skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Like are you suggesting the natural state of people is just to loot and behave completely selfishly?

Don't know about that, but there is ABSOLUTELY enough selfish/predatory/angry people in any population that will commit violent acts for profit and pleasure if the risks of being brought to justice disappears.

I would not have guessed it would erupt as fast as it did in Montreal, but empirically, it did.

I expect day 2 would have been a lot worse. Pray that we never find out :)

> Obviously looting should be read as exposing underlying ills and unmet needs within society

Well, some people never find their needs met...
Why the provider and not the purchaser who chose that insurance? It’s spelled out in the contract what you’re buying (and paying for).
> Like are you suggesting the natural state of people is just to loot and behave completely selfishly?

'Completely' is a meaningless term. Animals behave selfishly in almost every choice (even in altruism) as part of the survival instinct. There is a question of degree and there is a distribution curve that hasn't been fully explored. For some people, some desperate or casual situations lead to barbaric (lack of a better term) behavior, when possible, for some portion of the population. Even with a police force, the curve exists and we experience the effects.
That's called modeling.
From the sounds of it, tensions were already running high in the city (and the police felt that they weren’t getting paid enough to deal with it); on top of that the police had incentive to time their strike to happen at the worst possible moment. They were also joined in their protest by other groups inclined towards violence, and had reason to encourage those groups (in order to show that they were needed). The reason all of the quoted incidents happened at once is because a lot of different groups were handed an opportunity on a silver platter by a group who had it in their best interests to see a lot of violence break out.

This is a very different scenario from a controlled, scheduled spindown of a department by the city government.
Holy smokeballs, thank you so freaking much!!! This thread caught my eye as I've been wanting to customize my Zoom and MS Teams "stream" (ie. webcam + extra background/overlay goodies). I hate to say it, but I skipped past the OP's project and tried this suggestion of NDI first.

Amazing. It took a good 30 minutes to figure it all out, but I now have the output of OBS (in my case, just the preview itself without needing to stream/record) as a video/webcam input source for Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and within Firefox. Note: doesn't work with Discord or QuickTime's File > New Movie Recording.

And all this with me being on macOS. Not Windows, but macOS. Incredible.

Steps (should work for macOS and Windows, not sure about Linux):

1. Install OBS. Run it, and set up a basic scene for testing (eg. webcam and a text label).

2. Download/install NDI Tools for your OS from https://ndi.tv/tools/#download-tools (note: system restart required). You only need the "NDI Virtual Input" app; on macOS each app had its own .pkg file bundled in the single .dmg archive; on Windows I assume it's an install wizard with checkboxes for each component. Again, only need "NDI Virtual Input" app/component.

3. Run the NDI Virtual Input application installed in step 2. It should live in your systray (without doing anything useful yet).

4. Download/install the obs-ndi plugin for your OS from https://github.com/Palakis/obs-ndi/releases - right now for Windows or macOS it's version 4.9.0 (expand the "Assets" link). There's a 4.9.1 update specifically for Ubuntu/Debian, but I'm not sure how those OS's are supported when there is no NDI Tools for Linux in step 2.

5. Run OBS. If you're lazy and didn't read the GitHub release notes in step 4, starting OBS should popup with a direct link to the NDI runtime you also need to download/install; then restart OBS.

6. In OBS, go to Tools > NDI Output Settings. If you want to "clone" the OBS output to the NDI virtual device only when you start streaming/recording in OBS (ie. to disk or to a streaming platform like Twitch), check "Main Output". Otherwise check "Preview Output", in which case your OBS preview will be output to the virtual video device at all times without having to start OBS streaming/recording.

7. In your operating system's systray (ie. top-right on macOS, bottom-right on Windows), you should have an NDI icon living there as started in step 3. With OBS running and configured according to step 6, you should be able to click the systray icon and select that output source as the input source for the NDI virtual device.

