skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a natural experiment in what happens without police when the city is in the midst of an extreme wave of crime and violent protest, and one of the protests turns into a riot while the police were on strike.

The idea that this incident demonstrates that any city will go up in flames immediately if the police take the day off is a misreading this specific moment in history.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray-Hill_riot

That's not to dispute the idea that cities will generally retain order if police are absent. I imagine it varies wildly from one time and place to another.
Severe RSI forced me to learn mousing with my non-dominant hand. Now I am "ambimoustrous" and switch back and forth throughout the day. When I start a new job, the first thing I request is a second mouse so that I have one available at all times on both sides of the keyboard and can switch easily.
It seems people are working on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet
If there is deflation in the housing market, then marginal mortgage holders will walk away and become renters. That will swell the ranks of renters and drive up rents.

In many metro areas owner occupied real estate is overpriced relative to rents. When this imbalance corrects rents will rise, as before the correction owner occupants were subsidizing renters by overpaying for property even though renting made more sense.
It’s still too soon to tell but it seems like the economic impact of a thorough lockdown (New Zealand) isn’t much greater than most people staying home voluntarily (Sweden). The difference seems worth it to control the pandemic. Two weeks from now it looks like New Zealand (with zero cases left) with have fewer restrictions than Sweden.
Sort of, but none of the debris will reach the ground. The current version of Starlink is designed to burn up completely in the atmosphere upon re-entry.
The Vigiles were a police force[1] in ancient Rome, so they're not a recent innovation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigiles#Police_force
I’ve been on paternity leave for 4 months out of 6 just playing with my kids. It’s awesome.

I would love to not work and just play with my kids.
Well, it's alright to be a pessimist. Not everyone has to be an optimist and wrong to be happy. I consider myself a pessimist and I don't suffer from anxiety. So maybe the assumption is somewhat true.
The Rwandan government, or at least individuals involved with the Rwandan government at the highest levels, were making the broadcasts.

If anything they would have cracked down on opposing broadcasts by claiming that, since Tutsis are the historically privileged beneficiaries of colonialism who were collectively responsible for the violent oppression of Hutus, any pro-Tutsi or anti-anti-Tutsi sentiment was unconscionable hate speech while any pro-Hutu or anti-Tutsi bigotry was not technically racism. The power to ban “hate speech” is the power to define “hate speech” and hateful people will use against you the very same weapons you propose to fight them with.
Choosing a React Starter Kit
> No amount of power removal and accountability will change the "nails" perception if the only job they have is hammering.

Providing the police with conflicting responsibilities isn’t going to solve that problem. At best it’s a waste of resources, and at worse it makes everything worse. You can’t expect the police to earnestly participate in improving a community when at any moment their responsibilities may obligate them to decide that it’s the community members who are the problem, and that they need to go to jail.

The very nature of the justice system is adversarial, and the police are it’s enforcers. Attempting to burden them with responsibilities that directly conflict with their role in the system isn’t going to fix anything.
So all that would have been OK if he were elected?
Ask HN: Venmo Down?
I believe you aren't. Obs+virtual cam means you can run a live, multifeed show without having to rely on zooms auto-switching. Essentially, you can spotlight your feed, use zoom and other software to feed into obs, and then have a talking-heads experience with multiple people on the same view at the same time without the jumping jitters between two speakers. You can also then embed anything else you want, like video files, images, text, etc.

Essentially, it let's you run a live production over zoom and it is a blast. I've run two shows myself and helped with tech on another two with this setup and they've all been fun.
I was implying that some people always want more, regardless of how much they already have.

But sure, I agree that those desperate people can also be dangerous.
Derek Chauvin Charge Upgraded to 2nd-Degree Murder in George Floyd Case
Clicked on the link on my phone and hitting the back button just refreshed the page over and over again. Had to long press the back button and select hackernews to escape. Stop overwriting the back functionality of the browser please!
How soon can I buy baked goods with images on them?
Deer love to rub velvet of their antlers on the pines around me and it's not uncommon to see a whole group of pines without any branches on the lower half and they rub all the bark they can reach off in the fall. If it's 40 ft, would wrapping the trunk with tree wrap protect it until their gone? Then asses it, hopefully it starts to cover the exposed areas on it's own
I dunno about no police, but Sir Robert Peel has a thought (I posted this the other day, apologies if you've seen it before.) This seems to me to be pretty sane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles

> The Peelian principles summarise the ideas that Sir Robert Peel developed to define an ethical police force. The approach expressed in these principles is commonly known as policing by consent in the United Kingdom and other countries including Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

> In this model of policing, police officers are regarded as citizens in uniform. They exercise their powers to police their fellow citizens with the implicit consent of those fellow citizens. "Policing by consent" indicates that the legitimacy of policing in the eyes of the public is based upon a general consensus of support that follows from transparency about their powers, their integrity in exercising those powers and their accountability for doing so.
> 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.

