skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Let's not create this narrative that the majority of protestors are out to loot and damage property.

It doesn't matter who is looting or causing damage to property if their actions are being used to justify retaliation against every protester.

Separating the "fringe elements is being done by the media and the government to allow more authoritarian responses. It is not being done out of goodwill for the law abiding protesters.
But if the police are trained to use violent force... just how does that work? The fact that police will never really be of service to a suicidal person (who can point a toy gun at them, and then they shoot him/her- granting the individual's wish to end his/her own life) comes to mind. (Oh, yeah, don't commit suicide!)
x = 145767

while x % 598463 != 109572:
x += 611939

s = ''
while x:
s = chr(x % 128) + s
x //= 128

print(s)
Why thank you! I made claims without evidence, but you provided just the evidence I need:

- Despite worry about crime (something I never diminished), the police are not trusted. The distrust of the police while fearing crime is all the more damning.

- Attitudes towards punishment have changed since the 80s/90s as the incarceration rate has not fallen nearly as much as the crime rate.

- The slim 60% majority in favor of more policing among "urban minorities" is undercut by the huge difference between Hispanic and Black sentiment in NYC according to your source. Atlanta is significantly less Hispanic than NY, but the ratio looks like 5:1, which could well mean the Black Atlanta is closer to 50-50. Finally recall that the government of Atlanta is significantly more black than NY (including police chiefs), and that ~ slim majority is hardly a ringing endorsement.

I'll be first to admit White liberals underestimate Black conservativism, but the picture you paint is at best wary ambivalence towards the police. Thanks for doing my work for me.
Please don't use LA as an example. Its not a city that can be compared to any other because of its weird patchwork nature and stupid geographic boundaries.
Move over, data visualization. The era of ‘data simulation’ is here
Less spending on police, even less trained officers, great right?
I write Python with an enhanced text editor every day and don't struggle in the slightest. It's lightening quick as well. I pull out a proper debugger about twice a year.
Isn’t the nsa explicitly prohibited from operating in the US? Or is that just the CIA?
Agreed, Intel syntax is much more readable.
Which is why the google/Apple system is better than any of the state ones.
Be extremely neutral in how you present information. (You can hire writers to help with this if you don't know how to do it.)

Explicitly spell out the goal of the site in very neutral terms, a la: "A website profiling data-driven policy options which have been shown to help improve policing in the US." And then just lay out which positions politicians have.

Avoid trying to push an agenda. Present it all as neutrally as possible, including the fact that there is more to both a politician and a voter than these specific issues.

Make it crystal clear that you have one and only one goal: To inform people about two things:

1. Which policies are proven to help with this specific issue (and the studies or data that support this conclusion).

2. The position of various politicians on this specific issue.

Do not stoop to mudslinging. Do not try to sway people to vote the way you think is "correct."

Keep it completely informational and be very humble (and respectful) and go out of your way to avoid pushing a specific agenda. Your website should do one and only one thing: Inform people on this topic.

It won't solve all your problems, but it will help mitigate them.
I think it's important to identify what your goal is, before deciding which note taking system works for you.

Regular notes are a spoon, this method may be a fork. Until you know what type of dish you're going to be eating, it's hard to advocate one utensil over another, although when in doubt, a spoon is a pretty decent universal.
> As a pure layman, I would think that the 4th amendment would preclude cops from getting a warrant and then stealing everything on site.

So would I, since according to the 4th Amendment warrants must be "particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized".

> It says a lot about the country when we need MORE legislation and more rulings to prevent such a thing from happening.

Since rulings and legislation apparently haven't stopped it from happening up to now, I'm not sure how more rulings and legislation will help, without some fundamental change in how the rule of law is viewed by everyone.
The people in power win, they get more justification for ending this little resistance using more extreme methods.
I said they were just the start, you can use them to seed more searches on google. You can for example see the graph here:
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/rFBg-9fA0Ehnx8OSyE6UvrD0...

