skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think at some level, police are rioting to keep their jobs.

I came around to prison abolition once I realized it was a goal that was meant to be achieved piece by piece.

Cash bail. That's one piece. None of those people need to be in jail. They haven't been convicted of a crime and they overwhelmingly show up for their court date if released. The only thing they can't afford is their bail and that is used to get them to plead to crimes without the police having to prove anything. That's 470k people on any given night. *

Drug possession. Like to smoke weed? Well, that's your choice and no need to throw you in jail over it like 1.4 million people each year.

The other pieces are more radical or require replacement programs or just don't even have proposed solutions. But just above are two pieces of the incarceration system that the many people will agree could just be turned off.

So, if you turn those off, what's the staffing change in police departments and correctional facilities? We're not talking about firing for performance (yet), this is just run of the mill right sizing. Gotta be efficient--can't give people jobs as a handout.

What if you kept going down this line of reasoning. What if you ended racial profiling? Across the country black motorists are 20% more likely to be pulled over. Either black people are being targeted (the consensus) or white people are being given a free pass (my personal experience is that this is also happening). So either hire more police to pull over white people more often. We are doing hella drugs, driving drunk all the time, texting while driving, etc. Or, more along the lines of what everyone wants, there could be a 20% reduction in the staffing of highway patrol.

I think if the will of the people was respected, police departments would probably be reduced by 25% across the country. Certainly in NYC, which has one of the highest cops per capita in the world even though we have the highest density and cops shouldn't have to walk far to do their jobs.

If it were my policy though, probably 50% of police could be eliminated.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html

https://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/drug-war-statistics

* https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/21/us/police-stops-race-stanford...
Chatito: Generate NLP datasets using a simple DSL
I was thinking the same thing first, but does SQLite parallelize work it does?
This was also the case at Fairfax and 3rd in Los Angeles. Violence erupted only when the police arrived, not before. They escalated the moment they arrived.
I would agree with this for phone numbers, but not email.
Austria: https://github.com/austrianredcross
How good is SQLite’s parallelism these days?
Related reading, regarding my own process of Auditing Facebook.

https://londondailypost.com/zeaun-zarrieff-writes-to-faceboo...

https://businessnewsledger.com/zeaun-zarrieff-from-amerihub-...
This is where my brother is stationed. He mentioned to me that they had a shitton of people sent in the past nights

Id hope to see better discipline from the military than what we've seen and heard from police forces all over the nation, but we'll have to see.
My opinion: Calibri is an excellent font, created by one of the leading contemporary typographers, but like every default font, it is a non-choice, too boring for professional applications where style is a concern, thanks to its ubiquity.

Roboto is (or: has become, its beginnings were somewhat rough) a great screen font, but for printed applications, it tends to look a little dull. This has to do with ubiquity, but also with the simplicity that is inherent to most screen fonts.
> > "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).

If TLS has been compromised between your nodes, then yes - E2EE would give another level of protection; security in depth. I guess it depends on whether you believe your government has the ability to compromise transport layer security between arbitrary peers on the network.

For pure P2P Matrix, there might be some compromise where one uses the E2E keys and key verification to secure the transport layer security (thus giving you E2EE if there is no server in between, but without all the complexity of a cryptographic ratchet). This might give you best of both worlds - but the second you start accumulating data on a server somewhere you'd be back wanting proper E2EE.
Great first (if baby) step.

As others have already said here, more is needed.

I think another proper move would be to abolish police unions - nationally. This coming from a pro-union individual; however, these organizations have failed the public in my opinion.

And it's not really their fault. Unions are tasked with strictly defined goals around protection/advancement of wages, hours, benefits, and working conditions. To fail to advocate for these on the behalf of their paying members - opens them up to lawsuits themselves.

Ideally there would be an organization that would stand up for the protection of the individual in police organizations, the current structure(s) we have in place simply are not congruent with respect to protection of both the working individual in an organization and the public at large.
Be careful, 3rd world countries such as the us are already using it against peaceful protesters. We dont want any of that in Europe.
What an insane statement. This is literally everything that politicians do: advocate for what they think is best based on our collective lack of understanding of science/economics/relations etc
Apple and Google are just providing APIs.

