skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really an illuminating moment. A lot of people have been saying that this crisis really enforces the reasoning for UBI, but that's not quite true. It's more accurate to say that the crisis really enforces that the government should have infrastructure in place for helicopter money, or paying arbitrary citizens cash.

That's not even a controversial idea. The post office is meant to deliver mail to any American home (the value of the post office is probably much larger than any subsidy they receive (which is unfortunate in a small way, most of the post office budget problems are pension based. They can get away with it because they really are not worth failing)). The post office was also a nationwide bank for awhile.

I also think that subsidizing payrolls was the better way to approach this problem. The PPP was a limited pool of money and favored businesses with the best relationship with their bankers. A simple approach of "I will pay you 25% of your annual income based on last years taxes plus inflation" is much easier.

This is the bargain we've made though isn't it? The US is more OK with creative destruction. The question is how creative the destruction from covid is. How quickly do you need to liquidate a restaurant's assets to improve capital allocation?

The answer to that might be "quicker than people form restaurants." Which suggests to me that just replacing service worker income is probably more efficient.
Why do I get the feeling you're not super familiar with the Supreme Court?
Is there an okay percentage of brutality by police?

When a failure in the system happens, it needs to be magnified, studied, dissected, and the system must evolve to make sure it doesn't happen again. This is how we have safer nuclear plants, airplanes, etc. And in human systems too: coal miners and people on oil rigs have adopted new protocols to help their workers be more safe. The police is not immune. One act of brutality must be documented, post-mortemed, debugged, and mitigated.
Ah yes, cops telling you that they didn't do it.

At first I said to myself "he didn't do it, he isn't a cop..." and then I started to think about the source of the information.

I'm not taking sides here. I don't know if he did it or not. I just like to question all sources at this point. Just because they say they didn't do it, doesn't mean they didn't do it.
Someone would have to add their integrations though. The features won't be joined magically together.
This just in, serial arsonist denies ever committing arson!
Low powered arms (and intel atoms) are more than enough for most use cases.

The only reason they’re not in my daily driver laptop is that I can’t get one with a decent display and a power efficient CPU.

There’s surely pent up demand for such machines. Hopefully someone will build one eventually.
The weaker the virus, the less symptoms it has. If people who feel sick stay home, it gives less aggressive stains the chance to infect more people.

On the other hand if infected people with strong symptoms infect others in hospitals, the opposit happens (that's how the Spanish flu first got more deadly).
Perfect, meet good. The two of you shouldn't be enemies.
This DX7 Cartridge Does Not Exist
As a CS professor, the main thing most incoming freshmen are lacking in is MATH skills. If the weed out courses of "can you think algorithmically" do not get them, the math department will. So many students too far behind in math.

I would second a number of comments on here like "study another subject" (most CS courses require a minor outside of CS, other than MATH, which you should get a minor in just due to the numbers)

I would also second the idea that CS in college is not coding, is not SW engineering, etc. It is learning fundamentals and how to prove your code is correct, mathematically and algorithmically.
Agree. I wish this stayed on reddit and Twitter. I hate seeing this kind of hot topic stuff here.
If your are angry about injustice it is wrong to be angry against police and courts enforcing wrong laws.

Demand action from politicians to change those laws (e.g. remove qualified immunity, etc). While protesting is important, engaging with your representatives and VOTING is very important too.
Yes, and was a woman involved?*-))
Thats my goal. All of the programming I enjoy doing has no clear way to monetize.

I'd love to spend months reverse engineering proprietary electronics and writing open source code / datasheets for them.
I don't exactly disagree, but the tension between points 1 and 5 is notable.

I'd say the "get you further" remark is true in the narrow sense of a career: you'll be more likely to beat the interview if you can write a recursive solution to a problem than if you can talk fluidly about python generators.

But being a productive engineer really requires both, they aren't separable skills, yet paradoxically they're actually poorly correlated! The world is filled with productive hackers who can get the wrong solution to "work" quickly, and insightful theoreticians who just can't produce working code.
I'm sure it depends on your twitter crowd but I see emoji in tweets, usernames, and bios all the time.
I didn't check all of them, but the ones about "Police slashing tires", are just someone saying "It was police".

They should not be included in your list. You know as well as I do that people are going to lie about it. It does no one any good to include things like that.
No it isn't, you are thinking of "on the rag", rag on is not related in any way. Look stuff up before you try to correct people.
> At each of these police brutality incidents there are often a number of officers observing and not intervening.

