skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually worse than that. Even in the killing of Floyd the Police claimed he resisted arrest, which was a lie[0], the coroner said it wasn't asphyxia that killed him (despite all the videos) and a private autopsy found that's not true[1].

They did all this amidst a huge public outcry, what do you think happens to some poor schmuck when no camera is around.

Like this[2] and this[3].........

EDIT: Here is one where the cop force the poor guy to grab his baton and leave his fingerprints so he can accuse him of whatever he wants[4].

EDIT2: What do you know "his death [Floyd's] is on their hands [protesters and looters] as much as it is those officers"[5]

[0]: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/us/video-george-floyd-contrad...

[1]: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/george-floyd-au...

[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2018/07/27/...

[3]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-woman-shot-killed...

[4]: https://v.redd.it/yo3bpzzt9h251

[5]: https://youtu.be/tIBoxt9maJs?t=64
These days there are so many board games out there that if you are looking for a "simplified ______", another game probably already exists and fills that niche reasonably well.

Shout out here to Heroscape, which is my favorite game and is basically a simplified version of a miniature war game. It is an interesting case study for this article too because Heroscape comes with two rulebooks, one for a basic game and another for the advanced game. (Although even the "advanced" game is much simplier than most minature games). Heroscape also introduced complexity over time with its many expansions (primarily new miniatures which each of special powers).

The game was discontinued back in 2010, but still has a community of fans going strong at https://www.heroscapers.com. The forums are great.
Without having any sort of insight into police behavior, I'm assuming two likely options:

1. They are given rubber bullets and mace without any form of de-escalation training, so they just use the tools they have at their disposal.

2. Just like any kind of organism, the police force needs to preserve itself and make sure it is necessary. The military doesn't like peace, and the police cannot thrive with peaceful protests. They do what they see fit to make themselves irreplaceable.
Here's a much nicer explanation by the author. https://github.com/cuelang/cue/issues/33
Not sure what you mean by anonymous (vs identifiable).

If you want to claim an identity online, I'm all for it. You should be able to own it and be accountable for it.
Any studies involving UBI need to have malicious actors as a part of the study.

UBI, if it is ever realized, will be a scammer's paradise. Every possible method for getting a slice of people's UBIs will be tried. From fake government calls, to identity theft, to greedy landlords, to you name it. And whose UBI will be most vulnerable to these types of attacks? The poor.
Original comment below but I decided instead to go for the following:

I am extremely proud of what work is being done online today to secure communications.

While we have companies telemetrying our native stacks[1], web browsers[2], and messaging platforms[3], we also have people working on software that doesn't do those things and still tries to empower the user to get what they need done without being a double agent for a 3rd party.

1 (windows 10, chrome OS, GMS android)

2 (cookies, pixels, fingerprinting, CDNs, chrome itself)

3 (whatsapp, FB messenger, telegram)

From OS[4] to browser[5] to messaging platform[6].

4 (debian, qubes)

5 (...maybe not? konqueror probably doesn't do telemetry?)

6 (irc probably, matrix, delta chat)

Matrix is IMHO in competition for mindshare not (directly) with WhatsApp, but with Signal.

Matrix | Signal

Increasingly decentralizable | Centralized

E2EE but not quite for metadata | E2EE and metadata-free mostly except recently requiring PINs and server-side storage

Federated with its costs (slower development etc) |
Nonfederated with its costs (outages etc)

Temptingly close to P2P or CS | only CS

No voice comms | Voice and video comms

No built-in social graph | social graph via phone (being worked on?)

OSS in practice | OSS in law but hard to contribute to
I always felt that the burning of incense had to cannabis.

Burning a half lb bundle in a medium sized room of even low quality cannabis would feel like a spiritual moment.
The theorbo is very similar to a lute, except with an extra neck, and it usually adds six strings. These are bass strings, which are tuned to specific notes; they don't have a fretboard underneath, so the left hand can't change their pitch.

An excellent video by Elizabeth Kenny, featuring an even longer theorbo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVabz8LneI4
IPFS doesn't help - you still need a store-and-forward architecture for messaging, so you might as well use that for images too.

IPFS is not a store-and-forward architecture; a file does not get automatically stored by the system, so when the sender disconnects, the file is no longer accessible. There's "solutions" to this, like Filecoin, but nobody wants folks to be paying to upload images.

