skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Police count the bodies so to speak. Preventive/interventive policing doesn't fit well in a free country. Policing in free countries is pretty much a reactive system.

For example, in the recent mass protests, the police generally stay pretty chill until something triggers them -- one too many water bottles thrown after curfew, or whatever. Relatively, minor offenses by a few people in the crowd can trigger the police to shutdown the entire protest or the entire city. They can't be expected to do much else, except stand still as more bad actors (emboldened by police non-action) keep ramping up their provocations, eventually leading to the same outcome. Crowd dispersal and mass arrest is really their only tool when things start to slide out of control.

I can't imagine how a young police officer feels when their age peers are screaming epithets at them inches from their face, when last Tuesday some of the same people were crime victims and damn happy to see you. The old cops probably have zero fucks to give at this point.

Mayors and Chiefs are also stuck between doing too little or doing too much. Many careers have been ended by going too far in either direction.

It is interesting to see how different cities are handling the mass protests. I think LA and Atlanta are doing well now. They seem to calmly start arresting everyone who is still out right after curfew. I think last night, Atlanta began dispersing the crowds 30 seconds after curfew (they did use tear gas though). Similar for LA, where the cops and national guard slowly corner curfew violating groups of people and drivers. Then they systematically arrest everyone.

In contrast, Seattle, waits and waits hoping everyone will just go home, but that doesn't seem work. Eventually, it is late and inevitably the police get triggered and then it is tear gas, flash bangs, and rubber bullet time.

The Seattle process seems like it is designed to guarantee violent confrontation between protestors and police. Where the LA process seems like it designed to clear the streets safely before it gets dark, enabling LA police to focus on rioters or looters (if any)

Edit-to-Add:

Watching live as the Seattle Mayor is addressing a crowd at the City Hall, she can barely be heard over the crowd booing her. She is not going to get an outcome she is hoping for. I expect more violent police/protestors confrontation tonight.
As someone who rarely submits anything, it can be pretty disappointing on those rare occasions when I do try post something I found interesting and see it failing to invoke any interest whatsoever. Than again, I just published two days ago what I found to be an extremely interesting and well written non-commercial blog post and not only did it fail to grasp anyone's attention, it didn't even got into your list.

Oh well, at least it isn't my own post.
I would go a step further and say this is an actively harmful way to measure CEO pay since it further incentivizes reducing the number of low paid full time employees in favor of contract workers or complete outsourcing of that work. Both those options would likely lead to worse overall compensation for low paid employees.
Creating a Bluetooth LE mobile app with Flutter is so easy! Let me show you the steps.
I would be interested in learning if it has been only over the last four years. My instinct is that the "left" has been hollowing out since the late 20th century, and it's not as much that discussion is hard to the right as that substantive issues are being ignored because it's not convenient for those in power.
> All that proves is how deeply underpaid those jobs were.

How does it do that?

The CARES Act specifically pays money per week in addition to what unemployment pays.

So, whatever you made before, even if it was a sustainable wage, you make more by not working right now, even if you could be working.
I delete everything except photos and music once every year or so. Whatever is important, like legal stuff, I email to my wife, who is a hoarder and never deletes her emails.
I like to remind people that in 2008, Bear Stearns fell in March. Most of the the economy didn't realize the financial system problems until late August.

I'm waiting for a very large shoe to drop in a few months. How big will depend on whether consumers feel comfortable about their jobs+health.
Their peering points are all in the US. So it's not global yet.
From what I've read, and from my personal experience, is that anxiety comes from negative, inward-looking and expansive understanding of events. That is, anxious people tend to assume the worst, make things more personal (maybe it happened because of me or some innate human characteristic) and let the negativity leak over into other parts of their lives (I failed at this, I'll probably fail at something unrelated).

Conversely, people who remain positive and can isolate negative news to external, transient events are less anxious and end up healthier and happier. That might be contrary to what is actually happening; evidence shows realists tend to be pessimists.
Same thing in SF. Demand dropped, but so did supply, so prices are holding reasonably steady at this point.

I assume if prices drop, they won't stay low for long as people see it as an opportunity to jump into the market.
I don't think it's an accusation of overt racism, but rather a side effect of systemic racism creating a subconscious bias. There is an open question of why you have the personal preferences you do, and why a personal preference is so pervasive.

There was a study (I lost the link, I can try to find it if you want it) that asked participants whether they would date someone from each ethnic group other than their own. Across all the groups, white people were the most accepted, followed by Hispanic, then Asian, and finally African American. There are plenty of similar studies I can pull up (or you can find if you'd prefer).

The primary theories I've seen to explain it aren't overt racism. The first is the abysmal state of racial integration in the US. The theory is that we are attracted to what we are familiar with, and the lack of integration causes a bias against other races. The second is portrayal in media causing subconscious biases.

