skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they had decades to change something and just about nothing happened, is a nuanced conversation about this realistic?

This is simply because it hasn't been a priority. It's good that this is drawing attention to the issue (assuming there aren't more important issues that aren't receiving attention as a consequence--I'm withholding judgment), but it's bad insofar as it's being portrayed as a race issue when there is apparently no racial component in police killings. I think the good outweighs the bad, but we could have it both ways.

> Plus, if they wanted a nuanced conversation it would help if they didn't shoot at and abuse media representatives.

I care very little about whether the police want more nuance or not. Americans deserve a nuanced debate, better data about police violence, a media apparatus that isn't overtly and deliberately optimizing for strife and division, etc.

> I don't feel distribution of fatalities is a great argument. The absolute number of officer involved shootings in the US is just ridiculous for a first world country, supporting those currently visibly affected shouldn't be too hard then, it would help others as well.

It sounds like you don't understand the argument :). It's not "we shouldn't do anything about police brutality because it doesn't have a strong racial component"--virtually everyone agrees that our rates of police violence are far too high (however, that doesn't mean everyone agrees that it's the most important problem). The debate (well, to the extent that this is a debate--it's highly taboo to try to understand and remedy these problems) is about the extent to which this is a racial issue--this is important because (1) it's important to our ongoing national dialogue (again, not much of a dialogue due to taboo) about race and political ideologies and (2) it determines how we go about fixing the police violence issue (if it's not a function of bias then anti-bias training won't help).
Is your argument that the consent decree preventing Microsoft from innovating wrt to the web, or that they were afraid to because of the recent anti-trust action? The former I have a hard time believing (though I probably haven't read enough history on it to make an informed decision), but the latter seems very plausible.
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For reference, years later, in 1996-1997, it was not uncommon for people to have a Pentium CPU with 16 MB of RAM.

The 90s decade really saw Moore's law in full effect.
Visionaries get other people to act, and that's important.

WeWork is not a real company, built on Koolaid. This is the paradox. Without the founder's BS it likely would not have happened. Though his forecasts were rubbish, there was (and is) a material, underlying business.

It doesn't take an extrovert to pump the Koolaid a lot of awkward people have kind of a stubborn/lack-of-self-awareness kind of focus, and their own self-belief gives confidence to others.

I think it's rare that successful companies are built without a little bit of 'stupid confidence'. Which at first glance is a paradox, but not once you think about it.
it is also not the job or the prerogative of cops to punish anybody FFS.

They have a VERY special role in society where they are authorized to use violence against other citizens. This role absolutely does not include any form of punishment or beating up people because they feel like it.

Unfortunately police needs way stricter rules, monitoring and accountability than what they have today in many countries.
> I bought a wearable blood oxygen meter as I was concerned I had apnea

Any recommendation?
I think you and the executive may agree. It did have an impact, because the moribund culture at Microsoft hurt the stock for about a dozen years after the anti-trust. All the growth has been recent, and has required a massive strategic and organizational refocusing of Microsoft away from Windows to cloud, where Microsoft does not have to worry about anti-trust.

That is not to say it is not worth sending Google through a similar period of moribundity until they find new leadership and markets to pursue.
i've heard stories of call centers accepting "oh, i don't remember, i just typed a bunch of random letters and numbers" as confirmation over the phone.
If managers are disagreeing in public, it is either because they never agreed to something in private beforehand (poor communication) or because the couldn't stick to the agreement (lack of professionalism). Such disagreement is thus a symptom, not a cause of management problems. You shouldn't be undermining eachother with arguments, but forbidding such arguments does not fix the underlying issue, it only hides it and lets it fester.
> The list goes on - true, most cops certainly want to be good, but there are systematic issues emporing the bad ones.

No, I would say that most cops will follow whatever the culture is in their organization. If the culture is rotten, then they do bad things.
This reads as "erase the parts of yourself that might make the mainstream uncomfortable." What you're writing seems very much to distill down to not discomfiting a default-white, default-male, default-affluent worldview, because it might make you feel bad when people get mad at you for existing.

Care to refine your position?
Please don't respond in the flamewar style regardless of how wrong or provocative another comment was. It just makes the thread even worse, and it's against the site guidelines too: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
> It really doesn't take much to brigade

What's frightening is that groups like politicians, unions, and extreme right-wing groups could very easily use this technique to quickly and pretty effectively promote or quell discussion.

I just recently saw an example of where this might have happened. Very suddenly a comment in a discussion I was following - what initially was a popular up-voted opinion (i.e discussing police brutality) - got down-voted into oblivion (from +5 to -25) in less than 5 minutes. The comment was deleted soon after - probably to protect their score.