Showing an avg. 50% fatality rate on police shootings. You can compared this to other countries, which have the same statistic at something like 5-10% and it's not like these countries are overrun by mass shootings or terrorists. Some might actually says its the reverse :D
> That, experts say, speaks to a cultural attitude that is endemic to the profession, and is hard to change with new chiefs or rules. Thomson encountered this when he tried to make change in Camden. The police department was so dysfunctional that the city took the unprecedented step of disbanding the force and reconstituting a whole new agency from scratch.

This American Life did a story about a new chief trying to reform the Firehouse culture in Amsterdam in order to combat discrimination:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/684/transcript

Spoiler alert: he failed. It's hard to turn an organization around.
Interesting!

Didn't know there were so many different types of plasma, but apparently there are! (Who Knew? I guess you learn something new every day! <g>)

Also, intuitively (from reading that Wikipedia page), I speculate/conjecture/theorize/postulate that one of the many identities of SPACE -- is basically that of a cold plasma...

I leave it to future Physicists -- to prove or disprove this speculation/conjecture/theory/postulate...
What Is The Insurrection Act?
SPARC and ARM are the only ones I know, and the SPARC is the only one I've worked with in a past life. (Edit: SPARC allowed you to decide the direction of stack growth, it wasn't really fixed. I've heard that ARM does the same. So in some sense, I didn't really answer your question :) ).
S&P 500 Returns by Sector 2020 (Animated Swarm Plot, D3.js)
It’s no wonder that the protests over the last 20 years haven’t worked to garner more support considering that those who do participate are treated with violent retaliation. Maybe if those of us begging to be heard were allowed to speak, and scream and chant, it would inspire more people to unite, organize and vote.
I guess the CA/SF exodus is happening...
> This is such a pet-peeve for me. A noisy network service...

Complaints like this about mDNS are my pet peeve. Back in the day networks were 1000 times slower and we had Appletalk and dynamic peer-to-peer LAN networking was absolutely effortless. It was plug-and-play, networking-for-dummies easy. And nobody had to explain to their Mom over the phone what an IP address was.

But Appletalk was chatty and that bugged people with large enterprise LANs. So Apple turned it off and invented mDNS which was less chatty and used modern DNS protocols. It made LAN setup about half as easy as Appletalk but by that time everybody had gotten used to typing IP addresses into their printers as if that was "normal." Or they just gave up on peer-to-peer connections entirely.

So now not many people use mDNS and it's not nearly as chatty as Appletalk and our networks are 1000 times faster and a tiny bit of LAN traffic is nothing; nothing compared to the value mDNS would bring if people just used it. But no. Let's complain about how chatty it is and continue using LANs full of multi-teraflop computers that have no way to ask their neighbors what their damned IP addresses are.

Yes I'm bitter.
while very educative, it just teaches one possible translation from C.

Lets pick the "Translation of Arithmetic Operations" example and convert it to float instead of int

int a = 2;
int b= 3;
int c = 24;
a = a + b;
a = a + b * c;

http://www.avabodh.com/cin/arithmeticop.html

And pack it into a function so that Golbolt can compile it.

float hn_demo(void) {
float a = 2;
float b = 3;
float c = 24;
a = a + b;
a = a + b * c;
return a;
}

And now pick a CPU that isn't that good with floating point, like AVR, using GCC 4.5.4, and we get:

