skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what sparse info I can find, it appears ground > sat > ground comms will be encrypted in some fashion so listening with an SDR and doing anything meaningful with the data might be hard, but I'm curious if there will be opportunities for it to be abused for anonymous downlink connections like the Turla spyware group used to do (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/09/how-h...)
Save files to my desktop. When it gets too messy, I throw a one-liner "hide desktop icons on mac" command in Terminal. When it never gets messy again, I don't repeat.

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false && killall Finder

I'm about 2~3 years deep at the moment.
I find it unusual and upsetting that this comparison gets made so often.

On one side, you have the generally disorganized public which naturally includes the opportunistic, the provocative, the desperate. On the other, you have the police and the military, nominally organized with a largely uniform mission and code of conduct.

Bad behavior by the government is less excusable and also more threatening.
Perhaps it should compare against the hourly wage to factor these concerns in.
Yes most police in AU carry a firearm.

No they don't have a 'decent rep' for brutality, whatever that means. Comparing AU police to US police is insane. Every encounter with police like a traffic stop in the US is a nonzero chance of getting killed. That's not at all comparable to Australia where there are no tasers and the use of lethal force is in the single digits per year nationally.

The view you're presenting is significantly more divorced from reality than the GP. Just like GP said, calling the police in the states even if you need their aid, is a gamble. In Australia I would not hesitate to call or interact with the police under any circumstances. Even in the immediate vicinity the Bourke St incident, I felt safe approaching and interacting with the SRG guys decked out in their military gear and automatic rifles. They went out of their way to make sure me and people with me got a safe corridor to leave the area. In the states, that'd be about a 100% chance of getting shot.
Either you love it or you hate it, there's no middle ground with JavaScript
It seems to me that the list is curated: https://hnblogs.substack.com/about
>won't that just force them to self-fund by seeking funding from corrupt sources such as civil asset forfeiture and drug busts?

Does the police force operate like an autonomous organization or something? Is there a reason why the city can't institute a policy like "all civil forfeitures" go toward social outreach programs only?
> I think there is an opportunity to catalog instances of injustice in order to hold individuals accountable

Maybe. But after enough years of catching police on camera strangling and killing black people it has quickly become clear that accountability is not the issue. It's that the system in which they operate (brought to you by your tax dollars) protects officers who abuse their power to a superlative degree. Don't forget the police unions are there if the officer is fired, furthermore, they can just start up at the police force in the next town over if it really comes to that (which it _rarely_ has).

I feel like HN has a hard time groking this but there is no app to fix institutional racism and inequality. The tools for this are called law and community organization. Just today, protests and organizing across the country have elevated the charges against the officer who murdered George Floyd as well as his three accomplices. Can you pitch an app or tech tool that can do that?

Only with community organization and changing the law can you create a new reality where people are held accountable. Voting is a good place to start. I'm not saying technology can't help, but it is not the pure means to the end.
I wonder how useful that statistic is. I have a checking account and I move funds into it when I need to pay someone and otherwise I leave it empty. And I have other empty accounts that I just don't bother closing.
I didn't realize Sundar makes so much at Google. It's pretty mind boggling.
What financial investments? It seems like there would be a lot of people with financial interests being against a generic $0.04 drug.
>In order for any of this speculation around him being alive is true, you realize that this conspiracy would have to involve dozens of people at least, right?

If Epstein's "death" had been witnessed by his cell mate, or the suicide watch he ought have been on, and if the cameras outside his cell worked, you'd be a lot more convincing right now.

The coroner in George Floyd's case said he died from a heart issue, despite the fact he was murdered on video from multiple angles.

So, there's immediate and highly visible precedent for coroner fraud. It's not like they're so well paid they can't take bribes, nor so connected as to be immune to pressure.
> Still waiting on that inflation.

You're waiting on CPI inflation.

