skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Google should be applauded if they make these wasteful developers suffer monetarily until they shape up."

As the browser author with the dominant market share, Google could start by not enabling these "wasteful developers". These ridiculously huge web pages can lock up a user's computer when the user's browser is a "modern" and "supported" one but not when the user agent is something simpler.

I can read wired.com really fast using various tcp clients to make the http requests and links to view the html. If user A reads the articles with Chrome and user B reads them using something simpler, how is user A advantaged over user B? All things being equal, if we quiz them on the readings, would user A score higher than user B?

The difference is the advertising, which almost always requires graphics - the more dazzling the better, and detailed tracking, which requires Javascript and the presence of other "modern" browser "features". There is a strong argument to be made that Google's browser caters more to the online ad industry (who wants to show ads and do tracking) than to users (who want to read wired.com quickly and efficiently).

Software developers have long been squandering user's resources beginning with Microsoft Windows. Hardware manufacturers were Microsoft's first customers and there was an incentive to get users to keep "upgrading" their hardware. - buying new computers.

Web developers are simply following the tradition.

A user can get those 500 words of content in an instant with zero ads, using the right user agent, even on an "obsolete" device. However there are zero incentives for online ad industry-supported companies/organisations maintaining "modern" browsers, web developers writing code to run on them nor hardware manufacturers to help the user do that.

The easiest way to change the "UX" for the web user is to change the user agent. Trying to get web developers to change what they design to only use a small fraction of what Chrome and the user's computer can do is far more difficult, if not outright impossible.
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> defacing war memorials.

What an odd thing to do. Which memorials?
Strange to see wild narratives on HN about police racism and violence that have no basis in reality.
I am kind of surprised that police would use unencrypted radio. Wouldn't this help criminals time and predict their escape route to give them the best chance of success?
> All these "go to jail" stops at the "qualified immunity". And no politician yet was willing to do anything about it. We need to demand to end this "qualified immunity". That's number one force, that corrupts police.

Justin Amash put forward an act today https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/1267267244029083648
>People on HN seem to have a cartoon villain view of police

What could possibly give people that impression?

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/gu3s6j/poli...
Why don't they have 6 super cheap single beam lidars in some sort of pattern to detect this type of thing? It doesn't have to be a giant spinning sphere on the top of the car. Small moving prism in one axis?
That's in the context of an action film though, if people based their ideas on those we would live in a strange world indeed.
Hmmm, actually come to think of it...
Or possibly a dedicated servissing platform, say with ion engines or refueling capacity. It could do slow orbit changes unmanned with crew launched only for the actual servissing, or possibly dragging broken sats for repair to a manned station and back - could be pretty workable in GEO belt if you manage to get and sustain a crew there.
After citing statistics right here on HN about how racial profiling and traffic stops and tickets targets minorities , people were making excuses because it didn’t affect them.

Right here on HN posts about the protests were being flagged left and right because people are more concerned about the freedom to side load apps on iOS than minorities getting harassed.
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It's a pretty eye grabbing title but does anyone have primary sources to what was specifically legislated or discussed?

Seems like there's tons of editorial fillers around generalities and posturing but the only thing specific is that BNO passport holders can now take what's essentially a tourist visa to the UK for 12 months now instead of 6 months. i.e. you can come spend money but you can't earn money and it doesn't sound like a "door to citizenship".

So while it sounds magnanimous, it seems like a means to skim people already with assets rather than extending a political lifeline to petrol bomb throwers.
I have periods of a few days every so often where I completely lose my appetite due to my ADHD medication. It's fascinating how something that's usually such a pleasure becomes a complete chore. I need to force myself to eat, literally stuffing food into my mouth and methodically chewing, there's no enjoyment whatsoever, no matter what I eat it feels like I'm eating sawdust.

Usually when it happens I switch from eating solid food to liquid meal replacements and tinned fruit, things I can more or less just pour down my throat.
Do you not understand that these non-approved views, for the most part, come from actual nazis?

Facebook has been more than happy to censor Palestinian activists at the behest of the Israeli government.

https://theintercept.com/2017/12/30/facebook-says-it-is-dele...

Handing over control of what we read, see and hear to a private company that acts as judge and jury should obviously concern anyone that can imagine situations in which it would be better to hear things that powerful actors do not want you to hear. Existing legal frameworks are already problematic ( there are many obscenity, blasphemy, sexuality-related examples you can find in recent history), but at least they require some sort of legal process with some sort of public input.

It would be ironic if your cheerleading for censorship resulted in your _obvious_ hate speech against bootlicking nazis being taken down during the second Trump term using the mechanisms you did your own part in establishing.
My sense of taste has diminished (a couple of years ago), I think because I had a needle full of anesthetic jabbed into my gumline a few too many times and they hit my nerve once.

I no longer really taste much of anything in the front half of my tongue. Still can in the back half, though. I've gotten used to it, although it annoys me when I think about it. I'm lucky I haven't lost it completely, that would be a sad day.