This kind of quick/easy manipulation by bots can't be easy to detect/deal with yet I fear it may become mainstream.
It is decidedly not illegal to scrape web sites. This was recently established by a court [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn
sure, let's frame everything in good vs bad, that's not limiting at all
Are you saying police should receive unconditional support and praise up until the moment where their net moral score is exactly zero?

Or can we both believe that police is net good but falls far short of how good they should be? And that they deserve to feel the heat for it.
>KIA
The mods had to stop in and tell their own subreddit to stop celebrating the death of a trans e-sport player [1]. A year ago or so they also had issues with white supremacists.

>TLOU2
Just some choice picks from a recent thread [2]

"Everyone that is part on lgbtq should go live on an island. I wanna see how long you last. Since you hate straight people. And dont know how to reproduce because you think ass holes feel better than pussy."

"They'd need migration to reach replacement level for their plummetting birth rates "

"Because their fuckery and meddling has brought us to this, be gay in silence instead of shoving ity down everyone's throat. You are the fucking minority. LGBTQ is an evolutuionary dead-end for a reason"

"SJWs need to be castrated. Yikes."

"Gays are parasites. They don’t reproduce but steal instead, corrupting the youth through pedophilia. See: Milo. See: Steve Huffman. Many such cases!"

>unpopular_opinion
It used to be pretty questionable a few months ago, but maybe it got better. I haven't really bothered staying up to date on it.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/eho1nb/remi...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLastOfUs2/comments/g9825v/what_t...
If the content was less temporary, was more like a forum than an image board and had a bit more of a modern look / feel to it.
The lack of badging is unconsciounable, that shit needs to be fixed.

But I would argue that Bureau of Prisons riot units may well be better equipped to handle civil unrest of this sort than most conventional police depts on the following grounds:

The US doesn't have much institutional experience dealing with rioters or massive protests of this nature. What little there is, is in the hands of local agencies, and hasn't necessarily spread to other departments. The closest thing to a law enforcement agency with significant crowd control experience is the Bureau of Prisons.

Your average beat cop is trained for day-to-day enforcement actions, and is accustomed to a certain level of respect or deference not typically granted to prison guards. They're also accustomed to significantly outnumbering the belligerent actors they encounter. The stress of operating in situations where you're significantly outnumbered by contemptuous and openly hostile people is more than likely alien to them.

Conventional police forces - to my knowledge - do not train riot control techniques with any regularity. Comparing livestreams of the Floyd protests with Greek and German crowd control operations, the American police tend to be less coordinated in their advances (more gaps in their lines, they tend to be spread out from one another, they respond less quickly in a coordinated manner), and are quicker to react to potentially hostile actions with violence. Though I'll admit that this could be a difference of crowd control philosophy, or an adaptation to America's wider streets but it does strike me as being more likely to result in unnecessary injury to protestors, and vulnerable to charges by rioters. I believe that the near ubiquitous misuse of rubber bullets by LEOs during the protests are evidence of this.

The Bureau of prisons riot control units may not be accustomed to the scale of the current protests and unrest, but I expect them to be better equipped to coordinate police actions, and operate on the front lines than somebody that writes tickets, and occasionally has to deal with Karen, or an angry junky.
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Sounds a lot like someone who does not know the history of the Black Panthers and Republicans who used to be all about gun control.
"Give me Liberty, or Give me death" - Patrick Henry

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin

Everyone falls on one of two sides of this coin, and its startlingly difficult to understand the thought process behind those on the other side: That people are willing to, gladly, risk their lives and die in the cause of something greater.

My parents wanted me to travel home a month or so ago. They're about 80 years old. I told them it was too risky; that its not about me, its about them, I could have the virus and not know it, they're incredibly high risk, I live in a dense metropolitan area with roommates... They didn't care. Seeing me was more important to them. That's not being stupid: Its being Human.

There's no cause worth fighting for greater than human liberty, and that's what the black community, and along with them many Americans, are fighting for right now.

We're all going to die one day. Sacrificing your life, and ability to live without freely, without fear, to delay your death is never a trade one should make.
This is what lead Joe Armstrong (Erlang) to say that when you include memory and storage, no two computers on the planet are ever in the exact same state unless they've just been reinstalled or restarted. This is why software never quite works the same way twice and internet instructions for fixing it never seem to work for you either.

[] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
It seems pretty common sense that the main things people want to convey in medical emergencies where they're unconscious or their identity is unknown are allergies and reactions, hence why we have medical allergy bracelets and similar things.

If it's life and death and I'm unconscious, it's unlikely they would be able to access my medical records regardless, given the state of healthcare data interoperability (I have a lot of experience in this area). If I am conscious, I can tell them where to get my records, whether they're in Random Hospital X's database, or my personal DB.

