skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The list of police chiefs is solid.

I share your concerns over Qualified Immunity (and other problems). The relevant discussions are here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23379910 ("As Qualified Immunity Takes Center Stage, More Delay from SCOTUS")

and here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23386260 (a subthread of this discussion)

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>It focuses on race of one part of police leadership
>Highlighting police chief race

Excuse me? Where are you going with this?

I've updated my post with clear, sourced information on how the police leadership got put in their respective roles, to clearly indicate how it works.

The examples are mostly appointment by the (locally elected) major or by the (locally elected) city council.
Your website is not GDPR compliant.

Tracking must be opt-in (even for analytics) and consent must be freely given (so you can't nag/pressure users into giving consent because declining is too hard).
...except for all the people who don't?
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> Someone earlier asked the question, "Why can't the publishing industry just hurry up and die?"

I have a problem with copyright being transferable. The purpose of copyright is to encourage the creators. If you transfer a copyright or license it out, its term should get shortened dramatically. "Congratulations--you got a payout. Now make something new."

I have a problem with copyright outliving the author by very much. There will be no further output to incentivize, so why does the copyright persist?

I have a problem with multi-decade copyrights overall. I have a lot less problem with people asking for strong copyright enforcement if it only lasts 20 years.

I also have a problem with multi-decade copyright because it allows corporations to simply sit on works rather than licensing them because everybody is afraid that it might become popular and then they'll get fired--we've irretrievably lost movies and music because nobody would license them and then the vault they were sitting in burned.

I would be far more sympathetic to the "publishing industry" if they were an active opponent to the abusiveness of copyright law. Instead they are merely rent-seekers abusing the system.
"As they would rather not tax people to pay for it"

I think you may be underestimating how much cities dedicate their budgets to police spending:

"Mayor Eric Garcetti's 2020-2021 city budget gives police $3.14 billion out of the city's $10.5 billion. That's the single biggest line item, dwarfing, say, emergency management ($6 million) and economic development ($30 million)." (In fact, LAPD is getting pay raises while LA teachers are getting a pay decrease)

"New York City spends more on policing than it does on the Departments of Health, Homeless Services, Housing Preservation and Development, and Youth and Community Development combined."

"A whopping 39 percent of Chicago's 2017 budget went to police, and still the department got even more money, peaking in 2020 with a 7 percent increase to nearly $1.8 billion."

Note, this is, to the best of my knowledge, solely police, not even adjacent forces like e.g. fire departments or ambulances.

[1] https://www.gq.com/story/cops-cost-billions
Shopify is nice to get started.

When you get big enough or have custom requirements you can develop your own solution.
They're not buying tanks, they're being gifted them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1033_program
Gotta love a three-hour old account trying to convince people that police racism and violence isn't real. Are we twitter now @dang? The astroturfing hasn't been subtle lately.
> Why would Antifa purposefully take actions that would deliberately cause an armed police response to otherwise-peaceful protests?

Why don't you ask who's paying them?
to be fair, in other nations rarely is there a risk of a gun being pulled on you
I use Ullysses+Delineato for a combination of notes+diagrams to organize my thoughts and now I am feeling like a dactylographer using a word processor for the first time.
US Police and the US public see the police as enforcers in a caste system where the public is at the bottom, the enforcers are on top of them, with the lords above them.

So the police aren't on the side of the public because they see the public as chaotic animals, to be managed lest they descend into anarchy. That's the general view and you can see that in The Thin Blue Line. In the UK, you can make fun of the policeman and he only wins by being better at banter. In America, that's something you don't want to do if you don't want to find yourself rapidly "disobeying a lawful order".

Ever since I moved to America I realized one thing that I really should have known before. Americans have a culture of strict legalism (see "refused a lawful order", "resisted arrest", "disobeying a police officer") and are consequently culturally strongly predisposed to following authority.

I really should have known this because it's sort of a universal human phenomenon where the thing that you protest that you have a lot of is often the thing you lack the most of. The City of Joy is likely one of sorrow, the City of God is likely one forsaken, and the Land of the Free is likely where you can't legally be in public the way you were born. Still, I do love America, but I have to admit to being disappointed to find that where I hoped to find free spirited people who find restrictions on their freedom unacceptable I instead found a place where the majority actually just wants strongmen and enforcers, just like anywhere else.
I think the surreptitious tracking is the real problem. I don't mind ads on podcasts, because their tracking is explicit and opt-in ("enter our show's promo code on the sponsor's product page.")

