imagining a future without it. It’s depressing.
Wow, was not aware something like this exists. Informative. Thanks for your comment
It is from the Polish-Russian war of 1919-1920, which was then called the "Polish front" by the Bolsheviks. The tell is that there is РКП (Russian Communist party, which was the name used for a short period before the founding of the USSR in 1922 when it became КПСС)
Do you really think — if Facebook and Twitter hypothetically decided to ban him — that the President of the United States would have trouble getting a message out?
This is definitely a known problem, and one which lots of people have spent lots of time thinking about.

As you say, social change movements face many of the same struggles as companies, including maintaining brand alignment and quality control across a network of distributed actors. For this reason, social change movements often adopt (and adapt) the same management tools and techniques that large companies have developed for their operations.

But there is a bunch of literature about managing these challenges specifically for social change movements. One reasonably concise and approachable example is: https://www.citizenshandbook.org/network-campaigns.pdf

>It seems as organizations and movements become less coordinated, less structured in how to resolve internal conflicts and align, that they would be more suited to attacking things or ideas, rather than building them.

I'm not sure this is true. Leaderless movements can be well coordinated and structured (it's just hard). And poorly coordinated and structured movements aren't really suited to doing anything well, even just attacking things and ideas.
GWOT brought back home… how unexpected…
I would not bet on that happening before way way too late. Think if Guantanamo.

And anyway there's still a lot of space between this and the army shooting on the crowd (which happened in many places in the world historically).
I’m not so sure you can pin causality here. Anecdotally, the protests I’ve visited in the past have always been exactly as violent as the police initiates. A peaceful police usually means a peaceful protest in my experience. A violent police—on the other hand—can sometimes cause a violent protest, and even a riot.

Crowd control is a science. And you are sort of ignoring the science by claiming that rioters are the cause of the conflict.
http://www.avabodh.com/cin/programstructure.html

...
void main()
...

That's where I stopped reading.

Since this comment is getting downvotes, I'll explain. The "void" keyword was introduced in the 1989 ANSI C standard. That same standard specified that the valid definitions for the main functions are:

int main(void) { /* ... */ }

and

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { /* ... */ }

or equivalent (or implementations can support other forms). There has never been a version of C in which "void main()" is a valid way to define the main function.

It's a small detail, and yes, many compilers will let you get away with it (the language doesn't require a diagnostic), but anyone writing about C should be aware of this, and should set a good example by writing correct code.

Maybe the site is OK other than that, but it doesn't inspire confidence.
I agree that it seems like in most cases the cops are escalating in a controlled and thought out manner. Yeah of course the cops are going to tear gas protesters when they are throwing rocks and launching fireworks (literal explosives!) at the cops. But there is also many examples of cops misbehaving, like the people who were shot with rubber bullets while on their own porch! I think the issue comes down to there being 600 different police academies and 1000s of police departments in the US each with different training and policies. Maybe standardization of these policies would help?
Are the people who didn't vote four years ago going to the polls this time? Complacency is no less of a problem.
I thought it was lame. I broke the guidelines. I assume bad faith from everything that person wrote. You should probably report me.

I also assume bad faith from you so you can add that to your tattling.
The Rich would be allowed to level anyone they see fit with minimal financial loss.
See also, for your Zettelkästen needs:

4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22085837

7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21208196

Definitely a trend, as 2/3 of the posts have been in the last year: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
One of the ideas that Sascha and Christian of Zettelkasten.de have espoused is not not giving too much structure up front.
At first I flirted with the idea of markdown files, and using something like an extension to Jekyll to resolve links and generate an HTML render of my zettel archive. But that's the same mistake I always make :) Way too much for what I need.

Like you, I settled on just using a text editor (sublime text and atom) with Markdown files. I don't plan to render them, I just like the syntax highlighting.

I think your proposed system captures the important part of the knowledge intake, ie two levels of abstraction (writing a source note, and then connecting the new knowledge from source note to (or just dumping it in) some existing node.)

But one other idea from Christian and Sascha is to avoid folder structures, and allow the organization to develop over time. On a work topic, notes from a few guidances and presentations, plus my experiences, cluster to create a note which transcends a categorical boundary I would have erected with a folder structure.

So, the suggested alt strategy is dump everything into one folder and create clusters using other structures, as they reveal themselves to be useful.
* I guess we'll never know.*

We do know, if you'd care to find out, because homicide and suicide rates are significantly lower in the UK and other countries without armed police than the US.

