skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tons of elected sheriffs in the US, usually at the county rather than the city level. for example in the rest of New York State outside of the city, there are elected sheriffs. but there may also be police departments associated with towns or cities. like so much of US government it's a complicated federalist mess.

i don't know how it works on average but there are a few high-profile cases of elected sheriffs seriously abusing their office. Joe Arpaio is the most famous. he had a strong base of support from people in the county, and wasn't afraid to use the powers of his office to target political opponents, which let him stay in power for many years.
I think not having an opinion on the efficacy of a particular medical treatment is the correct phase-state for anyone who is not a medical professional.
Yeah, it would be great if congress did its job as intended, and passed laws and stuff.

Since it hasn't for decades, the Imperial Presidency rises to fill the vacuum.
> What exactly are you missing?

Why should I be limited to the source material? Why can’t I watch a video of someone discussing the topic and providing their own analysis?
That's just not right. The courts have largely held to "non-justiciable political question".

The courts have held that gerrymandering based on race is unconstitutional.

Gerrymandering based on political advantage has yet to be ruled unconstitutional and continues unabated.
And car repairmen could install a tracking device, a hidden microphone, disable the alarm system with a remote command and sell my car's location to car thieves.

Or they could cut the breaks and get me killed.

In fact, even a car wash could do that when I leave the car keys with them and pick up a clean car the next day.
Without denying the problems within the US, can we not immediately descend into whataboutism?
This deal surprises me as the Amazon I know loves to come out with multiple service offerings in every horizontal tech space.

Still curious how this got pulled off even with the "cross-selling" of Chime involved.

Could this be the flirt before a possible acquisition offer?
Like in the 90s when people scavenged Apple ROMs. Buy old Macs, then don't use them.
>good luck figuring out ...

luck, or simply execute the steps you want to check by typing them on the command line. I find the pipes approach incredibly powerful and simple because you can compose and check each step, and assemble. That's really the point, and the power, of a simple and extensible approach.
This video was removed, before being reinstated later:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB-_SV-y11Y
Things in NY can be very strange. If you've ever wondered why the Tappan Zee bridge is where it is, well, it mostly has to do with which of the bickering bureaucracies would be allowed to collect the tolls. Something like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tappan_Zee_Bridge_(1955%E2%80%...
But how difficult is it to move to whatsapp or something that everyone has supported, and most likely has on their phone anyway?
Google Domains is not a corporate registrar. It's thus not targeted at the big corporate Google use case anyway, so that's not a surprise.
You can transfer a domain with no downtime. The name servers will remain during the transfer, so as long as your DNS isn't dependent on the domain registrar, you'll be fine.

If you are using the registrar's built-in DNS hosting, move away from this first, which can also be done with no downtime.
The topic at hand is where to move a domain out to, and whether said company is one that can be relied upon to act ethically and responsibly. I don't see the difference.
I hate gerrymandering too. More competitive elections, in my view, makes politicians less partisan and incentivizes them more to deliver for their districts.

But who should determine who draws electoral lines? Right now, it's in the hands of elected officials, so you can at least vote them out if they gerrymander.

If electoral lines are drawn by a nonpartisan commission, who appoints the commission? How do you ensure the members of the commission stay nonpartisan? Can the public hold members of this commission accountable?

Definitely our current system is broken; what are some alternatives to elected officials drawing electoral lines that are promising?
> Admittedly, Congress—most specifically the Senate—is asleep at the switch, but that's not the Fed’s fault.

It absolutely is the Fed's fault. We are still paying for the sins of the GFC and Fed policy has enabled Congressional dysfunction. Without extremely accommodative Fed policy for the past 10+ years, Congress would be forced to do their job.
> It’s the marriage of Wall Street, real estate capital, and urban planning, with politicians—self-described progressives and moderates alike—religiously supporting tax giveaways and favorable zoning policies for the for-profit developers of real estate.

I don't find this analysis - which ignores the low[1] rate of housing construction in NYC and the political role of homeowners wrt zoning and property values - remotely convincing.

[1] https://pedestrianobservations.com/2020/03/26/new-york-is-sh...
People are very slow to adapt to change. Even when there is an economic advantage to them.

A failing of modern economic theory, assuming that every entity acts logically and in their best interest.
Underlaid by etf rebalancing purchases and sales.
Stopping a mid-rise building during SEPA review because of migratory bird flight paths is one thing, but macro scale environmental impacts that could occur during the constructions of freeways etc - yea we should review thoroughly.
Trying that on teacher unions failed and police are more trusted and more respected than teachers/schools.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/274673/nurses-continue-rate-hig...

https://news.gallup.com/poll/236243/military-small-business-...
same. i was a huge Gnus user. the combination of email and usenet was nice. a bygone era.
I once billed $majorAustralianBank about $70k for time spent debugging (and proving to their IT team) that an edge router in their internal network was a Cisco box that was running a specific (and well out of date) version of the OS that in default configuration was intentionally munging any STARTTLS commands that went through it, so all mail passing through was force downgraded to plain text across int internet (into their Microsoft Office hosted mail system).

