skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This then is the general pattern of riots:
An event occurs that signals to would-be rioters that they may soon be able to riot.
This event gathers a crowd. A significant percentage of this crowd—though rarely, it seems, the majority—are eager for destruction.
An entrepreneurial would-be rioter tests the crowd for the presence of other rioters by engaging in a minor (yet easily perceived) act of carnage.
Other rioters follow suit, and as the number of offenders grow so do their willingness to take increasingly brazen acts of vandalism, theft, or violence.

...

> It is supremely important to understand the sort of era one is in. At the level of the ordinary citizen, the trend of the age may prompt a family to fill their larders or purchase arms. At the political level different calculations must be made. Just how durable is the order? How many people will willingly oppose it, given the opportunity to do so? Have they begun to do so? How will I act differently in world where no one believes the center will hold? There is a whiff of the self-fulfilling prophecy in these decisions; once the signal is sent out, each small defection from the order is evidence that the broader mandate has gone up in smoke. The world united shifts to the world divided, and the struggle for the future begins.

> But a signal must first be sent. In this respect fallen mandates and roving mobs differ little from each other. No civic order can be breached until the ambitious have broken a few windows.
I've rarely heard someone make the counter-point that a fetus is technically half "you", which really does fundamentally change the violinist example.

The violinist experiment does have a lot of holes it it, but I think that one in particular almost turns it on its head, particularly because it circumvents the crux of the problem around consent (which I think is at the core of the problem).

It would seem you would have to change the thought experiment to have the violinist actually be related to you (say a sibling). Now, would a person feel _as_ upset that they had to allow their sibling to use their kidneys for nine months in order to stay alive? That really changes it.
> The funny thing is that the maximum number of people on the screen before performance issues really hasn't improved much in MMOs in 16+ years.

They're probably pumping up the graphical effects and maintaining a stasis there. But there are also hard caps to how much data or how many position updates you want to be sending in packets before perceived latency degrades too.

FFXI in particular had a famous meme "PS2 limitations" where the game was being held back technically due to supporting the older platform, not to mention it was built with dial up internet in mind and a very low update rate. Many MMOs in general want to cast a wide net and will rarely improve to the point where players with older systems can't join in. That's for the sequel!
There’s a “report” button at the bottom.
Number two could be Publii? It seems to met all the requirements you mentioned.
Well, my friend has a Pinebook Pro. He's capable of writing drivers himself and designing MOBOs for CPUs. He's actually designed a CPU and written a compiler for it.

Being able to get to the core of the system matters very much to him - being able to trust his hardware. Releasing MOBO files strengthens that trust. In addition, he can repair the MOBO himself if need be.

I suppose me and my friend represent a minority of users though.
To be fair, Mercury and Gemini didn’t have 40 years of space science to lean on.

Now, before everyone goes huffy on me, I’m not trying to disregard everything that SpaceX has accomplished.
This doesn't appear necessarily correct to me. The statute provides the basis for a suit based on deprivation of rights. SCOTUS determined that (potentially independently of any language in the statute) QI exists for various classes of government officials.

Now, if SCOTUS's QI theory is based on the text of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 then certainly the legislature could change/update/replace the statute with something worded differently.

But it isn't clear that their decision is based on that (or any other) statute at all. Some interpretations of Harlow vs Fitzgerald seem to point more to the idea that SCOTUS decided that this immunity was derived from other aspects of the totality of the constitution, USC and precedent. Others see it more the way you suggest, which is that SCOTUS concluded that QI existed based on specific statutory language.