I think a lot of people haven't realized that for many workers, being furloughed or having your hours reduced can result in an effective raise under the current Coronavirus aid package.

A friend's company furloughed everyone on Fridays. She was disappointed at first, until she realized this hours reduction qualified her for the $600/week Coronavirus aid. Now she's making more money, working less, and enjoying 3-day weekends.

Now everyone at her company is trying to convince management to continue the Friday furlough until the $600/week stimulus runs out.

This is why I don't trust the unemployment claim numbers until after July. Too many perverse incentives to increase the number of claims.
Sure, just like it rains meteors now. But they are specifically designed to completely burn up during reentry.
No, material and nonpublic is necessary but insufficient for the trading to be illegal. It must also break a confidentiality agreement, fiduciary duty or specific law pertaining to the way the information is released to the person and their duties thereof.

This is to say that it's illegal for congresspeople to trade on material, nonpublic information because there is now a law explicitly governing it. If they (or anyone) develop the material, nonpublic information through original research, it's not illegal.

Don't trust Wikipedia summaries for these things.
I'm one of SeatGeek's cofounders, good question.

It was indeed Apple's "Sign In with Apple" deadline that prompted us to make the change (for those who don't know, apps that offer sign in via a third party auth mechanism will also need to offer sign in with Apple), but it's something we've considered on and off for many years.

Two big reasons. The first is that when we work with pro sports teams, fans of that team are able to sign in to their team accounts using SeatGeek. Having Facebook, and potentially Apple, also in the mix there felt like it would lead to a lot of confusion. The second is that while we've seen that sign in with Facebook leads to more sign ups in the first place, we've also seen that it causes confusion for users who are later unsure how they initially signed in, and that confusion can hit just as they're trying to pull up their tickets outside of an event.
I would have been a great idea on December 30th.
I've been running obs on my 2012 mbp with three to four live feeds at a time. My fans spin up and the cpu gets warm, but I haven't been dropping frames or having any major issues.
The evisceration of mandatory mental illness treatment programs and powers was primarily driven by psychiatrists' promises and civil rights advocates' demands. Legislators keen on budget reduction were simply happy to oblige, and Reagan didn't standout in that regard. He just happened to have a higher profile due to his being governor of California and then president. All other states made the same mistake as California, did so at around the same time, and it all unraveled long before Reagan became president.

Here's a more contemporaneous 1984 NY Times investigative article detailing the history: "How Release of Mental Patients Began", https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-me...

EDIT: The report mentioned in the article is presumably, "The Homeless Mentally Ill: A Task Force Report of the American Psychiatric Association", https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.7.782 I can't find a freely available copy online, however.
The really interesting thing about Toki Pona is that it's meant to force you to think about the meaning of your words in a positive light.
Not every rocket - liquid fuel ones only to a very limited, logistically awkward and costly degree. As the US and Soviets learned, keeping fleets of liquid fueled ICBMs ready to go is dangerous and expensive. Storable fully solid fuel ICBMs such as current-generation US/Russian stuff are quite different.
Old Pokémon Games' Encounter Rates Are Different on Different Days
Do you have a good source to recommend with a more detailed overview?
The claim may be true, but the stats you quoted aren’t enough evidence to support it. A better comparison would account for the number and type of police encounters and might also account for the types of weapons they are likely to encounter in the course of their duties.
"Facebook employees should take some measure of pride in that, he said: "I would urge people not to look at the moral impact of what we do just through the lens of harm and mitigation. That's clearly a huge part of what we have to do - I'm not downplaying that. ... But it's also about the upside, and the good, and giving people a voice who wouldn't have previously been able to get into the news and talk about stuff. And having painful things be visible. I think that matters, too."

Employees I spoke with did not seem particularly moved by these answers. "Everyone's grateful we have a chance to address these things directly with him," one told me. "At the same time, no one thinks he gave a single real answer."

Another said Zuckerberg appeared "really scared" on the call. "I think he fears his employees turning on him," the employee said. "At least that's what I got from facial expressions and tone."

At the same time, another employee told me that Zuckerberg's decision was supported by the majority of the company, but that people who agreed with it were afraid to speak out for fear of appearing insensitive. (An employee who spoke on the call echoed this point.)"

So much for "free speech" within Facebook, the company. In this case, "popular opinion" cannot be shared openly.
The idea is that it will decrease in severity over time. It may already be doing so. In early March they were tracking a dozen mutations already.