It up to countries and states to build apps on those APIs.
Switzerland's app is opensource.

https://github.com/DP-3T
Right, I guess I feel less at risk of being the victim of a double spend and more at risk with rewriting history. Are there any reports of that? Like coins I've held on the chain for some time being stolen?
What kills me is that Apple are still so random about ports themselves.

They could have replaced the USB-A to Lighting cable and charger they ship with iPhones for USB-C to Lightning years ago.

(Personally I’d like to see Lightning replaced too but that’s a different story).
The research was seriously misreported--you don't actually need to drink anything like that much, the number is for total dietary intake in any form. With enough juicy food there's no need to actually drink anything. I'm reminded of one day my wife saying she was thirsty, please cut a slice of watermelon. At first I thought it was an English mistake (it's not her native language) but that's really what she meant.
https://www.crypto51.app/coins/BTC.html

You could pay $384k to hire miners to 51% attack BTC right now (that is, if NiceHash had the capacity). If you cut the hash rate that much the cost would be only $400 or so.

Does it sound like a secure trustless currency if anyone can pay $400 to gain 51% majority?

EDIT: 51% attack != rewrite blockchain
My goal isn't to make it impossible for the US government to get the information I've already given to social media companies - it's to do my part to remove the incentive for the US government to ask for social media details in the first place. If everyone outside of the USA had the same policy, it would devastate American social media companies, and cause the government policy to be entirely counterproductive. By not closing my social media accounts, I'd be complicit in incentivizing the government to ask for their details.

> Also, suddenly deleting a bunch of social media accounts before traveling to the US would probably raise some red flags.

I'd delete my social media accounts as soon as the policy is changed, which is likely to be months or years prior to my next visit to the US.
I'd bet that was partly on purpose to try and curb comic sans usage
I don't think many truckers intentionally ignore blown out tires. It's likely they just haven't noticed.
For those those who aren't familiar with some less savory parts of US history, the phrase "when the looting starts..." has rather ignoble origins. Specifically, Miami's Police Chief Walter E. Headley uttered that phrase in 1967 in support of white supremacy and in response to an outbreak of violent crime [0]. It's the callback to white supremacists of the 1960's is makes the statement a racist dog-whistle of a statement. That's the context that isn't, and can't be cold nor boring.

I'm sure neither Mark Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey want to do any of this, even if only for the simple economic reason that paying for moderation and fact checkers cuts into the company's profit margin, and that they've been mostly hands off with content moderation thus far.

That they're having this discussion should then be taken as a signal that things are different, and hosting user-generated content is no longer the free-for-all it was in 2009, for better or worse.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_looting_starts,_the_s...
Especially in the case of Instagram, it's a de facto RSS reader for a lot of really good content, if you curate it right.

I'm happy to say that the network I have built through Instagram has taken my photography to new levels and facilitated social interactions I'd never have had otherwise.

It is very fair to want to take the good (network/community) and leave the bad (walled-garden and tracking).
Facebook and Twitter employees strongly support fact-checking Trump – survey
Some background reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

Regan: "The nine most terrifying words in the english language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
Norquist, again: "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."

What's ACTUALLY happening here is a combination of goals, ultimately about cutting social programs and reducing taxes for the wealthy. "Government doesn't work" => "We shouldn't pay them taxes" => "We should cut lots of taxes" => Tax breaks which overwhelmingly benefit rich donors and party members, while reducing services for people that need them... It's a straight up wealth transfer, and it's been exceedingly efficient.

If government does something well, then the first link in the chain is broken. So to keep the whole chain of reasoning intact, it's best to keep government inefficient and ineffectual, especially as it relates to people's everyday lives. And every failed program is another bit of fuel for the nihilist campaign strategy.
Or, while we are at it, why not Twitter.

I've seen an amusingly large number of tweets lately calling for deletion of Facebook.
This article focuses on specific people in DC who let random protestors into their houses to escape police enforcing the curfew.