Apparently, we don't have to wait that long to find out, since they will be reconsidering it starting tomorrow.
Well, that would just be a “who lives longer” contest between the two servers. :)
I'm pretty stoked for my Atreus, shipping (hopefully) this fall.

https://kickstarter.com/projects/keyboardio/atreus
I was trying to be silly in pointing out the real reason why the trolley car experiment is supposed to have some challenge to it.
I’ve forced myself to smile more broadly so it’s actually visible, maybe I should keep the habit! I feel like it’s a crazy grin without the mask on though.
Thanks for the link. I see from that article that Boeing have commissioned a new customised Airstream van to transport crew out to the Starliner. So looks like responsibility for crew transport to launch is up to the commercial provider and so again, completely sensible for SpaceX to use vehicles from its sister company, as appropriate.
As you may have noticed, whether by design or social context or both, constitutional amendments are essentially impossible to pass.
Cash. Simple, effective and fast and you can help many more than with any time/tech contribution.
Huh, if there are so many languages to choose from then people can choose one of those. Go will die its natural death. Where is the problem?
It ought to only allow one message per IP address, then things would get interesting.
LOL. I kinda hope so.
To be fair, he didn't say Fox or CNN were at stake.
The reason for the automatic collapse is due to performance. Also it's not uncommon (depending on the language and framework you are using) for the biggest files to be just a mere dependency lock file kind-of update.
Well that is a common social vulnerability of the Hacker News crowd: if you give a link to some binary file for any retro system people here will install an emulator it runs on and execute it, ever if you say that it's actually a viral payload. For example: http://swiftlytilting.com/downloads/PCM.demo.wgraphics.zip (that is viral)
DNA sequencing via electrical detection of single base incorporations
There are animals people have deep affection for and you’ll find great resistance to these experiments, never the less, I think you can get valid data from experimenting on “lower” animals.
Police Are Instigating Violence During the Nationwide Protests
I'm not disagreeing -- I subscribe to both and am probably going to switch my subscriptions to The Economist and WSJ, which do a better job providing actual news. I also subscribe to the Star Tribune which does a fairly good job.

I don't like op-eds either, but there are other options.
I guess it’s not clear what you mean by “police corruption.” If “removing police corruption” just means “removing the possibility of any bad action by any police officer,” then you get right back to my previous comment.

To me, “removing police corruption” would mean having a mechanism of legal accountability for police officers. It wouldn’t mean police officers wouldn’t still abuse and murder people, it would just mean that they would usually be investigated and punished for doing it.
The problem with that is that you'd have to be always thrusting in order to maintain that artificial gravity, which doesn't sound feasible.

I'd argue a more practical design would be to include centrifugal rings (even number, paired up in opposite rotational directions, so that they offset each others' torque). That way you still get artificial gravity, even while the ship's hanging out in orbit. As a bonus, the habitats might be able to double as reaction wheels (though I don't know if this is exactly feasible; reaction wheels usually spin much faster, IIUC, though maybe bigger wheels don't need such high speeds to control the attitude of a spacecraft).
>Name one example of this strategy succeeding

Uhm... when the 3rd precinct got burned down and George Floyd's murderer faced charges the next day? Cops don't normally face charges for murdering black men in broad daylight, so I don't take the timing of arson and charges as coincidence.
Build things for fun throughout college. Great way to meet people, solve your own problems, and a perfect excuse to reach out to almost anyone in the world with an edu email address (wish I took more advantage of this). But at the same time, wouldn't try plan everything out. Enjoy it! Wasn't expecting anything, but my project from college (Levels.fyi) has become my full time job now.

"There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student." - Paul Graham
A few years ago I saw a retrospective, with a bunch of drawings and background stories from different projects.

As I get farther in my career, I spend less time writing code, and more time convincing people that we should deploy that code.

I think the art itself is neat, but haven't seen any of it in person. The years of negotiations with neighborhood, city, state, and federal organizations to actually put the art up, well that, that's pretty humbling.
Sweet! Thanks for this.
Nationwide riots: Is our outrage re: “violence” pointed at the real offenders?
I like Termux too, but... even that stuff is going away https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/1072

So it makes sense to use Linux if that's what you prioritize.
> the average person can design a computer around the processor

I'm not quite sure that's the case...