Sadly, judging by the videos that's an overwhelming majority of the police force
1. Is your college a CS focused degree or a software engineering focused degree?
2. With the possible exception of Physics, I've found that CS programs are the most time consuming. Programming just takes a lot of time even if you know exactly what you're doing.
3. If you work on coding side projects, one complete side project is more impressive than a dozen half completed ones. Don't worry if the code is terrible if it works and you can demo it. People will have low expectations and just be impressed with its functionality.
4. Your degree is a checkbox. Your GPA is a threshold to get past a filter. A 4.0 is a flag, not always a good one. Enjoy life, experience other things and domains, don't focus solely on school.
"Don't believe your lying eyes."

https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/video-shows-officer-kicking-wo...
What would you turn them in for? To whom would you report them? Would you quit or continue working at that place? Abuse of authority? Moral or ethical code violations? Those sound more like in-house problems with in-house HR and legal team solutions, which usually favor the bosses over the whistleblowing workers.
May I suggest that the site be on a CDN like Cloudflare for better availability? @h3cate
i saw someone on twitter suggest that public keys should be called 'padlocks'; definitely a more intuitive way to think of them
Monzo moved their Faster Payments connection in-house
>I’d just sit in front of the TV and go for walks if that was an option.

Thats fun for the first week. The second week its depressing but you still do it. On the third week you will be picking up hobby projects and working on them just for fun.
I know this is hard for some people to accept, but the police deal with the worst dregs of society every day so you don't have to. They get pissed on, stabbed, punched in the face, shot, and killed working for less than 1/4 of the pay of many software developers do. We bitch about JavaScript vs Golang while they have to wonder if the next person they pull over for a speeding ticket is going to pull a gun on them. They have no binary way of knowing who means them harm and who doesn't. It's an extremely delicate judgment call made in split seconds that often means the difference between life and death. In the meantime, how many murdered people's family members have you had to console in the past few weeks? How many rape victims have you had to listen from? How many dead bodies have you scraped off the pavement? How many suicides have you investigated? Nobody is in favor of excess force being applied to people, but I cannot support the over-the-top rhetoric about the by and large good people that work in the police force either.
> savagely kicking unconscious victims in the head.

You're talking about this oft-shared video, I imagine:

https://twitter.com/LibertyHangout/status/126692640226952396...

Yea, wow, those protesters really did a number on that guy. Obviously he was just defending his shop from Thugs, right?

Oh wait... no. He was a crazy person running at protesters with a sword:

https://twitter.com/sable_sonya/status/1267148333203800064

And look at that, those Thugs, after protecting themselves from him, then took on the role of First Responder, and started treating him:

https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/126692749194958848...
Yeah, that is true. The problem is that twitter is also a firehose of effluent. It would be nice to have curated content and dialog too.

The other angle is memes. I think that bumper sticker politics is more relevant today than when it was on actual bumpers.
Big fan of this Houdini artist's procedural helmets and robots

https://twitter.com/mglhs_com/status/1081153465328549889
Maybe raising pay might lower other corruption as well. Georgia (the country) had a police notorious for demanding bribes like other former-USSR nations, but one of the ways their police force was drastically cleaned up and made similar to developed European countries was by boosting basic pay.
g e n i u s

I had a similar idea about bioweapons the other day
Autonomous vehicles is maybe not the best example, with geohot, of all people, founding a self-driving car startup.
While I suspect the percentage of overall police actions that are brutal, unethical, or harmful are tiny it is still a subject that demands a far greater degree of transparency. The subject identifies several challenges:

* police are falsely accused of bad behavior frequently, which can make it much harder to identify the actual extreme few bad apples which need to be identified and removed

* all accused are innocent until proven guilty regardless of their profession or who they are. You don’t want police accused of horrible conduct policing but at the same time they need a process of defense, as does everybody

Honestly, much of this problem could be addressed by mandating body cams. I have known police officers who live by their body cams to ensure everyone is honest. Until that happens what would you suggest to change the current situation?
Dug around until I could find a suggestion that I would recommend highly. As suggested above, taking a compilers course and an operating systems course will give you a view into how computers work (not the electrical parts, but the general software parts).

In addition, I'd recommend taking any programming language course offered: C, C++, Java, Python, Lisp, Prolog, (Ada, Cobol, Fortran, Basic, and on and on). Learning the other languages gives one a view into programming in general, not just in your favorite language.