AFAIK, I didn't hear of anything similar happening in Seattle or Bellevue. Personally, I'm in Seattle (Belltown), and other than Saturday the curfew has been pretty lax.
Why isn't there a social network that actually cares about society? I swear if one existed it would be gaining a million users a day right now. I'm dying to abandon Facebook, but --I hate to say-- it's the best way for me to stay in touch with international friends and family at the moment. Can't someone please create a simple facebook-style app that's not driven by profit? Please please please.
I think Facebook is merely the conduit of human behavior that happens when lack of regulation / social norms or the incentives of profit create a new space much faster than we're used to before. So leaving Facebook and going to some other platform will not fundamentally solve the problem.

As long as:

1) people want to socialize freely (as well as privately) with each other in an online rapid medium,

2) the online forum is incentivized to make money, and

3) that same forum / business doesn't want the burden of regulating people's speech and behavior

then some Facebook analogue will take its place no matter where people go.

Right now it seems we can only choose to have 2 out of the 3.
As the article says, leave Instagram too!

It's surprising how many of my friends say they don't use Facebook for political reasons but don't see Instagram as the same company.
Hundreds of thousands are dead in Europe from a virus and these people are breaking the rules to stop its further spread because of one incident thousands of miles away that happened to be captured on a smartphone
> that simply don't occur on Windows, mostly because of MS superior QA

You're comparing an OS that hasn't had a major release in almost 5 years to a bleeding edge Linux distribution. Install an older LTS version of Ubuntu or Debian and things will be quite stable.
Er, just to clairify, Islam is also horrible, but I have less in the way of citations for them because I don't interact with them as much and I don't speak Arabic. If you want to look up said citations yourself, I think the search keywords your want would be "sharia law", although "muhammed pedophile" would probably also help.
We have no recourse but to put severe restrictions on diseases that exhaust coffins and fill graveyards. That you can compare covid19, the single worst epidemic to hit the world since the Spanish flu with sugar is beyond me.

Nothing we've seen in the West in recent years has killed as many people in as short a timespan as Covid19. Not heart disease, not obesity, not AIDS, nothing. And, again, this is with the restrictions in place. If we didn't have any restrictions, the magnitude would be hard to imagine. Tragically, Brazil will probably show the world what happens if you don't do that.

And as mentioned elsewhere, this whole magnitude was preventable if we really cared. Countries like Vietnam (the most impressive by far), Greece, most of Eastern Europe, SK, Japan show that the right measures can prevent hundreds of thousands of people from dying.
It is not proper pointclouds, but it is the data used by Street view to highlight if you are looking at a wall, or at a street. It is also used for transitions between one scene to another.

You can see it is very basic 90deg angle geometry, instead of actual pointclouds. Still pretty cool!
https://imgur.com/a/EgC0RbN
That's literally why it's not stealing. It's not legal, but it's also by definition not theft.
A Jury of Peers (2019)
Last post: "Here's where you can find me in the future. I'm not on Facebook anymore." (And optionally: "Here's why.")

If people want to get in touch with you, they'll do so. If people want to broadcast information only to those following them on one service, then you'll stop getting that information. That's fine. Other information will take its place.
I deleted my Facebook almost 8 years ago and never looked back. Was hard at first but great for my mental health. I encourage you to try disabling it for a while and keeping up with your network with alternatives
Would you find it acceptable to shoot some footage of a handful of looting/arsonist incidents and proclaiming “protesters are doing X”, just like we are complaining that “police” are doing X?

Or would you correct someone and say that isn’t happening, and when confronted with a video of someone somewhere doing a bad thing, inform them of the fact that a few cherry picked anecdotes do not represent the activity of the broader population?

You don’t have to answer.
In order to maintain network stability at current prices of Bitcoin, a massive amount of hashrate is required.

Those altcoins that have become worthless and are mined "just for fun" are only protected by the fact that they are worthless. Any attack would be a waste of resources. You could still attack them "just for fun" of course...
There have been plenty of good reasons to leave Facebook, for many years. If you only now want to dump FB because they didn’t muzzle Trump, you are probably part of the problem.
Yes. I'll accept that thats a lot of money in some places of the world, but thats less than half a day of time for a skilled Windows developer no matter where they live.
I think there's a chance that if a document is set in Times New Roman, the author focussed on the content rather than the presentation, which usually is a good thing.
Many people need to feel part of a social circle in order to be happy. Many if not most of those members of our social circle are going to be friends merely out of convenience or inertia, but that is an unpleasant fact that we avoid thinking about directly.

