skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the problem is a select few American police officers, I feel its too widespread to blame it on a few bad cops. Without to sound predudice I think the problem IS cultural.

It seems to be something related to American egos that is accelerated 1000x when moved into a position of authority like a police officer.

I'm in the UK, and yes we have our problems however it seems reasoning or social skills of our officers are night and day and reflect behaviour observed of society as a whole.
Trivia: Redis uses a similar technique (Braille unicode points) to show the Redis 5 LOLWUT. http://antirez.com/news/123
Note that there are also people like me, who trust their government for the most part but want a more transparency system.
I’ve known a few officers and they usually refer to themselves as “social workers in uniform.”
HTTPS should protect you from that.
No, there are people who "should" be there who aren't. For example, 'pg with 156k karma.
Reading about Brian May reminded me of Richard Feynman - the Nobel Prize winning physicist who took on challenges in many different fields during his life: Computer Science, Chemistry, Biology, Drumming, Painting, Lock Picking, and Mayan Hieroglyphics!

Feynman only won the Nobel Prize in Physics. But he was able to reach a professional, or near professional level in all of those areas. "I got a kick out of
succeeding at something I wasn't supposed to be able to do."
In the mid-2000's I got a Toshiba Portégé convertible laptop off eBay for a few hundred bucks. It had an active digitizer built in and had some software that let you do something similar. It wasn't fancy enough to include alternates and it wasn't the best at connecting cursive, but if you mainly used print/non-script letters like I do, it was a neat trick to be able to use some semblance of my handwriting as a font in Windows.
Rider and IntelliJ also have the features you mentioned, and then some.
Not really. I have started moving my emails from Gmail to my last name based domain and have already received a few emails meant for others - and this is a domain that I've had for many years.
It had gotten to the point where you can do machine learning and other CUDA applications, and that brings a lot more money than graphics.

WSL is definitely pulling an Embrace Extend Extinguish. I am not saying the new Microsoft is the same as Ballmer's, but still.
I take it you’ve never read about or been to places in Central America, such as Guatemala City.
Recent example: a young guy did his PhD, invented couple cool algorithms in video processing area and got Million Euro grant to commercialize the project. The algorithms were cool, but the clients the PhD guy targeted didn’t care about price at all. The guy spent all the money and failed.

Inventing is one thing, commercializing invention - totally different. Population doing inventions has no clue how to make business even with money. Regarding funding, it’s just not there. What is seed stage in Germany, is series A or even B in USA. If founder can bootstrap until series B size, he probably will not take money from outside anymore.
Builds are ways of trying to avoid the audience reading ahead and getting to the conclusion before you've told the story yourself.

For example, if you were explaining your business plan that had three steps:

Phase 1: Collect underpants
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Profit

Your audience isn't going to be giving you their full attention while you walk them through Phase 1, because they've trying to understand the whole process think through it themselves.

Instead a build would use animations or duplicated slides to present this flow:

Phase 1: Collect underpants. (click)
Phase 2: ? (click)
Phase 3: Profit

Now you are controlling the visibility of each step. It's very quick to author: create one slide, duplicate it twice, delete content off those two slides.

The slides should be there to reinforce your point. You shouldn't be showing a slide and then reading over the content.

It's one reason that some of my decks have a lot of slides, some may only be shown for 5-15 seconds.
I saw a video of police breaking up looting by rushing in and hitting everyone they could with their batons. When that's the plan and the people in the charge think it's a good plan that's the root of the issue.

To send people out there to do that and then charging them with crimes if they go too far seems a bit hypocritical to me. It needs to be a top down change where the police use the least violence possible and have the least amount of confrontation possible.
> 1) 95Ghz millimeter wave provably and without question has the potential for adverse affects on human tissue. Active Denial Systems (https://jnlwp.defense.gov/About/Frequently-Asked-Questions/A.... for example) use 95Mhz directed energy for so-called Non Lethal Weapons technology. This is not complex.

At what energy levels?

You can use a really bright light as a denial system, but that doesn't mean a flashlight can harm someone.

Any system that relies purely on heat to cause problems does not demonstrate that the frequencies are unsafe.
I honestly don't understand the "bizarre" code drop, as we followed a common pattern for a cryptocurrency (announcement with code and potentially a testnet)
Are you sure it doesn't protect police from criminal prosecution? I don't see any mention of a distinction between civil or criminal violations in anything I have read about it. Furthermore this case[0] it seems to me could have been criminally prosecuted if not for qualified immunity.