My 2c.
This doesn’t seem to be SpaceX philosophy. See from about 3:25 where Elon discusses the problems caused by departmental structure, not questioning constraints, and ‘optimising something that shouldn’t exist’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDUOaqyup5s
"Upgrade to 2.8x required" 8(

Sadly, I've only just installed Blender so I have no idea how to update the add in. Give me a couple of years to get to grips with it please.
I just confirmed the downloaded page works offline
It's sad to see how little progress has been made on concrete reforms that would meaningfully reduce these problems. Curtailing qualified immunity, and limiting the power of police unions to protect "bad apples" is something with bi-partisan ideological support.

https://www.heritage.org/courts/commentary/less-government-m...

https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/reforming-poli...

https://www.cato.org/blog/why-qualified-immunity

You'd think reforms to qualified immunity--which everyone from the ACLU to Heritage to Cato agrees on--would be on the fast track to legislation, at least in left-leaning states. There is no reason a state like California, where politicians habitually genuflect to social justice, couldn't pass legislation to create causes of action against police officers that aren't subject to the federal constitution's qualified immunity doctrine. None at all. Instead, for some reason the debate is now about whether rioting and property destruction is an acceptable response to police brutality--an extreme position that is not going to carry the day with anyone but a tiny minority.
Underrated comment. Since everyone has the conceptual stuff down:

Learn about Wireguard. Nobody seems to be teaching it yet, curriculum always 3-5 years behind, and it's worth adopting into ed much sooner than that.
I'd totally buy you argument if there was evidence of it being a cop to begin with. But there isn't, as far as I'm able to determine.
There are also countless people who’d gladly knowingly sign up to implement such a feature. No need to try some roundabout way when all you need to do is feel out the political leanings of a couple guys in the office then recruit them for a secret project.
It depends on what your goals are. Perhaps from a purely practical standpoint, there are diminishing returns, but we should also consider the plummeting job market people graduating in the next couple years will be coming into. Having something to help you stick out might be useful, even from the practical standpoint.

Of course, there are points of view outside this too, and it is ridiculous to dismiss these perspectives as objectively wrong. Some people actually enjoy the liberal arts, the fine arts, entrepreneurship, etc.
Take ECON 101.
Are you able to use bluetooth trackpads, like Apple's Magic Trackpad, with it? Asking for myself before I buy..
There are enough qualified amoral mercenary devs out there who would be willing to do it - and keep quiet about it.
Lazy post on my part, saw the current terrible numbers and didn't bother looking at the past.
Not for me. I learned to cut my own hair almost 5 years ago and never looked back. I am too lazy to go to a barber shop. A nice Philips Norelco trimmer/clipper, use #7 on side and #9 on top. Scissor for front and up I go. Takes me about 20 mins but it took me a few months initially to get good at it.
Great, so, let's ask an important question: Why were the cops there at all? Apparently, as videos come out, every protest was peaceful until the cops turned up in avenger armor.
Simple automated site/IP scanner
automated site/IP scanner with 2x monthly reporting MVP site up.

first 25 beta tests get 1 free month of service
ok now THIS is what i am here for - thanks for the link!
Ditto. https://www.palabra.io/forms/ was around here a few weeks ago and I just started using it when it went missing/broken.

I’ll try your google solution, thanks
With your example you can still be misrepresenting the truth, which is essentially deception aka “lying”
> It's an extremely delicate judgment call made in split seconds that often means the difference between life and death

How come cops in many other countries are so much better at making these judgement calls than in the US?
I’m not the person you replied to, but it’s definitely free of brain damaged bios junk that’s windows specific, and also unremovable enterprise malware, such as the Intel Management Engine.
Not a law. Haskell can be much closer to linear, performance to cores. It starts banging its head on the last core; the little bit of other work the computer does seems to throw off Haskell's gait. (This is subjective first-hand experience.)
That video is a 5 second long anecdote. Regardless, the woman was probably told to move and was refusing. When you disobey riot police in a riot situation that's what happens and I absolutely side with the police.

Data literally supports what I'm saying. A distorting narrative is what's driving all the recent calls to action and solidarity. People are being lied to and misled, either that or they are just using the narrative to push their own agendas.
I'm sure they can find at least one willing asshole.
As a manager I saw what people can do when you believe in them... So I honestly can't believe anymore that someone isn't talented enough!

A growth mindset, having a plan, real effort and of-course some luck/support, are things that I believe in.

I suggest this thought-provoking TEDx talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN34FNbOKXc&app=desktop
You need framework integration at some point; otherwise, you end up writing glue code for every single library you use, which is a huge waste of time. The issue is when some library authors don't separate the "core" part of the library from the framework integration, but that's understandable because 1) it's less work to only support a single framework, and 2) you can design your API around that framework specifically, as opposed to trying to make something generic (which often doesn't translate well to some frameworks anyway).
Did it blow up during an engine test?
Depends on how valuable you are. I know people at Google who transferred internally fairly painlessly (i.e. the abridged loop) when they told their skip-levels they were uncomfortable with their work.
They have immunity and no requirement to protect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
Thanks!

I am probably not clear enough: he already uses some kind of this app, thank god it's covered by medical insurance in our country.

