skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cops may ask you not to record and even threaten you with arrest for recording. Do not be intimidated; it is your right to record without obstructing.

Better advice is to read the situation. Cops can make, and have made, people's lives very difficult, whether through legal harassment, false charges or bodily harm, and it is your word against a cop's when you go before a judge.
> There's no "mistake" here.

I wasn't talking about this specific case though, not sure how you inferred that from my comment that shoving old man was a mistake .

I was talking about a hypothetical case where it was indeed a mistake.
You are probably being downvoted because of the oft-repeated argument in favor of surveillance of citizens by some form of authority.

However it's interesting how flipping that argument around would cause all sorts of discomfort by the very people who advocated it in the other direction. (Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that was in fact the point you were making.)
I just ordered one, for $35 dollars what's the worse that could happen? Looks like fun, and if I don't use it hey, I have a cool didgeridoo that people can ask about at parties.
Here's a mass resignation, but in protest for officers being disciplined for shoving the old dude. https://mobile.twitter.com/GaryRidesBikes/status/12689856604...

Where are the good apples?
>Google, Amazon, FB are not the monopolies that you should be worried about.

You're right we shouldn't be worried about them...we should be afraid of what has transpired these past 10-15 years because of them.

A common divergence tactic by those companies is to switch focus on the financial services/telcom, etc.

A key difference between those industries and FB, Google, and Amazon, is that they are under extreme regulations and oversight.

Google, et. al. are free to do whatever they and has resulted in billions in damages.
Vitamin D deficiency is linked to teeth grinding and is correlated to sleep apnea patients. It might be worth it to take a 5000 IU pill along with sunshine walks close to solar noon to see if it improves your situation.

I use dminder to track my estimated vitamin d levels.
If Apple wants to throw their weight around on this, that would be best directed at pushing sites to stop having stupid rules IMNSHO.

Of the documented rules only minimum password length is even an excusable rule. Should your site accept 40kB passwords? No, but that's not a "maximum password length" rule at that point it's just common sense about unauthenticated payload sizes. Whereas this list includes limits of just eight characters and in one case simply 4 digits.

The other restrictions - required or prohibited characters - and the shared credential quirk (systems that let you, indeed often require you to use the same credentials but on different FQDNs) are both making users less safe. While there's an argument that just documenting them is neutral I'd argue that for an outfit with Apple's clout it isn't enough and they need to be loudly calling for reform.

That's tempered by the knowledge that Apple has never been very good at doing more than one thing. "Password stores" are definitely not the new iPhone, and so they can't pivot their whole company to this problem, and maybe in the absence of that level of focus this is all they can offer, but that's kind of a shame on its own.
> Recycling isn't magic. It takes energy.

It does, but the question is do "people" know that. I'd wager a good chunk of them haven't spent a second thinking about it. It's easier and happier to pat yourself for dropping your waste into the "right" bin and move on.

> People know big cars pollute. They don't care.

I don't think it's that simple. I think there's a strong consensus that "pollution" is bad, so resistance morphs into a denial that a particular thing is a pollutant. Restricting the discussion to CO2 for simplicity: if someone thinks global warming is a hoax, they'd deny that their car pollutes the air because they "know" CO2 doesn't cause any harm.
I am aware of that, I just think it stands easily without that argument. It is totally amazing and a clear potential competitive advantage for the UK to have so many of its urban centres connected with such short travel times. London to Birmingham will take less time than getting from one side of central London to the other, that is amazing. It’s also going to suck a lot of companies that would otherwise need to be based in London to be close to clients and suppliers out to other cities.
With proper configuration, Wi-Fi can do this too. Things like 802.11r, 802.11k, etc allow a station to roam between access points near-instantly.
Appreciate the insight. Definitely seems location is a big factor, but I'm not incentivized to change that right now - so I'll need to look at this from different angles. Networking seems to be key.
The US Surgeon General said "You can increase your risk of getting it by wearing a mask if you are not a health care provider" [1].

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/02/health/surgeon-general-corona...
Rarely does a problem solve itself so quickly and effectively.
No, this is totally wrong.

First - airlines, pharma, and financial services are nowhere near 'oligarchy' and don't come close to meeting the definition, just the opposite, they are very competitive.

With Telcos - the issue is real, but the drawback is mostly competitive innovation and price. Stagnant deployments and high prices would be the result. FYI - the US has decent broadband pricing. See: Canada!

Oil is a special one, but the industry is global and very competitive, especially in certain layers of that industry. Prices are widely known and understood. There is zero concern that 'some big entity' will control all of the oil, certainly not in America.

FB, Amazon, Google represent far more existentially problematic kinds of 'monopolies' because it bleeds into other aspects of life (social, media, information) and into other, adjacent industries. These are the real problem.

Search and social also have 'natural monopoly' kind of conditions which exacerbates the problems.