I get what you mean, but to be clear -- this is not a computer for the average person (nor is it meant to be).
Lack of evidence is always weak evidence for evidence of lack, and pretty strong evidence if you've looked hard enough. If you've trawled through loch Ness with a fine toothed comb for decades and haven't seen Nessie, well then that's pretty good evidence for lack of monster.
Mimir – A Near-Infrared Wide-Field Imager, Spectrometer and Polarimeter
Finally the use case for IPv6!
It's not the musty smell of the earth (or the smell of rain coming) but rather the pungent/sour smell of a wet towel left sopping too long in the corner or the way your clothes smell (hormones aside) after you go outside and come back in on a humid day.

(I hate the city and my ideal getaway is at minimum a few days in the middle of a forest or on a mountainside, just to give you some perspective of environments I find attractive or repulsive.)

EDIT: see other response with Chicago Tribune link [0], it seems that my description may apply specifically to our region and that wet towels elsewhere might not be subject to this nastiness.

[0]: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-11-20-941120...
Trump, Mnuchin, Pelosi, McConnell, Sanders, and Biden have all referred to this as a stimulus. Sure, anything with money could stimulate some, but the express purpose of this was to stabilize and stimulate the economy. Most bills have that a secondary goal. A bill which directs money to institutions that do cancer research stimulates economic movement but that is not comparable to giving money directly to people for not working or losing their job.

There is no mention of the bill, either in the law itself or in discussions, that this would somehow reduce transmission by encouraging people to stay home.

Trump: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/22/coronavirus-stimulus-trump-w...

Mnuchin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoEsSwxKGtk

Pelosi: https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/05/12/nancy-pelosi-...

McConnell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHGSQCMZSt4

Sanders: https://www.masslive.com/coronavirus/2020/05/bernie-sanders-...

Biden: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-26/biden-ass...
I think there have been several similar posts in the past week.
I agree with some dissenters that not all changes are clearer. Dropping to a single color as a fallback is fine but they reduce the colors so much the icons are harder to use at a glance, IMO.
While waiting for my wife at Trader Joe, I spent the whole time listening to one of my favourite bands - Bolt Thrower - the - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GPFduVKuEg - it's so relieving :)
The story of Lidice doesn't precisely fit the scenario, but is close enough in spirit that I'd call it a match:

The Lidice massacre was the complete destruction of the village of Lidice, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, now the Czech Republic, in June 1942 on orders from Adolf Hitler and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler.

In reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942, all 173 males from the village who were over 15 years of age were executed on 10 June 1942. A further 11 men from the village but who were not present at the time, were later arrested and executed soon afterwards, along with several others who were already under arrest.[2] The 184 women and 88 children were deported to concentration camps; a few children who were considered racially suitable and thus eligible for Germanisation were handed over to SS families and the rest were sent to the Chełmno extermination camp where they were gassed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice_massacre

Memorialised in Bohuslav Martinu's "Memorial to Lidice".

https://youtube.com/watch?v=DHWU27TD6UU
I said worst case to mean "You paid attention to these things and then later found them to be not very valuable to you"
Free market doesn't seem correct here since the government is the customer.
Yes, most people are naturally sociable and don't think about it.

A lot of extroverted people are intelligently sociable and are very aware of what's going on, to the point it's natural for them.

I think that most of those people kind of assume others are the same way and so might not be quite as sympathetic to those with low EI.
React made a lot of sense to escape Angular, Ember, Backbone and jQuery in 2013-2014, but then it took 4-5 years to become wildly popular [1]. I've never understood its popularity despite the fact that during those years there were already better options out there by any metric you can think of (except popularity and hype).

- Inferno and Preact: similar API but so much faster and smaller.

- Mithril: vdom based with components, faster than React and includes http client + router in 10kB gzipped.

- Vue: faster and smaller and has official batteries (unlike react-router which is a third party)

Etc.

