skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since this is happening simultaneously in many different cities around the country, I have to wonder if there are private Facebook or WhatsApp or Signal groups where police members are talking about this trend. I'd very much like to see those conversations.
When you say that, it makes sense if perhaps police are just accidentally brushing by them while forcing their way up a street.

What the reality is is they are literally forcing themselves onto cameramen, pushing them into walls or other obstacles, hitting them.

That sounds pretty targeted to me.
I think it has gone beyond what kind of speech enjoys what kind of protection. I think it's time the owners of the platforms state, "if agents of the U. S. government wish to threaten U. S. citizens with violence from the military that is sworn to protect them, they can do it on their own web properties."

This isn't about providing a platform to those that don't have one. Does one actually think the president of the United States would have trouble getting the message out if they did not have access to Twitter? There is an article floating around HN today on "being complicit" and how history will judge those who are. If online platforms aren't careful, I suspect history will not judge them kindly, either.
It's telling a (what I assume to be) fictional story. It doesn't need to be some dry technical article just because it happens to have some Rust code in it. Like, if that ain't your thing, then so be it, but I think you're assigning values to it that simply don't apply.

That is: if you were reading a novel or short story, would you have the same complaint?
A tragic case of passive voice addiction, reader.
Over 100 upvotes in 20 minutes for something non tech related?
Yeah my bad... triggered on the internet.
Their official argument is:

> [Readers] don’t have access to the books that only exist in paper, sitting inaccessible on their library shelves. That’s where our collection fits in — we offer digital access to books, many of which are otherwise unavailable to the public while our schools and libraries are closed

http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-eme...

They make explicit reference to these inaccessible books to justify why they are distributing more copies than they own.

I agree with your point about digital media being intrinsically different than physical media, especially when it comes to marginal costs of publication/dissemination. Ownership and possession of a physical copy of a book is a good proxy for a license to use the book, and copyright law was largely built around that premise.

Controlled Digital Lending seems to be a good way to adopt the same principles for the digital age. IA was using CDL prior to its emergency library, and I had no problem with that.

I also don't think lenders need to have a physical copy sitting around somewhere to be able to lend a digital copy. Publishers' onerous licensing terms for digital content have been met with deserved criticism. A CDL system that permits ownership of either physical or digital copies seems like the right approach.
Check out Amazing Tales for the kids. Very similar to what it sounds like you're describing.
Most cops don't have to support Trump. Just the ones attacking journalists.
Most news isn’t that, just cable news.
I wish I understood how to bring new things to Nix. Like, if I have some language or framework with a bunch of plugins and modules, and I have the freedom to bend the framework a bit in order to get it working with Nix, then what is the best path for doing that? All of the documentation I've read seems like it's been written by folks who deeply understand not just each different language, but also some sort of central Nix philosophy.
Good. Fuck all journalists. If anything, maybe start killing them off. Also, start dismantling these corporations that pay their social media coordinators to grovel on twitter with thoughts and prayers.
Ask HN: Covid – Cause and Effect
I'm ultimately looking for a reason why this hypothesis is wrong. It is partially about the role of tech during the pandemic.

Assuming it is generally accepted that COVID originated in bats, then it's reasonable to look at characteristics of bats that are unique. Perhaps even find a correlation between the behavior of bats and humans.

Bats are nocturnal. Most species of bats never get sunlight. One study I found as an armchair researcher points to evidence of a vitamin D deficiency in wild bat populations:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3897589/

Here is a study done back in may about Vitamin D levels and the severity of COVID:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200512134426.htm

Now consider the changes in human behavior as we have become glued to technology.

We stay inside more, we avoid the sun at all costs.
This means we all likely have lowered vitamin levels (Vitamin D and Calcifediol specifically).

To top all of this off, our response has been to stay inside even more than we used to, allow tech to dominate all areas of our lives, thus worsening the problem.
Also consider the populations hardest hit, there would be vitamin D absorption problems as well.
Consider senior citizens who likely stay inside even more than the rest of us.
This would explain some of the death rates in nursing homes when compared to the larger senior population.

Is it possible we have basically trolled ourselves with our technology addiction and the solution to this current problem is to just go outside? It can't be that simple right?

EDIT: Here is a link I just found in another thread on Hacker News showing a correlation between the two:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.01.20112334v1
No one can read minds.
It's not really UBI if you're selecting some subset of the population and paying them. You need to be paying everyone in that area otherwise you're gonna have side-affects you can't control.
'kingkawn's response is neither snarky, uncurious, unkind, or demanding. It's pleading against a particularly common kind of cynicism.