The inflation that did actually happen was in equities, startup valuations, risk-adjusted debt (interest rates are far lower than the underlying risk would be without QE), fine art, yachts, healthcare, college tuition, etc. None of these are in the CPI because they aren't consumer staples.
Is she personally responsible, or is the insurance that is paying for the rent responsible. She signed the lease, but her insurance company is paying the rent. I would like to have some sort of compensation, to cover the cost to relandscape, and possibly for removing a very large tree which is likely to die now.
It could be that there are multiple proposed mechanisms, and that HCQ being a zinc ionophore is only one of them. I looked up some of the studies of HCQ in different animal models, and some of them showed positive results with CQ or HCQ alone.
The Alphabet number includes RSUs, so definitely the actual median pay for all employees. See https://www.wired.com/story/what-tech-companies-pay-employee...
As an american living in Canada, I can assure you it's not much better here -- cops are generally cordial to my white affluent self, but black and indigenous people, especially those in poverty, are not served by this justice system.
My whole point is not everything needs an app. Phoning in to-go orders is one of those things that I would rather interact with a human with. There are too many ways automated ordering goes wrong and exactly 0 ways to fix it.
if you're being pedantic? no, but it's obvious that if you massively frontload your effective compensation in the form of stock in your company and employees coming in will never make as much on the stock as you do, that is still a gap in compensation. it doesn't pass the smell test for most people. WeWork is a perfect example of this
Terrible title there chap.
I don't really appreciate the attempt to collect my email address. When clicking on a link, it's nice to see the content directly.
" So you have a general response police unit, which is unarmed or lightly armed (taser / nightstick, etc). They would respond to most situations, and would be highly trained in de-escalation techniques. Then have the backup units be the muscle. In situations that they feel are dicey, the backup could show up at the same time, but hang back unless they are needed.
"

That's how the Brits do it and I think the Germans too.
I have hard drives on shelves that are basically this. One thing I have been doing to reduce this is to have one folder that is for things like this and everything else is considered ephemeral. It sort of helps my to classify things as definitely don't want to lose (usually cloud to start so non issue) vs if I lost this it would be annoying, but not the end of the world.

I think in many ways I am a digital hoarder, files, bookmarks, HN up votes... the ephemeral strategy is so I have to actively decide if this is something that can't be lost, or if not, it must be ephemerally classified. These are my only two choices now
The $1.7million reflects not the increase in Bezos' net worth, but the cost of Bezos' employment to the company (salary + security and transportation). This is what actually shows up in expenses in Amazon's financials.

AFAIK, Jeff hasn't gotten a stock grant since the IPO in 1997, so the vast majority of his net worth gains are purely capitol gains from holding amazon stock for over 20 years. Since there have not been additional stocks granted, this increase in Bezos' wealth actually costs Amazon nothing, not even dilution, as it's just an increase of value of existing shares.
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I believe you! Also, I don't think it's necessarily best to treat these things as a third rail, since the only way we're going to learn as a community to stay within the functional range on hard topics is by practice.

I feel like I should explain something about moderation. There's a sense in which a lot of this is fairly mechanical. When I post a reply like I did upthread, I'm reacting to statements like "you are [...] effectively trolling now", "If you were actually interested in dialog", and so on. Such things can be removed without changing your views or compromising your argument. It's also in your interest to do so, since you're trying to stick to facts and your intention is to find mutual understanding.

The reason why we have to moderate on that fairly mechanical level is that these things have mechanical effects on discussion threads. When they're present in a discussion, it's impossible for people to see past that layer and give genuine attention to what the other party is saying, let alone find mutual understanding. This aspect of moderation is rather superficial because these dynamics are superficial. They're critically important, though, because if we can't take care of that layer, we'll remain stuck there—or actually degenerate into worse.

(That's not the only aspect of moderation, fortunately, but it's a common one.)
Probably. Though with some weird details. I'm actually getting paid more right now being "furloughed", with the approval of my employer and (tacitly) the state. When the "don't work" bonus ends, I'll revert to full time.
In the corporate setting, if a large org is deemed incompetent, a common solution would be to mark that org as second class and create another similar org with the first class status. The second class org would get funding cut, no raises, no interesting work. The first class org would be the opposite. A transition is possible via an interview that filters out the incompetent types. And one day the second class org is told that there is no more work for them left and they have 1-2 months to find an internal role or move on.
I'm not entirely sure either but you could use some combination of dS/dt dI/dt where S is the senator and I is the market?
Sounds like different roles with different expectations/requirements, which then comes with lower pay. What's wrong with that?
For those of us unfamiliar with BGP and/or peering protocols, does this mean there are routable starlink networks? Are these routes being advertised?
" It’s for the whole society to decide what are valid forms of it, at every level."

That's just lawlessness.

There's not way to make up the rules as we go along, using the 'winds of the day' and what's happening on the news to determine what's a legit protest and what is not.

We do decide collectively what's what by using laws and policies. We make those, we make them clear, and then we apply them.

It seems as though you can't block traffic at a busy intersection 'because' - and so whatever the protest is today, it's not right.

We can't make up as we go along, that's chaos.

People can protest in parks, in front of city hall etc. - that works, it's peaceful and within civil framework.
It's a temporary stimulus payment anyway. We all paid for it.