I think you're right, in that as long as I can feel the food, I could eat alright. Probably would eat a bit healthier, though.
Coming from Latin America I would have never imagined before this thread that so many large countries would not teach CS in their own languages, and would have to speak in English amongst themselves!

It's fascinating, over here we incorporate thousands of English words into the Spanish IT lingo, but while they can could roughly communicate in English, most people I know wouldn't be able to have a discussion entirely in English. As others have said, there's several literal translations for some concepts, but it feels a bit condescending/academic to use those instead of the English words in casual environments.

A fun quirk of this is that we turn many English verbs into Spanish versions of them (where verbs must end in -ar -er -or). Some examples:
- to commit -> committear
- to pull -> pullear
- to deploy -> deployar

That last one is particularly fun because it turns the 'y' at the end into a consonant (sort of like if you said 'deployate'). And we do all this instinctively, for some reason it's what feels most natural!

A sad quirk is that we've also adopted the frustrating English tendency to turn _everything_ into acronyms, which always irks me.

Amazing thread!
They could have spoken up after that Brunswick murder but waited until this Monday, when Minneapolis went up in flames. That's how I know.
Ops, yes. To be clear, 15,000/4/365 = 10.3 kWh per day is still correct.
They don’t have any choice once it is filmed. They weren’t condemning all the misconduct by the same officer that wasn’t filmed.
New Glenn has deep cryo hydrolox upper stage, same as proposed lander? Like they were made for each other.
>The protests are mostly in the blue-voting cities

Yes, in the cities where most people in this country live.

Where people are most educated.

Where most minorities live.

But sure, them darn demz, at it again.
Are you joking? Do you not realize that most people are reasonable and do not want distress and despair? Do you fall out of that overwhelming majority?
AFAIK, in academic VR parlance, the word "display" is used for anything that outputs sensory information, regardless of the type of sense being targeted.
It's interesting how the idea of some form of direct democracy never even comes up in conversation. Of course I wouldn't expect any current or former politician to suggest the idea, but even in conversation on HN or in the general public, I'm not sure if I've ever encountered it before.

Of course, there will be no shortage of overly enthusiastic (and absolutely confident) defeatism "We 'can't' do it because x, y, z" (complexities with security, ensuring the person casting the vote is indeed the actual person, excess amount of uninformed populism, etc.) So how about this: for the first <x> years, make it non-binding and simply observe the results. If the votes have no power, so much for the disingenuous claims that "we don't dare try it, and it won't work anyways", because it completely derisks the situation.

So then, when you have people still guaranteeing doom, I reckon there's a pretty good chance that would make a good shortlist of people who should no longer be allowed anywhere near the political process.

I would love to know why people are adamantly opposed to having a honest, transparent, and fact-checked public conversation on the idea.
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Where I live, the police that showed up would likely all be black. Are you saying I should reconsider calling them? I'm repelled by that idea.
The comments here remind me how music notation has adopted Italian as the default language with all other musicians must follow.

> There are some Italian terms like 'tempo', 'adagio', 'allegretto' and 'rallentando' which are only used in the context of writing or reading music. But others, like 'concerto', 'piano', 'soprano' and 'opera' were so stylish that they have made their way from the original Italian into our everyday musical vocabulary.

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Yeah, the bootstrap funding is the main issue - other than that basically all available resources are out there in space, pretty much by definition. From that poikt of view it is a no brainer, once the initial cliff can be overcome.
Can you elaborate on the IQ restrictions?
In *your reality, for which you should be greatful.
And don't forget the synchronous communities! All hackers have at some stage had a collection of friends in MSN, IRC, ICQ, XMPP, Slack, Discord, Mattermost -- something where they can regularly collaborate and talk among individuals with relevant interests.

Check out your local subreddits, find links to invites and start forming relationships with people you may never meet. Because more often than not, these are the people that will introduce you to concepts, jobs and cool shit you'd never find out on HN, Reddit or blogs.
This is what happens when your understanding of politics doesn't have a material basis. You think the color coding of ruling power means something.
It's the cops on each force they cherry-picked. The fact that they are chief of police means nothing, but that you don't understand the institutions involved and how they work. This stuff is in front of SCOTUS and congress right now. It's not simple and it is very broken.

> The list of police chiefs & other officials is solid.

The list is solid ignorance of the institutions involved. It focuses on race of one part of police leadership and not police violence and the racist actions of many cops. Highlighting police chief race is a racial argument in the least and may be even a racist argument.
I have always suspected that US police are shunted into sub-optimal patterns because there are so many guns here that the odds a simple interaction will involve a firearm are much higher than they are in less-well-armed societies. Does anybody know if I'm right about that?

That doesn't mean that they can't do more de-escalation or take other steps, but the high prevalence of guns does seem like it would be a contributing factor.

(I realize this touches a hot topic (guns) but it's an honest question, and sympathetic to law enforcement.)
With a few exceptions, I learn more from user comments on sites like this than I do from today's "journalism".

Turns out, people willing to spout random ideas on a topic are not in especially short supply and 99% of them are willing to do it for free. The best part is, these free users usually get right to the point.

