skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Four conditions must be satisfied to have a valid scientific theory: (1) There is a mathematical model expressing the theory. (2) Precise relationships, known as “operational definitions,” are specified between terms in the theory and measurements of corresponding physical events. (3) There are validating data: there is a set of future quantitative predictions derived from the theory and measurements of corresponding physical events. (4) There is a statistical analysis that supports acceptance of the theory, that is, supports the concordance of the predictions with the physical measurements—including the mathematical theory justifying the application of the statistical methods.

This definition appears rigorous at a glance, but it is deficient. We cannot properly test a theory if it only predicts things which we already expect to happen. Popper said that scientific theories must instead make "risky predictions":

"Confirmations should count only if they are the result of risky predictions; that is to say, if, unenlightened by the theory in question, we should have expected an event which was incompatible with the theory–an event which would have refuted the theory."
SoundCloud Blacks-Out Its Content as Protest
Add that to the pain of riot x and riot normal app on Android. Verification doesn't work at all. I tried encrypted channel with bunch of friends before and I think it's a pretty bad experience. The app forgets that you verified from time to time.
I call BS. This might be hurting some hobbyist projects, but anybody who earns their living publishing software, and gets even a small amount of those earnings from Windows apps, can afford $100/year for a code signing certificate.

There are a lot of people trying really hard to trick users into installing software they don't want. There's big money in it. Authenticode strikes me as an entirely reasonable step to provide more signal to the systems trying to identify and block crapware.
If trying to get this work, Windows 7 is a good choice?

Have you ever successfuly imaged Windows 7 from an older laptop and installed it on a new compuer?

I only need Office. I do not necessarily need the latest version, so long as documents are XML-based.
> That the police would tear gas people unprovoked.

Did you look at either of the videos? Do you believe your anecdotal experience, or your eyes? What kind of evidence do you need at this point, to convince you that yes, the police do, in fact, gas people unprovoked?

Would you like another one from Seattle?

https://old.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/gu3qq1/cop_just_ca...

Did that sheriff look like was being attacked? Like anyone was throwing rocks or bottles at him? Like anyone was setting police cars on fire?
IMHO this is smart. They're training ML models using this data (and it feels intrusive to me) and one might assume this is higher quality than the cameras scattered about the store at odd angles.
That's about public v. private unions, not really about cops v. everyone else.

Companies can fairly easily break a union. After call, why does Ford need a Detroit plant when they can use Mexico.

But governments are lead by politicians who get money from unions. Union supports leader, leader pays union, union supports leader. No incentive to keep costs down at all. It's actually better for politicians to have strong public unions.

Teachers unions make it pretty much impossible to fire someone. You pretty much need to molest a child in places with a union (after you make tenure).
Is macOS so different? You have to disable notifications manually every day to not have your developer workflow interrupted. The login screen is a 3D cube (weird, random and ugly). Icons in the dock wiggle. You delete applications by dragging them to trash bin. Maximizing Safari is impossible. The list goes on and on.
Build websites, databases, and automation for charities and community organizations.

* Find what community organizations and support groups exist in your local area. Your local police department and food banks can help point you to some. See if national organizations that interest you have local chapters.

* Go to city counsel meetings to see some real problems and also some of the insanity your local leaders have to deal with.

What I think everybody would like to see is a dishonesty database containing police brutality, false criminal complaints, false accusations of misconduct, resisting arrest, ethics violations, so forth. Data can be a positive tool to keep everyone honest and embarrass liars.
Say you did 5 vpns, you'd need all 5 companies to respond correct?

I imagine you could pick a few Anti US government VPNs and at least 1 wouldn't cooperate.
I believe they are being done with rule sets for HTTPS Everywhere which is shipped with Tor Browser Bundle.

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28005
It fits with the other channels by Brady Harren, though he no longer produces the videos for computerphile.
He didn't say it was wrong, just that it was evidence that they are Trump supporters.

But it is wrong, nonetheless -- it violates 4 U.S. Code § 7(c).
kdb/q is amazing. I have seen some experienced folks make jaw dropping data computations at the drop of a hat on gigabyte sized data. Makes everything else look laughably puny.

I suspect if it was open source, it would probably be the most popular big-data storage and computing platform.
Going back to the original point, if Zuckerberg was in charge of deciding which policy positions were good and which ones were bad, it would be his personal opinions that mattered. So your or my opinion about whether Trump tweets or gay marriage are good or bad, are not very relevant.
That's a great example; and, the instant we got 1 (one!) report that gave evidence of a significant percentage of the population having experienced the virus with few symptoms -- thus lowering the CFR (Case Fatality Rate) for that segment of the population to something near a low multiple of the normal Flu -- the "lockdown" hypothesis should have been discarded, violently, for that segment of the population!