It helps a lot of people who really needed it, especially hourly wage workers in the service industry who instantly took a hit from the shutdowns and these workers tend to not have healthcare insurance to begin with due to the low wages. It would be foolish for someone who had a well paying job with benefits to permanently stop working for "more" money on paper temporarily, especially considering you would also risk being unemployable afterward. Does +$600 to your weekly pay outweigh the health benefits that you got while being employed?
This is a bad way to do this. There's executives with multiple c-suite roles, compensation for multi-year performance targets, founders who elect to take low salaries and company size disparities.
No Accident
Lazy developer:

1. Write article in notepad

2. Create blog repo in github

3. Create issue and paste article
Contrarian viewpoint: Having a CEO make ~1,000x the median wage doesn't seem that practically wrong to me, seen from a lens of "At most of these places, if the CEO messes up many, many thousands of people will lose their jobs." Ie, if one thinks of "right" compensation as being proportional to impact, not to skill or job difficulty.
Tell HN: HN users arbitrarily flag posts
A list of submissions that I've had flagged in the last few weeks:

1. Link to bitbucket status page, with the title that "bitbucket is down" (https://bitbucket.status.atlassian.com/incidents/xlvfft1wg7dt).

2. Link to a super useful guide by moz.com on how to move domains w/o losing SEO (https://moz.com/blog/seo-guide-how-to-properly-move-domains).

3. A twitter post in the early days of COVID-19, with perhaps the first confirmed case in Los Angeles: https://twitter.com/iheartWallSt/status/1235595431565856770

4. A great resource on contacting local officials with data-backed suggestions to improve laws related to police brutality (https://www.notion.so/Change-the-Laws-Fix-the-system-fc2958534f66443ab498ee5432ea6473)

What's worse about this: (a) you have no visibility who's flagging, (b) no reason why you're being flagged, (c) no way to appeal/discuss this. Essentially full-on censoring. One person has insane muting power.

We can do better than this, HN community.
Have you looked at capsule-routing algorithms that use expectation-maximization to generate layer outputs in deep neural networks? For example, in https://research.google/pubs/pub46653/ and https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00792 each output capsule in a layer is generated by a Gaussian mixture model and also has an associated "activation value" that increases to the extent the GMM can explain (i.e., generate) its input data data "better" than the GMMs of other output capsules in the same layer. I wonder, do you think these routing algorithms, which are differentiable end-to-end, could be generalized to Dirichlet Process Mixture Models?
so wait - what would Facebook do during the Arab spring?

>“If we were entering a period where there may be a prolonged period of civil unrest,...

Should they be censoring rioters? What if foreign governments compel them to censor material? What if you censor the "good" guys?
Telcos in New Zealand (a five eyes nation) are still considering using Huawei for 5g.
> Daily new infections have more than doubled here in North Carolina in the last two weeks since "reopening"

Confirmed cases, not infections. The hospitalization numbers are about 30% higher or so which is about-ish how much new deaths have increased. Which is bad, but not 2x bad.

All said, NC may have one of the highest spike of any state (reopened or not). Texas and Florida have flat hospitalizations; Georgia is slightly decreasing.
According to comments on a recent Ask HN post[0], most of the opportunities to use Elixir in industry are for consultants either (1) supporting subsystems abandoned by corporate employees who have moved on, or (2) assisting companies to migrate from Elixir to a solution easier to hire for, to avoid expenses and limited availability of help with (1).

Upsell opportunity would be to offer (2) after delivering (1).

[0] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23283675>
Is this Interplanetary File System (IPFS)? /Sarcasm 50%
> The dream of this thing just magically going away is absolutely delusional.

Since we don't really know what's going on yet, almost anything that happens is going to seem kind of magical. Right now we're operating on guesswork and superstition.
I wonder if that explains my current place. There was a recent ownership change and right before that the owners cut down the shade trees for the house. There's no air conditioning so back in April it was already getting too hot to stay indoors. The lease renewal is in June so when the new, corporate management company asked us if we wanted to stay and that they were generously not going to raise rent, we asked they either lower the rent or figure out a cooling situation. They balked so we walked and they didn't flinch at all. They were honestly surprised we weren't going to take such a deal.
Not hard to see this article is written entirely from an American perspective with zero consideration of what policing looks like in other countries.

I found this part in particular egregious:

> Part of our misunderstanding about the nature of policing is we keep imagining that we can turn police into social workers. That we can make them nice, friendly community outreach workers. But police are violence workers. That's what distinguishes them from all other government functions. ... They have the legal capacity to use violence in situations where the average citizen would be arrested.

Look at American policing from a Northern European perspective in general and a Norwegian perspective in particular it is pretty clear to me what some of the problems are.

American police has VERY SHORT TRAINING which from what I have read is very focused on the use of violence. Even the rule of engagement emphasize shock, terror and control, rather than de-escalation.

You become a police in the US in mere weeks in a very military style Academy.