Whatever else you might think of this situation, it's impossible to deny something has shifted. Appeals to "it's just the same thing" are at best hollow, at worst placative.
No, that's actually impossible. Many/most of the core packages are dependent on systemd - directly or through intermediate dependencies. If that weren't the case - there would be no motivation to fork the distribution.

Part of the arguments that led to the fork was the "viral" nature of systemd use, i.e. it's not just an opt-out option, but more integral than that.

At the same time - breaking the systemd dependency was not extremely involved technically. Very little code had to be written, and most of the work is tying things together at the distribution level.
Just like experience accounts of individual members of riots, most videos I saw are very out of context. Specifically in regards to media representatives following lawful police orders before getting caught in the push.
[2] is the Alameda County Sheriff serving an eviction on a bunch of old women.
Microsoft can give out free code-signing certificates like LetsEncrypt, but bind publisher reputation to the domain name, rather than to a particular public key or certificate. In such way, malware makers won't be able to build up enough reputation, because they will have to switch domain names often (and legit software publishers won't be subjects to extortion by Code Signing CAs). Regarding domain expiry problem, this is solved by short-lived certificates (same as for LetsEncrypt) and timestamping server.
Because you vote them out. The nra is powerful because they have voted people out.

The truth is most people don't really care about what they say they care about, so politicians can get away with not doing as they say. They are careful to do what they say when they have reason to believe voters actually care.

This week, without riots we cn get police reform through because they are afraid if they don't will remember and vote them out. Next week if we forget they won't. There is a reasonable conspiracy theory that the riots are sponsored by those who want police reforms to fail, but making the police the good guys (better than the increasing mob riot) laws won't pass. Might be unfounded, but it is reasonable.
Who's the bully?

This attitude is symptomatic of the real problem.

The war on cops is nothing more than class warfare; the elite scapegoating people asked to do the hard work.

This is college educated, wealthier folks picking on middle class working folks.

Our byzantine legal system, that conveniently maximizes revenue for the legal industry,
sows a lower class persecuted for mostly victimless crimes then asks the police to bring
in the harvest.

If you really want to get mad at the malfeasance in civil serice, take a look at your local school system.
Unless, of course, you can afford the Catholic schools or a prep school.

Frankly, if I were a cop, after watching the wink,wink "it's a peaceful protest" news reports, with clowns screaming and throwing bricks in the background, I might shoot a rubber bullet at the "reporters".

Sorry for the anger , folks, but .... look in the mirror ... and at who you voted into local offices.
Yep, and posting something about "Do you know what is digital wear (AR-wear)?" would get more traction than a survey.
The barrier is actually bigger than just money: for an EV certificate you need to prove that you are a registered business. So there is a name and an address behind it, which is kind of a barrier for malware.
I wonder if maybe it's in part because he had a bit of an emotional response to the question and was trying to compose himself before responding. It seemed like maybe he kept trying to start but just wasn't ready, which is why he never took his eyes off the camera. Just my thinking.
5) Change the uniforms.

Dress for the job you want. If they all dress like storm troopers some of them will act like storm troopers.

NY state patrol uniform: Grey with purple ties. https://northcountrynow.com/sites/default/files/images/Zone2...

NYPD (new york city) police: Black on black with black ties. https://media.timeout.com/images/103899055/image.jpg

It seems meaningless, but having interacted with a few police agencies I have noticed a trend. They cops that show up for meetings in head-to-toe black tend to be more aggressive. They try to assert themselves in every meeting, which is entertaining as we are the military. They cannot win the "who has the bigger gun" thing. The cops that come in oldschool blue shirts and ties are much easier to work with.

(Fyi, if those two NYPD officers in the pic were in the military they would get a talking to about attitude. Hands in pockets. Chewing. Crossed arms. In public? Have some respect for your uniform.)
Interesting article and good question about whether we should program using graphs. In a different domain, languages like halide, tvm and tiramisu or in a way letting programmers create graphs for high performance.
Who cares if youre supporting Tor when the whole android platform is a mobile data collection trap. They own you on the device level.

Yeah you can root the 'droid and ditch the Goog Play Store, but you can jailbreak iOS.
That's smart! At least the secret is now versioned, cool!
Also, this is how he got the unofficial nickname "Monkey Boy".
It seems more of a complement to the existing visuals and more story telling oriented approaches being provided via other forms of media and news.

The income disparity graphs personally provided more understanding as to why the issue appears to happen in certain locations.

If it makes it approachable to undergraduate MBA types who feel more comfortable in seeing spreadsheets and data science analysis and understandable to a wider, different audience that doesn't seem like such a bad thing.

That said, I'd be really interested in being pointed to better sources for data science approaches to understanding the issue(s) - in addition to the more narrative based suggestions provided.
One of the many neat uses of Observable is quickly prototyping these kinds of graphics - often by starting with a notebook someone has already created and iterating on it.