I tend to agree that in the average case there's no real downside to doctors not having my medical history.
Absolutely. At open source orgs, the internal communication channels are way worse than the public ones. People advocate for positions all the time which would negatively impact their careers if made public.
No, not at all. I heard it first from a dentist and its quite common, well more common than would be expected. Its also perfectly safe, if your nose becomes congested you rip it off in your sleep.

It fixed my apnoea and chronic sinus issues. Seems I was constantly developing nasal polyps from mouth breathing all night.

Here is a dentist recommending mouth taping:

https://askthedentist.com/mouth-tape-better-sleep/
> Since the FBI's orders changes with the whims of the President, it is clear we need a long-lasting organization that provides oversight even when a Republican is in office.

That would require a constitutional amendment, right?
> This is impossible in oo languages

It's possible in languages which support extensions, such as Swift, Dart or Kotlin.
Sorry you lost me regarding why the economic floor is a bad idea. I like advancement too but not at such a high human cost. It is bad value for money and tbh I'm not sure how much advancement is actually taking place as we move beyond the breakneck innovation phase of this technological paradigm shift.
i think we maybe are mixing measuring with the actual evolution of the state. you cannot observe a quantum system without altering its state. also, there is no such thing as an isolated quantum system. this is true even for classic mechanics but we are cool with it since the measurement error is insignificant compared to what we measure.

i believe that the number of states a quantum system goes through is finite, albeit maybe very very large and the way we are treating it is based mostly on the tools we have not what is happening in reality.
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The bulk of crimes committed in the USA do not require traditional LEO aside from apprehensions. Investigations, evidence collection, interviews, etc can all be done by any old bureaucrat. Much like the FDA investigators and Fire Marshals don't need the authority of an LEO.

There's no need for police to be first-responders in purely medical situations. It's unfair to expect that police also take up the burden of medical care. While we are at it, it's also silly that the fire department responds to non-fire medical incidents in their big ass fire truck. Doing so compromises their abilities to handle situations where their expertise is explicitly required.

Every town in America does not need a SWAT team. Thsoe should be specialized agencies that serve a particular region and have a limited number of deployments.

If we were building a system from scratch today, people would not suggest dumping these duties on beat cops.
Crystal is quite interesting, but a fib benchmark?
99% of people here are sitting around jealous of Google?

Sounds doubtful. I would guess there are more people here who have already been there done that at one of the big tech companies then there are people sitting around jealous.
> But let's also turn it around and follow the advice, you sleep well, eat healthy, do your round in the gym, meditate and drink your coffee every day. Well, you're still going to feel pretty sad and lonely if the rest of the time you're locked up in your room reading Reddit.

By doing these things you legitimately improve your physical and mental faculties. Of course it's a cycle that feeds back to itself: socializing and having friends will give you motivation to keep up your habits and so on.

Sometimes the first step is fixing the basics so that you have the energy and mood to go out and explore the world and to make people want to befriend you. You have to break the cycle somewhere and it has to be where you are in control, not where other people are in control.
Yes, fixing out the lung capacity, musculature of the diaphragm, throat, tongue, etc is really the cure. And loosing excess weight if that is the case. CPAP, while effective and life changing is a band aid that the medical industry can make money on. I don't hear anyone saying that the CPAP should be used in conjunction with restorative exercises. I'm glad you found this solution.
It should be noted that FAZ is not a tech news paper but a local to Frankfurt one. So the article was written by a person having closer to no tech understanding for persons without tech understandings. There are proper tech news paper in which you will not find such thinks. ;).

Edit:
They do have a technical section but that is 70% cars and the rest are other physical tech thinks like kitchen utensils and vacuum robots.
I've had quite a few job offers from my weblog over the years, most of them actually pretty decent from HN readers and such (rather different from LinkedIn and recruiter spam). Never from open source thus far.
Well, one election in particular certainly changed 2016-2020 "much."
People seem to assume Google was wrong not to hire him.

Is Google in the business of building open source package managers?

If not, why should his experience there mean he should have gotten the job?
What I said perviously. You're making some crazy assumptions by thinking I'm 'implicitly' agree with somebody. Let me repeat: the curfew starts by 8pm not for you to be on your way at that time. Most people ain't getting home in NYC in half an hour.
The Chiltern hills are there. While I don't doubt there are political aspects to it, I strongly suspect there are practical aspects as well.
I feel like Google would have been better off if they had stayed out of the newspaper aggregation business and stuck with Search and long tail media content, GCP, GSuite and did R&D in AI (Waymo, Verily) and AR/VR. There is just too much baggage when wading into politics.

