skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is reasonable to consider taking away some responsibilities from sworn peace officers (armed police). Many US cities have unarmed units for traffic tickets and some other things.

But a problem arises when community outreach or community contacts by non-police have a risk of violence associated with them.

Especially contacts with people with a history of mental health related violence. Or, domestic violence intervention. These two examples is probably where a lot of unwanted or unexpected police violence occurs. I don't know if sending in social workers would work well in such contexts.

Sending out social workers with police escorts probably doesn't change outcomes very much. But is could help depending if the armed police do not have to lead the encounter.
> If you record video with it it’ll be corrupted

You state this like a fact. I have recorded video, it was not corrupted. OBS works fine for my needs.
One or even a few bad experiences shouldn’t mean disregarding a whole block of people, either
> slingshot around the sun

You can only slingshot around the sun if you were already in a hyperbolic orbit w.r.t the sun. An object in a closed helio centric orbit cannot gain any momentum by "slingshotting" around the sun.
"a huge portion of a worker's value is in their knowledge and ability to train other workers. When they strike, they are unavailable to train replacements."

Which would make them more valuable to employers and more in demand. You're proving that wages are a product of supply and demand
> The main anecdotes I have are with people who have estates that were big enough to have to worry about what would happen to their businesses when they died, since they couldn't just pass on the business to their heir.

I'm sorry, but this is just the same talking point reframed.

If you have a business that is large enough to be subject to estate taxes, you should have enough time and resources to talk to an estate attorney and learn how to move the assets into an appropriate corporate governance structure such that it is no longer a real issue.
Are you implying a direct causative link?
I don't think anyone ever truly wins the war against webrtc
I guess being good sometimes pay

I own an apartment in Rome that I rent because I don't live there anymore.

It's rented to a Bengali family that nobody wanted as tenants because they're immigrants and such (you can guess the reasoning behind it)

They used to bring the grocery home to my mother, so I gladly accepted to rent my house to them when they asked

They've been the best tenants I've ever had and due to covid they found themselves in the position of being one of the few local shops still open in the neighborhood, so their business didn't suffer much from the lockdown.

Many in Italy stopped paying the rent for 2-3 months as of now, but they always paid in time and in full, I asked them if they needed a cut on the rent to save some money, due to the bad situation, but they refused the offer.

So I'm installing air conditioning at my expenses in exchange

It's good when things go smoothly despites the odds
Don't make posts about post-modernism or critical theory on HN. They are always, inevitably down-voted regardless of position and will earn you the ire of the mods.
I mean listing price is the most direct measure of the market temporature, not saying it's 100% accurate but it does represent the sentiment. Mortgage rate is indeed low, but not that significant compared to before (< 1% compared to 6 month ago I think).

I'm hesitating to bid because 1) price is still high 2) unemployment benefits will run out in 2 months, and I do think teh COVID effects have a long tail, that takes time to pan out. Thus the curiosity about the thought behind the "hot" market right now.
There's a huge misinformation problem with these platforms. Having the ability to present believable false information isn't something that used to be possible, but now it is.

It could lead to censorship, which would be terrible, and we should let people post whatever is legal. A way around this would be to combat the misinformation by making sure the reader has quick access to the facts like Twitter's fact checking.
@majormajor Absolutely. People are untrustworthy on both sides. I've had the stress of being evicted by an unscrupulous San Francisco property shark in the past, and also know people who have had to spend large sums to evict sketchy people and then thousands more to make repairs. It cuts both ways...
Where does this signal come from in a time-sequence series? I looked up "common mode signal" and in EE it looks like line to line interference, or line to ground interference. Does the existence of this signal presume a Senate's portfolio performance is somehow coupled to some index fund performance (S&P in this case)?
This is just inciting and encouraging violence against police, increasing a feud between the left and the police
Shouldn't Jack Dorsey's pay be $2.80 now?
There's also https://github.com/mblode/marx
You still can programatically generate those styles at larger grid sizes. OR and a single pixel shift will work at 8x8, but if you have enough pixels, you may need to OR more horizontal and vertical versions to get the effect.

I would prefer better, specifically created font styles (as the good terminals had), but I'd be totally happy with whatever gave me support for character styles. I swear that if I could figure out how to add them, I would.

That and smooth scrolling. ;-)
Maybe initially, but there definitely were still 486s with Turbo buttons that would throttle the machine to some frequency much higher than 4.77MHz (or just disable the cache). I had one! And apart from that, CPU generations have vastly different speed profiles if you kept them at the same frequencies (which is mostly theoretical, clocking a 486 at 4.77MHz, while not necessarily impossible, might turn out to be quite a project on consumer hardware).

