skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Eugene, OR, where I live, there is a program called CAHOOTS ("Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets") which is more or less the mental health equivalent of an ambulance. They're dispatched by non-emergency operators to situations such as mental health crises, public intoxication, and welfare checks- things where police officers would be asked to serve as a social worker, as the article puts it.

My understanding is that the program has been quite successful, and other cities have begun implementing their own similar programs using it as a model.

https://whitebirdclinic.org/cahoots-faq/
Power and anonymity will yield extensive abuses. Even video recording isn’t very helpful for a sea of soldiers hiding behind face masks and shields. To control the abuse each soldier or officer in riot gear should have a badge number in block type the same size as the word POLICE on their uniform. Combine this with pervasive recording and the public can peacefully hold bad actors to account via video.
“Acting like a publisher” is completely irrelevant. Section 230(c) makes no exceptions or distinctions for publisher vs not.

Twitter and Facebook are publishers. Publishers still get protections afforded to them under 230(c).
>Is there a dashboard which shows increase in testing capacity over that same period

Here's the best resource Ive found for comparing all the relevant data:

http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/

Playing around with the data there, it looks like yes NC has had an increase in cases recently, but it tracks an increase in testing. Test positivity rates are about flat. It really is completely pointless to discuss increases in cases without also comparing to increases in testing and positivity rates.

Deaths are up, but as another poster pointed out it's hardly statistically significant. The rolling 7 day average is 2.2/1m now, vs 1.7/1m on May 1st.
If you defund the police but keep them around (after all, they are necessary), won't that just force them to self-fund by seeking funding from corrupt sources such as civil asset forfeiture and drug busts?

Isn't this already a solved problem in other parts of the world, such as Britain, Ireland, Norway, Iceland and New Zealand, where most officers are unarmed when they are on patrol? Why can't we learn from other countries?
Agree. I think I've made nearly as many personal blog sites as I have actual blog posts.
This has reminded of the Two Capacitor Paradox [0]. (The moral of the story is that you have to know the limits of your model.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_capacitor_paradox
This is one of those sneaky ones where you think they've left New Zealand off the map again, but upon closer inspection, its actually there.
By the way, it just dawned on me that preventing the division by 0 is not even solving the problem. What then, just set the delay to the biggest representable delay? But on a machine with a 1000x faster CPU, that can still be off by an order of magnitude or two. And depending on what the delay is used for, that could then cause much harder to debug problems later on. Some assumptions about reasonable ranges had to be made, just like the assumption that 32 bit was a reasonable address size back then. But a more obvious error message would have been nice (something the article mentions as well).
Apple Prototype Collector (2019)
Auto loans should allow you to return the vehicle and walk away... They should be more "rent-to-own".

In fact, in my opinion, all secured loans should be this - you should be able to hand over the security to the lender, and walk away without penalty.
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Check out Imperfect Foods (I am not affiliated; simply a happy customer) - they send you a box with "imperfect" food that otherwise would have gone to waste.

There are also other similar companies doing this.
Here is a blogpost demonstrating how small wasm compiled from Rust can be:

Making really tiny WebAssembly graphics demos (http://cliffle.com/blog/bare-metal-wasm/)
One would think that
If people don’t have their jobs immediately come back after all the restrictions are lifted then they’ll still be unable to make future payments.

Correct though that renters will be hurt more, though it will likely have less systemic effects.
Because the only way to increase the standard of living is to increase productivity. You cannot inflate your way to prosperity. It is a mathematical impossiblity.
In addition, I think rank-and-file FAANG salaries, when discussed here, tend to get grossly exaggerated. I know lots of people working at these companies and none of them have a boat. Lots of them have roommates in cramped apartments in SF like other tech company employees. Are there some highly paid employees at top tech companies? Sure. Do most employees at these companies have vacation homes and private jets? Nope.
I'd love to use podman but have some use cases it doesn't yet support
The Sony RX1R II and Leica Q2 are better, but rather expensive.
SpaceX will try again to land a rocket that has flown five times
S&P 500 CEO Pay by Pay Ratio
this is true. will probably happen at my workplace as well unfortunately. the PPP was a stopgap which helped a bit, but sales are still not back to normal to help pay for full staff.
Why Chowdy (Toronto-based food startup) failed [audio]
There will always be excuses. We can play game theory predictions or you can look at history.

