skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What kind of mistake? Shoving a person that did not show any signs of violence towards the officer? Did you ever shove a person by accident?

Even if the older guy used language this could have been resolved without the need to escalate the conflict. Using violent force against somebody that does not seem to be posing a threat is a serious problem if your sole job is to keep peace.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/police
col in florida is so low though plus no state income tax right?

100k in orlando is like 220k in sf so you're probably doing alright.
The OP came from theverge. You might as well post things from politico or the thehill and tell people the same thing. Being disingenuous part of the mandate, or is that just the moderators?
Google already has Chat, Mail, and Currents (and Docs, and more), so, yes.
Semi off topic, but one thing that really bugs me about the dialogue around police is when people (especially authority figures) call non-police “civilians”. I get that you need a word for it, but “civilians” is a particularly poor choice.

The police ARE civilians. They are not military, nor are they subject to military justice or discipline, and their training and function in society is (whether they like it or not) entirely different. They are members of the community, not an occupying army.

This might seem like pedantry but it’s not: using the word civilian for non-police takes the militarization of the police as an unquestioned assumption.
> I have scoured the web for any way to use a Nikon as a webcam on macOS (over usb, so without dropping $120 on a camlink which is sold out everywhere now anyway)

check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23409540

I misplaced the usb cable that came with my nikon d5000 but I was able to find a replacement on amazon yesterday that should arrive later today.
The server should hold the unhashed salt, as is standard. One for client, one for server.
> Google, Amazon, FB are not the monopolies that you should be worried about. They are fun to talk about and tech is sexy, but there are bigger problems - ISPs / telecoms, for example.

That is a very misleading comparison. For almost all of the industries you've listed a) there are spatial limitations of monopolistic outreach (they have to exist in real world and can't exist all around the world at once) b) their products and services don't grow upon themselves exponentially c) the nature of their products and services is rather common knowledge. I'll go one by one;

a) Tech doesn't suffer from the spatial dynamics of competition and in that has virtually infinite economies of scale. A cable company has to fight for the right of physically laying cables, which creates a barrier of entry for the next competitor, but they have to do this work repeatedly in every other location. As long as bandwidth and compute is paid for, tech can be instantaneously omni-present around the world. This means the monopoly having a planet wide breadth, but also that margins required to sustain the monopoly can be much smaller.

b) Econ 101 has this classic output function: labor x capital x productivity = output. Tech is both an output and input in the form of increased productivity onto itself. This means exponential growth. When we talk about cable companies merging, it is a merger of homogeneous entities, and in that only a merger of capital and labor. The argument here is tech companies "merging" with their own, heterogeneous technologies to yield even greater exponential growth. They are talking about ads and search and chrome "merging". Therefore the monopolistic consequences of tech is very different than that of commodities and utilities.

c) Tech is constantly innovating on new products and new variations of their products, which we can't grasp the effects of. It is easier to guess what happens to competition or how the end user suffers when other industries have bad actors. Can we tell with confidence what the effect of Youtube's, Twitter's, Reddit's recommendation algorithms is on our collective sense-making capabilities and functioning of the democracy? Can we tell if the thousands of A/B experiments being run on us is revealing how the products can deliver more value or how to exploit the users better? Are users aware that they are participating in the largest scale applied-psychology lab ever existed? This information asymmetry is again a part of the unique dynamics of the monopolistic machinery of tech.

When these three come together, the resulting monopolistic dynamics is unprecedented and incomparable to that of commodities, utilities and other old-school services, and we would be fools to make light of it.
What about eBooks?
If the system worked then you could argue that cops have a reasonable right to be armed. But the system is not working, and 10x people without guns are killed by cops, than are cops killed. Plus whenever a cop is actually killed, the entire system has their back, and justice is almost always served.

This is not the case for people without guns who are killed by cops. It's an acceptable loss that a few more cops are killed because we don't arm every single one of them, if it means that a lot more innocent people aren't killed by cops with an itchy trigger finger.

Sorry, cops. They've had decades of chances, and this past weekend proves that cops can't control themselves even when they're being called out by the thousands who are recording their behavior for all to see. So now they will have to earn the right to carry lethal weaponry.
> QE's massive inflation of asset prices; it is now harder and harder and harder to beat the market

This is a really interesting theory that I’ve never heard before, but it makes sense. Does that imply deflation could instead encourage innovation?
It's explained in point two. We're talking about large quantities of people here. Technically mask blocks droplets. But if you tell everyone to use a mask, does it reduce transmission on average?
You ignored the contribution sociale in France. “Not a tax”-tax
absolutely terrifying 10/10
In what percentage of police dispatches do they arrive on scene while an armed suspect is still there? I would guess it's significantly lower than 50%

Sure, send armed cops to handle situations that force is likely to needed. But cops don't need guns to take down police reports. Rape victims don't need armed officers to take down police reports. Property crime victims don't need armed officers to take down police reports. Officers do not need to be armed to write speeding tickets or DUIs.