The other industry you didn't mention, wherein there is an existential problem with competition is 'health insurance'.
Rule of Three (Economics)
The fact that you identified worse offenders doesn't remove the initial problem.
> Not that it would be a joke if an individual developer released it

You're hating on it for being from Apple? That makes as much sense as loving it because it's from Apple.
Wishful thinking. You shouldn’t start with the substance you want to take and work backward to rationalize it.

There are plenty of milder, better-researched solutions suitable for longer term use without associated cognitive problems of cannabis. An extremely low dose of Trazodone, for example.
I know people love to complain about Google's track record of shutting things down, but for me this is the one that made me say "I'll never use anything new from Google for anything important. Never. Anything." The pushed this thing SO hard for a couple of years, and now it's just gone. I feel like I'd be a fool to use anything more than search and Gmail at this point. I've heard good things about GCP but there's no way anyone will convince me that'll be around in 5 years (though if it is I might be convinced). All those chat/video apps, no way I'm even going to bother with checking them out. And so on. Google+ seemed like THE most important thing at Google, tied into everything, even required for a while, and it's gone now, or maybe rebranded into that thing they just announced earlier this week?

TechCrunch has a nice Google+ timeline:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/08/looking-back-at-google/
Almost no other service line other than Ads is profitable for Alphabet.
Paradox Is Merely Truth Standing On Its Head To Attract Attention
We should remember Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_Concerning_the_Two_Ch...
So, we should have the cops take out liability insurance and pay damages?

That actually sounds like a pretty good idea, honestly.
I'd be surprised if a decent AWS equivalent can't be built in 10-15B. That should be enough to hire good people and buy infrastructure. How do you figure 100B?
It doesn't have to serve AWS traffic from day one...
The best I heard it explained as was a dilemma. Do you tell people that only n95 masks or better work to protect the wearer? If you do then, because enough stockpile of n95 masks wasn’t maintained for this pandemic, critical medical practitioners like ER staff, nurses, doctors, surgeons wouldn’t be able to wear PPE. Or Do you lie and tell people n95 masks don’t work in the hopes essential medical personnel are then able to find masks? I think they went with the later. I think this was discussed by Michael O. during his appearance on JRE.
Why would any site do that? Other than in a banks website I haven't encountered that behaviour previously
I'd call it a pattern, and I'd say it has a sound foundation. There are lots of generational patterns within society, like how family fortunes are lost by the third generation.

But I think the biggest issue with it is that societies don't operate on the same timeline. Generations are kind of fuzzy to pinpoint and society's response to them largely depends on their options.
This is an instance of what I described in my above comment.

"STOP BUYING MASKS" is not "Masks don't work," especially given the rest of the context of the statement where he's saying they're important to protect high-exposure roles healthcare providers. Which means he's also saying they work.

"They are not effective in preventing the general public" might be reasonably interpreted as "masks don't work", but given that he's clearly saying they work in the same breath, it's a better bet that he means something else.
Don't build a dashcam yourself. Building batteries that don't fail in the heat of a car parked in the sun is a hard problem, as is the automatic saving when a crash occurs. Buy a dashcam with a proven reliable battery or capacitor.
Antifa is just a gateway to / cover for blackblocs, where the real tactical operations happens, with targets, escape plans, and so on, "ACAB" is their slogan.
There was an article on the front page yesterday about the retraction of one of the hydroxychloroquine papers; all of the comments on the original article were of the "they don't want you to know the truth" sort.

You cannot win against true believers.
TLS itself doesn't have to be broken to have an interceptor.
Even on a throwaway, I can't share more, but Alexis royally fucked Victoria on that one. But don't think Ellen didn't have anything to do with it. The management structure at that time was pretty weird.
We are, yes. But the average American would be shocked at the "customer experience" the average patient gets from the NHS. No such thing as a free lunch etc.

And I think if you have private insurance (i.e: double paying), you'll probably be paying more than the average American. I don't know for sure though.
they're still in police and getting paid, they just left the team
I don’t think QI is insignificant.

I suspect that policing practices became hostile first and QI is the legal loophole to get away with it. If you eliminate it the “system” will find another way to do it. “Active” policing is a lot of “cleaning up the neighborhood” and “maintaining property value”. As long is that is the part of the goal there will be away to protect police.
> Police did not simply fail to keep order and curtail the protests—the task they were sent to the streets to do. The reputation of the Hong Kong Police Force, which dubbed itself “Asia’s Finest” and was generally respected as recently as a year ago, collapsed in the eyes of those it purported to serve. At the same time, radical tactics used by protesters became more accepted by the public.
A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting on Its Shoe
Thanks for the context.

My writing focus has been on big tech, censorship, deplatforming and related topics and the last 4 or 5 articles I've posted here were flagged despite being heavily upvoted and making the front page.

