skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Increasing the cost of a single cop isn't the same as increasing the cost of a police force.

It seems obvious to me that as we work toward decarceration and decriminalization there will be a need for fewer police officers.

Practically everyone agrees that racial profiling should go away. Well, that's less "work" and should lead to fewer staff. Pretty similar public sentiment toward drug possession.

Not quite cops, but related. If we got rid of cash bail we'd need smaller prisons and fewer corrections officers. People who are released without bail overwhelmingly return for their court dates. So the only reason they are in jail is because they couldn't afford bail--they haven't been convicted of a crime. And that bail is then used to coerce confessions out of people.

On a given night, about 470k people are in jail because they couldn't make bail. That's about 25% of incarcerated people.

Source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html
Police across the US are training crime-predicting AIs on falsified data
Wish I could upvote you more than once. Game designers need to be more focused on getting people into the game, and then progressively revealing more complicated mechanics as the game unfolds. I'd rather play a videogame if I'm going to have to read the manual for an hour before my first turn.
Absolutely not. Facebook is the last major social network where people are able to speak their minds. And since I can select who I want to listen to, I like it. As it so happens, everyone who I follow on Facebook speaks their minds by posting pictures of their babies. This is perfectly fine by me.

I am sceptical that the paternalists will let me be when they're done dealing with Trump et al.
That's fine if you only want to talk about topics nobody will disagree with, like how much we all love some particular piece of media, but I think it's a waste of time to look for sincere deep conversations under the enforced banality of FB's one-size-fits-globally Community Standards.
I had a friend in college who dropped out and attended a police academy program. After finishing the program and going on a lot of ride-alongs with local police, he decided not to become a cop because the culture he encountered was so toxic it turned him off to the entire idea. He was a good guy, smart, not an angry bone in his body. Maybe if we make policing a desirable career instead on extension program for high school bullies, we could attract better people to the job.
> Facebook isn't the problem, human nature is.

This is almost exactly the line of thinking that the story The Weapon by Fredric Brown warns against.

http://www.digital-eel.com/blog/library/The_Weapon.pdf
Shouldn't `| sudo cat > /dev/fb0` work?
zone-h defacement archive[1] still active. I don't see any related to Floyd yet but I'm not going through a whole week's worth of int'l skiddie defacements. NSFW needless to say.

1: http://www.zone-h.net/archive/special=1
Because you are the beneficiary of hundreds of years of policies and systemic racism that has benefited you at the cost of your fellow man.

Imagine your parents stole a fortune from your neighbor and passed it on to you when they died. Does that money belong to you, or your neighbor/their children? I think the answer is common sense. The fact that you weren’t the one who originally stole the money is irrelevant.
You can get contact information and maintain ties with communities in other ways as well. Leaving FB can make discovering communities harder, but it doesn't mean remaining part of communities is lost.
This is a good point. The cars are a signal too. My town upgraded from the usual crown vics to souped up Ford SUVs that look ready to plow down a house. It seems to have brought with it some extra police swagger and aggression.
Yea, I did not speak out. I yelled. But the opposition shouted even louder.

Just butting heads doesn't seem to be getting us any results, there are probably better ways to achieve fairness, even if it is not exactly in the form we want (e.g. popup for every program instead of just unsafe ones).
Is there a significant amount of Facebook employees that are actually planning on leaving?

From my experience money talks. Many people will use the logic of "if not me it will be someone else" for their cognitive dissonance to work at morally degenerate organizations. I'd be interested if there was a survey of current employees who would be willing to leave if another entity paid an analogous salary.
And after the revolution the government immediately cracked down on similar tax protests like the Whiskey Rebellion. So what?

On its own I agree the Tea Party is wonton vandalism. The patriots knew that too. They wanted to start a war. They also knew it was lawless and it was debated afterwords until it set of a wave of similar vandalism.

No one outside of a very small group looks back on the race riots of 1968 with pride, or the burning of LA, or Camden.

Are the rioters trying to start a revolutionary war? I hope not. There will be a lot of death everywhere.

The rioters don’t even have a plan or goal for if they “win.” They aren’t making demands. “Fix the police“ and “end systemic racism” isn’t something that can just happen. The rioters don’t have Federalist Papers or any plan for what’s next (unless you count the Communist Manefesto).

Personally I’d like these things to happen too. The police shouldn’t be terrifying. When I was growing up they were likable Andy Griffith types. Everyone knew them. Now they are shaven headed paramilitary. I have no idea who my local cops are. Wtf?
Because it costs money to do the identify verification? Its not like a DV certificate where the volume is very high, and the verification isn't hard to automate.