Race is also the most picked preference for romantic partners, above religion and political preference.

Can we meet in the middle and at least say there's something going on here besides a weirdly societal personal preference?
I think it's actually

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy
Seeing how George Floyd moved to Minneapolis to do ministry work I bet he didn’t even know the bill was counterfeited.
> debunked

Everything involved in this thread is matters of opinion and viewpoint, "debunked" is a strong claim.
What a ridiculous reply.

> The benchmarking shows nearly every company is moving to screens.

Benchmarking? Really.

> Sure you might have a few models that remove the screen

Mazda is removing or de-emphasizing them across their product line if I understood correctly.

> You literally can't have a button for every car feature.

Yes, true, very very true. Also irrelevant. The point is that features like:

- climate control
- stereo volume (and other radio controls)
- defrost
- etc

should be physical buttons because drivers use them a lot and should not have to take their eyes off the road to use them and should NEVER have to their eyes off the road to see if their inputs took (touch/display latency sucks).

> And if your car doesn't have all the features, you won't sell well.

The features that must have physical input methods, must have them, and the others can be touch screens if you really like.

Also, fewer features is kinda fine, really, if it makes the roads safer.

> And if you disagree with all of this, you probably aren't the type of person to drop 40k-50k on a new car. You'd be happy with a 2014 car for 10k.

I.e., I must be cheap. Or maybe I would be happy with older cars (or newer Mazdas) precisely because they have these physical inputs / lack those dangerous touchscreens that I detest.
In the US, there are more old people than young people actively using The Facebook.
I originally left that out as it can vary based on the density of the coffee being used, and in addition grinders vary not only brand to brand, but quite a bit between various grinders even of the same model. I've disassembled my Baratza many times for repairs/cleaning, and changed the burrs once. I'm fairly certain that I would get a noticeably different grind size than a brand new Baratza Virtuoso at the same setting. That being said, here's the extra details:

For my 25g, 1:16, I typically use around a 12 grind setting (can change +/- 1 depending on the density of the coffee), and typically see around a 3m15s total brew time including a 30 second bloom.

I typically brew light roast, and brew at a whopping 100C (212F), also at the suggestion of James Hoffman - Info here: https://youtu.be/K_r5kpXPRYo
Can’t litigate against people who are judgment proof.
Looking at their prefix right now I see them behind Hurricane Electric prepended 3 times. They ought to filter/sever that out give HEs "we treat peers as customers" offensive routing policy. Unless that's what they want :/
I'd like to know why you think so. In my experience, at least in Vancouver, police tend to use violence and force as absolutely the last resort, and generally play a lot more of "social worker" type of role, especially when it comes to handling issues associated with drug addiction in the downtown east side.

But I could be very wrong so I'm interested in hearing other viewpoints. Or maybe you're thinking of different organizations that I'm less familiar with (perhaps the RCMP?)
Because I process ~1.5TB a day and I was exploring multiple options.

Data.table was the clear winner for my use case.
Many states are experiencing continued increase in infection rates. See https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california/, https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/texas/, to a lesser extent https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/ for example. Deaths will lag that. Doubling time is really only a legitimate factor insofar as we can develop vaccines and treatments in the interim, and that hospital capacity is preserved; otherwise it's just a question of whether mass bad outcomes occur now or later. To be clear, I'm not arguing for continued lockdowns -- that seems fruitless. But it seems premature to assume the worst is behind us.
> cross-satellite link is out

Why?
Yes I only mean to comment on what I know from US cops I personally know.
China delayed releasing coronavirus info, frustrating WHO
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You can configure a JVM to pause whenever an exception is first-thrown and prompt to attach a debugger. Same with the CLR. I think Windows lets you do it with any program that uses SEH too.
Mazda believes we're there now.
I didn’t see it posted here yet and wanted to spread awareness - the book that the article/interview is about is a free download here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing
IMO revoking Section 230 would benefit incumbents like FB and Twitter who have already made billion-dollar investments into content moderation, and hurt the small guys who suddenly become liable for every user comment they publish.

Can’t you imagine Mark and Jack telling Republican senators: “We wanted to enable free speech, we told you so, but you took away the protections around that so we had no choice but to turn the moderation dial to 11.”
Interesting. I'm actually a bit separated from it because I pay someone ~8% of my rents to manage the place, I wasn't aware of any extra inspections or hassle so I guess I'm getting my money's worth.
so the reason meth and fent are a thing is because speed and heroin are harder to smuggler and/or make.

MDMA is far safer and fun then MDA MDE PMA PMMA but you get the latter sold as it because no one wants anything but MDMA. Same with all sorts of synthetic RCs and drugs.
"Essentially, the mechanism of QE is that the Federal Reserve and other central banks are buying government bonds - but not directly from the Treasury Department. They’re buying government bonds from banks and paying for them with central bank reserves.