[0]: https://casetext.com/case/graham-v-connor
I'm also a PM in Toronto and looking for opportunities in post-Covid world. I'd love to connect - my contact info is under my profile
If you like lower pay, higher taxes, outrageous house prices and long winters you'll love it.
If it really matters, hire a lawyer because that's the only way to determine if compliance is even relevant. And until a finder of fact makes a determination, the question is still up in the air irrespective of what a lawyer might say.
Rage Against the God Machine
I would be interested in a way to disable downvotes from affecting the comment ranking.
I used your ImageMagick command, but the resulting image is very bright and almost invisible. I tried disabling Unicode using +u8, but that didn't work. I tried mlterm, that worked.
Schools Turn to Surveillance Tech to Prevent Covid-19 Spread
Compare against KDE and check how far is "configurable".
Last Black Man in San Francisco
Basically, "Mission. Fucking. Accomplished." - https://xkcd.com/810/.
London had the same race riots over a black guy who was mistreated by police, how do you explain that? Also UK police doesn't have to deal with armed gangs and individuals, certainly not to the same level as the US police. So there are other factors there than ego.
For what is worth, what was released was a state of the art implementation of a consensus protocol with different technological opinionated choices (what signature algorithm, what hash function, how to store account state, etc.)

This did not have (and should not) have any impact on discussions around regulations. The development has also been ongoing in the open for a year since the announcement, so contributions and discussions are (and have been) welcome.
international remittances.
Google Account Data and Personalization
imagine an enum called bool with two values: True and False.

switch(value: bool):
case True:
// do something
case False:
// do something else
end

The above code is exhaustive in the sense that the logic covers all possible values of the enum type. The "exhaustive matching" we're talking about is similar to a pre runtime type check.

So imagine where someone writes this code:

switch(value):
case True:
// do something
end

The user did not handle the False case in his logic. Exhaustive pattern matching will catch this before the program runs and throw an error similar to a syntax or type check error. It will say that your switch function needs to handle all possible cases of bool. It needs to handle True AND False not just True.

The power of this basically allows you to encode safety of if else logic into a type and pass that safety throughout your program. It's pretty incredible, so much so that whenever this feature is part of a language I have stopped using if else statements almost completely.

Keep in mind the power of pattern matching extends beyond just exhaustive enums. An int is a form of enum as well:

switch(value: int):
case 0:
// do something
case >0:
// do something else
end

with powerful pattern matching features the compiler should immediately let you know that your switch statement did not handle the case "<0".
We have to replace all of the officers in one fell swoop. I don't care if we get some good ones too... because they can't be that good if they allow their fellows to act this way. I know this will also wipe out a lot of institutional knowledge, but in this case, that's a bonus. That institutional knowledge mostly amounts to "how to bully minorities and get away with it", and I don't think we should put people who know that sort of thing in a position to use it.
That reminds me slightly of https://gail.com/.
Is the "don't even use a blockchain" discussion welcome? It's hard for people to escape sunk costs.
Great news! I think we may finally see a resurgence. It will be well supported on mainstream Linux, and given that the web is getting so heavy-weight, this will offer a solid alternative for graphics that you can rely on. Libvte is very popular.
Us cities aren’t deadlier than a warzone. I used to go to nightclubs in the most violent neighborhood in dc in the middle of the crack epidemic as a naive suburban white kid and never felt unsafe and the worst thing that ever happened was my car getting broken into. I’ve been to places in the developing world where drug gangs drive around on trucks with mounted machine guns. There’s nowhere in the US like that.
I wasn't talking about desktop with your photo issue.

And I don't know what you mean by screen lock if it's not the lock screen. However, as I said: the photos are properly oriented within the app so whatever your issue is, it can't be that urgent...
Red Hat doesn't ship any proprietary module. However, they do list a number of symbols and struct definitions as stable, unlike the upstream kernel, and preserve them for the life of a RHEL major release. This is why RHEL stays on an old kernel release and backports new features to the old release, instead of releasing new kernels.
I don't follow medical tech religiously but read the original article and thought it relevant (I have a friend that actually has both conditions and the treatment for it is brutal).

Looks like I have more to read up on, thanks!
Is it no longer visible, or just moved to the top level? I've seen plenty of top-level comment threads that start with something missing context, and then is followed by a reply from dang, of the form "We've detached this thread from $url because $reasons".
I think the focus on qualified immunity is a little bit misplaced. If something is explicitly illegal, qualified immunity doesn't apply.

There are several reasons that police get away with breaking laws, but I think the core of it is the holding from Castle Rock v. Gonzalez that the police are neither required to enforce the law nor protect the public. Do we really expect the police to follow up on each other's violations if there's no duty to do their jobs at all?
I mean... it's just not the responsibility of cities to redistribute income.

In addition to people moving in, you have people paying high taxes who will move out to neighboring cities without this tax. I don't want to pay a 5% wealth transfer tax.