Most companies die or significantly evolve over the long term, even the ones that were monopolies. Would you rather own Blockbuster Video store/chain in the year 2000 or 2020? Same with retail music stores that sell CDs. Social media moves at 10x that speed, 100x the speed for those young kids who aren't afraid/wary to install new apps.
That was my experience as well. There's Section 8 housing near the entrance to Fort Meade in Maryland, and the base commander put those neighborhoods off limits to all military personnel stationed there because of the high levels of violent crime.
I think you are very presumptuous. I grew up in poverty in a third world country and know what it's like to not eat, and when I did eat, I remember having to pick bugs out of my beans before cooking them.
I wouldn't read too much into this, as corona is still active. Also, Chinese airports are fairly tough on sick passengers, so the average American doesn't want to get stuck in a holding room or quarantine hospital over there.

(I cancelled a planned trip in Feb. for literally that reason, "I don't wanna get stuck in a holding room in Pudong." Also, airport staff are polite, but don't speak English. Pro tip: use a smartphone translator from English -> Chinese -> English.)

But the article has an interesting statistic that's amazing:

> In January, there were about 325 round-trip flights weekly between the US and China.

Wow. That's 97,500 passengers each way at 300 pax per trip.

There's no way to contain a pandemic with traveller numbers like that.

(It does strengthen my position that the SF Bay Area likely has fairly advanced herd immunity already.)
Have you used SumatraPDF at all, what do you like about FoxIt over Sumatra (never tried it so I'm curious)?
Last time I've heard they were using Ruby on Rails.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17835760&p=2
This didn't started with Trump.

Do you remember the helicopters shooting at helpers in ambulances? The drones being sent to weedings? The children being shoot in beaches?

If somebody can kill Osama Bin Laden without a trial and to became an hero, and other can kill Soleimani without a trial, then other can kill Floyd also without a trial, or beat Ian Murdock, or make Aaron Swartz commit suicide...

Extrajudicial executions are the new normal, and this magic trick was being slowly deployed in front of our very eyes, for years. And anybody is in the menu. We all travel in the meat train now. All is allowed, because we accepted the new contract.
I think there are two kinds of complexity with Android. One is given from the nature of the ecosystem and the pace at which smartphone platforms have evolved. There is no fault of Android developers here. However, there is some responsibility to design the frameworks and HAL interfaces to gracefully expand into future requirements. It seems there are lots of "oh shit" APIs where they needed to be reworked. Camera.. just kidding! camera2.. just kidding CameraX!
Tell me what it is exactly, before starting with a list of features, 50ms start, etc.
Nothing is doubling every week anymore. Why did you bring that up?

Daily deaths across pretty much all nations are decreasing even as lockdowns are removed. Nit pick all you'd like, be as afraid as you like, but the numbers you supplied don't support your assertions.
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You're worried about free speech - but what happens when an elected official calls for violence against a group of people? What happens when those calls for violence are answered and people die?

There is a reason yelling fire in a crowded theater is not protected speech, and companies should be in the business of censoring speech that incites violence.
US and Canada are going to soon realize that all the govt did was buy temporary peace.

Not sure how either country will lift from this without having a negative impact, as not only was it giving emergency funds to people, but in a lot of cases giving up to 200-300% of what they earned prior.

It will be a shitshow.
The overwhelming majority of QE2020 has gone to the top (Fed purchasing assets.)
I use a USB mic, and so far I or anyone I've been on Google Meet with haven’t noticed any issues.
I love my section 8 tenants. Same here, they take good care of the place and the government doesn't miss rent payments.

Some counties even provide free legal help for landlords if their section 8 tenants do something bad. It's actually pretty low risk.

The main downside is the increased overhead of paperwork and inspections. The government wants to (rightly) make sure you aren't a slumlord so they do a lot more inspections.
> It's a benefit that has to be offered by your employer, and there are plenty of shitty employers out there.

This seems like a weird indictment of health savings accounts, because it has nothing to do with the type of benefit, and has everything to do with the coupling of healthcare to employment. If that's your issue, solve that — don't drag down everything else. Decoupling it from employment has the added benefit of essentially killing the FSA because, you're right, it's dumb that it belongs to the employer.

Health savings accounts are exactly how most people pay for their healthcare in Singapore, and it enjoys some of the best health outcomes with some of the lowest costs. I think that there's a lot of room to improve the experience in the US, but you don't have to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I'm not sure how it compared year-to-year, but at the beginning of the COVID thing, house prices did drop a little with quite some offers cancelled (even pending ones, according to some of my agent friends).
or to make sure the journos still have a purpose
> social media sites should not be the business of censoring elected officials. That is the job of voters and Congress

It's explicitly not the job of Congress. That's the point of the First Amendment.

