skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I googled it and apparently there is evidence the world is flat and the moon landing was faked. I think I'm going to google a little bit more to see if 9/11 was an inside job. I'm getting pretty convinced.
How the pandemic looks to a 3-year-old
Body cams allow police to be held accountable after the fact, but haven't conclusively led to a reduction in violence. They are part of the solution, along with use of force policies. https://www.joincampaignzero.org/
Body cams are only part of the solution; if the rest of the system is broken, police misconduct won't be punished regardless of how hi-res and accurate the images of the misconduct are. We've been this before: brutality all the way up to homicide caught on tape, then let go with a slap on the wrist.
Black peoples commit significantly more crime than white people. You ever take a stats class? You can’t just compare the numbers straight up. Honestly how dumb are you. This whole country is brainwashed
It seems to me there are cities in that list with lots of red boxes that nevertheless haven't had significant problems with use of force by their police. I guess you can probably find room for improvement everywhere, but it seems potentially counterproductive to just treat them all the same way and assume the requirements listed are necessary or sufficient for reducing police violence?
Yes of course - email sent - I spoke too soon - message was blocked for unspecified reasons. My email is my profile if you'd like to start a conversation.
OK, then. It surely did not happen because the US at the time was a happy place where institutions were not corrupt at all and the Nixon administration never did anything shady.

It also could not have possibly happened because the direct family of the person being accused said this never happened. So it must be true.

Also, the earth is flat, global warming doesn't exist, vaccines cause autism and 5G causes Coronavirus.

</sarcasm>
They also make no attempts to keep their operating hours on Google Maps or Yelp up-to-date. Especially for holidays.

Is keeping this stuff up to date actually difficult. I don't run a business, so I have no idea.
Honestly I cannot believe nobody understand how they are calculating these numbers.
Full disclosure: I am CEO of a productivity/note taking app (Amplenote) that arguably competes with Roam.

Roam & Zettelkasten share a user base thick with academics. Productivity doesn't tend to be their stated end goal. Their goal is more often to arrange thoughts into webs of knowledge. They allow connected ideas, like wikis, except with zero forethought put into how the ideas should be organized. People really like being able to start writing without figuring out how to organize the thing they're about to write.

The goals that the R&Z community will benefit everyone as they seep into the broader ecosystem. It's (purported to be [1]) a powerful experience if you have the time to build a visualized network of your thoughts and see how they connect together. But it's not very similar to getting things done.

Incidentally, our app, Amplenote, allows bidirectional linking like Roam, and is focused specifically on helping users get things done (e.g., https://www.amplenote.com/classic_todo_lists_always_fail). In the real world, our product has allowed us to build three businesses that profitability sustain our team of 20. We have zero hype in part because we spend most of our time working. When a relevant comment like this one comes up, I don't see it until 12 hours later. C'est la vie when trying to actually get stuff done.

[1] Haven't had time to actually try out networked notes, but we're planning to add it to Amplenote later this month. Will develop an original opinion on them then.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/gv0ru3/this_is_the...
Why is the deer freezing a problem? Wouldn't that be desirable? Less likelihood of a missed shot, etc.
> Your voting systems are being more actively rigged than ever before

This is simply not true. The only things that are rigged are the two party system that spit out bad candidates (seemingly more often than before), has mechanisms to suppress other parties, and no term limit career politicians that are bought out by special interests. But the voting system itself is not the problem.
I would start with https://astexplorer.net, which handles many languages, and provides interactivity: click on a node within the ast, and il will highlight the corresponding code and vice versa.

The ast's are usually language specific, therefore it's not cross language.
This does not answer the higher up question as to how to prevent abuse of this feature...
The guy was on meth and heroin with heart disease. I’m not saying it was right, it was wrong. But flipping out over isolated incidents is being caused by propaganda
The executive is at least elected, while the courts are not, even indirectly. More importantly, in recent decades one part has more often obtained what it wanted through the courts, another through executive order. Having them both as examples of undemocratic, would have made the questions more nonpartisan. As written, it seems pretty clearly written from a left-of-center position.

If the study questions had been written during FDR's time, when the courts were striking down parts of the New Deal and FDR was expanding the powers of the executive in order to expand the social welfare net, we likely would see different questions used as examples of undemocratic behavior.
Learn your history better. http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/33-tempest-in-a-teacu...
Which would be trivial when those individuals are lobbying the decision makers and bankrolling fcc-supporting entities.
Minneapolis City Council looking into disbanding police department
1) A firearm with live ammunition is explicitly a lethal weapon. You must not fire one at something you don't intend to kill, even if you "only" end up maiming the target. There's also a reasonable chance you'll kill someone if you shoot a limb, e.g. if you hit an artery. Guns are not to be trifled with.