Nobody involved at $bank even knew of the existence of this router, and they spent several weeks not believing they even owned that model of Cisco gear or that they had any Cisco gear that wasn't fully updated.

It was "fun times" debugging that and documenting/proving exactly what was breaking with no more access than sftp to a web server running non root privileged PHP.

(We may have gone fairly dark-grey hat and broken quite a few internal rules to achieve that... Then had to "parallel construct" our investigation (before I even knew that term) to explain to their tech people haw we'd identified the root cause.)
> Understanding awk and especially sed will make your python better.

Why do you think so?
In the c api, you can read/write to sockets. Wouldn't be difficult to implement something like your example with a named pipe.

Additionally, there is /dev/tcp in bash.
I'll say it was. I can't believe they shut them down for content that had been removed over a week prior.

I realize some things take time, but the onus is on them to do a final verification before flipping the switch to shut down an entire business(!)

Google is "saving money" on support costs while simultaneously destroying their brand image (at least among the tech crowd). It will be near impossible for them to re-earn that goodwill. It's such ridiculously short sighted thinking.

I'm moving off of G-Suite this week. This is the final straw.
Facebook's survival is precipitated on globalism and an impotent national identity. They can't have any more China's standing up to Facebook's imperial demands for total surveillance of every citizen. Thus, the globalist BBC will be welcomed with open arms while any entity that wishes to protect their indigenous culture and opposes globalization in any way will now be a "threat" -- it's all rather transparent.
I mean the police have routinely planted undercover officers in protests.

There are plenty of people who have claimed said some of the plainclothes cops were doing the actual inciting, though obviously such reports are unsubstantiated - the reporters and the police both have ample reason to lie here.
The burn it down and rebuild approach is terrifying. There's absolutely no reason to think there will be anything left to rebuild. Do you really think a Country like the US with thousands of nuclear weapons will allow itself to be torn down? You really think strongmen won't appear and enforce totalitarianism on any country sufficiently destabilized? There's a million ways for that sequence to go horribly wrong and like 5 where it works out. It's not a real solution.
Qualified Immunity: Explained
Just FYI: It is generally required for EU passports to have fingerprint biometric data. From the Wikipedia page, passports of the European Union:

Only British and Irish passports are not obliged by EU law to contain fingerprint information in their chip. With the exception of passports issued by Denmark, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, all EU citizens applying for a new ordinary passport or passport renewal by 28 August 2006 (for facial images) and 28 June 2009 (for fingerprints) should have been biometrically enrolled. This is a consequence of Regulation (EC) 2252/2004 in combination with two follow-up decisions by the European Commission.
> Arrests and summonses plummeted in early 2015. This, in labor and political parlance, is called a slowdown.

Why doesn't this lead to shrinking budgets and layoffs of police? Aren't they providing a data backed solution to reducing the cities budget?
We (NanoVMs) are looking at unikernels - that is reworking the guest. Also, while they reside on top of a hypervisor there is plenty of work that can be done to advance the state of the art here. NFV, 5G, and edge deployments are going to drive a lot of attention here.

I wouldn't discount the work of firecracker here because that is more on the line of reworking the monitor versus the guest which really hasn't had a ton of attention in the past. Other work here includes things like Solo5.
For Erlang it is https://github.com/clojerl/clojerl
There's plenty of possible harm by applying unproven treatments to patients in serious condition. Even if said treatment was deemed to be safe in other instances. Also drug interactions have to be accounted for. It might also exacerbate conditions from this pathology (for instance, further stresses on the cardiovascular system are dangerous for COVID patients).

We are not shamans.
Would that disqualify any form of resistance arrest charge, since you can't tell they're cops and not random people assaulting you?
> Apple prefers

Essential to the concept of ownership, is the idea that I don't give a rat's ass what Apple or anyone else prefers. Do I own my phone, or does Apple?
Of course you can. For example, Dr. John Campbell has a popular Youtube channel where he dissects new studies. And if you just want an opposing political spin, you know Fox News and co. have Youtube channels, right?

What gets taken down is spittle-flecked rants about how COVID-19 was created by Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci to bring about the Biblical apocalypse, but can be cured by drinking bleach, but simultaneously it doesn't even exist.
I don't doubt that Signal has put a significant amount of effort into making sure its blurs can't be reversed. But when I look at the results in the photo, I don't understand why they would put in that effort. Why derive a blur from the base photo at all?

