skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why cooperatives do poorly?

I have seen economist claim that cooperatives tend to be pretty inflexible. Slack was a communication tool for what is now a failed gaming company. If the company was owned by game developers, artists, and story writers, how many of them would have voted to sack themselves and pursue a chat application?
"And Then There Were None", SF by Eric Frank Russell, purposely characterises the natives as not fitting into "types" and thereby creeping out the Terrans who have come to explore (and exploit?) their planet...
This isn't about Huawei though. If they sue a company for that that's something that I would wholeheartedly support, and eventually Huawei can entirely stop operating in the US if they disagree.

This is about an individual being charged and extradited to the US that is not a US citizen for a crime that happened between non-US actors outside of the US.
Reformists have had decades to work in and the outcome is that we just see more impunity, more hardware, and more money spent on policing to the detriment of all other social services. The approach has failed dismally and it's time to take a more drastic approach.
On a large scale, not really. It's very, very hard to change a society away from being under the control of the police. On a smaller scale - yeah. There's a lot of books on the subject of transformative justice, and various methods are practiced in many many leftist spaces. I've been involved in some of it, and it's worked from my perspective.

And simply meeting people's needs deters a lot of crime - nobody's going to wind up in a position where they're robbing a gas station if they know, from an early age, that they're going to be sheltered, well fed, and have a good life, and this isn't dependent on massive amounts of luck, and if they fuck up there's another chance.
Who would you look to?
As a reference, here's an observation study published in NEJM on May 7th, that wrote:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2012410?query=fe...

> "In this analysis involving a large sample of consecutive patients who had been hospitalized with Covid-19, the risk of intubation or death was not significantly higher or lower among patients who received hydroxychloroquine than among those who did not..."

Note that this study did not use any of the data from Mehra et. al. You see all the other studies that found similar results by reading the references.
There are plenty of stocks besides mortgage derivatives, and plenty of ordinary people making money off of stocks.

If you want to sit on the sidelines because it's too risky for you, that's fine. But don't then complain that others make money on stocks.

You, and anyone else, can buy FAANG stocks, index funds, or whatever.
It was also done in The Animatrix [1]. In order to defeat the robot uprising, the world agrees to block out the sun and starve the robots of solar power. It also backfires on them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animatrix#The_Second_Renai...
As a tween/teen, I learnt a lot from OS/2. Up until then I had only used DOS and Windows 3.x. And then my Dad bought me a copy of OS/2 2.0, and also the Walnut Creek Hobbes OS/2 CD-ROM. And I discovered EMX (the OS/2 equivalent of Cygwin). And I started playing with bash, EMACS, GCC, etc. Next thing you know, I was installing Slackware Linux. At which point I largely lost interest in OS/2. But EMX was an important stepping-stone for me in getting in to Linux.
I think with a phone in a tripod you can use an app like google sky to get it pointed at exactly what you want, and even use search functions and stuff.

There are narrow lenses for phones as well.
Intro to Human Information Processing
The title tag for this article seems correct, so that's probably the 1st choice. The <h1> is similar but the title has "- The New York Times" added to it.

I believe the clickbait issue might be valid for less reputable sites, but in this case it works.
No, I think that the local government where the fraud happened should pursue criminal charges if appropriate, not the US government.

You can be suef in civil and criminal court at the same time.
Whistleblowers: Gov. Murphy rarely consults with health official
There are actually quite a few professional and advanced-amateur photographers on HN. A lot are from the generation that had to make their own websites to self publish, hack apart wordpress for client sites, and were part of the old photoblog engine open source era. I doubt many younger photographers have to get very technical these days. Nobody cares about metadata/IPCT and extracting variables for workflow anymore.
Wouldn't it be easier to stop all economies for a month or two every year? And employ entire population to plant trees.
Chris deserves some sort of prize for that package. Delivered some factor of 2 or greater speedups for significant portions of my code with just an `@avx`
CamTwist requires disabling macOS SIP. For many this is too high bar.
interesting app for the "corridor conversations" that have been lost with everyone Working from Home. It definitely needs integration with other communications apps, as its important to know when to switch context from another medium to PTT. Seems like it becomes a feature for Slack, For Teams.
That's true but the OP just destroyed the only supporting evidence you provided for your point. It might be that teacher's salaries would be below $37k if it didn't require credentialing, but that's not the case, so it's not evidence.
> Even if they don’t you could install it via Windows.