8. Open Zoom, Teams, or hopefully other apps which will work. Wherever you configure which input source to use for video/camera within that app's settings, there should be an "NDI Video" source. Select that… and BAM – your OBS canvas is now your input source!!

That took so long to type out, I hope someone manages to make use of it. :)
It's also very location specific. Some areas listing too high will hurt you in the long run, so sometimes people definitely do what you're saying - price it low to get lots of offers hoping to get a bidding war. Other areas are much less tolerant of games like that - it's quite regional.
An awful lot of railroads were built without government assistance. Of course, it was easier to build them if one got government financing.

Even so, a railroad is private property and they can choose to allow or not someone stringing wires along it.
MD Lt. Gov. calls on administrator to resign after mail-in primary problems
The penalties for taking the law into your own hands are generally highly asymmetric and in favor of the original perpetrator.

For example, if you forced the car thieves out of the car, or parked it in place by blocking the road, you might be looking at assault charges.

Similar arguments can be said for most other common crimes.

Consider noise ordinances (harassing / threatening your neighbor until they shut up), trespassers (Threats? Forcibly move them?), burglaries (rob them back?), domestic violence (victims that kill the assailant are often charged with premeditated murder), etc.
> Even I hadn't let my cynicism about our national discourse sink so low as to think medical treatments would be politicized.

I'd say you should ask somebody who lived during the AIDS epidemic denial years of the early–mid '80s, but most of them are no longer with us for some reason.
An Unlikely Hero for 1906, 1929 and Today
The "first" launch was v0.9 satellites. There was also an earlier launch of prototype satellites. Numbering of Starlink launches is a little confused as a result.
Times like this are not conducive to moderate ideas. Everyone craves revolution without thinking through the consequences. Even MLK was frustrated with 'white liberals' like me who favor incremental change over quick, revolutional change. I still unapologetically advocate for a slow, reasoned approach however.
The Silicon Valley premium is not that large. Every programmer I know in North Carolina earns six figures. I earned 95 as a programmer with moderate experience in South Carolina a decade ago before I changed career paths.
You "It's not what you did, it's that you lied"ed a tenant who lied to avoid being kicked out, in order to justify kicking them out?

Yeah, it sounds like moralizing to avoid coming across as ignorant of class issues. However, ironically, it gives you away, because people who think that's excusable are generally ignorant of class issues.
Ask HN: Can deep learning be used to extract a payload from a stego image?
I've done a bit of research. Current (public) steganalysis methods merely detect steganography. Some research papers mention "locating steganalysis," which is basically finding where exactly the hidden message is in the image/stego item. After it's found, the problem becomes a cryptanalysis problem. Can deep learning be used for locating steganalysis as well as cryptanalysis? And could this be used for any stego image? Or will it be rendered obsolete as steganography software evolves?
It doesn’t need to be cryptic, a screen that says something like “enable dev mode” “attempt to fix from computer” (along with a desktop program for modifying settings) “check for updates” “reset to defaults” would be friendly enough
Any detail on the back-end and charting?
To the interviewee's credit, he specifically distances himself from this kind of situation:

> Well, I'm certainly not talking about any kind of scenario where tomorrow someone just flips a switch and there are no police. What I'm talking about is the systematic questioning of the specific roles that police currently undertake, and attempting to develop evidence-based alternatives so that we can dial back our reliance on them. And my feeling is that this encompasses actually the vast majority of what police do. We have better alternatives for them.
You're comparing single-digits per decade incidents which incite national outcry, with triple-digits per year incidents which are taken as a fact of life in the US. And you're trying to set a narrative that somehow those are comparable. They are not.
IMHO, it's corporate milquetoast: people can't actually tell their bosses 'because we want to be decent people' so these mantras became a way to tie inclusionism to the bottom line, thereby making it fiscally acceptable.