Things that seem way easier to me:

A) blacking out the face entirely with a solid color,

B) if that looks ugly, replacing it with some kind of clip-art,

C) if that still looks ugly, replacing it with a gradient

D) if that still looks ugly, replacing it with a pre-blurred face from a generic set of buckets.

I sort of get the aesthetic argument, but I also really don't, because the way Signal is blurring faces is ugly, at least in the photo they show. It's not a seamless thing that blends into the background and looks way better than a solid color. It's giant squares, and the amount of blurring means that the contents are basically indistinguishable from a radial gradient to my eyes anyway. Am I missing something? Would a gradient really look any worse than this?

Is there some kind of use-case where blurs give aesthetically much better results than what we're seeing in the photo? Are the concerns I'm seeing below about de-masking just fear-mongering? Are blurs in general just pretty safe, fast, and easy to do? Moxie isn't stupid, I assume in situations like this he knows what he's doing.
The case for declaring armed and fully autonomous drone swarms as WMD
thanks. how did I miss that? it's kind of a big deal!
Because the article says "...the Oslo District Court ruled in 2018 that Huseby did not violate Apple’s trademark, because Huseby never claimed to be using unused original spare parts".

A court found that the customer wasn't being deceived, and this specific finding has not been overturned on appeal. The issue is about IP rights unrelated to customer deception.
thanks! it looks a lot better recently -- the 1.4.0 version is much cleaner than that 1.1.0 garbage. i didn't link it because it starts with a minute of me talking (and looking absolutely hideous that day, ugh): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvWdUfIStDI
I worked around that by writing a Python script to let me pick the groups of interest, download all of the data for a certain time period, and collapse them into a CSV file ordered by time stamp.

Yes, it’s very annoying I have to do all that, but I commend Bezos for his foresight in demanding everything be driven by APIs.
Alright, what the bloody hell is this text, and Peter Galison, attempting to say?

> A black hole hoards images of the past. Light is composed of photons, and each one carries a bit of the image of whatever it hits. So when you see a tree the light hits the tree, bounces to your eye, and your brain eventually pulls it all together like a mosaic. Light stuck in a black hole’s gravitational pull can loop once, twice, or an infinite number of times, depending on its angle of approach, Lupsasca said. Those[sic] that finally escape in the direction of Earth carry a reflection of what the universe looked like when they entered the black hole’s pull. The longer light was held captive, the earlier in the past their image shows.

> “As we peer into these rings, first, second, third, etc., we are looking at light from all over the visible universe; we are seeing farther and farther into the past, a movie, so to speak, of the history of the visible universe,” said Peter Galison, the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics...

Does anyone assert that any photon carries information about what it interacted with in the past? Does a photon have any information content other than its energy/wavelength? So "each one carries a bit of the image of whatever it hits" is total (ok, be nice now) poetic blarney.

So then, you observe some photons coming away from a black hole, how the AF are you supposed to be able to know which ones circled it once, twice, 42 times, whatever? And in what possible sense, Prof. Galison, is any of that like a "movie of the history of the universe"?
What makes you think that overall ethical behavior of a domain registrar is not relevant to the topic at hand?
Yeah even for this, if you already have a job, you can't quit your current to work full time for this other job without even getting the actual job.
Sounds like an elegant solution since they do not need to counter points of views like Twitter did recently with Trump. But still provides valuable information.
I'm pretty sure anyone cause cloudflare's DDoS protection. It's not limited to a particular political persuasion.
I am currently building a keyboard from scratch. Will have matrix (ortholinear) layout and will be running my completely custom controller software so that I can play with the mappings and functionality to my heart's desire. In particular I was thinking about putting sd card slot where I could put steno dictionary and have steno built in the keyboard. Mainly because I typically work on some high sec corporate computers where I am unable to install any custom software.
I see it as a bit of both. I don't see myself going to a movie theater anytime soon even if they are allowed to open. Our restaurant spending is 1/3 what it used to be. A tank of gas lasts almost a month rather than a week. I used to go grocery shopping every week with at least one additional trip to grab one thing I needed. Now I go every 2 weeks and don't make a special trip unless we absolutely can't make anything without that missing ingredient.

All kinds of jobs are at risk in this type of environment. Service will be hit hardest but there are ripple effects that will impact pretty much everyone to some degree.
I share your dislike for voice control. But using it for some non-essential controls (like the air conditioning) while driving a car is the one place I've thought of where I would be comfortable using it.
This was allowed ?
Thanks for sharing! I'll have to give that a read sometime. It looks quite interesting.
That's still quite some decent margin. It takes about 5 minutes for me to fill my 40L tank, which would be about 1€. Everything is automated, there is absolutely no human involved, and it works 24/24.
NYPD and the Mayor were duking even before this, and NYPD have turned their back to Mayor at the Police funeral. The stakes might have gone higher, but the bad blood was there at least few years old.
Cheers! I’ll definitely give this a read-through.
> sent to an e-mail address on a domain they had just suspended...