I can see people flagging it if it nobody comments, nobody upvotes it and it's clear nobody is interested or finds it germane. Ok.

But it always seemed as if people were using the flag function as a "downvote". They don't like the message or the ramifications of the article so they flag it.

It really is ridiculous.

You can disagree with something without deeming it inappropriate and deciding on behalf of everybody else that they shouldn't even get the chance to form their own opinion on it.

The way I see it, if an article didn't address a topic relevant to HN, then it wouldn't rise. It's that simple.
That is precisely what quantum fields are, continuous distributions. Coupling is the only reason quanta exist. But propagation is continuous.
I'm glad Prozac worked for you. It made me impotent in my 20s and I felt like I was being dropped down an elevator shaft for months after discontinuing it.
You're comparing to Amazon the company, the whole e-commerce business unit which is huge.
AWS is big but I don't know how big; competition is fierce. They were there first but other companies are catching up.
That's why who your technical partner is is so important. Pick someone smart who you wouldn't be able to afford otherwise or pay for it now and later.
That’s a very good point, and obvious when you point it out.

Still, I have a sneaking suspicion we are making flawed assumptions because our observations are from this point, and only this point, in space and time.

Just my opinion, and it’ll probably turn out to be flawed itself like most of my opinions ;)
> only for the sake of a given trend becoming more trendy

Sure, but that's not what I described.
Warmest May on record, Siberia 10C hotter
This is an argument activists have made for years in favor of gun control. The prevalence of guns in US society has made us objectively far less safe.
At least two of those links had nuanced reasons that matched the parent's remarks. One even literately had a three point explanation:

* There is no scientific evidence they are effective in reducing the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission

* Their use may result in those wearing the masks to relax other distancing efforts because they have a sense of protection

* We need to preserve the supply of surgical masks for at-risk healthcare workers.
Doctors routinely lie in malpractice cases. It is really common.
I thought news outlets had established that the looting was done by opportunists that are independent of the protesters. The rioting might also be independent of the protesters, perhaps to distract enforcement units away from the looting. Some of the looting does seem to be organized to a degree.
As the Nation Chants Her Name, Breonna Taylor's Family Grieves a Life 'Robbed'
That seems like a reasonable, constructive suggestion. There certainly are structural factors and incentives which make it difficult for a police officer to actually be a "good cop" when it matters.

But self-regulation hasn't worked and isn't likely to work, precisely because those structural factors are so formidable. So instead, we turn to outside auditing in the form of cell phone video — as advocated by this article.
This effort seems fundamentally out of touch, misdirected, and politically motivated.
I might be totally wrong but I think making online courses might give you some passive income and learning opportunity at the same time. Of course it requires you to focus on one small/niche subject and becoming expert at it. Maybe someone with experience in making courses could chime in and tell if it's doable.
Seems reasonable. A lot of white people are out protesting. Why not put your money where your mouth is even if it hurts your future? Though I suspect in Ohanian's case he'll be rich for the rest of his life regardless of what he does.
Thin Blue Line is a myth. A symptom of people who have fallen victim to mean world syndrome.
This article is way too tendentious for it to be the base HN submission on this topic. The thread would be a guaranteed bloodbath.

Is the core statement about CDC / death rate true? If so, is there a more neutral source describing it?
Strings and Knots: Inca’s Cryptic Writing System (2018)
No. The database only contains the double hash. It still needs to be bruteforced.

There is zero downside to doing an extra hash, except the chance that someone codes such a basic thing wrong.
> you can trust in TLS when you’re downloading signed software too; but for the web, you only trust in the connection, there’s nothing else to save you if you can’t trust that connection.

While Signed HTTP Exchanges were originally developed for a more nefarious purpose (to allow the URL to be changed by a trusted proxy), I think the idea or one like it can apply to serving trusted web content. Think of it as instead of your current TLS cert verifying your host, it would also verify the full URL and content including headers. It's a bit untenable for regular use, but some apps could leverage it for extra trust.

> When designing E2EE protocols for persistent vs ephemeral applications, we need to figure out where we need long-term identity in terms of cryptographic keys, and where we don’t.

I would hope that web apps always lean towards ephemeral key use whenever possible (i.e. key generation and post of public key in browser upon authentication, with private key only in local JS memory for just that page). If this means the webapp has to be built to work with 20 different keys for a user because they opened 20 tabs, so be it. I know people are afraid of doing anything like key generation in the browser, but we can't ride-off the possibility of e2ee web apps altogether. I fear the browser allowing access to the OS's key management or the system's TPM for key storage because it may lead to overuse/over-reliance on long-term keys, but I'm sure it'll happen if it hasn't already.
> Blocked by ad-blockers, so the analytics that you get out of it are not accurate

Assuming the pixel is used for measuring advertising performance, it doesn't matter because the blockers would also block the adverts to begin with.
Economic competition is generally a good thing. Breaking up monopolies fosters competition within a country, and competition promotes progress. Historically, companies in free societies have generally performed much better than govt granted/allowed monopolies in more centralized countries.