Some enterprise PCs only have Windows, DOS and RHEL, SUSE options. There's no reason to use Windows when you can update BIOS and firmware via CentOS Live image with RHEL binaries.
Tangentially related but that might interest fellow readers, you have multiple ways to make a valid image crash a device, one example being making a png bomb [1]. This is similar to a zip bomb, the file will by expanded to order of magnitude more bytes than its compressed size when opened, which might throw an oom error or fill up the disk quickly.

[1] http://www.aerasec.de/security/advisories/decompression-bomb...
Ooops, thanks for the correction.
Is due process by the justice system sufficient for responding to violations of rights?

How can bias in administering due process be addressed by criminal and civil prosecution?

Due process #UnitedStates:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_process#United_States

Use of force:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_force
This is also my approach. I create one dir called myuserfiles and one dir called myuserdotfiles. The main home is used as a temp that gets sorted and docs/pics/videos get put in the correct dirs every few weeks.

One of the things I do that others might find interesting is that anything not being worked on in my gitprojs dir is sent back to the appropriate ~/myfiles/progs/$language dir. So all my ansible stuff is in one place, all my bash scripts are in one place, etc.

Also while I am an emacs person and I like dired, I have converted to ranger as my file manager and it is quite awesome.
Yeah, they are unenforceable in other states, and in all of them if they are determined to be unreasonable in court.

https://www.legalnature.com/guides/are-non-compete-agreement...
The space tug and its load / target are on the same trajectory at the time of rendezvous. Once they're synced up, they're drawn toward each other, with the tiny gravity of each affecting the trajectory of the other. But while the load is passively traveling through space, the tug can reposition itself. This way, the tug determines the ultimate trajectory of the load while also having some control of its own trajectory, which it uses to continually bend the load's trajectory.
They are different wherever you happen to work. Most teams have development standards in place, and in places where software is certified (aerospace, automotive, medical devices, etc.) those standards are formalized.

But you what I mean. Skipping reviews, bending rules around complexity, data concurrency, style, and so on.
Looks pretty neat. It would be great to have sign-in with github.
TIL RealNetworks still exists.
a photo I took on iphone x11 pro crashes my android when trying to set it as a background, wonder if this is related.
Try using Hazel (macOS-only) to auto-file stuff for you based on whatever naming conventions or file extensions you want. It’s amazing.
Though I could also say that's an overestimation of people's ability to understand that looting is pre-coordinated and planned by outsiders.

Local news broadcasts play a big part in this, because that's the only thing my parents will be doing during protests is watching what they provide. Guess what content they provide :/
Why should we disincentivize saving? It's clear why we should tax land, the value of land is not driven in almost any way by ownership of land so the returns to land are unjustly gained AND it's economically efficient to tax land as it's fixed in supply. However, taxing savings (capital gains, wealth) is unclear in value. What would, for example, be the benefit of shifting investment to consumption? In other news, I could be highly in favor of a consumption tax instead but again, that's very difficult to implement well.

A hefty estate tax is something I can get behind. It's definitely distortionary and has a huge amount of difficulty in implementation but I see almost no societal value to generational wealth.
On a bright and windy day renewables can drive the market price of electricity at the busbar below zero. You need something to fill the gap when renewables are not available. Grid scale storage is in sight but adds to the cost. Right now in U.S. And Euro zones we burn methane in gas turbines which is better than coal unless you are losing more than 1% of the methane on the way from the well.
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I'd like to see some evidence of this, it seems surprising that a company like Apple or Google would do this for the government without some fight back.
The idea is that aggressive quarantining allows a comfortable return to normalcy for everyone.

Maybe at most a couple 10,000 sent into home isolation (a week should be plenty here, no need for 14 days – we aren’t shooting for perfect anyways) versus 81 million with strong measures.

Obviously the app isn’t the perfect solution here. Much more important is thorough and swift real contact tracing (followed by quarantine irrespective of diagnostics, so quite similar to how the app would work with many false positives). But I wouldn’t reject the app out of hand.
Came here to say something similar. A giant sun shade is vastly preferable to this article's approach.

Issac Arthur's podcasts are great to listen to for this sort of thing.

One reddit discussion on the concept:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/comments/9q6ngk/math_on...
@dang, I'm sorry that wasn't my intent and I was doing my damndest to stick to facts. I don't see these people as opponents and I'm not trying to "win", only to try to find some sort of mutual understanding.

This is a third rail I'll never touch here again, but I'd like to point out a couple of things for closure.

* What has been happening in the last 3+ years is not normal, and much of the population is terrified by what is happening and what is likely to happen. I am one of those people

* Politics operates in two realms: policy and theater. I've normally no interest in the latter but it has taken center stage.