AFAIK, there is precious little actual research pointing either way. No doubt it's an extremely nebulous subject to study. Groupthink is certainly a thing, but I haven't seen strong evidence linking diversity hiring to the particular outcomes it is claims to treat.
I wish people would stop mischaracterizing statements to push an agenda. Nowhere did he "fly off the handle". If you are so sensitive that his statement felt that harsh, perhaps the internet is not the place for you. Or toughen up for pete's sake.
While I agree that censoring speech should is something that shouldn't be done, I think calls for physical violence is an exception. There's no doubt that some of Trump's tweets in recent days fall into this category. It doesn't need to be deleted entirely, as I also see the importance in preserving statements from public officials, but they can be hidden under a clear warning like what Twitter has done.

BTW is threatening violence against fellow citizens even legal?
I have a stack of about 30 Moleskine notebooks I've gone through over the past 10 years. I mostly work at the computer, so I keep the notebook open in front of me while I work and I usually wind up creating a checklist each day of what I intend to do, then use the pages to draw out ideas or sketch thoughts. Sometimes I find myself writing something to try to remember it. I try to look at the previous day for continuity but otherwise rarely need to look back. I also use it for meeting notes.

I put a unique sticker on the front of each one so I can sort of associate the time / topics with the notebook. Otherwise they all look identical.

It's not really that organized, but it helps me keep focused on tasks each day and sketch out ideas.
A lot of the areas the author says police are now dealing with used to be dealt with by religious organizations. Perhaps religious organizations should be encouraged to play a bigger role in the public sphere.

To make a tired argument, without any sort of moral guidance, people have no reason to live other than for their immediate needs. On of my friends grew up in the Baltimore inner city, and he says this is how most people are. They just act on their impulses and smash in a friend's face because they owe a few dollars. What turned my friend's life around is his decision to follow God instead of his own desires. I think there is something to that. It doesn't seem that giving people free money and housing solves the problem.

There are many much more destituted countries than inner city USA where people have much more functional societies with much less. I spent most of my childhood growing up in such a place. No running water or plumbing. Limited technology. Electricity one hour a week. Everyone walked everywhere. People lived off of what they could gather and fish. There wasn't widespread violence, drug use, sexual abuse, etc. like we see in the inner cities. The difference is these communities were very religious (muslim and animism) and they did not have much exposure to corrupting US substances such as drugs and pornography.
It's this sort of insulting, absolutist bullshit that drags down the debate. Do you really think police do nothing for, say, abused poor women? Sure, the cops have serious issues we need to address, but the issue is more nuanced than 'all cops are evil'.
I remember seeing that “yelling fire in a crowded theater” was technically untrue as it is usually presented. Anyone with more knowledge can elaborate?
While I like the Mac default folders in ~, there’s too many applications out there now that abuse Documents or add things there. So I made a Docs and Code folder in Dropbox.

For me, one of the major things that helps is having an _unpaid_ Dropbox subscription. Because I have a limited amount of space, I always ask the question how important is this file and should it be in my Dropbox. This kinda nukes most files - I’ve found most things I download from the web to be ephemeral or application launchers.

For Docs - I store all my personal IDs, taxes and documents (I was an immigrant in the US and it’s so much easier to have my ids on my phone in case of an emergency).

For Code - these are projects that I’m not backing up to Github yet. The rest are on Github

For photos I have Amazon Drive and for music I have Spotify. That’s cleaned the clutter a lot. The easiest way to stay organized is weirdly enough to offload it to the cloud. I have some other things like PDFs and EPUBs for my Kindle that go into Reading in Dropbox.
Earth is only a small point from Mars and vice versa. There is an upper limit of what you can send via direct electromagnetic radiation. However, you can set up relay stations in the solar system. It will increase the RTTs for those data but also increase the available bandwidth. You'll likely have a layered internet where really fast communication is most expensive, and it gets cheaper the slower you allow it to be, down to the slowest (but highest bandwidth) method of your data being printed into DNA (or some other high density storage medium) and put onto the next scheduled transport to Earth.
Your contact page is broken on your website and email to the address listed bounces. How can we contact you?
Vega: Declarative language for creating interactive visualizations
PRC grabbed Canadian hostages. There is no need to wonder what happens.