The primary role of police is observation, recording of facts and interacting with the community. 90+% of the time they spend serving society do not require force.

We could spend much less on police and have better trained cops when force is actually needed by not even considering arming the half of cops who respond to situations where force is unnecessary. The unarmed cops can cost less because they don't need firearms training and job would be less mentally taxing so they could be paid less: then, they can call in armed cops for the minority of situations where force is necessary.

Only give guns to the best cops: the bar to become a cop is way too low to continue arming all of them. I'd love to see a tiered system where cops have to be continually tested and trained to prove they should be entrusted with various levels of force: ex. Camera -> Authorization to use force in arrests -> Pepper Spray -> Stun Gun -> Firearms
Forcing them to take out liability insurance is how you incentivize them to get proper training and instill professional standards.
The technology you want is Delegated Credentials:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-subcerts-07

The certificate is public, it's fine for copies of that to be in all edge devices, the problem today is that the associated private key has to be on those edge devices too, and that's what Delegated Credentials solves.
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I switched from 3 years of bad Comcast cable to AT&T 1G fiber recently. They were professional and ran the fiber from the pole to my house in a few hours.

I ran a speedtest on fast.com and got 985Mbps. The service uptime and quality has been utterly stellar. AT&T has been really good to me, but not everyone has access to 1G fiber.
It seems like people have forgotten the point of Google+. If I recall correctly... there were too many disparate login systems which resulted in a fractured identity. There were various legal and technical reasons which they could not associate users amongst their different properties.

Then they sent out advertisements to get everyone on G+. And a huge number of people clicked, without even understand what they were creating. Then all of the accounts were merged into one, that had different policies.

And so, there was no longer a profit motivation for the product.
> Birminghan is on the route to the North

It might be on HS2's route to the North, but it's certainly not on everyone's.
It is actually considered an excellent version of Doom! Not done by id themselves tho, so true to the story in the article.
Sounds to me like your standards are fine. Pushing straight to production without code review or tests is only acceptable if you're new and nobody is using your product yet.

When you're still in the prototyping stage, you want features and proofs of concepts, not waste your time on infrastructure that's going to change in a week, or tests for code that's going to be completely rewritten two weeks from now.

But once you're in production and you're starting to have a user base, code quality matters. It's worth investing in.
It was a mistake to use it to begin with.
Nah, entirely reasonable. We do all of that and more at the current project and the client has been super happy with the result all the way. We've been able to keep the tech debt low enough that we're just chugging along at the same velocity two years since the start (to the point where we've got the attention of the CEOs on both sides). Just don't expect to change company culture within a reasonable time frame. If you can't take it (I know I'd be out of there if they wouldn't even give it a try) just look elsewhere - plenty of places have reasonable processes in place.
They also announced a bunch more censorship on the website.

> I think all censorship should be deplored. My position is that bits are not a bug.

— Aaron Swartz, Reddit co-founder (1986 - 2013)
For a non-US example, compare the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian war of 1871/72 and the build-up towards WW I (not exactly 50 years, but also a matter of generational succession.)

However, history also provides some examples, where this "logic" seems to be condensed, e.g., the rise of the Nazis in Germany, where a grand parents' generation sided with the young, often against the middle generation that was much more definied by the war experience – which resulted in the "hickup" of WW II.
At some point you however have to wonder : Is it up to a browser to support the OS native password manager, or is it the burden of the OS maker to provide a plugin for each browser?

Beside Firefox now provide it's own password manager. But it is awkwardly limited within the browser.

Same with the recently touted picture in picture mode of Firefox. While I understand it might be enjoyable on OS that don't support that natively it's particularly laughable on OS that does it. Now You potentially have 3 layers of picture in picture implementation. The website, the browser and the OS... (And as you might guess the OS offer the best experience because it have control over all graphical layers).
> It's not something you solve by readily giving particular advice.

For sure. I think of it more as something that gets stored in the back of the mind, so it can be recalled when the person is ready. That may come in 1 year, in 3 years, in 10 years or never.