This idea is based on some sort of pseudo-socialist view of the world, except implemented at the worst possible level (municipal). Cities deal with keeping crime down, building roads, etc. They're not here to implement a socialist wealth transfer program.
There is no layer 2 option in WireGuard
Red Hat and Canonical aren't suckers; if you dump an infinite maintenance burden on them they will think very hard before accepting it.
it just becomes its own top-level comment, and typically is pushed to the bottom.
There are many apps that release their source without supporting it. A simple link to a zip file is a fine distribution model. Git or any other SCM is a common distribution tool for open source, but it isn’t a requirement.
Has anyone considered a PTSD epidemic among the LE community. These people are sent out day after day to possibly hostile situations. Usually it’s not good news they come across due to the nature of the job. Some of them have likely seen colleagues be seriously injured or killed. As these protests have shown they face widespread hostility even when they haven’t actually done anything themselves individually. Cross that with the usual mix of mental issues present in a population and it seems to me like you have a situation where people forced to the edge snap. Like other roles in society they can’t complain about what’s wrong with them or they risk losing their careers and family’s financial security. Empathy cuts both ways, yes government injustice isn’t right but if we don’t understand people’s circumstances we blind ourselves to a possible solution.
> But I guess there aren't that many of these that are in need of explanation; usually they're pretty obvious.

Something that always amuses me is that the two-letter abbreviation for Shanghai is SH. I find this funny because it seems so natural from an English perspective.

In fact, of course, nobody cares what English speakers think about a Chinese abbreviation of a Chinese name, and the H in the abbreviation refers to the second H in the word, not the first.
Your first paragraph was so lovely to hear.
This might have something to do with the impetus:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2020/05/26/amazon-s...
If amazon enters the autonomous driving space is bad for Tesla
I'm not sure it's entirely possible to dismiss cultural difference in the opposite direction, however. The Police Activity channel on YouTube has tons of unedited bodycam footage from officer-involved shootings and other events across America:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXMYxKMh3prxnM_4kYZuB3g

I'd encourage you to watch the entire list of videos to get a sense for what policing is like in parts of America, and what circumstances lead to the use of deadly force. Some of them are difficult to watch, but it showcases both good and bad examples of how to handle extremely dangerous situations.

It's not an enviable job - the number of videos that start out as a routine traffic stop with the cop having amiable conversation, and then rapidly escalate to a situation where the suspect is pulling a gun on the officer, is truly mind-blowing.
Of course! We even did release a payment protocol based not on a consensus protocol but on a broadcast protocol: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.11506.pdf
> They occasionally also have the have bugs where they will punish something with a worse score that is actually an improvement in the real world

If there's a bug and it lists an issue of "you got the aria roles here wrong" when they aren't, it really isn't any different than a less than 100 score with that issue listed underneath in terms of feeling pressure to fix it.

Completely automating accessibility testing isn't possible (the article calls this out), but it's still a net good for these tools to exist.
What about police officers who are from minorities. Would you kick them out too or you would spare them?
They don't know what "social worker" means then - social workers have the task of helping, not murdering, people. We should hold the cops to the standard they hold us: if there is not proof of innocence, or if they have the wrong pigmentation, or if they are near a citizen having a bad day, or the moon has a phase, its justified and heroic to fuck their life, no questions.
Since so many CS professors make their course materials available for free, you should take advantage of that and piggyback off of multiple sources. I often search for "[Concept] lecture notes", choose one of the links (based on reputability, amount of math, etc.), and check that the other sources say the same thing. You'd be surprised the extent which an independent explanation can fill in the gaps of your understanding.

CS theory is fairly modular, so there's no need to stick to a single set of course notes or textbook for different topics -- just find whoever does it best for a given topic.

Also do lots of problems.
I don't know who you are but please stay! You seem to have a lot to offer and in a very positive way.

EDIT:
When I wrote this reply your comment was at the top. 2 minutes later it was at the bottom of the comment section.
Looks like it was manually moved to the bottom of the comments by a moderator :(
You've just described the school exam system
please leave this site
That's a classy webpage. It would have been too easy for them to plaster it with ads and make some passive income instead.
We take data integrity very seriously. This is one of the reasons QuestDB actually exists. We haven't had reports of data corruption or loss yet. We can commit durably if needed too.

To manipulate data we support "add" and "delete" column on the fly. We can also add column replace and type change if needed. This is pretty easy to do.

PostgreSQL wire is in beta. It works with JDBC driver and we will add metadata support quite soon.
First, let me start by saying that this is a good article and sheds light on one of the challenges of accessibility adoption.

All of tools like lighthouse, axe-core etc. run a subset of tests that gives a false sense of security about accessibility. Similarly, tools like Accessibility Insights for Web has a fast-pass option, which does the same thing where it runs a subset of tests to catch the most common issues on a website.