I have a notebook here which can visualize the table structure of any Datasette-hosted database: https://observablehq.com/@simonw/datasette-table-diagram

My first version used a force-directed graph for this, but then Thomas Ballinger from the Observable team showed me how to use a DOT diagram, which is a much better visualization for relational tables.
I'm sure I'm in the minority on this website, but I think anything the President posts on social media should be kept in place. Yes, I think he posts bad things sometimes, promotes violence, posts racist comments. But...he's the President. He's not like all the other users of Facebook/Twitter, and different rules should apply to him.

Essentially the people who want his posts removed are forcing their own opinion of right and wrong on the President of the United States. His opinion, right or wrong, is of national importance. What he says is a matter of historical value, showing the culture of America and its leadership at the time. It provides a check on power, letting the citizens know what their President thinks on certain issues and allows them to form their own opinions on whether the President is a leader they can get behind or try and vote out.
Apple was doing the same thing.
"While red-lining helped shape segregation in many cities, Minneapolis was pre-emptive about its discrimination; beginning in the 1910s Minneapolis real estate deeds started to include “Covenants” that explicitly excluded African Americans. A team from the University of Minnesota has been researching real estate deeds to uncover these covenants, and created this striking time-lapse of their spread:...

"Racial covenants were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1948, but the effect remains; compare the racial covenant map to the racial dot map Blank referenced above — the blue (which is white people) adheres to the blue of racial covenants:...

"A map of racial covenants closely matches a map of Minneapolis' population

"That red cross, meanwhile, is the location of the homicide of George Floyd, in the decidedly non-blue portion of the map."

I have downvoted your comment, not because there's anything specifically wrong in it, but because I cannot believe focusing on the word "crescent" and disregarding any context could be anything other than an attempt to diminish the discussion.
> just ... not caring. Bash their face, mace them, just follow orders.

That's how law generally works. It does not matter who violates it. If you see a problem with the law - change the law. Do not bash police officers for enforcing it.
Not a board game, but Shadowrun definitely has a complexity problem. It's set in a cyberpunk future where magic has also reawakened, bringing in Tolkien-esque creatures as well. You can be a hacker, mage, cyber warrior, or just a smooth talker. However, each of those archetypes has different rules, and are essentially their own game. And for the GM, you have to know all of the rules relevant to not only the people playing with you, but any enemies they might run into.

The setting is amazing, but it's dying for a rewrite (and I don't mean Shadowrun Anarchy). There's been some attempts to make a Powered by the Apocalypse version, but none have gained a large amount of traction.
Journalists are often targeted by rogue states

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/marie-colv...
Yes. It's anecdotal at best, but all of the 6 cops I know have either "Trump 2020" or "Trump No More Bullshit" or (my personal favorite) "Trump Making Liberals Cry Since 2016" flags flying above the US flag at their homes.

My baseline assumption is a vast majority of police/sheriffs/troopers support Trump. Is this incorrect?
1. Not sure where you see the bad math - your state government encourages you to do something with good (though unlikely) consequences, and encourages you to avoid something with bad (though unlikely) consequences.

2. It’s not only about you. Lottery proceeds are used for all sorts of good things. Being part of an infection chain could infect and kill many people.

3. Note that absent measures, the odds of contracting and dying would rise up enormously.

4. At any rate, that’s not what Levine’s excellent column is about.
Here's another article uncovering the brutality of the police [1]. Some of the scenes are really inhuman [2] and I feel sorry for the poor people trying to make their voices heard.

I hope, that both sides, the protesters and police force will find a way, to exit that spiral of violence. But right now it looks like this won't happen. It's a shame.

If the state acts harder against protesters, journalists and civilian bystanders it will only fuel their anger. Leading to more violence, used by the state to issue a even worse crackdown than now. And so on and so on.

The only hope that I have is, that other politicians from all parties will stand up against that.

[1] https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2020/05/31/us-law-e...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byk2axDVNHE
Subs like /r/OurPresident are still using this mechanism to this day to get election-influencing agitprop to the front page. It hasn't been nerfed. Meanwhile Reddit sits on their hands and sighs wondering if anything can be done about this, on the site they administrate.
DynamoDB Foundation
Of all places in the United States, Stockton California. Well if any city could use some love, Stockton is one. It may infect the capital next door in Sacramento. Which would infect the 9th largest economy in the world. That would be great. Trickle up economics for the win.
You don't get to handwave away a clear fallacy with "ok but you get the point". _My_ point is that the point is false, not that the example is bad. If Bonzi Buddy can just buy their way into your computer, then this does not save you. From anything. Because real malicious actors like Bonzi Buddy can just buy their way in!
And I can't imagine, after months of wall-to-wall COVID-19 coverage, how you can still believe that the US press is anything other than outlets of biased and profit-driven crisis porn.