From the linked article [0], quoting a number of infectious disease experts, coronavirus researchers, epidemiologist, etc:

>OC43 and 229E are more prevalent than other endemic human coronaviruses, especially in children and the elderly. Together, the four are responsible for an estimated one-quarter of all colds. “For the most part they cause common-cold-type symptoms,” said Richard Webby, an influenza expert at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. “Maybe that is the most likely end scenario if this thing becomes entrenched.”

>Odds: Moderate. “I think there is a reasonable probability that this becomes the fifth community-acquired coronavirus,” Adalja said, something he expanded on in his blog. Webby agreed: “I have a little bit of hope that, OK, we’ll put up with a couple of years of heightened [2019-nCoV] activity before settling down to something like the other four coronaviruses.”

>Odds: Pretty good. What we may be seeing “is the emergence of a new coronavirus … that could very well become another seasonal pathogen that causes pneumonia,” said infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota. It would be “more than a cold” and less than SARS: “The only other pathogen I can compare it to is seasonal influenza.”

(The article had a lot of other interesting and relevant information.)

[0] https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/04/two-scenarios-if-new-cor...
Megacorp gonna megacorp. There are 655 billion reasons why Facebook will continue to act in the interests of its sole reason for existence as a money-making enterprise, as it has for a decade. All the hemming and hawing and hand-wringing and agonizing they portray...ignore it. Just watch the actions. Actions speak louder than words, Mark.
Five people with opinions (on a post with 112 voters) is astroturfing? Also, from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email us and we'll look at the data.
That is because the actual stipulation is for there to be a confidentiality or fiduciary agreement. As shorthand, "illicitly obtained" could therefore be replaced with, "illicitly appropriated."

On its own, material and nonpublic information is fine to trade with. Likewise not all insider trading is illegal; most of it is explicitly legal and mundane.
Lol
Umn.ac.id
> What financial investments?

He has three trusts who have holdings in Sanofi, the manufacturer. For one of the trusts, Sanofi is the single largest holding.

> a generic $0.04 drug.

Not sure where you're getting that. GoodRx: "The lowest GoodRx price for the most common version of hydroxychloroquine is around $14.95, 91% off the average retail price of $174.01." https://www.drugs.com/price-guide/hydroxychloroquine has it at around $0.63-$0.80 per dose.

It's also 5 doses of that drug dose per person per 48 hours. The standard dosing regime is 14 days. Seven million confirmed cases and we're in the realm of $200M. Prophylactic dosing is the same, for how many millions of people, and now we're talking a lot of money and a lot of financial interest.
There are plenty of half-finished mesh projects that don't have critical mass. The biggest problem with any kind of disaster preparation is that it won't work when you need it unless you use it on a regular basis, so ideally you'd want a mesh that's better than regular ISPs. Nobody has been able to crack that.
JinjaSQL – Template Language for SQL
So... more work, slower, and fewer features than GA.
Maybe we should treat Android API like an x86 processor (no one writes x86 assembly except compiler writers) and let the "compilers" like React Native reduce the mental strain.
Read the SEC documentation on insider trading directly. Barring that, Matt Levine gives accessible (and entertaining) which is informative for a lay audience.
Show HN: Hotpot – A framework for building the home of your microservices
As the wave of microservices architecture hit, the hypothesis is that companies with a reasonably large size of microservices would want a dashboard or a home page to see these services, their metadata and their status in a single place.

They may further want to see where the services stand in terms of some rules/metrics.

Hotpot is a Spring Boot framework that allows companies to build these functionalities more easily, by simply integrating with their own datasources.

A demo app for using the framework is at: https://demo.hotpotland.com
I made a dumb joke. It wasn't sarcasm, satire, snark, or any sort of point. It was a bit of wordplay. That's all. People liked it, and it got a few upvotes.

Someone asked a question, and I posted a response. Then everything got downvotes, so perhaps the response was no longer funny. I probably took it to far. So now I'm posting a clarification.

Or perhaps I'm reading too much into things.
The Future of Fish Farming
The dominant factor in what gets traction off /newest is randomness, unfortunately, so you can't conclude anything from one or two data points. I'll send you a repost invite for that one.
yes, apologies for lack of clarity

basically if you have 8 users and you need 1,000 users/month to quit your day job, stop
It's an unfortunate reality of this site that the top position is always terrible (my eyes have been trained to not even look that high on the page if I see the orange color scheme), and the best posts are languishing somewhere with 2 upvotes.