2) Per [1] the surface area of your torso is about double that of one leg (that is, anterior torso is 18%, an individual leg anterior is 9%), so it's far more likely to hit if you aim for the torso. Even if you aim for a torso and miss, you might hit a limb or head - it's a lot less likely to miss a limb and hit something else.

3) The research behind the Tueller anti-knife self defence drill found an attacker with a knife could cover 21 ft / 6.4 metres in about 1.5 seconds. To stop the attack, you have to be able to shoot them before they can close to melee range - you must aim for the largest possible target to have any hope of success.

I am not commenting on US police practices generally, but specifically that the idea you can shoot to wound is neither responsible nor practical.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_body_surface_area
The current president has issued more executive orders than the previous... care to elaborate or support your claim?
I'm curious how many of the smart TVs are being tracked. Quite a few of those were looted over the weekend from what I could tell of the videos being posted.
I used to feel this way as well. Until I realized that my way of living would be no different being multi millionaire vs how much I make now, except with bigger numbers in the screen of my bank account(s).

Making millions takes a lot of hard work. I'd rather work on my hobbies.
So that they can charge you if the order is a prank. Maybe this is less true on smaller orders.
Wasn't Python basically invented as the scripting language for the Amoeba OS?

I often imagine an alternate reality where much of the non-performance-critical Unix/Linux userland such as login is written in Python.
Thanks! Ending cash bail is a good one. I'm not so well versed on private prisons, but I think I'm general the scale of incarceration is a larger issue than the quality of it. Still a good suggestion for discussion.

We have 10x more incarcerated per capital than germany. If the police think 1 in 100 (rounding a bit) belong in jail, it leads to a very different quality of interaction if it is 1 in 1,000.

Definitely agree on the issues with accountability.
You ever run the numbers on which race commits more crime? Or would that crush your brainwashing?
Though that's also assuming people don't do anything about the blatant attack.
Japan: An open source community built a contact tracing app but the government doesn't adopt the app and building different app. I expect the app won't be open sourced.

https://github.com/mamori-i-japan/mamori-i-japan-ios
Tell HN: Black Lives Matter
I know this probably gets buried or moderated but that's all I wanted to say.
I'd consider the merits of the idea separately from who said it. An idea should be judged by its merits alone.
Thank you for saying it.
> Let's move this to a productive conversation though. What can Microsoft do, as an alternative, that doesn't result in an identical or worse situation?

They could prioritize the radical concept that the owner of the hardware also takes responsibility for the software that runs on it, and they could make efforts to inform, educate, and empower the owner, rather than wrest power away from them and from independent developers.

They could copy Debian and other orgs that solved many distribution and trust problems decades ago while remaining free for both users and developers, with only volunteer resources, while MS users were still stuck with random .exe's from random websites and shrinkwrapped software as the only options.

And those of us who really ought to know better could stop acting like this is some best-effort genuine desire to solve truly hard problems on behalf of users, rather than the shameless power-grab it actually is.
True, everybody agrees is an oxymoron. What I mean to say is most people agree they don't like violent policing. I think that's probably true for some value of most.
> “If a customer calls to place a coffee order, we’re paying a $6.42 fee — for a coffee.”

This is based on the contract the restaurant has with grubhub, uber eats, etc - if the terms are not favorable why not cancel the agreement ?

Seems they want others to fix their self-inflicted damage
Why are you only counting unarmed victims? Does the 2nd Amendment not exist? Carrying a weapon should not be grounds for summary execution.
Please, enlighten us. Why is "shot by police" the leading cause of death among black men?

What is your proposed solution?
Dashboards with tons of charts are all about pre-computing. In the RDBMS world you abandon normal relational tables and use a non-relational star schema. Star schemas are basically just tables that store pre-computed data.

Sometimes it's a completely separate database for just reporting, with new daily data being fed in all the time, and results pre-computed.

These systems tend to be queries against the past. It's accepted that you may be 1 day behind. But that little concession to query past-only allows all sorts of great tricks to have instantaneous reporting against huge data sets. Making it seem like your reports have been blessed by the tears of the performance gods.