That doesn't justify attacks on reporters, but today's journalists aren't just part of the problem, arguably they are the problem.
Given how certain kinds of rhetoric from the political left demonizes police offers, it seems likely that many of them have found a home on the right.
Someone took screenshots of Amber Guyger's Instagram pages before she cleaned up her social media, and it was disgusting. Private cop groups absolutely exist. It would be interesting to subpoena Facebook when the Minneapolis Four go to trial and investigate how deep the rot goes.
>Facebook, for its part, said it was "grateful that leaders in the civil rights community took the time to share candid, honest feedback" and said "it is an important moment to listen, and we look forward to continuing these conversations."

PR blabber. They need to start printing these responses as "Facebook's Public Relations department responded to Axios with a general response." or something.
As is typical for Microsoft, they again are trying to copy Apple, but failing to get the details right, turning it into a disaster. This behavior used to just be limited to their UI, but now it seems to have passed into their business practices.

I suspect this happened because they were trying to be more secure, but all the Microsoft employees have free access to signing certificates that bypass the checks, so they never ran into these problems.
I don't want a moral social network I want one that I can share by beliefs and views no matter what they maybe.
For this to happen, all you need is one cop to "support Trump", and most cops to support cops before anyone else.
this is only somewhat related, but i count my old coolermaster masterkeys S as my favorite keyboard of all time, it was nice and utilitarian and came with some absolutely fantastic keycaps - for about 80 bucks. damn shame they "updated" their product lines to appeal to gamers or something, and started taking their cues from corsair and not like, filco.

i have the misfortune of being the guy my friends, family etc call when their computers go bork and one of the little things that just really shine is the easy function-key-shortcut builtin to the board that will swap between windows- and mac style modifier layouts, it wound up being far more than some bellwhistle i initially thought it would be

unfortunately since it was my first real mech it also was something of a guinea pig. i learned to solder switches by swapping them out, and the connections are kinda janked now, and i sometimes have to wack it like an old TV to get it to register certain keypresses.

i'm currently using a durgod TKL, it's almost a suitable equal in all the areas that made me love the CM board.. but man i wish i'd been able to snag another masterkeys, even used, before the supply dried up.
Just to make sure, this is a joke, correct?
I wonder if they looked at Cue [1], a data language that I think hits the sweet spot between readability and power.

Cue is a spiritual successor to Google's Jsonnet, but corrects the latter's design mistakes. Cue is quite simple, but also extremely readable. It looks ideal for the sort of data-level validations that Polaris wants to do, without having to express a DSL in YAML (which should be an antipattern by now) to do it.

[1] https://cuelang.org/docs/tutorials/tour/intro/
Post your source, because this seems to indicate it is SWAT: https://reason.com/2020/01/15/oakland-uses-swat-force-with-t...

The other side is they didn't know it was only old women in the home.
A big part of this that I don't see addressed: huge numbers of LEO's are sent to Israel to train.

I don't even have to say anything further. It speaks for itself.
If you're dismissing something with prejudice (yep, the last banned commentator just didn't have anything valuable to add and he was simply obsessed with the Linux kernel and terminology though the article explicitly states it's about Linux for/on the desktop) it's not even clear why you choose to comment upon in the first place. Dismiss the whole website then! Don't visit it ever ;-) Show your total indifference. :-)

This pesky horrible Web 1.0 website filled with FUD from an unknown Joe doesn't deserve your time. 2 million visitors over 10 years? That's what google.com sees in a few minutes. Cited and quoted all over the web? Still doesn't make it an authority. Almost everything on it is either wrong or exaggerated.

Aren't you smiling and laughing yet? You must be ;-)
Is being a reporter somehow implies you are not violating the law?
Right now, on the front page, there are posts about the recreation of the first automobile, the archaeological discovery of cannabis residue at a dig site, news articles about meetings between Zuckerberg and civil rights leaders.

While this site trends heavily towards tech, it is not so narrow-minded that we cannot discuss things not strictly related to that subject.
"Press 2 for English" is not biased at all.
Where have you seen cops forcing weapons into the hands of someone on the ground? I haven't seen that.

Definitely seen excessive use of force against seemingly peaceful protesters, but context is everything, and a 10 second snippet does not tell the full story of the interactions between that protester and that cop for the 45 minutes leading up to those 10 seconds.

I tend to reserve my judgement on those types of videos, since cops have been also taking a beating in the last few days with bricks, rocks, water bottles, etc... thrown at them off camera or before those clips start, where the convenient "editing" is done to portray the cops as the "bad guys" when often they have spent the last hour being insulted, assaulted and injured before they decide to move in with force on that "peaceful" protester...