I paid $400/yr for my employers first Authenticode certificate back when they were a new thing and you could only get them from Verisign. Now there's a handful of providers and competition has brought the price down, but the volume is lower than DV certs, and verification is harder, so the prices won't go down to zero.

Why do identity verification at all, you could ask? A reasonable question; if all I need to start earning reputation is a private key, the costs could go to zero. But letting the scammers make as many identities as they like at no cost changes the prior on a previously unseen identity. It seems MS isn't granting a very strong prior anyway though, so... my argument certainly is weak here.
You literally said “this is why people hate cops” right before saying that nobody said that about “all cops”.

There are other examples all over this thread. Nobody is complaining about a specific cop, they’re generalizing everything to “cops”. That’s what that is.

you're saying that victims of crimes deserve it for not praising police brutality

How do you expect anyone to take you seriously with such absurd fabrications? Anyone can scroll up and easily see that I did not say any such thing.
As if Facebook media were any better...
I remember some trouble with Github many years ago, but it uses inline SVGs for icons now.
> I (we) really want to learn what a proper setup would look like

Signing and authentication keys are expendable but encryption keys are worth keeping even after they've been rotated since decryption of existing data may be necessary.

The key can be printed on paper and stored in a physical safe. Paper isn't a high density storage medium but it is remarkably durable and perfect for small amounts of data such as encryption keys. It also counts as an offline backup.

Keys can also be printed as QR codes. They support error correction and enable automatic data restoration. Even 4096 bit RSA keys fit in a binary mode QR code and the smaller ECC keys allow use of high error correction modes, making the data even more durable.

I wrote a binary decoding feature for ZBar in order to support this exact use case:

zbarcam --raw --oneshot -Sbinary > key

It's available on version 0.23.1 and above.
I think that's exactly right. it ends up being a LOT of super specific, fragile code --- so kind of interersting thought to see if you can make them elegant/easy/emergent in the library/framework itself.
I really think it's a shame the framebuffer console can't do proper bold, italics and underlines...
Been an option in the preferences since the days of Netscape, perhaps Mosaic.
My RSS reader doesn't spy on and profile me while I use it
3) Poland's solution was also open sourced very soon https://github.com/ProteGO-Safe . While it could have more privacy protective, as long as it will have an option to turn the contract tracing off I will use it. Unfortunately despite the fact that creators of this app are privacy conscious I only heard about it from negative articles. I checked it myself and they are using centralised tracing system, only because Apple/Google decentrilised one isn't ready and it is a main concern in disparaging articles. I'm not saying that currently Poland isn't going into autocracy, but it isn't a tool in this machine. However with 10k installs in a 40m country it is useless.
Entire Google search result pages are now ads
I made a comment the other day that I thought Twitter was selectively enforcing this policy (I lost Karma pointing it out). I didn't want to assume so I tested. I reported 10 people who called for Trump to be killed or had other calls for violence. Here are some examples, they are all still up 5+ days later.
https://twitter.com/Zangetsu8ensa/status/1266385289360089088
https://twitter.com/KllrDave/status/1266390506222891011

I don't think there is any ambiguity in those tweets about calling violence.
That is a shagload of hardware. I had to work in MSSQL with ~100GB database and we only had, I think, 12 cores in those servers (or maybe it was just 6 + SMT). Avoiding IO is the key, so having enough mem to cache the working set is essential.

Those are massive, massive machines.
Okay. GitLab employee here. The next few things are my personal experience at GitLab. They don’t reflect anything official from the company or the experience of everyone there.

You should ensure that you have a career progression plan with your manager. It can be something like a career matrix. You should talk to your manager about: Where am I skilset wise, what do I need to do to progress into the next „tier“ of my current seniority, what do I need to do to jump into the next level of Seniority. All these definitions may be different depending in your company.

You should ensure that you work on your goals and talk to your manager regularly about them. Make sure to keep a journal or brag document to reference things that you have achieved. Make sure that you document your plans and your progression. You should be the one demanding this process from your manager, it is your career, not theirs. Remind them to do this with you.

If your higher management doesn’t have documentation and processes that define how one progresses in the Org, demand it. You can only progress in the org if you know how to. This also allows you to see if your personal goals don’t align with the Org, that it might be time to move away from that org.

Finally a personal note that I had to learn: Be straightforward about what you want. Supply your manager with the stuff that they need. In my case I changed managers quite a bit due to the growing org and it never felt like the right time to ask for a promotion from Interim to Official Manager.

If you are doing the job in a satisfactory manner already, ask for that promotion. If you are showing seniority, ask for the promotion. Make sure to have the data to back it up. If told „no“, ensure you get the specific reasons why not and work on resolving those issues.
I think a starting point would be Avatar , the cartoon. The spells were based on mostly full body martial arts, but each element had a distinct flavor.
> rely on automated query optimization and parallelization from there.