Turbo buttons were always a shaky proposition. They might have worked okay-ish with the original AT to slow the machine down into a somewhat fitting range to play older games, but probably quickly devolved into some show-offy marketing ploy ("look how fast it goes if I press this!").
The confusion is that google makes chrome. Plain and simple. A feature (incognito) with a bypass (analytics) is a non-feature since they are both done by the same company. So the practical solution is for them to be not done by the same company.
> Landlord aren’t the ones imposing the artificial limitations though

It's certainly not the people moving in from outside the area who want to rent for affordable rates.

Landlords are part of the NIMBY problem, but not the only part.
Not every inflation is a hyperinflation. Look at inflation in America in the 1945-1951 or the 1970s. It wasn’t the end of the world. A little inflation is easier to deal with than mass unemployment and bankruptcy.
I don't know about the should part, but I think everyone needs a reason to get out of bed in the morning, to know that they're contributing to their family and their society as a whole. Imagine how unpleasant it would ultimately be to be told that your needs would be well met, but you would no longer be allowed to carry out productive work.
You're very lucky. Rented to a single mother with two teenage sons. The teenage sons that decided to strip down living trees of their branches, to make bonfires for parties in the backyard. Two trees are severely damaged, and anything that was burnable in the landscape is burnt. I don't even know how to go about pricing out the damage. Insurance is paying for their rent, because the last house they lived in burned down.
Sent her a strongly worded email. She promised not to make more bonfires. But I was there this week, and more branches where hacked off, and one tree is almost hacked of its bark 60% around. Can't sleep at night, getting anxiety that they will burn the place down. They're to move out before the end of the month.
Direct link to Neil's web: https://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/commentary/2020-06-0...
Yeah Atlanta had a similar "dip" period earilier, with many offers cancelled and investors on the sideline. Maybe the "reopen" gave people confidence? I'm afraid it is still too early to tell so I don't want to jump in too fast.
> we discourage institutions from taking responsibility for accuracy

Facts are often debatable; the set of facts that need to be accurate is also debatable; and you are suggesting that both of those debates be settled unilaterally by expecting (requiring?) the institution to "take responsibility for accuracy." Note that public pressure (read: popular opinion of the day) will almost certainly be the deciding factor in how those debates are settled by those institutions.

Are you suggesting that it is wrong for institutions to abstain from "bowing to the popular opinion of the day" in how they censor speech?
Uhh... this is a side project I whipped together for fun. I'm not blowing anyone off by staying true to my goals with the project. I've responded to feedback by adding an "Extend for 2 minutes" button this morning and I'm working on more right now.
Yes, but you need to wrap every line of source code in your whole program (and all libraries) with an empty catch block to have the same result.

Just a single top level catch block would prevent other code after the error occurred from running, which might still be able to work fine without the results of the faulty code.
It really depends on where those “royalties” were going and how they’d be managed going forward.

Somehow I wouldn’t bet on them going to devs, but I’m just an old cynic.
That is a lovely idea, but alas not matched by reality.

https://www.startribune.com/ignoring-rape-complaints-when-po...

https://www.focusforhealth.org/women-across-the-us-suing-pol...

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/11/investigates/police-...

https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/print/volume-99-issue-3/how-to-lie...

And that's really just the tip of the iceberg.
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> I'm sure Linux would accept a patch for it.

I'd need some guidance (I have no idea of where to start), but I'd totally do it.
I think they are referring to the uptick seen after May 29 here: https://imgur.com/a/Z9y7cek
AMC Theaters warns of ‘substantial doubt’ about future as pandemic continues
incognito has always been riddled with holes. It's not a security measure. Go to nytimes in incognito.
Medium Newsletters
Very very convoluted. I found it near impossible to read.
Yeah I have emailed Kevin Crenshaw but he stated the project is "abandonware" at this point. He said to search for it online. So far no luck with version 3.0. It would have been fun to try playing with some old code in a VM :)

I don't live anywhere close the the Library of Congress, so not easy for me to get a copy there :(
>"Deaths are up, but as another poster pointed out it's hardly statistically significant. The rolling 7 day average is 2.2/1m now, vs 1.7/1m on May 1st."

How is a 34% increase not statistically significant?
per this - https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/356362

it should be,

osxvideosink

I wonder if this works,

gphoto2 --stdout --capture-movie | ffmpeg -i - -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -threads 0 -f matroska - | gst-launch-1.0 fdsrc fd=0 ! decodebin ! videoconvert ! videoscale ! osxvideosink
oh man im that dude you were talking to for 15 minutes as well, add me too
It's about the timing of the lockdown - once the virus was already widespread, you're closing the barn door after the horse bolted.