Crucially, these cash reserves are held by the central bank and pay an interest rate just as the treasury bonds did. In a sense the Federal Reserve swapped ten year treasury bonds with hypothetical Federal Reserve Bonds. That’s why you can see a graph of the money supply that shows a massive increase, and yet inflation has not spiked. The money never entered the economy - it is being held in a vault at the central bank (or more realistically is just a number in a spreadsheet). In practical terms it was an asset swap, not a true increase in the money supply."

https://www.cassandracapital.net/post/quantitative-easing-ha...
Like someone else mentioned that's not a fair representation.

Warren is paid in growth of his net worth.
A Randomized Trial of Hydroxychloroquine Postexposure Prophylaxis for Covid-19
I don't think it exemplifies why rent control is bad. 6 months free is 50% off annualized. It's just a very simple, easy-to-execute strategy for keeping the rent on paper high.
It's a guns issue, surely? Not got the exact stats but for 2019 I think police killings in the UK ~3 and US ~1000, with only a 5x difference in population. I'm a well spoken law abiding white guy and American cops frighten me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enfo...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/police...
Contrary to popular belief, pacific demonstrations have very little power. That's why riots are an essencial tool for demonstrations like the ones we're seeing these days.

People like to give examples such as the civil rights' movement as the effectiveness of pacific demonstration, but that was just a good tactical decision made by Dr. King and other organizers, since they knew that police was ready to kill them at any excuse. In the case of black leaders of the time, any demonstration, even a pacific one, was able to make them subversive to the system.
Some of these numbers seem to be off. For example, Harley Davidson has a median pay of $187k? Where is that coming from? They've got 5000 employees... I assure you that 2500 of them aren't making more than $187k.

Meanwhile at the other end of the spectrum is Gap, with a reported median pay of ~$6k. This seems very low. At first I thought that maybe the overwhelming of their employees are oversees working in factories, but then I looked up their SEC filing and they don't manufacture their clothes. I'm assuming they have a bunch of part-time employees, but even then, $6000/year assuming $10/hour means employees are working an average of 11 hours per week, which still seems low.
I actually suspect part of the widespread looting is because people who used to have low paying hourly wages before COVID lockdown feel this dread and desperation as this economic depression unfolds.
that a certain politician shouldn't be trumpeting

I have a feeling that choice of words was deliberate. ;-)
The military aren't police.

Yes, they are pretty good at RoE, and when it's time to shoot, they shoot the hell out of their target. But their job is distinctly not to spend all day in pursuit of individual criminals and apprehending them.

Military tries to avoid contact with criminals until it's fireball time.
Forget about the radio. Climate controls are needed, full stop, and they are distracting if touchscreen-driven.
Turbo Pascal, known for its awesome one pass compiler, had the same issue

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/12111/why...
Yeah, imagine you have whole lot of hydrogen and no oxygen to get it to burn. You are going to freeze to death while moving nowhere.

About the only good thing it could be used for is reaction mass. But you can use almost anything as reaction mass as long as you have a source of energy, you can exhaust any particles to propel yourself forward, doesn't have to be hydrogen.
While I wouldn't exactly call my own setup organized, what organization I do successfully maintain is similar. Everything has a permanent location in a structure that has very obviously been poorly tweaked over many years, and then I use symlinks for things I use more often.
I’m not convinced that eliminating police altogether is a good idea, but after reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray-Hill_riot (which cites your Stephen Pinker quote), I don’t think that a situation which also involved “taxi drivers... armed with Molotov cocktails” is representative of what might happen if police departments were disbanded under other circumstances.

(Edit: I regret putting snark over substance in this reply. See my response below, and others’ in this subthread, for a more detailed rebuttal.)
With VFIO on KVM, you can. You can make your own Stadia with actual games that way with a raspi running SteamLink.
This seems cool. I'm curious -- did you try out TeamSpeak before building a custom tool?
Someone must be cutting onions in here.

What a great story.
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What, you mean you didn’t feel the need to give up 75% of your system resources so you could have an active website as the wallpaper of your desktop?
Interesting that the top of the list is more or less companies ranked by median pay ascending (give or take), plus Google.
So whether or not a CEO is "overpaid" depends on their business model?

Hire a part-time janitor at $15k and you look like Mr Burns, but out-source it so your next lowest paid employee is making $150k and you look like a saint.

But nothing's change with how much the CEO is paid.
It is an honor to be a competitor of CMANO
I saw a chart about what hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic did the average family budget. The price of food skyrocketed and the price of just about everything else struggled to keep up. Before food/rent/fuel/other was each 30,30,30,10 percent of the budget. At the end food was 90% of the budget. Rent at 0.2% was a rounding error.

So yeah food goes up 2% is basically nothing.
I mentioned :)
The vast majority of council houses in the U.K. are owned by private landlords who rent to the council.