* United we stand, and divided we fall. I believe that there are active efforts to promote division and my hope is for unity. And division that occurred here was counter to my goals (but I should have known better).

* Many of my fellow citizens also believe that the GOP has become a cult, centered around the topic of discussion. Most people think that cults are not a good thing.

I could go on and on, but I won't because it will fall on deaf ears.

Thank you for helping to keep this forum as wonderful as it is, and once more, I'm sorry to have cause any problems.

edit: the "deaf years" was about those that I was trying to have a discussion.
> Meanwhile, the rich are way less taxed (proportionally) than the middle class, and in my opinion, that's a problem that stifle Western economies.

Is this actually true? According to the IRS, in 2018 the top 10% of income earners paid 69.47% of total income tax collected.

Source: https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...
Sure. But the reality is that, for one, HSBC Holdings (the parent entity) trades on the NYSE and secondly, HSBC USA accounts for roughly 10% of HSBC Holdings revenue.

While 10% doesn't seem like much, that's direct revenue[0] only. I'm willing to bet that withdrawal from the US market would have a negative effect on their revenue equal to many multiples that amount. After all, who would do business with a commercial bank that can't access the worlds wealthiest market?

And what would not being able to sell your stock in the worlds wealthiest market have on its' price? I'm not an economist (IANAE?) but I wouldn't be surprised if total withdrawal from the US resulted in a 30-60% collapse in their stock price. Yes, that's a totally made up number :) but I think you get my point:

Legal entities aside, HSBC Holdings is duty-bound to comply with US regulations as much as possible in order to satisfy it's investors.

[0] https://www.hsbc.com/-/files/hsbc/investors/hsbc-results/201...
Yeah, I agree that the developer shouldn't do that in the source code. I'm more thinking of a compilation mode where the system tries to consistently do something just slightly smarter than give up when there is an exception, and that is strictly only for production use.

A divide by zero error on a button's width shouldn't cause a spacecraft to give up and abort its mission to the moon. That wouldn't happen, but it's just a figurative description of what I would like. It's ridiculous for an OS to go into a boot loop because of a color histogram. A better behavior would be for the background to be set to an array of NaNs, and the background renderer to fail gracefully to a plain black or white background.
The article warns against single actors taking drastic and risky action in the future, and it's already happened with ocean fertilization: https://geog.ucsb.edu/rogue-iron-fertilization-experiment-ou...
As far as I understand it[1], the state and the federal government have the ability to prosecute police misconduct, and their incentives are aligned to crack down on the bad police officers.

The problem is that they are dramatically limited in the types of charges they can press against officers of the law (charges that carry big penalties, and have a very high burden of proof). This is anachronistically because we as a society have decided that officers deserve benefit of the doubt in the lack of compelling evidence. These days, many instances of misconduct are recorded, and the rules should change.

In Eric Garner's case, for example, the govt attorneys declined to press charges, because they lacked sufficient evidence that the officer was knowingly violating the rights of Eric Garner. The burden of proof for any kind of misconduct charge is currently so high, that even an egregious misconduct case like this passes by untouched.

If the attorneys general had a wider range of misconduct charges in their arsenal, they could raise the average cost of police misconduct, and it might improve the situation.

[1] recently informed by https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/pushkin-industries/deep-bac...
It's bound to be 50/50, full on confusion, Putin chuckling while 120 guns per 100 people do the job. Instead you can confront the bully. It's been done before.
Do you plan to add the members of the House?
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The giant sunshade idea is much more expensive and fragile than relatively dumb alternatives such as spraying SO2 or water into the atmosphere to deflect sunlight, I don't really understand how sunshade could be argued as a "better" solution.

Re "band-aid" -- I agree -- all solutions of this form that aim to partially mitigate one unwanted consequences of rising CO2 without addressing other consequences or halting the rise of CO2 are unlikely to result in a stable solution & instead just buy time.
Spoke too soon, v4l2loopback-utils is the missing piece on mac. Found this with a basic search[0], if anyone enterprising enough wants to take a crack at it

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/353168/how-can-i-c...
Thanks! I'll send a mail across
It feels like science is becoming more like religion every day.
The point is the scale. Law enforcement was scaled and equipped to meet the challenge of in-person lynch mob formation. In-person meetings are risky, finding like-minded people can be a challenge, etc.

Encrypted comms gives a huge asymmetric scale benefit to those who have these crimes committed. What it hasn't scaled is the ability of law enforcement to respond. And that's a choice, one which is open to criticism.
Reminds me of the Coronavirus lockdown. Save 0.5% of the sickest/old/obese people, cause the 99.5% to develop drug addictions, suicide, riot, undergo domestic abuse, disrupt supply chain, shortages, etc...