Likewise Google Contributor did not reduce tracking, which is why I never signed up.
The operative word in what I said was "sparking". It was a white guy who broke the glass at autozone, which kicked off the looting in Minneapolis. It was a white guy who was breaking up the sidewalk so people had rocks to throw before other protesters tackled him and handed him over to police. It was white guys who "stumbled upon" a bunch of bricks in one video and unwrapped them. Those are just the examples off the top of my head.
Also watching that video, the cops were grabbing at his waist where there was a gun, If the guy was just saved by firefighters he may be in an altered state so antagonizing him about carrying seems pretty reckless.
It's even worse. Tesla maintains a whitelist of locations where problematic radar returns are caused by surrounding infrastructure. They blind themselves to the radar data in those zones. Pray you never get hit by a Tesla that has decided you're part of the background because their database says so.
At the turn of the 20th Century, German was the language of science. Annalen der Physik was THE preeminent journal of physics and where many of the important discoveries that laid the foundation for quantum mechanics and modern physics were published. Einstein published the theory of relativity in Annalen dear Physik for example.

Here’s an interesting article that talks about the decline of German language use in science.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-10-06/how-did-english-becom...

>>>>And you have a set of people who don’t speak foreign languages,” said Gordin, “They’re comfortable in English, they read English, they can get by in English because the most exciting stuff in their mind is happening in English. So you end up with a very American-centric, and therefore very English-centric community of science after World War II.”
76000kwh at 50kwh/day is about 1500 days, or 4+ years.

https://blogs.nicholas.duke.edu/citizenscientist/embodied-en...

The average car is a smidge under 12 years old, which is about 17kWh/day.
I wonder how long until a militant group starts calling themselves, "The Human Beings"
What else is there to assume? That police, across the country, are wildly incompetent?
I am saying, it’s such a large change we can’t tell if it currently benefiting us. It’s one of those events that had such a large impact it’s impossible to say what the world would be like without it.

It seems like it was responsible for WWI, WWII, the Spanish flu, etc but would worse things happened instead? I doubt it, but maybe it indirectly prevented total nuclear war.

Which when you get down to it is true of everything, we need to act with imperfect information.
>almost all of the adequately fresh information is in English

Thats because you know english, naturally you would look for english resources.

There are as many(probably more) fresh information in chinese too but if you don't know chinese you wouldn't aware of it.
What Amazon learned from the Fire Phone failure
Sixth mass extinction of wildlife accelerating, scientists warn
You always see a giant stationary object in front of you - the road itself. The way you can tell the difference between the rock and the road itself is through additional resolution, reflectance and colouring information that is available at visible light wavelengths but not to radar.

So it's not a problem that can be solved through radar alone, you do need to combine that data with other sensors.
Well its a fake word. Kind of important. Probably as important to remedy as a misspelt word. Not so good for a dictionary.
It's always mixed, there are some words people translate, some words they don't.

A more formal setup asks for more translations, what does make things really hard. One of the hardest parts of writing my master thesis was discovering the translation of "image matching" (for 3D reconstruction). But I got away with English just fine before I had to write it down.

Of course, just an year after that I was in a corporate-like environment (in the government) trying to discover the translation of "runway end turnaround area" for airports. It was still too formal to use English, but we could just settle this one by consensus.
My only notifications are when people are trying to reach me. Anything automated is either outright disabled, unsubscribed from or filtered away by email rules.

This approach works well for me and it's only a handful of interruptions during my work time so I feel like the ability to respond instantly is worth it in the long run.
I think you’re referring to the “false dilemma” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma)
Just in the last day or two:

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/world-war-ii-memorial-vandal...

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/05/25/veterans-ange...

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2020/05/25/Wa...

https://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/va-headquarters-vandal...

https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Veterans-memorial-monument...

A bit older:

https://www.kptv.com/news/3-arrested-vandalism-suspect-wante...

This is just a few links--there are many more. As far as I'm concerned, this is all you need to know about Antifa. You should make up your own mind, though.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...

> A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.

> The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.
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You had an early warning and you brushed it aside as conspiracy theory. None of this is new.

Agent provocateurs are a known thing.

For all his stupid ramblings, long before the days of Twitter and Facebook shitposting, you had Alex Jones running around with a recording crew filming events like the Bilderberg meetings, discussing and laying out all the disinformation and psyops/AP tactics that you're seeing unfold here.

Because this same stuff was used, in the past, to discredit people like him.

So this whole bleeding heart "open internet" thing strikes a rather dull chord with me in light of 1) how long this has been going on for, 2) how effective it remains.
My Subaru has Eyesight and I don't think I ever take my hands off the wheel to let it drive, though it does lane-keep. It's a comfort feature.