How they are treated and how Meng is treated is all we really need to know about PRC
And Super Metroid (1992) let you customize the controls. Firefox (2001), after about twenty years of development (more if you count its predecessor's code), won’t let you, as of the 2016 add-on API change.
I don't think there's any law against using material non-public information unless it's illicitly obtained. This is a frequent theme of Matt Levine's Bloomberg column that's often mentioned on HN.

Why would anyone ever trade unless they had material non-public information? The point of having markets is so such information becomes public through prices, isn't it? Conversely, if you don't have it, you're purely gambling aren't you?

"Not legal advice" though.
“It's true that a certain politician shouldn't be trumpeting unproven treatments, but the media seemed to celebrate when that politician was "proven" wrong. Did we forget that we should all be rooting for treatments to work?”

The words of this certain politician have a lot of weight and probably caused a lot of attention to be diverted from real research into looking into this. We can’t chase every crackpot theory only because it’s coming from somebody powerful.
For me, a lot of apps lose various state, e.g. text written in input fields, when rotating.
Thanks for the tip, really appreciate the actual commands. I'm wondering if anyone else is running into this:

$ brew install ffmpeg --with-ffplay
Usage: brew install [options] formula

# Install flags here, nothing about --with.
Error: invalid option: --with-ffplay
I don't really like small notebooks, I've been using artist sketchbooks recently which have worked out pretty well. When I'm done with them, I slice through it and scan the sheets
Absolute speculation here - SeatGeek, and every other company in the secondary event ticketing marketplace, makes all of their money from advertising spend. Google pay per click, facebook ads, etc. I would not be surprised given cash flow issues if they were suspended by facebook across the board for not paying their bills. My former company in the same vertical was in utter panic about all possible spend when live events in the US effectively went to zero in March.
I mean... not really. This is the equivalent of `if err != nil { return nil, err }` which is so common it's a mindless default behavior worthy of memes: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCIF7-2W0AEAv9c.jpg

It absolutely results in the same kinds of failures.
> my manager talks about "the importance to avoid fingerpointing" in the post-mortem.

I sometime am, and will continue to be that guy.

At least partly because it's the right way to handle post mortems, but partly because coworker X is only a symptom of the problem - and the underlying problem here is a manager who hasn't got a process in place to ensure Friday afternoon rush fixes on production don't happen. That's a process problem which is neither your nor coworker X's fault. That's my fault. Sorry...

(And maybe coworker X is a serial offender for this type of fuckup. Also my fault.)
There have been many smash and grab/ram raids of apple stores (it turns out giant windows aren't super robust against cars), so I assume this is essentially a devaluing step to reduce the reason to steal. I assume it leverages the same infrastructure as the activation lock system which caused a huge drop in phone thefts.
That's actually really creative. Horrible, but creative nonetheless.
FYI Squawk team, there seems to be an issue with your main email. I tried to contact you can got this back:

> Hello,

> We're writing to let you know that the group you tried to contact (hello) may not exist, or you may not have permission to post messages to the group. A few more details on why you weren't able to post:

> * You might have spelled or formatted the group name incorrectly.

> * The owner of the group may have removed this group.

> * You may need to join the group before receiving permission to post.

> * This group may not be open to posting.

Looks like google apps group configuration issue.

Related support article:

https://support.google.com/a/zumaltd.com/bin/topic.py?topic=...
I switch mouse hands throughout the day to reduce arm stress. A little practice goes a long way, quickly.
You can tunnel though, so the actual amount of hops could be infinite. Routers can also rewrite the field.
At least from the video, the press is walking into zones of active conflict between protestors and police with lots of noise and police in full riot gear. Personally, it is not super suprising to me the press gets caught in the cross fire.
Google 'white flight' for historical precedent. It remains to be seen if it will happen again, but it is certainly possible. I know I'm ready to leave the Bay Area for someplace boring.
Create a card on privacy.com. You can use any name and billing address.
Does anyone know the next most prolific/frequent commercial launcher after SpaceX and what their annual average is? The frequency of their launches seem completely nuts.
Free speech in a public, shared space is a constitutional right. Free speech to write whatever you want on a private company's website is not. It's governed by their terms of service.