Or, in other words - the problem IPFS solves is peer discovery for a given hash, not storage. In Matrix, you already know who your peer is - it's whoever sent you the message referencing the image.
I decided not to move forward with Cortx because Alex was late for a call and gave me some bs about it.
Rubber bullets are suppose to be used below the waist. They can easily kill or maim someone with a head or neck hit. Whoever shot him was attempting to kill or severely injure the journalist.

https://bjssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002...
What are the implications of this in terms of taxes? My understanding is that the CFTB https://www.ftb.ca.gov/ will continue to tax you as a CA resident as long as your employer is based in CA. The laundry list for determining residency is long and in many cases you would end up paying taxes even if you don't live in CA.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2019/10/22/now-calif...

https://moskowitzllp.com/leaving-california-and-the-franchis...
Why? Dark pattern expresses the issue fairly well. It encompass things that aren't necessarily criminal or fraudulent.
The riots today are driven by the far left and their typical rejection of capitalism and tradition. I don't see the right supporting their message of social authoritarianism any time soon.
Zooming in on the commentary on Facebook/Twitter's approaches to Trump's post, I just want to say that in my opinion, Twitter did the right thing in this case and also in the previous case of misinformation about mail-in voting.

We need to innovate in terms of how we keep democracies healthy, given the dramatic change to the flow of information caused by social media and the internet.

Adding a "get the truth" notice to posts that contain misinformation is a great way to strike a balance between censoring misinformation and letting it spread unchecked, and this approach is an interesting new tool in the toolkit we have for keeping conversations healthy on the internet. I applaud Twitter for their work in developing and experimenting with this tool.

Likewise, limiting the viral spread of posts that threaten violence (by preventing likes and retweets) is also a useful tool. It's interesting to note that the reason this post wasn't removed entirely is because public figures like Trump get a "newsworthiness" exception in Twitter's Code of Conduct that allows them to essentially say whatever they want, even if it violates the CoC.
> Which particular part of this smells like horseshit to you?

That the police would tear gas people unprovoked. That just doesn't happen in the United States in my experience, although if provoked, they do not hesitate.
Prices wouldn't rise because free market. People seem to forget their own beliefs when UBI is brought up.

It would be paid for by wealth tax. UBI is essentially wealth redistribution.
Is it possible with the negative outcomes in the black communities, that maybe the preemptive real estate segregation was a logical action?
I think decentralized DNS with machine readable addresses is basically a solved problem (e.g. Magnet links or Tor Hidden Services).

A domain in this case is akin to a hash of a public key, or something like that, just enough to securely identify the target of the communication so there’s nothing to “revoke” although that’s not to say the peer discovery systems could not try to blacklist you.

Decentralized DNS with human readable addresses (unique screen names) is perhaps more a political problem than a technical one, and hence never fully “solved” just different sets of trade-offs that can be made.
"I cannot stand by Facebook’s continued refusal to act on the president’s bigoted messages aimed at radicalizing the American public."

What is this message and does anyone have a source?
George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery and Amy Cooper (Trevor Noah)
They must have forgotten the name of the game is loss prevention for the business and not about stopping shoplifting. Cutting payroll on your loss prevention is loss prevention in of itself.
It's HTTP headers not HTML as far as I could tell.

The article didn't say the exact name of the header but it mentions support.torproject.org uses it so looking into its headers:

$ curl -I https://support.torproject.org/
[redacted]
Onion-Location: http://4bflp2c4tnynnbes.onion/index.html
[redacted]
You're promoting the conventional view. We've since learned that people's problems are more complex than that. Direct cash disbursements have been shown again and again to be the most effective form of aid.
They seem to always go silent when they must take an actual stand. Sadly, this looks like a successful strategy.
I'm conflicted. The wayback machine is a huge good for the world, and I've donated in the past to support it. It would be a huge loss if it were to disappear. On the other hand I can't support stupidity, and picking a fight with the universe of book publishers is about the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.
All ideas should be considered, but yours is not one I subscribe to. More people have been killed and had their lives destroyed as the result of non-protestors taking advantage of the protests to destroy communities. This is before the actual protests themselves have even been given a chance to succeed without violence. To subscribe to your perspective, I would have to believe that rioting and looting is the way to address police violence, and that the protesters and rioters are on the same page. If that were the case, then the country should be set on fire for the number of crimes it commits.

Put simply, there's no need for a "but". Once can make both statements without implying that one has precedence over the other.
What is the reasoning behind taking down or flagging the comments (looking for responses, not rhetorical)?

If it is to reduce distribution because it could incite violence, it seems to me that 1) the vast majority of distribution/awareness is happening via traditional news outlets and 2) distribution and awareness is actually what you want to happen, since it is important that people be aware of the President's extreme rhetoric. If the reason is that the statement is immoral and platforms have a duty to take a stand / pick a side, then I would say that sounds reasonable to me but leaves me feeling a little uncomfortable. It feels like we are applying a Total War mentality to our political discourse, and that doesn't seem like something that could possibly end well.

Disclaimer: Former FB employee.
I'm always conflicted when I read about this kind of thing. I do think Facebook is actively making the world worse in many ways, but is it better for the people who care about this to quit in protest, or is it better if they stay and try to make things better from the inside? Will actions like this actually hurt the company, or will it just prompt them to hire replacements who have no such ethical qualms, and who may nudge the company in an even worse direction?