I think there are too many well connected, well funded media companies that are lobbying and retaliating behind the scenes as they see their news publishing business models get disrupted by the Google News aggregator. Couple that with politicians frustrated by the Google News opaque aggregation algorithm and that leads to anti-trust rulings.
To put a finer point on it: it may be easier for doctors to find your hard drive and decrypt it in some cases that than to go through and extract them from another medical provider's EHR system. I say this only partly tongue-in-cheek.
That is currently unknown. We suspect that the answer is "no", but we don't know.
In my country, the UK, it’s not unusual at all to have to wait 2-3 months for a hospital appointment. People shit on America’s health system a lot (and in many cases for perfectly valid reasons), but I think they don’t quite consider the alternative.
I recall trying it on a 386sx25. Could only run smoothly at postage stamp size. 486/25 could run it decently with 2mb, almost with 1mb.
My personal choice for this is Jupyter and Sagemath.
Thanks, that's really interesting. I might try it, if I can figure out how to keep my mustache and beard intact :)
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Its a little weird the first night, but after 1-2 minutes its strangeness dispersers. In a way its no different to holding your nose. You can get mouthguards, but they don't work very well. You end up drooling all over the pillow and half gasping for air and spitting it out. All you need is a nice single strip of 3m tape.

https://www.everydayhealth.com/sleep/mouth-taping-cheapest-l...
Well introducing some new technology that people will have to learn is often overkill, if there is already a slightly less optimal way to do it that the whole team is familiar with.
How did you verify that it “fixed your apnea”?

A CPAP does not require mouth breathing. Nasal pillows require you to breathe through your nose. If necessary they shut your mouth with a chin strap. A piece of 3m tape sounds dangerous for someone if the problem is nasal obstruction or rhinitis rather than their mouth dangling open. They might not be able to gasp for breath and experience an even worse apnea.
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I wouldn't recommend this method personally though, only a small amount of people can achieve it.

To give an alternative way:

Find a successfull expensive software product in a country that isn't in the same language as yours.

Ask to translate it and if you can sell the product in your country. Acting as a middleman.

Start selling, get the commission.

In my experience, I've seen this work more than the one i'm replying too. And I think it's unknown in big countries, eg. The US
Yes, that was bad. Changed now. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23432441.
>>Reddit puts a NSFW spoiler on violence, porn, etc. Is that considered censorship?

yes and no. It is lesser because it empowers the user to self select if they want to see NSFW items. That is the key.

I put the quarantine on the same level as this, so I have less of an issue with that than if they just banned it outright.

>Is it really censorship if r/t_d had violated numerous Reddit ToS rules?

yes, let me be clear Reddit is perfectly in its legal rights to censor anything they want. They can censor directly all Republicans if they want.

They however can not magically make it not censorship simply because they add a line in their ToS.. that is not how free expression works.

a Website that only allows car related topics censors all speech not related to cars

The problem for Reddit is for years they advertised themselves as a Open Access forum for all topics and discussions, the point 6 font terms of service not with standing.

If reddit has a BIG BOLD header on the HomePage that reads "Conservatives not welcome here" then it would be a different discussion for me

>> outwardly hateful,

Ahh the old "hate speech" non-sense. I reject this premise as "hate speech" is such a subjected term that if you ask 10 people what qualifies as "hate speech" you will get 30 different answers based on context and other things

Further Reddit ignores their own policy on hate speech and promotion of violence provided the speaker is the "correct" political affiliation and that target is the "wrong" political affiliation
That looks more like concept art than story board
You can fix a lot of it but at the end of the day, no one likes standing on your feet directing traffic for hours in a black uniform on a hot day, or having to pin down an aggressive drunk at 3am. LAPD functions in a lot of ways as a bouncer would, but with more risk of contracting bloodborne disease. It's just a not a very pleasant line of work no matter what you do or how you reform the system, and that's why they can't recruit.
I almost always wear a shirt with a pocket so I can record without it being obvious.
The reason passwords are hashed is to prevent them from being usable to people who gain access to the backend database.

If the hash in the backend is the only thing you need to calculate the salt challenge, then it is the equivalent of a plaintext password. Someone with access to dumps of a compromised backend database can use the hash directly.
Isn't the answer yes, but we wouldn't be able to measure it?
Fairly straightforward to use these in other core networks. Not sure if this one implements the signalling for it.

Fun fact though - if a phone is without signal on its home network, it will attempt to join any valid 3GPP network it sees, and the cell broadcast/emergency alert will be triggered on the handset (even without a valid SIM) - no authentication takes place.
They are 2D prints that are printed on materials and using inks that give them quite a bit of dimensionality. The acrylic option even catches the light differently as you move around it, creating a pretty cool effect.