As long as their terms of service is applied equally and consistently it should be legal as far as I know. Maybe you could make the argument that their rules are discriminatory and aren't being (or can't be) enforced equally, but that's different from telling a company that they have to accept any type of content without restriction.

FB, YT, Reddit, Twitter, etc. have been removing posts and banning users for years. So, the act isn't new, but the fact that it's being applied to the President is new.
so... it'll be raining satellites?
You can semi-easily get transverters for those frequencies.
Hi Corey, thanks for dropping in! Appreciate the subscribe
Imagine thinking being anti-racist is the popular opinion of the day
Yes, I am finding when I go to a larger notebook I feel more free to write full, longer sentences, etc. Maybe there is some sort of landscape Field Notes notebook I would prefer....

He's quite right about passing on the Moleskine and other top-dollar notebooks.
I doubt it. Facebook would suspend their ads, not their Facebook Connect account.

If anything, I'd guess either SeatGeek believed Facebook was using data to steal their with Facebook Marketplace, or Facebook was concerned with SeatGeek fraud?
I’ve tried the menus on Google maps as well, but found them to be even more inaccurate than various delivery services. I assume if a restaurant maintains their google presence they can edit their menu by hand but this seems to be rare. Otherwise, I’m pretty sure I read somewhere these ‘menus’ are auto-generated by ML algorithms based on the photos of food people post.

Which actually, is pretty impressive when you think about it. It’s not worthless. Even if not totally accurate, it will give you a rough idea of the most popular dishes!
You could use a device with a four-hour rotating buffer of video, that burns a physical fuse when you keep a record. Failure to press the button within two hours of a serious incident could be grounds for dismissal of the supervising officer.
Sure. Aussie cops aren't angels at all. But comparing Aussie cops to US cops in terms of use of violence, poor judgement, etc. is insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFaPooJBDSg

Imagine this situation playing out in the states. Guy would be riddled with bullets in seconds.
It’s not absolutist at all. I didn’t say they do nothing. I didn’t say all cops are evil. Those are your words mate.
"the tool" meaning it was the first tool they reached for, not the only tool.

For example, if I said "Star Wars" was "the movie" to see in 1977, I obviously did not mean it was the only movie.

If I meant it was the only tool, I would have written "the only tool".

If you need to insert the words "only", "always", "never", "100%" into my words in order to argue, you should reconsider the strength of your argument.
The single bidirectional pass algorithmic pattern
Network engineers are tribal but also very cooperative (in the right geographic areas). You can get about 240,000 ipv4 routes out of the entire 840,000 size ipv4 routing table by peering with the SIX route servers. And for any entity that is big enough to be seen as a real serious player, places like where the SIX if physically located are also optimal to establish direct sessions (PNIs) with other large/serious ISPs. All settlement free. Major content sources, CDNs and hosting providers have a strong interest in getting outbound traffic off their networks as efficiently as possible. And downstream eyeball ISPs (starlink) have the same interest in reverse.
I had a similar problem with an Audi except it was between the original person that hit me, the repair center thst did more damage and allowed the car to be flooded, and Audi. 9 months to sort out most of the car issues on a 95k car.
No matter what rules you make, there are going to be grey areas. The reason we defer to the democratic system and the rule of law to make those decisions, is because the alternative is violence.
If you feel strongly that some speech is too dangerous to allow, it is your responsibility to convince enough of your fellow citizens to support you.
If you, instead, take the easy way, of simply imposing your will on others, then you are choosing to be a tyrant.
Not sure I follow. It may become seasonal yes, but comparing it to a cold or flu downplays the severity.