Even google search is "cheating" by searching against the past, not the present. Could you imagine how slow it would be if your google search query triggered a web crawler in real time to scour the internet? Yeah, you might be waiting several days for your crawl to complete.
direct democracies weren't practical at the scale of a nation until relatively recently, but yes, many smaller governmental bodies can and have been direct.

but no, the judiciary is not a legislative body (nor is the executive). it curbs legislative power through interpretation (as does the executive), as is their charge, and therefore has influence and power at the margins, not in the wholesale creation of laws. it's more influential in the negative--striking down unconstitutional laws wholesale. that's not the same as a legislative body.

besides, representative democracy centers around the legislature, not the judiciary. talking about an undemocratic judiciary was just a contrivance for partisanship.
Semi-semi-related, there was a commercial distro named Amithlon that booted straight into AmigaOS 3.9. Alas, it was discontinued, but it had a really nice AmigaOS feel to it.
Right, just imagine the outcry if Chrome were working on countermeasures for incognito mode detection but also sent a proprietary message to Google Analytics to identity when someone is in incognito mode....
In that case the owner is then getting the full price for the food though.
I’m pretty sure killing someone by asphyxiation has been around for a while.
Good? Allowing additional modes of force should be slow and conservative, not rushed out into the field as quickly as possible in the name of "progress." We're talking about policing, not a Silicon Value startup.

"Move fast and break things" shouldn't apply to members of the public, as the police test their new gadgets.
The way we fix most legacy software systems is by replacing them with newer, different ones.
It seems the results have been mixed and inconclusive, rather
than conclusive that they don't lead to a reduction in violence.
> I always understood (since Hotspot anyway) that not all bytecode is necessarily JIT'd to native code

Who are you disagreeing with? I didn’t say that’s the only way they execute bytecode, did I?

The question was how it’s executed ‘after they warm up’.

> Then of course there are compilers (eg. gcj) which compile to native up-front.

But I was replying to someone who asked specifically about how ‘production JVMs’ do it, not how discontinued compilers do it.
Most black people are completely squeaky clean and law abiding. Much more so than your typical white dude.
> CGPGrey has a great pair of videos on pirate social dynamics that everyone should watch. Economic factors, not shared idealism, created the flat hierarchy.

Do you have the links?
Agreed. But if I just moved in yesterday, I wouldn't be happy if other tenants cursed me out and blamed me personally for the fact that the reserve fund hadn't been funded for the last twenty years.
And you expect this will continue indefinitely? Especially if the economy slips into a recession?
Race and Justice: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (2014)
It may be possible for a person to succeed with #3, but I have a hard time believing it could work in a community of people who disagree.

For #4, the closest thing I can imagine is a utilitarian approach, which of course I’m going to prefer as an engineer, and which (I think) ultimately reduces to #1. That is a tough problem I don’t expect to see solved in my lifetime, but I’d be happy to be proven wrong.
qualified immunity almost doesn't matter because of the need for prosecutors to work hand-in-glove with police. Even without such immunity, prosecutors would be reluctant to bring charges except in truly egregious cases because of how much harder it would make their jobs working with the police. So anything mostly out of the public eye that isn't truly horrid they largely leave to the discipline process of the force & Internal Affairs. I'm not sure how to fix that. Automatic outside investigators/prosecutors from a different jurisdiction might help, though the blue wall would still pose a problem.
> You ever take a stats class?

Explain to me what a sigma algebra is, clowntown.
A good rewrite looks like a refactor.

Strangle that monolith and none will be the wiser.
I think the issue is restaurants need a 3rd party platform. They aren't in the tech industry and they aren't going to hire a developer to build their own system unless its a global franchise.

What we really need is for someone to build an open source / one time cost / subscription platform that gives restaurants the ease of using a premade system without the expense of having a per transaction fee.
Time for me to go to bed then - I saw the letters 'h o r s e s h i t'.
> Don't build, operate, or maintain the infrastructure of the surveillance state

I don't suppose the open source library you choose has any hope of rejection by some government lawyer? I've heard the federal government has the ability to ignore contract law when it plays the national security card, but I haven't verified this assertion.
Posting like this will get you banned on HN. Since it doesn't look like you've been making a habit of it, with this account at least, I'm going to put this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23398918 down to going on tilt, but please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The name reminds me of Big Bismuth!
Historically, that's been a pretty effective means to get gun control laws passed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act

https://historylink.org/File/20649
Don't tip. They should have set their price at the cost they can afford to sell the item at.
Please stop breaking the site guidelines like this. You unfortunately do it a lot and it makes the site worse. (Your positive contributions make the site noticeably better, I should add.) Just flag the comment instead.

The only reason you were even able to reply is that I unkilled the comment, which had already been flagkilled by other users, in order to let the account know that we'll ban them (again) if they keep it up.
John Adams’ greatest contribution to the presidency was that after losing the election to Thomas Jefferson in 1800, he stepped down and power changed without bloodshed.