I know you said "automated parallelization" but... in newer versions of Postgres, what does it take to trigger some of the automatic query parallelization?
I’m not sure why you made this comment. As far as I can see, nobody is doing your first sentence, and we all agree on the second. Police should definitely obey the law!
Has anyone had any luck or done any experiments using OnionCat with Multicast? I've heard people can get 200MB/s+ doing this but potentially sacrificing some anonymity.
> it’s pretty hard to condone that

You don't have to condone it. The question is whether it's appropriate to escalate to violence to stop it. And it clearly isn't, even from the very narrow perspective of the police. The phone video shot two days ago energized the huge protests yesterday, who ended up getting gassed out of a church in DC so the president could hold up a bible, which is driving literally millions more people into the streets.

Let them do their thing, and everyone will get bored. Yes, it's a dick move to block an intersection. But we don't tear gas routine assholes, right?
It's hard to make that argument when you control the browsing device that tells users that they are in private mode, but then identify specific devices and users from the other end of the network with your other product.
What broke me was Arkham Horror. Because of the very long setup time, we played less than half a game and decided never to touch it again.

“Traders of Genoa” is one of the few games where the bits are relevant to game play. So often the bits are just window dressing to distract from otherwise uninteresting game concepts.
I meant to indicate that the first paragraph was a quote from the article, but I forgot the quote marks. My comment starts with ‘If the “sides of history”...’
When they turn violent in response to being attacked by police, yes?

When protests start getting gassed, everyone panics, and looters start to take advantage of the chaos. This is a natural consequence of applying tear gas to large crowds. People at the front start doing everything they can to get away, people in the back start to flee, and in the chaos, looting starts.

If you want to prevent looting, don't hose down peaceful protests. When protesters aren't panicking, they can police themselves, and stop violence before it happens. There's no shortage of videos and anecdotes of protests actively stopping looters/instigators, because they don't want their protests to turn violent.

The first rule of policing is that the police are the public, and that the public is the police. The only difference is that one gets paid to do it full-time.

All this flies out the window when the grenades start flying.
Leaving WhatsApp is not as easy, in many countries you need it to do things like buying to local producers or communicating with a client. The network effect is more unavoidable than in other FB products.
AOL aged people still remember A/S/L?

We are simply living in the Eternal September.
The difference is though, with the internet evolving, the platforms were figuring out their revenue models, and we can see now which model turned out superior.
What is Urbit for? I mean i never understood whats it's real use. From what i've read i imagine it as some new stack that replaces networking and servers but then i found out that you have to buy namespaces that are finite? Why?
Has the default font on that site been changed? IIRC it was Valkyrie, but now Century Supra is selected for me, and it doesn't seem to elicit quite the same breath-taking effect. (Not talking about Times New Roman on the linked page.) If my memory and senses don't fault me in the tiredness and drunkenness, then switching to Valkyrie (at the bottom) is highly advised, as with it this site is the most beautiful on the whole web. Every single interval is perfect, which causes fits of irremediable envy for me.

However, Firefox Preview on my phone doesn't seem to answer my efforts towards the aesthetic bliss and refuses to load the font.

BTW, my personal favorite free serif font is Merriweather—particularly for reading long texts. It's somewhat overused on the web, but it's so much better than the next thing. It has the exact right ‘density’, and the shapes are playful just enough to not tire out the eye.

As for sans-serif, alas! If I could have Rosario with good kerning and support for more languages, or Optima with a bit less contrast and more humanistic shapes—I'd be so happy. Until then, it's back to Fira Sans again and again.
IME whether you rewrite or refactor, the lesson is the same: You have to grind your way into the good architecture. It doesn't become good because the code is fresh, but because you have battle scars to show.

And a success story in that case comes from having a complete learning loop. In a lot of orgs the learning itself is argued against for one reason or another - development proceeds with as little feedback on quality as can be gotten away with.
> Absolutely not. Facebook is the last bastion of people being able to speak their minds. And since I can select who I want to listen to, I like it. As it so happens, everyone who I follow on Facebook speaks their minds by posting pictures of their babies. This is perfectly fine by me.
I am sceptical that the paternalists will let me be when they're done dealing with Trump et al.

How is it the last bastion of anything? It is a place where people seem to be able to speak their mind. It's not the last place. The Internet is vast, and the major social networks aren't the only things in existence on it.
I left Facebook many years ago - perhaps 2007 or 2008?