I don't have an easy answer, and I can certainly imagine how difficult it would be to get up and go to work for an employer every day that you see as evil, so I don't judge the author of this post for leaving...but I think it is still a question worth contemplating. I'd love to hear what other peoples' thoughts are on this.
Likely to be monetary reasons. DDG is basically (not entirely accurate but close enough) in the business of reselling Bing Search API and monetizing it through Bing ad network revenue (+some affiliate revenue through Amazon and Ebay).

If you also added Google results, your input costs essentially double. Also if so much of your marketing is based on bashing Google, it would be harder to justify such move from a branding perspective.
I changed it from the article title to a shortened version of the URL slug (/well-try-to-help-you-follow-the-police-attacks-on-journalists-across-the-country). That's often a legit source title, along with the HTML doc title, and other places that articles tend to reveal what they're actually about (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

The reason I changed it is that "U.S. police have attacked journalists more than 110 times since May 28" is more baity. First you've got the aggressive verb "attacked". And then you've got the specific facts and figures (100 times, May 28). Why do these things make a title more baity? I don't know, but they are somehow active ingredients in the psychology of titles, which is why headline writers use them. I think of them as sharp edges. If you throw a spiky thing into a crowd, it gets more attention than a beach ball—but the quality of attention is not conducive to a reflective discussion on the internet (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). People react to the sharp bits.

It's in HN's interest to rewrite baity titles (indeed the site guidelines request it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) but this is 1000x more important on inflammatory topics of the moment, like this one. We want HN to discuss this, but we want to support the discussion to stay in the intended spirit of the site: thoughtful, respectful, curious conversation. The material is provocative enough, and a title doesn't need sharp edges to make readers here care about the topic.

To clear up a misconception that sometimes arises: I'm not saying the statement in the sharper title is false. Obviously it's legitimate to use an aggressive verb to describe an aggressive action, and if the facts and figures are true then it's obviously legitimate to make a factual statement with them. As a reader I have zero problem with that title. But the moderator perspective is different: the question for a moderator, on HN at least, is always: what is the prospective effect on forthcoming discussion? Or to put it pseudotechnically: given choice A vs. choice B, what is the diff between the probability distribution of threads that A is a prefix of, vs. threads that B is a prefix of? (This is just a metaphor, but it reflects how we think about this. See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... for more.) In the case of these two alternative titles, experience has shown that there's a significant difference in probable outcomes, and titles are by far the biggest influence on threads, so it's potentially a big deal.
This is verifiably false.
> since June 2019 I have been at Facebook, working on battling the spread of misinformation.

I applaud his principled stance. But he is probably the last person that should leave FaceBook now.
> drastically simplifies the government's part of the system

But the government's part of the system is absolutely insignificant.

> empowers people to make their own decisions about their own lives, needs, and wants

I get that. But I also have a neighbor that will spend the cash component of the welfare he gets within the first 10 days of the month. If he got cash only and had to pay rent himself, I'm certain that he wouldn't. Obviously we can't let him be homeless, so the state would jump in and pay his rent. On top of giving him the money to pay his rent. That would obviously be an improvement for him (+700€/month to spend), but I don't see how it would be sustainable.
My personal site is https://www.michael1e.com/.
I have my Bear app open on the side for quick notes.
Sometimes, those notes will turn into a blog post.

1. I usually write up about things I learned while trying to figure out problems.
2. I started when I realized I googled things more than 3 times. I'd rather not google and have a knowledge base where I can do a quick search.
3. I went from a few post a year, to maybe once every week. It's not easy at all.
4. It's hard to write because I don't want to sound stupid or I worry that my writing doesn't make sense.
> Do you think people should be allowed to take out any software they want for free for 2-3 weeks for a "National Software Emergency Library". If not, why books.

I'm not sure what the IA was thinking when they made that modification. Perhaps they thought that during the pandemic such a change would be found temporarily acceptable.

I agree with your point that programmers, software publishers, authors and publishers should all be able to make money and get paid for their work. I'm not sure though what are the best business models for making that happen.

What I've settled on myself, for the moment, is buying physical (paper) books, buying ebooks without DRM, downloading old ebooks in the public domain for free (or buying them cheaply from sites that do a good job on the markup) and taking out books from my local library.

My wife buys Kindle ebooks (with DRM) from Amazon, because she requires a very large font size, and the Amazon solution was the best that I found (biggest selection of books of the type that my wife reads).
Is it for AI related papers only?
>> "Trump Making Liberals Cry Since 2016" flags flying above the US flag at their homes.

I'm having a hard time understanding why this is wrong?