ldi r24,lo8(0x40000000)
ldi r25,hi8(0x40000000)
ldi r26,hlo8(0x40000000)
ldi r27,hhi8(0x40000000)
std Y+1,r24
std Y+2,r25
std Y+3,r26
std Y+4,r27
ldi r24,lo8(0x40400000)
ldi r25,hi8(0x40400000)
ldi r26,hlo8(0x40400000)
ldi r27,hhi8(0x40400000)
std Y+5,r24
std Y+6,r25
std Y+7,r26
std Y+8,r27
ldi r24,lo8(0x41c00000)
ldi r25,hi8(0x41c00000)
ldi r26,hlo8(0x41c00000)
ldi r27,hhi8(0x41c00000)
std Y+9,r24
std Y+10,r25
std Y+11,r26
std Y+12,r27
ldd r22,Y+1
ldd r23,Y+2
ldd r24,Y+3
ldd r25,Y+4
ldd r18,Y+5
ldd r19,Y+6
ldd r20,Y+7
ldd r21,Y+8
rcall __addsf3
mov r27,r25
mov r26,r24
mov r25,r23
mov r24,r22
std Y+1,r24
std Y+2,r25
std Y+3,r26
std Y+4,r27
ldd r22,Y+5
ldd r23,Y+6
ldd r24,Y+7
ldd r25,Y+8
ldd r18,Y+9
ldd r19,Y+10
ldd r20,Y+11
ldd r21,Y+12
rcall __mulsf3
mov r27,r25
mov r26,r24
mov r25,r23
mov r24,r22
mov r18,r24
mov r19,r25
mov r20,r26
mov r21,r27
ldd r22,Y+1
ldd r23,Y+2
ldd r24,Y+3
ldd r25,Y+4
rcall __addsf3
mov r27,r25
mov r26,r24
mov r25,r23
mov r24,r22
std Y+1,r24
std Y+2,r25
std Y+3,r26
std Y+4,r27

Which includes calls to a floating point emulation library and quite different from the x86 example, with numbers using multiple registers.

So more of an heads up, sometimes the C translation to Assembly isn't as direct as one might think.
Some of them are quite dark and powerful

https://www.sovietposters.com/showposter.php?poster=871

I remember seeing that growing up in a history book somewhere. It's just an image your never forget.

There is also something completely unsettling with the "here is how the dead mother and the crying child would look against your mid-century modern furniture" on the website.

Site was flaky sometimes returning 500s so I archived the page https://archive.is/ujUpy

There is also a terrible and shameful one I had never seen before, "Everyone to the Polish front". Do the owners know what they are posting there?

https://www.sovietposters.com/showposter.php?poster=85 (https://archive.is/DvQLY)

These might seems artsy and cool to some how haven't had their family members suffer during the wars there or who were sent to labor camps. But to those who have, these symbols and images carry a lot of significance.
It was always somewhat annoying though, particularly when it broke inter-document links, and it was a legacy of older times. Today, it's way past time to drop individual file compression. I mean, we have transparent compression with systems like ZFS, so there's no penalty to pay by half-assing it with gzip.
Another comment stated that Fox news retracted this story.

The charters prevent them from spying domestically, but there are a handful of cases where domestic agencies are allowed to request their assistance.
> Can't take the mote out of your brother's eye until you remove the beam in your own.

When there are sympathy protests outside the US, this is exactly what the sympathy protesters are attempting to remind you all. The US has nice ideals, eg "and justice for all"
> The fact that you can't even comprehend $10 being a lot of money is amazing.

The fact that you can't even comprehend that to anyone who is posting here on HN, $10 is not very likely to be a lot of money, is what I find truly amazing. Not to mention your blithe acceptance of something like Google Maps being "universal, dude", as though it were a law of physics that such complicated and useful applications will just appear for free, or that there couldn't possibly be any downsides to such a state of affairs.
The article I read said that they were going to give their current employees the opportunity to relocate. It did not specify if there was going to be a change in their income though.
And do you think it's rational that people judge the content based on some icons that often don't have anything to do with the content itself?

If someone would publish a whitepaper with a working cure for cancer, but would insert Stalin's photo into the paper, should the paper be automatically disqualified and the author exiled? ;)
Bypassing the upcoming Safe Linking mitigation
Car Hacking with Python – Part 1 Data Exfiltration: GPS and Obdii/Can Bus
Yes, but it's still available on web archive:

http://web.archive.org/web/20200407164125/https://eugeneyan....
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Yes, but it's not unrelated. We don't have to measure everything objectively all the time when it comes to human performance. Sometimes rituals help indirectly or in the long run.
That byte code is then interpreted at runtime, so the meaning of s.upper() could change. What something does, when it’s parsed, is not fixed.