Regulating free speech is up to private enterprise, using private enforcement methods like de-platforming (old school: you can't spew your drivel inside my bar) and shaming.
Except when that software needs more than a microcontroller to run. The computers Tesla throws into the cars are not super cheap.
I think it’s insane to expect police to handle those issues. The only thing they can do is “clean up” after the problems that society has otherwise failed to deal with. The very nature of their role is adversarial with the citizenry. They’re also under no obligation to protect anybody from anything. They carry guns to protect themselves, not you and me. If somebody intents to harm you, the best you could reasonably expect from the police is that the perpetrator will be prosecuted once they’re done with you.
> I'm pretty sure the problem of police abusing their power is never going away

The next handful of years is going to be interesting. Between civil forfeiture, marijuana decriminalization, self driving cars (and for the shorter term, coronavirus reduced driving) - police departments will be losing a significant amount of their current income streams; especially if unemployment returns back to its lows.

Everybody looks at automation in the food or retail industries; or health administration and insurance; but we have a police and prison system designed with illegal marijuana; that could shrink to 1/8th of it's size with relatively few changes in laws (drug law repeal, mandatory minimums, crime act).
I should not be forced to subsidize someone with the fruits of my labor just because they're so lazy they would rather not be a productive member of society. That is toxic and wholly regressive.
A big problem with filthy rich outfits is that they can simply afford to do this. My two highest-paying jobs were almost sinecures. The teams were massively overstaffed, and it could be quite difficult to find productive things to work on. I spent a lot of time simply waiting, which is to say killing time.

If your goal in life is to be rich, it's not bad, I guess. If you really love doing good tech, it's stultifying.
Google’s leaked TV dongle looks like a merger of Android TV and Chromecast
Have you ever played The Talos Principle? This is pretty much what happens if you try to walk outside the playable game area: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWjUzvLk58o
Oh, I haven't read the sentence. thanks.
Does anyone ever take justice into their own hands? Not recommending it, but my neighbor's car was stolen so I went out and found it for them that day. It was reported missing but I had a feeling it wasn't going to be actively looked for due to the severity of the crime.
I wasn't in it to seek rents, we were nearly breaking even. It happened to be a place I previously lived in and it was easier to rent than to sell during the great recession.
Yeah we can't live in bubbles forever. 40 million people are unemployed in the U.S. now and counting. Millions of livelihoods are being destroyed, suicides are up, deaths for untreated non-Covid diseases are up, and if we want to avoid the complete breakdown of civilization we need to get back to work.
Barack Obama, an African American, who had eight years of American presidency, four of which with a super-majority that passed ObamaCare, and did nothing for the average African American during that time? Or even better, tens of thousands of protesters that have the time to go out and protest, but can't be bothered to go vote. Resulting in less than 10,000 votes being tallied state-wide, in a state having a population of 70,000 African Americans, where they are complaining their voice isn't being heard. What needs to be changed again?
I’ll defer to Ben from OBS on how to allocate the bounty.
One of my current frustrations with American politics is how radical everything has become. The debate is now, either we don't have any police and defund them, or, we allow them to continue being completely unaccountable. Neither of those situations sound ideal.

It feels like Europe and other places have a much more reasonable and nuanced view. Police get funded, and well funded, but the job requirements are strict, and the emphasis is more about public good and safety. If there's a crime the police do exist and do show up but they also don't shoot people dead in their house at 3am.
A friend of my girlfriend is on that situation, $1600/wk is more than what she earned previously, and isn’t looking forward for the store where she worked on to re-open or looking for a different job.

It gives me a mixed feeling about the policy because it turns out I personally know the one example conservatives would like to point out. However, I’d like to read a deep study about the impact of the measures taken before I form an opinion on them. I want to believe that the policy had a positive effect unless data says otherwise.
React Native Drax: A drag and drop system for React Native
https://github.com/nuclearpasta/react-native-drax#readme

I didn't create this library but thought it looked novel and provided a way to do drag and drop in React Native in a more generic way.
30 seconds in this clip of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftLzQefpBvM

I remembered this as being stated too the cops much clearer than it actually was. Likely I was mixing what they said with what the CNN reporters said later on when they were replaying this clip.
My Four Year Quest for Perfect Scala.js UI Development
That's just like putting lipstick on a pig.
I agree that there's little sign of unusually high general inflation, but you said "there's no indication of inflation let alone hyperinflation in any economic data", and the sudden rise in food prices is definitely an indication of inflation. You may want to coach/moderate your statements a little more in the future.
I'm obviously biased but I think it's extremely affordable. It's a one-time payment of $49 (i.e. no subscription) to get access to most features, including the ability to have network monitoring for up to 16 IPs (https://monitor.shodan.io). The data itself is the same across all of our products. Enterprise customers can simply download more of it and the only 2 filters that are restricted are "vuln" and "tag". Note that you can still use those filters to get the number of results for a query - you just can't download the actual list of IPs. I.e. you can do the following for free:

# Number of services vulnerable to Heartbleed

$ shodan count vuln:CVE-2014-0160

This however requires at least a Corporate subscription if you wanted to actually download all IPs on the Internet that are vulnerable:

$ shodan download --limit=0 vuln:CVE-2014-0160

For example, this entire dashboard is generated using a free API key:

https://exposure.shodan.io

I'm really surprised to hear you find our products expensive. Typically we hear the opposite from our customers.
If you believed such a role was appropriate to establish in society, why on earth would you want the police doing it?
> I wish I still had the email.