I wonder if I would get more complacent in a Tesla.
Many cops seem to be very racist and very violent

Citation needed. I think most cops are just normal people trying to earn a living.
Math maturity is probably unavoidable for some of the topics out there. But there are so many more in CS that don't require a ton of it.
To me, sub orbital is a "trip to space" in the same way as a non-stop flight from New York to LA is a "trip to Kansas" since you fly over it and other states in between.

You aren't going "to" some place unless you can actually stay there for a period of time. But that is just my personal view.

Another way of looking at it -- if the earth didn't have an atmosphere, would you be going "to space" by jumping on a trampoline? (ignoring the fact that we evolved to live in an atmosphere, of course).
not a game developer, but big-up for the launch. great product. & yeah, the browser distribution mechanism is neat. my advice, have a listing portal - where published games are listed
What..? No... the issue is not sensitivity to cops in general. The issue is saying the Martin Luther King, a cultural icon of black civil rights, needed a "bad cop" to get his message across, in the context of violent riots against cops casually killing black people.

I get it's just semantics. If you don't get why the semantics are extremely unpalatable to others... that's probably not good. If you feel strongly that it's not controversial, well whatever, you do you.
You could say they completely increased the dord of the whole situation for quite a few years. Ha! Take that! Now we just need a few hundred people to also use it and it slowly becomes real. The circle becomes complete.
You're implying that attacking a police officer, by definition, makes you antifa, which is more than a little convenient.
reminds me of Jack Slocum's original Ext.JS with Yahoo UI components .. circa 2006/2007..
Appreciate the awesome effort! even though the industry overall moved to templating model (JSX) which makes it easy.
FYI, boogaloo isn't a group. It's roughly a synonym for "the revolution", but with different associations. It's also used as a verb.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the Gates in New York City, Unforgettable
Losing your sense of smell, while painful, is nothing compared to what other things can happen to the surviors. 50% of ICU patients have clotting problems. In fact it's so common that all covid patients are now put on anti-clotting medication, immediately, no questions asked. Would you mind losing your leg (getting that clot stuck in lower limbs)? Or getting a stroke (getting that clot in your brain), and losing a significant part of brain capacity, such as the ability to speak? Then, 30% have serious kidney problems and require nephrologist care or outright dialysis [1].

And we're still learning. Never forget the unknown unknowns. It's ridiculous to quote some survival statistic and call it a covid-barbecue.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-hijacks-the-body-fr...
Where does your estimate of 50 kWh per day come from? According to [1], Tesla's 2017 manufacturing and delivery released 186000 metric tons of CO2, most of that "indirect" (as in at their suppliers). (146000 for "Facilities" and 39000 for Sales, Service, and Delivery.) According to [2], they delivered 101312 vehicles in the same period. That is 1.8 metric tons of CO2 per delivered car. Your rate of conversion between kWh and metric ton of CO2 may vary, but the US average is about .99 lbs/kWh [3] or 3640 kWh per car. If we assume a car lasts 10 years, that is about 1 kWh/day. Also these numbers are from back when the made almost entirely Model S and X, so it is probably with a 3-filled fleet.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/tesla-impact-report-2019.pdf , page 16

[2] https://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesl...

[3] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11
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Because Tesla's CEO says he wants a camera-only solution.
Yeah, I'm sure Arradondo is calling the shots vs Bob Kroll
It’s indeed infuriating than any small-ish kernel patch takes so long to install. I wonder what the update system is doing.
My favorite part about The Letter to Chesterfield is that it was such a sick burn that Chesterfield put it on display on a table in his house.
> China had an extensive system to delete disinformation.

China had an extensive system to delete information.

Fixed that for you =)
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23384905
Ask HN: Who are the people wearing black traveling around inciting violence?
I saw them in Austin, and there's the video of the guy breaking windows at the Minneapolis AutoZone. Here's one who showed up in my small midwestern town:

https://www.facebook.com/100005354022635/posts/1467302680124852/
I can get PyInstaller working with venv, but not conda.
I think it's clear that organizations that publish content to the web are publishers. They just don't want to be saddled with the responsibility of more traditional publishers and all that that entails. They're "disruptors" for gosh sake, not media presenting content to consumers as a means to generate revenue.
Personally, I'd love California to try a ballot initiative putting a 10-15%-of-budget cap on police spending in cities. I think it could easily pass, and if NYPD's 2017 strike is any indication, crime rate could actually go down [1]. NYPD ended their strike voluntarily because city officials were recognizing that maybe they weren't as necessary, after all!

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proacti...
Zuck's Customs would be great. Definitely he wanted the President thing before, but a after seeing the last 3 years, does he really still?