EDIT: "Meh, I'm not going to try and explain it, I'll just downvote it." Bravo. B R A V O.
You should read into Modern Monetary Theory. The government can print the money by issuing treasuries: there's no need for the money to come from anywhere. Social security can easily be paid for. Interest on debt is never a problem.

The base argument is that any government that issues its own currency can never default, so it can incur large deficit spending that creates a surplus in the private economy.

The difficulty is whether that surplus is put to produce growth which would offset the inflation that conjuring money creates. If everyone sits at home doing nothing, you bet inflation will happen. If it's used as a cushion, perhaps not.
At 80 years of age not wanting to deal with society beyond a close circle of trusted people is not all that strange, even if one doesn't consider poor health and the general effects of the deterioration of body and mind at that age.

Her works are available, just not in a form accessible to the majority — sometimes her albums can be found on CD or vinyl in second-hand shops, but lossless FLAC copies are of course available on-line here and there. Obviously, the latter likely run foul of copyright laws, but her music will be available for future generations.

I always wonder what creators think of the issue of their legacy. Some are meticulous, or even downright cruel about it (Prince comes to mind), but I guess some just don't see it as their problem any more.
Searched for Cement, Got LED Bulbs Instead
This is a nice study published in Nature Neuroscience that says that light-at-night paradigm in mice, induced depressive-like behaviors without disturbing the circadian rhythm. The controls seem reasonable and affect of correlation believable.

However I am not sure about the "without disturbing circardian rhythm" part because study [0] concluded that blue light acutely causes behavioral arousal (awakeness), whereas green wavelengths promote sleep. But note that here they measured time it took mice to fall asleep was ~15 mins for blue light vs 5-10 mins for green and this was their comparison range.

Another interesting study found blue light exposure leads to craving for sugar in mice[1]. Correlations are easy to find.

[0] https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

[1] https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-07-blue-night-consumptio...
You'll get things thrown at you regardless of your intent or response. The anonymous violent protestors among the crowd don't likely know the cops personally, they're just there to inflict damage when they decide to throw something. You can choose to wear appropriate gear for what you're doing and prevent some damage, or eat a glass bottle to the face, arms, or legs (cops can do bike patrol AND riot control and use different gear -- there's no change in gear issuance needed). Wearing bike squad gear to a riot won't stop those assholes from doing harm. They might even prioritize you for a chance to see blood.
He answerd that in his post - Zuckerberg has no intention of listening to internal pressures.

Ultimately you have to vote with your wallet.
800mcg K2 sounds extremely low for 40,000 IU D3, shouldn't you be taking 1800mcg K2?
This isn't some conspiracy theory. The NSA is simply doing what people have been asking of them for years: be more proactive and public on the defensive side of things. The fact they are also burning RU methods is just icing on the cake for them.
Yes realistically it took a couple hundred residents about an hour to clean up La Mesa after the riot stopped.

We lost a couple banks and a pizza hut.

But its quite tenable. No one will mourn for the buildings or police cruisers.
But we're seeing their quality of life improve.

You don't see what they spent it on, but they have found a way to spend these funds to improve their situation.
Only one clerk per store typically. 10+ self checkout lanes.

What’s the beef with my choice?
I think this guide glosses over the most difficult aspect: writing a package whose executables are generated reasonably reproducibly, using tools from other Debian packages. I've been a satisfied Debian user for over ten years, but I gave up on trying to package my own software. I could certainly figure out how to manually create a `.deb` with an executable and some man pages, but not how to automate the creation of that `.deb` in a way that lives up to my expectations of quality.

In contrast, I managed to submit software to Homebrew after two weeks of macOS, and to Nixpkgs within two days of running NixOS.
I'm not sure there are metrics on that, I haven't seen any publication of such a precedent. I also wonder where those people might go, to the next-biggest platform perhaps? Or create a new one? And what about people that don't have a 1-to-1 relation to presence and consumption but a 1-to-many (i.e., friends, family). I suppose it's likely that someone might spend less total time on a platform if they have to divide their time between more than one platform.
All electronics say the voltage and amperage they need, it isn't really that big of a problem, especially on a $200 laptop. It isn't a big deal that a bare bones laptop doesn't negotiate its power over USB-C. Polarity on barrel jacks is pretty standard. You look at the voltage and make sure your ACDC adapter can supply enough amps. In a situation like this you could buy an ACDC adapter off of amazon from dozens of different places.
We use Doppler for our encryption keys, great way to easily store dev / staging / production keys in a secure and obfuscated way
Strongly agree. Any form of government-paid safety net is actually an inefficient UBI in disguise.

By giving the money directly to people, they get to spend it how they want. By definition, they are extracting the most value possible from that UBI. If you instead give them goods + services through a government agency, you also have to pay all the bureaucrats and you are limiting the choices the recipients now have.
Everyone at Facebook is qwhite complicit