What I am searching for is something with chars to teach him literacy. I want him to type "I-C-E-C-R-E-A-M" instead of choosing "icecream" pictogram and make ipad pronounce it.
> The more recent history suggests that the people who wish to deter or educate the cops are significantly outgunned

Then these young people (in the U.S.) should stop fighting for gun control when it only works against them in times such as these. Can you imagine how these protesters would be treated if most of them were carrying a rifle?

Could the police roll out tanks in response? Sure, but I do not believe the U.S. politicians would be willing to start all out war between police and civilians.

I don't condone the looting and destruction of property. Having said that the curfews in place are a form of suppression/muzzling the peaceful protesters.

The police have for too long had unchecked power in the U.S. I've always been taught to be respectful and have been treated in kind in my interactions with police (but I am white.) If a cop is having a bad day or he's just a bully, that should not keep bystanders from helping a victim of police brutality with the threat of "assaulting a police officer."
Good thing those good people in the police force are doing everything they can to rat out the bad ones and restore their reputation. Oops.
I am curious how you check to be sure the words are not just from ancient latin?
> I don't think there's any such thing as "Windows hardware". The drivers are supposed to abstract that away.

Microsoft disagrees with you[1][2], as do most online retailers of electronic goods who list supported OSs on their product pages and still include Windows in that list.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/da...

[2] http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/Certified-f...
> A lot of the videos portray violent rioters/looters.

I've yet to see an instance of this that wasn't precipitated by cops showing up in ironman armor to a peaceful protest and firing on people with all sorts of military-police toys.

The violent instigators are the cops, across America. Even Target came out and said "whatever, our shit's insured, this problem with the cops needs to be solved."
My sister lives across the street from one of the first buildings to burn in Minneapolis. I'm devastated by the number of libraries, community centers, black owned businesses and low income housing complexes that have been destroyed especially in black neighborhoods. The forces driving the destructive behavior seem like they can be described as Americans being "blood drunk". I have my own theories about why things are so destructive right now, but it seems that many of my connections aren't interested in considering that the angry destructive actions may be harming black folks more than helping. I haven't seen enough people talking about the real problems of police unions and "qualified immunity" and how to solve those problems. But some people, like Killer Mike in Atlanta, are on the right track and that gives me hope.
In my current business at least: the market is 5x bigger than the UK’s (5x the population after-all). But that doesn’t explain other disparities.
To be fair to NASA, I don't think SLS would be nicknamed the senate launch system if it was up to them.
Among a plethora of other tricks. To be able to evade state-level actors would be the ultimate goal. That may likely be impossible but it would be nice to explore if it could be done.

I have no intention of becoming an "enemy of the state", but I also never imagined I'd be living in this dystopian timeline.
#5 big time. A lot of CS grads struggle their first year or so working.

Try to code something everyday. Learn to use tools. Doesn't matter what you code or what tools you use really.

The idea is to get comfortable with not knowing all the answers and then get fast at figuring things out.

Most importantly, get enough sleep, exercise, and sun. Your mind needs to be sharp and that starts with maintaining your body. Good luck!
To document with videos is valuable, but I think the site should provide as much context as possible, what I would wish for, show:

* Date of incident
* Short description of context
* Primary source, or at least, where the video was found
* Media coverage of incident
* Updates on convictions/official investigations into the incident
* Official statements / responses
* linked videos (videos of the same incident, but with other view-angle)

Otherwise it will just be a collection of outrage, if you don't give real data to put things into context.

edit: formatting
I seriously doubt that the black blocs that have gathered have been triggered by the police outfits.
It would probably need support from police/ex-police to be truly effective. One of my in-laws was with the highway patrol for over a decade and it's interesting how it changes someone when they're around crime all the time. It does something to the human psyche to be around violent or dishonest people all the time so it might be very difficult to find cops/excops to help reforms because most have probably had their outlook of people/society permanently changed, often for the worse.
This post was number one on HN. Now it’s nowhere to be found on HN’s pages unless you search for it. I happen to remember the posters handle and was able to dig up the post. The post is not even flagged back so am curious why did it disappear?
A Hierarchy of Engineering Values
The problem is the lack of other police officers immediately arresting an officer they just saw abusing people.
I mean, sure, but many of the houses are old. The bathroom and kitchen usually have ways to deal with excess moisture, but no space to hang the laundry. The other rooms have space but no such provisions.

However, if you don't start to modify things you can basically carry on forever by law (currently). (E.g. the wiring in our flat precedes the second world war, which is legal if you don't make changes. No, I don't approve.)
You should definitely help increase real estate taxes, increase taxes on wages, and add more regulations on the financial markets. Maybe build a small app to help keep registered voters info so then when these initiatives are started you can quickly get the signatures?