A domestic is a perfect example of a situation where coming in with guns will get people killed.
Neither of the things you said happened.
I feel the same way. What exactly can we do other than vote? Protesting doesn't seem to actually work (in America anymore at least).
I think most of these 'advanced' note taking features (even interlinking when used pervasively) distract more than it helps.

> Regular note taking sucks

It sucks the least, I tried some of note taking apps and software, then settled at some lines of shell script.

notes () {
cd ~/notes/$1
clear
ls
}

note () {
vim $@
clear
ls
}

This works surprisingly well for most purposes, along with syntax highlighting for markdown. I sometimes wish it had interlinking and images, but I haven't come across a situation where I needed it.
Ah so the next Murdoch doesn't even need to bother with the passport acquisition
thecleaner is mostly correct.

One of the reasons Amazon spent so much over the years was to reduce the amount paid in taxes. So instead of "inflate expenses" it's really "reinvest".

For example, there are specific tax credits for R&D, which can include software if documented properly.
They actually don't have to take a personal day - they get a day off work paid by facebook as a regular day. They can go on strike from home, set their auto-reply, and not even have to use vacation time.
So, Trump now believes this is a rebellion? Didn't he say just yesterday it was a terrorist organization?
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Most companies are like that, especially when innovation/margins taper off.

(not that I don't agree with you)
Surely you're aware that we are at the end of history, and the current system is the best we can hope for or aspire to!
> Right now engineers have incredible leverage.

If the engineers’ leverage is so great, why have they been unable to enact policies they support?
I would like to understand how this note taking method is different than a hypertext wiki for notes? (e.g. TiddlyWiki) It seems very similar to use based on glancing through the examples in the article.

See https://tiddlywiki.com for example.
You assume he can tell the difference between a rebel and a terrorist. /s
Your estimate is 4 miles per kWh, or about 135 mpg. But the average car in the US is about 0.75 miles per kWh, or about 25 mpg
Have you tried prolonged, painful protest? That’s what I am preparing myself to do, mind, body, and soul.

Honesty feeling hopeful for the first time in awhile, bullish on protest and I think that tech can be leveraged in a significant way
How I made it to #7 on Product Hunt
After about a month of planning, we launched WebCheck AI on Product Hunt!

WebCheck AI is a chrome extension that gives you context on what you read online.

Here are our STATS for the week of launch (we had no traffic before launch):

Unique page visitors: 623
Extension Installs: 279
Publications featured: 2

Here is what I did:

Prelaunch:
-Created Upcoming Page on PH's Ship. Pro tip: Make sure to import subscribers for credibility. It will then you show x subscribers instead of 0 and get you more.
-Joined all relevant FB Groups/ Subreddits/ Slack channels.
-Crafted personalized messages for all groups. This is key.
-Twitter PMd 1,000 tech journalists giving them a heads up and asking for feedback.
Twitter PMd top 500 Product Hunt Makers and Hunter giving them a heads up and asking for feedback.
-Made a list of 50 friends who would UpVote the first hour.
-Found a top Hunter.

Launch Day:
-I spammed every FB Group/ Subreddit/ Slack channel asking sharing my product acting for their support and feedback (not their upvote). Note: each message was personalized to the audience I was posting to.
-I messaged every tech journalist and hunter who had shown interest when I first reached out with a link to the page asking for support and feedback.
-Emailed the subscribers I had amassed on PH's upcoming page.
-Twitter PMd every subscriber I had amassed on PH's upcoming page (PH gives you their twitter handle).

Protips:
-Do NOT ask friends to create PH accounts just to Upvote you. This will affect you negatively. Only ask people who already had active PH accounts.
-Do NOT launch unless you have a top hunter submitting for you. If you look at the PH About Page you will find a list of hunters who have the power to get you featured just by submitting your product. It will be up to you to get upvotes and downloads/ subscriptions but this will get you on the front page.
-Add the PH badge to your site.
-Launch at 12.00 am PST time.
>The act was last invoked in 1992 to quell the Los Angeles riots after the acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of Rodney King, a black man

So history is repeating itself?
How often do we think they've done that in other countries?
Can't listen over the sound of businesses being burned down and innocent people crying out of terror.
Unfortunately tracking the links is only way to keep everything free, without selling anything and without ads. All free-to-play games get featured regardless if I get commission or not. And no, F2P it's not really a plague, there is some great F2P games out there.