But look, we flattened the curve!
Good, then you can leave the individual non-US citizen that is outside of the US and did not commit a crime in the United States outside of US Court.
A better wheel is no wheel. Use superconductor based magnetic levitation instead!
The parent comment is making a universal statement, and so it would hypothetically apply to companies everywhere, including in India and China. Perhaps then there would be a world without trillion dollar companies, or maybe the workers can figure out a way. The Mondragon Corporation is a tens-of-billions-dollar workers cooperative [0], for instance.

This line of discussion is also making the assumption that what's best of workers and what's best for companies are necessarily in conflict, which is rather silly given that if a company goes under, the workers themselves are in trouble. There is at least one example I can point to where a workers union forced management to recognize the need to be more economically competitive. [1] Also, it makes the assumption that management and/or shareholders necessarily know best for a company's future, and there is no shortage of evidence to the contrary, some even recent. [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13986889

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23380445

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21887425
In that case we could just use the military to engineer novel viruses and release them uncontrolled into the public. That way we could have periodic global economic shutdowns.
> if you reduce solar energy influx by 1%, that's how much less biosphere receives?

Biospheres are complex, potentially chaotic, systems.

Consider a much-less complex, less-likely chaotic, system: a company. You reduce revenues 1%. As a result, do all other line items fall by 1%? Of course not. For some businesses, if you reduce revenues by even 10% fast enough, it kills the beast.
NetApp to Acquire Spot.io for $450M
> amending or abolishing qualified immunity and requiring personal liability insurance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity (1967, 2005,)

What other professions (other than legislative civil servants) offer exemptions to personal and business liability?
CVS and corner stores generally inflate prices outrageously. For example, for 24 pills of Aceteminophen (Paracetamol), you'll pay $4.59 at CVS [1] vs $1.19 for 50 pills at Target [2]. It's even cheaper if you buy in bulk. CVS is just a ripoff and primarily caters to people who need something right now or at some odd hour.

Generally, generic drugs aren't too expensive in the US. But we pay more for many brand drugs.

[1] https://www.cvs.com/shop/cvs-health-extra-strength-pain-reli...

[2] https://www.target.com/p/acetaminophen-extra-strength-pain-r...
Many in Europe see the US as more of a risky bet after the last four years, especially with the Iran deal hurting many EU businesses for what they have decided are not good reasons.

Local businesses suffering due to an ally will drive (and probably already has driven) policy changes in the EU 26.
It shouldn't be shocking for anyone who was paying attention. There is a good book about related issues by Radley Balco called Rise of the Warrior Cop. Published in 2013. Unlike many comments here and on other websites it's not hysterical, or hyperbolic or contaminated with self-referential post-modernist bullshit. It is a sober and factual analysis of how American police became what it is right now. It's not an easy read, but it's a must-read for anyone who wants to have a reasonable picture of the problem.

The public notion of good policing and the actual practices police departments follow have been diverging for several decades (if they ever converged). What we're seeing right now is not some inexplicable increase in bad behavior or cops deliberately targeting journalists. For modern American police this is just business as usual, except the volume of deployment is significantly higher than in the past few decades and the visibility is much higher as well.

Edit:

There is a flip side to this coin. When you have a systemic problem of this scale, you should be cautious about making simplistic (especially moral) judgements about individuals in the system. When someone's training, incentives, position in the community and even equipment nudge them towards bad actions, even decent people will routinely do bad things.
There's a difference between being technically aware of something, and having the mental framework to take that awareness and turn it into a call to action. It's the news that tells people how to think about things and how to act about them. Corporate news is being slaughtered by social media. You've seen them attack social media already with stories of how pedophiles use it to get your kids and stuff. I don't think it will take long for the corporate news to figure out they can weaponize this to encourage regulating their enemy industry.
That's a fair point, thanks for the clarification.
Could it just be they can't post pics/videos because either the cell tower is jammed with too many signals (possible) or that the authorities have disabled the cell tower (also possible I'd think)
Australia is already taking steps to eliminate negative pricing and some of the volatility, which will make it harder to profit on this type of installation as quickly. Most of the profit was made in ways that won't be as available in the future. Batteries are still important for other reasons, but don't think another 10 of these batteries will get the same returns.
This proposal costs $5 billion a year. It is a heck of a lot easier than losing 8-16% of GDP.
Twitter's trending topics are one of the better propaganda tools ever created. You can steer millions of people to any narrative you want just by getting (or buying) enough retweets. Anyone who produces propaganda likes that.