Making someone want to do stuff is futile. Just like it is futile to make yourself want stuff. It has to come from the inside (and what's "inside" gets there over a long time from the outside). And for every such blog post there may be someone out there who goes: I've been hearing this stuff for so long now, you know what, I'm gonna actually try it and will wake up at a regular time for the next 7 days and will do a short morning exercise. Now how and why someone will get in this receptive phase is a mystery. But it happens and when it does, it's good to have good advice material out there, because people may google for this kind of stuff. You decide you want to fix some of your issues, and by the "grace of god" you feel like you can take a step towards this for some reason so you google tips for your situation and then you may actually do it.

Now, will everyone do it reliably just because they read a blog post? Of course not. But it's better than just leaving it all to only pills and doctors (note: of course take your meds) and not telling people anything about what they could do right now based on evidence. The body is a machine that reacts to what you put into it and how you treat it. It's not a mystery and just hearing this or knowing this CAN (in some cases, not all) help people gain a bit of control and see that even if they cannot control much, they can move their body parts and can at least a little bit move in the direction that they want to go towards. Little by little.
I'm probably just doing something wrong but I haven't figured out how to save a new password for something I just signed up for anywhere other than Apple's password manager.
I don't actually think the lack of choices is the real problem though. The issue I see is that things like AdSense or AWS are able to financially prop up Google and Amazon's ventures into a myriad of other markets that make them immune to the actual market forces in those domains. It ends up having a really bad distorting effect on any of the other players trying to run a normal business.
> when things like C++ succeed by not having huge blindsides and pitfalls

what??
Asymmetric plans are really disappointing. Back at my family’s residence we have Verizon Fios which only offers [near] symmetric plans (200/200, 400/400c 940/880) which is fantastic. They’re looking to upgrade from our legacy bundle package of 30/30 to gigabit, which is exciting for them.

Where I am, in an urban apartment complex I had two provider choices: Frontier and Optimum. Frontier wired the building, but their plans were ridiculously underwhelming. My Optimum plan is ~$55/m including modem/router for 300/35. Their highest offering for upload seemed to be 45Mbps (or 35, plan descriptions between the site and sales were not consistent).

I’m not in telecom nor a networking expert, but what difficulties are there in offering symmetric plans?
It's high time tribal languages go the way of the dodo.
Norway manage it: https://www.businessinsider.com/norway-america-police-killin...

Zero is the only reasonable target. Every death should be treated as a process and policy failure. Every death should lead to an improvement.

It will be a long way to get there, but as JFK said, we do these things not because they are easy.
There's something of a Scylla and Charybdis thing going on, where if humans become too valuable, it becomes worth it to exploit them, but if they're not valuable enough, it's not worth it to pay them.

Tech can move things either way---automating things can make people worthless, but providing new tools (Engelbart's "bicycle for the mind") can make them more valuable.

Formula 1 drivers are valuable athletes, but in 1850 they'd just have been guys with slightly better reflexes.
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> What happens if a cop makes a mistake and causes grave injury to someone. What would be his incentive to admit mistake and possibly spend rest of his life in prison.

i've said it before but here it is again, a workable system for police accountability:

there are tangible ways that laws could be setup and practices adhered to that would make cops more accountable and, while maybe the same level of racist in some parts, help ensure that they get held accountable more often than not.

mandatory body cams rolling at all times unless they are in a bathroom.

turning off or a malfunctioning camera during the act of a police brutality event immediately pierces the qualified immunity defense and they are tried as citizens.

have an outside investigative body that has zero ties to the police department investigate any reports of abuse.

have another outside investigative body that has zero ties to the police department randomly sampling police stop footage to see if there are any instances of impropriety.

I am sure this list is non-exhaustive but it's a start. also, while we are here, fix the issue of civil asset forfeiture. the clear "we get to take your money because it looks suspicious and then keep it for the police department" is a huge conflict of interest.

> There is a tendency for airlines to put the blame on a pilot in case of a crash, this disincentives pilots from speaking the truth.

the other side to this is that the airlines have every single input and the conversation that lead up to the crash along with the meticulous analysis of the wreckage and records of maintenance... the cops investigate themselves and find themselves not guilty of any crimes.
This is the reason why I have to keep IntelliJ Idea Ultimate/RubyMine laying around.

I don't have the greatest laptop, and run a lot of containers, so Jetbrains IDE's are generally a no-go for me and I stick to VS Code, but trying to develop Ruby/Rails without a Jetbrains IDE Is crippling.

I think ctrl+click definition jump does work in Crystal and it has a decent language server.
DC also cancelled curfew. We'll see how it goes.
> But the facts simply show that the police kill less people than other people do

The total number of police is a fraction of the population of the united states. Do you really not understand even the most basic math or is this argument in bad faith?
He is also using his position to promote Institutional Racism regarding his replacement: he already is defining the "right race".
If that’s what’s needed to attract reasonable people into the police then so be it. If we aren’t willing to pay for proper training and supervision then we have the police force we deserve.
It's not so much the profession that's being condemned, more the institution.
It's also a big component of fireworks – and every July 4th levels in lakes and rivers spike.