You can definitely catch most cases at runtime. I’ve done something like this, in an library, to catch a case where people were treating the copy of data as a mutable view.

interface[address][slice] = new_values # fancy noop

Where a read, modify, write was required:

byte_values = interface[address]
byte_values[slice] = new_values
interface[address] = byte_values

It would log/raise a useful error if the there was no assignment/passing of the return value.
I didn't know that any city had reconstituted their police department. But Camden did, in 2012.[1] They fired all their cops and started over with new ones.

[1] http://archive.is/BfQIx
NY times has 3.5M digital subscribers. Netflix has 120M. There are 4.5 billion internet users.
What is it that this company does?
You’ll want to remove Boston Tea party from that list. Extremely non-violent event. They broke one pad lock, didn’t steal any tea, and bought the yard a new padlock the next day.

It wasn’t a “protest” in any comparable way to this.
It is citizens job to be compliant. It is the government's job to enforce compliance.

I'm sure there was things the police could do better, but no one died at the hands of the police (after protesting started). The same can't be said for the protestors/rioters.
Twilio Quest: A Programming RPG
Open source contributions back to upstream Qt, which includes KDE, have been between 10% and 40% throughout the years, and they have always been on core libraries.

To think that such tiny contributions would scale up to replace what Qt offers today, including supporting devices that require NDAs is utopian.
This literally is the you-had-one-job of self driving cars
I did a coding bootcamp in Austin TX at the age of 18, instead of going to college, and got a job right after at a startup making $40k USD/year, which became $50k USD/year in a few months after getting a raise, and then after working there for a year I switched jobs to a top tech company many of you know, and by 21 I was making $75k USD/year

I got a lot of socializing at both companies, got to hang out with guys my own age and guys older than me, got to have some fun (maybe not as much as my peers in university), got to grow up, etc.

I think university back in the day used to mean a lot more, and I would have enjoyed it, but now it's so watered down cause everyone goes, and political / cultural movements have made the university programs require much more effort and much less thought

Just my 2 cents

Edit: also, to add to this, at the same time I also learned a lot of stuff completely outside of the domain of software through books on my own. philosophy books, history books, sociology books, etc. etc. I really liked that I was able to carefully select the authors and books and topics to the ones that grabbed my eye.

edit 2: oh ya! i also got a lot of fun socializing at the bootcamp too.
I could be completely off base here, but I see a lot of discussion around how to elect the correct people when I personally think that a more important issue is "how the sausage gets made".

Politics is about compromise and deal making yes, but it should also be about looking at the problems that plague society and trying to find a solution that does the most good while incurring the least harm.

But when decisions are made that significantly affect the lives of a group of citizens is there any effort made to consult with them? Or do they just get to find out when their life get's turned upside down?

How much of the process is about what's convinient for who's currently in power or currying favour with them than trying to take apart problems that affect the citizenry and make a best effort at a solution?

Part of my thinking on this came from reading about and hearing how vTaiwan was used to try and decide how to legislate how Uber would be treated there.

Full disclosure, I've only read around the topic, I may get details or points wrong. I'm only mentioning it here because I've not spotted it being discussed and I think it's relevant.

An overview is here for you to look at [0], however please read around it yourself if you want more detail =)...