I remember logging into an Ad Exchange account and discovering Google was sending emails to it. No one at the company was aware of it.
Oh - districts should be drawn to guarantee mathematical fairness and a few relatively good measures exist[1] including one that was used in court in connection to a particularly egregious Wisconsin district (the efficiency-gap measure).

This is really less of an unsolvable problem than people make it out to be - it's just that most of the discussion you hear about it is from the political parties both of which benefit from its existence and, especially, the incumbents who have a much more secure seat with careful district drawing to make sure you don't get too many progressives that might vote out a centrist (or ditto on the other side)

1. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mathematician...
An excellent Qualified Immunity explainer:

https://theappeal.org/qualified-immunity-explained/
The lancet is a good journal, but how did this study as well as that retracted study on vaccines and autism end up in this journal and not JAMA or NEJM? At this point, I'm a little suspicious of their peer review process if these contrarian papers that turn out to be wrong in the end aren't being properly scrutinized at the peer review level, and will spend much more time in methods sections of striking lancet papers.
How do you listen to that video and hear anything other than "you will be dead" ?
Scala is amazing if you want to use it for light weight server programming and want to use functional constructs along the way.

If somehow you are convinced to use Akka because of high throughput streaming architecture, please just take a step back and make sure you understand what you are getting into!
That was a great article! Pipes can definitely be very powerful. I will say, though, that I often find myself reading pages of documentation in order to actually get anything with Unix and its many commands.
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You haven’t used or experienced .ok files and are seeing them as a competitor to makefiles and being very defensive. They’re not a competitor to makefiles.

With ok you can also name the commands. It’s optional.

I would suggest using both, in a project that involves building, if you are already comfortable with makefiles. You may also have npm scripts, again I’d suggest both. You’ll probably find it quite comfortable and fun.

Makefiles have more features but bring with them more complexity and nuance, for example the dependency features, which are useful for making but a hindrance for a lot of other project tasks. When I show a “getting started with makefiles” guide to my documentation friend they look at me like I’m insane. It is truly cryptic to the uninitiated. But you already understand makefiles, so try using both.
LinkedIn Staffers Go All-Lives-Matter During ‘Dumpster Fire’ Meeting on Racism
I'm not sure what you are comparing it to.

The US has had more testing per capita than New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, or Canada.

Compared to countries like India and Bangladesh, the US has had well over an order of magnitude more testing.

I'm looking at the main chart, second to last column, at
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Google is the registry of some novelty TLDs as well, and you are pretty much bound to dance the way Google wants with those TLDs.
What was the cost to himself? He clearly has the experience to obtain a similarly compensated job, and if the post achieved what would be its 'virtuous' goal of large exposure, it would be done so on a short timeline no less (a recruiter from Microsoft has already reached out).
In terms of being able to open a ticket and get a response from a real human, for .ca domains the registrar canspace is quite responsive.
In the early 2k's I discovered that it was impossible to quote or escape spaces in filepaths in a makefile. I naively reported it to the Make maintainer as a bug.

The maintainer responded by saying, basically, that the behavior was deeply baked in and was not going to change.
Sure, sometimes a simple, crude runtime will do, but if you need really good performance and low-overhead deep observability, you might want to be saddled with something that's more state-of-the-art.
It should be noted that none of the men involved in the shomrim beating of the black man (he also happened to be gay and an artist, and lost one of his eyes in the attack), mentioned in the article, ultimately served out any sort of prison sentence for their roles. All of them got off on technicalities in appeals, and no one seems interested in justice for the man whose life and livelihood were threatened.
This sounds like the Lisp curse.
Good for them. Even more ugly coffee from shabby machines at inflated prices :)
That's the quote from the interview I mentioned. Now find me the policy you claim exists. Hell, even find me a transcript of that interview. This is literally one story written about one out of context quote with no external verification by any of the parties involved. It's the very definition of manufactured outrage.

As far as the video you linked: it was reinstated. That's right there in the headline of the article you linked. They messed up, and put it back. Isn't that saying that their actual policy is the opposite of what you claim?
As far as I've read, Surgisphere claimed to have a study based on deaths in Australia using paid for data from Australian hospitals. But the data was citing a death figure that was corrected weeks after the apparent 'study', which looked really suspect.

When contacted not a single hospital in Australia knew of Surgisphere or the study, and none of them had any commercial relationship with Surgisphere.
Court overturns EPA approval of popular herbicide made by Monsanto