But, it wasn't; because these "falsifying" signals were ignored (or worse yet, stridently denied), and were certainly not actually tested -- we have yet to see even a single case of a country aggressively testing a random sampling of their entire population for immunity!

This one example is an astonishing repudiation of the global response to Coronavirus. Its insane! Wholesale self-destruction of the global supply-chain and division of labor, because the political, medical and scientific elites just don't want to be shown to be wrong.
Thanks. That may have been useful to me once, although my motivation was to get my software in the main Debian package set, which I think is quite a different thing from PPAs.

Also... look at that guide. Why is it so difficult and obtuse? Why do I have to run so many odd tools, including apparently modifying some file in /etc and running other stuff as root? In contrast, this was my first contribution to Nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/0b8efd8724e59964bad0... Easily as reproducible as anything Debian, and apart from installing Nix it didn't require any funkyness in the build environment. I tested the definition by running 'nix-build . -A oclgrind' in my checkout of the Nixpkgs repository. I managed this after running NixOS for two days.

This is the same software that I also contributed to Homebrew: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/1268459f761... Again, a simple declarative-ish package description (written in Ruby, which is not my favourite, but it's better than the weird Makefile/shell amalgamations that are used by DPKG and RPM).

Both Nix and Homebrew have serious limitations compared to Debian (Homebrew in particular is aggressively limiting its scope to gain simplicity and in particularly doesn't care as much about reproducibility). But as a user, I must admit I have not missed what Debian provides that these do not. Whenever I tried to package stuff for Debian, I felt that I was paying a tax for unclear gain. It's a shame, because I like Debian for over a decade, and I am strongly sympathetic to the idea of the project in principle.
Hey Facebook I'll take this guy's position. My code's way better and I won't even publicly shame you when I leave.
This is what I found by Googling around:

If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.

The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms. Taking that into account can maximize return on many kinds of investment.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/01/144958/if-youre-...
"What do Roman fish tanks tell us about sea levels?

"Wealthy Romans at the time of Augustus were building fish holding tanks. The fishermen would come in with the fish, they’d put them there so that the fish were fresh when they ate them—they wanted to keep them alive for a few days or weeks or whatever. The Romans were engineers, so they built these fish tanks at very precise levels relative to sea level at the time. You didn’t want the walls to be too low because at high tide the fish would swim out; you didn’t want it to be too high because you wanted tides to refresh the water within the tanks.

"Kurt Lambeck, a professor at the Australian National University, recognized that by looking at the present day elevation of those fish tanks, we could say something about how sea level had changed over the 2,500 years since then. If sea level over the last 2,500 years was going up at the rate that it went up in the 20th century, those fish tanks would be under 4 meters of water—12 feet of water—and I can assure you they’re not. You can see them. You can walk along the coast, they’re visible. What that tells you is that it is impossible that sea level went up by the rates that we saw in the 20th century for any extended period of time earlier than that. Sea level has not gone up over the last 2,500 years like it has in the 20th century."

Italy is tectonically active. The level of 2000 year old Roman constructions versus the sea may well have more to do with local ground rise or fall. This assertion needs significant supporting data.
It's interesting to me because this same team published
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28245-9

which claims to show that THz radiation promotes actin filaments, but their new publication claims are that the THz radiation induces mechanical vibrations which remove or destroy actin filaments. It will be interesting to see where this all goes.
Everyone is already under the imposition of public policy, right now. Today's society is not neutral just because it is today.

Edit to add: the public policy imposed on us today is based on what we thought we knew back when it was put in place.
Based on what you're saying, it's not a race issue then, it's an economic one? Were there not other races that were poor 50+ years ago?
They could have partnered with those closed libraries and virtually lent out those copies. But they didn't.
This policy introduced into congress sounds like a helpful solution:

> "Ending Qualified Immunity Act," which would allow civil lawsuits against police, a recourse that the Supreme Court has all but done away with.

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/06/01/us/politics/01reu...

That plus the laundry list of obvious issues with criminal justice that any defense attorney could list off hand.
Investing in Art for Commoners?
This strikes me like a novel/bold way of granting access to an asset class that would be otherwise completely inaccessible to the average person.
I'm not attacking you, I'm citing what you wrote. Nor did I accuse you of suggesting I was part of an evil mob. I think you're reacting to feeling dogpiled on and have got invested in defending a piece of rhetorical ground that is not worth holding. It happens.