Ask him. Maybe there's a small chance he will have it, but it's worth trying. This will be a nice memory for you for the rest of your life. Trust me. Worth a shot.
Riots on the other hand should be met with police action. However, if you have a riot then that means you didn't hear the demands of the people to begin with. If you make it to a full blown riot you have MESSED UP.

Not necessarily. Riots can begin when bad actors take advantage of the cover of numbers provided by a peaceful protest. If there are enough bad actors, usually masquerading as peaceful protesters, to reach critical mass, then a riot can start.

All it takes is for one person to break a window to signal to the other bad actors that the riot is about to begin. This piece by Tanner Greer [1] examines the phenomenon in way more detail than I do here.

[1] https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/05/on-days-of-disor...
"How explicit do I have to be for you?"

Then you link to a dynamic range chart. Yet we were talking about noise. See, I looked at their noise charts where the XS Max (a generation behind, and significantly bested by the 11) beat the majority of SLRs, including contemporary SLRs. Tellingly you decided not to link that.

"Compare an iPhone XS Max to a an A7R4 or something"

Oh you know...an A7R4 or something. The fact that the A7R4 has one of the best sensors on an SLR is just, you know, incidental.

Fun fact - the iPhone 11 has 10 stops (10 "bits") of dynamic range, which exceeds the majority of SLRs on that site (and of those that beat it, few are "vastly superior"). The sensor actually has 12 stops of dynamic range but automatic pre-processing knocks it down 2 stops (though there are tools that circumvent that). "Hahahahaha".

"RAWs from a large sensor without denoising look fine."

You have never seen the actual RAW data, plainly evident from this claim. Do you know what a Bayer filter is? Do you realize the enormous amount of processing it does just to recreate edges and other artifacts? I suspect you don't. Do you know that every sensor has permanently lit elements, permanently dark elements, and permanently errant elements? That the camera has an evolving correction matrix around these artefacts? The amount of processing that turns that bayer sensor array into a so-called "RAW" file is absolutely enormous, and it automatically includes a tremendous amount of smoothing and corrections, even if you, the ignorant user, remain blissfully unaware. When manufacturers push out new firmware, changes to these processing steps is often one of the most noted changes.

So to repeat-

-the iPhone 11 has better dynamic range, single shot, than many SLRs.

-the iPhone 11 has a better noise profile than many SLRs.

And I'm just talking about the iPhone 11 as a very common smartphone. There are smartphones that exceed it now, the point being that many smartphones have superb cameras.

These are facts. There are SLRs that are much better, like the recent A7s, but any cargo culting as if the entire category gives you a superior result is simple ignorance.
I've been watching 20+ properties around Austin, some out of genuine interest, others for a baseline. Zero of them moved in March and April despite asking price coming down every couple weeks. Now in the last couple weeks, 8 of them have had offers. I can't tell if they just dropped back into a "reasonable" range or some segment of the market has turned but it's fascinating.
>How do we actually know this?

We don't which is why it's weird the current administration is trying to declare 'antifa' a terrorist group without presenting any real evidence. If they know something we don't this would probably be a good time to tell us.
I think that’s made much more true because that’s the image police forces in America have of themselves. “We’re here to beat up the bad guys”. Police here in Australia are far from perfect, but they are much more seen as part of the community. They don’t even carry firearms any more.

In Australia I wouldn’t hesitate to contact the police or talk to them on the street if something happened. (Just like I wouldn’t hesitate to call an ambulance if someone gets hurt). When I lived in the Bay Area that attitude seemed naive and stupid / dangerous.
I don't disagree, but it's important to remember that when rent control is proposed, it's because some people are very desperate. It would behoove us to suggest viable alternatives every time it's proposed and we shoot it down.
Can anything really be gleaned from the fluctuation of a language on TIOBE? Two years ago, Apache Groovy wasn't even in the top 50. Last December, it ascended to #11. Now it's at #31. Whatever the story was, it's too opaque to interpret.
Magisk Hide is an unreliable workaround, since remote attestation of the running OS could be required at any time to pass SafetyNet. Even the author of Magisk Hide is well aware of this.
The idea that there is any law that "platforms" cant censor speech or they become publishers and take full responsibility for content is completely false, and has no basis in law whatsoever.

Go actually READ section 230 and not what people repeat about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23408218