Sure you can get some economies of scale as a monopoly, but it comes with a lot of corruption, incompetence, and anti-competitive behavior.
I'm not sure what internet you've been on these last few days but it's a different one to the one I've been on.
ACLU has an app specifically for that, which uploads videos to them automatically.
doesn't reddit have that extension (forget the name) to ban users across all subreddits and tag them etc ? (not from the site but for your own browsing)
The NY ACLU app "stop and frisk" is now absent from the Play store. Any ideas?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.nyclu.stop...
I have a recurring insomnia too. Nothing to recommend tbh, as I am
still not alright, but my anecdotes are: 1. sleep pills do “power off”, but not a real “sleep”. You wake up in the same state at the moment a pill metabolizes. 2. A neck/collar massage seems to help to some degree. 3. A strong routine may help – before things went downhill, I could feel these two “want to sleep” hours which turn you off instantly and which are easy to skip and be awake for more time. Now I don’t feel them, but they’re still there. You may try to go to sleep before your insomnia kicks in; maybe your body is just missing this period by ignoring it completely. 4. Another cause may be purely psychological – long-standing anxiety and stress, which you do not count as real problems (everyone has problems!) and do not report to a doctor, but they are. 5. Have someone to “sleep with”, in a bed-sharing sense. 6. Ensure that your nutrient levels and inner organs are fine. In retrospect, all of the above did change my average state for better or worse over a period of around ten years (or it was a coincidence, idk). I know that experiments can bring even more suffering in your current state, so please discuss them with your health care first.

>insomnia is one of the worst form of suffering

I once had a “day” that lasted four days or so. The last one was pretty hell on earth. Idk how people stay awake for weeks in stories out there. For a reader who never experienced that: it is not “I don’t wanna sleep and it’s probably bad”. No, you are tired as hell, your brain is almost failing, you want to sleep, but you just can not.
Coherent interaction between free electrons and a photonic cavity
Turns out I wish I could delete my top-level comment now, because I realized that because of Julia's type conversion and promotion semantics a user would actually not get into the problems I worried about.
Most of what I've seen follows this general thinking (note, I don't agree with it, just what I've seen):

1) Bill Gates was convicted of monopolistic practices while he was running a global company attempting to seize power.

2) Almost immediately after this conviction, he suddenly becomes philanthropic and donates most of his wealth to a non-profit that he's in control of.

3) This non-profit runs social experiments throughout the world, including mass vaccination programs

4) He has a motivation (the exact nature of which is fuzzy in the right wing stuff I've seen) to have everyone vaccinated. (this is where some folks talk about microchips, others talk about financial motivations).

5) He is partners with George Soros, working together for a globalist agenda. According to the theory, their aim is to end nationalism and replace it with a unified earth type structure.
Not only behind Corona virus but also the vaccine implants microchips to track you.

The real story is not that a few nut jobs believe it - a huge chunk of the population actually believes it. https://news.yahoo.com/new-yahoo-news-you-gov-poll-shows-cor...
Stream, but remember anyone can send a DMCA take down request for the evidence, and big companies have law enforcement liaisons who would be more than happy to remove content at the behest of LE. Some platforms will remove any violent content uploaded by users, so with some rules lawyering from LE posing as another user, it can be taken down.
Pretty simple really. Too big to fail? Break it up.
I don't think it's fair to characterise a response as (merely) emotional just because it's a response to a specific incident rather than a broader trend.
Matthew Walker, study senior author, on Joe Rogan (2018): https://youtu.be/pwaWilO_Pig
I feel like the GitHub link should be the submission link, not 9to5Mac which doesn't really give extra useful info...
I'm always doing research on this subject, including speaking with members of these communities. I agree that it's important. There's also a lot of nuance that my comment glossed over, for brevity.

EDIT: In fact, my desire for better dialog and my ongoing research are both motivated by a desire (for me personally and for our society more broadly) to better understand and fix the problem.
On HN we go by article quality, not site quality. I agree that this article is not a good one for discussing the CDC's latest findings about Covid-19 death rates. But please don't post political battle comments to HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Thanks. That fits our use-case. Now just need to figure out how to do the visualizations...
I guess I was confused since you commented on this story without mentioning this hypothetical future mistake, bemoaning the fact that "anti-cop sentiment" might prevent officers from admitting their "mistakes" in the future.
Battle for Wesnoth Project Constitution
Yeah, that’s probably the biggest weakness of this analogy—it’s kind of useless.
I think the solution is to have municipally owned fiber that is open to many ISPs.