I guess the optimization is for reasonable quality at the middle of the front page.

e: of course, now that I say that, the actually excellent iMessage for Windows article from this thread has been placed on top.
I believe they've done it twice now: once for the Daily Stormer [0], once for 8chan [1]. I'm fairly impressed that they host criticism of those decisions on their own website [2].

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/

[2] https://www.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-criticism/
The World’s Priciest Sibling Rivalry: Asia’s Richest Man vs His Brother
One of them seems to have posted the actual reason if you are interested.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23411486
> The notability is commercial: StarLink is ready, or at least preparing, to negotiate peering with other providers. That’s a whole other ball game, c.f http://drpeering.net/white-papers/Art-Of-Peering-The-Peering....

Can you delve into the possible business models (not military)_ and commercial applications if this remains?

Starlink is seriously this biggest mystery to me about SpaceX's over all trajectory, I find it fascinating but ,my mind doens't conjure up many more thoughts than they'll either be an ISP or work with ISPs to reach a currently unavailable demographic, the nuts and bolts of how are entirely lost on me as I realistically don't understand the Industry.
How to build an admin mode to impersonate user accounts
The protests in France in the 1790s had pretty successful long lasting effects...
This seems to me like the obvious answer. Zuckerberg has no problem censoring nudity...but that threatens his advertising revenue so it doesn't raise any concerns and he doesn't have to pretend to care about "free speech". They have a lot of "community standards" that they don't mind censoring ... but all of them threaten advertising dollars.

https://about.fb.com/news/2015/03/explaining-our-community-s...
The short version:

- It was a non-binding side comment (dicta) not particularly grounded in existing law on the decision it was presented.

- It was presented in a decision that has since been overturned in effect which is notorious as one allowing government prosecution of core political speech “because socialism”.
If you heat it more each time, yeah, the old air can act as a cold reservoir and make things run.

If you do draw it with enough detail, you'll notice that if you do not heat it more at each turn, you won't be able to get any pressure difference at your "explosion".
"No factual basis" is more accurate with respect to the particular example.
Reduced surveillance sounds like a welcome feature.
Node => Deno => Done.

One can simply say, 'Deno is like Node but done right'.
Given that unpredictability is key to curiosity (see [1] and [2]), we're very open to ideas about how to make HN's front page more uncorrelated. A suggestion I heard recently was to downweight the most commonly submitted sites (there are lots of different ways one could do this). A common complaint is that there are too many mainstream news articles that are too samey with each other. I'm sympathetic to that too. Anyone want to make more suggestions?

I'm going to downweight this subthread itself, so it doesn't distract too much from polote's Show HN.

[1] The best submissions are ones that you can't predict from any sequence of previous submissions. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] Curiosity abhors repetition. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
That's not what the poster said. You think you heard "censorship" because you want to hear "censorship" because that's what you want to argue against. But please read their comment again. They literally said they don't know the answer.

Also what that poster did say--and I agree--is that people lack critical thinking skills and have not developed immunity to flat-out bullshit. There's a huge education pipeline problem and our society is at risk because its normal resistance would be to have voters that can think for themselves. Things like flat earth and moon landing conspiracy theories don't need to be "not allowed", they just wouldn't take hold if people could think through basic logic.
Further to my comment above, I can see from the internal YC discussion forums that the issue is being actively discussed within the community, with some of the discussions being initiated by the most senior YC partners, and others by YC company founders. A sincere intent to bring about tangible change is evident. It would be inappropriate to share more details publicly, but I can attest that support and action is evident in the YC leadership and community.
Check out the Robert Caro books on LBJ. I’d definitely argue “justice”, with a serious helping of insecurity.
How about holograms?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsDnkrDvkBo
That is actually the literal definition of a handout.
(In a better world, Android was written in Common Lisp.)
As is probably evergreen browsers to use all features. I use proxies which are notoriously hard to polyfill. It is possible to avoid them but I was not taking IE in mind after that. So while possible to support older browsers with Babel unclear what all the polyfills that would be necessary.
Create and orchestrate Cloud Functions
With all of the layers of legislation and enforcement, by in large, most citizens hands are clean when it comes to the current round of hot-button issues. (Waiting for someone to post #americashandsareclean and keep the spotlight on policy)

This appears to be another diversion (or attempt at despair) gathered from all of the pieces in motion so far in 2020.

Sticking to the policy debate, do you/we really need paramilitary prisons on american soil would have made for better rootcause reporting.
Metcalfe's Law [0] dictates that the value of a network service scales exponentially with its number of nodes. This tilts the table in favor of winner-take-all ecosystems; moreover, in terms of both political soft power and cultural influence, this often creates a pressure for users to participate, not quite under duress, but let's say unenthusiastically, lest they be left out of the conversation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law