I also think you might be underestimating the breadth of experience on HN, even if many people choose not to go into detail about their priors.
This is exciting - I'm looking forward to it.

I've been nerding out a bit playing with Matrix/Riot and Urbit - there's a lot of exciting stuff happening in this space.

If you like what Matrix is doing consider paying $10/month for your own server via Modular.im (https://modular.im/). It supports the Matrix devs and you get your own high performance federated server to use on the network.

Their automation makes it extremely easy to spin up your host so you don't have to manage anything yourself. The default server they run has a lot of traffic so having your own is a better experience, and it helps further decentralize the network (and you control your own server).

I'm excited to try out p2p, thanks Arathorn for being so responsive in the comments on HN.

After Keybase sold out users to Zoom my friend in China and I switched to Matrix/Riot. While the default Matrix server is blocked there if he doesn't use a VPN we can still communicate on others (for now).

One question for Arathorn re:

> "Hooking up E2E Encryption APIs in Dendrite (not that it buys us much in a pure P2P world)"

Doesn't this still matter if the internet traffic itself is tapped? If I'm understanding this correctly we'll still want E2E for things like deep packet inspection in China (or bulk collection by western governments).
Because being recorded can have a chilling effect on speech. Officers recording a peaceful, legal protest could exert undue influence on constitutional rights. It’s a reasonable concern.

More cameras is not always good, even in public and even if legal.
The Posse Comitatus and Insurrection acts are primarily concerned with protecting states from the federal government. That's why it's legal for states to use their National Guard units, which are definitely military, as law enforcement.
The supreme court in [Marsh v. Alabama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama) disagrees.
Learning Dexterity End-to-End
Assuming "smart" means 90th percentile of intelligence, there are 700 million smart people, way more that rich people. It shows that obviously wealth creation requires much more than intelligence.
None of the things you listed actually involves suppressing content. The parent author is concerned about suppressing the internet, not spying on it.

Both can be bad, but they're not the same thing. China leads on both.
Or perhaps everything is a one-liner:

https://xkcd.com/224/
Most interesting.
I'm in Richmond, Virginia, and according to people monitoring the unencrypted fire department radios on twitter (one of them a fairly reputable community organizer, but rate the source as you will), this exact situation supposedly happened on Saturday night. Fire department got called to a shoe store fire, they faced some impediment reaching the fire, police showed up and dropped tear gas all over the area, and the fire department ended up back on the scanner requesting an ambulance for the commander on site for tear gas exposure, and additional PPE from another department to help the other fire fighters cope. The building ended up being marked a complete loss, although I'm unclear of the nitty gritty details like timelines, source of the fire, etc.

EDIT: I will also note that this, among other events, was used to justify calling for a curfew in town, and today, the mayor and police chief have condemned their own police officers for deploying tear gas on peaceful protests prior to the start of the curfews last night, and then putting forward a false justification (admitted by the police chief to have been a false justification, to be clear) for doing so.
actually engaging the outraged and offering a different point of view does not seem useful.

You don't have to engage the outraged. It's not a best practice to go actively looking for the people openly and vehemently opposed to you and your views.

I'm a social creature and I have something of a tendency to reply to other comments instead of leaving a top level stand alone comment. I also have a lot of controversial opinions and I'm a magnet for controversy in part simply because I'm a demographic outlier for the audience here.

Sometimes, it's best to make those stand alone comments instead of replying to an existing comment. Sometimes that's the way to deescalate without being silenced on the topic.
I am in the UK and I can confirm that the article you quote is accurate. You can manage the company (annual accounts return, tax return) online.

Two things, though, if you are not residing in the UK:

1. The company must have a registered office address in the UK. There are plenty of companies providing that service for an annual fee (usually about £30 per year but, obviously, extra fees to forward mail).