One of the best things I did for my mental health. Highly recommended.
Millions, yes. Billions, no.
Your of course assuming that ambulance services don't track the protests and route around them as much as possible.
HN guidelines are to not be snarky. Personally, sarcasm rarely adds to a conversation. Dang explains it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21187460
There's a big difference between rewriting all history and rewriting a portion of it during an attack which costs 400k per hour.

Also people may misinterpret 'rewriting history' as the ability to to change coins sent from A -> B to A -> C. Which it is not.

Not saying an attack still isn't bad, but let's be clear what the extent of the damage could and could not be.
Does anyone have recommendations for a tool similar to Facebook Events that I can use for planning the assloads of parties and camping trips I plan? That's genuinely the only thing between me and deleting my FB.
You can't reason with them. They won't even look at the data proving that Mexicans and Blacks were used by another group for warfare. Cohencidence that "the projects" all look like soviet block? Haha! Mass immigration is indistinguishable from warfare.
Yes! Segoe UI looks brilliant. I'm not sure how it looks on paper, though.
I raise Beat Saber as a counter example: it would be less tiring to press buttons than to flail your arms and wrists, but somehow it would not be as fun.
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I completely agree and was just about to make a post comparing logger/debugger to bike/car. I guess we think alike!

There are also quite a few bugs where you need some kind of debugger in order to track down the bug. I am thinking crash dumps (using WinDbg for example) as well as memory corruption in C/C++. Being able to set a breakpoint when a certain address in memory changes has basically reduced most memory corruption bugs from a week-long nightmare to more of an inconvenience for me (mind you, it's still my least favourite type of bug to investigate).
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking HN's guidelines and using multiple accounts to abuse the site. If you'd please stop doing that, we'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good. My long held worthless altcoins will remain worthless and mine regardless.
Rent control throws a wrench in this simple model. In Berkeley, the tenant almost exclusively has the right to terminate the tenancy. Expiration of lease or month-to-month term is not actually grounds for the owner to terminate the tenancy.
On a USB drive in a locked cabinet. It's not a hardened cabinet. A hard yank would probably open it.
Economic Parity doesn’t have anything to do with police mistreatment and racial profiling. My family lives in the most affluent part of our metro area, my son grew up in the burbs all of his life, as an experienced software engineer by definition we have higher than the median income for our area, and people still thought we were up to something when we walked through our house as it was being built while other couples freely walked in and out of unsold homes.

Last year, I was outside talking to our (White) yard guy. His truck with the name of his lawn service was parked out front. He was dressed in beat up jeans, dusty, and holding the lawn mower while I had just come from work - in slacks and button down shirt. A neighbor walked over to us and asked him how long has he been living here while completely ignoring me. He looked like he was going to say something and I quietly nudged for him not to. I politely said I would see them later and walked into the house.

She was embarrassed - point made. When she left, I walked back outside with a bottle of water for him and we started back talking. I told him I just walked into the house to make a point and we both laughed.
For me the first step was to remove the mobile Facebook app. I used to scroll mindlessly while traveling and commuting, and once I didn't have the app on my phone, my time on FB dropped by like 80%. I also found it refreshing and I felt less stressed about missing something there.
We should see Facebook as a drug store which its top kingpin, Mr Zuckerberg sell its social network 'drugs' to billions of his users, which when abused over and over again, the results are always never positive and messes with your dopamine levels. Because of the social connections, followers and inertia, it is harder for friends and family to leave.

Apart from its flagship product, social network 'drugs' it owns includes Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. The fine-print is if you mix that with trolls, disinformation and bots it equals never-ending reactionary anger. Very unhealthy for you.
I shared this post, and I'm deleting my facebook account tomorrow. Most of the people I care about already have my phone number any way.

I will miss the concert notifications for bands I follow, but I guess I'll just have to put slightly more effort into following them :)
I don't know much about lidar but.. is it possible Google have done this intentionally with some sort of algorithm? After all, pedestrians and vehicles are just "noise" in the context of mapping/visualising streets.
In many cases I don't think it's being used casually.
Chrome's Incognito mode is pretty clear about what it does, and clearly states the fact that websites and ISPs can still track you.

Private Browsing has never been about hiding your traffic from analytics AFAIK. It's about your local browser history only.
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Correction: pay $400/hr to gain a temporary majority in the block mining lottery. You can do a variety of things with that majority power, but “rewriting history” is a bit misleading. Yes, you can probably get the network to discard some previously accepted blocks, but this only allows you to invalidate your own transactions plus the transactions that depend on them.

Furthermore, any blocks that were mined under high hashpower still need the same hashpower to be re-mined. A one-time reduction in network hash power doesn’t make previously mined blocks easier to mine.