NZ locked down while spread was limited, and has had no new cases for 12 days, and only one remaining active case, as a result - but again, it was the timing of the lockdown - if it had happened 2 weeks later, who knows how it'd be doing.
Peer review is never intended to be an independent audit of the data for any journal. Reviewers check the methodology, look for obvious mistakes or oversights, provide suggestions for clarification or improvement in the text and for high-demand journals, weigh in on their opinion of the importance of the study. All of the feedback is based on the paper itself, so outright fraud usually is not caught at this stage unless the malicious author is exceptionally sloppy.

It is later when other scientists start working to replicate or expand on the study that they request access to the data, and dig into the details. This is when most instances of scientific misconduct are found, and this paper is no exception.

In science, publication is the start of the peer review process, not the end.
This framing of the police seems very strange to my Canadian sensibilities. I'm curious about whether Americans largely agree with this description.
Camera sales have fallen off a cliff in the last ten years as people increasingly rely exclusively on their smartphones. This has lead to camera companies simplifying their product lines (or simply going out of business).

That being said: Interchangeable lens are great. Join us on the dark side :-)
Unless you are exceptional enough to become somewhat well-known in the field, yes. It's not about ability and whether you can learn the material - you just won't even be invited for an interview if they have a whole line of PhDs (and MS's) waiting. The only hope would be to have people try to recruit you, which would mean that you're well-known, maybe through publishing high-profile open source libraries, dominating numerous Kaggle competitions, etc.
Beat me to it!

After watching that video I started microwaving my beans. It made such a huge improvement in the quality of my pour-overs that I've never stopped.

For the extremely coffee curious: I typically brew a V60, 25g coffee, 1:16 ratio, beans microwaved 45 seconds on high (950W rated output microwave). Baratza Virtuoso grinder.
But that's not the choice facing us. An exponential spike in deaths is quite a different thing from a linear one!
There is a 'blood from a stone' aspect from lower income tenants. If they trash a house and cause six figure damages to your property, your not getting your money back, and typically landlord insurance does not cover intentional damage:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CoWtuC...

Also people growing up in poverty experience higher stress, so the probability of them doing the 'going mental' thing is higher.

Many mom & pop and breaking even on a mortgage landlords cannot afford that kind of catastrophic loss.
These mental gymnastics are incredible, and it shows how terribly mislead legacy and social media has made people. The idea that in most of these cases the police just rolled up, started shooting tear gas into crowds for no reason, and THEN the violence began is ridiculous. There are literally hours of video of protestors antagonizing the authorities as well their fellow citizens and then devolving into looting and burning entire city blocks. Most people do not want to allow this violence and destruction to go on unchecked and there are many public opinion polls coming out to back that up.

Here in Cincinnati the daytime protests have been very well run in general and non violent. In the evenings are when the criminal elements come out and wreak havoc. Just the other night Walter Smith Randolph, a black reporter I might add, was reporting on the after dark riots and he and his crew were pummeled with glass bottles by criminals driving around in cars after curfew. If the police shut it down it will be called an escalation, and in fact it was derided by the usual suspects, but what else are they supposed to do? I seriously cannot understand the idea that the police should not carry these people off to jail.
This is already the case in Berkeley.
> it makes no sense for landlords to pay artificially low property taxes

The core problem is Prop 13, not that Prop 13 doesn't exclude for-profit properties. There are a ton of property/owner classes that should absolutely not get the Prop 13 discount. Malcolm Gladwell did an episode on why golf courses (specifically member-owned courses) in California are massive misallocations due to Prop 13.
So What's Up with Microsoft's (and Everyone Else's) Love of Rust?
At least in tiananmen square the Tank tried to avoid the protestor
Integration has been resisted with violence- see busing.
Understandable that they don't want to take this on, it's a massive undertaking beyond a lot of consumer products.

I do wish they could contract out some design or other manufacturers would consult with them. Reducing distraction with physical buttons on a steering wheel is so much more thoughtful than tossing in a touchscreen and pushing everything to software (I realize cars have some controls on the steering wheel, but it's not enough).

Every time I see a modern car I'm kind of shocked by how distracting the interior is. At least voice interfaces have improved somewhat.
Agreed.
(At a personal level I have become a hermit of sorts, seeking out the above average people and choosing to deal with the select few)
Click the "Projections" link, under the "Recovered" count. There you can see the daily trend.
Well the game is rigged. If you're so smart why are you in prison. You have to get crazy because yeah they're dumber but they are playing a different game. You forget you are smarter than idk 70, 80, 90, 95% of people. Once I started thinking that way things started making more sense and I stopped caring what people think while I'm on my path. Take some risks. Who cares what they think. You won't get there playing by their rules. The purpose of their rules is to turn you into a tool.
You’re reversing the sequence Mr. Vitale seems to be suggesting.

He’s saying let’s analyze the work they do, find alternatives for those roles, and _then_ reduce the scope of the police force.