No one wants to live in Social housing projects in the U.K. and for a good reason they are all rubbish, the U.K. has had some of the worst designed and built social blocks in the world many of them were demolished within 1-2 decades.

Stuffing poor people into high density housing is a horrible idea every study shows that spreading them out is not only cheaper but also much more beneficial to them.
Hydroxychloroquine fails to prevent Covid-19, large study finds
Can you define what you mean by saying other countries squashed the thing? They may have flattened the curve, drove numbers down, etc. but until they get either a herd immunity or a wide vaccination the infections will likely flare up again as soon as travel restrictions get lifted.
>Your parent comment wasn't as outrageous as you make it seem.

Parent didn't account for vastly increased testing capacity in their assertions, and characterized a statistically insignificant increase in deaths as "massive". I objected to that.

I grant that this is not over and needs to be closely watched. I object to the exaggeration of the threat.
The minimum wage hasn't increased since the 80s (when you take the inflation adjusted numbers). The lower the median wage, the higher likelihood of tax payers subsidizes for the lower "half" at the direct benefit of upper "half."

Not saying this is the only point just that outsourcing isn't the only issue here.
They'll take the results of an observational study and herald it as some revolutionary insight

That's been going on for a while, it reminds me of this: https://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/
I don't mind it so long as the political discussion is localized to political stories, and so long as those stories are the minority of content on HN. Generally speaking, the political discussion here is better than on reddit, but I only want to engage with it when I seek it out. What's frustrating is when political discussion creeps into totally unrelated threads.
Many companies have advertised that "our customers who are affected by COVID can contact customer support for ..." type of PR messages announcing discounts/deferments.

I actually started collecting the URLs, but there are so many it's not worth centralizing.

Verizon: https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/covid-19-faqs/#bill

AT&T: https://about.att.com/pages/COVID-19.html

Cox Cable: https://www.cox.com/residential/support/coronavirus-response...

Comcast Xfinity: https://www.xfinity.com/prepare
The language doesn't force them to do that--they could override the interface and not declare the Exception. Then if you were working with an object declared to be ByteArrayOutputStream, you wouldn't need to handle the Exception. If working with the interface, you would, because that's the point of an interface.
Yeah, and a couple of guys with old russian AK-47s in Afghanistan keep fucking us for years.
Nokia believed we'd mostly prefer smartphones with physical keyboards.
Same reason why it’s not accurate to include a worker who work 1 month and quit as having made $10k/year on an annual salary of $120k.
Lack of cross satellite link means that

- To serve as an internet backbone they need to bounce off of ground stations

- In particularly busy areas where they might otherwise have routed traffic up, laterally, down they have to now go up, down resulting in 0.5x local available bandwidth.

- The latency is a few ms higher on long routes when using starlink as a backbone

None of this particularly effects their ability to serve as a consumer ISP. The advantages are still there. Also cross satellite laser links are still the plan as far as the public has been told, just somewhat delayed.

> Gwynne saying we might spin it off: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/6/21126540/spacex-starlink-i....

A day or two after that statement Elon said that the amount they were thinking of spinning it off right now is "0".

PS. Your use of "us" makes me think you might be an insider, I'm definitely not, but as an outsider it looks like SpaceX has a pretty good chance of pulling this off.
Pretty sure he meant DNT and not Incognito Mode.
JavaScript is the upside down.
Because we're talking relatively small numbers. It's easy to create large movements in small numbers.

If one person in my town is murdered this year, and 2 are murdered next year, that's a 100% year over year increase in the homicide rate. But it's obviously a meaningless increase.

2.2 out of a million is a small number. More people in NC are dying every day from cancer or heart disease.
Java's checked exceptions pretty much died when they introduced lambdas. They don't work well together, at least not in the java type system.

Further, I'd say that IndexOutOfBoundsException can happen pretty much everywhere, so it does not make much sense to make it a checked exception anyway.
It needs to be PPP adjusted, like any global comparison.
F-35 has a 20" wide by 8" tall touchscreen. However, just about everything that you do on the touchscreen can also be done with various switches and selectors on the stick and throttle. There's even an equivalent of a mouse that will let you move a cursor around the screen and select items.

About the only things you cannot do on the touch screen are giving stick/throttle inputs and MASTER ARM on/off.
I will not be buying any cars with that interface. Climate controls must be physical, full bloody stop.
Every time I see comments like this, and no direct offense intended, It always strikes me as coming from somebody who has never filed large insurance claims before. Been seeing this so much with riots lately, "oh you have insurance right, why you mad about your business getting destroyed?". If only it was that simple.
This isn't the first route leading straight to satellites. I forget the name of the provider, but there is at least one big allocation where whatever you're sending to it is basically coming straight back down as radio.
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