In Norway and I believe much of Europe police training is a lot like taking a Bachelor degree running several years. Training emphasize a lot on social work, psychology, human rights, understanding behavior of people with mental problems, the criminal mind etc.

What I have seen from US police recruitment videos seems to be that they are essentially recruiting some sort of soldier. In Norway it is much more like recruiting a social worker. For instance far more women work in the police here. And I know from people who have worked in security that a common strategy here is to pair up women with bigger guys because women are often good at defusing situations. They often make people calm down more easily. Big testosterone brutes shouting loudly, don't calm people down.

The US has a violent police force because that is how they are trained to be. That is the kind of people they are recruiting and that is how they get equipped.

It seems profoundly wrong to just sort of "GIVE UP" on policing all together when there are so many flaws in how it is done.

It does not mean I entirely disagree. I do in fact agree that policing in the US covers far too many areas. People call cops for things that would be unthinkable here in Norway. The barrier to calling the police in the US seems exceedingly low.

Like you see minor disorder in a class causing police to be called. Police is called to handle situations a teacher should handle.

And yes the US does of course use its police and prison system as a compensation for having no functioning welfare state. Because the US does not want to pay money to take care of poor people they instead pay triple to have the police handle problems a much cheaper civilians agency could have handled.

But I guess in the US it is much easier to get funding for police than for "soft" government type of jobs. Until Americans stop hating and distrusting government so much I am not sure how you solve that.
Another way to think about this is how much the CEO is actually taking vs others. If the Aptiv CEO worked for free, giving his $15 million pear year to the 147k employees that would only be $100/year per employee. Meaningless.

Aptiv spends $1 billion per year on salaries.

So the very "worst CEO" (by this metric) receives 1.40% of all salary paid by the company. Google's CEO receives is 1%.

I think this explains why CEOs make so much relative to an individual. Paying them 1% of all salaries feels, and is, very cheap given how important their role is.

If Steve Jobs had been paid 50% of all salary it would have been worth it to shareholders. Of course lots of bad CEOs get paid huge amounts as well but why is this bad? The salary they received is not what hurts the company, it only cost around 1%. What really hurts is the damage a bad CEO does to the company. That can cost the entire resources of the company.
So we are not worried about popular software products, we are concerned about critical pieces of software.

So seriously--how many are required?
Counterpoints:

1. Not all social housing is high rise or high density. Look outside of the cities for example - new towns. Lessons can be learned this time.

2. Much of the social housing was sold off in the 80's I think, the trick is to keep government ownership of it, not sell it for a pittance and let private landlords profit from price increases.
No, you're thinking of Marslink. Starlink is just for Earth.
Appreciate it. Meant it mostly as a "Wow didn't know X company had 1000 to 1 CEO to median pay ratio". I'll see if I can get some more data / detail on what goes into the pay numbers.
Good, I know it happens and I hope to see more of it.
Post-modernism is not related marxist economic theory it is an art movement that rejects the possibilty of a unified narratve, rather than the concept of "objective truth". Embracing absurdity is not anti-intellectual per se.
I wouldn't do away with it, but I would encourage other scientists to engage with non-solicited peer review. A few sites have tried to encourage the wider scientific community to comment and debate published papers, but the overall participation remains low. It's unfortunate because I would be more confident in 100 peer reviewers post-publication than 2-3 that reviewed it for the journal. This already goes on in blogs and social media, but the same scientists haven't embraced the academic venues for this.
I've been reading this for the past few days, it's been really great!
Interesting, I had a brief period where my M3 LR AWD would "forget" that I had enabled text message synchronization with my phone (a recent-model iPhone) and I'd have to open the bluetooth menu and re-enable it, but I haven't really had any ongoing issues with either message readout or the dashcam.
I'm not sure where you jumped to the conclusion about denying housing. I have no problems with section 8. I gladly accept section 8. What I have a problem with is (and I speak from first hand experience), is allowing someone who is on section 8 to not pay their portion. I allowed this, got burned and learned a lesson.

I thought I was being kind and "helping them out". When, in reality, that individual didn't appreciate it and they didn't take better care of the place because of it. When other factors (e.g. the lying) caused me to not want to renew with the tenant, they caused over 10k damage and flooded my house in retaliation.
Despite the title there are a lot of restrictions from the chinese side as well:

>Beijing in March said domestic and foreign airlines could operate no more than one weekly flight between China and any given country

>The Department of Transportation said the March order had effectively banned US airlines

>In recent weeks, China has moved to loosen restrictions on charter flights from some countries but not the US

Even domestic chinese airlines are only allowed 1 flight per week between china and any country
It's curated, and you can click on each one to expand the list.