That being said, this paper only presents in vitro data. Perchlorate may be more toxic than assumed, but the evidence isn't strong.

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/s41594-020-0417-5
The book is back on amazon as of now
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089P216NP/
i clicked thinking this would help me slack off and look like i was working. Guess this is what a "free candy van" is like.

absolutely terrifying 10/10
here is the entire specification: the file should be encoded in UTF-8, and fields are separated by the , character

This exactly is part of the problem: how many people do you think would come up with this specific specification? You do realize in real life CSV gets used for anything which is plain text and separated and perhaps even quoted? Also 'should be' UTF-8? By what authority?

The existence of software that produces braindead CSVs is beside the point.

No, it is not. Especially not because there's so much software. And because it's not braindead, it's just doing something else. Which is bascially fine since there's no standard.

Just do the above and everything will work.

Yes, in your personal bubble. Beyond that it's totally insufficient.
Quite frankly, I'm surprised there hasn't been an uptick in cases here in Switzerland. At least in the city where I live, few people wear masks on public transit or in grocery stores and virtually no one seems to do so in restaurants or cafes. Social distancing also doesn't seem to be diligently observed by many/most people. It's quite possible that there are so few infected people that it will be enough to contain the spread, especially with fewer people commuting in general, but I'm not exactly confident in the safety of this strategy.
> If there's even still looting in NYC, there's not much of it.

Please, you need to look beyond NYC.

The riots/looting has been happening across the US. I agree that there have been peaceful protesting, but you cannot deny that there have been riots and looting across the US.

Some black businesses have also been affected by this.

There is no justification for it.
If `brew install crystal` is taking more than an hour to complete, in my case it was because llvm is a dependency and for some reason it was trying to compile it from source. If you manually install a precompiled llvm (you can do `brew install llvm` with some flags) it should skip that step during the crystal installation.
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> I've always been amazed at how when the black community mentions something to do with race, it's always seen as if we are making up some kind of elaborate fiction solely for slandering the United States.

That wasn't my claim, and you know it. I'm happy to be wrong, I'm just trying to make sense of the contrast between the data and public opinion. I'm genuinely very sorry for any emotional distress this debate causes and I know that the distress it's very one-sided, but I don't know how we are going to make social progress apart from real dialogue (both across political lines as well as racial lines). Why malign people who are trying to understand and help?
Please don't feed flamewars with speculative misinformation.
I never get this. Why does Bill Gates need to inject people to track them when we're all carrying cell phones which provide far more data including much more refined location data than you could get will an implant.

Just saying, if you're going to have a conspiracy, there's a much better one to use as your basis.
The poker player who shut himself in a pitch-black room for weeks for $100K
Funny how that works! My first job in 2001 still had a Compaq Deskpro 386 bought in the 80s to control some very expensive equipment (via some proprietary dongle that wouldn't work on then-modern computers).

My boss at the time told me they paid $10k for that computer when it was new & the equipment it controlled would cost $1-2m to replace (I want to say it was a microspectrophotometer but my memory is blurry), so they had to keep that 386 around & in working order. Luckily these were apparently very reliable computers.
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If you mistype a hostname in the browser and DNS lookup fails, they return a valid IP for a landing page with an ad. AT&T doesn't do it for my service, but at some point I had it with Time Warner cable, IIRC. You fix it by setting your DNS to (haha) Google's.
There's a trade off from being quick to donate to any apparently righteous cause vs. being analytical. On one hand a quick donator is viewed as very generous and empathetic. On the other hand they can be easily fooled. A slow donator is seen as colder and less empathetic, however, they tend to get more good done over time.
If you can set something up in an hour, don't discuss it; show it. Spend the hour, show it works. If it does, fantastic. If it doesn't, drop it.
How is a police department in open rebellion against government not in prison for treason?
> Are you ready to double the pay of police?

Yes, absolutely! Raise police pay, along spending money on police training. Then hold those officers to high standards. This is absolutely the way forward.

This certainly entails raising taxes, which makes better policing difficult to implement when one of the two major political parties is religiously opposed to taxation.
Reading through the printtt.orig.c was a wilder ride than I expected.

I taught about some of the interesting format string techniques in the shell coding portion of a penetration testing course I used to teach at IBM, but this went way ahead of where I had ever dared to tread.