[1] https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=react&from=2013-05-...
I've been thinking about the Trolley Problem these days as well. It's not just "How many lives must be saved to justify suspending certain freedoms?". More importantly, it's "How many lives must be forfeit to save someone from dying of COVID-19?". Based on the collateral damage estimates I'm seeing, we might be forfeiting five or ten for each save. And if one switches to quality-life-years as a measure, the picture might be even worse.

Anyway, long live the Trolley Problem.
What toomuchtodo said.
The most fulfilling area I've ever worked was with wind turbines. Making software for things that actually mattered, as opposed to dumbass ad tech for ad tech's sake, was very enriching for me.

With respect to algorithms - nobody starts out good with them (except Knuth), it takes practice. Don't give up. Also recognize Leetcode for what it is - practice. It's okay to do a problem poorly/not figure something out. It doesn't actually determine anything about your intelligence or trajectory in the field.
The entire idea of “stop and frisk” is that the police have no idea whether they a
are committing crimes or not beforehand. But if you stop more minorities than Whites in proportion to the population. even if the same number of crimes are being committed. Blacks will still be convicted more.

More evidence that Whites are less likely to get tickets for the same offense.

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-racial-profiling...
Randomly generate the ship names by pulling random phrases out of literature and you've got yourself an Ian Banks novel.
Thanks for the link, I'm pretty sure it's talking about the exact thing I'm referring to. I didn't realize Chicago was special in this regard; I thought it was just a universal "water" thing.

> They may not be dangerous, but they are powerful in the effect they produce. Sensitive palates can taste geosmin and 2-MIB at concentrations as low as five parts per trillion.

I thought it was four per million, five parts per trillion is beyond comprehension! And as far as "sensitive palates" go, I'm always the one complaining to my wife who invariably responds with "it's just you," grumble.
I subscribed for a while and felt the same way. The headlines were mostly emotionally-charged rehashing of what everyone else was covering.

If you want unemotional summaries of what everyone else is covering, I really like NPR (they have written articles on npr.org)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Anthropoid

Anthropoid was the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.

> More than 13,000 people were arrested, including Jan Kubiš' girlfriend Anna Malinová, who died in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. First Lieutenant Adolf Opálka's aunt Marie Opálková was executed in the Mauthausen camp on 24 October 1942; his father Viktor Jarolím was also killed.[52][53] According to one estimate, 5,000 people were murdered in the reprisals.[54]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane_massacre

> In February 1944, the SS Division Das Reich was stationed in the Southern French town of Valence-d'Agen,[1] north of Toulouse, waiting to be resupplied with new equipment and fresh troops. Following the Allied Normandy landings in June 1944, the division was ordered north to help stop the Allied advance. One of its units was the 4th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment ("Der Führer"). Its staff included regimental commander SS-Standartenführer Sylvester Stadler, SS-Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann commanding the 1st Battalion and SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Weidinger, Stadler's designated successor who was with the regiment for familiarisation. Command passed to Weidinger on 14 June.[2]

> Early on the morning of 10 June 1944, Diekmann informed Weidinger that he had been approached by two members of the Milice, a collaborator paramilitary force of the Vichy Regime. They claimed that a Waffen-SS officer was being held prisoner by the Resistance in Oradour-sur-Vayres, a nearby village. The captured officer was claimed to be SS-Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe, commander of the 2nd SS Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion (also part of the Das Reich division). He may have been captured by the Maquis du Limousin the day before.

> On 10 June, Diekmann's battalion sealed off Oradour-sur-Glane and ordered everyone within to assemble in the village square to have their identity papers examined. This included six non-residents who happened to be bicycling through the village when the SS unit arrived. The women and children were locked in the church, and the village was looted. The men were led to six barns and sheds, where machine guns were already in place.