Defunding seems much less important and farther down the road than making their jobs achievable, and the rest of us safer.
Ask HN: How do you store 2FA one-time codes?
When you set up 2FA using an authenticator, you are given a list of one-time codes to use in the case when you lose your phone and don't have access to the authenticator app.

Where do you store those? I would imagine that at least: (a) these should be on "the cloud" and (b) encrypted.

What's your current process of doing this? Do you just store them in your password manager (e.g. in the "notes")?
One angle on that: American programmers may not do master's degrees as much, for less need. You can usually get hired in industry without a master's, if you can speak well and demonstrate your experience and portfolio enough. I'm American, with only a bachelor's in CS, but I've never felt like a master's is needed for anything in industry, only academia. A foreign-born programmer without the experience and portfolio would likely feel more need for a master's degree to demonstrate qualifications.
I made a proof of concept chrome extension a bit ago: https://github.com/anateus/amphisonic

Currently re-writing it to be actually decent code. Basically, it takes up streams on the page and arranges speakers in a semi-circle in front of you, letting you adjust the radius (I've found for particular numbers of speakers there's an optimal radius for speaker separation).
Richard Wolff: Protests and Class War
> You're not really able to tax unrealized gains most of the time because they could disappear or go negative

Very fair point.

> I'm not entirely convinced that this behavior of living frugally to pay less tax is something we need to 'prevent'.

I think I buy this argument. Another commenter had the suggestioin of dividing the actual realized gain by the number of years the asset was held and assess taxes as if the person made that quotient in
income for each of those years. I can't think of anything wrong with this approach.
> There are many people and players involved-like the willingness of people to pay so much of their income to housing

You are saying that "the supply line isn't to blame for the demand line" when the problem is where they intersect.

I realize Im oversimplifying the supply constraints because landlords aren't all of the NIMBY problem.
I find it surprising that these relatively well known issues aren't even considered topics for public discussion. I understand that the solutions are hard, but plenty of hard problems have been solved by determined societies. The police are symptoms of a problem in how wealth and services are distributed within our society. Fix this and we won't need para military police suppressing the proletariat.
A course on metacognition during an uncertain time
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> Sweden's approach should be seen as a massive success

Unless your loved one was one of the 4500 who have died so far. Or the 50 or so who are likely to die today.
What's the source of the median pay data that the ratio seems to be completely based on?
> And whether the "standard" itself is loaded to censor certain relatively mainstream but not Silicon Valley viewpoints?

The views expressed in this case were

"When the shooting starts, the looting starts"[0]. Which, while perhaps not Trump's intent, can reasonably read as encouragement (or incitement, or glorification) of violence toward people.

> the marketplace of idea

Twitter is a part of the marketplace of ideas, is it not? Their actions are simply an action taken as part of the marketplace of ideas.

> What you're saying reminds me of an anti-gay marriage argument I heard.

To the unoppressed, equality looks like oppression. That's true whether the unoppressed is a straight man or a person who can threaten others with violence without consequence. So yes, the two situations are very similar.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_looting_starts,_the_s...
Montreal once had a 16 hour police strike, creating a natural experiment in what happens without police.

Steven Pinker describes how that went:

> "As a young teenager in proudly peaceable Canada during the romantic 1960s, I was a true believer in Bakunin's anarchism. I laughed off my parents' argument that if the government ever laid down its arms all hell would break loose. Our competing predictions were put to the test at 8:00 a.m. on October 7, 1969, when the Montreal police went on strike. By 11:20 am, the first bank was robbed. By noon, most of the downtown stores were closed because of looting. Within a few more hours, taxi drivers burned down the garage of a limousine service that competed with them for airport customers, a rooftop sniper killed a provincial police officer, rioters broke into several hotels and restaurants, and a doctor slew a burglar in his suburban home. By the end of the day, six banks had been robbed, a hundred shops had been looted, twelve fires had been set, forty carloads of storefront glass had been broken, and three million dollars in property damage had been inflicted, before city authorities had to call in the army and, of course, the Mounties to restore order. This decisive empirical test left my politics in tatters (and offered a foretaste of life as a scientist)."[16]
I recently organized by year, with a few sub folders as I wanted. It worked great! Really cut down the clutter with minimal effort.
I can see your point. However, I don't think that the full force of violence for the entire crowd is necessary.

What if we saw a bad actor at a rally for a politician, and then bring the full force of the state upon the entire crowd because of that bad actor. It would be absurd to use that opportunity to mace and teargas and shoot rubber bullets to disperse the crowd. It is equally absurd to do the same here in political protests.
Not to nitpick - but none of that info has as big an influence on the taste of your coffee as the one crucial bit you left out: What's the coarseness setting of your Baratza?

(For comparison purposes, I usually use 30g coffee, 1:17, grinder at 19, V60, 205F water. Most of these I can fiddle quite a bit with before you really notice, but the grinder setting really matters)