At a high level, they broke the process down into several stages:
1) Contact the stackholders and inform them a decision is being made and provide a place for engaged citizens to participate. This encompases fact finding as well as translating complex areas like legal information to be understandable to the general public.
2) Allow people to air concerns and highlight potential issues. Try and understand what groups exist and what they want, ensure that participants who will be significantly affected have a proportional voice. Treat this as a period of relflection so people can get a deep understanding of where things are.
3) Take subject matter experts as well as appropriate voices in industry and have them study what was produced in the prior stage, then have them put together a series of briefings and Q/A sessions designed to dispell common misconceptions brought up during the prior stage and put together a series of clear proposals that can be enacted outlining the pros and cons as such as feasible. This will help educate the public as well as give them a much clearer idea what the state of possible outcomes are.
At this point the public are actively able to question and ask for more detailed information around the proposals on offer.
4) Take the proposals that were the outcomes of the prior stage and turn draft it into a law.

Note that I'm not saying tech is the solution here, just that we might want to think more broadly about what the problem is.

And now it's way past my bedtime, I'll respond to any replies after I get up =)...

- [0]: https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/case-study/building-co...
Systematically Improving Espresso: Insights from Mathematical Modeling [pdf]
San Francisco is unique in the state in being the City and County of San Francisco; city council members are also county commissioners, and the mayor is also county executive.

The broader Bay Area is closer to the LA system, although transit and utilities are more likely to be detached from cities than education.
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Remote: Yes, part-time is also OK.

Willing to relocate: maybe

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That's fair. All my notes goes into one system, regardless of how applicable a Zettlelkasten system is to certain notes.
Appreciate the detailed reply!!
Ah sorry for the misinterpretation. Should have payed more attention.
The report that air bags failed to deploy should be a huge red flag for NTSB. I hope they are sending a team to investigate. Airbag deployment failure should not happen in any modern vehicle.
Well it depends on where you think we ought to be going - then we can then decide what history is teaching us :)

History written in textbooks tends to teach the narrative that was sponsored. Modern pop-history tends to teach what will sell the most copies, so history is teaching us all kinds of selective facts about life.

Regarding force - force needs to be applied for anything to move - that's just a fundamental law of physics :) The question is where and how do we apply force and in what quantities?

My stance is that witch hunting did not solve the issue of witches causing droughts, scientists along with engineers and people willing to work today, for a better tomorrow, solved hunger in many places of the world.

Now imagine somebody that does believe that his or her witch hunt of year 1543 did fix drought for a decade in his/her town. What evidence could you possibly provide to convince them otherwise? They know there was no drought for ten years, they know they burned a witch in 1543. Now if there is a drought ten years later, clearly we just didn't burn enough witches!

This is the difficulty in dealing with people who rely on emotion, not cold hearted rationality, to solve problems. Cold hearted rationality has its dangers too and one can argue until the cows come home that we may have been better off never industrializing, never inventing agriculture and sticking with hunter gathering, at one with nature and all. Not me, I like hot showers, anti-biotics and all the other modern amenities too much. I'm in the rationality over emotion camp. The people out there protesting I'm guessing are in the other camp and that's totally fine with me.
I have followed a somewhat similar technique to zettelkasten-technique for cross-referencing information, and it has really helped deriving substantial perspective on the information presented. Hence, I believe this approach helps relate/recall conceptual relationships while re-visiting those notes at a later time.
You're in a perceptive loop concerning this particular object (systems like this) then. You see future-self behaving as past-self did.

You can keep doing that, looping. People who are natural contingency planners do this all the time--they map their past onto future-self. Flexing this muscle because it's strongest.

However this is also a good way of preventing yourself from re-exploring new objects through a different lens.

Or asking people, "here's what I tried--what are you doing differently?"

If you can treat it as a skill with unlimited outcomes per-experience, rather than a forced repetition of past-self, you get a huge mental plasticity bonus. Once you've gotten to that point you can also find yourself building your own tech with fewer crippling concerns about future outcomes. It's a great unlocking method.
Hmm. I just remember when the Intel assembler came out, thinking "whoa everything's backwards how irritating" so I guess ymmv. I'm guessing Stallman came from a pdp-11 background perhaps? The original (Ritchie) compiler emitted dec style pdp-11 assembler iirc.

Edit: realized that gcc first target was 68k so it would make sense for gas to use right way round assembler syntax.