Long form and investigative journalism need to be funded but the kind of information I find junk articles on the homepage of CNN or Fox is usually better hashed out (and much less biased) in the comments section than reading an article.

In a sentence, most media doesn't have much value-add. Even less so if I have to click through 6 ads and be exposed to malware to see it.
Looking into “criminal history” might be fine if the justice system didn’t systematically make sure minorities get harsher sentences than Whites.
I have had to patrol streets in Iraq during the surge in 2007, It was dangerous, but our ROE had escalations rules and everyone patrolled at a low ready with their helmets off. The intent was to make us a boring part of the background rather than an antagonist, and to make us look like we didn't want to be there as much as they didn't want us there.

Cop's look more and more like soldiers and I think you're right about the 'winning' being the main goal.
Where i live, the cops are very tacticool, even though we have effective gun control and hardly any civilian vs police violence.
All i think about is how much my back hurts now from carrying all that shit when I was in the military.
Hundreds of videos have emerged of police brutality over the past few days. In how many of those videos do you see "good cops" taking down those bad cops committing acts of brutality?

Almost never. I myself have only seen two videos where this has been the case, out of hundreds!

Police racism and violence is an issue, but it becomes egregious when the rest of the police force just stands by.
I’m making an observation MLK himself made directly. Immediately preceding the article’s lead quote, in the same speech, MLK said:

> Let me say as I’ve always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially destructive and self-defeating. I’m still convinced that nonviolence is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom and justice. I feel that violence will only create more social problems than they will solve. That in a real sense it is impracticable for the Negro to even think of mounting a violent revolution in the United States. So I will continue to condemn riots, and continue to say to my brothers and sisters that this is not the way. And continue to affirm that there is another way.

MLK does not rule out violent resistance on moral grounds, but practical ones. Bangladeshis mounted a violent revolution against Pakistan and won. But as MLK directly states, it would be “impracticable” to “even think of” a minority group within the US doing the same. Not “immoral.” (Given the history of what African Americans have endured, being second class citizens in their own country, I wouldn’t say it would be immoral.) But “impracticable.” And it obviously is.

People will go to tremendous lengths to preserve law and order. Saddam remained in power despite tremendous abuses because he maintained law and order. What MLK recognized is that if you give the majority a dichotomous choice between the rights of a minority and maintaining law and order, people will easily choose law and order. MLK’s non-violence wasn’t just a moral sentiment, it was rooted in pragmatism and self-preservation.

(I should add, MLK was a Christian. It's an issue the Bible grapples with directly: what do you do when the government is antagonistic to you and has an overwhelming advantage in force? The Bible hardly writes off the idea of righteous exercise of violence. But it also counsels temperance where any other approach would be "impracticable.")
Point. Clinton told us she was miles ahead, and I totally believed it.
Worst part is no airbags worked so whole car was FUBR
Malcolm X’s Fiery Speech Addressing Police Brutality
I found this site to be a great primer on MMT.

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I think it's clearly a message to people watching the looting in the cities thinking they can get away with that in a rural area. He says it plain and simple, rural people have guns and they will kill you.
But it beats on the fun part if you are into it.

Cryptography is one of those areas that I believe a PHD actually helps. And going through it automatically proves that you have what is needed for future jobs.
It would be less outrageous if it weren't our fellow man brutalizing our brothers and sisters but some goblins from out of civilization.

They're butchers. They know what's happening and their part in it.
This has not been my experience with antifa. This seems to mostly be a strategic opinion championed almost exclusively by the people who hate them as part of the social politics "war".
Laws vary depending on the state.
I hear you, and I've been modded myself. But the guidelines provided a damping effect that allows for conversations to occur which would quickly spin out of control otherwise.
Unpopular opinion: The newfound delusion that peaceful protests have ever engendered any real change as opposed to their violent cousin is perhaps the nail in the coffin of freedom and democracy.
> emperorsclothes

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The honor Harrington by Weber series is also based on Hornblower and has some very nice, realistic depictions of physics and battle in space (minus the ftl, of course). I highly recommend it.
Why would you de-escalate when the POTUS says stuff like this: https://soundcloud.com/the-daily-beast-politics/trump-audio
That's crazy and I admittedly didn't know that's possible. Sorry to hear that. :(

I have an issue where I have these crazy, unusual "allergic" reactions (doctors I've gone to actually say it's "hypersensitivity" rather than a normal "allergy"), and one of the weird "symptoms" is that if I'm out and about while reacting to something I ate, my sense of smell gets severely heightened. I'll smell food cooking at restaurants and feel more disgusted than not, even for stuff I'd generally enjoy all the time.

Pretty crazy how human biology works.
Animation of 500 companies' stock performance in 2020
Imagine being this oblivious
Change does not require looting and beatings does it? Wouldn't looting and beatings simply give the police more power, and be counter productive against making police more accountable?

Looters and those who bash people's skulls in are opportunists who don't care about change. The ones that want change see their opportunity slipping away.
I presume it's a reference to this:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

ie constant standards churn to keep your competitors busy.