BTW, don't we need to have a woman president before the next white dude anyway?

If that's the case 2028 is the earliest...
This is the same middle ground that exists for every other cold and flu, every single year.

Anosmia is a common side effect of a variety of illnesses, and in the vast majority of cases, it resolves on its own. But this fact doesn’t make good headlines.
With all the security paranoia these days, the future of "digital archaeology" seems pretty bleak. Even if you do manage to find the storage media, it's likely to have been encrypted with an algorithm that remains unbroken.
Yeah that's what people said for twenty years. So people wrote letters and went to court and the media. Turns out that didn't work.

Actually, have you seen Daniel Shaver's killing? No riot. Outcome: that policeman collects a pension and rests easy at home. So it is established your technique doesn't work.

When the good things don't work, eventually you get the bad things. That's not even through people changing. It's through the people changing. I remember reading in the WSJ or the NYT about one particular time in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's recent history when there was a bit of tension between their young firebrand wing and their older mellower leaders (though both were still religious). At the time, the older leader was in hiding (on account of the military looking for him) and there was a bit of violence so he came out to appeal for peace and was promptly arrested. This had the predictable effect of weakening the mellow side and turning the organization more radical (or so the article predicted).

So you don't have to turn people into rioters, you can just destroy the credibility of everyone calling for peaceful resolutions by dismissing them out of hand repeatedly. Eventually no one will listen to them. And then the only people with power in those groups are the firebrands. A complete own-goal if you're looking for peace.
If the Chief's are good, why aren't the cops good? And more specifically, why are their peers complicit when one "makes a mistake", which is an incredibly generous statement when the incident involves losing a human life. Pointing to a few good eggs doesn't bless all of them.
I want to point out that software and space are quite different problems. Much of the engineering for space appears to be mathematically differentiable and continuous -- a small change in inputs usually results in a predictable change in outputs. It's hard work, but relatively intuitive.

Software is more chaotic though. A small change in inputs can change behavior drastically, like stepping a tiny bit to the right on a branch of the Mandelbrot set. It's sometimes easier work, but often relatively counterintuitive.
I find it interesting that all the major powers in Expanse are in a realistic cold war & pretty nasty. You migh find one of them sympathetic for a while, only to find out it was all a construction hiding the horrendous deeds they did for political power. Only to find out the others did even worse thing. And agains this backdrop you have the heroes, trying to keep some sort of moral integrity & helping to save what they can, often derailing various grand schemes withou even realizing it.
As a Tesla owner I personally find it abundantly clear the system is extremely limited. First, it reminds you every time you turn it on. Second, it reminds you during the drive based on perceived torque on the wheel. But more to the point, the guidance display helps you understand its limits of its perception just driving it day-to-day.

AutoPilot changes how you drive, but does not change the fact that you are indeed the driver. I observe other drivers every day who are distracted with other tasks, impaired, or just driving aggressively, and many thousands die on the road each year because of this.

I fully expect that AutoPilot software driving in a mode where there is not supposed to be a responsible driver with hands on the wheel and looking out the window would actually operate significantly different than the current system. I would not be surprised if false-negative threshold behavior is configured higher in the current software based on operational requirements.

This driver was effectively asleep at the wheel. I’m very glad they were unharmed. Because the current software is expressly designed to require an attentive driver, it’s hard to say even that the software failed.

Teslas on AutoPilot drive safely, nonaggresively, and highly predictably. They are by no means a fully self-driving system freeing the driver the tune out. There are a hundred ways you can crash a Tesla on AutoPilot in a hot minute if you want to. This is clearly apparent upon operating a Tesla AP for the first time, even if you never open the user manual.

Humans don’t alway make smart choices however, whether their car has assistive technology or not. The data does show the average Tesla driver with AP is about 10x less likely to have an accident, and less likely to die or be injured in an accident if they do have one, than the average overall driver. So if a driver is going to make a terrible choice to be distracted or inattentive while driving, I’d rather they did it in a Tesla with AP enabled.
> People have been recorded on video handing out cash to "protesters" from a thick wad of bills.

It would be trivial to contrive that exact scenario.

I’m not say that it was contrived, just that it would be trivial to do so.
If the change hasn’t happened yet, what other options are left? Looting? Probably not. Protests until meaningful reform occurs? Might help if nothing else has.

A government is supposed to be afraid of the electorate (Jefferson). They’ve lost that fear, and you see that trickle down from legislators all the way to law enforcement.
Variation of outcome in other countries can be easily explained by low availability of weapons (that the case of most places): policemen are less susceptible to make use of their weapons when people they arrest as low probability of holding one.