But it does not and cannot(at this moment) catch all the issues that require semantic analysis of a website, like checking that the alt text on an image has meaningful text. For tests like those, a human is needed to perform a comprehensive assessment, something like Accessibility insights for web offers as an Assessment option.

In my opinion, all of the tools are doing one thing good and that is raise awareness about the problems that users with a disability face daily, when trying to use a website. They are making accessibility a must. Tools still needs more work and I feel confident that it will continue to improve. It all kind of comes down to how much time a development team puts in to make their website completely accessible, which ideally every team should budget and plan for.
https://i.reddit.com/
Maybe the tester is a friend of theirs and he's been quietly fucking with them for years?
I disagree. The warrior culture of policing sets the baseline for all behaviour. Officers justify lawbreaking to one another out of solidarity. The belief that “it’s a war out there and enemies can jump out at any moment” underlies the concept that the law is secondary to officer survival.

When you create a proper guardian police force, officers become friendly and respected community members; they become good neighbours. What then stops them from committing crimes against members of the public is the same thing that stops most family members from committing crimes against one another: a sense of belonging, investment, and care for a community. The best example of this style of policing that I can think of is the classic small town police in small town dramas or sitcoms like Corner Gas [1]. Notice how the police officers eat at the local diner which serves as a third place [2] for the community.

Of course, the disappearance of third places from American social life is another big factor in this complicated puzzle.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPrBAEqGwKE

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
The nightmare that is selling on eBay
Few weeks ago, I decided to sell my unused Macbook Pro as I upgraded to the new model. The laptop was sold within hours of the listing and done! or so I thought ...

Just yesterday .. which is more than a week of selling my laptop, I receive a notification from eBay that the buyer wants to return the item because it does not match the description!

Despite clearly stating a no return policy on the item, it seems that eBay just doesn't care as long as the seller selects the reason "item does not match the description" .. very nice right! However, the reason for the return was _drum roll_

"On the original listing it stated that the laptop had an estimate of 10+ hours battery life, however when I’ve used it, it’s not lasted longer than 3 hours. I would say it had around 2 hours on average of battery life, which is far from the estimate stated in the listing which is therefore inadequate."

The nerve on this lad, to issue a return because a brand new battery (with a cycle count of 4, which he asked about on messages and I have screenshots as a proof) does not last for 10 hours .. and the ad clearly said "and a integrated battery that provides an Apple estimated 10 hours of runtime"

I am completely shocked by this request and my sane mind tells me, no way this will fly with eBay .. but to be sure I call their customer support

After waiting for 45 mins, and 10 minutes explaining the situation, the agent calmly tells me that as eBay does not check the fit for description, they always go with the buyer on this and that I have to issue a refund for the item! unless of course, I need to make an appeal bla bla bla!

Clearly, am not letting this go, but come on eBay! seriously! a buyer with zero karma .. does not reply to the messages I am sending to the claim, who comes up with an audacious reason and just click "does not match description" and you just take his side!

I have never had such an experience selling on any platform and eBay, you can do better
According to following, engineers knew this sound would happen during high winds from the west.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/golden-gate-...
1) For those who never put an ad on eBay before, when you finalizing your listing, you have this "FREE" word floating around the submit button, making you think that listing on eBay is free and how do they get money you say? well thats when you want to purchase addons or bump your add (or so the naive person inside me thought). The laptop was sold within hours of the listing, and the usual payment went through Paypal on hold until the shipment is sent. This is when you first realise that Paypal (which is owned by eBay) takes some fees to process your payment .. i was ok with that .. it was less than 60 USD on the transaction

2) Few days ago, I received a bill from eBay telling me that I have to pay close to 200 USD as ad fees, as it turns out that eBay takes a percentage on every transaction that happens.. I swallowed that too and made the payment .. in the end its on me not reading properly (but the devil in me completely blames eBay for not being transparent on this .. a simple fee calculator before you submit the ad is really minimal work)
I think at the very least, this is the kind of harmless situation that won't turn into a Pizzagate kind of thing. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory)
Taking DuckDB for a Spin:Database that promises to become SQLite-of-analytics
There are a few issues. One thing that I don't see mentioned very often is that a police officer is actually very rarely necessary. But they are called in anyway. There is a kind of litigiousness to American culture. Two people mad at each other? "Watch me call the cops." Someone nodding off near the front door? Call the cops. Domestic dispute? Call the cops. The cops are not really useful in any of these situations and, because of all of the problems mentioned here, often escalate the situation and make things worse.

Cops frequently end up playing the role of social worker, mental health counselor, relationship mediator, addiction counselor... and with their incredibly violent and often racist attitudes the result is predictable.

I am glad that finally these issues are being addressed. They have been festering for decades.