2. It may be difficult to open a bank account either in the UK or in Hungary.

But to be honest, if you don't expect to generate even in the range of $500 then incorporating will likely be too costly however you look at it.
I usually just designed my own settings and worlds. We tended to play fairly loose with some rules and had a bunch of custom tables and rules and stuff. Honestly, I almost prefer that part of it to the actual playing. An old friend of mine and I years ago actually started working on our own roleplaying system, but we ended up moving away and getting busy with life and stuff so we never really finished it. I think most of it's still sitting in my boxes full of random d&d stuff.
Ancient Mars may have once had rings, then moons, then rings
Setting up multiple IMAP and SMTP accounts in Gnus
IIRC at least in some iterations starship has cargo pots at the bottom inside the "skirt" next to/between the vacuum optimized outer engines. That could help weight distribution & makes the pods easily acessible once you drop them to the surface post landing.
Writing directly to the frame buffer is effectively the “CPU rendering” or “software rendering” approach. Most modern GUIs use a compositor, which usually renders the contents of each window using the CPU to textures stored in VRAM. The GPU then does the actual rendering, sampling the textures drawn by the CPU (the windows) as it fills in the polygons, defined as sets of vertices also defined by the CPU.
Sbuild for deb and mock for rpm make this pretty easy. Not super easy. But pretty easy.
That looks very suspicious, but if this were really a widespread technique by the police, I'm assuming there would be more than a single video taken.

I mean, we know the black bloc and similar groups engages in these tactics, they've been doing it since Seattle WTO 1999. I've seen it in person to protests I've been to (as a protester). It's very hard for me to believe that all of a sudden those people are no longer active in protests, and their place has been taken by (insert your politically-convenient group here).
In any case, it’s all the same: in a country that parades its freedom, people of color can’t protest without the president calling for them to be roughed up, and without the police willingly complying.

That’s a load of bullshit and you know it. This isn’t the situation.
Any photogrammetry software will do the trick. A free one has been shared here recently: https://alicevision.org/ .
> The first amendment speaks nothing about who can be where. It just denies government the right to prosecute people for making statements.

"just" free speech? Might want to check your pocket constitution again. The first amendment also protects the free press- and the freedom to assemble. (Not to mention religion and to petition for redress of grievances)
You may not like it, but this is what peak tech looks like.
I own an MK750. What's wrong with it?
You claim that engineers apply known science, and consequently have a hard time understanding and doing quality science themselves. This is a common view in some groups, but it isn't true in my experience. Fact is that engineers receive training in science that is similar that of scientists as far as I can tell. (I'd argue that it's superior in some aspects!) Don't focus too much on the titles. Look at the content of the curriculum.

Full disclosure: I haven't read the linked article and am not defending or endorsing it here, just trying to correct a misconception about engineers. I have a BS and MS in engineering, and am almost done a PhD in engineering, where I have basically conducted applied scientific research. I am friends with quite a few physicists and have heard variations of your argument from them many times. When they ask why I didn't get a degree in physics, my answer is easy: "Physics" is more accurately "modern physics". Consequently, fluid dynamics (my area) is rarely studied in physics departments. Typically one gets a degree in aerospace or mechanical engineering to become a fluid "physicist".

Also, I haven't seen any clear data showing that engineers are more prone to unqualified statements that than non-engineers. I think there is something to this but I would attribute it to engineers (by title) seeming more conservative and religious than scientists, and they are willing to challenge the status-quo here. The problem in my view is not engineers being less qualified to do and understand science.
And those aren't even the NYPD's Hercules unit.[1] Steel helmets and an assault rifle. Hercules is purely for intimidation. They mostly stand around and look impressive. They're not SWAT; that's a different unit.

[1] http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/files/2011/09/mdf489180.jpg
maybe the network effect on a billion-person scale? the fact that they are monopolies with billions at their disposal to acquire or crush any competition? I can keep going
But even then, not every display-enabled SoC is well modeled as a dumb framebuffer. The Raspberry Pi itself provides hardware overlays, and it's quite problematic to expose them under that kind of model. The DRM infrastructure seems to be a lot more general and flexible.
This was exacerbated if I wanted to use my own bags instead of the provided ones.
That's doesn't properly look like lidar data to me; at least it wouldn't be lidar that is mounted right on the street view car. Maybe they use aerial lidar somehow? Or maybe the resolution is purposefully poor?
Do you know of any microcontrollers with a development PCB that exposes > 62 GPIOs if I wanted to wire all the switches directly?
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/866022166/protests-spread-nat...

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Police-Davenport-officer...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/federal-law-enforcement-officer-k...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/kentucky-man-killed-by-cops-who-d...

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Police-Retired...

https://www.ibtimes.com/george-floyd-las-vegas-protests-1-po...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/top-detroit-news-most-arre...

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Maybe there are more, and I think it's fortunate that the deaths don't appear to be excessively high. But I would still argue these people might not be dead or in critical condition if the rule of law wasn't out of control. I'm no fan of police, but that doesn't mean I don't think about how some kids may have lost a parent.