Leaving social media can be traumatic because you are suddenly brought face to face with the fact that many relationships in your life are a bit of a lie – people don’t really care about you all that much. And sure, you are left with a handful of “real friends” who are still willing to engage with you even though you are now the weirdo of the bunch who doesn’t use social media, but still. I sometimes wonder if the psychological toll of continuing to use social media is less than that of quitting social media.
Any resources to share that can serve as an introduction to this "Infrastructure of Intelligence" idea.
>> The police need to push cars to the side of the road on, I'd venture, a daily basis.

Cops are also generally brutal on their vehicles. The biggest problem is probably a cop in a hurry getting out of a running vehicle without putting it into park. They get into lots of low-speed/rolling car collisions. These things happen if you are getting in/out of your car 50 times a day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSUF6EC5DF0
Just for a clarification - the National Guard is typically under the state authority and can be deployed by governors for law enforcement without butting up against the Posse Comitatus act that is invoked with the Insurrection Act. Since DC isn't a state, but still has a national guard, it's a bit of a loophole for the President to be able to deploy national troops inside the District of Columbia like he has done over the last week.

Trump calling to deploy "thousands and thousands" of "heavily armed troops" in US cities is much less obviously legal but hasn't really happened yet.
I agree, but this is not what is being discussed in the article. It is about the manipulation provided by the platform, which you can indeed massively reduce your exposure to by not using it.

(One could argue that targeted ads that would still follow you are another way of manipulation, but it's way lesser than willingly consuming The Feed)
The best three fonts are: "sans-serif" (for general use), "monospace" (for code), and "serif" (for when you need a secondary font for contrast).

The choice of implementation for these fonts should be left to the reader (who will probably use the defaults for their browser/ebook reader). This way everybody gets the fonts they're used to, which are the easiest fonts to read. I don't even know which exact font I'm looking at now, but I know that I don't allow web designers to change it.
A strike would be more effective in my opinion. Organize and take the site down. Keep it down for a few hours. That's easily a few hundred million in lost profits.
As you’re well aware but HN folks may not be, it’s not just that it’s noisy, it’s heavily coded, contextually bankrupt speech between multiple parties that spend all day in contact with each other. Dispatchers in particular seem to have superhuman ability to extract information from completely unintelligible garbage.

Are you doing any kind of speaker identification?
On one level, Trump's statements about mail-in voting are just flatly untrue, pure propaganda, and completely irresponsible. But isn't it weird as well how much people are willing to let these massive tech companies essentially become fact-checkers for the content posted on it? I that that's also frightening to think about.
Settlement assurance is roughly a function of (a) the expected cost of mining a block and (b) the total value of bitcoins moved in that block. In general, the larger the ratio of a to b, the less time a merchant must wait to reach a certain level of assurance.
That matters if you live in Texas. It doesn't matter if you live above the Arctic Circle.
Damn, I already took all my own notes! Thanks for this.
I picture the ceremonies being accompanied by chants about being "iron like a lion in Zion".
While there are some similarities, the key difference is that Apple doesn't impose a "reputation requirement." Signed apps and installers work the same no matter how many other users have run them.
That might be easier to do with a national ID system, and maybe a government ID attestation service... just to be thorough.
Don't forget WhatsApp. Many people I talk to don't realize it's also part of the FB ecosystem.
> The equipment issue isn't going to solve anything

The solutions you are talking about are real, but this thing you said about equipment isn't true. It's definitely one of the points of emphasis for organizations that are working on this, see:
https://www.joincampaignzero.org/demilitarization

And that's based on research like this that receiving military equipment made it more likely for that police department to kill its citizens.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20531680177128...
And we all know which one it's going to be...
Doing that with multiple passwords is a weird way to do that just make a character selection area...
The other common misconception is that the price of bitcoin is determined by the hashrate. It is actually the other way around, a higher price drives up the hashrate, because a higher price means more demand for bitcoin.

Some founders of altcoins apparently don't understand this and try to buy hashpower to artificially increase the hashrate, hoping to increase the price of their coins. If there is no demand for their coins, an ASIC farm is no different from a Rasberry Pi.