[snip]

> Several days later, the survivors were allowed to bury the 642 dead inhabitants of Oradour-sur-Glane who had been killed in just a few hours. Adolf Diekmann said the atrocity was in retaliation for the partisan activity in nearby Tulle and the kidnapping of an SS commander, Helmut Kämpfe.
first one I got encouraged suicide (starting "Being dead is actually not that bad") and it was such a "dead dove do not eat" situation, why did I fall for this stupid link
Fair point. Thanks.
This reminds me of The Golden Circle by Simon: https://simonsinek.com/commit/the-golden-circle
Show HN: Visualize Perceptrons Learning
Was just playing that yesterday, and was getting ready to jump back in today.

BoxelWare revamped the procedural ship/station generation immediately prior to the 1.0 release, and they're fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLdmGxLWWfI
"seems reasonably safe" seems like a terrible cryptographic analysis. in fact, given that we already know that both blurring and mosaicing are individually reversible, and noise is easily removable from a sufficiently wide mosaic, this seems like a particularly terrible algorithm. that's not the point though: any man can create an encryption algorithm that he himself cannot break. maybe you can come up with an obfuscation algorithm that cannot be trivially broken, but that doesn't mean it's even remotely a good idea.
yeah but everyone else had 800x600 or 1024x768 if they had a good screen. they existed, but they were not common.
So you really think Black guys marching on the state capital and yelling at police would have gotten the same response?

If the government wasn’t afraid of the white protestors, why did they postponed re-opening? They specifically said that they didn’t reopen out of fear.

You noticed he never called the policemen “thugs” has he ever called a white criminal a thug or a “son of a bitch” like he called a football player peacefully protesting?
The point is less that I find it unimaginable that space organizations have flaws, and more that those flaws spoil the supposed lesson by diffusing the responsibility: The story only works if the young woman is entirely responsible for her own death, by placing herself in a position where the laws of physics and morality dictate she has to die to save many others. If she died because the NASA-equivalent was run by buffoons, the moral lesson is lost and she becomes a murder victim as opposed to an inadvertent suicide.
Everyone already knows the answer which is that the most adaptable schools will generate new revenue streams offering more online degrees. It’s stupid to assume that all students are willing to take the risk to show up in person when there isn’t even a vaccine. Most schools are scared about the money they’re going to lose yet they’re forgetting how much they could make if they just decided to be more adaptable and flexible.
Surprised that you managed to evade the DX7 fandom with all the emulators, when looking for a synth.
It depends on how long, and how often, you burn those engines. If you’ve got a big torch that can sustain a large fraction of one gee for weeks or months, and your fuel is cheap enough, why turn it off at all? On the other hand, if it’s only good for a big push at the beginning and end of your trip, and you’ll spend the whole time coasting, spin is absolutely the way to go.

The Expanse, as mentioned in other comments, showcases both these designs. Most ships fly a brachistochrone trajectory with a mid-point “flip and burn,” but the Mormons’ giant colony ship has a drum.
I have always wished Apple would have simply replaced the top row of keys with addressable and configurable LCD or eInk keycaps. Maybe even combine the rightmost 3-4 keys into a smaller slideable touchbar.

With the 2019 refresh I thought they might do that as a compromise.

We could have all had whatever keys we want. Revolutionary. Instead, nope.
(Sophie Alpert here.) What I meant is it’s not clear the next thing that will _replace_ React.

Certainly there are plenty of great alternatives, each with their own pros and cons – but at this point, none clearly poised to “take over”.
What makes Germans so orderly?
It is difficult to overstate how strongly I want to download and poke through that file, even knowing it's a bad idea.
Fast track to being productive in vim
"1992" refers to the riots in LA which were triggered by the acquittal of four police officers who were caught on tape beating Rodney King.

I assume the GP means the civil unrest that will happen if there is an acquittal would be much worse than the LA riots.
I use a Wacom Intuos (USB) as as a trackpad which works out of the box. It is nice and big and you can always pick up the pen when it is convenient.