I’m not so sure that will happen should Trump lose this November.
This whole site is generated by GPT-2.
But with s3/cf if you get hugged by something like hn you're going to be in for a hefty bandwidth bill.
Will putting it in a Zip and making the user unzip it build reputation with SmartScreen?
>I mean, India is more democratic

Is it? By what metric? Also, my point isn't that India is better or worse than the US, it's that it's not a country we should aspire to, considering there are better functioning countries out there.
How long will it be before Google, Apple, and Microsoft start pulling certificates for apps governments deem unacceptable, such as organizing protests or communicating?
I don't know why anyone think this is silly or a bad idea. It allows hardware to be interchangeable, allows contractors to write easily testable and modular software, and produces less vendor lock-in. Fuck if I want Boeing to have some custom virtualization layer that only their shitty in-house custom code can run on.

Like, let's be real, there's going to be SOME virtualization layer. It's 2020. Being a well-known, many-eyeball OSS one is far better than the alternative.
I think the term "assault rifle" is very misleading here. People are imagining fully automatic weapons like the ones the military uses. But outside of SWAT, such weaponry is very rare. (And in most countries, their equivalent of SWAT has fully automatic weapons.)

The rifles used by everyday police are the same as those owned by tens of millions of civilians. These weapons are cosmetically similar to those used by the military, but they have the same functionality and fire the same cartridge as the Ruger Mini-14.[1] They are semi-automatic. Every "bang!" requires a pull of the trigger. The reasons police have these weapons are because pistols are less accurate, have shorter range, and are unable to penetrate body armor. These rifles are usually locked in the back of the vehicle and only brought out for standoff situations, or if the cop has retreated due to being outgunned. Such occasions are rare, but when they happen, those rifles are worth their weight in gold (as are the fire extinguishers and medical kits in practically all police cars).

Moreover, police have always used the latest weaponry. A century ago, they were equipped with the Thompson submachine gun[2] and the Browning Automatic Rifle[3] (both of which are fully automatic weapons).

I agree that police have gotten more militarized over time, and I would love to roll that back, but it's also true that many of those arguing in this thread are either misled or disingenuous. We're much more likely to convince others if we make sure our arguments and our facts are unimpeachable.

1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ruger_Mini-14.jpg

2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thompsonad1sm.jpg

3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Firearms_practice,_1...
You can see in the HK protests the sea of people instantly parts to form a path for ambulances. American protesters just need to learn these advanced coordination tactics.
Is it “deflecting” to point out how much Democrats benefit form gerrymandering while taking Republicans to task for the same thing? [0][1][2]. What about about senate confirmations[3][4][5]?

[0] https://thefulcrum.us/worst-gerrymandering-districts-example...

[1] https://www.thedailybeast.com/democrats-hate-gerrymanderinge...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/28/how-m...

[3] https://www.heritage.org/homeland-security/commentary/hypocr...

[4] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senate-nuclear-filibuster-ru...

[5] https://time.com/3701079/obama-filibuster/

If we don’t wanna go there that’s fine I suppose, I just want to know where we’re gonna draw the line between “deflection” and having a substantive discussion on the gamesmanship going on inside the beltway without devolving into the usual brutish “my side good, your side bad”.
Australian Osint Public Data Sources
Statutes of limitation makes suing the police officer impossible at this point.

Some context: I'm not from an upperclass family and me just paying for the lawyer to get the case dismissed really hurt financially. As well with the strain on my parents.

At the time of the event, lawyers told me it's very hard to make anything worth the effort & cost and unless clear video evidence exists of what happened. It would have been my testimony against the police officer. Police have good lawyers when they're being sued as well.

I was unsure about suing a website for libel. I did research the laws around it and services do exist to attempt at removing similar material online of what happened against me. I thought after finding out why I was bullied that it wasn't guaranteed and changing my name would likely be sufficient. At this point in my life I'm still not financially well off to care enough anymore. I work in academia and I moved outside of the USA after graduating.

I did learn a lot from what happened. It can really hurt to not be financially well off, the system really harms people even if they're innocent and not everyone has a happy story of lawyers lining up to take on injustice.
> We can totally reimagine what public safety means, what skills we’re recruiting for, what tools we do and don’t need. We can invest in cultural competency and mental health training, de-escalation and conflict resolution.

I applaud this approach. As a nation of concerned and affected states and cities, we owe it to ourselves to embark on new experiments, designed from the start to fit the current environment.

You want a public safety concern that is geared toward a desired outcome? Design it and refine it. We cannot bring forward a carbon copy of the past and expect to transcend its worst parts at the same time.

> We can resolve confusion over a $20 grocery transaction without drawing a weapon, or pulling out handcuffs.

> The whole world is watching, and we can declare policing as we know it a thing of the past, and create a compassionate, non-violent future. It will be hard. But so is managing a dysfunctional relationship with an unaccountable armed force in our city.

This is so on point. From what I have read so far, it also syncs with relevant and current research into policing.